Contemporary art

Texts by / interviews with Chitra Ganesh, Tania Cypriano, Charles Atlas, Netta Yerushalmy, Vi Khi Nao, Amani Al-Thuwaini, Andrea Hasler, Bruce Boone.

This March in Artforum Chloe Wyma on the art of cover artist Agnes Pelton, J. Hoberman on Corneliu Porumboiu's The Whistlers, Hannah Black on Kandis Williams, plus Alex Jovanovic introduces an artist portfolio from Chason Matthams, James Meyer on Hans Haacke and exhibition reviews from Paris, Stockholm, Doha, Moscow, and more. 

A retrospective look at the work of our contemporary art godfather.

The third title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by photograph Yves Gellie, a work on light and perception.

A collection of conversations, essays, artists' projects, and inserts, critically reflecting on the concept of “exhibition history”.

An anthology of texts by the influential American critic and curator. The publication includes essays on artists, exhibitions, and curating, catalogue texts, and interviews.

An anthology of texts on contemporary art during the second decade of the twenty-first century.

The inaugural publication of the “Research/Practice” series focuses on an artistic research by Michael Rakowitz on the aftermath of a canceled show by Leonard Cohen initially scheduled in Palestine.

This publication documents the artistic research for Sansour's project for the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a dark science fiction narrative set after an eco-disaster, evolving into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia.

A cross-disciplinary reader investigating dizziness in artistic, art-historical, philosophical and natural scientific sources.

Catalogue of Soun-Gui Kim's retrospective exhibition in South Korea: an overview of her work since the late 1960s.

A research on the verbal transcription of sound and an inventory of the first sound productions of Alice, the daughter of Camille Llobet (artist's book).

The catalogue of the duo's exhibition at CAPC, featuring a new site-specific work and a series of performed or filmed actions. A project about situations of reversal, confronting the exogenous realities of the enterprise, the working-class, and the museum.

A return on Mark Geffriaud's film installation (artist's book).

Conceived on the occasion of two exhibitions at CA2M Madrid and CRAC Alsace, this catalogue features extensive documentation and collages of the artist's evolving works as well as essays by the show's curators, Elfi Turpin and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

A companion guide to Beutler's site-specific installation practice classifying each of his works according to the components, tools, and production methods used to create them.

First monograph: American artist Eamon Ore-Giron's hard-edge paintings combine Native American traditions and European abstraction. This publication offers a dialogue between his ongoing Infinite Regress series and the prose of poet and scholar Edgar Garcia.

This publication presents an extended interview with the French architect Claude Parent (1923–2016) by curator Mai Abu ElDahab and visual artist Benjamin Seror that took place between 2013 and 2015. It features a wide selection of drawings by Parent.

This artist's book is a written rendering of monologues included in The Zone, a performance based on a series of narratives staged within the exhibition space of the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre in 2018.

The performative aspect of the British artist's practice in the form of scores, transcriptions, and photographs (limited box set edition).

Artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston speaks with Nora Sternfeld and Julie Pellegrin about her practice as a crossroads for art, education and cooperative working.

A notebook based on Ursula Biemann's latest film, Acoustic Ocean, an expedition to the depths of the Arctic Ocean in search of interspecies communications.

Will Benedict, Kahlil Joseph, Mahfuz Sultan, Ari Marcopoulos, Lynda Benglis, Camille Blatrix, Jesper Just, Lex Brown, Matt Copson, Fin Simonetti, Autumn Knight, Iman Issa, Nevine Mahmoud, Berenice Olmedo, Igor Simić...

Stemming from a series of works by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, this monographic catalogue offers a range of perspectives on urgent issues around gender, sexuality and labour in the digital age.

This anthology gives voice to seven curators who discuss the conception of shows they organized that marked curatorial history thanks to their structural innovation in terms of exhibition siting.

The catalogue of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by art collective Slavs and Tatars, examines the relationship between graphic arts and satire.

New catalogue.

Catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Second volume of a publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this metafiction follows a detective investigating the conditions of production of a novel within an artistic framework.

This catalogue documents a project for which Steegmann Mangrané intends to reframe the history of abstraction, inviting us to re-evaluate the traditional division between nature and culture. It features a selection of works inspired by the artist's readings, from Roger Caillois to Merleau-Ponty.

Another pictureless, pocket-size book by Beni Bischof in his series. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.

A collection of photographs of former border regions around the globe and down through the course of human history.

The content of this book is the result of a series of solo exhibitions; staged outside of any gallery space, visually undocumented, and taking place without visitors.

Around 1999, artist Becky Beasley began writing to her former tutor, Claire Scanlon, who kept her letters but never replied. Years later, in 2016, the two began to intermittently record their conversations, now as friends.

A conversation about Ergonomic Futures, Tyler Coburn's furniture for humans to come.

Artist's book.

This book tiptoes between aesthetics and ethics; it proposes to rethink trauma in its necessity as well as impossibility to be represented and understood.

An anthology of Claire Fontaine's texts.

Revised and expanded edition of the playful fanzine-manifesto for a rebellious art, presenting 66 more or less subversive artistic movements, to become a rebellious artist in less than a year...

An in-depth history of the landmark situationist international periodical edited by artist Jacqueline de Jong from 1962–67. This lavishly illustrated publication features many previously unseen archival material, historical texts and new commissioned contributions.

This catalogue presents the artist's recent works, tackling issues related to the plasticity of space and the creation of gaze. It brings together exhibition views and photographs, an essay by Florian Gaité and an interview with Marion Guilmot.

Vinyl record unique for each edition, accompanied with a 36 page booklet with 16 drawings by Stéphane Thidet.

The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.

An essay on art exhibition.

New monograph.

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

How can we today situate the artist or, more broadly, the act of creation using artificial intelligence?

This February in Artforum poet Simone White and writer Ciarán Finlayson respond to the recent Pope.L exhibitions that spanned multiple institutions across New York. Plus, Joan Jonas, Ugo Rondinone, and others on the life and art of John Giorno (1936-2019), a special artist's project by Christine Sun Kim, Daniel Marcus on Charlotte Perriand, and exhibition reviews from Paris, Cologne, Milan, Tallinn, and more.

Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.