Art & Childhood

The young Albert Einstein has a very important job: he must deliver electricity to the big Oktoberfest celebration in Munich. As he hurries from one merry-go-round to another, nothing seems to be going as planned. With his sister, Maja, Heinrich the dog, and Niels Bohr, a qualified dwarf-thrower, can he win a battle against the laws of the universe? The key just may lie in the question of whether a dumpling can fly faster than light (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Diogenes as a dog (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Quoting excerpts from Keller Easterling's 2014 essay Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, this coloring book tells the story of two characters, a fox (the artist) and a cat, and their special relationship, made of exotic travels, dreams and nightmares, struggles and desires.

Collection of poems and drawings by the Korean artist.

Influential musician Andrew Liles releases a dark and fantastic literary work relating to childhood and sufferings, illustrated with six images and a sound piece.

L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This second issue focuses on Jim Shaw's Californian youth between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s.

3 tales of childhood and disappearance by William Wordsworth, accompanied by the primitive and free metal music of French duo Talweg.

Novelist, essayist and philosopher Michel Surya looks back on his past as an unwanted child and delivers powerful thoughts on hatred, death, and the will to live.

1914. Europe is at war. The experts on deciphering code and secret writing are wild with excitement: What in the world can be the meaning of those incomprehensible notes scribbled by secret agent Ludwig Wittgenstein? The young scholar himself is unable to help them—he is hunting a wild beast, a figure of dubious existence… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What's for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk—and everything goes off the rails… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

A photographic account of the life of a teenagers' group in London.

Ramiro E has been taking photographs of teenagers for the last twenty years, mostly in personal private sessions in his study or home, but also as editorial jobs and random street shoots. This thick volume compiles images of almost every girl he's photographed, combining many different years, formats and approaches.

These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.

This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.

Jérôme Zonder's drawings in large format.

The ghost of Karl Marx makes a solemn vow to give the story of the class conflict a happy ending by fighting the Market, that infernal magician (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

For those who look for truth: On the origins of Western philosophy (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

This third volume reviews the last two tours of the first mobile contemporary art museum for children. From September, 2013 to January, 2015, the MuMo crossed the roads of France and Spain, covering 118 stages to meet 117 400 children from 620 classrooms. The book contains a photographic essay illustrating the words of the participants, children and adults.

Ten encounters between artists and young audiences between 2011 and 2013.

The Coloring Book by Dr. Lakra is the first BOM DIA Kinder book, a new series of children books made by artists.

Seven encounters between artists and young audiences in 2010/2011.

Artist's book / catalogue.

Artist's book / catalogue.

Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).

Digital book.

Artist's book conceived as a family album with prints of drop shadows, produced by Lourdes Castro in 1972. The second edition features 17 plates of silksreen prints, collages, and photographs, numbered and signed.

By documenting football as it is played in Palestine, the photographer Amélie Debray offers a fresh perspective on Palestinian youth.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Installations 2003-2011.

Loulou Picasso's paintings about childhood and adolescence.

First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.

A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.

New paintings and collages, with texts by the artist.

Personal narration, drawings, and installations in a grown-up children's book.

Inspired by a monumental installation by Andro Wekua, this artist's book showcases a collection of illustrations and archives.

Portrait of a teenagers' community.

The book about the exhibition Before the End at the Consortium in 2004 (with J. Armleder, S. Fleury, L. Gillick, D. Graham, J. Miller, S. Parrino...).