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Micol Assaël - Λ (Lambda)
2021
English edition
Nero
Λ (Lambda) is an artist book by Micol Assaël which collects a series of 72 drawings made by the artist starting in 2011 as a reflection on light.
Stéphanie Brossard -
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Réunion
Monographic catalogue based on the project specifically created by Stéphanie Brossard for her native island of La Réunion: a deconstruction of common narratives and a creolisation of forms and thoughts, in a poetic gesture made up of skilful appropriations and wild reimaginings.
Rä di Martino - Afterall (A Space Mambo)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Publication based on the eponymous futuristic / dystopian project of the Italian artist and film-maker.
Sara Enrico - The Jumpsuit Theme
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The series of works developed by Sara Enrico around the concept of the textile jumpsuit.
Bertrand Gauguet - Contre-Courbes (2 CD)
2021
Akousis Records
Two improvised concerts where are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures, appearances of differential sounds, resonances and sometimes some more noisy sequences.
Isabelle Graw - Three Cases of Value Reflection - Ponge, Whitten, Banksy
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term "value reflection", focusing on the artistic production of three individuals—Francis Ponge, Jack Whitten and Banksy.
 Ho Tzu Nyen - G for Gong
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
G for Gong looks at the artistic practice of Singaporean video artist and theater director Ho Tzu Nyen. An extension of the artist's large-scale solo exhibition in 2019, this book not only explores Ho's distinctive artistic approach but also dives deeper into the themes of his work.
Esther Hoareau - Le soleil danse autour de nos têtes
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Réunion
By means of photographs, videos, installations and sound pieces, Esther Hoareau depicts phantasmagorical landscapes which nevertheless share certain appearances and appeal to a truly collective imagination (monograph).
Erling Kagge - Walking - Movements North of Bolzano
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The intersection of walking and collecting.
Stephan Mathieu - Heroin (2 vinyl LP)
2021
Keplar
First vinyl release of the classic album of 2001, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Ilona Németh - Eastern Sugar
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh's extensive research into the history of sugar production in Central Europe, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century.
Mads Emil Nielsen - PM016 (vinyl LP)
2021
Arbitrary
The 2020 remaster & vinyl reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.
Mads Emil Nielsen - PM016 (CD)
2021
Arbitrary
The 2020 remaster & CD reissue of PM016 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen, re-mastered by Kassian Troyer, with cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson.
Mario Pfeifer - If you end up with the story you started with, then you’re not listening along the way
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Mario Pfeifer's most extensive monograph to date.
Liu Xiaodong - New England
2021
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Nero
(last copies available!)
The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.
Francesca Zappia - Les Flâneuses - Copies, appropriations, citations dans la collection du Centre national des arts plastiques
2021
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques (also available in English).
Soldes
2021
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Politiques de la distraction
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A collective and transdisciplinary reflection on the notion of distraction, thought both as the stigma of our societies and as its antidote.
Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art
2021
English edition
Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
Contributions by Milena Solomun, Ben Watson and Jair Rohm Parker Wells, Ghassan Halwani, Doruntina Kastrati, Kaisa Lassinaro, Sezgin Boynik, and Rastko Močnik. Includes as supplement the first translation of Walter Benjamin's text on Lenin, translated and annotated by Esther Leslie.
Kassel Jaeger - MMXX-13 - Vol Sombre (vinyl EP)
2021
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
A subtle expanse of delicate ambiences and long tones, meticulously constructed into an immersive sonorous world.
Jenny Odell - Inhabiting the Negative Space
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
currently out of stock
Artist and writer Jenny Odell speaks about the role of design and observation in a fully virtual commencement ceremony for Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
William J. Simmons - Queer Formalism: The Return
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
currently out of stock
A new kind of queer art writing.
Cybernetics of the Poor
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.
Things We Do Together - The Post-Reader
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A collection of essays and honest conversations with practitioners around collaborative practices, at the intersection of art, education, and activism.
Flash Art - Spring 2021
2021
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
sold out
Helen Marten, Carl Craig, Anne Imhof, Julie Mehretu, Kaspar Müller, Promising Young Woman, Hito Steyerl, Telfar, Grace Wales Bonner...
Jacopo Benassi - FAGS
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
A photo book by Jacopo Benassi that brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist. 
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Stream (vinyl LP)
2021
various
sold out
10 year anniversary edition of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's landmark album originally released in 2010 on TYPE records, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.
 Hematic Sunsets - Aroma Club Adieu (2 vinyl LP)
2021
various
sold out
Asmus Tietchens' Hematic Sunsets shut down the Aroma Club with a final release. The album "Aroma Club Adieu" features 12 exquisite pieces of death lounge electronic pop performed on electronic organs and entertainment devices of various kinds.
Michel Henritzi - Micro Japon
2021
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
Michel Henritzi's collection of interviews provides a rich portrait of the experimental music scene in Japan.
Orietta Lanzarini - The Living Museums - Franco Albini – BBPR – Lina Bo Bardi – Carlo Scarpa
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century.
Giovanna Silva - Roma - Never Walk on Crowded Streets
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The Milanese photographer and long-distance traveler captures the light (and visual contrasts) of Rome while walking through the city.
Ann Böttcher - Works 2000-2020
2021
English edition
Lenz Press
This major monographic publication is the first in-depth study of the oeuvre of Swedish artist Ann Böttcher.
Robin Rimbaud - Staging Silence - Original Film Soundtracks (2 vinyl LP)
2021
Sub Rosa
An exquisite study in dreamlike abstract ambience, a kaleidoscope of sounds and tones that engage the head and the heart.
Carlos Martí Arís - Les variations de l\'identité - Le type en architecture
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
First French translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
Carlos Martí Arís - Variations of Identity - Type in architecture
2021
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
First English translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
Emma Kunz - Penta
2021
no text
Nieves
sold out
A selection of works on paper by Swiss visionary outsider artist and healer Emma Kunz (1892-1963), close to geometric abstraction.
Why Call it Labor? - On Motherhood and Art Work
2021
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Archive Books
sold out
Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.
Swear That You\'ll Play - Chantal Crousel Gallery
2021
English edition
Is-Land
Published on the occasion of the forty-year anniversary of Chantal Crousel Gallery, this extensive publication (more than 700 pages) traces the history of the gallery, a major actor on the contemporary art scene, in France and abroad.
Walter Grasskamp - The Angel Vanishes - Profiles in Postmodern Art
2021
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Four decades of incisive writing about contemporary art, fired by enthusiasm and scepticism alike, by the eminent German cultural critic and commentator Walter Grasskamp (essays on Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Jörg Immendorff, Axel Kasseböhmer, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Karin Kneffel, Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Sarkis, Aldo Walker, Ben Willikens).
Persona Everyware
2021
texts in English and French
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Through a set of artistic proposals and a fictional conversation, this publication explores the ways in which individual and collective identities manifest and reconfigure themselves in the digital age and the health crisis.
Mousse
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Alan Michael, Jesse Wine, Beth Collar, Peter Fend, Tau Lewis, Robin Peckham, McKenzie Wark...
Ultrasanity - On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
2021
English edition
Archive Books
A curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad.
John Armleder - 2/5
2021
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Jörg Binz - Zeichner, Maler
2021
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book is a moving tribute to Jörg Binz's work, a selection from a great many paintings, especially portraits, and from his secret sketchbooks. It contains startling, bizarre, sublime works interspersed with literary and biographical texts that engage in an ongoing conversation with the paintings.
Philip Corner - Deutsche Bundesbahn (vinyl LP)
2021
Edition Telemark
Two previously unreleased recordings from Philip Corner's "Gong/Ear" series of works. Side A was recorded on a South German night train ride in 1990, side B in the Alps in 1994.
Liz Craft - New York & Beyond - 2017-2019
2021
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A selection of recently exhibited works of the Californian artist.
Guillaume Dénervaud - Fumées Sombres
2021
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A series of cutouts from drawings made in graphite on 46 by 61 cm size paper, and which are part of the Fumées Sombres series (2020).
Sylvie Fleury - Bedroom Ensemble II
2021
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A complete study of Sylvie Fleury's installation, a tribute to Claes Oldenburg.
Patricio Gil Flood - Notes pour un glossaire - École du non travail
2021
bilingual edition (Spanish / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective publication implementing the itinerant project of the School of non-work developed by the Geneva-based Argentinian artist Patricio Gil Flood, developed in always different forms, depending on the context where it settles and acts.
Jacques Halbert - Autoportrait
2021
French edition
various
A number of more or less benevolent considerations on the work of Jacques Halbert.
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