Contemporary art

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.

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".

An editoeducational project by Ensba Lyon, Ravisius Textor, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey & The Serving Library, & 019 Ghent.

Under a title in the form of an inventory that could list as many photographic subjects, this book exhaustively documents Pierre-Olivier Arnaud's work since the early 2000s.

This monograph dedicated to sculptor Genesis Belanger looks back at the beginnings of her practice and offers an analysis of her work.

293 new digital drawings by the Swiss artist.

Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.

The catalogue of the 17th Geneva Biennial, dedicated to artists' film and video, curated by the New York-based collective DIS and Andrea Bellini.

Tarot deck of 78 cards drawn by Vincent Corpet from a series of paintings made in 2010.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

The sixth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.

A retrospective monograph, La Gricole et ses dérives brings together fifty years (1970-2020) of Daniel Nadaud's pathways, loops, advances, drawings, sculptures, installations and notebooks, shaped by the presence of the agricultural world, by history and fragments of childhood.

A dialogue between the visual artist Margherita Morgantin and two musicians and sound makers.

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.

A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.

An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.