Contemporary art

A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.

Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.

Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.

A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.

Documentation on sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi's permanent monumental installation in Venice's Procuratie Vecchie.

A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.

The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.

An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.

A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.

Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.

John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.

The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.

Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.

Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.

Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.

An archaeology of the imagination / a new aesthetic of ruin (a sophisticated artist's edition in a box, inspired by the over-exploitation of Carrara marble quarries).

Rooted in Danish folk heritage yet shaped by contemporary experimental sound practices, the second album of Marie Kølbæk Iversen's musical and artistic project, blends spectral vocals, atmospheric instrumentation, and oral tradition into an immersive listening experience.

The second issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...

The cross-generational literary journal Luvah continues its comeback with an eclectic mix of fashion-related offerings.

The best of 2024: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

Spike is turning twenty with a special double issue.

The 22 exhibitions programmed by Philippe Piguet at La chapelle de la Visitation art center in Thonon-les-Bains since 2018, in 400 pages.

This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.

All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.

The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.

A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.

Studio Manuel Raeder's 2025 sticker calendar.

Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.

Elisa Caldana's The Falcon of Karachi investigates stories of the laggar falcon, a species endemic to Pakistan, India, and Myanmar that is slowly disappearing in the wild.

Jagna Ciuchta's first monograph reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of the artist's work.

An overview of the vast production of the Romanian artist Radu Comșa.

73 images by Swedish photographer Louise Enhörning, including new works as well as some significant past pieces never before exhibited, emphasizing the concept of "lost time."

A monograph developing an iconographic apparatus that casts a light on the relationships between Italy and Louis Fratino's oeuvre, with newly commissioned essays and contributions by scholars of art and queer theory (new edition).

First monograph.

A literary bridge between two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Michele Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008.