Contemporary art

An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.

Taking its title from the seminal book by the priest, philosopher, and historian Michel de Certeau, this publication, which accompanies the eponymous Capc exhibition, bears witness to unique ways of being in the world through the transformation of materials, tools, and everyday practices, inscribed directly onto the pages of a regional daily newspaper.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, R.I.P. Germain, Petra Cortright, Sophia Al-Maria, Aleksandra Domanović, Dennis Cooper, Philippa Snow, Banks Violette, Simon Denny & Hito Steyerl, Cory Arcangel & Maya Man, Diego Marcon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, LuYang, Florentina Holzinger, Candela Capitán, Steffani Jemison, Charmaine Poh...

A collection of essays and interviews reflecting on the future through the lens of artistic thought and action.

A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.

A wide selection of paintings and drawings by Margherita Manzelli from the 1990s to the present day.

Andrew Berardini on Artificial Intelligence; Pepón Osorio; Arash Nassiri; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Marcela Guerrero speaks with C. Ondine Chavoya; Daisy Lafarge; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Davide Stucchi speaks with Alex Bennett; Luca Lo Pinto on Hanuman Editions; Reynaldo Rivera & Abdellah Taïa; Jungle Books...

A selection of the most significant contemporary practices by Portuguese or Portugal-based artists.

A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.

Research on materials conducted by two leading figures in 20th-century Italian art, Enrico Prampolini (1894–1956) and Alberto Burri (1915–1995).

Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.

A comprehensive survey of Ahmet Doğu İpek's artistic journey over a decade.

An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.

142 drawings realized over a decade, addressing the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw's practice.

Reference monograph.

This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.

Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).

This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.

The first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci.

Centered on the emblematic figure of Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), this issue of Revue Faire explores the director's publishing work during his time at the head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, from 1960 to 1973.

The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.

This book, the first dedicated to the work of Michaela Sanson-Braun, traces thirty years of practice across Germany, London, and France. Bringing together paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations, it also features sixteen paintings conceived especially for this publication and printed on uncoated paper.

This unprecedented catalogue collects over 300 pieces reated by Adriano Costa over three decades, listed in alphabetical order—titles are a key part of Costa's works—, alongside new writing by Fernanda Brenner and Milovan Farronato, two critics who have long followed and championed the artist's practice.

First monograph on the British painter.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.

This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.

The artist's travel diary in New York.

Focused on the questions of image-making and image display, Craft is an artist's book by made up of a substantial body of images that, directly or indirectly, engage with the notion of fabrication—manufactured objects, compositional experiments, architectural forms and more.

A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.

27 features 27 recent works from two series titled Clementine and Merlin (2023–24) by London-based artist Magali Reus. This book, in its beautifully crafted materiality, format and typography, mimics a diary or romantic novel.

Jennifer Rochlin's first monograph covers over 7 years of artistic practice and gathers more than 40 works, illustrated by 131 color plates. The publication features essays by journalist and writer Alexis Okeowo and by artist Tony Marsh.

A limited edition flexi publication that combines field recordings by Robin Watkins with a suite of riso prints by Nina Canell.

Created during a month-long journey across the central Andes at the dawn of the global pandemic, Altitude is a meditative photographic exploration of one of the most extreme landscapes on Earth.

A unique performative exploration by Christian Marclay of the history and acoustic qualities of the former Chandoline hydroelectric power plant.

A facsimile of the artist's book created by Ugo Rondinone in 1998 in response to the AIDS crisis.

A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

The emergence of a geological consciousness in contemporary art.

Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...

For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph.

Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.