search results for "the contemporary condition"
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.
2026
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
2026
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.
2026
English edition
Maison ONA
forthcoming
Moondog's poetic autobiography.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
This first comprehensive monograph on Mitchell Anderson spans his broad multi-media practice since the early 2010s.
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
forthcoming
Invited by Erik Verhagen, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on François Morellet's work.
2026
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
KBB
forthcoming
New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.
2026
English edition
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
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Comprehensive monograph.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
2026
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
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Writer and artist Jérôme Game is an author associated with the 2024 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. He immersed himself in the universe of the exhibitions, and composed freely around the works and ideas he perceived there.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
First reference monograph.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
Zolo Press
forthcoming
French ceramicist Jacques Monneraud's first monograph, So-Called Reality, covers three years of the artist's practice and focuses on his trompe-l'œil cardboard ceramics.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
KBB
forthcoming
This extensive monographic publication offers a comprehensive examination of Rómulo Macció's painting, situating his work within the development of modern and contemporary Latin American art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
forthcoming
A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
An essay on the figure of the writer-
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
A survey of Latinx and Latin American women artists that used mail art, postal networks, messages, and distribution in their work.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
forthcoming
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing.
2026
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
forthcoming
The ToiletEllen PapervonUnwerth wall calendar 2027 features photographs conceived by Ellen von Unwerth, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Camouflage theorized as an expanded ecological and choreographic tactic.
2026
Faitiche
forthcoming
For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An overview of the unique work produced by the studio for artists with disabilities that has been active in Fribourg since the late 1990s.