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Dictionary of the Illegible
2026
English edition
Source Type
forthcoming
A multidisciplinary perspective on illegibility as a cultural phenomenon (new edition).
Alfredo Aceto -
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This first major monograph on Alfredo Aceto offers a comprehensive overview of his manifold practice, across sculpture, installation, video, photography, and drawing.
Aletheia Casey - A Lost Place
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.
 Coil - How To Destroy Angels (green vinyl EP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
First reissue of Coil's seminal 1984 EP, originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H.
 Coil - How To Destroy Angels (black vinyl EP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
First reissue of Coil's seminal 1984 EP, originally released in 1984 on L.A.Y.L.A.H.
Mike Cooper - The Dream Island of Birds (vinyl LP)
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.
 CREAHM Fribourg -
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An overview of the unique work produced by the studio for artists with disabilities that has been active in Fribourg since the late 1990s.
Lili Dujourie -
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
forthcoming
New monograph.
Ryan Gander - For I am a Sign
2026
no text
eeeditions
forthcoming
In For I am a Sign, an artist's book for children, Ryan Gander collaborates with his non-verbal son, Baxter, to explore the intersection between verbal and non-verbal language.
Peter Hujar - Peter Hujar, 18 décembre 1974
2026
French edition
ER Publishing - Diary
forthcoming
An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.
 Lagoss - Música para Plátanos (vinyl LP)
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.
Jumana Manna - Stone Assemblies
2026
English edition
Nero
forthcoming
Stone Assemblies takes Jumana Manna's major public artwork for Oslo's Government Quarter as its starting point, opening up a collective reflection on the politics of stone, ruination, and dissent.
Calvin Marcus - Skin Paintings
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A monograph centered on a series of recent oil paintings on linen by Calvin Marcus, that depict magnified renderings of the artist's flesh, extending Marcus's investigation of media, process, and the abject in the familiar.
 Moondog - Poetic Impressions - An Autobiography in Verse
2026
English edition
Maison ONA
forthcoming
Moondog's poetic autobiography.
 mountaincutters - Shake the Riverbed
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.
Dominique Petitgand - La moindre anomalie (documents)
2026
French edition
La Maréchalerie
forthcoming
A collection of sketches and research notes, texts, transcriptions of sound works, and visuals that document Dominique Petitgand's sound work.
Terry Riley - Ecstatic Aperture - Perspectives on the Life and Work of Terry Riley
2026
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
forthcoming
This book brings together a series of previously unpublished essays on the work of Terry Riley, accompanied by numerous never-before-seen archives. It is the first major work to offer such an in-depth exploration of his body of work and his artistic career.
Terry Riley - Ecstatic Aperture - Perspectives sur la vie et l\'œuvre de Terry Riley
2026
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
forthcoming
This book brings together a series of previously unpublished essays on the work of Terry Riley, accompanied by numerous never-before-seen archives. It is the first major work to offer such an in-depth exploration of his body of work and his artistic career.
Philippe Van Snick - Dynamic Project II
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
The second volume of the defiinitive reference work on Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick, richly illustrated and featuring in-depth essays, offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's oeuvre, and new insights and discoveries about his work.
Ana Vaz - The Camera Is the Body
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Benoît Piéron - A monograph, 2007-2026
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Fly Me to Oulan_Bator
forthcoming
Designed in collaboration with the artist, this monograph provides a comprehensive overview of Benoît Piéron’s work from the late 2000s to the present.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing (new edition).
Cura. - Artist + Artist
2026
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Special issue: 500 pages of interviews between artists.
Lucas Erin - La ronde
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MCBA (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne)
This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.
Jeanne Hubert - Peuples du rivage
2026
no text
ION
Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings.
Marzia Migliora - Distinta base (Bill of Materials)
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A poetry collection by Venetian anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Elia Romanelli, with drawings by Marzia Migliora.
 Ultra-red - A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry - Vol. 2 – Learning Circles for Palestine
2026
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine."
Ulla von Brandenburg - A Handbook to Performative Gestures with Ulla von Brandenburg
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cneai
An investigation into the repertoire of performative gestures emerging from the work of German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and the practice of her troupe of performers.
Kinke Kooi - We Look Alike
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Brook
The second book in the "Brookinette" children's book series (published by Brook), We Look Alike is a book for little ones and older children alike that tells the story—through the drawings of Dutch artist Kinke Kooi—of encounters, friendship, and little mistakes, featuring a cast of snails, flowers, fruits, and ladybugs.
2026
English edition
Artforum
forthcoming
Mapping Krasinski\'s Studio
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
Henk Slager - Collateral Concepts - A Provisional Vocabulary for Artistic Research
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.
Jacques Villeglé - Le flâneur
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Celebrating Jacques Villeglé's centennial, this retrospective publication—designed as a black-and-white album/magazine (complete with a sheet of colorful stickers to place on certain pages!)—traces nearly sixty years of work by a "flâneur," a collector of posters torn down by anonymous hands.
Francesco Bertocco - Breaking the Circuit of Control
2026
English edition
Humboldt Books
A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions.
 Fan Zeng - Études sur la peinture chinoise
2026
French edition
Naima
A great Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet, Fan Zeng conveys the spirit of literati painting in these studies, which draw on classical texts and his own experience with the painting.
 Fan Zeng - Une exégèse du cœur sur Laozi et Zhuangzi
2026
French edition
Naima
A painter-poet reflects on Laozi and Zhuangzi "from the heart" in an illustrated volume featuring his ink drawings.
Edwin Nasr - Fear Eats Ali
2026
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The debut-novel of the Lebanese-born and Berlin-based writer Edwin Nasr—a "work of hysterical fiction."
Raphaëlle Ricol - Non dits
2026
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
Raphaëlle Ricol's offbeat, cruel, or deceptively innocent paintings and drawings.
 WEINBENAMI - Visiting the Osaka World Expo
2026
English edition
MER. Books
A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.
Anne-Marie Morice - Guy Debord et la Taverne des Révoltés
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Anne-Marie Morice traces the "urban drift" carried out in the northern suburbs of Paris in the 1950s by members of the Lettrist International, and later by those of the nascent Situationist International, led by Guy Debord, and analyzes how this way of experiencing urban space influenced both their artistic practice and their theoretical work.
Mathilde Roman - On Stage - La dimension scénique de l\'image vidéo
2026
French edition
Naima
Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts.
Pelin Tan - Forms of Non-Belonging
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.
Ethnography of the Body and Material - Slowness and Depth in an Accelerated Society
2026
English edition
Bruno
This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches.
Pot-Pourri
2026
French edition (texts in English)
Pot-Pourri
Issue 0 of the annual journal devoted to ceramics and related arts, dedicated to those who create, reflect on, observe, or draw inspiration from ceramics—without ever limiting themselves to it.
The Eyes of the Heart and Soul of the World
2026
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Published in conjunction with the 11th Contour Biennial, this book edited by curator Sofia Lemos weaves together curatorial reflection, philosophical invocation, and playful fable, moving between essay, image, and story.
Revue & Corrigée
2026
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
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...
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