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Jac Leirner - Tickets to the Core
2025
no text
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
Artist's book.
Béatrice Balcou - Porteurs
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
Hans Maria De Wolf - Decorum, or The Duchamp-Courbet Case - A Short Presentation outlining a Fondamental Confrontation bewteen the 19th and the 20th Century in wich M. Broodthaers Intervenes in the Role of a Negociator a posteriori
2025
English edition
MER. Books
This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.
Adel Abdessemed - One Big Bang
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
78 charcoal and pastel drawings by Adel Abdessemed.
Sharon Van Overmeiren - Jacuzzi of Despair
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
Artist's book.
Brice Guilbert - Fournez
2025
bilingual edition (English/Reunionese Creole)
Zolo Press
Brice Guilbert grew up on the French Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, at the foot of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano. The Fournez series is the result of years of repeated work on the very same motif: the eruption of this volcano.
Wendy Cabrera Rubio - The adventures of relative existence and other tales
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Rubio's tongue-in-cheek comics and artworks bridge high culture with kitsch while exploring constructions of mixed-race identity.
Marco A. Castillo - The Decorator\'s Home / La casa del decorador
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
The Decorator's Home delves into Marco A. Castillo's exploration of the development of industrial design in the 1960s and 1970s Cuba, examining its complex and often contradictory ties to the revolutionary ideals of the time.
Pedro Lasch - Entre líneas / Between the Lines
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Retrospective monograph.
Antoine Lecharny - Disegno Astratto
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
The experiments of an "abstract design" made by the duo Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny.
Jason Kahn - All Across the Universe (CD)
2025
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.
Hélène N. - Elles Viennent Sous Ma Main
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
French photographer Estelle Hanania sets the tone for her publishing house Myriorama's program, inaugurated with the singular work discovered in the shopping cart of Mrs. N., an artist on the margins who, at 78, sells her drawings on the sidewalks of Paris's southern suburbs on market days.
Laure Prouvost - Au fort les âmes sont
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mucem
Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
Legacy Russell - Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.
Palazzina - Ring Everywhere
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A look back at the approach and programming of the Basel-based modular independent art space, between living, working and exhibition space.
Through the Seasons - Christen Sveaas Art Foundation
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The four seasons as a thematic underpinning to present a rich selection of Norwegian and international contemporary art from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation.
Céline Mathieu - Fugue
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A joint exhibition by the Austrian artist and the Belgian artist and writer.
Mikhail Karikis - Voices, Communities, Ecologies
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mid-career retrospective of internationally renowned Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis.
Vika Kirchenbauer - Compassion and Inconvenience
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)—whit its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions—and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025).
Sereina Steinemann -
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Something In the Water
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
DoPe Press
A project curated by American artist Oscar Tuazon, which explores water as a metaphor, as an element that resists any attempt at shaping, and as an essential medium for artists: a pure mirror.
Nicolas Deshayes - Gargouilles
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
An overview of Nicolas Deshayes' work over a decade.
Jill Mulleady - Fight-or-Flight
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
The first major monograph on Swiss-Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.
Jan Vorisek - Private Fictions
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
The first monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's immersive installations of found objects and sound machines.
Carla Accardi - Superior and Inferior - Conversations among girls at middle school
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Crackers
Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.
Neural - What is real?
2025
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...
Spike - Vulgarity
2025
English edition
Spike
For Summer 2025, Spike is getting freaky with the truest image of our time: Vulgarity.
Wanda Nay - Horror Vacui
2025
no text
Nieves
The Zurich-based artist reinterprets the fear of emptiness from a feminist, psychological and socio-political perspective, through a pictorial reappropriation of the aesthetics of bureaucratic documents.
Cornelia Sollfrank - The Contemporary Condition - Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.
Standpoint Autotheory - Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
currently out of stock
In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.
Omar Kholeif -
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
 PROVENCE - Unconscious
2025
English edition
various
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS deep dives into the cosmological pool that shapes the collective unconscious and takes a look at the relevance of Jung's ideas in relation to contemporary art and fashion.
TUBE.PHOTO.DASH
2025
French edition
Casino Luxembourg
A reflection on two essential formats in photographic production: the book and the exhibition space (featuring Christian Aschman, Julien Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Pierre Hourquet, Aurélien Mole, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Van Beek).
 TDD Bon Appétit - Flavours & friends - Piccolo edition
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hundred recipes, almost 500 pages, 27 dinner-locations from 15 years of supper-clubbing and displacement of artistic practice in urban space.
Mousse
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Slavs and Tatars, Stephanie Comilang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sohrab Mohebbi, Lauren Cook, Édouard Glissant, Mira Dayal, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Dani Blanga Gubbay, Ruoru Mou, Virginia Ariu, Bagus Pandega, Ceidra Moon Murphy, Oshay Green, Shafei Xia, Christian Rattemeyer, Lamm & Kirch...
Cristina Ricupero - Curating Monsters
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
International curator Cristina Ricupero uses the figure of Frankenstein as a common thread to explore and share her curatorial practice.
Timothée Calame - Scatofiction (T. Freakson Calame)
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.
Sub(e)merging - Experiences, Practices and Politics from below
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.
Drafts in Action - Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.
Carolina Caycedo - We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) - Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
Wim Cuyvers - Res Nullius
2025
bilingual edition (French / Dutch)
Accattone
An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.
The Museum Is Not Enough (No. 10–14)
2025
English 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.
Basma al-Sharif - Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.
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