Contemporary art

Res·o·nant documents the namesake light and sound installation created by conceptual artist Mischa Kuball for the Jewish Museum Berlin. The catalogue comprises contributions by a prestigious ensemble of international thinkers, artists, and writers.

First monograph dedicated to British filmmaker and video artist Stephen Sutcliffe. Including commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, At Fifty examines over twenty years of film collages practice, delving into Sutcliffe's extensive use of television archives and critical reflection on British cultural identity.

This catalogue offers diverse representations of everyday life in Algeria and its diaspora through film, paintings, photography and sculpture by twenty-five contemporary artists. It includes the first English translations of key theoretical texts on Algerian contemporary art.

The publication presents a collective project lead by artist and researcher Verina Gfader.

This first monograph looks back on French artist Alexandre Leger's production over the last 10 years.

A very subjective and alternative cartography of Luxembourg (a social design, publishing and bottom-up creation project led by Dutch graphic designer Annelys Devet).

The issue 30 of the magazine Palais is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Future, Former, Fugitive,” presented at Palais de Tokyo from 16 October 2019 to 5 January 2020. This exhibition devoted to a French scene is based on an open view of belonging to a land and it escapes from the effects of a tabula rasa dictating that one generation eclipses another. It unites a good forty artists born between the 1930s and the 1990s, but who all live and work in and within their era.

The artistic, social and political issues of manifestos.

Stemming from the Barthean spirit of the 2017 opening show of Brazilian gallery Mendes Wood DM's new space in Brussels, this catalogue gathers new works by a selection of artists who participated in the inaugural exhibition. It also features a fictional history of the gallery by Oliver Basciano, associated with photographs by Mauro Restiffe.

First monograph dedicated to Musa paradisiaca, a dialogue-based project by Eduardo Guerra and Miguel Ferrão founded on temporary partnerships. This richly illustrated publication documents the variety of their works— sculpture, paintings, texts, and sounds—and includes new commissioned essays.

Monographic catalogue dedicated to the life and practice of Christoforos Savva, whose oeuvre was unparalleled in the incipient Cypriot art scene of the 1960s (catalogue of the exhibition at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, honoring the 50th anniversary of the artist's death).

A compilation of press archives related to Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva, selected in the Cypriot press and literary periodicals between 1954 and 1968.

In this collection of stories and illustrations, Szaflarski examines the subject of violence, in particular as it is experienced through the female body. Beginning with an autobiographical experience, the story triggers a dissociative state that plunges the book in and out of imaginary worlds and associative narrative threads.

Cura. #32 brings together an incredible array of conversations with cutting edge and pioneering artists, together with recurring and brand new sections, that set the rhythm of an upcoming year filled with new and thrilling explorations.

In this book, the 1923 manifesto “Active Art” by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggers a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose.

Nairy Baghramian by Andrew Berardini, Travis Jeppesen, Nobuo Sekine by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Avery Singer, David Ostrowski and Tenzing Barshee, John Gerrard, Ren Ebel, Jill Johnston, Eric Wesley, Tyler Coburn and Elvia Wilk, Alice Bucknell...

The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.

A very special overview of the work of a new media art pioneer: snapshots from all over the world, paintings, collages, graphic and ornamental works, and various artifacts from the artist's collections, which include everything from old magazines to fabric patterns.

Candice Breitz, Meriem Bennani, Marianna Simnett, Elysia Crampton, Too Old to Die Young and essays by Pierre Bal-Blanc and Monique Roelofs, a selection of excerpts from Intervista, Flash Art's side publication on visual culture in the late 90's...

Peter Halley's multimedia installation for the Magazzino del Sale N. 3, a 15th-century warehouse in the Dorsoduro district of Venice.

A collection of all writings, in the form of slogans, which have accompanied Marcello Maloberti in almost thirty years of poetics introducing themes he finds meaningful.

This publication looks back on Laure Ghorayeb's transition from writer to painter.

A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.

Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, A False Weight is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Daisuke Kosugi, an intimate project on the disabled body, supported by a reflection on the architecture of the home.

There is no theory that is not aesthetic (collective publication edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse and Sandro Zanetti).

Dorata Sajewska proposes an innovative perspective for looking back at the formative process of Polish modernity, delving into repressed areas of experience connected with World War I and the ensuing emancipatory movements.

Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.

L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This third issue proposes an immersion into the young years of artist Nicole Eisenman in New York in the 1980s.

The great tumult of space.

A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.

Superimposing different sources—background sounds, recordings of a charivari in the streets of Lyon, bird songs or rhythms and melodies of amateur or professional musicians—Paul Elliman's vinyl record can be experienced as a form of sound loitering, each track composed by the transformation of different audio materials into unique musical collages.

Retrospective monograph.

Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Oscar Oiwa, Brazilian artist of Japanese origin, draws from these three Olympic cities to which he is personally bound, a matter to question the world of today, inviting us to dive into his half-realistic mid-fantasy universe, where sometimes point humor and nostalgia.

The sixth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

An anthology.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

Hans Hartung and the cinema.

An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work.

In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva photographed the streets of Tehran and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. The image-based work is part of a multilayered narrative that encounters the words of architect, researcher and educator Hamed Khosravi.

The new edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 iconic book.

Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

Art in the Borda psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires; in the ruins of the Soviet industrial dream in Georgia; the young Martinique artistic scene; Milo Rau and the NTGent theater; La Ribot; Mati Diop; Camille Blatrix; Clément Cogitore; Fanny Taillandier; Baptiste Lanaspeze and Éditions Wildproject...

Stafan Kalmár and Lia Gangitano on Lutz Bacher; Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin; Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper; Institute of Queer Ecology; 40 Fall 2019 exhibitions previews; Simmon Denny; Anthony Byrt; Sam McKinniss; Zarina; Diébédo Francis Kéré...

A card game for young museum visitors imagined by cartoonist Andreas Kündig and the MAMCO.

The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.

A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.

A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.

44 international artists deliver their vision of the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

This publication reflects upon the exhibition of Stefan Brüggemann's nihilist statements read, sung, and screamed by Punk icon Iggy Pop, sculpting aurally the spaces of a seemingly empty gallery covered in densely painted black paneling paintings.