search results for "the contemporary condition"
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monograph.
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Música para Plátanos takes its name—and much of its inspiration—from the group's recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
We Lost Control Again surveys the questions raised by the work of artist Rikke Luther between 2015 and 2025, exploring the long-range effects of this era of collapse, and the effect on social orders and the stability of the Earth system.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
forthcoming
A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
forthcoming
A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced from 2019-2026.
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023,
based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
2026
French edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.
2026
English edition
Floating Opera Press
forthcoming
Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).
2026
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
forthcoming
A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.
2026
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Artforum
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
2026
English edition
Sharjah Art Foundation
forthcoming
The first in-depth examination of the life and work of the Pakistani feminist artist, activist and pedagogue Lala Rukh (1948-2017).
2026
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
KBB
New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Objects Talk Back
Of Interest to the General Public is a narration by the Ethiopian writer and photographer Maaza Mengiste inspired by the history of the 1868 Napier expedition and the burning of the palace fortress at Magdala.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Objects Talk Back
Inspired by a walrus-ivory Story Knife from the Arctic region, Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza creates a multi-faceted narration.
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
What counts as reality when images can be generated, manipulated, and circulated with unprecedented ease? The Future of Reality asks filmmakers and scholars to respond to a contemporary reality framed and filtered by algorithms and synthetic media.
2026
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
forthcoming
Interviews with Tokio Hasegawa (Taj Mahal Travellers), Ami Yoshida, and Mélodie Blaison; "writing about sound: attempts at solutions for a particularly tough algorithm" by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Jérôme Bouve by Delphine Dora; book and album reviews...
2026
English edition
Suture Press
forthcoming
What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of folk art and art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
forthcoming
This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Antoine de Galbert Foundation
forthcoming
The seventh volume in the collection published by the Antoine de the Galbert Foundation, dedicated to the French artist Benoit Huot.
2026
English edition
Suture Press
forthcoming
Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.
2026
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Yalda Afsah, Tolia Astakhishvili, Alvaro Barrington, Dora Budor, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Lap-See Lam, Vladislav Markov, Armineh Negahdari, Lydia Ourahmane, Ewa Poniatowska, Thomas Ruff, Martín Sabyno, Maria Toumazou, Bruno Zhu...
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The graphic, spatial and temporal possibilities that emerge from the use of grids, from linear perspective to 3D modelling.
2026
French edition
L'Amazone
The fourth volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination, on the topics of accessibility in the arts and ableism.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.
2026
English edition
L'Amazone
The fourth volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination, on the topics of accessibility in the arts and ableism.
2026
English edition
Artforum
Anna Homler by Rachel Hahn, Gabriele Stötzer by Elisa R. Linn, Cao Fei by Pablo Larios, AI for Modernists by Mario Carpo...
2026
French edition
Naima
New monograph.
2026
Persistence of Sound
Kate Carr's new album explores a vertical trajectory through the UK capital, re-imagined from top to bottom in a suite of elegant and mysterious field recordings.
2026
French edition
Diaphanes
The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Antoine de Galbert Foundation
All 693 images in a series created by Luc Delahaye over several years using details from photographs cut out of newspapers, marking a turning point in the evolution of this great photographer's work, which bridges documentary and artistic practices.
2026
Persistence of Sound
Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.