Contemporary art

 
 
Georgia Gardner Gray -
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the young American painter, whose expressive and colorful universe draws on the everyday life in the margins, from bohemians to non-conformists. The publication also presents the Gray's theatrical works and associates the artist's two practices.
Jesper Just - Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First retrospective monograph overviewing the Danish video artist's body of works for over a decade.
Brittany Nelson - Out of the Everywhere
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph dedicated to artist Brittany Nelson, who appropriates techniques from 19th century photography to create works of feminist science fiction and queer abstraction.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Aldo Schmid - Notebooks 2005-2018 (box set)
2019
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of ten facsimiled Moleskine notebooks filled with works by Swiss artist Aldo Schmid.
Michel Parmentier - December 1965 - November 20, 1999 - A Retrospective
2019
English edition
Loevenbruck
Reference monograph on the singularly radical work of Michel Parmentier—an important addition to the history of painting in the second half of the 20th century.
Antonio Rovaldi - The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill - New York City
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set of maps and a series of texts.
Luca Vitone - Romanistan
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
La Bonifica di Bradano e Metaponto - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 1
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the reclamation of the water system.
Homecomings - 1, 2, 3, etc.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
What can it mean to return home? Inspired by author Georges Perec's Espèces d'espaces and artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson's House Project, this catalogue brings together international artists to investigate the various facets of coming home.
Azin Feizabadi - After Cinema - Fictions from A Collective Memory
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the project A Collective Memory by Azin Feizabadi—a series of five narrative films—this publication features fictions by guest contributors who were asked to expand on their viewing experience of one of the films in the Collective Memory series.
Assaf Gruber - The Storyseller
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Monograph dedicated to the films of the Israeli artist Assaf Gruber. Articulated around eight conversations related to the films' production, this publication reflects an important theme in Gruber's work: what effects can art have on individuals far removed from the artistic field.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pamphlet 1 - Those who are dead are not ever gone – On the Maintenance of Supremacy, the Ethnological Museum
and the Intricacies of the Humboldt Forum
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
 Raumlabor - Cantiere Barca
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Natascha Süder Happelmann - Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin)
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 2 - Culture Is Our Business
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The second in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Culture is Our Business offers a comparative case study on the archival policies of a commercial agency and a non-profit independent organization through the example of a 1919 image by photographer Willy Römer.
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 4 - Dear Jadwa
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The fourth in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Dear Jadwa draws on a photographic archive from the Wadi Ara Valley in Israel to reflect on how visual archives can shed light on forgotten stories.
Vangjush Vellahu - Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of borders.
Ina Wudtke - The Fine Art of Living
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.
 Miracle Workers Collective - A Greater Miracle of Perception
2019
English edition (texts in English, Sami, Arabic, Spanish)
Archive Books
This catalogue explores how miracle making—making the impossible possible—is reflected in artistic practices today. It includes commissioned essays and poetry by the Miracle Workers Collective and writers close to the collective (catalogue of the exhibition at the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
Raphaël Grisey - Semer Somankidi Coura - Une archive générative
2019
French edition
Archive Books
This publication is the result of a research project led by artists Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré around the archives of the self-organized agricultural cooperative Somankidi Coura, in Mali. A historical reflection on agricultural, archival, health, and migratory issues through a decolonial perspective.
Lauren Tortil - Une généalogie des grandes oreilles
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of an iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on what she calls “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator, such as a tool, an instrument, an architecture, a system, etc.—and that the modern man has relentlessly improved with the purpose of anticipating potential dangers.
Kevin Desbouis - A Long List Of Safe Words - (A.L.L.O.S.W)

2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A compilation of texts, poems and stories whose title is borrowed from the safe words used in BDSM practices.
Christophe Lemaitre - Deux pierres retrouvées d\'Amedeo Modigliani
2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
An interpretative study of a catalogue published on the occasion of the discovery of two sculptures in the canal of Livorno in 1984. Attributed to Modigliani, these sculptures were, in fact, a student hoax.
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt\'s Fountain
2019
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.
Corner - Football + Society – Vol. 1
2019
English edition
Punch
Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology, art, contemporary dance, architecture, economics, politics...). This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues, published between 2015-2017.
Adriana Gheorghe - False hours
2019
English edition
Punch
Artist's book.
 René-Jacques - Forms of Elegance
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours provides an overview of the photographer's career through forty key images.
After the Crisis - Contemporary States of Photography
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.
Après la crise - États contemporains de la photographie
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.
Alexander García Düttmann - Qu\'est-ce que l\'art contemporain ?
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.
Henrik Andersson - Participant Observers
2019
English edition
Mount Analogue
This monograph documents a research on an abandonned site of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). For his investigation, artist Henrik Andersson relied on various public archives as well as on the FOI's astonishing art collection.
Stefan Römer - Deconceptual Voicings (vinyl LP)
2019
Mount Analogue
A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.
Julio Le Parc - Du réel au virtuel - 1958-2019
2019
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.
No man\'s land - L\'homme a-t-il encore sa place ?
2019
texts in English and French
CQFD
Twenty multidisciplinary texts and artistic proposals to re-examine our relationship to the natural world.
Matthieu Saladin - La capture de l\'inaudible (booklet + SD card)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Artkillart
currently out of stock
A reverse encoder that keeps only frequencies usually removed by the mp3 encoders, giving the “inaudible” frequencies to listen (software edition on SD card and silkscreen booklet, including a text by Jonathan Sterne).
Pierre Braun - Coding gone graphically wild
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Présent composé
currently out of stock
This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment.
Erin Manning - Le geste mineur
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.
Archivio - The Unreal Issue
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
The Unreal Issue includes: Alluding to the invisible Gaetano Kanizsa, He will not come in the splendour of his glory, Memories of an observed scenario, World sign relic, Wherever you look you can admire, Against the point of view, The banality of evil, CRRI—The archive as a tool, Post-ideological autonomous island, Bodies are the objects, The beginning of the Italian music industry: Ricordi against piracy in the 19th Century, The mythology of the saint, Jeux sans frontières.
Art Against Art
2019
English edition
Art Against Art
Günter Erbe on the Dandy in and outside society up until the digital age, Taslima Ahmed on how Putin's political culture has affected art, Masato Fukushima looking at multiple personae taken on by contemporary artists, a seminal essay by Andrés Gómez Emilsson's designing eight models of art for a scientific paradigm of aesthetic qualia, plus recent film reviews by A.S. Hamrah and a documentation of Michael Farin's search for a lost oasis in the Saharan Desert.
Espace art actuel - Transparency
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The development of the ideology of transparency within aesthetic modernity and the importance of being able to circumvent it.
Bomb
2019
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Antoine Catala and Dan Graham, Atelier Bow-Wow, American Artist, Jeff Bliumis, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Carmen Giménez Smith.
Artforum - October 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
This October in Artforum Lauren O'Neill-Butler on the art of Agnes Denes, Barry Schwabsky on Jean Dubuffet, and Jace Clayton on Christian Marclay. Plus, 4 artists and critics consider the legacy of Douglas Crimp, Amy Taubin on Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, exhibition reviews from Paris, Zurich, Basel, Vilnius, and much more. 
Spike - Escape
2019
English edition
Spike
Where does escape end and escapism begin?
Neural - Surveillance Surveyed
2019
English edition
Neural
Coéditrice : Rachel O'Dwyer ; entretiens avec Pip Thornton, Joana Moll, Mendi et Keith Obadike; ASurveying Surveillance Capitalism, Decode: Data Cooperatives, Our voices granted to machines ; Transmediale 2019, Master/Slave exhibition, Leonardo 50 years anniversary...
Gustav Metzger - Writings (1953-2016)
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The complete writings of an influential figure.
Dorothy Iannone - The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The seminal tale of Iannone's advocacy for sexual liberation.
Susan Cianciolo - I Love You
2019
no text
Nieves
Susan Cianciolo's new artist's book.
 EYƎ - This Bird Know Rabit
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
What about Activism?
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.
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