Contemporary art

In Meta Cars, Beni Bischof transforms found images of cars into visual distortions. Through digital manipulation and radical simplification, the original shapes are abstracted—reduced to ghostly and ridiculous silhouettes that feel both familiar and alien.

A series of watercolor house studies by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.

The ToiletWalter PaperChandoha Calendar 2026 presents 13 photographs of sweet, polyamorous and sleepy cats by the American photographer Walter Chandoha and the artistic duo and animal lovers of Toiletpaper.

With over fifty under-35 leading figures, The Generational Issue explores an extremely diverse landscape of practices and languages, defining an abecedary of key figures of a new generational front called upon to interpret the time in which today's art is created and produced.

A contemplative photographic series by Jochen Lempert, created during a residency at the Moulin des Ribes in Grasse, a former mill nestled in the Provençal landscape.

Jochen Lempert brings his signature blend of scientific sensitivity and poetic vision to the remote Greek island of Kastellorizo.

Every page of Here and There Vol.1 – Vol.13.5 in a single volume.

Theater of the world, between live art and visual arts.

A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).

A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.

Joe Baer, Gertrude Abercrombie, Joiri Minaya, Christine Sun Kim...

A scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe.

The catalogue of the Lebanese-American artist's first exhibition in Italy.

Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén offers a portrait of visionary museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) through over 200 printed works—posters, catalogues, film programmes, and invitations. Reflecting his playful, free-spirited take on anarchism, the archive highlights the bold collaborations he fostered with artists and designers throughout his career.

A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.

The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.

"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

New monograph.

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.

A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.

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

This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.

Reference monograph of the Surrealist painter, one of the most important women artist in Spain in the 20th century.

Beni Bischof's zine created on occasion of the Bally fall / winter 2024 collection.

Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.

A compendium of texts and notes around the project developed by artist Alessandro Di Pietro in dialogue with the work of Paul Thek (1933-1988).

Archivio n°10, exclusively devoted to design and its history, is edited by designer Jasper Morrison and Marco Sammicheli, director of the Museo del Design Italiano at Triennale Milano.

The project Islands of Kinship interconnects six mid-scale visual art institutions across diverse regions in Europe in an innovative collaboration model addressing issues of inclusion, kinship and togetherness, democratic exchange and the ethics, emotions and practical solutions for a sustainable and fair institutional operation.

A significant contribution to the understanding of the work of artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, by art historian Romi Crawford, who analyzes how Smith recastsfilm history, in a pivotal period of her career.

71 contributions from 74 authors, artists, architects, and educators published by e-flux between February–March 2024: Charles Tonderai Mudede, Anna Kornbluh, Adeline Chia, Juan José Santos, Xin Wang, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Salmaan Craig, Maddie Hampton, Jamila Squire, Seth Wheeler, Evan Calder Williams, Anya Sirota, Claudio Medeiros, Victor Galdino, Jason Read, Luis Camnitzer, Ecosistema Urbano, Noah Simblist, Hide and Seek Audiovisual Art, Denny Mwaura, Oriab Toukan, Antonia Majaca, Sylvie Fortin, Hallie Ayres...

This volume collects six fables Lin May Saeed (1973–2023) wrote in the early 2000s—the only ones the artist ever shared—which explore fundamental issues of interspecies coexistence, combining scientific, ethical, and philosophical motivations.

London-based artist Faye Wei Wei’s debut monograph.

The catalogue of the Japanese Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

A collection of photographs of couples, as evocative as they are mysterious.

A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.

Some of the earliest works by American composer Phill Niblock, including three never before released pieces: "Index" (1969), "Tenor," and "Boston III" (both from 1972). Until now, it's been impossible to encounter Niblock's compositions from earlier than the 1960s, a reality thankfully rectified by the long overdue publication of this LP on Alga Marghen.

Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.

CURA. turns 15 and celebrates this important milestone with We Monsters, a special "horror" issue dedicated to the exploration of the revolutionary role of monsters in modern civilization, and contemporary art.

In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.

This new body of work consists of paintings featuring heart-headed figures in various emotional states and situations that sometimes teeter between the ordinary and extraordinary. From tender amorous moments to unexpected skate scenes, the work is full of the next iteration of emotive "schmoo" characters.

Caroline Bachmann's dawn paintings.

The multiple meanings and uses of textiles in art, culture and society.

A reflection on the role of art in the interconnected struggles for climate and ecological justice.

A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.

Antoine de Galbert offers a glimpse into his collection, freed from the traditional norms of art history: an immersion into his artistic universe, through a selection of over two hundred works presented without hierarchy or classification.

This double issue aims to provide an "out of placeness" by looking beyond Western-centricity to a transnational, pluralist horizon, exploring the new imaginaries created by artists and thinkers from the "Global South", from Brazil to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A series of watercolor studies of vases by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.

A selection of paintings by Cosima zu Knyphausen over a period of five years, accompanied by an essay by Rahel Schrohe, and a poem of the artist.

A collective manifesto for feminist art schools.