Contemporary art

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside.

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.

Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.

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.

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

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).

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).

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.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.

An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.

The definitive publication on Carl Cheng's genre-defying work.

An inquiry into the potential regeneration of democracy: how artists can work towards a sense of collective relevance required to face the future's dark challenges.

An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.

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.

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

Invited by Mara Hoberman, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on Joan Mitchell's work.

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

A transversal and analytical reading of Éric Baudart's entire body of work.

First monographie.

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.

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.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub

A retrospective of the work of Norwegian painter Leonard Rickhard (1945-2024) spanning more than half a century.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).

Archivio n°11 offers an international overview of technology archives, divided into three sections—Stories, Institutions, and Collectors & Collectives.

First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).

The first English-language catalogue dedicated to the Guangzhou-based artist.

How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.

A long conversation about the work and life of Portuguese artist Ana Jotta, accompanied by 60 previously unpublished photographs of her homes (in Brazil, Morocco, and Zanzibar) and her years in theater in the late 1970s.

The first issue in a collection of typographic specimens, each inviting a designer to create a fictional story around one of their typefaces, this volume is by Grégoire Romanet, who has repurposed 18th-century Texas Cattle Brand symbols to create a typeface.

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2025 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.