Contemporary art

 
 
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Dorothy Iannone - First recording 1969 (CD)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
 SIGNA - Det åbne hjerte (The Open Heart) (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
38.00 35.00 €
A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.
Roven
2023
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
In the 17th issue of the critical review on contemporary drawing: interviews with Mira Schor, Katrin Ströbel, Paul Maheke, Éric Watier, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel; the Ramo Collection; unpublished drawings by Ulla von Brandenburg; shared drawing by Laurence Schmidlin; Ghérasim Luca by Alexandre Leger; articles on Ketty la Rocca, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Natalia Jaime-Cortez; artistic contributions by Sylvie Sauvageon, Olivier Garraud, Nicolas Aiello and Sally Bonn...
Marie-Claire Mitout - Les plus belles heures
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.
Denis Briand - Travaux
2023
French edition
Incertain Sens
Both a conference proceedings and an exhibition catalogue, this publication looks back at the career of Denis Briand, artist and university professor, who died on 23 April 2018.
Christoph Keller - Dopostoria
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.
Kaspar Müller -
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective monograph.
Reto Pulfer - Gina - A Zustand novel
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In Reto Pulfer's novel, the artist draws a rich picture of a community of hybrid living beings. Characters and scenes from the novel also appear in the works and exhibitions of the artist. A multi-layered cosmos of links emerges and takes the reader into a parallel universe full of references to our current relationship with nature.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - Kein Witz, No Joke
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Kein Witz, No Joke combines paintings and objects by Sophie Reinhold with the "Typewritings" of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. As different as the artists may be, their works share a manic perseverance, precision, and subversive humor.
Rita Ackermann - Hidden
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
Fahd Burki - Daydreams
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the Pakistani artist's practice over the past 15 years.
Trinh T. Minh-ha - Traveling in the Dark
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.
Adrien Vescovi - Jours de lenteur
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A dive into the world and studio of French artist Adrien Vescovi, whose textile compositions are thought and composed like paintings, both monumental and vulnerable, subject to the natural elements and impregnated with the places where they are exposed.
François Mangeol - À la recherche du bonheur
2023
no text
Christophe Daviet-Théry
François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
2023
English edition
Nero
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
Paul Thek - Italian Hours
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A collection of works reflecting the influence of Italy on Paul Thek's artistic trajectory, with several contributions highlighting his Italian period.
Rä di Martino - Carmelo Bene - Là dove muore, canta
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
Future Perfect - Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary
2023
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An artistic and reflexive project around the notion of the "future perfect", the passage of time, individual and collective responsibility in the current cultural and political ecosystem, and future perspectives and goals.
Archives on Show - Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.
Awkward Archives - Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.
Pandora\'s Box
2023
English edition
Archive Books
An exploration of the form of conversation as a method of aesthetic solidarity and empowerment.
Kerstin Schroedinger - DNCB - A History of Irritation
2023
English edition
Archive Books
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
Emma Wolf-Haugh - Text in Public - Zine Performances and Rants
2023
English edition
Archive Books
The first monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
NO Rhetoric(s) - Versions and Subversions of Resistance in Contemporary Global Art
2023
English edition
Diaphanes
An incisive examination of the intersection of global art and political resistance.
Georges Didi-Huberman - Movements of Air - The Photographs from Étienne-Jules Marey’s Wind Tunnels
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The book "Movements of Air" reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni. 
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Tome 3
2023
French edition
Lendroit éditions
currently out of stock
The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.
Michel François - Contre nature
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
A look at 40 years of artistic practice by Belgian artist Michel François.
Tim Onderbeke - Candles - A Photographic Novel
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.
Jess Atieno - Of Ghostly Silences and Constant Yearnings
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
30.00 25.00 €
First monograph of the Kenyan artist.
Jeanne Vicerial - Armors
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
(last copies available!)
The first publication dedicated to the French artist known for her avant-garde practice, pushing back the codes of the textile industry, questioning the dichotomy between made-to-measure and ready-to-wear, and the place of women and the female body in society.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Travelogue [Bali] (CD)
2023
Touch
The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.
Julia Scher - Filzengraben Boulevard (vinyl LP)
2023
Small World
35.00 31.00 €
An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.
Vannina Maestri - Écrire l\'Art II – 2020-2021 - Une suite d\'images et d\'effacements
2023
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Vannina Maestri is an author associated with the 2020-2021 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
Laura Vazquez - Écrire l\'Art II – 2019-2020 - Quelque chose de surnaturel
2023
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Laura Vazquez is an author associated with the 2019/2020 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of four exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
François Aubart - L\'attitude de la Pictures Generation - Excès, passion et manipulation
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.
Créativités artificielles - La littérature et l\'art à l\'heure de l\'intelligence artificielle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.
Espace art actuel - Neurodiversity
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The dynamic aspects of neurodiversity in creation, in the context of art therapy, or the production of contemporary visual art works.
Artforum - February 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Vivienne Westwood, Dodie Bellamy on Joan Brown, Sarah Schulman on Nicole Eisenman, Alex Katz...
Neural - Strange Weathers
2023
English edition
Neural
Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka, Karoline Sobecka, Superflux, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Open Weather, Jana Winderen, Phase Changers: melting, evaporating, breathing in Meteorological Art, Meta.Morf 2022, Ecophilia...
Spike - After Beauty
2023
English edition
Spike
Spike #74 is getting over beauty.
Mark Gonzales - Ready to Articulate
2023
English edition
Nieves
New paintings by New York based artist Mark Gonzales—an exploration into the artist's experimentation with color theory and mood inspired by classic portraiture.
Erlend Peder Kvam - Tools of Encouragement
2023
no text
Nieves
The inner life of objects according to Erlend Peder Kvam.
Isabelle Graw - On the Benefits of Friendship
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
Isabelle Graw reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus.
Sven Lütticken - Objections - Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
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