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Mousse

Mousse is a bimonthly contemporary art magazine. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) also publishes numerous catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions (see the corresponding publisher's page).
 
Mousse - The Fiction Issue
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Mousse celebrates its 90th issue with a collectible edition, with a special design and format, entirely focused on fiction.
Mousse
2024
English edition
Shu Lea Cheang, Martin Herbert, Adelita Husni-Bey, Karimah Ashadu, Byung-Chul Han, Anthony Huberman, Sohrab Mohebbi...
Mousse
2024
English edition
Survey: John Giorno, Erica Hunt, Riar Rizaldi, Ian Waelder, Crystal Z Campbell, Helena Uambembe, Valentin Noujaïm, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Richard Birkett, TJ Shin, Ulises Carrión, Raven Chacon, Maryam Tafakory, Alice Bucknell, Aura & Quinn Latimer.
Mousse
2024
English edition
Lin May Saeed, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Frantz Fanon, Trisha Donnelly, Natasha Ginwala, Macedonio Fernández, Claire Fontaine, Vir Andres Hera...
Mousse
2024
English edition
Anna Oppermann, Benoît Piéron, Maria Toumazou, Coumba Samba, Kiyan Williams, Ali Eyal, Samuel R. Delany, Maryanne Amacher, Roe Ethridge, Aleksandra Kasuba...
Mousse
2023
English edition
Cally Spooner, Donald Rodney, Ivan Cheng, Niloufar Emamifa, McKenzie Wark, Clémentine Deliss, Kerstin Stakemeier, Chus Martínez...
Mousse
2023
English edition
Alongside Mousse's surveys, monographs, thematic essays, short profiles, fiction and book reviews, Issue #84 inaugurates four new columns with a reinforced emphasis on textuality and critical thinking: Criticism (by Kerstin Stakemeier), Thinkers (Ana Teixeira PintoAna Teixeira Pinto on Sara Ahmed), Curators (Kabelo Malatsie), and Reprint (selected by Lawrence Abu Hamdan).
Mousse - The Artist\'s Artist
2023
English edition
More a book than a magazine, Mousse #83 – The Artist's Artist is a special, collectible issue conceived as a small anthology of seven comprehensive monographs dedicated to influential, yet at times under-represented, artists who spearheaded the languages that are defining our age—the so-called artists' artists.
Mousse
2023
English edition
Seyni Awa Camara, Scott Covert, Jordan/Martin Hell, Melike Kara, Dala Nasser, Bruno Serralongue, Anita Steckel, George Tourkovasilis, Abbas Zahedi...
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Ayo Akingbade, Dora Budor, Ignacio Gatica, Caspar Heinemann, Simon Lehner, David Moser, Fujiko Nakaya, Selma Selman, Francisco Tropa, Travis Jeppesen, Cally Spooner...
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
currently out of stock
Summer issue, featuring Rhea Dillon, Ufuoma Essi, Matthias Groebel, Saodat Ismailova, Karla Kaplun, Reba Maybury, Michel Majerus, Niklas Taleb...
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
currently out of stock
Sadie Barnette, Gabriel Chaile, Vaginal Davis, Marlene Dumas, Ja'Tovia Gary, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Matthew Langan-Peck, Na Mira, Joseph Yaeger...
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Haig Aivazian, Zuzanna Czebatul, Maria Eichhorn, Adam Farah, Raque Ford, Aziz Hazara, Sebastian Jefford, Lap-See Lam, Maurizio Vetrugno...
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Kandis Williams, Rose Salane, Peggy Ahwesh, Elene Chantladze; essays by Dodie Bellamy, Estelle Hoy, Pablo Larios...
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Travis Jeppesen revisits Éric Rohmer's The Green Ray; ten shortfictions by Nick Currie on works by Joachim Bandau; Patricia L. Boyd speaks with Dora Budor on probing the architectural, emotional, and psychological boundaries of an institution; Fahim Amir in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi; focus on Julie Becker; Andrea Viliani on Giuseppe Desiato's autonomous, experimental, and both intimate and radically political practice; Tarek Lakhrissi in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist; Ella S. Mills on Ingrid Pollard...
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mark McKnight, Estelle Hoy, Mitch Speed, Cudelice Brazelton IV, He Xiangyu, Gianluca Concialdi, Samuel Hindolo, Phung-Tien Phan, Trulee Hall, Alex Ayed, Tiffany Sia, Erna Rosenstein, Laura Grisi, Duan Jianyu , Miho Dohi , Stella Zhong , Yalda Afsah, book reviews by Taylor Le Melle...
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Alan Michael, Jesse Wine, Beth Collar, Peter Fend, Tau Lewis, Robin Peckham, McKenzie Wark...
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Ça m'est égal: The Involution of Desire by Estelle Hoy; Hervé Guibert by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou; Julien Nguyen by Mónica Belevan; Andrew Berardini on artist, writer, and Semiotext(e) coeditor Hedi El Kholti; Tsai Ming-liang by Dora Budor; Wendy Vogel on artist and writer Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014), one of the founding members of A.I.R., New York's first all-women cooperative gallery; Carolyn Lazard by Richard Birkett; Tuan Andrew Nguyen converses with Rahel Aima...
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The Musical Chairs That Is Capitalism by Estelle Hoy; Hudinilson Jr. by Paulo Miyada, walking in Chicago with Hendrik Folkerts; Brook Hsu in conversation with Ross Simonini; a short story by Travis Jeppesen; Primavera (An Elegy) by Sabrina Tarasoff; Anthropy: What the Post-Human Looks Like by Dieter Roelstraete; Ian Wilson by Catherine Wood; Omar Kholeif charts the ailing effects of living in an increasingly sick society...
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bri Williams by Harry Burke, Virginia Overton by Ian Wooldridge, Pati Hill by Maurin Dietrich, Ann Greene Kelly by Andrew Berardini, On psychotic images and other visual symptoms by Aurélien Le Genissel, Todd Haynes's Dark Waters and new new left cinema, Larry Bell by Marie de Brugerolle, Pierre Guyotat by Estelle Hoy, Gabriel Kuri by Chris Sharp, Suellen Rocca by Hans Ulrich Obrist...
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Every Force Evolves a Form by Alessandro Bava; Design, Reset: Studio Formafantasma in Conversation with Alessandro Rabottini; Clinical Cosmology: Tishan Hsu by Hera Chan; Oceanic Time-Lag: on Mati Diop's “Atlantics” by Dora Budor...
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nairy Baghramian by Andrew Berardini, Travis Jeppesen, Nobuo Sekine by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Avery Singer, David Ostrowski and Tenzing Barshee, John Gerrard, Ren Ebel, Jill Johnston, Eric Wesley, Tyler Coburn and Elvia Wilk, Alice Bucknell...
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Summer issue, featuring Yuji Agematsu, Genesis Belanger, Adam Gordon, Candice Lin, Jannis Marwitz, Kaari Upson...
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bunny Rogers by Emily Watlington; Listening to, and Looking at, New Age Now by Dieter Roelstraete; Vanessa Conte by Moritz Scheper; Louisa Gagliardi interviewed by Adam Carr; Jared Madere & Ross Simonini; Anselm Franke; Martine Syms in conversation with Beatrix Ruf; Chris Sharp on Dike Blair; Nick Currie; Dora Budor analyzes Claire Denis's science-fiction film High Life; Andrew Berardini on Mare Vint; Michelle Stuart speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist...
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sophie von Hellermann by Tenzing Barshee; David Horvitz in Conversation with Yann Chateigné; Helen Lundeberg by Andrew Berardini; Queer Abstraction by Travis Jeppesen; An Unpardonable Mannerism of Style by Rose Vickers; The Art of Judging a Book by Its Cover by Dieter Roelstraete; Tomás Saraceno; Mario García Torres...
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The sculptures of Kathleen Ryan, by Andrew Berardini; Zoë Paul; the emo-romantic turn, by Michal Novotný; the experimental theatre of Reza Abdoh; Jennifer Bolande by Marie de Brugerolle; Virgil Abloh; Takesada Matsutani by Hans Ulrich Obrist; women artists in the Middle-East, by Omar Kholeif; Phoebe Berglund & Madeline Hollander; exhibition making in the Anthropocene, by Chris Sharp; João Laia by Joshua Simon…
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Kris Lemsalu by Andrew Berardini; Mitch Speed on the anti-power of the found object; an essay on photography and Instagram by Nick Currie; Sabrina Tarasoff on Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center; Ana Teixeira Pinto on futurisms; the Women's History Museum; Ericka Beckman, Dara Birnbaum, Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with Emily Watlington; Bouchra Khalili; Kate Newby…
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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…
Mousse
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Rita Mcbride, Julia Scher, Lu Yang, Michael Stevenson, Alexandra Pirici, Martin Arnold, Erika Verzutti, Julia Phillips & Aaron Gilbert, Simphiwe Ndzube, Diego Marcon, Tiona Nekkia Mcclodden, Diamond Stingily, Meriem Bennani, Siri Aurdal, Asad Raza, Lydia Ourahmane…
Mousse - On Display
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
currently out of stock
Special issue dedicated to the relationship between and mutual influence of exhibition display and contemporary art practices. A pool of guest contributors—including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mario García Torres, Simon Starling, Jens Hoffmann, Kim West, Liam Gillick, Gabriel Sierra, Morgan Fisher, Willem De Rooij, Céline Condorelli, and more—were invited to select illuminating cases of cross-pollination, and to compile extended captions for their chosen images.
Mousse
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Interviews with Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Rana Hamadeh, Aria Dean, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Lin Ke, Yasunao Tone, Timothée Calame, Sara Deraedt; round-table on the relations between art, dance, and theater; Yann Chateigné's notes on time; Kathy Noble on institutional trauma; Jens Hoffmann, Candice Hopkins, Chus Martínez, and Ingo Niermann on issues related to cultural appropriation; Sofia Stevi by Andrew Berardini; conversation with Liz Craft and Stanya Kahn; the use of augmented reality in arts; round-table on performance studies; Hendrik Folkerts on monumentalization.
Mousse
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Kathy Noble on narcissism in recent art; Robert Barry on Erkki Kurenniemi; John Knight; Seth Price; Julia Weist & Nestor Siré; Johannes Paul Raether; Yan Xing; Trix + Robert Haussmann; Kevin Jerome Everson; Leilah Weinraub; Lantian Xie; Basma Alsharif; Duane Linklater; Robertas Narkus; “Let's Make Protest Great Again” by Jens Hoffmann; “Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing. This Is How Some Revolutions Get Started” by Andrew Berardini.
Mousse
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This issue dedicated to documenta 14 addresses themes, artists, and projects spanning between Athens and Kassel. Including: Moyra Davey by Quinn Latimer; Vivian Suter & Elisabeth Sussman; Roee Rosen; “Preliminary notes for a Black manifesto” by Rasheed Araeen; Khvay Samnang “; The Globalised Museum?” by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; articles by Kirsty Bell, Irena Haiduk, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Neni Panourgiá, Dieter Roelstraete, and more.
Mousse
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Dean Daderko, Arthur Jafa and Sondra Perry on blackness, technology and Alien ontologies; Stefanie Hessler exchanges oceanic ideas with Heidi Ballet; Puppies Puppies talk to Tenzing Barshee; Hannah Black as seen by Rahel Aima; essays by Alexander Provan, Orit Gat and Jens Hoffmann; William Pope.L and Mia Locks; Sam Thorne with Marianna Simnett; Anna Gritz and Eric Baudelaire; Luke Willis Thompson; Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme; Raúl de Nieves, and more.
Mousse - 2006-2016 – A Small Anthology
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
currently out of stock
10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.
Mousse
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Samson Young; essays by Hendrik Folkerts, Michael Taussig, Benjamin Thorel, and Tim Griffin; Rayyane Tabet in conversation with Haegue Yang; Laura McLean-Ferris on empathy and the confessional; round-table on materialist history of exhibitions; Kishio Suga by Stuart Munro; Andrew Berardini on flowers and art; artificial creativity by John Menick; Lawrence Lek with Cécile B. Evans; Kasper Bosmans; and more.
Mousse
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Ieva Misevičiūtė, prosthetics and sculpture, Anne Imhof, native North America, outsider aesthetics, New Scenario, a special section on artists curating exhibitions, Ronald Jones, Gary Indiana, Willa Nasatir, Ragna Bley, Noah Barker, Isiah Medina, the year 1972, relational ontologies, Geoffrey Farmer and Dora García, the emergence of the “Supergroup,” Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, radical domesticity: Morag Keil and Georgie Nettell, an essay on dress-up…
Mousse
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nicolaus Schafhausen interviews Goshka Macuga, Sam Thorne talks with Cally Spooner and Marguerite Humeau, Carol Bove and Tauba Auerbach exchange emails regarding work and life, Tara McDowell and Céline Condorelli in conversation, John Menick on A.I. and beauty, Rebecca Warren and Albert Oehlen, an essay on belly dancing by Martha Kirszenbaum, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Sondra Perry...
Mousse
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Decadence and De-facement by Sabrina Tarasoff, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, The Importance of Being an Influence (by Jens Hoffmann, Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot...), Sunset Décor by Magalí Arriola, Lothar Baumgarten, The Public Life of the Imagination by João Ribas, Robert Grosvenor by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Forget About the Middle Class by Chus Martínez, Ceal Floyer by Christian Jankowski, Nevine Mahmoud, Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr, Jessi Reaves, Lucas Arruda, Ana Vaz, A Study in Petulance by Michael Turner...
Mousse - 1985-1995 Exhibitions Views
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse 51 is a photo issue dedicated to exhibitions from 1985 to 1995, the last ten years or so before exhibitions went online, and possibly, before the exhibition view became a requisite genre.
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian & Frank Stella, Art & Architecture, A.K. Burns, Dance Factory (by Sven Lütticken), Richard Rezac, Kelly Akashi, Mernet Larsen, Oscar Enberg, Calvin Marcus, Yves Scherer, How to become a very famous artist (by Chus Martínez), Irena Haiduk, Jim Shaw, Bruno Gironcoli, The Materiality of Digital Forms...
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Dora Budor, Martine Syms, On the copy (by Bettina Funcke, Michele Robecchi, Ian Cheng, Liam Gillick, Daniel McClean, Kenneth Goldsmith, Darren Bader, Nick Currie, Martin Clark, grupa o.k.), L'imitation by Philippe Pirotte, Walter Benjamin by Jens Hoffmann, Jim Nutt, Leidy Churchman, Albert Serra, The 80s by Kelly Taxter, Yuri Parrison, Rachel Rose & Ben Russell, Michael Snow & Sharon Lockhart, Aldo Tambellini, Nancy Lupo & Hayley Silverman, f.marquespenteado...
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Andreas Angelidakis, Art about Fucking, Art and the Construction of a Future Politics, Artistic Research: Belonging and Expanding, Adelhyd van Bender, Pia Camil, Corporations and the Exotic, Andrea Crespo, Simon Denny & Matt Goerzen, Cécile B. Evans, Urs Fischer & Adam McEwen, Parviz Kimiavi, James Lovelock, The Multiversalists, From the Naked Future, The Political Potential of the Unpredictable, Reading the Roster: the 56th Venice Biennale, Carolee Schneemann, Single-Origin Art, Jesse Stecklow, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané...
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
(last copies available!)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Art and Literature, Darja Bajagić, Walter Dahn, Fiction in Reality, Have We Become the Internet?, Lynn Hershman Leeson, The History of Exhibitions, Intimacy in Art, Nicholas Mangan, Park McArthur, The Multiplication of Moving Perspectives, Opening up to the Unexpected, Philippe Parreno and Paul B. Preciado, Systems Prosthetics, Time as Material, The Withdrawal of the Artist, Betty Woodman, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and The Artist as Curator #6.
Mousse - Artists\' Words
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
sold out
A special issue dedicated to words written by artists—essays, articles, poetry, scripts, drafts, letters, telegrams, notes and footnotes, and text-based artworks.
Mousse
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Some thoughts on authority by Jan Verwoert, Stylometry by John Menick, The Theater of Violence by Sladja Blazan, Manila in the Claws of Darkness by Giulio Bursi, Gottfried Lindauer, On Disintegration by Andrew Durbin, Notes on the Post-Digital Condition by Omar Kholeif, Learning To Escape the Politics of Prediction by Chus Martínez, Robert Gober, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Mélanie Matranga, Guan Xiao, Minimalism as Pathos by Nick Currie, Alice Könitz / Kim Fisher, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Bruce McLean / Tamara Henderson, The End of Art in Public Space by Jennifer Allen...
Mousse
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Peter Hujar, The Not-Spot by Nick Currie, The Art of (Leadership) George W. Bush by Alison Gingeras, Selfie Poetics by Andrew Durbin, Robert Heinecken, Art After the End of Art: Exhibit B by Jens Hoffmann, The Whole Earth Show Revisited by Chelsea Haines, Otobong Nkanga by Hans Ulrich Obrist, From Performance To Post-Performance by Marie Canet, Marie de Brugerolle and Catherine Wood, Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood by Jennifer Allen, Hannah Weinberger, Than Hussein Clark, James Ferraro, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Jasper Spicero, Mario Schifano, Bunny Rogers, Phillip Zach, Jamian Juliano-Villani...
Mousse
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
sold out
Terry Adkins, Kai Althoff, Art After Art, Art Against the Net, Art and Appropriation, Josh Bitelli & Felix Melia, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Paul Chan, Liz Deschenes, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Hallucination Museum, Alex Olson, Laura Owens & Lisa Williamson, A Pedagogy of Invention, Sean Raspet, Cameron Rowland, Ben Schumacher & Jared Madere, A.L. Steiner, Stylometry, Franz Erhard Walther, The Work of Images in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Worldly Worlding, The Artist as Curator.
Mousse
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
On Art and Film, Art and Moving Images, Ross Birrell and David Harding, Yve Laris Cohen, Con Jobs, Douglas Coupland, Heinrich Dunst, Jimmie Durham, Ed Fornieles, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, Patrick Jackson, Wyatt Kahn, Amar Kanwar, Isabel Lewis, Liberation through Laziness, Heather Phillipson, Organic Photography, Torbjørn Rødland, Surrealism and Tags, Philippe Thomas, Brad Troemel, The Artist as Curator (Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, John Cage)...
Mousse
2013
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
(last copies available!)
On Purpose and Urgency: Cory Arcangel, Defne Ayas, Angie Keefer, Adam Kleinman, David Levine, Chus Martínez, Seth Price, João Ribas, Carey Young, Akram Zaatari; On Art and the Distributed Spectacle, Kevin Beasley, Caleb Considine, On Cooperation, Thomas Eggerer, GCC, hobbypopMUSEUM, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen, Alan Moore by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jon Pestoni, Pots on Video, Charles Ray, Tabor Robak, The Artist as Curator (a serial publication debuting in this issue), Luke Willis Thompson, The Value of Art Criticism, Dena Yago...
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