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 Atelier E.B - Atelier E.B 2026 Calendar
2025
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Bierke
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
The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.
Guillaume Belhomme - Une minute, une seule - Philip Guston / Morton Feldman
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.
Giasco Bertoli - Locations, New York
2025
English edition
Éditions 7L
Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.
Virginie Bobin - Désapprendre en traduisant - Une pratique critique et collective
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
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
For over 20 years, the author kept in a drawer the little pieces of paper on which he noted things to do. "Mesmots" carry the archives of his life.
George Condo -
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Jacques Demierre - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
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)
(last copies available!)
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
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.
Pier Geering - El Presidente - Confessions d\'un artiste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).
Alexandre Gérard - J. voit double
2025
French edition
Naima
In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Henry Kaiser - The Wolf at the Door (2 CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
A 2-CD collaborative album between Californian guitarist Henry Kaiser and Czech musician and composer P.ST.
Éric La Casa - Off Tracks (CD)
2025
Erstwhile Records
A meditation on absence, decay, and the spectral traces left behind in emptied architectural spaces.
Violaine Lochu - Inventaire Langages
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.
 Narthex - Superstitions (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).
Silke Otto-Knapp - Bühnenbilder
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Comprehensive monograph on Silke Otto-Knapp's late work.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - In Touch - Encounters between Art and Research
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.
Caroline Schattling Villeval - No Kids, More Coke!
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
Sandy Skoglund - Enchanting Nature
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Retrospective monograph.
Paul Spengemann - Spin jump crawl climb dream bite hunt
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book.
Anup Mathew Thomas - Native ball
2025
bilingual edition (English / Malayalam)
Reliable Copy
"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.
Faire – To look at things - An award: What is a most beautiful book?
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.
Jocaste
2025
French edition
Jocaste
Empire - Jocaste
The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.
 Nurse With Wound - Le diamant de l\'herbe (book + CD)
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.
Richard Martel - Art et poésie d\'action, intervention, performance - Théorie et pratique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
Un art de la réparation - Réparer (par) les arts vivants
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
Amitiés - Mélanges en l\'honneur de Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
Steven Stapleton - The Formless Irregular
2025
English edition
Timeless
sold out
The definitive Babs Santini book: the complete graphic work of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), covering his entire visual output over five decades, on nearly 600 color pages.
Yngve Holen - 6G
2025
no text
Lenz Press
An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.
Salomé Lamas - Gold and Ashes
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.
Béatrice Balcou - Porteurs
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
John Baldessari - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.
Rossella Biscotti - The Trial
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.
Michele Di Stefano - L\'altro Hotel (vinyl LP)
2025
Xing
L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.
Piero Golia - Follies
2025
English edition
Nero
An artist's book of images and words—an exploration of Piero Golia's imagery and an articulation of his personal understanding of art.
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.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Le Portique - Conférences inédites – Dieu sans confession, la technique et le postmoderne
2025
French edition
Le Portique
Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy
Laure Prouvost - Au fort les âmes sont
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mucem
Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.
Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
Yannick Butel - Le Gai Théâtre – Pour un théâtre de la contre-addiction - Essai d\'histoire sociale et politique du phénomène théâtral contemporain
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante
A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.
Emmanuel Adely - Trois contes et quelques
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A resolutely contemporary author, Emmanuel Adely revisits the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm and brings them up to date with his lively, sharp writing.
Les Cahiers du son 2025
2025
French edition
Naima
Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
Investigation into data centers in Marseille; the birth and death of international law in Nuremberg; behind the scenes of news reporting in Syria; inside the mind of a fascist woman with Hélène Frappat; interview with Joris Lacoste...
As the Sun Appears from Beyond - Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An exploration of artistic expression rooted in the diverse traditions of Islamic art and culture.
Artforum - September 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Mungo Thomson (by Jan Tumlir), Yuk Hui (by Daniel Birnbaum), Ali Eyal (by Andrew Berardini), Agnieszka Kurant (by Christy Lange)...
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