Contemporary art

Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.

This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”

The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.

This catalogue documents the first Italian retrospective on the photographic activity of Twombly held at the American Academy in Rome.

Paul Kooiker, Cendres Lavy, Ash Conrad, Lise Stoufflet, Hannibal Volkoff, Cath Orain, Jean-Luc Verna, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Luce de Tetis, Julien Salaud, Clara Citron, Mirka Lugosi, Julian Feeld, Apollonia Saintclair, Amanda Wieczorek.

Inferno sheds a sharp light on the news of contemporary art and scenes. In this issue: Yoko Ono, Fischli & Weiss, Trajal Harrell, Jodorowsky, Cindy Sherman, Sigmar Polke, Dance in New York, Berlin special feature, Philippe Parreno, Paul McCarthy, Ai Weiwei, Castellucci's Moses und Aron, Arty Lisbon, Lyon and Istanbul's Biennials, Winter-Spring 2016 program...

Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.

Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.

Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.

Based on an exhibition and conferences that took place in 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this volume expands on the issues raised by queer art practices through interviews, essays, collages, as well as personal and academic texts.

Over the past twenty years, Italian-born artist Rudolf Stingel has been expanding and redefining the scope of painting through innovative and radical processes. This catalogue features works from the pivotal Styrofoam and Celotex series and includes an essay by curator Francesco Bonami.

Paloma Lanna narrates the first year of her brand Paloma Wool during which she has collaborated with some of Barcelona's most relevant contemporary artists and photographers.

Catalogue.

Contributions by Bless, Elein Fleiss, Susan Cianciolo, Yurie Nagashima, Pascale Gatzen, Ryoko Aoki, Takashi Homma, Nobuhiro Shimura, Yukinori Maeda.

Manuel Raeder's 2016 Wall Calendar (with Armando Andrade Tudela, Mariana Castillo Deball, Heinz Peter Knes, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tris Vonna-Michell...).

The first monograph dedicated to Landon Metz retraces the American artist's distinct practice examining four exhibitions from the past two years.

Monograph / artist's book.

Richard Wentworth plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

A limited edition publication of 1000 copies, with Toilet Paper watch included!

The Blue One Comes In Black offers a new contribution to the thinking around Liz Magor's long standing practice by gathering newly commissioned critical texts and creative writing, as well as texts by the artist herself, some of which were previously unpublished.This book not only highlights important works from throughout Magor's career but also present her latest work for the first time in a publication form.

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, Georgie Nettell, Dave Miko, Ned Vena, Antek Walczak, by Tanja Widmann / Paris Noche by Jay Chung / Verena Dengler by Lili Reynaud Dewar / Call and Response and Forever Now by Kari Rittenbach / Daniel Pommereulle by Hélène Fauquet / Hans Christian Lotz by Sam Pulitzer / Sigmar Polke's reception in the United States and Germany in the 1980s by Magnus Schaefer / interviews with Magnus Schaefer et Guy Tosatto / On Some Models of Artist / Gallery Relations (with Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Hélène Fauquet, Renaud Jerez, Mélanie Matranga)...

Featuring: Julien Mabiala Bissila, Benjamin Dupé, Édouard Louis & Guillaume Bresson, Tunisian film societies, Marie Losier, portfolios by Florian van Roekel and Simone Holliger, Life? or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon...

Issue number nine tackles all manner of sports and games, providing commentary on their language, politics, and philosophies.

Noël Dolla's iconoclastic artistic approach defies categories. This book seeks to explore the heterogeneity of Dolla's works to better demonstrate the singular common thread between them.

This book gathers the papers presented at an international symposium on artists' periodicals, organized by academical Marie Boivent and curator Stephen Perkins. It serves as a smart introduction to a broad range of publishing strategies adopted by artists and others who were experimenting across the field of periodical publishing in new and expanded ways from the 1960s onwards.

The first monograph of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané spanning his entire work to-date. Structured around keywords defining the artist's practice, this illustrated edition also features reprinted literary texts.

This monograph aims to highlight the very diverse features and extraordinary richness of Arte Povera painter Giorgio Griffa. With a selection of the artist's writings and comprehensive chronology.

This reader brings together the first 8 issues of Postdocument, the magazine on exhibition photography.

Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola collects screenshots of a desktop-performance made by Petra Cortright where virtual erotic dancers perform on various backgrounds. As a result, the pages of the book look like continuous digital collages; synthetic and painterly landscapes populated by the strippers posing for the viewer.

Nieves reissues Frank Asch's famous children's book, originally published in 1972.

The present portfolio is a sampler of some various structural beam combinations from 20th Century edifices. It can be viewed as a book, spread by spread, or pinned on the wall, according to taste, the way a kid might stack up building blocks.

A selection of visual source materials which browse Fecteau's influences, inspiration and research methods.

This publication documents a collective project conceived by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, and chef Antto Melasniemi, which takes the form of an experimental platform, working as the extension of an artistic community based in Thailand. This large-scale installation explores urbanization in a post-rural condition, the act of building as a collaborative process, and land as a concept that can exist outside of ownership.

Issue 22 of Palais magazine is entirely devoted to the Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” at the Palais de Tokyo (October 21, 2015 - January 10, 2016), the first retrospective of the life and work of the American poet John Giorno, a key figure of America's counterculture since the 1960s.

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

A look at contemporary visual culture and how it has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries (catalogue).

A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).

Second volume of the Toilet Paper book, gathering all of the images published in the last six issues of the magazine, also including a significant portion of previously unpublished images.

Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.

Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.

Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).

New monograph.

The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).

A tribute to François Ristori (new monograph).

Ixiptla vol. 3 explores archaeological heritage and how it is expressed, contaminated or dissolved in the present.

An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.