JRP|Editions

Created in 2004 in Zurich by Lionel Bovier, JRP|Editions (previously JRP|Ringier) is an international art publishing house based in Geneva. Neither a micro-structure nor an outreach of a media group, the company has organized the production according to defined typologies and series, while maintaining a flexible approach to artists' projects. This strategy has allowed a catalogue of titles aimed at the contemporary art audience, and structured around different editorial lines and time frames to develop, often in collaboration with institutions and renowned editors. Presenting to a specialized and general public a generation of artists who emerged in the 1990s, the 2000s, and the early 2010s, as well as introducing the newest positions in today's scene, JRP|Editions' catalogue also demonstrates an interest in remapping the 1980s, and in publishing significant texts and artists still overlooked today.

JRP|Editions co-publishes with Les presses du réel the Positions and Documents series, as well as various catalogues and monographs.
Series:
 
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
French edition
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
M/2, Vevey - 1987-1991
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
This publication extensively documents the exhibitions and activities of M/2, a local but emblematic example of an artist-run space founded at the end of the 1980s in Vevey, Switzerland.
Maja Bajevic - Power, Governance, Labor
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
New monograph of one of the most important artists rooted in Eastern Europe.
Yael Bartana -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work of Yael Bartana: a comprehensive overview of the artist's films, installations, performative projects, photographs, and sound works of the past 15 years. The publication highlights her fascination with the ways in which social rituals shape both individual identities and collective memory.
Walead Beshty - Industrial Portraits - Volume One – 2008-2012
2017
English edition
Since 2008, Walead Beshty photographs the art people he works with at every stage of his projects. This first volume features a gallery of black and white portraits spanning from 2008 to 2012.
Art Basel | Year 47
2017
English edition
Art Basel's 2016 official annual publication.
Élisabeth Lebovici - Ce que le sida m\'a fait - Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle
2017
French edition
A both intimate and political account of the links between artistic practices and activism during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s in France and the United States—featuring monographic texts, interviews, and thematic essays.
Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
English edition
This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection.
Olivier Zahm - Une avant-garde sans avant-garde - Essai sur l\'art
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
The avant-garde of the 1990s.
Spacescapes - Dance & Drawing since 1962
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
Spacescapes - Danse & dessin depuis 1962
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
Liz Magor -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Liz Magor's sculpture and installations produced over the course of 40 years.
Raffael Waldner - Salon
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.
Now-Tomorrow-Flux - An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
The museum of contemporary art in all its paradoxical characteristics.
Kelley Walker - Direct Drive
2017
English edition
New monograph.
 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
Anticipations
2016
English edition
This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.
Anticipations
2016
French edition
This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.
Sonsbeek - A New Standard for Outdoor Exhibitions – 1971-1986 (DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Expanding its mapping of landmark exhibitions and curatorial history from the 1960s to today, the “Archives” series dedicates its fifth DVD to Sonsbeek, an art manifestation held in 1971 and 1986 in and around Arnhem (Netherlands). Mainly showcasing large installations and sculptures in natural surroundings, these two events are crucial to the history of outdoor exhibitions, shifting the boundaries of traditional sculpture.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
English edition
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.
Guillaume Bijl -
2016
English edition
This reference monograph reveals the scope of Guillaume Bijl's thinking and art during the last four decades.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
French edition
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre (available in English edition).
David Maljković - In Low Resolution
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).
Ericka Beckman -
2016
English edition
Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.
Stadt auf Achse - Mit Kunst urbane Räume gestalten – Ein Handbuch
2016
German edition
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
Ian Cheng - Forking at perfection
2016
English edition
Documenting Ian Cheng's latest “live simulations”—virtual living ecosystems in autonomous evolution—this monograph engages in a dialogue between art, new technologies and neurosciences.
Matt Mullican - Rubbings - Catalogue – 1984-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).
Ugo Rondinone - Breathe Walk Die
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
David Hominal -
2016
English edition
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
David Hominal -
2016
French edition
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
Nestlé Art Collection
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
This lavish publication presents Nestlé's corporate art collection, located in Vevey and nestled in the landmark building created by Jean Tschumi in the late 1950s.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2016
English edition
Shirana Shahbazi's photo-project Tehran North is a subjective road movie captured from a car driving through the Iranian capital at night, offering a black and white kaleidoscopic vision of Tehran's urban landscape (artist's book).
Art Basel | Year 46
2016
English edition
Art Basel's 2015 official annual publication.
Jean Dubuffet - Entrée en matière
2016
French edition
French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.
Art Handling - Partituren der Logistik
2016
German edition
The role of infrastructure and logistics in today's art scene
Eva Kot\'átková - Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces
2016
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
Eva Kot'átková's most ambitious publication to date, divided in two volumes, reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album
2016
English edition
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
John Stezaker - Unassisted Readymade
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
Virginia Overton -
2016
English edition
First monograph dedicated to Virginia Overton, whose minimalist sculptural practice emergeas a direct response to her physical presence in the exhibition space.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 4) – Painting, Sculpture, Installation, and Architecture
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.
Walead Beshty - 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters - Selected Writings (2003-2015)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
Exhibiting the Moving Image
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
(last copies available!)
The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
Sue Williams -
2015
English edition
In over 40 years, Sue Williams' art has continuously explored and challenged the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender, and culture. This first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the American artist follows her work from the early 1980s to her most recent paintings.
Resistance Performed - An Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America
2015
English edition
The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
Alfredo Aceto -
2015
English edition
First monograph.
John Armleder - Out! (Out!)
2015
English edition
(last copies available!)
Armleder's new series of works inspired by large scale anatomical models from the 19th & 20th centuries.
8, rue Saint-Bon
2015
French edition
A documentation of the art space located in the center of Paris and programmed by Lionel Bovier & Clément Dirié, in relation with the editorial activities of Anna Sanders Films, bdv, Les presses du réel and JRP|Ringier.
Sylvie Fleury -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sylvie Fleury's chromatic and esoteric works from the 2000's are presented together for the first time with her classic pieces from the 1990's in this reference monograph. It thus offers readers a new way to register Fleury's contribution to the art of the last decades.
Liam Gillick - From Nineteen Ninety A to Nineteen Ninety D
2015
English edition
A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.
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