Curatoring / exhibition practices & history / museology / scenography

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.

A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).

An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.

New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.

A look back at the approach and programming of the Basel-based modular independent art space, between living, working and exhibition space.

A reflection on two essential formats in photographic production: the book and the exhibition space (featuring Christian Aschman, Julien Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Pierre Hourquet, Aurélien Mole, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Van Beek).

International curator Cristina Ricupero uses the figure of Frankenstein as a common thread to explore and share her curatorial practice.

A reflection on the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace and its contradictory use as an ethnological museum.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse.

An exhibition catalogue and a review of all the mediation, residency and circulation activities at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco... with some fifty stickers to choose from and stick on.

Based on a collective research initiative and exhibition, the book Afrosonica offers a reflection on African and Afro-diasporic sound, published in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.

The first book dedicated to Cornelia B. Sage Quinton (1876-1936), this essay traces the visionary career of the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States.

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.

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.

An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.

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.

An analysis of the different exhibition forms in contemporary photography.

An artist’s book, a work to be read, a journey through the history of painting, drawing on the collection of paintings at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes.

A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.

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.

Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.

Jagna Ciuchta's first monograph reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of the artist's work.

A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.

What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".

Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.

Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.

With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images.

A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.

Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.

The history of nonprofit and alternative exhibition spaces in Bologna from 1977 up to the present.

A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.

MUdec United, the publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The second issue questions the quintessential symbolic device of the museum machine: the showcase—a tool of preservation, mummification, and desire, with many stories to tell.

The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.

Conversations about embodied strategies of knowledge production and knowledge transmission based on the choreographic and curatorial practices of about fifteen international choreographers, performers, dramaturges and curators.

The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.

Looking back at a decade of activity of the project space Kinderhook & Caracas, this compendium showcases the work of the 83 Berlin-based artists whose practices have crossed paths through the small room on Kreuzbergstraße and several off-site projects around the city.

This book retraces Thierry Prat's career as a player and witness to the history of contemporary art in France for over forty years, through a series of interviews that highlight the main issues at stake.

The first major work on the history and current importance of the Biennale of Young Artists, known as the "Biennale de Paris", which took place between 1959 and 1985, bringing together thirty-five texts by international authors, including some testimonies from actors who took part in the Biennale.

Spike #76, around the theme of artists' lives and careers.

The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.

Spike #75 fêtes the museum in all its stuffy, messy, showy, old-timey glory, as a home-away-from-home, the address of solace and astonishment. Featuring William Pope.L, Simon Wu, Louise Lawler, Ben Davis, Ann Demeester, Anthony Hudek, Meschac Gaba, Bernadette Van-Huy, Ghislaine Leung, Estelle Hoy, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, and many more. 

A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.

In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.

A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums.

Conserving the Future is the book that bears witness to twenty-five years of curating contemporary art in the same place: the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice.

An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.

Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.