Contemporary art

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.

A dialogue between the works of contemporary artist Amie Siegel and the historical spaces of the Villa Stuck in Munich (monographic catalogue).

Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.

A hybrid publication beween a catalogue and an artist's book, articulated on two different registers: a flip-book consisting of the frames of the two videos shown in the exhibition at MAXXI, published on all of the right pages in the book; and a section of critical texts and images documenting the exhibition, on the left.

The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).

A series of seven silk-screen prints depicting close-up images of Antunes's sculptures inspired by the works of Anni Albers and Lina Bo Bardi (artist's edition).

A special summer edition dedicated to American artist Sterling Ruby—also guest editor.

The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).

Over 300 watercolors inspired by the film Rambo II (artist's book).

The fictional diary of Gabriel Krampus, an artist who has been living with his artist wife on a deserted island of the Indian ocean for 44 years.

Comprehensive catalogue focusing on the ongoing series of monolithic stone figures the artist has been modelling since 2013.

This richly illustrated monograph documents a series of sculptural works engaging with the histories of 20th-century architecture, design and art—particularly the heritage of the Black Mountain College and the international Modern Movement.

A comprehensive monograph, including preparatory documents and two essays by Jens Hoffmann and Alessandro Rabottini to better understand the delicate paintings of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel.

Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.

A collection of 70 penis drawings inspired by the borough of Manhattan. Made in one day in 1978, this early work forms a singular, ecclectic and playful guided tour of the city—including drawings and series such as Phallic buildings form 7th Ave., Drawing Penises in front of Tiffanys, Penis with doors – Carnegie music hall, The best place to draw penises, Self portrait at home…

This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.

Ten years of ceramic work by an important figure among post-war artists.

The book documents a mixed-media installation by Sam Falls where the artist explores ways of faithfully representing time and understanding it through art. For Falls, time is elusive and the future is “filled with meaning” only when it becomes “now”. The present, divided between past and future, has the optimism of production and the melancholy of aging.

A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.

A photographic artist's book focusing on a former cement factory in Sweden. Kriemann's concern with archaeology, archival materials, and lost narratives is once again affirmed in this publication which came as the result of a residency program in Gotland Island and for which she collaborated with poet Maria Barnas and writer Kirsty Bell, among others.

Recording of Hermann Nitsch's mighty pipe organ concert in Berlin, January 22, 2016.

First bilingual comprehensive monograph on Wang Yuyang, these volumes delve into Wang Yuyang's practice, focusing particularly on his eponymous solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2015.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!

The reference monograph on the work of artist Agnes Denes, this profusely illustrated book aslo gathers an extensive selection of the artist's texts and manifestos.

This monographic catalogue focuses on the artist's ongoing Kassetten (cassettes) series, initially begun in 2012. Spanning back to 1996, the book features abundant documentation of the various manifestations of the works, visual references, and other recent sculptures as well as texts by Lulu co-founder Chris Sharp.

French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.

The nocturnal strolls of the Italian photographer in the empty streets of Venice

An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant provides the reader with alternative written and drawn narratives to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice adopting the point of view of Jewish moneylender Shylock.

An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.

Andrew Berardini journeys into the heart of the work of conceptual artist Danh Vo to discover how historical forces find form in our individual lives.

Devoted to the graphic practice of the artist, Giorgio Griffa – Works on Paper points up the singularity and importance of drawing in Griffa's creative process while introducing a rare selection of drawings and watercolours.

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.

A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.

The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).

35 year anniversary issue featuring interviews with Ryan Trecartin, Shezad Dawood, Sadie Benning, Wendy Ewald, Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum, Ivan Vladislavić, Álvaro Enrigue, Christopher Sorrentino, Vijay Iyer, Yorgos Lanthimos, artists on artists' section with Naufus Ramírez Figueroa by Regina José Galindo and Anna K.E. by Corrine Fitzpatrick, literary fictions by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter, Kate Zambreno, Domenick Ammirati, poetry by Joan Retallack, John Ashbery, Eugene Ostashevsky, Daniel Poppick, exhibitions and books' reviews...

Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.

Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.

An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.

At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.

An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions (available in

41 watercolors and two installations' views by Francesco Clemente created after the poem Omeros by Derek Walcott—for which he received the Nobel Price—including excerpts from the poem.

A solar music by Joe Jones, performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on the Baltic Sea beach of Sierksdorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

For the past twenty years, Edith Dekyndt has been redefining the interdependence of the artwork and its exhibition context by relocating her work's experiments in a more extended spatiality and temporality—that of the world's ecosystem. This catalog offers a selective approach of her work on the occasion of a joint exhibition at Le Consortium and Wiels.