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Marlene Maier - Food only exists on pictures - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2017
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Publication documenting a project by German artist Marlene Maier, the joint recipient of the 2017 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. In her 3-channel video installation Food only exists on pictures, Marlene Maier finds a visual “language” for the blurring and absence resulting from the opaque merging of technological and techno-political processes.
Gerasimos Floratos - Soft Bone Journey
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting a recent series of works by the Greek American artist, which blends painting, sculpture, and photography. In his practice, Gerasimos Floratos plays with the idea of site-specificity, and is strongly inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography.
Gianandrea Poletta - Taboo
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Positioning itself between drawing, sculpture and writing, the work of Gianandrea Poletta is defined by the artist's own life experiences. In his first artist's book, a selection of short stories written in the first person, lo-fi cell phone pictures, and a rich array of ink and marker pen drawings, are brought together in a sequence that overlaps mediums and temporalities.
 Villa Design Group - Tragedy Machine
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue documents the performance and visual arts collective's new body of work—a series of sculptures and a four-act theatrical production imagining the potential of an automated machine or software with the ability to compose tragic and dramatic scripts.
 Birdhead - Welcome to Birdhead World Again
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The artistic practice of Birdhead associates photography with particular collage skills and mounting technique. The publication is a visual diary of the duo's experimentation in Italy, accompanied with a dual language essay by art historian Maurizio Bortolotti.
Felice Varini - Zap
2018
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Fiction
A crime novel in which the narrator chases a mysterious woman from Paris to Barcelona, via Basel and Bucharest. The text is accompanied by a series of photographs by Felice Varini taken from four walks in Paris, Rome, New York, and Krefeld.
 North of North - North Of North (CD)
2018
Immediata
14.00 12.00 €
The self-titled 2nd release of the trio featuring Anthony Pateras, Scott Tinkler and Erkki Veltheim, a stochastic / carnatic free improvisation session recorded in Melbourne's Church of All Nations.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Archive of Moving Images - 1960-2016
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication is the first comprehensive study of Baruchello's relationship with the moving image from the sixties on.
Artforum - April 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
Rachel Churner on the art of Barbara Hammer, James Quandt on the films of Lucrecia Martel, Sarah K. Rich & Amy Sillman on Laura Owens, Kazuyo Sejima talks with Julian Rose on museum architecture, Melissa Anderson on Sophie Fiennes's Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Tobi Haslett on Mark E. Smith, plus reviews from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Mumbai, Istanbul, Chicago, and more.
Jeanne Susplugas - At home she\'s a tourist
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
This catalogue / artist's book extends a three-chapter exhibition reflecting on the concept of Home. The publication includes reproductions, exhibition views, a text by Marie-Gabrielle Duc, and an interview with the artist by Emmanuele Quinz.
Anne-Laure Chamboissier - Beyond Sound
2018
French edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
This interview with Romain Kronenberg by curator Anne-Laure Chamboissier traces the filmmaker's progression, from his first projects to the most recent, including some currently in development. It reveals the complexity of a body of work where the relationship between image and sound is constantly reinvented with each new creation. (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).
Anne-Laure Chamboissier - Beyond Sound
2018
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
This interview with Romain Kronenberg by curator Anne-Laure Chamboissier traces the filmmaker's progression, from his first projects to the most recent, including some currently in development. It reveals the complexity of a body of work where the relationship between image and sound is constantly reinvented with each new creation. (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).
Michael Günzburger - Contact
2018
English edition (texts in English, German, Latin)
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication features a series of lithographs which captured impressions of wild animals. This technique was developed by artist Michael Günzburger to explore with directness and immediacy the physical energy of bestiality. The series is accompanied by a text by writer Lukas Bärfuss which takes the reader on an expedition up through northern woods all the way to the frozen wilderness of an island in the North Sea.
Diaphanes - Merry Xenotism!
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Under the title of Merry Xenotism!, Diaphanes #4 directs its attention to everything foreign and different, to the other in the same and the same in the other. With contributions from art, literature, and discourse by Leonard Suryajaya, Slavs & Tartars, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Yves Netzhammer, Jean-Luc Nancy, Tianzhuo Chen, Elena Dorfman, Maria Gabriela Llansol, A.K. Kaiza, Miguel Tamen, Lina Atfah, Michele Pedrazzi, Angelika Meier, Joseph Morder, Jordan Lee Schnee, Jochen Thermann, and many others.
Espace(s) - Anecdotes et faits divers
2018
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
16th issue confronts the question of the narrative and the “anecdote”, with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.
Paolo Gioli - Etruschi Polaroid 1984
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
Grounds for Possible Music - On Gender, Voice, Language, and Identity
2018
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
Gender, voice, language, and identity in musical composition and experimental sound practices.
Making Sense - 10 Years of Reseach in Art and Design at ECAL
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
Making Sense reports on ten years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features a synopsis of research projects and a selection of projects' descriptions, accompanied by conversations on design and artistic research between ECAL professors and leading scholars in these fields.
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Saâdane Afif, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon & C. Spencer Yeh, Pan Daijing, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Forensic Architecture & Metahaven, T. J. Demos, Nicolas Moufarrege by Élisabeth Lebovici, Mounira Al Solh, and Dean Daderko, Lisa Ponti by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Franco Toselli, Dieter Roelstraete, Vivan Sundaram, Lin May Saeed, Post-Performance Future by Marie de Brugerolle…
Revue & Corrigée
2018
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Tribute to American sound poet Z'ev, interviews with Derek Bailey, Philippe Baudoin, Marc Sirguy from Modularsquare, illustrations by Richard Bokhobza and Thomas B, chronicles and disc reviews…
Scripted Culture - Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The cultural public sphere at the digital age.
Spike - Fashion
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
Issue devoted to the relations between art and fashion.
The Lulennial II - A Low-Hanging Fruit
2018
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the second edition of Lulennial, a biennial organized in the small space of gallery Lulu, in Mexico City. The twenty-two artists invited by curators Chris Sharp and Andrew Berardini met around one subject matter: fruit.
 Federico Lodoli - Towards the Altar of a God Unknown - Liberian Notes
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Federico Lodoli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli went twice in Liberia to carry out a study on the war. This publication gathers their travel memoirs, interviews with Liberian warlords and a photographic reportage.
Anoush Abrar - Young Creatives
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A hundred black and white portraits of students from ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne, made between 2013 and 2016 by photographer and teacher Anoush Abrar.
Le lettrisme et son temps
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A collective reflection on the historical stakes of French avant-garde movement Lettrism.
Augmented Photography
2018
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
This publication examines the new paradigms of creation, dissemination and teaching of photography in the digital age. Resulting from a research project by the Master Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, the publication includes a series of essays and interviews, productions done by the Master's students, together with a selection of representative works.
Ronan Bouroullec - Juillet
2018
no text
Nieves
sold out
Juillet features a small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.
Valérie Da Costa - Fabio Mauri - The Past in Acts
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.
Pascal Dombis -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Supernova
Pascal Dombis's monograph spans 25 years of digital creations exploring the excess, repetition and unpredictability of technological processes. The publication includes a large iconography (200 images), an interview with the artist, two specially-commissioned essays and a collection of articles from 2002-2015 reviewing Dombis's constant evolution.
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjets - Philosophie et écologie après la fin du monde
2018
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
Timothy Morton stretches a thread between philosophy and ecology, using the concept of hyperobjects to rethink our approach to global warming.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Zin Taylor - Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface (vinyl LP + leporello)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
During his exhibition at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, artist Zin Taylor invited musicians Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett to interpret a 90-meter panoramic wall drawing as a musical graphic score. This vinyl edition gathers the recording of this minimal music performance, along with a 180 cm leporello reproduction of the wall drawing.
Robert Smithson - Mémoire et entropie
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A synthesis of the multiple dimensions of the protean oeuvre of a legendary artist, which we measure today to what extent they find an echo in contemporary environmental, cinematographic, aesthetic and social issues.
Mouvement
2018
French edition
Mouvement
Visual artist Jimmy Beauquesne; novelist Fanny Taillandier; researcher Marielle Macé; interviews with Meg Stuart, Nathalie Quintane, Eugène Green; neomelodico napoletano; portraits: Bertrand Mandico, Laure Prouvost, Arto Lindsay; OS'O and Traverse collectives new creation Pavillon noir; shopping malls and contemporary art; design and choreography.
Artforum - March 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
Helen Molesworth on the work of Simone Leigh, a special project by Jesse Darling, Yinka Shonibare MBE on his forthcoming project with the Public Art Fund in New York, Saul Anton on Hito Steyerl's Duty Free Art, and Claire Bishop on Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Plus Maria Stavrinaki on Art and Prehistory, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on the art of Ahmed Morsi, Melissa Anderson on Ken Russell's Women in Love, and more.
Rafael Delacruz - Exploding Jezebel
2018
no text
Nieves
A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.
Penser depuis la frontière - Expérimentations méthodologiques et épistémologiques entre art et sciences humaines
2018
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.
Quintessa Matranga - Toilet Paintings
2018
no text
Nieves
Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.
Sharka Hyland - What Reading Makes You See
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
Conversations is a monographic collection of interviews focusing on an artist's drawing practice. For this first book, Sharka Hyland answers the questions of Marcelline Delbecq, two artists whose practices converge in their interest in writing, reading, images, and language. A discussion that fosters a unique look at Sharka Hyland's work.
Kevin Drumm - Inexplicable hours (2 LP + CD)
2018
Sonoris
Inexplicable hours opens on the one hand new ways based on field recordings, static electronics and distant pulsations, and continues on the other hand the exploration of drone and ambient but in a brighter, less aggressive, less tense way, almost reminding sometimes Brian Eno's Obscure series.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français – Vol. 2
2018
French edition
Lenka lente
The second volume of the publication dedicated to the French underground musical scene.
 Fabienne Jonca - Ambroise Vollard - Un don singulier
2018
French edition
Frac Réunion
The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.
Bomb
2018
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat; portfolio by Ville Kumpulainen; poetry and fiction; an essay by Terrance Hayes; journal by Yun-Fei Ji; exhibitions and books' reviews…
Cura.
2018
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
(last copies available!)
This issue investigates the sinuous folds of the body. Featuring: special section on George Henry Longly; Mathieu Copeland on anti-bodies within the body of art institutions; interview with Barbara Hammer, Lou Dallas, Manuel Solano; Eleanor Antin on Carving; Ellen Blumenstein & Kate Cooper; Ben Vickers in conversation with Kenric McDowell on human and machine; visual essay by Marianna Simnett; Donna Huanca in conversation with Venus Lau; ektor garcia; 25 questions with Eric N. Mack… and including Clubbing fanzine's first issue!
Frédéric Acquaviva - Du singe au porc / Ape to Pig (DVD)
2018
AcquAvivA
DVD gathering the video recordings of two musical performances by Frédéric Acquaviva, in French and English, made at EMS in Stockholm and La Plaque tournante in Berlin.
En suspens
2018
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Unveiling the magazine's new graphic identity, this issue of Flash Art features: 20-page section on Adrian Piper; Maurizio Cattelan and Marta Papini talk to art-world boundary explorer Asad Raza; Tenzing Barshee on Margaret Honda; Stephanie Seidel talks to Juan Antonio Olivares about his 3-D animation Moléculas; Thomas Duncan on photography and corporeality in the work of Josh Tonsfeldt; David Andrew Tasman on Anna Uddenberg's heterotopic forms; Eli Diner on the captivating and inscrutable sculptures of Michael E. Smith; reviews…
In Between
2018
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.
Le Silo 04 - Collection Billarant
2018
no text
various
25.00 10.00 €
Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.
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