Contemporary art

A selection of Jan Verwoert's most recent writings.

New monograph.

Thirteen sonnets written by the artist between 1974 and 2013.

Artist's book (sketchbook).

Artist's book based on Adrien Missika's politically engaged eponymous project that took shape during a trip along the border between Mexico and the US.

Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

One year in the art world.

Lucie Béguin, Asmaa Betit, Feng Li, Jean-Christophe Marquez, Géraldine Martin & Charlotte Mas / Edwin Fauthoux-Kresser / Violaine Laveaux / Yohann Gozard / Barthélémy Toguo, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Mounir Fatmi, Najia Mehadji, Yazid Oulab, Chéri Samba, Malick Sidibé, Pascale Marthine Tayou / Hervé Bréhier / Figure(s) & paysage(s) / Alexandre Atenza / Francisca Martínez, Charuwan Noprumpha, Andrés Donadio.

A long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa, on the theme of the stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde.

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.

Both an exhibition catalogue, a retrospective of thirty years of graphic research, and an experimental hybrid publication that provides the reader with a graphic and sensorial universe by experimenting with enhanced reality devices with the body.

A study of two works with which Martial Raysse reinvests traditional techniques of sculpture and draws its iconography in ancient texts.

Martial Raysse and cinema.

Imposture, falsification and diversion.

An audio-visual project about the impossibility of a film on the Deir Yassin massacre, exploring the complex ramifications of the place (2 volumes artist's book).

Reference monograph.

New monograph.

The first publication of a play by one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Los Angeles (new edition).

A series of analog and digital photographic collages by Maya Rochat.

Monograph exploring the artistic and intellectual heritage of abstract painter and pioneer of the visual arts in Iran Behdjat Sadr. This richly illustrated publication offers a singular testimony, combining personal writings and press cuttings, critical texts and poetic correspondence.

Both an exhibition catalogue, a retrospective of thirty years of graphic research, and an experimental hybrid publication that provides the reader with a graphic and sensorial universe by experimenting with enhanced reality devices with the body.

Maurizio Nannucci documents, in the form of an artist's book, a collective action with his family and friends around the world, from Athens to Sydney through Beijing, that literally puts the art in question to better assert its omnipresence while providing a wide range of social interaction.

Seven encounters between artists and young audiences in 2010/2011.

New monograph.

First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.

The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.

The catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, a thematic van Gogh exhibition with proposals by nine contemporary artists (Bertrand Lavier, Thomas Hirschhorn, Guillaume Bruère, Fritz Hauser, Raphael Hefti, Camille Henrot, Gary Hume, Bethan Huws et Elizabeth Peyton).

First monograph.

The collaborative construction process of the “wood log tower” designed by Tadashi Kawamata in Ittingen Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, developed with the architect Christopher Scheidegger.

Box set bringing together three books / DVDs devoted to Tadashi Kawamata's wood constructions: Scheiterturm (2014), Collective Folie (2014), and Workshop (2008).

This first monograph devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tomoaki Suzuki approaches the artist's sculptural work in all its distinctive aspects and numerous details. These are put into perspective by two essays and an interview, at a time when urban signs are suffering from immediate ageing, marked by “whatever singularity” in the age of social networks.

A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.

Ten contemporary artists present works thematically related to the exhibition “Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict”. This publication explores their oeuvres and reveals their creative processes. This contemporary perspective makes clear that the destruction of cultural heritage remains a very current subject today.

A linguistic/fictional journey into questions of authorship, language and institutional rhetorics.

Judith Hopf highlights Hugo von Hofmannsthal's hypothesis of a hidden language that might resolve the impasse produced by a widespread lack of attention regarding artistic practice.

Luxurious box set including 4 catalogues and a double vinyl of the concert by Damo Suzuki and The Fume (a live performance by the ex-singer of CAN, in the continuity of the krautrock movement), prolonging one year of evolving exhibitions and performances at Centre d'Art de Neuchâtel.

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.

Taking as its starting point a pilgrimage that takes place in Italy during the day of the dead, this publication is part of a collective and multidisciplinary project which aims to reflect upon death, to more deeply celebrate life.

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

This richly illustrated catalogue presents the work of Florence Louise Petetin in all its variety: paintings, drawings, graphic works, performances, texts, video, etc. In appendix, a selection of texts and poems by the artist.

This catalogue documents the theoretical and practical research stemming from a project inspired by the legendary exhibition “Art by Telephone” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1969, extending it today with contributions from new artists. The works were first orally conveyed by telephone to then be interpreted, activated, and produced by art students.

Capture is such a productive fictitious rock band, that nobody can consume everything. It produces new music, words, images, videos and derived products every hour. Capture reverses the consumerism ideology and the relation between desire and objects. This publication documents the project.

A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.

The novel by Brian O'Doherty, written from the perspective of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810), who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity, reveals the radical modernity of one of the eighteenth century's most mysterious figures.

A protean series of works in which artist Fatima Mazmouz thinks her pregnant body as an artistic process and as a place of performance.

An A-to-Z of the exhibition.

A collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history.

First monograph.