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Cindy Wright - Still Well
2024
English edition
MER. Books
A 20-year retrospective of Cindy Wright's paintings, blending photo-realism with detailed, painterly techniques.
Ana Vujanović - Toward a Transindividual Self
2024
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Toward a Transindividual Self examines the process of performing the self, distinctive for the formation of the self in Western neoliberal societies in the 21st century. It approaches the self from a transdisciplinary angle where political and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and dramaturgy intersect.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
Nadia Belerique - Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
 Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
A history of images / Une histoire d\'images - Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Through more than 500 images by 95 photographers, the Musée de Grenoble's collection of photographs from Antoine de Galbert's collection and his foundation offers an impressive panorama of our times and the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.
Jérémie Gindre - Jolie vue, mauvais présage
2024
no text
Lendroit éditions
An artist's book by Jérémie Gindre with backgrounds taken from The Observer's Book of Weather by Reginald M. Lester (1955): a picture book of meteorological oracles, a wink as much to cinema and comics as to the natural history museum.
Isabelle Eberhardt - Où l\'amour alterne avec la mort
2024
French edition
Ardemment
A selection of original texts by Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), revealing the author's sororal empathy for the condition of the Bedouin women of the Maghreb whom she encountered during her desert wanderings, dressed as a man.
Andrew Barker - La typographie des Penguin Classics
2024
French edition
Bureau Brut
The most comprehensive case study ever written on the crucial subject of text typography, by one of the major representatives of this discipline.
Anne Le Troter - Le Corps Living Room (vinyl LP)
2024
DUUU
A sound performance inspired by Merce Cunningham, in which a group of speakers seek to escape from society, to retreat by mimicking the objects that surround us in the forest.
Gianpaolo Pagni - Album - Contemporary artists top 100 world 2020
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
The top 100 contemporary artists in the playful and regressive form of a sticker album, modeled on the Panini albums.
Kitasono Katué - 1902-1978
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
Pierre Guyotat - Pierre Guyotat et l\'Algérie
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.
Zorka Wollny - Singing Machine (vinyl LP)
2024
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
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.
Artforum - January 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Thierry de Duve, Made in L.A. by Travis Jeppesen, Judy Chicago, Margaret Raspé, "Seeing in Art and Medicine" by Michael Corris...
Neural - Negociating Values
2024
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Matteo Marangoni; interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, Vivian Caccuri; articles: Accessing the Fiduciary Transactions of the Intellect and Imagination, Folding the Past into the Present; reports: Transmediale 2023, KIKK Festival...
At the kitchen table
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
(last copies available!)
An exhibition guide for a multi-part show conceived by Reliable Copy in India, featuring a range of cookbooks, videos, and artworks around food, by a strong grouping of practices.
twen [1959–1971]
2024
French edition
Bureau Brut
A spectacular insight into the work of art director Willy Fleckhaus for the German magazine twen, which in the 1960s was arguably the world's most influential magazine in terms of visual daring and graphic innovation, and remains an essential reference for many contemporary practitioners.
Beni Bischof - Calendar 2024
2024
no text
Lendroit éditions
Beni Bischof's 2024 calendar.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Ilan Manouach - Reading
2024
no text
Lendroit éditions
Reading acts as a visual treasure trove, compiling an assortment of panels that capture the very essence of Disney's letter-centric storytelling.
Luca Merlini - La traversée de ma bibliothèque
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.
Olivier Sévère - Oasis
2024
French edition
La Maréchalerie
Artist's book: a "cinematographic" display of previously unpublished visuals by Olivier Sévère, reflecting the phenomenon of mirage, the appearance and disappearance of images, and the presence and absence of water. A text by anthropologist Sophie Brones accompanies the narrative of these Tunisian desert landscapes.
Marie-Douce St-Jacques - Une entrée
2024
French edition
Le laps
A cinephilic, emotional and memorial journey: page after page of cinema tickets—exhumed from the past, preserved until now and published here for tomorrow—retrace fragments of artist Marie-Douce St-Jacques' cinephilic itinerary, and tell the story of a discreet struggle against oblivion and indifference.
Amalia Vargas - De la colle
2024
French edition
Lendroit éditions
A series of photographs of traces of glue on city walls, testifying to what has been posted/hung there (artist's book).
Ants walk two ways
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Cornelia Blatter - 10 letters from Furka Pass 
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Artist, designer and publisher Cornelia Blatter returns to the Alps of her childhood to release letters in balloons addressed to lost loved ones.
Judith Bernstein - Active Figuration
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Judith Bernstein's Active Figuration series (2000) consists of ink-on-paper drawings created through a trance-like process, exploring the subconscious. The gestural images address the political injustices of their time, depicting figures in existential angst and turbulent relationships. "It's fun, but it's dead serious".
Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water (vinyl LP)
2024
God Records
sold out
Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.
Leslie Roberts - I will console you with language
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
A series of works by Leslie Roberts, who transforms language into paint, capturing the flood of overlooked information around us.
Laura Mulvey - Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later / 40 Jahre später
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."
Anuradha Vikram - Use Me at Your Own Risk - Visions from the Darkest Timeline
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
Giovanna Silva - Napoli
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.
Joseph Havel - Parrot Architecture
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
Daphne Ahlers - Die Würflerin
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Christa Joo Hyun D\'Angelo - Fatal Attraction
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first monograph of the artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Fatal Attraction covers over a decade of work spanning collage, video, installation, and sculpture.
Theresa Ganz - Grand Illusion
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible.
Benjamin Hirte - Modest Homes
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
Amelia Cuni - Clearing (vinyl LP)
2023
Aguirre Records
The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).
Samuel Clowes Huneke - A Queer Theory of the State
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
How queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.
François Bayle - Le Projet Ouïr (CD)
2023
INA-GRM
A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.
Charles Bernstein - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Eugène Carrière - Scènes de la vie domestique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
An overview of Eugène Carrière's work, through a selection of little-known or previously unpublished paintings, alongside his major masterpieces.
Gaston Chaissac - Fétiches dernier cri
2023
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.
Kasper T. Toeplitz - Érosions programmées (CD)
2023
Akousis Records
A piece for saxophones and electronics, performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz (real time electronics) and Bertrand Gauguet (alto & baritone saxophones).
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