filters
search results for "the contemporary condition"
 
 
Gisèle Vienne -
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.
David Weiss - David Weiss e il Sogo di Casa Aprile / David Weiss and the Dream of Casa Aprile - Carona 1968-1978
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.
Microbiome
2025
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.
Swamps and the New Imagination - On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy
2025
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.
2025
French edition
Brook
forthcoming
The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.
Brian Dillon - In Pieces - Writings on Art, Etc.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.
2025
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.
2025
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.
Joseph Kosuth - Redefining the Context of Art, 1968 and After - The Second Investigation and Public Media
2025
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).
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2025
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.
2025
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.
2025
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.
Sheila Hicks - A Matter of Scale
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
Sheila Hicks' recent monumental and architectural-based projects.
Chantal Montellier - Irréductible
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
forthcoming
A monograph highlighting the diversity and richness of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations.
 Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
2025
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.
Amelia Cuni - Melopea (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.
Thomas Ankersmit - The Dip (vinyl LP)
2025
Students Of Decay
forthcoming
Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.
John Cornu -
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.
Huguette Caland - Writing in the work of Huguette Caland
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).
Huguette Caland - L\'écriture dans l\'œuvre d\'Huguette Caland
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).
Bouchra Khalili - The Circle - Chronologie pour une constellation
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.
Magali Reus - Our Volumes
2025
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.
Magali Reus - 27
2025
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
27 features 27 recent works from two series titled Clementine and Merlin (2023–24) by London-based artist Magali Reus. This book, in its beautifully crafted materiality, format and typography, mimics a diary or romantic novel.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Robbie Williams
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
forthcoming
A collective artists' book based on a fictional character by Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
Harald Szeemann - Pretenzione Intenzione - Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.
Dries Tack - In Memoriam Alvin Lucier (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.
 Untitled Noise - Decay Music n.8 - I Hate All the Words (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
"I hate all the words" by Luca Scarabelli and Michele Lombardelli's Untitled Noise, the eight instalments in the celebrated Die Schachtel's "Decay music" series, is a concept album composed of three tracks designed to explore the remote and hidden depths of psyche.
Mathias Gibert - L\'ordre de la perspective - Essai sur les origines du perspectivisme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
forthcoming
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".
Jason Kahn - All Across the Universe (CD)
2025
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.
Global Conversations - Mexico
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.
Resonant - Bodies, Songs, and Strings
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
forthcoming
Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.
Liliane Giraudon - Fragments polyphoniques
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
Faire – To look at things - Graphic Designers as Iconographers
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
forthcoming
What happens, then, when contemporary graphic designers appear to take up the torch of an iconography that so-called iconographer-artists had already reclaimed—since the beginning of the last century—from graphic designers themselves, along with their culture and skills? (by Thierry Chancogne).
Zero zine - Ligne Nuit
2025
no text
miscellaneous
Clinamen
forthcoming
Zero zine is a contemporary art zine for children. It offers them a direct experience of art without filters or barriers, encouraging them to explore, feel, think, and imagine. The first issue presents the work of Léa Katharina Meier, Maude Gyger, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Pedro Wirz and Xenia Lucie Laffely.
Dessins d\'architectes
2025
French edition
Avenir radieux
forthcoming
"The architect is an intellectual who draws": drawings made “by hand” by 24 contemporary architects, collected by Bernard Quirot.
Optically Suspicious
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
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.
Noor\'s Heroes - Saloua Raouda Choucair
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.
Magma - Archive of the Future
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
forthcoming
The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.
Revue & Corrigée
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
forthcoming
Joke Lanz; female duo (Ana da Silva & Phew, Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, etc.); Magali Dougoud; François Bayle; Céleste Gatier; Banetoriko; Ed Williams; Madelyn Byrd & Ashlynn White; Nicolas Field & Thomas Florin; book and record reviews...
 Arman - Tout ce qui reste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
forthcoming
Retrospective monograph.
 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
no text
Bierke
forthcoming
Atelier E.B (Edinburgh Bruxelles) is the company name under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie develop their joint projects. Atelier E.B's 2026 calendar is dedicated to the duo's spectacular window displays (2019-2025). These exhibitions feature garments from their fashion label arranged by professional window dressers—integrating the shopping experience into the exhibition context.
Élisabeth Ballet - Travail à façon
2025
French edition
Captures - Collective works and monographs
forthcoming
The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
forthcoming
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Leszek Brogowski - Mesmots
2025
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
forthcoming
Marco Cassani -
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.
Jacques Demierre - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
forthcoming
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
Mimosa Echard - Lies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
An overview and historical, critical, and theoretical perspective on the French artist's work.
Jonathan Faiers - The Sound of Fashion Thinking
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An account of an imaginary fashion exhibition that has no clothing, but in its place, sonic responses to garments and cloth act as a series of calls to explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.
Robert Filliou -
2025
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
forthcoming
Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".
filters:


 top of page