Contemporary art

A series of watercolors created by the artist Erwan Venn around the construction of the Guiana Space Center, in the 1960s.

A research work by the artist Lara Almarcegui on the "Maisons Castors" housing complex in Villeurbanne, which originated from a collaborative self-building movement of the 1940s, through which groups of families built their dwellings by pooling their skills.

Marie-Laure Bernadac, a leading expert in Louise Bourgeois's work, invites nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Tracey Emin, Camille Henrot, Jenny Holzer, Rachel Whiteread...) to share their views of this major artistic figure of the 20th century.

The 8 volumes of the publication conceived by Saâdane Afif for the Bergen Assembly triennial, gathered in a box set.

The special 8th edition concluding the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, constitutes the real catalogue of the exhibitions, with extensive visual documentation and texts by different authors, on some 300 pages.

This edition, at the crossroads of the exhibition catalogue and the critical essay, abundantly illustrated, gathers the contributions of about fifteen invited authors around Anne-Valérie Gasc's experiments on the architectural disappearance.

Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kunstnernes Hus Director and former Wire editor Anne Hilde Neset to award-winning novelist Tom McCarthy, invited to unpack, via contemporary art, the themes dealt with in his books.

A visual diary of Ibrahim Mahama's impressive work in his native Tamale in Ghana, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress.

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

A "small portable zoology": a book combining 50 animal poems by Christian Bernard and 50 collages by Hippolyte Hentgen.

An original meeting, powerful and explosive, between Charlemagne Palestine, Eric Thielemans and Oren Ambarchi.

Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.

The first publication dedicated to the visual work of writer and performer Anne-James Chaton.

A series of ghostly ink drawings and scanographs by eRikm, accompanied by a mixed sound piece, with sound texts freely inspired by fragments of stories about the universe of the Yokai, these ghosts and supernatural creatures that inhabit Japanese mythology, between hypnotizing soundscapes and bewitching instrumental devices.

A collection of 77 texts by Jason Kahn, each text written in response to a field recording made by the sound artist in Zurich in February-March 2020 (CD with the 77 sound recordings included): a poetic and sonic cartography that reflects the constitution of the place by the way it "sounds".

This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.

Reference monograph (also available in English edition).

Special issue dedicated to the simple and spectacular actions of the group of women artists "Les idiotes" (Hélène Defilippi and Sarah Cassenti): "the most raw and naked materiality of the body, which objectifies itself in act and concretizes itself as form."

Issue dedictaed to Éclat éclair (light-lightning) by Costis, his last poem, "an attempt at typographic transcription of lightning", with two texts by Pierre Restany.

Aesthetics/Ethics of the Flesh.

Afterall #53 "Medium/Metaphor/Milieu" looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions. Gathered through the notions of medium and milieu, it looks at a range of practices and modes of thinking that foreground the exhibitionary in concrete, spatial, architectural and experiential terms.

McKenzie Wark, Marlene Dumas, Tosh Basco, James Richards, Raimundas Malašauskas, Joanna Walsh, Kandis Williams, Mire Lee, Gustav Metzger, Rob Horning, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Constance Debré, Luca Lo Pinto, Simone Forti...

A colossal compendious overview of the revered and subversive queer Canadian collective, designed in collaboration with AA Bronson: the most comprehensive source on General Idea.

A retrospective overview of the work of a pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles

A colossal compendious overview of the revered and subversive queer Canadian collective, designed in collaboration with AA Bronson: the most comprehensive source on General Idea.

The fourth issue of the Catalogue Perpétuel documents the exhibitions, projects and concerts at the Consortium Museum from March 2020 to April 2021. It reviews exhibitions by Valentin Carron, Sean Landers, Adam Pendleton, Louise Sartor, New York: The Eighties, Sarah Lucas, Shara Hughes, Paloma Varga Weisz, Claude Rutault, and several Consortium Museum concerts.

A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock-prison: a project initiated by artist Tyler Coburn on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry, the prison-industrial complex, and the history of solitude.

An exploration of the work of the Portuguese artist Isabel Carvalho, between visual and writing practices, based on a project conducted around the history of the art center Le Lait, Albi.

This issue 34 of the Palais magazine accompanies and echoes the exhibition Scheherazade, at night presented at the Palais de Tokyo from October 2022 until January 2023, bringing together six international artists whose practice summons the tumult of the contemporary world through the political power of narrative and the imaginary.

Publication dedicated to the Jardin aux habitant·es, a work by the artist Robert Milin produced in collaboration with volunteers for the opening of the Palais de Tokyo, a community garden that brings together, since 2002, amateur gardeners, who are members of an association.

First monograph on the durational performance artist Melati Suryodarmo, one of the pioneers of performance art in Indonesia.

In today's era of increasingly eroding certainties, Cura. 39 looks at artists that survey the fundamental questions of life and death, extinction and immortality (featuring Cyprien Gaillard, Marguerite Humeau, Pierre Huyghe, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Katja Novitksova, Mimosa Echard, Jakob Kudsk Steensen & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elaine Cameron-Weir & Jodi Graf, Max Hooper Schneider by Nicolas Bourriaud...).

The outcome of an examination of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, and thus the history of the Museum, by four different contemporary artists.

As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future is a long-term project and research inquiry that reflects on the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will alter the aesthetics and practices of everyday life in different local contexts.

BODIED unites an internationally diverse group of artists who, in positioning the body at the centre of their work, explore how our physical forms are shaped by the social worlds around us.

Over 15 years of subversive installation art from a Copenhagen-based collective.

An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.

Conceived as a monographic reader, theis publication compiles for the first time an extensive, decade-spanning collection of Kirchenbauer's seminal and profoundly perceptive essays, the scripts of her widely celebrated moving image works in conjunction with selected video stills, as well as exhibition views.

A multimedia meditation on time, memory and cultural identity.

Monograph based on Carolyn Lazard's eponymous video installation drawing from the sensorial legacy of flicker films.

Retrospective monograph.

This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 

The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.

Alien Armpit brings together short texts and images that the artist Vanessa Safavi made between 2013 and 2022.

The first comprehensive publication documenting Israeli artist and experimental cinematographer Ran Slavin's work.

A concise introduction to the Jack Pierson's photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decades.

The third release on Corvo Records by sound researcher and conceptualist Stefan Römer, a soundtrack for one of his experimental films as well as a new addition to his meta project "Deconceptualize".