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Dieter Hall - A Naked Chair
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Reference monograph.
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
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.
Violent Images
2025
English edition
Nero
Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).
Myrna Ayad - Alcove - Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists Vol. II
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.
Amalgama
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Amalgama is the outcome of the fourth edition of Convivial Tables, a field-based research project commissioned by TBA21–Academy for Ocean Space, dedicated to exploring the relationships between food and ecology, and their impact on bodies of water.
Lucia Marcucci - Tutto qui?
2025
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bruno
The first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci.
Pontus Hultén - Faire – To look at things - The Director, the Graphic Designer, and the Printer: Pontus Hultén and the Making of the Catalog, 1960-1973
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Centered on the emblematic figure of Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), this issue of Revue Faire explores the director's publishing work during his time at the head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, from 1960 to 1973.
Jean Jullien - Mermed 1
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
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.
Michaela Sanson-Braun - The Cocktail Principle
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book, the first dedicated to the work of Michaela Sanson-Braun, traces thirty years of practice across Germany, London, and France. Bringing together paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations, it also features sixteen paintings conceived especially for this publication and printed on uncoated paper.
Adriano Costa - Works A—Z
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
This unprecedented catalogue collects over 300 pieces reated by Adriano Costa over three decades, listed in alphabetical order—titles are a key part of Costa's works—, alongside new writing by Fernanda Brenner and Milovan Farronato, two critics who have long followed and championed the artist's practice.
Jake Grewal - Under the Same Sky
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph on the British painter.
Le musée ne suffit pas (No. 10–14)
2025
French edition
Lenz Press
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
Mick Wilson - On Discourse and the Curatorial
2025
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.
Radicale24
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.
Hamza Halloubi - Where Will My Mouth Lead Me - New York Diary
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The artist's travel diary in New York.
Magali Reus - Our Volumes
2025
English edition
MER. Books
A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.
Magali Reus - 27
2025
English edition
MER. Books
27 features 27 recent works from two series titled Clementine and Merlin (2023–24) by London-based artist Magali Reus. This book, in its beautifully crafted materiality, format and typography, mimics a diary or romantic novel.
Jennifer Rochlin - Wild is The Wind
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
Jennifer Rochlin's first monograph covers over 7 years of artistic practice and gathers more than 40 works, illustrated by 131 color plates. The publication features essays by journalist and writer Alexis Okeowo and by artist Tony Marsh.
Robin Watkins - Heliogram (book + flexi disc)
2025
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Run/Off
A limited edition flexi publication that combines field recordings by Robin Watkins with a suite of riso prints by Nina Canell.
Sophie Ristelhueber - The War within
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
currently out of stock
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
 Chen Fei - Grand Lobby
2025
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.
Jérôme Game - Intr/ansitif - Poétique de l\'interstice
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
Nadia Lauro - Scenographies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.
e-flux Index
2025
English edition
e-flux Index
Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.
Espace art actuel - Minerals
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The emergence of a geological consciousness in contemporary art.
Artforum - October 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...
Spike - Nostalgia
2025
English edition
Spike
For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia.
George Condo -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Jacqueline de Jong - Disobedience
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Resonant - Bodies, Songs, and Strings
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Reluctant Gardener
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.
Philipp Modersohn - Attitudes of Stone
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
Monograph / artist's book, including contributions by a variety of writers as well as materials.
Paul Spengemann - Spin jump crawl climb dream bite hunt
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book.
Élisabeth Ballet - Travail à façon
2025
French edition
Captures - Collective works and monographs
The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.
Violaine Lochu - Inventaire Langages
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.
Mimosa Echard - Lies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview and historical, critical, and theoretical perspective on the French artist's work.
Pier Geering - El Presidente - Confessions d\'un artiste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).
Harald Szeemann - Pretenzione Intenzione - Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.
Ilan Manouach - Tarwar
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
Nero
An extensive and sophisticated exploration of a recurring theme in global comics—black box—which the artist has gathered and reorganized into a large-scale, collective, transtemporal and transgeographic narrative.
Guillaume Belhomme - Une minute, une seule - Philip Guston / Morton Feldman
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.
Art Across the Arabian Gulf
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.
Huguette Caland - Writing in the work of Huguette Caland
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).
Huguette Caland - L\'écriture dans l\'œuvre d\'Huguette Caland
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - In Touch - Encounters between Art and Research
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.
Faire – To look at things - An award: What is a most beautiful book?
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.
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