search results for "the contemporary condition"
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.
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
An exploration of the role of fashion and clothing in the creation of idealized images of the Other in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - XXI Century Science
forthcoming
An update on the issues at stake in the study of the human microbiome (various bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms that compose the human body's ecosystem), shedding new light on the relationship between humankind and nature and the new micro-biopolitics we are now facing.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.
2026
French edition
Brook
forthcoming
The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MCBA (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne)
forthcoming
This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
forthcoming
The first monograph on the Hong Kong artist.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
forthcoming
Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
2026
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
This edition by Walter and Jan Verwoert pairs an 7" record featuring 6 pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of the 6 collages used as scores for the recordings.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
A massive anthology of photographs made by Ari Marcopoulos between 2009 and 2018, featuring an introduction text by the artist as well as an essay by art critic, curator, and New York figure Bob Nickas..
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
forthcoming
A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
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.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
An encounter between dance and visual arts.
2026
English edition
Suture Press
forthcoming
What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.
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.
2026
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
2026
French edition
La Maréchalerie
forthcoming
A collection of sketches and research notes, texts, transcriptions of sound works, and visuals that document Dominique Petitgand's sound work.
2026
French edition
Les Carnets du BAL
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.
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).
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).
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
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
forthcoming
The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality."
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
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
French edition
ER Publishing - Diary
forthcoming
An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.
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 – 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
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
various
forthcoming
The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.
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
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
forthcoming
Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.
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
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
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 – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
A project that considers the role of the Tirailleurs in liberating France from Nazi Germany, how their efforts contributed to the liberation of Germany itself, and their impact on securing peace in Europe post-1945.