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The Feedback Game
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.
Maurice Fréchuret - Aveuglements - Les artistes et la cécité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.
Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Inter - La vie par l\'usage
2025
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Appropriation, occupation, subversion, punning, alternative activation of vacant spaces, creation of spatial, social and temporal interstices, etc., Inter 145 is interested in the material and socio-political dimensions of our relationship with the world, things, spaces and ideas.
Jolanthe Kugler - La cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Bathroom - From hygiene to wellness
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Jolanthe Kugler - The Kitchen - Where function meets pleasure
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
L\'Écologie des choses - Regards sur les artistes japonais et leurs environnements de 1970 à nos jours
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.
Nicola L. - I Am The Last Woman Object
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / German / French / Italian)
Lenz Press
This fully illustrated monograph marks the occasion of the first European survey of Nicola L. (1932–2018).
 Ensemble Dedalus - Music with Changing Parts (2 vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Philip Glass' founding work of minimalism performed by Dedalus Ensemble.
 Ensemble Dedalus - Music with Changing Parts (CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Philip Glass' founding work of minimalism performed by Dedalus Ensemble.
Patrick Nardin - Le Cinéma sans le film - Fantômes du cinéma dans l\'art contemporain
2025
French edition
Naima
Le cinéma sans le film explores the trace of cinema in contemporary artworks that are not films.
Jason Kahn - When Your Way Gets Dark (CD)
2025
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Three pieces by Jason Kahn (voice, acoustic guitar, harmonium) recorded during an artistic residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, on September 13-14, 2023.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes - A Moratorium on New Construction - Critical Spatial Practice 14
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.
Bernard Parmegiani - Lac Noir – La Serpente - 1992 (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992: a monumental piece, originally one component within filmmaker Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's ambitious composite work "Lac Noir", offering crucial access to an important period in Parmegiani's career.
Bernard Parmegiani - Lac Noir – La Serpente - 1992 (CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992: a monumental piece, originally one component within filmmaker Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's ambitious composite work "Lac Noir", offering crucial access to an important period in Parmegiani's career.
Éliane Radigue - Blank Forms - Alien Roots
2025
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms offers an exceptional insight into the work, working methods and thinking of the French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Éliane Radigue, through key texts, a wealth of archival documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays.
Paula Rego - Between Your Teeth
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
A fascinating encounter between two artists from different generations.
Paula Rego - Entre os vossos dentes
2025
Portuguese edition
Lenz Press
A fascinating encounter between two artists from different generations.
Hampus Lindwall - How do I know if my cat likes me? (CD)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
An existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday—corporatized minimalism tinged with cool formalism, structured by the deft deployment of sonic and lyrical repetition.
Hampus Lindwall - How do I know if my cat likes me? (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
An existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday—corporatized minimalism tinged with cool formalism, structured by the deft deployment of sonic and lyrical repetition.
Josephine Berry - Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s): Transmettre aujourd\'hui les gestes, les outils, les pensées, les pratiques
2025
French edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
TAMO
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / French / Arabic / Amazigh)
miscellaneous
Kulte Editions
A multilingual, feminist and original publication edited by Kulte Éditions in Morocco, TAMO, a journal where art, history and contemporary issues intertwine, unashamedly thinks, discusses, criticizes, promotes and denounces.
 Macle - Le Nouveau Printemps 2025 - Toulouse : Saint-Sernin, Arnaud-Bernard
2025
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Constellation
A collection of photographs and interviews in the form of a journal, documenting the exploration of the Saint-Sernin and Arnaud-Bernard districts of Toulouse (France), which were invested as part of the third edition of the contemporary creation festival Le Nouveau Printemps 2025.
Quand l\'art abolit les frontières - Château d\'Oiron (DVD)
2025
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Quand l'art... (DVD)
This film by Véronique Godé and Damien Faure, narrated by Charles Berling, depicts the dialogue between contemporary art and heritage within the Château d'Oiron (Centre des monuments nationaux, located in the Deux-Sèvres department, in Poitou), where Jean-Hubert Martin has created a cabinet of curiosities based on works from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques.
Eco-operations
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse.
Space is the place
2025
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
As an extension of the Art Explora Festival organized in Tangier and Rabat, this publication presents the reflections of a selection of contributors invited to explore the theme of myth and its various manifestations through specific narratives and contexts, beyond Mediterranean borders.
Artforum - May 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
"Project a Black Planet", Gustave Caillebotte, Anne Imhof, Mel Bochner...
Agora - La place du musée
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
An exhibition catalogue and a review of all the mediation, residency and circulation activities at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco... with some fifty stickers to choose from and stick on.
Errant Sound Reader - Thoughts and Practices from the Berlin Artist-Run Space
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
Critical insight onto creative methods and discourses central to the field of sound art.
Afrosonica - Soundscapes
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
Based on a collective research initiative and exhibition, the book Afrosonica offers a reflection on African and Afro-diasporic sound, published in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.
LSD - A manga issue
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
The fourth issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center), under the sign of Japan.
Alphabet Magazine
2025
English edition
Alphabet
The second issue of the magazine made by artists, founded by Donatien Grau and Thomas Lenthal : contributions by Michael Amzalag, Laurie Anderson, Marisa Berenson, Marco Brambilla, Phong Bui, Joshua Cohen, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Diller, Lina Ghotmeh, Romeo Gigli, Emily Greenhouse, Daniel Humm, Miranda July, Na Kim, Glenn Ligon, José Tolentino Mendonça, Jill Mulleady, Federico Nicolao, Rick Owens, Peter Saville, Luigi Serafini, Maria Stepanova, Hito Steyerl, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bénédicte Savoy / Francesco Vezzoli, Sarah Sze, Kulapat Yantrasast, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Abécédaire of Fringes
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
The outcome of the artist residency promoted by Fondazione Crespo, which took place on the Irish coast of West Cork, "Abécédaire of Fringes" collects the contributions of Lorenzo Rebediani, Vera Scaccabarozzi, Luca Trevisani, and Francesca Verga.
 7038634357 - Waterfall Horizon (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357's second album with Blank Forms Editions, written for live performance and workshopped over successive shows during a 2022 tour: hallmarks of the artist's prior, studio-crafted recordings—slow-burning ambience and obfuscating digital distortion—are pared back, revealing borderline pop inflections.
Mohammed Alresayes - Between Forms
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A selection of works by the Saudi artist that center on mud-brick houses, their central courtyards, and distinctive elements—drawing on a personal archive of memory and place—as well as scenes of traditional Bedouin life.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (CD)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Tolia Astakhishvili - To love and devour
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
Artist's book.
Jessica Backsell - Provoking the Freeport Magic - Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Experiments in Art and Capitalism
How practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.
Natasha Barrett - Toxic Colour (CD)
2025
Persistence of Sound
A new collection of pieces originating from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones, deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract, deterritorialized musical journeys.
Philip Guston - Ten Drawings
2025
no text
Nieves
Ten drawings by the American painter.
Khaleel Hassan Khaleel - The Whisper of Dreams
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory works by the Saudi artist that invite into a dreamlike realm where reality and imagination blur.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There
2025
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
Every page of Here and There Vol.1 – Vol.13.5 in a single volume.
Éric La Casa - Contrefaçons (CD)
2025
Swarming
For their first collaboration, Marc Baron and Éric La Casa decided to examine representation from the angle of "counterfeiting", in order to think about our relationship to recording and the archive. It's a question of countering the way we fix reality, as if to get rid of all realism.
Frantz Loriot - Musique improvisée et questions politiques
2025
French edition
Bruit
Two figures of adventurous and creative music discuss the relationship between improvised music and socio-political practices, through the prism of anarchist thought.
 MBL architectes - Impasse des Lilas
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL.
Philippe Parreno - Voices
2025
English edition
M/M (Paris)
A landmark retrospective.
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