search results for "the contemporary condition"
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A post-colonial
pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming
Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
2019
quadrilingual edition (English / German / Greek / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Since 2016, choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been collecting the practices of Europeans. Taking to the streets and pathways of Athens, Aubervilliers, Essen, Guissény, Nyon, and Poitiers, she has gathered nearly 600 unique stories. This compilation testifies to the familiarity and diversity of habits, of rituals, and of trades that compose and distinguish these territories.
2019
English edition
Punch
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A collection of texts, notes and drawings from Alina Popa (1982-2019),
edited as a tribute publication by her longtime accomplice, the artist Florin
Flueras. A political and theoretical work that questioned
both the intimate and social mechanisms of the contemporary.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the project A Collective
Memory by Azin Feizabadi—a series of five narrative films—this
publication features fictions by guest contributors who were asked to expand
on their viewing experience of one of the films in the Collective Memory
series.
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the young American painter, whose expressive and colorful universe draws on the everyday life in the margins, from bohemians to non-conformists. The publication also
presents the Gray's theatrical works and associates the artist's two
practices.
2019
English edition
Punch
Artist's book.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Monograph dedicated to the films of the Israeli artist Assaf Gruber.
Articulated around eight conversations related to the films' production,
this publication reflects an important theme in Gruber's work: what effects
can art have on individuals far removed from the artistic field.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph dedicated to artist Brittany Nelson, who appropriates
techniques from 19th century photography to create works of feminist science fiction and queer abstraction.
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue
documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder
Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous
space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
2019
English edition
Loevenbruck
Reference monograph on the singularly radical work of Michel Parmentier—an important addition to the history of painting in the second half of the 20th century.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Présent composé
currently out of stock
This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment.
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
A compilation of string compositions and collages
by multimedia artist and composer Milan Knížák, performed by the fama Q
string quartet.
2019
English edition
Punch
Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football
from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology,
art, contemporary dance, architecture,
economics, politics...).
This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues,
published between 2015-2017.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CQFD
Twenty multidisciplinary texts and artistic proposals to re-examine our relationship to the natural world.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
What can it mean to return home? Inspired by author Georges Perec's Espèces
d'espaces and artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson's House Project,
this catalogue brings together international artists to investigate the
various facets of coming home.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Second Yinchuan Biennale articulates itself through
the themes of the desert, nomadism, and ecology. Taking the
form of an illustrated atlas, the publication documents works by more than
90 participating artists.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the
archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an
artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the
reclamation of the water system.
2019
English edition
Mount Analogue
This monograph documents a research on an abandonned site of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). For his investigation,
artist Henrik Andersson relied on various public archives as well as on
the FOI's astonishing art collection.
2019
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.
2019
Sub Rosa
An intimate audio archive of the British novelist, coupled with a
18-track sonic portrait of Burgess by invited artists and musicians.
2019
Sub Rosa
22.00 18.00 €
An intimate audio archive of the British novelist, coupled with a
18-track sonic portrait of Burgess by invited artists and musicians.
2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A compilation of texts, poems and stories whose title is borrowed from the
safe words used in BDSM practices.
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the
Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
29.00 15.00 €
A comprehensive documentation on Ruth Ewan's installation at CAPC, a tangible plastic version of the revolutionary calendar.
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.
2019
Second Editions
22.00 16.50 €
This new album by the American cellist offers an appreciation of her
talents as both a composer and performer, in a unique and elegant style
reflecting her many inspirations, from baroque music to Americana and
experimental music.
2019
French edition
Archive Books
This publication is the result of a research project led by artists Raphaël
Grisey and Bouba Touré around the archives
of the self-organized agricultural cooperative Somankidi Coura, in Mali. A
historical reflection on agricultural, archival, health, and migratory
issues through a decolonial
perspective.
2019
no text
Nieves
A series of colorful invented landscapes, by American painter
Shara Hughes.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First retrospective monograph overviewing the Danish video
artist's body of works for over a decade.
2019
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.
2019
Sub Rosa
Cloud Atlas is a collection of 10 short pieces composed by Toshi
Ichiyanaghi between 1985 to 1999. Vertical Study gathers rare
pieces composed by Claude Ledoux. Both are performed by Japanese pianist
Kaoru Tashiro.
2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
An interpretative study of a catalogue published on the occasion of the
discovery of two sculptures in the canal of Livorno in 1984. Attributed to
Modigliani, these sculptures were, in fact, a student hoax.
2019
Mount Analogue
A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual
artists, including Martha Rosler,
Art & Language, Andrea
Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol
LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne
Rainer.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cura. - Cura.books
The catalogue of the eponymous exhibition by Caroline Mesquita,
published on the occasion of her Fondation Ricard Prize. The French artist
works primarily with metal, creating sculptures and staged video with strong
narratives.
2019
English edition (texts in English, Sami, Arabic, Spanish)
Archive Books
This catalogue explores how miracle making—making the impossible
possible—is reflected in artistic practices today. It includes
commissioned essays and poetry by the Miracle Workers Collective and
writers close to the collective (catalogue of the exhibition at the
Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue for Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, reveals the artworks presented in the exhibition.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a
Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in
outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation
of the public space, saw
the development of a series of inhabitable environmental
installations.
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five
boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set
of maps and a series of texts.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The second in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to
archival practices, Culture is Our Business offers a comparative
case study on the archival policies of a commercial agency and a
non-profit independent organization through the example of a 1919
image by photographer Willy Römer.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The fourth in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to
archival practices, Dear Jadwa draws on a photographic archive from the Wadi Ara
Valley in Israel to reflect on how visual archives can shed light on
forgotten stories.
2019
various
Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound
installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.
2019
no text
Nieves
A collection of colorful paintings inspired by science
fiction and classical Antiquity. A prequel to the
artist's ongoing Megalith series of publications that acts as a
PH sample of his broader painting, collage, and print studio practice.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of an iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on what she calls “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator, such as a tool, an instrument, an architecture, a system, etc.—and that the modern man has relentlessly improved with the purpose of anticipating potential dangers.
2019
Sub Rosa
Available for the first time outside Japan, another epic album of symphonic
schizophrenic avant-rock from legendary band Univers Zéro (limited marbled vinyl edition).
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present
situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe
and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and
lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of
borders.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of
the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
2019
Sub Rosa
These recordings performed by pianist Philip Thomas reveal Wolff as a
composer fully exploring, in different ways, the continuum between music
which is highly fragmented, embracing extended silences—composed or
indeterminate—to that which is more progressive and seemingly driven,
albeit taking in disarming and unconventional routes.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on
gentrification in the city of Berlin.
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.
2019
English edition
Artforum
This November in Artforum Bruce Hainley on Pierre Bonnard, Domenick Ammirati on the art of Georgia Sagri, Declan Long on Derek Jarman, and Natasha Stagg on Anicka Yi. Plus, exhibition reviews from Milan, Berlin, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Dubai, and more.