Contemporary art

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, this issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what 'technology' is.

Conceived by American artist Laura Owens, this publication looks back on the Studio of the South residency, hosted in Arles by LUMA and Owens and undertaken by 23 international artists between September 2020 and July 2023.

The new, adapted and expanded edition of Benjamin Sommerhalder's children's book (the story of the little ghost Knigi, learning how to read).

The 2026 wall calendar designed by Studio Manuel Raeder featuring contributions by Martha Hellion, Andreas Sell, Álvaro Urbano & Petrit Halilaj, Heinz Peter Knes, Anna M. Szaflarski, Pablo Schlumberger, Nick Mauss, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Ieva Epnere, Shirin Sabahi, Yoshie Sugito, and Mariana Castillo Deball.

Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.

Yang Yong systematically traces the titular artist's creative practice from 1996 to 2025, organizing his thirty-year journey into six chapters, each covering a five-year period.

The first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of the British-born Nigerian artist and film director Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

First monograph.

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

This publication aims to provide a critical and profound reading of Alice Neel's humanism, constructing a journey through her artistic and personal life. The book includes texts by academics and artists, enriched by an extensive number of illustrations, archival photographs and documents.

Comprehensive documentation of the Italian artist's latest works, in which he playfully explores the theme of light.

An artist's book composed of fragments of texts from different eras and contexts—literary, science fiction, philosophical, scientific—all centered on the theme of the subterranean.

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

An artist's document that sheds light on the relationship between drawing and sculpture in the work of Clément Bagot.

On the occasion of Seasons, Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at GAMeC, art historian Lisa Parola, investigates how contemporary art can redefine the idea of the monument.

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.

Special edition of the book Disegno Astratto, created by Henri Frachon and Antoine Lecharny, that includes the multiple "Boat, house, briefs, plane and sea lion".

New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.

A compilation of all the covers created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez for Wes Anderson's film The French Dispatch.

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.

American surrealism meets popular culture meets political criticism: Jim Shaw's obsessive series of drawings devoted to Donald Trump.

Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.

Specially composed in her Milan studio, Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.

The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.

Ayoung Kim, Tom Lloyd, Karimah Ashadu, Photography's Materialities (roundtable and portfolios), Rosemarie Trockel, Amie Siegel...

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".

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

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.

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.

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

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

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.