search results for "the contemporary condition"
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire.
2025
English edition
Artforum
Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Joke Lanz; female duo (Ana da Silva & Phew, Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, etc.); Magali Dougoud; François Bayle; Céleste Gatier; Banetoriko; Ed Williams; Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White; Nicolas Field & Thomas Florin; book and record reviews...
2025
English edition
e-flux Index
Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
A major retrospective monograph, published on the 20th anniversary of Arman's death, presenting the artist's visual works from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well as his lesser-known yet radical performances, with a text by Bernard Blistène and numerous illustrations from archives and documents.
2025
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Bierke
Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects.
Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.
2025
French edition
Captures - Collective works and monographs
The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.
2025
English edition
Éditions 7L
Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
2025
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
For over 20 years, the author kept in a drawer the little pieces of paper on which he noted things to do. "Mesmots" carry the archives of his life.
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2025
various
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An account of an imaginary fashion exhibition that has no clothing, but in its place, sonic responses to garments and cloth act as a series of calls to explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.
2025
French edition
Naima
In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
2025
Sub Rosa
A 2-CD collaborative album between Californian guitarist Henry Kaiser and Czech musician and composer P.ST.
2025
Erstwhile Records
A meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces.
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.
2025
Sub Rosa
Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Comprehensive monograph on Silke Otto-Knapp's late work.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Retrospective monograph.
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Malayalam)
Reliable Copy
"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.
2025
French edition
Jocaste
Empire - Jocaste
The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An overview and historical, critical, and theoretical perspective on the French artist's work.
2025
English edition
Timeless
sold out
The definitive Babs Santini book: the complete graphic work of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), covering his entire visual output over five decades, on nearly 600 color pages.
2025
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Lenz Press
An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.
2025
Xing
L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.
2025
English edition
Nero
An artist's book of images and words—an exploration of Piero Golia's imagery and an articulation of his personal understanding of art.
2025
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.
2025
French edition
Le Portique
Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mucem
Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean,
photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).