Contemporary art

 
 
Jérôme Zonder -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
The first in a series of four books in children's book format, composed as a series of tragic children's stories that Jérôme Zonder knows so well how to write and draw.
Jean-Michel Wicker - antibook neonevvconcrrrretistas e ffffffuturrrrristas
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
Catalogue.
Joel Meyerowitz - Morandi\'s Object - New Edition
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.
Francis David - Un Monde Parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.
Ré Soupault - L\'esprit avant tout – Du Bauhaus au reste du monde - Souvenirs
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
Laurie Dall’Ava - Le Temps vibré
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
forthcoming
Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Radicant - Pour une esthétique de la globalisation
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
On a wildflower lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare…
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Arabic / Greek / Turkish)
Archive Books
forthcoming
The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Musafiri - Of Travellers and Guests
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.
Instituting - Space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.
Damir Avdagić - Transmissions
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
First monograph.
Chipo Chipaziwa - My Mother, My Home - Archiving Presence with/in Absence
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.
Alessandra Ferrini - Like Swarming Maggots - Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.
Vlatka Horvat - By the Means at Hand
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.
Luïza Luz - Beneath the Surface
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.
Yon Natalie Mik - Studies on Squats
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.
Margherita Moscardini - Metropolitan Voids Agency
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.
Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.
Dialogical Imaginations - Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 1 : 1955-1966
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 2 : 1967-1982
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
George Condo -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
Sayre Gomez -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Studio of the South (Atelier du Sud)
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
forthcoming
Conceived by American artist Laura Owens, this publication looks back on the Studio of the South residency, hosted in Arles by LUMA and Owens and undertaken by 23 international artists between September 2020 and July 2023.
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Joar Nango -
2025
bilingual edition (English / Sámi)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.
L\'Invention du quotidien
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
forthcoming
Taking its title from the seminal book by the priest, philosopher, and historian Michel de Certeau, this publication, which accompanies the eponymous Capc exhibition, bears witness to unique ways of being in the world through the transformation of materials, tools, and everyday practices, inscribed directly onto the pages of a regional daily newspaper.
Dieter Hall - A Naked Chair
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Merlin Modulaw - Times Ahead (were once an optimistic place)
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".
David Weiss - David Weiss e il Sogo di Casa Aprile / David Weiss and the Dream of Casa Aprile - Carona 1968-1978
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.
And All That Is In Between - Islamic Arts Biennale 2025
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.
Deberlinization - Refabulating the World, A Theory of Praxis
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.
Thierry de Duve - Le télégramme de Duchamp
2025
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.
Jean Jullien - Mermed 1
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.
Radicale24
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.
Donald Judd - The Low Countries - 1965–1971
2025
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.
Beautés désordonnées
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
forthcoming
A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).
Sandy Skoglund - Enchanting Nature
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Retrospective monograph.
Gisèle Vienne -
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.
Giasco Bertoli - Locations, New York
2025
English edition
Éditions 7L
forthcoming
Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.
Magma - Archive of the Future
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
forthcoming
The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.
Robert Filliou -
2025
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
forthcoming
Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
Resonant - Bodies, Songs, and Strings
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.
John Cornu -
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.
Richard Martel - Art et poésie d\'action, intervention, performance - Théorie et pratique
2025
French edition
various
forthcoming
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
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