Contemporary art

 
 
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
Richard Prince - Bibliothèque d\'un amateur - Richard Prince\'s publications
2022
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
currently out of stock
An inventory: Bibliothèque d'un Amateur. Richard Prince's Publications takes a look at Richard Prince's library and production of artist's books published between 1980 and 2020. (new expanded edition).
 Invernomuto - Black Med
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The long term project of the Italian artistic duo around the trajectories of sound through the Mediterranean sea.
The Vibration of Things / Die Vibration der Dinge
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach exhibition, curated by Elke aus dem Moore.
Sedje Hémon - Emotion of Spirits
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
Imran Mir - A World that is not entirely Reflective but Contemplative
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.
Maya Dunietz - Root of Two
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
A retrospective of immersive performances and installations with which the Israeli sound and visual artist, composer and musician explores the physicality of sound.
Saâdane Afif - Side Magazine - The Coalman
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The sixth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the coalman.
The Art of Critique
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
A feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical definitions of institutional critique.
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi -
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
As a cofounder of Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, Emmy Hennings, with her partner, the Dadaist Hugo Ball, is recognized as having established and environment for collective experimentation. This book gathers an extensive collection of Hennings's writings, ephemera, and art, to give shape to a practice and an individual so ofter flattened for the sake of art historical narrative.
William Scott -
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
Adam McEwen - Sidewalks
2022
English edition
Zolo Press
Adam McEwen's inkjet-on-sponge paintings, collected here in their entirety for the first time.
Minia Biabiany - Ritmo volcán
2022
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Temblores Publicaciones
This first meticulous revision of the artistic work by Guadeloupean artist Minia Biabiany points the reasons why her practice has become unavoidable to reflect on the continuous process of Caribbean colonization, by destabilizing colonial structures within the territory, body and language.
Pati Hill - One Thing I Know
2022
English edition
Daisy editions
One Thing I Know is Pati Hill's third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to "quit writing in favor of housekeeping".
Ignasi Aballí - Autobiography
2022
no text
Tonini Editore
currently out of stock
Autobiography by Ignasi Aballí is made up of 64 "años" (years), one for each of the 64 pages. Casually, the artist was born in 1958, it means that he has 64 years old at the time of the publication of the book.
Archivio - The Seventies Issue
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
The archives of the 1970s.
Giasco Bertoli - Tennis Courts IV
2022
no text
Nieves
Tennis Courts IV completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.
Selina Trepp - Dirty Drawings
2022
no text
Nieves
Selina Trepp's "dirty drawings".
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There
2022
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
The 15th issue of Nakako Hayashi's graphic journal, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the project.
Curating beyond the Mainstream - The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Through four case studies, Curating beyond the Mainstream researches decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
Assuming Asymmetries - Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Through conversations with curators and participating artists, this book revisits some of the most groundbreaking yet under-researched European and US public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 1990s.
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An analysis of the relations created by the curatorial—relations that also constitute it.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Music, sound, memory and perception in Latifa Echakhch's practice and work.
EP Vol. 3 - Post-Craft
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The new meaning of craft.
Zdenka Badovinac - Unannounced Voices - Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Sehr Selten Gehörte Tanzmusik (2 CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
23.50 17.50 €
Previously unpublished performance of the internationally renowned dance band Selten Gehörte Musik (on this occasion: Christian Attersee, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener) at the closing event of the "Literanover" Festival at the Kunstmuseum Hannover, on November 16th, 1980. Close to two hours of very rarely heard dance music, indeed.
Artur Żmijewski - Singing Lesson (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Summer issue, featuring Rhea Dillon, Ufuoma Essi, Matthias Groebel, Saodat Ismailova, Karla Kaplun, Reba Maybury, Michel Majerus, Niklas Taleb...
Elif Saydam - Two Cents
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Turkish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Félicia Atkinson - Image Language (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
A poetic and "environmental" record, weaving delicate instrumentals with spoken word.
Félicia Atkinson - Image Language (CD)
2022
Shelter Press - Records
A poetic and "environmental" record, weaving delicate instrumentals with spoken word.
Michael Höpfner - From Here to Tibet - A conversation between two walking artists. March 2019 – July 2020
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Fulton and Höpfner's long-term correspondence on art, landscape, and the aesthetic and political dimensions of walking.
An Archaeology of Listening - Coming to Know
2022
English edition
Archive Books
Premodern acoustic traces as the basis for new communities of thought in the present (a project responding to the work of the self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi).
Satch Hoyt - Afro-Sonic Mapping - Tracing Aural Histories via Sonic Transmigrations
2022
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
An acoustic mapping of colonial history.
Umashankar Manthravadi - An Archaeology of Listening - A Slightly Curving Place
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A proposition opened up by Umashankar Manthravadi in his practice as an acoustic archaeologist, bringing together writers, choreographers, composers, actors, dancers, musicians, field recordists and sound, light, and graphic designers who engage and transform each other's work.
Philip Rizk - On Trials - A manual for the theatre of law
2022
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Archive Books
An exploration of the performativity of the law within Egypt's spectral legal reality.
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas - Re-enchanting the World
2022
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.
Lerato Shadi -
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Setswana)
Archive Books
First monograph devoted to the postcolonial feminist approach of the Berlin-based South African artist.
Line Skywalker Karlström - Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown - Line Skywalker Karlström\'s Works Through the Prism of Queer and Feminist Art Practices
2022
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Archive Books
First comprehensive monograph of the Swedish queer and feminist performance artist.
BioMedia - L\'ère des médias semblables à la vie
2022
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
A collection of contributions and works of about 15 international artists around the concept of "biomedia" developed and contextualized by Peter Weibel (ZKM), providing insights into mutual correlation between ecosystems and technology, and possible ways in which organic and inorganic life forms can coexist.
Vincent Corpet - DesMesures
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A retrospective of the "retinal" painter's work, since the early 1980s.
Karen Archey - After Institutions
2022
English edition
Floating Opera Press
The current crisis of museums and the future of Institutional Critique.
Thomas Hirschhorn - Autobiography
2022
no text
Tonini Editore
Autobiography by Thomas Hirschhorn is a visual autobiography that through some selected images, narrates the story of the life and career of the artist.
Toilet Paper
2022
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
Jean-Loup Amselle - L\'art de la friche - Essai sur l\'art contemporain africain
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.
Dominique Pasqualini - Du biface à l\'interface - Artefacts, affects, etc.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
various
From the prehistoric biface to the telephone interface, whose lightning diffusion concretizes a new anthropological threshold for humanity: a theoretical articulation of current global issues from prehistory, thought as the privileged site where to rest the questions of the technique, the language and the image, between archaeology of the media, anthropology, geology, biology and science-fiction.
Sara Ouhaddou - Les êtres lieux
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Four contemporary artists in touch with their territories (the catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris).
Klima - Liquid Futures
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
The fifth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, is devoted to the theme of water and fluids.
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