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Michaela Sanson-Braun - The Cocktail Principle
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book, the first dedicated to the work of Michaela Sanson-Braun, traces thirty years of practice across Germany, London, and France. Bringing together paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations, it also features sixteen paintings conceived especially for this publication and printed on uncoated paper.
Jim Shaw - The Ties That Bind (Study Drawings 2013-2023)
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
142 drawings realized over a decade, addressing the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw's practice.
David Toop - Decay Music n.10 - And I Entered Into Sleep (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.
Luigi Turra - Decay Music n.9 - Liminale (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.
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
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.
Mick Wilson - On Discourse and the Curatorial
2025
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.
Pontus Hultén - Faire – To look at things - The Director, the Graphic Designer, and the Printer: Pontus Hultén and the Making of the Catalog, 1960-1973
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Centered on the emblematic figure of Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), this issue of Revue Faire explores the director's publishing work during his time at the head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, from 1960 to 1973.
Benjamin Sommerhalder - Ghost Knigi
2025
English edition
Nieves
The new, adapted and expanded edition of Benjamin Sommerhalder's children's book (the story of the little ghost Knigi, learning how to read).
Nina Canell - Heliogram (book + flexi disc)
2025
no text
Run/Off
A limited edition flexi publication that combines field recordings by Robin Watkins with a suite of riso prints by Nina Canell.
Nadia Lauro - Scenographies
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.
Jean-Michel Durafour - Qu\'est-ce que l\'éconologie ? - Au bout des images : cinéma, monde, perception
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.
Optically Suspicious
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
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.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Giuseppe Ielasi - The Vestige (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
The first collaborative release from Giuseppe Ielasi and Jack Sheen: 14 pieces presenting a delicate balancing between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with a distinctive lightness of touch and a subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field.
Kassel Jaeger - Fernweh (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".
Chantal Montellier - Irréductible
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.
Amelie von Wulffen - Drawings/Zeichnungen
2025
no text
Bierke
A new compilation of Amelie von Wulffen's intriguing, very truth hard drawings and comics, dealing with dreams and inner experiences, depicting generational conflicts, sexuality, death, and strong emotions with unfiltered harshness.
Nina Könnemann - Blocken /  Further Reductions
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Published on the occasion of Nina Könnemann's eponymous exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist's work.
Ilan Manouach - Tarwar
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
Nero
An extensive and sophisticated exploration of a recurring theme in global comics—black box—which the artist has gathered and reorganized into a large-scale, collective, transtemporal and transgeographic narrative.
Walter Hus - Zenne Quartet plays Walter Hus - Vol. 1 (CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
The Zenne Quartet performs the quartets of contemporary Belgian composer Walter Hus.
Huguette Caland - Writing in the work of Huguette Caland
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
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
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).
Jacqueline de Jong - Disobedience
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Philipp Modersohn - Attitudes of Stone
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Monograph / artist's book, including contributions by a variety of writers as well as materials.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Robbie Williams
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
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
An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.
Dries Tack - In Memoriam Alvin Lucier (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to the master of minimalism Alvin Lucier.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Mathias Gibert - L\'ordre de la perspective - Essai sur les origines du perspectivisme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".
Vincent Broqua - Gaiamen
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time. Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.
Espace art actuel - Minerals
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The emergence of a geological consciousness in contemporary art.
Spike - Nostalgia
2025
English edition
Spike
For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia.
Resonant - Bodies, Songs, and Strings
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.
Catherine Beaugrand - La forme élémentaire de l\'être humain - Concepts et dessins pour inventer une science
2025
French edition
Naima
A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.
The Educational Web: Reader
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
A reader documenting the exhibition and symposium on eight schools, educational organisations and independent, self-organised educational programmes which see themselves as alternatives to traditional art academies and currently occupy central positions in the field of contemporary art.
Faire – To look at things - Graphic Designers as Iconographers
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
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
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
currently out of stock
"The architect is an intellectual who draws": drawings made “by hand” by 24 contemporary architects, collected by Bernard Quirot.
Beautés désordonnées
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).
Michaël Grébil Liberg - L\'Ymage (2 vinyl LP box set)
2025
Sub Rosa
Ars nova meets dark folk, aural cinema, contemporary music, drone and much more... An astonishing album gathering three extended pieces that unfold the works of medieval musical genius Guillaume de Machaut, the greatest and last of the troubadours.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (book)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (2 vinyl LP)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (book + 2 vinyl LP)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
58.00 53.00 €
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
Radical Desires - French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire.
Artforum - October 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...
Revue & Corrigée
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
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...
e-flux Index
2025
English edition
e-flux Index
Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.
Art Across the Arabian Gulf
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.
Reluctant Gardener
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.
 Arman - Tout ce qui reste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
A major retrospective monograph, published on the 20th anniversary of Arman's death, presenting the artist's visual works from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well as his lesser-known yet radical performances, with a text by Bernard Blistène and numerous illustrations from archives and documents.
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