Catalogues

A major anthology of historic and contemporary writings by over 200 contributors, providing a rigorous and expansive survey of the photographic medium from its inception to our current moment. Edited by Walead Beshty, this exceptional publication includes texts and artworks by Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler, Stephen Shore, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ericka Beckman, Walter Benjamin, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Turing, Dan Graham, Morgan Fisher, Kelley Walker…

Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.

Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.

Catalogue of the exhibition-manifesto curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, which takes as its starting point the integration of the notion of Anthropocene in today's artistic scene: the publication proposes an exploration of the output of a new generation of artists who are working on reality, and doing away with the traditional division between the notions of “culture” and “nature.” The catalogue reviews each exhibited work in detail, and offers an enlightening glossary.

Catalogue of the first Orleans Biennale of Architecture: introduced by a series of texts on Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain, the publication offers an intersecting vision from over forty contemporary architects working on building a shared world. The concluding part presents a mapping of the research in architecture.

This catalogue traces the trajectory of Warhol's influence on the work of Wool and Guyton. The innovative print processes deployed by the artists operate as conceptual fibers unifying the diversity of paintings oscillating between abstraction and representation. With an essay by Glenn O'Brien.

Reprint of a 2006 catalogue documenting the series of exhibitions and interventions curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Pedro Reyes at Casa Luis Barragán's in Mexico City (with Francis Alÿs, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Joseph Grigely, Rem Koolhaas, Lygia Pape, Anri Sala, Ettore Sottsass, Rikrit Tiravanija, Niele Toroni…).

Nightfall gives an overview of Gothic imagination in the arts, from the 18th century to the present day. This pocket-sized catalogue examines the persistent influence of the pioneering works of modern gothic fiction through a series of essays and a rich iconography.

Reference catalogue that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.

Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).

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 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

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).

The European colonial heritage revisited: Meessen invited ten international artists to think the colonial modernity and connect it with the history of avant-garde, political and independence movements (catalogue of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of “One Earth” and the ecological paradigm associated with it.

This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.

An exploration of the relationship between language and visual arts (works by/essays on Pierre Ardouvin, Art Keller, Julien Audebert, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Éric Duyckaerts, Dora García, Mark Geffriaud, Martin Le Chevallier, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet, Christian Robert-Tissot, Charles Sandison, Yann Sérandour, Lawrence Weiner).

Theoretical and artistic reflections on the history and contemporary relevance of animism.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions”.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions” (hardcover limited edition).

Limited edition catalogue of the exhibition casting an eye over 25 years of multidisciplinary activities by legendary experimental rock band with plastic/visual artists, film-makers, designers and musicians.

A reflection on the tensions and social uses of contemporary forms of representation on the basis of an exercise in critical analysis focussing on the multifaceted artistic practices of two international artists (catalogue of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, April - June, 2009, with texts by the artists and four philosophers).

Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today (from Paul McCarthy to Jessica Warboys, Spartacus Chetwynd or John Bock), this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices.

This publication hopes to present a series of projects bluring the line between artists and designers.

These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of public and private space.

Exhibition catalogue around art and low resolution in new technologies.

An anthology.

Charley 05 features 400 works by 100 artists that are remained isolated, forgotten, proudly secluded or sightly unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work.

A new perspective on Situationist International, with unreleased documents and texts by Beaudrillard, Agamben, Hirschhorn, Sloterdijk, Obrist...

Catalogue of the collective exhibition curated by Aaron Rose, with Rita Ackermann, Gee Vaucher, Becca Mann, Daido Moriyama, Raymond Pettibon, Gusmano Cesaretti, Jockum Nordström, Ryan McGinley, Daniel Higgs.

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).

Catalogue published, as a second volume, after the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, gathering the complete documentation produced for the exhibitions and presenting the installations views.

The crossover between fashion and art (catalogue of St. Gallen museums, with 70 photographers, fashion designers and artists).

Facsimile appropriations, scanned pages, Xeroxes by several artists (Armleder, Gillick, Ruppersberg...) – Grey Flags is a book of texts and ideas published to accompany the homonymous exhibition at the Sculpture Center, NY.

The videos of one of the most important private collections of contemporary art (including Nam June Paik, Annika Larson, Shirin Neshat, Kader Attia, Yoshua Okon...).

Visually expanding on the art world's tendency to see the world through the prism of modern and contemporary art, the book depicts some 200 images of found or researched situations taken “after” an artist's work – occupied realities that are, one might say, signed by the artists.

Numbered edition of a photography and a poster (Jean-Marc Bustamante fecit), which are added to the special box set by M/M (Paris) containing the last three catalogues of the Printemps de septembre festival.

Humour as a strategy in art, from Dada to Fluxus and contemporary conceptual art.

Catalog of one of the most important private collections of contemporary art.

Exhibition catalogue (Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Jim Shaw, Marcel Dzama, Bjarne Melgaard).

Artists' book, covered in the fabric used on London Underground seats, with an electronic chip ringing like a mobile phone when it is opened.

Five artists' books and one general catalogue document the works of Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard, and Gitte Villesen.

Original invitation cards of the independent contemporary art space based in the cultural alternative center Usine in Geneva.

This publication documents new works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Mathilde Rosier, Eva Rothschild or Gary Webb, invited to develop projects on the theme of nuclear war.

This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it.