Contemporary art

 
 
Sophie Jodoin - Les confessions
2019
French edition
Le laps
An artist's book that reflects Sophie Jodoin's ongoing preoccupation with the interaction of language with images.
Between / Beyond / Hybrid - New Essays on Transdisciplinarity
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Prominent voices of the debate on transdisciplinarity in a transdisciplinary manner.
Mouvement
2019
French edition
Mouvement
Guillaume Dustan; Japanese playgrounds; dance and pornography; Patrick Bouchain; Raffaella della Olga; Mohamed Bourouissa...
Bomb
2019
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Mary Weatherford, Nanfu Wang, Lee Quiñones, Venkatachalam Saravanan, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Whishaw, Édouard Louis, Geovani Martins, Prageeta Sharma, and James Thomas Stevens.
Travis Jeppesen - Bad Writing
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Travis Jeppesen's Bad Writing is a collection of interconnected essays and “fictocriticisms,” many appearing in print for the first time, that etches a pathway for a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature. Erudite, witty, and occasionally controversial, Bad Writing reinvigorates the too-often staid medium of art criticism as an iconoclastic and inventive literary art form.
Florian Hecker - Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Large format catalogue documenting a multichannel installation by Florian Hecker at Kunsthalle Wien, transformated into a resonating space, with texts by curators, researchers, theorists, and art historians.
Divided We Stand - 9th Busan Biennale 2018
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The comprehensive catalogue of the 9th Busan Biennale, curated by Cristina Ricupero and Jörg Heiser, on the theme of divided territories caused by war, conflict, or colonization.
The Fevered Specters of Art / Die fiebrigen Gespenster der Kunst
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The Fevered Specters of Art is the final chapter of a long-term project curated by Edit Molnár, Lívia Páldi, and Marcel Schwierin that started with a group exhibition at Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, in 2016. The show looked back on the epoch of Cold War radicalism and anti-colonial revolution, an era characterized by a proliferation of ideas about how radical social change might permeate the globe.
Thomas Braida - La bava sul cuscino - Sculptures funzionali e fantastiche / Functional and fantastic sculptures
2019
Italian edition
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Fanzine / artist's book.
History Has Failed Us, but No Matter - The Korean Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and curated by Hyunjin Kim, History Has Failed Us, but No Matter explores the history of modernization in East Asia through the lens of gender and the agency of tradition.
Pablo Vargas Lugo - Acts of God - Mexican Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and edited by Magalí Arriola, Acts of God by Pablo Vargas Lugo reflects upon faith beyond the confines of religion, and finds its traces, in different forms, in our contemporary world.
Driant Zeneli - Maybe the Cosmos is not so Extraordinary - Albanian Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of Driant Zeneli's multidisciplinary film and sculpture installation for the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Shelter Press - Records
The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.
Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel (CD)
2019
Shelter Press - Records
The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.
Alex Hanimann - Etwas fehlt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book: a catalogue of Alex Hanimann's photographic explorations over the past twelve years, with interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist and two essays.
Olivier Mosset - Mosset / Christophe (maxi 45RPM vinyl)
2019
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
The singer Christophe puts to music Olivier Mosset's interviews.
Ben Thorp Brown - The Arcadia Center
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman, The Arcadia Center is published in conjunction with the exhibition of work by Ben Thorp Brown, which calls for an architectural experience inspired by ancient mythology and the fields of psychology and neuroscience.
Jennifer Caubet - Un atelier à soi
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book traces Jennifer Caubet's work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019.
Maya Schweizer - Where Ivy cracks the wall
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Naima
New book on Maya Schweizer's moving image works and complex montage aesthetics, with six essays.
Colloque Actes & Images - Acte et performance comme pratiques contemporaines de l\'image et de l\'œuvre
2019
French edition
ENSP Arles (National School of Photography)
An history of the artwork and the image first apprehended as an act and a process.
Wade Guyton -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, presenting over thirty new works produced specifically for a large-scale curatorial project, with an in-depth essay by Tristan Garcia.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Yan Pei-Ming face à Courbet
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A face to face between the great works of Gustave Courbet and new paintings by contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, specially created for the bicentenary of the birth of Courbet.
591
2019
texts in English and French
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The fifth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Para-Platforms - On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Three cases studies on social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Issues tackled include Trump and Brexit; spaces of right-wing extremism in Germany; and a racist murder by a German far-right group in 2006. Other contributions includes an introduction by anthropologist Mahmoud Keshavarz, an interview with Wolfgang Tillmans, and a comic strip by Liam Gillick.
John C. Welchman - After the Wagnerian Bouillabaisse - Essays on European Avant-Garde Art – 
XX-XXI, Vol. 2
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The ten essays in After the Wagnerian Bouillabaisse offer original critical discussions of some of the major European artists and movements of the twentieth century.
Andrea Pichl -
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: an overview of Andrea Pichl's sculptural, drawn and photographic work, with four essays.
Ulla von Brandenburg - Sweets Quilts Sun Works
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
various
This lavishly illustrated catalogue comprehensively documents three recent projects by Franco-German artist Ulla von Brandenburg.
Palais - City Prince/sses
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Palais magazine is devoting its issue #29 to the exhibition “City Prince/sses”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 21 June to 8 September 2019. Artists, fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians, DJs, tattoo artists, experimenters: about fifty creators coming from Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City and Tehran are investing the Palais de Tokyo which has become an imaginary city, multiple and complex, open, messy, thundering and creative.
Inter - La disparition de l\'exception artistique
2019
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
An inquiry into the inadmissibility of the artistic exception today, and the importance of atypical individuals in the symbolic economy of a society.
Global Identities - Postcolonial and Cross-cultural Narratives
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A collection of essays and lectures that aim to provice insights, analysis and reflections about global identity dynamics, with particular attention to cultural production, the hybridization of languages and postcolonial narratives.
Eva Kot\'átková - The Dream Machine is Asleep
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Laida Lertxundi - Landscape Plus
2019
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Basque)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Enoc Perez - Liberty & Restraint
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Bert Theis - Building Philosophy - Cultivating Utopia
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition of the artist at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, this monographic publication surveys Bert Theis' entire career.
Keiichi Tanaami - Mirror\'s Surface
2019
no text
United Dead Artists
The Japanese master's new large-format artist's book: a graphic hallucination on 40 pages of Bichrocolor collage drawings.
Guillaume Pinard - Du Fennec au Sahara
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
First monograph.
William Pope.L - One Thing After Another
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Documenting Pope.L's exhibition at La Panacée, this catalogue's content comprises texts from the curators, Nicolas Bourriaud and Noam Segal, and photographs of the show. Pope.L worked in close collaboration with graphic designer Johanna Himmelsbach on this editorial project.
Claudia Comte - The Curves, the Corners, and the Machines
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Printemps de septembre
This catalogue documents Claudia Comte's project for the 2016 edition of the Printemps de september, based on a selection of 600 parts from the aeronautics industry.
Béatrice Cussol - Écrire ou partir
2019
French edition
Printemps de septembre
The 5th experimental novel by French artist Béatrice Cussol.
Espace art actuel - On Destruction
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Art, destruction and creation.
Artforum - June-July-August 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
This Summer Artforum reflects on Stonewall at 50: to celebrate the occasion, Artforum invited 24 gorgeous artists and writers to share an early or particularly vivid memory of a gay bar. Plus 5 artists and curators consider the legacy of Okwui Enzor, William E. Jones on the art of James Bidgood, Derek McCormack on Thierry Mugler, Molly Warnock on Gilles Aillaud's Rhinocéros, eau et rochers, exhibition reviews from Paris, Berlin, Athens, Tirana, and much more.
Spike - Immorality
2019
English edition
Spike
Art beyond good and evil.
Neural - Spiked Pieces – Celebrating 25 years of Neural
2019
English edition
Neural
currently out of stock
Anniversary special issue: a return on 25 years of reviews.
Harmony Korine - Key Zest
2019
English edition
Nieves
(last copies available!)
The script of Harmony Korine's new movie The Beach Bum.
Tyler Coburn - Richard Roe
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Richard Roe is the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can't be identified. Richard Roe is a known unknown, a one-size-fits-all, a potentially everyone and actually no one.
En Court - Variations sur  la Première Image (book / DVD)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Variations on...
Boxset containing a book and ten artist's films (Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Hicham Berrada, Antoine Danis, Maïder Fortuné, Ana Maria Gomes, Daphné Hérétakis, Joachim Olender, Clément Postec, Dania Reymond) on DVD.
Cecilia Vicuña - Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja
2019
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
currently out of stock
In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, subversive and irreverent humorous slang.
Archi-féministes! - Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories
2019
texts in English and French
various
Bringing together an important body of work produced between 1970 and the present, this publication analyzes historical and current issues of feminisms by proposing crossed perspectives on the field of art history and its oft-interrogated construction.
Cura.
2019
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura. 31 is devoted to 22 women artists—among the most representative of the new generation—and explores the plurality, diversity, and complexity of today's artistic practices. This issues continues the previous investigation on the powerful presence and key role of women artists within the contemporary art scene, re-affirming and pointing out the basic rights of equality and pluralism.
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