Contemporary art

Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.

A documentation of new values and new worlds and a guide to them.

With the vinyl recording of a musical, the artist proposes a new chapter in her project on fermentation as a living, palpable theory that blends body, feminism, and community.

Discover Richard Tuttle as story teller and writer: first publication of 44 short stories by the artist paired with 22 sculptural works from the "Stories" Series.

Catalogue bringing together four virtuoso artists in excess, overflow and debauchery.

A collection of works, documents, testimonies, recollections and analyses that offers an exceptional overview of the history and life of the New Realist group.

A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).

An exhaustive documentation to celebrate 40 years of creative activities at Garage 103—an historical place for post-Fluxus artistic, performative, poetic, and sonic experimentations in the heart of Nice.

French edition of the compelling narrative that goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Florian Hecker, Félix Fénéon and anarchism, Jack Pierson...

Spike's art & sport issue.

Monograph dedicated to Jim Shaw's “Paperback Covers” key series.

The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.

The catalogue of the Belgian-American artist's architectural and video installation, at the crossroads of different disciplines, conceived by Cécile B. Evans herself.

A poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks.

The 16th issue of the annual critical review on contemporary drawing is dedicated to monsters and the monstrous.

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.

This book furthers the reflection that was given form in the exhibition Blues Klair, a site to test History in terms of the present. A series of essays probes the enduring presence of colonialism as well as of alliances and cultural crossovers across time and space through the filter of the colour blue.

The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.

Stronger than Bone draws upon the embodied strength, intuitive desires, and collective wisdom of feminists and non-binary protagonists to foreground the manifold dimensions of feminist politics and commitments.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

Three three pinhole photographic series by the Venetian artist who explores the possible interactions between artistic and scientific languages.

Aesthetic practices and human rights in the global south.

A nonsense opera (artist's book).

Nine interviews with the artists exhibited in the Geneva art space Forde between 2018 and 2020.

A book that documents/closes the Oslo-based queer-feminist plattform FRANK, with a rich contributions list and many illustrations.

Seven American artists share their invaluable perspectives on the decisive work of Simon Hantaï.

First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).

This monograph deals with Diego Marcon's overall practice through the analysis of three works.

The catalogue of the Belgian-American artist's architectural and video installation, at the crossroads of different disciplines, conceived by Cécile B. Evans herself.

The collection of writings on art by the French philosopher, historian, semiologist and art critic Louis Marin (1931-1992).

An anthology.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Re-territorializing the public space.

Joan Mitchell, Louis Fratino, Cecilia Vicuña, Lorraine O'Grady...

Vladan Joler, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Winnie Soon, Weidi Zhang, Trading Voices, Sonic Surveillance in the Age of AI, Through a Glass Darkly, Dither Studies and Straightened Trees, MNEMOSCOPIO & rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me)...

A polyphonic genealogy of the concept of contemporary African art.

Digital and data technologies are actively transforming the archives of contemporary warfare. Bringing together a range of scholarly perspectives and artistic practices, (W)archives investigates digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes.

Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.

This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh's extensive research into the history of sugar production in Central Europe, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century.

The script for, and conversations around, artist Jesse Ash's multi-dimensional project built around a play about a bitter argument between two ex-lovers.

G for Gong looks at the artistic practice of Singaporean video artist and theater director Ho Tzu Nyen. An extension of the artist's large-scale solo exhibition in 2019, this book not only explores Ho's distinctive artistic approach but also dives deeper into the themes of his work.

Artist and writer Jenny Odell speaks about the role of design and observation in a fully virtual commencement ceremony for Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term "value reflection", focusing on the artistic production of three individuals—Francis Ponge, Jack Whitten and Banksy.

Socialist realism and the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the geopolitical "climate" of the time.

The intersection of walking and collecting.