Edition Patrick Frey

Active since 1986, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs. The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists, mainly Swiss but also international, an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but EPF has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 20 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.

Zurich

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201 titles

$Pier Geering - El Presidente - Confessions d\'un artiste$

Pier Geering
El Presidente – Confessions d'un artiste

2025

bilingual edition (English / French)

forthcoming

Monograph.

Maï Lucas
All Eyes On Me

2025

English edition

forthcoming

The portraits taken by the French photographer between 1990 and 2010 capture the essence of hip-hop and the street culture of African-American and Hispanic New York.

Michael Tummings
Human Insights

2025

English edition

forthcoming

Photographer Michael Tummings' work on human anatomy behind the surgeon's shoulder.

Lee Scratch Perry
Black Ark

2025

English edition

forthcoming

Lee "Scratch" Perry's photographic works and writings, inventoried in the Black Ark studio in Kingston, one of the cradles of reggae and dub.

Max Wiederkehr
Konkret on Acid

2025

bilingual edition (English / German)

forthcoming

Reference monograph.

Andres Lutz
Schwarze Blätter

2025

no text

forthcoming

White-on-black drawings by the Swiss artist since the late 1990s.

$Anton Bruhin - True to New – New Year\'s Zines 2007–2025 / Dem Neuen treu – Neujahrshefte 2007–2025$

Anton Bruhin
True to New – New Year's Zines 2007–2025 / Dem Neuen treu – Neujahrshefte 2007–2025

2025

bilingual edition (English / German)

forthcoming

The very personal New Year's greetings published by the Swiss artist in the form of zines over the last twenty years.

Yumna Al-Arashi
Aisha

2024

bilingual edition (English / Arabic)

Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's first artist's book.

David Diehl
Icons

2024

English edition

The story of a series of over seventy paintings that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football.

Peter Pfrunder, Iwan Schumacher
Paare / Couples

2024

bilingual edition (English / German)

currently out of stock

A collection of photographs of couples, as evocative as they are mysterious.

$Jacqueline Burckhardt - My Commedia dell\'Arte$

Jacqueline Burckhardt
My Commedia dell'Arte

2024

English edition

An extended meandering conversation between Swiss art historian, critic and curator Jacqueline Burckhardt and curator/art historian Juri Steiner, accompanied by numerous texts, documents and artist inserts.

Vera Lehndorff, Holger Trülzsch
The Seen and the Unseen

2024

English edition

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

Yelena Yemchuk
Malanka

2024

English edition

Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook: a series dedicated the Malanka Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on Old Year's Day.

Noah Noyan Wenzinger
Noyan 2015-2022

2023

English edition

The first photo book by Zurich-based photographer Noah Noyan Wenzinger.

Giuseppe Micciché
No Ponte

2023

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

A photographic essay on the abandoned project of a suspension bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts and on the coastline of the Strait of Messina, documenting the transformation of suburban coastal areas and the daily life of the inhabitants.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
WATER COLUMN

2023

English edition

The second and final installment of FUTURE, a series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores the deep watery world.

$Pathé\'O -$

Pathé'O

2023

English edition

The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion.

$Pathé\'O -$

Pathé'O

2023

French edition

The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion (also available in English).

Claudia Comte
After Nature – Cacti, Corals and Leaves

2023

English edition

This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.

Nicolas Faure
The Order of Things

2023

English edition

The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Karen Kilimnik
Early Drawings – 1976–1998

2023

English edition

Karen Kilimnik's artist's book Early Drawings 1976–1998 brings together the artist's own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper.

Dan Mitchell
Posters Flyers

2023

English edition

The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.

Heads Together – Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73

2023

English edition

A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.

Matthias Brunner
Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life

2023

English edition

A life, between art and cinema (the Swiss film curator’s visual autobiography, with guest appearances from Fassbinder, Warhol, Waters and many more).

Matthias Groebel
Painted Faces – Broadcast Material 1989-2006

2023

English edition

currently out of stock

Matthias Groebel's machine paintings from 1989 to 2001

Gauri Gill
Acts of Appearance

2022

English edition

A community project initiated by the renowned Indian photographer with Adivasi papier-mâché artists from the Kokna and Warli tribes in Palghar district, India.

Emanuel Halpern
Paradoxer Schattenboxer

2022

bilingual edition (English / German)

A retro-futuristic graphic novel by the Swiss artist.

Walter Grab
Walter Grab (1927-1989) – Werkkatalog

2022

German edition

In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.

Matthias Uhlmann
Die Nudistenfilme des Schweizers Werner Kunz

2022

German edition

The naturist films of the Swiss director Werner Kunz (1926-2018), pioneer of sexual liberation in cinema.

Darius Koehli
Why Omaha?

2022

English edition

The album of breathtaking images of wrestling matches made in the US in the late 1960s by a little Swiss boy who will become a photographer.

Cary Loren
Polaroids

2022

English edition

This artist's book by the American artist, musician (Destroy All Monsters), writer and bookseller intertwines Polaroids of 1970s Detroit with photographs of painterly collages made of TV stills and print ephemera combining Christian iconography, Classical Hollywood cinema, pop and b-movie culture.

Josef Herzog
Untitled, 1964-1998

2022

bilingual edition (English / German)

Luxurious retrospective monograph of the Swiss painter (1939-1998): 250 works on paper (ink, pencil, pen and watercolor drawings) covering more than three decades of exploration of the graphic potential of the line.

Klodin Erb
Orlando

2022

German edition

Lush monograph dedicated to the series "Orlando" inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel: more than 200 portraits in which the Swiss painter explores gender roles and identity as well a her own identity as an artist, and the temporality of art history.

Trix + Robert Haussmann
A Life with Art and Artists / Ein Leben mit Kunst und Künstler:innen

2022

bilingual edition (English / German)

A portrait of the Swiss architect-designer couple that reveals their intimate universe and their relationship to art.

Boris Blank & Dieter Meier
Oh Yeah – Yello 40

2022

English edition

A celebration of the 40 years of career of electropop pioneers.

Nicolas Frey
Monsters in Suits

2022

no text

A series of blue ballpoint pen drawings capturing capitalist executives and far-right leaders as grotesque monsters in suits.

Jong Won Rhee
Solitudes of Human Places

2022

no text

Jong Won Rhee's photographs of scenes of contemporary everyday life in South Korea.

Armando Alleyne
A Few of My Favorites

2021

English edition

The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.

Francisco Sierra
Lunar Invasion

2021

bilingual edition (English / German)

An overview of the wide-ranging oeuvre of paintings and sculptures by the Chilean-born Swiss-based artist.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
FUTURE MEMORIES

2021

English edition

The first installment of FUTURE, an ongoing series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores how our conceptions of the future have changed over the past few decades, how that affects our take on the present and our reactions to changes that lie ahead.

AA Bronson
AA Bronson’s House of Shame

2021

English edition

A look back in text and images at AA Bronson 's (collective) production between 2013 and 2018.

Andreas Dobler
St. Elsewhere

2021

bilingual edition (English / German)

Artist's book.

Mathis Gasser
Heroes and Ghosts

2021

English edition

An ongoing series of figurative oil-on-canvas paintings by Swiss-born London-based artist Mathis Gasser, decontextualizing in the same gesture characters of the popular culture and figures of the history of the art.