Contemporary art

A visual archive of the Islamic State's destruction of artifacts.

A reflection on the myth of abundance, at the intersection of philosophy, arts and letters, anthropology, political and natural sciences.

Interviews with Oscar Tuazon, Jaque Fragua & Brad Kahlhamer, Ruth Cuthand, Janaina Tschäpe (by Francesco Clemente), Jessica Grindstaff (Phantom Limb Company), Tomoko Sauvage, Cecilia Vicuña, Alicia Kopf; portfolios by Ragna Robertsdottir / Monique Verdin & Raymond Jackson; fictions by Eliva Wilkan and Laura van den Berg; essay by Stefan Helmreich…

The best of 2018: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world—Kerry James Marshall, Johanna Fateman, Helen Molesworth, Douglas Crimp, Eungie Joo, Jack Bankowsky, David Rimanelli, Catherine Wood, Caroline Busta, Lanka Tattersall, Harry Cooper, Pauline Yao, and Claire Tancons—take stock of the year in art. 38 artists from around the world choose the most striking work, event, or exhibition of the year with responses from Kerry James Marshall, Barbara Kreuger, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and more. Plus, Top Tens on the best in film, music, books, and performance from John Waters, Vaginal Davis, and Melissa Anderson, and a special section on “The Year In Monsters.

This comprehensive monograph offers an overview of the artist's oeuvre from the last decade. It brings together essays which explore Værslev's relationship to the history of painting and suburban architecture and culture, as well as his artistic process.

Tennis Courts III completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.

A series of hallucinatory illustrations inspired by psychedelic art and the darkest side of fairy tales.

A film on poet and visual artist Jean-Luc Parant.

A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students (promotions Michelangelo Antonioni & Chantal Akerman) and invited artists-professors for the 21th edition of the “Panorama” program at Le Fresnoy.

A conversation with multidisciplinary French artist Béatrice Balcou, whose work investigates reflexive issues directed at her practice, such as the spectator's experience and the artistic gesture.

This catalogue presents an exploration of artistic imaginaries in the age of artificial intelligence. A series of essays examine these new aesthetics through various historical, contemporary and conceptual perspectives. The publication also includes a series of projects by artists such as Ian Cheng, Cécile B. Evans, Avery K Singer, Luca Trevisani…

Polaroid works.

Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma have thought of this new collaboration as a series of soundscapes filled with literary and cinematographic references, from Sylvia Plath's poetry to the films of Hal Hartley and Wong Kar Wai. The album carries a strange echo of the 1990s, materialized in Julien Carreyn's cover photograph.

The score composed and recorded by KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) for the dance piece ‘The Pyre', written and directed by Gisèle Vienne. A tensed composition haunted by the voice of Dennis Cooper.

A selection of about 2.000 mail art works on paper (drawings, collages…) created between 1991-1994 by the artists' trio. They would mail each other pictures, repeatedly overpainting and adding to them until they comprised several layers. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by Eric Schumacher and Andrea Clavadetscher.

Monograph showcasing 18 years of practice by the Swiss photographer. Alternating snapshots, self-portraits, documentary and fashion photography, pictures of arranged landscapes, buildings, people, and furniture, this publication provides a wide overview of Wassmann's artistic approach through associative sequences weaving on a loose narrative, like a stream of consciousness.

Artist designer Canedicoda built a a temporary tailor's atelier, where clothes were build directly onto the visitors' bodies. Conceived halfway between a journal and an inventory, this publication documents each phase of the project, collects pictures of the 100 actual garments, as well as participants' feedbacks.

This publication presents a project by Linda Fregni Nagler about the photographic “School of Yokohama”, which emerged during the Meiji era in Japan. Over the past ten years, the artist has collected hand-colored photographs of this period representing Mount Fuji. She re-photographed them, printed them and colored them by hand, according to colorization method of that time.

In 2006, film director Amos Gitai invited Gabriele Basilico to undertake a journey retracing the locations of the shooting of Gitai's film Free Zone, on the demilitarized zone between Israel and Jordan. This publication follows this unique photographic project.

This publication combines a series of photographs by Louis De Belle with a story by writer Jordan Hruska, both echoing Bergson's reflections on perception modes of idealism and realism.

All for All! is a trip through All! (2012-2017), a project conceived by Kinkaleri and instigated by the voracious attacks on language committed by William Seward Burroughs. It intentionally strays beyond the limits of theatre and dance, suggesting an outside and setting the possible into motion along an undecidable boundary between the body and language.

Collection of essays by Nicolas Bourriaud on the protean, poetic and Rabelaisian Swedish artist Erik Dietman.

The publication presents a series of works and two critical texts stemming from Bertrand Lamarche's project on the occult figure of Baphomet.

Singing songs while playing ding dongs, Charlemagne Palestine's solo voice over the bells of his studio carillon is a premiere in his recorded works, and possibly the first voice/carillon record in musical history. All the little shamanic stuffed deities inhabiting the carillon added their souls to the spirit of the reverberating songs, including a song in memory of Mika Vainio.

Singing songs while playing ding dongs, Charlemagne Palestine's solo voice over the bells of his studio carillon is a premiere in his recorded works, and possibly the first voice/carillon record in musical history. All the little shamanic stuffed deities inhabiting the carillon added their souls to the spirit of the reverberating songs, including a song in memory of Mika Vainio. This Artist Edition includes an additional 7" record, engraved with an exclusive track on one side and etched with a Charlemagne Palestine drawing on the other.

Playwright Pauline Peyrade; professor and critic Johan Faerber on contemporary literature; raï music in France; political tourism in Greece; olfactory artists; interviews with Virgil Vernier, Boris Charmatz, Hideto Iwaï, Dora García; portraits of Jamila Johnson-Small, Prodromos Tsinikoris and Puce Mary…

Since 2013, Ramuntcho Matta has been developing a daily drawing practice associated with writing. This publication presents the complete series of Matta's early morning poems-drawings.

This artist's book designed by Belgian artist Olivier Foulon is the result of a years-long research on an abandoned sculpture project by Isa Genzken in Rotterdam. It features two essays on Isa Genzken by Jan van Adrichem, a section gathering archival documents, and a comprehensive press kit referring to the aborted project.

This artist's book presents a collection of parking tickets from a private hospital in which the artist was admitted. The tickets are colored with the help of a color chart created from photographs of morning skies and of flowers his sister brought him.

This publication is the result of a collaboration between artist Jorge Méndez Blake, curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and graphic designer Santiago da Silva. Gathered around a shared interest for Mexican poet José Juan Tablada, the three authors attempt to offer contemporary interpretations of the seminal themes in his work (orientalism, relation betwenn literature and architecture…).

This catalogue presents an overview of the duo's projects in the last years, unfolding a personal universe bringing forward nature as a space for political expression. It is structured through a conversation between the artists and Juan Canela, including diverse graphic material and several specific extrapolations written by critics and curators.

This series of four short volumes documents an experimental project by the Colombian artist focusing on the psychological dimension of architecture based on the feeling of déjà-vu.

This catalogue gives a critical overview of a key American Pop artist focusing on specific themes within his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze, and strategies of indeterminacy. Includes essays by Chris Sharp and Sabrina Tarasoff.

In 2017, Shane Lavalette crossed Switzerland to do a photo essay on Swiss rural life. To that end, he followed the itinerary taken some eighty years ago by Swiss photojournalism pioneer Theo Frey. This publication juxtaposes these old and new views of the Swiss countryside to offer up an unusual and moving portrait of a nation.

José de Jesús “Chucho” León Hernández is a part of Mexico City's nightlife. For over twenty years he has been photographing the city's vibrant music scene, the carryings-on at underground venues and gay clubs, the newcomers and leavers, rising stars and departing legends.

Produced as a follow-up to three previous publications edited by Mamco between 2010 and 2017, this monograph is a compilation of found images associated with Yvan Salomone's own photographs. It also features an interview with the artist and new essays examining his practice.

Special issue featuring prints deriving from carved foam. Produced in collaboration with the illustrator Valfret's workshop.

Epistolary portrait of a seaman by his daughter (artist's book).

Artists Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, and Laura Mannelli, collaborate on a selection of works that explore the concept of worlds within worlds based on Dante Alighieri's opus. These visual narratives are complemented by texts from writers Benjamin Bianciotto, Agnès de Cayeux, Peter Gray, Didier Ottaviani and Catherine Vidal.

This publication is the first in a series of books dedicated to the exhibitions at the Fondation Salomon in Annecy, France. It examines the work of French artist Charles Le Hyaric with an essay by art historian and critic Ann Hindry.

This November in Artforum we ask: repair or revolt? We invited Charles Gaines, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams to create projects on politics. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth reflects on the art of Eugène Delacroix, Rachel Churner on the art of Maren Hassinger, Ian Volner on the Venice Architecture Biennale, Melissa Anderson on Luca Guadagino's Suspiria, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Vienna, Ho Chi Minh City, Johannesburg, and more.

First monograph: minimalist artist Eva Evrard explores the book form, sculpture and installation to question the complexity of the body. Her artistic project is defined by its formal polysemy, inspired by American conceptual art and the renewal of the Arts & Crafts movement.

A palimpsest reconstruction of French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes's (1591–1660) Rhodes of Viet Nam: The Travels and Missions of Father Alexandre de Rhodes in China and Other Kingdoms of the Orient, originally published in 1653 (artists' book).

Fourth publication by the collective Suspended spaces, which questions the connections between stories and territories, in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, Brazil, Portugal and France.

This catalogue questions the place of U.S. Latino and Latin American art in U.S. museums and art history. It engages a series of artists working across a range of media—from installation and performance to drawing and video.

A series of photographs of the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland, taken between the summers of 2014 and 2017. Each year during this season, the authorities cover the glacier with blankets to fight melting ice.