Contemporary art

Projects, texts, visual essays and conversations with about thirty international artists, curators, critics and authors: Zoe Williams, Kynaston McShine, the exhibition as poem by Jean-Max Colard, Haim Steinbach's POP UP section investigation, visual projects by Slavs and Tatars and Puppies Puppies, Andra Ursuta, conversation between Simon Denny and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cécile B. Evans, Emily Roysdon, Melanie Matranga...

This monographic catalogue collects the visuals of works focusing on the relationship between the activities of the intelligence agencies and magic practices during the Cold War era.

Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.

This publication showcases a selection of photographs taken by the artist, over a year-long period, in second-hand shops, flea markets, antique stores and auction houses in Berlin.

Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).

Tony Oursler and Greil Marcus on David Bowie, Jackson Pollock's late work, the Met Breuer, Cameron Rowland, an exclusive portfolio from Rosemarie Castoro, plus Magali Reus's Top Ten, the band Porches, and exhibition reviews from New York, Berlin, Lisbon, Milan, Prague, Athens, Delhi, Mexico City, and more.

Thomas Blanchard, Roberto Minervini's America, Sébastien Barrier, David Cronenberg's first novel, the Athenian cultural scene versus the economical crisis, Nòvia, drone rock and folk music, looking back on Hong Kong's umbrella movement, Pierre Godard & Liz Santoro's For Claude Shannon, portfolio, poetry, reviews, cultural agenda...

The role of infrastructure and logistics in today's art scene

Eva Kot'átková's most ambitious publication to date, divided in two volumes, reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.

Caroline Bosc & Jean-Sébastien Tacher / Mathieu Dufois / PhD in Theory and practice of artistic and literary creation (Walid Ghali, Aurore Guitry, Grégoire Lauvin, Lila Neutre, Émilie Perotto, Corine Robet, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, Mezli Vega-Osorno) / Maude Maris / Grégory Jégado.

The eponymous duo's monograph explore desire in the context of our post industrial, post human society, between globalisation and sustainable development, in this “glocalisation” that produces new objects, new temptations and new perversions.

Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.

This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.

Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.

Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.

Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

L'écho / ce qui sépare documents a personal and collective exhibition commissioned by Bruno Peinado where young artists were invited by Peinado to display their works with his own, thus reflecting the notions of space and network within the art field.

Since the set up of Xavier Veilhan's The Monster in the center of Tours in 2004, the statue has been subject to various cultural appropriation by the locals. This book aims to document both the development of the project as part of the New Patrons program as well as the life of the statue within the city.

This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010-2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images (with Silke Otto-Knapp, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Willem de Rooij, Richard Tuttle, Simon Denny, Rebecca Warren...).

A visual journey through ten years of Denis Savary's exhibitions (first-ever retrospective catalogue).

Shanghai special issue.

Mohamed Bourouissa, Richard Jackson, Martin Kersels, Paul McCarthy, Stéphane Maupin, Richard Prince, Rudy Ricciotti, Alain Séchas, Georges Tony Stoll, Rirkrit Tiravanija...

Artistic and literary creations on the theme “cyborgs and robots.”

In more than two hundred artworks, the American artist's reference monograph focuses on the fundamentals of her painting, strongly impregnated by notions of time, profusion, systemising and commitment.

A reflection on paper as a creative space (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Réunion's collection).

New monograph.

First monograph.

An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.

A portrait of painter Max Schoendorff through a long-lenght interview, a collection of writings and paintings, and a sketchbook.

This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.

John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.

Canadian native art today

A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.

Decadence and De-facement by Sabrina Tarasoff, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, The Importance of Being an Influence (by Jens Hoffmann, Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot...), Sunset Décor by Magalí Arriola, Lothar Baumgarten, The Public Life of the Imagination by João Ribas, Robert Grosvenor by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Forget About the Middle Class by Chus Martínez, Ceal Floyer by Christian Jankowski, Nevine Mahmoud, Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr, Jessi Reaves, Lucas Arruda, Ana Vaz, A Study in Petulance by Michael Turner...

Collection of poems gathering texts on similar subjects, such as the unknown, violence and war, technology and information, phylogeny and the ontogenesis.

A collection of texts by philosopher and essayist Gilles A. Tiberghien devoted to landscapes and gardens (new expanded edition).

Our computers' artistic taste, Anri Sala's show at New Museum, re-opening the Louvre after the Paris attacks, Neïl Beloufa on world domination and in-flight entertainment systems, the future of Brooklyn and the dangers of sawdust, Chantal Akerman's rent-controlled Manhattan, the curatorial skills of Brazil's tax police, reviews from New York, Oslo, and Warsaw, a portfolio by Mathieu K. Abonnenc...

Robert Longo, Vanessa Beecroft and Katy Grannan on the notion of “superimages”, cult magazine Colors, Neïl Beloufa, Isa Genzken, Louisa Gagliardi, Jon Rafman, Josh Kolbo, Gaea Woods, interviews with curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, design studio Vier5, Isabelle Graw, and the Printed Matter team, the social role of art, sexual politics, Carson Chan in conversation with Nik Kosmas, Matt Copson, Kenny Scharf, Sylvie Fleury, a collectable poster of David Bowie by Scott King...

Since its inception, Spike Art Quarterly stands for independent, critical reporting on the arts, and provides the current cultural debates with emerging artists and leading writers. Thisissue looks for political alternatives and resistance into the art world, and includes discussions between Claire Fontaine's Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart & Toke Lykkeberg, portraits of Tobias Madison, Barbara Kruger and Omer Fast, an interview with Armen Avanessian, Liam Gillick on the British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, Chus Martínez on the role of art in generating new cultural forms...

Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.

A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.

Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.

A second volume of essays by Thierry de Duve dedicated to the form of speech known as the address. Along with theoretical texts, the authors addresses prestigious interlocutors (Jacques-Alain Miller, Benjamin Buchloh, Marie-José Mondzain, Jean Clair, Jean-François Lyotard, Herman Parret, Mieke Bal, Daniel Arasse).

A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.

First monograph dedicated to Virginia Overton, whose minimalist sculptural practice emergeas a direct response to her physical presence in the exhibition space.

Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.

The big book of the LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), the first private cultural center of the Reunion Island and an essential artistic place in the Indian Ocean.

A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.