Contemporary art

A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock-prison: a project initiated by artist Tyler Coburn on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry, the prison-industrial complex, and the history of solitude.

An exploration of the work of the Portuguese artist Isabel Carvalho, between visual and writing practices, based on a project conducted around the history of the art center Le Lait, Albi.

This issue 34 of the Palais magazine accompanies and echoes the exhibition Scheherazade, at night presented at the Palais de Tokyo from October 2022 until January 2023, bringing together six international artists whose practice summons the tumult of the contemporary world through the political power of narrative and the imaginary.

Publication dedicated to the Jardin aux habitant·es, a work by the artist Robert Milin produced in collaboration with volunteers for the opening of the Palais de Tokyo, a community garden that brings together, since 2002, amateur gardeners, who are members of an association.

First monograph on the durational performance artist Melati Suryodarmo, one of the pioneers of performance art in Indonesia.

In today's era of increasingly eroding certainties, Cura. 39 looks at artists that survey the fundamental questions of life and death, extinction and immortality (featuring Cyprien Gaillard, Marguerite Humeau, Pierre Huyghe, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Katja Novitksova, Mimosa Echard, Jakob Kudsk Steensen & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elaine Cameron-Weir & Jodi Graf, Max Hooper Schneider by Nicolas Bourriaud...).

The outcome of an examination of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, and thus the history of the Museum, by four different contemporary artists.

As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future is a long-term project and research inquiry that reflects on the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will alter the aesthetics and practices of everyday life in different local contexts.

BODIED unites an internationally diverse group of artists who, in positioning the body at the centre of their work, explore how our physical forms are shaped by the social worlds around us.

Over 15 years of subversive installation art from a Copenhagen-based collective.

An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.

Conceived as a monographic reader, theis publication compiles for the first time an extensive, decade-spanning collection of Kirchenbauer's seminal and profoundly perceptive essays, the scripts of her widely celebrated moving image works in conjunction with selected video stills, as well as exhibition views.

A multimedia meditation on time, memory and cultural identity.

Monograph based on Carolyn Lazard's eponymous video installation drawing from the sensorial legacy of flicker films.

Retrospective monograph.

This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 

The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.

Alien Armpit brings together short texts and images that the artist Vanessa Safavi made between 2013 and 2022.

The first comprehensive publication documenting Israeli artist and experimental cinematographer Ran Slavin's work.

A concise introduction to the Jack Pierson's photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decades.

The third release on Corvo Records by sound researcher and conceptualist Stefan Römer, a soundtrack for one of his experimental films as well as a new addition to his meta project "Deconceptualize".

An editoeducational project by Ensba Lyon, Ravisius Textor, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey & The Serving Library, & 019 Ghent.

Under a title in the form of an inventory that could list as many photographic subjects, this book exhaustively documents Pierre-Olivier Arnaud's work since the early 2000s.

This monograph dedicated to sculptor Genesis Belanger looks back at the beginnings of her practice and offers an analysis of her work.

293 new digital drawings by the Swiss artist.

First monograph of the artist, poet, and filmmaker Sky Hopinka whose work embraces Native American perspectivism and reverses the primacy of representation of non-Western identities.

Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.

The catalogue of the 17th Geneva Biennial, dedicated to artists' film and video, curated by the New York-based collective DIS and Andrea Bellini.

Tarot deck of 78 cards drawn by Vincent Corpet from a series of paintings made in 2010.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

The sixth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.

A retrospective monograph, La Gricole et ses dérives brings together fifty years (1970-2020) of Daniel Nadaud's pathways, loops, advances, drawings, sculptures, installations and notebooks, shaped by the presence of the agricultural world, by history and fragments of childhood.

A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.

An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.

An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.

Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

Jay Chung, Claire Fontaine, Josef Strau, Alain Guiraudie, Bernadette Van-Huy, Helmut Draxler, Henrik Olesen by Thomas Duncan, Heji Shin by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle, Marcel Proust by Yves-Noël Genod, Merlin Carpenter by Annie Ochmanek, Josephine Graf, Helmut Draxler, Megan Francis Sullivan and Nick Mauss, Dylan Byron and Isabelle Graw, Benjamin Lignel and Anne Dressen, Clément Rodzielski.

For Artforum's historic 60th-anniversary issue, dozens of contributors come together to express the discerning eclecticism that excites the magazine's heart.

Lu Yang, LaTurbo Avedon, Lawrence Lek, Marco Cadioli, A genealogy of the metaverses, The metaverses performed sounds, Ars Electronica 2021...

Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.

Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.

Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic "trouble."

A perspective on the challenges related to training, professionalization, social rights and aesthetic and theoretical concerns of young artists, through the assessment of the activities of GENERATOR, a unique program of experimentation, professional training and international residency for curators.

Reference publication dedicated to the practice of Lubaina Himid, one of the leading figures of British Black Art since the 1980s.

Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.

A series of drawings by Valérie du Chéné inspired by press articles, to which Arlette Farge's texts respond.

X Museum 2020–2021 is the first chapter in a series of annual publications dedicated to the activity of the newly opened museum in Beijing.