search results for "the contemporary condition"
2025
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
A wide selection of paintings and drawings by Margherita Manzelli from the 1990s to the present day.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.
2025
Black Truffle
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.
2025
Students Of Decay
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.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.
2025
English edition
MER. Books
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.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
2025
English edition
MER. Books
currently out of stock
A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of the most significant contemporary practices by Portuguese or Portugal-based artists.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Amalgama is the outcome of the fourth edition of Convivial Tables, a field-based research project commissioned by TBA21–Academy for Ocean Space, dedicated to exploring the relationships between food and ecology, and their impact on bodies of water.
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A collection of essays and interviews reflecting on the future through the lens of artistic thought and action.
2025
English edition
Neural
Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
Taking its title from the seminal book by the priest, philosopher, and historian Michel de Certeau, this publication, which accompanies the eponymous Capc exhibition, bears witness to unique ways of being in the world through the transformation of materials, tools, and everyday practices, inscribed directly onto the pages of a regional daily newspaper.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
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.
2025
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Nadya Tolokonnikova, R.I.P. Germain, Petra Cortright, Sophia Al-Maria, Aleksandra Domanović, Dennis Cooper, Philippa Snow, Banks Violette, Simon Denny & Hito Steyerl, Cory Arcangel & Maya Man, Diego Marcon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, LuYang, Florentina Holzinger, Candela Capitán, Steffani Jemison, Charmaine Poh...
2025
English edition
Artforum
Ayoung Kim, Tom Lloyd, Karimah Ashadu, Photography's Materialities (roundtable and portfolios), Rosemarie Trockel, Amie Siegel...
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Andrew Berardini on Artificial Intelligence; Pepón Osorio; Arash Nassiri; Gloria E. Anzaldúa;
Marcela Guerrero speaks with C. Ondine Chavoya; Daisy Lafarge; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Davide Stucchi speaks with Alex Bennett; Luca Lo Pinto on Hanuman Editions; Reynaldo Rivera & Abdellah Taïa; Jungle Books...
2025
French edition
Lenz Press
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center
for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a
periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial
practices.
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
Listening as a means of building community and knowledge.
2025
English edition
Nero
Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.
2025
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Nieves
A compilation of all the covers created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez for Wes Anderson's film The French Dispatch.
2025
ESITU Records
Pierre Bastien deepens his exploration of “elsewhere,” as well as the materiality of sound, through the machinery of his vast Mecanium.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
This volume explores the life and work of Antonio Beato (c. 1835–1905), aiming to address the gaps in existing scholarship on this remarkable photographer. It highlights his distinctive body of work, his role in nineteenth-century photography, and the significance of his images in documenting the Middle East.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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.
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
This unprecedented catalogue collects over 300 pieces reated by Adriano Costa over three decades, listed in alphabetical order—titles are a key part of Costa's works—, alongside new writing by Fernanda Brenner and Milovan Farronato, two critics who have long followed and championed the artist's practice.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive survey of Ahmet Doğu İpek's artistic journey over a decade.
2025
Black Truffle
Second Black Truffle release from French composer Léo Dupleix featuring the quartet Asterales comprising of Dupleix alongside Jon Heilbron, Rebeccas Lane and Fredrik Rasten. Austere, elegant and seductive pieces for flute, guitar, double bass, synth, harpsichord, spinet and voice.
2025
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph on the British painter.
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Reference monograph.
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The artist's travel diary in New York.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
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.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
2025
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
Mike Majkowski makes his debut on Hands in the Dark Records with Invisible, a selection of six moody and mysterious pieces produced between 2019 and 2025—a deep dive into loop-based, gritty ambient dub electronica.
2025
French edition
ARTDERIEN
A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.
2025
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bruno
The first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
Focused on the questions of image-making and image display, Craft is an artist's book by made up of a substantial body of images that, directly or indirectly, engage with the notion of fabrication—manufactured objects, compositional experiments, architectural forms and more.
2025
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Run/Off
A book of drawings by artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna that mirrors various sound compositions with an economy of gesture at its core. playful in form,
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.
2025
Faitiche
Off The Record by French collagist Roméo Poirier is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Research on materials conducted by two leading figures in 20th-century Italian art, Enrico Prampolini (1894–1956) and Alberto Burri (1915–1995).
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
Jennifer Rochlin's first monograph covers over 7 years of artistic practice and gathers more than 40 works, illustrated by 131 color plates. The publication features essays by journalist and writer Alexis Okeowo and by artist Tony Marsh.