Contemporary art

Issue 41 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo looks at the realities of artistic creation beyond urban areas and interrogates the idea of territory.

A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced from 2019-2026.

Marking fluent's tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization's archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.

Stephen Felton's first major monograph traces a decade of painting between spontaneity and reflection.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).

Lydia Ourahmane’s first monograph, documenting a project developed through immersion during a several-month residency in Venice, as part of the 61st Venice Biennale.

Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.

A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

As part of the 7L's Correspondances program, Katrien de Blauwer explored the collection of books and magazines of Karl Lagerfeld's library at 7L, and reinterpreted it through a new series of photomontages in which the images serve as both a reference and a mirror.

This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.

A multidisciplinary perspective on illegibility as a cultural phenomenon (new edition).

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.

Diego Marcon by Matthew McLean, The Choreography of Police Work by Sophie Landres, The New Art Theater by Aria Dean, Prediction Addiction by Simon Denny, Simone Forti by Yvonne Rainer, Terry Iacuzzo and Tony Oursler by Katherine Rochester...

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).

This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.

A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

Published in conjunction with the 11th Contour Biennial, this book edited by curator Sofia Lemos weaves together curatorial reflection, philosophical invocation, and playful fable, moving between essay, image, and story.

Artist's book.

A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions.

The dangerous liaisons between art and oil: the question of artworks and the postcolonial power dynamics shaped by the oil industry, in the era of global warming and of our civilization burning.

This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches.

This posthumous work is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Palestinian artist and activist Amal Abdenour (1931–2020).

Leszek Brogowski continues his search for milestone markers (artist's books).

Through a dated diary and film photographs, a young woman explores her Algerian and Kabyle roots: a sensitive account of a language that was never passed down, family memory, and personal decolonization.

Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts.

This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.

The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition).

The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality."

A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.

Anne-Marie Morice traces the "urban drift" carried out in the northern suburbs of Paris in the 1950s by members of the Lettrist International, and later by those of the nascent Situationist International (Guy Debord, Gil J. Wolman, Jean-Louis Brau, etc.), and analyzes how this way of experiencing urban space influenced both their artistic practice and their theoretical work.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.

The graphic, spatial and temporal possibilities that emerge from the use of grids, from linear perspective to 3D modelling.

Anna Homler by Rachel Hahn, Gabriele Stötzer by Elisa R. Linn, Cao Fei by Pablo Larios, AI for Modernists by Mario Carpo...

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

The most comprehensive publication on Ser Serpas' work to date, Loogie traces the first decade of the artist's multidisciplinary practice anti-chronologically, bringing together 650 illustrations alongside newly commissioned texts.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

Through his sculptures in black-stained wood, set with fragments of stone and bitumen, Theo Guicheron Lopez traces, across the remains of ancient stone, a sensory landscape for a poetics of the ground.

A.I.L.O (Atelier d'Immersion Lumineuse et Obscure), founded by Anna-Eva Berge with Fabrice Leroux, has created a work of light and sound for Pile Pont Expo, inviting visitors to move through and engage with the work, the architecture, and its soundscape. Optical effects offer a new experience of this space, reminiscent of a concrete cathedral.

The artist duo Sarah Laaroussi and Matteo Magnant (Atelier Bicéphale) are writing a new chapter in the performative and participatory project Habiter la pente, and explores the relationships we maintain with our environment and its evolution.