Central / Eastern Europe

First monograph.

By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.

Edited, designed and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book is the first in the Tehnika series and is based on research into the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 30s.

In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.

Andrzej Karałow's piano metamorphoses in the cogs of Jérôme Noetinger's tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror: a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.

Artist's book.

A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).

A contemporary hommage of Jože Plečnik's oeuvre.

A collection of testimonials from Ukrainian students and researchers hosted at the Maison de l'Ukraine at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, who share their stories and future aspirations.

A selection of photographs and architectural drawings of "joints" from Eastern Europe gathered and reinterpreted by Natasha Krymskaya, as part of a research project into architectural practices and craft culture.

An extensive survey of Romanian artist Ionuț Cioană's practice, with a selection of texts he wrote over the years.

An artist's book published in celebration of Peles Duo's twenty years of work.

Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).

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

An overview of the vast production of the Romanian artist Radu Comșa.

First monograph.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.

A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.

The catalogue of Darja Bajagić's exhibition for the Pavilion of Montenegro at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

The catalogue of the Serbian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

The catalogue of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

This publication examines the intersection of art and politics, through the deeply engaged work and thought of two contemporary artists.

This critical biography guides readers through artist Magda Stawarska's practice via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.

An interdisciplinary investigation by French-Bulgarian visual artist Iglika Christova, an explorer of the microcosm, into the relationship between the mechanisms of the living world and drawing.

New compositions (by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska) for the sixth-tone harmonium conceived by Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music Alois Hába in the 1920s and '30s, performed by Miroslav Beinhauerr, currently the only player of this unique instrument in the world, who has single-handedly revived it after decades of slumber.

The catalogue for Iva Lulashi's exhibition at the Albanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2024, inspired by the sexual revolution advocated by Russian radical thinker and feminist Alexandra Kollonta.

Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.

The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.

An analysis of contemporary artistic practices among artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production.

Emblematic works by the Belgian-Polish sculptor and textile artist produced in the 1970s, revealing Tapta's attention to the tactility of her materials, the suppleness of structures, individual and collective practice, and the interaction between artwork, space, and viewer.

The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.

This book traces the legacy of Zona, Eastern Europe performance art festival that took place in Timișoara, Romania, between 1993 and 2002, years which were marked by a transition from communism to a new society built on different principles.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

A piece for saxophones and electronics, performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz (real time electronics) and Bertrand Gauguet (alto & baritone saxophones).

Elaborated from an eponymous exhibition held at the Latvian National Museum of Art in 2020, Family examines the visual, autobiographical, and theoretical strands that inform Ēriks Apaļais' practice, featuring texts on his work by the curator Katerina Gregos and Latvian art critic Santa Hirša. 

This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.

A comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People's Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution.

A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).

Extra Muros – Czech Republic is the result of the fourth edition of FLEE's creative residency program which took place in December 2022 on the dance floor of Prague's most infamous nightclub Ankali.