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Merlin Modulaw - Times Ahead (were once an optimistic place)
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The first comprehensive and personal look behind the scenes at the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann's planning, design and working processes.
Mary Walling Blackburn - E-flux journal - Cream Psychosis
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
forthcoming
Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.
Dialogical Imaginations - Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 1 : 1955-1966
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 2 : 1967-1982
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).
Going Public - Creating Visibility in the Field of Art
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.
Zuzanna Bartoszek - 36 Rooms
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.
Francis David - Un Monde Parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.
Rudy Ricciotti - La Cité  de Thélème - Fais ce que voudras !
2026
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.
Rudy Ricciotti - The City of Thelema - Do What You Will!
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
forthcoming
This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.
Emmanuel Alloa - Le contemporain, l\'intempestif et l\'imminent - Petits arrangements avec une époque
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.
Maryanne Amacher - Intelligent Life
2026
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).
 Jeff Wall Production - Submission Declined
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.
Gisèle Vienne -
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.
Delphine Coindet - MONO ICONO GRAPHIE
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.
 Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
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
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
forthcoming
The choreographic in cinema.
Emanuele Quinz - Ars Naturans - L\'art à l\'épreuve du vivant
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.
Joar Nango -
2026
bilingual edition (English / Sámi)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.
And All That Is In Between - Islamic Arts Biennale 2025
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Catalogue of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art.
D. N. Rodowick - Ce que la philosophie attend des images
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.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 4 – Network Affect
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
Carl Cheng - Nature Never Loses
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
The definitive publication on Carl Cheng's genre-defying work.
Saudi Art - Reflections on Mediums of Modernity and Contemporality
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.
Daftar - Beginnings
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.
Francis Baudevin - Poptones
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Retrospective monograph.
André Butzer - Figuren, Farben, Bilder (2021-2025)
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
André Butzer's most personal book to date.
Liz Johnson Artur - PDA
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.
Joel Meyerowitz - Morandi\'s Objects - The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.
Joan Mitchell - Transatlantique
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
forthcoming
Invited by Mara Hoberman, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on Joan Mitchell's work.
Emilio Prini - … E Prini
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Emilija Škarnulytė - Waters Call Me Home
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.
 Nurse With Wound - Dans un monde sonore (book + CD)
2026
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Ré Soupault - L\'esprit avant tout – Du Bauhaus au reste du monde - Souvenirs
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
René Berger - Esthétique et mass media - Sélection de cours et des actes du colloque « Art, technologie et communication », 1970-1972
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
2026
English edition
Neural
forthcoming
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 – 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 another pedagogical turning point.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.
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.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthétique relationnelle
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).
Hoda Kashiha - Slipping on Fragmented Shapes
2026
trilingual edition (English / Persian / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.
 Studiospazio - Taccuino n.3
2026
English edition
Tonini Editore - Taccuini d'architettura
forthcoming
Thrid issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studiospazio.
16 millions de signes - From and about books
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
forthcoming
Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.
Marie Adjedj - Déhiérarchiser le monde de l\'art - Usages du document au tournant des années 1970 par Germano Celant, Carla Lonzi, Lucy R. Lippard, Seth Siegelaub
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
forthcoming
The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub
Monia Ben Hamouda - Path of Totality
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monograph.
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