Contemporary art

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

Álvaro Urbano by Javier Montes, Togar by Hung Duong, Kerry James Marshall by James Meyer...

Spike #86 rehabilitates the entire younger generation.

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.

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.

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

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

The editorial extension of a long-term art and performance program in Cologne's public space, on and around its seven bridges over the Rhine.

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

A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.

An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.

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

First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.

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

Published on the occasion of the Chilean artist's first institutional survey exhibition in Europe, this monograph is dedicated to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's experimental practice and focuses on her spatial, energetic, and global thinking.

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.

The catalog of a curatorial project devoted to Wolfgang Tillmans' books and magazines: an inventory as an invitation to literally take a different look at Tillmans' work, in print.

Stéphane Blanquet's new facsimile sketchbook: drawings made on trains, public transport, notes, drawings everywhere.

A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.

Emerging from the curatorial project FUORI! (Bologna, 2022-2023), this book brings together a series of interviews with theorists, artists, and performers. It focuses on the political, social, and community-based role of contemporary art.

Artist's book printed in risograph in a limited edition of 250 copies.

Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

The catalogue of the manifesto exhibition that seeks to lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of 21st-century extra-terrestrial art.

An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.

On the occasion of Seasons, Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at GAMeC, art historian Lisa Parola, investigates how contemporary art can redefine the idea of the monument.

Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.

"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.

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.

A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2024 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).

An artistic stroll with Vanessa Morisset.

The latest, massive volume in the Solution series of collected all-new and most recent landscape paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska.

The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.

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.

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

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 history of art in France from the women's perspective.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

A mapping of the international landscape of technological archives.

How the right wing is ruining culture, part II; in Sicily, humanitarian flotillas bound for Gaza are on the US Army's radar; Alice Diop and the Black Venus; Iraqi singer Sajda Obeid unites the country; theater according to Sylvain Creuzevault; the British left reveals fascism...

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, this issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what 'technology' is.

The best of 2025: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

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.

Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.

An artist's book composed of six loose A3 sheets, folded in half and assembled at random, which can be taken apart and framed, and which together form an anthology of Sam Porritt's drawings of the last twenty years.

A series of pencil drawings by Japanese artist Emi Ueoka depicting youth in their everyday urban environment.