search results for "the contemporary condition"
2026
English 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.
2026
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
2026
English 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.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Gabriele Basilico's photographs dedicated to Aldo Rossi's architecture, brought together for the first time.
2026
no text
United Dead Artists
This hardcover book documents Stéphane Blanquet's Kugelberg-Welander installation at the Halle Saint-Pierre through close-up photographs by Zoé Forget, depicting the artist and his illness.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Zolo Press
This book documents 4 years of an ongoing project which
the Tokyo-based collaborative artist unit C&K have realized in collaboration with the Otsuka (Tokyo) based commercial gallery, MISAKO & ROSEN.
2026
French edition
Naima
Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
A retrospective of a deeply prolific and fruitful period in Huguette Caland's career, spent in Paris between 1970 and 1987, during which the Lebanese artist, giving birth to her joyful eroticism and freeing herself from all conventions, reinvented herself and produced some of her greatest masterpieces.
2026
no text
Nieves
Ken Kagami creates distorted portraits by combining Bart Simpson with Sesame Street characters Elmo and Cookie Monster, in a tiny artist's book.
2026
Editions (Jason Kahn)
A graphic score reinterpreted and revisited fourteen years after its creation by Jason Kahn, back in Seoul.
2026
English edition
Reliable Copy
The first extensive monograph on the Thai artist.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
An original project by the Italian artist that brings art and science into dialogue by exploring "non-optical images" (the visual processes through which the human brain forms mental images using all the senses except direct sight).
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.
2026
French edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.
2026
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.
2026
English edition
Artforum
Carol Bove by Gordon Hughes, Defining Central Asia by Anel Rakhimzhanova, Inga Lāce and Joan Kee, Margarita Paksa by Daniel R. Quiles, Recursive Resemblance
by Patrick R. Crowley, Tschabalala Self, Charline von Heyl...
2026
French edition (texts in English)
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ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive and detailed overview of the institutions and dynamics that shape Basel's cultural landscape.
2026
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Luc Tuymans, Clémentine Bruno, Cairo Dipika, Elizabeth Englander, Raque Ford, Adam Gordon, Dustin Hodges, Anne Imhof, Nancy Lupo, Sara MacKillop, Kaare Ruud, Mary Stephenson, Gili Tal...
2026
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
Victoire Mangez, Erik Dietman, Armineh Neghadari, Françoise Pétrovitch, Laure Pigeon, special feature on artists' connections to children's drawings (Danielle Orhan, Sarah Tritz, Petrit Halilaj, Emmanuel Pernoud, Ramuntcho Matta, Pascal Convert), Hipkiss, Camille Chastang, Vanessa Dziuba, Katerina Christidi, Grégory Cuquel...
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First personnal catalogue of the Ghanaian artist and preacher Kwame Akoto (Almighty God).
2026
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
A performative research-creation project by Emmanuelle Becquemin.
2026
English edition
Zolo Press
First monograph.
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / Chinese)
Archive Books
New monograph.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
A book presenting for the first time the reverse sides of artist Dominique De Beir's works, revealing the exploration that went into giving shape to the drawings.
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
New monograph.
2026
English edition
Zolo Press
David Gilbert's first monograph covers more than a decade of the artist practice and gathers 114 photographs and an essay by writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first monograph dedicated to the American artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019).
2026
French edition
Naima
André Guenoun's photographic works .
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph dedicated to the practice of the South Korean-German artist, painted works that articulate her visions in ever more expansive formats since 2012.
2026
Swarming
Two masters of field recording, and great promoters of paying attention to reality through listening, share recordings of their sound world (starting from a domestic environment changed by the arrival of a new electric stove).
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.
2026
no text
La Salle de bains
Artist's book.
2026
Arabic edition
Kayfa ta
A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.
2026
English edition
Kayfa ta
A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.
2026
French edition
Naima
The artist's book of poems.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A reflection on the practice of designer, graphic artist, and publisher Manuel Raeder.
2026
English edition
Bruno
currently out of stock
Why do we buy more books than we read?
2026
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Publishing a selection of her radiophonic essays here for the first time, I Speak Radio reflects Anne Bromley's collaborative radio practice.
2026
Montagne Noire / GMEA
currently out of stock
A solo improvisation and composition by Lionel Garcin (on soprano saxophone) inspired by listening to natural environments and built on exploring the harmonic possibilities of the instrument.
2026
English edition
MER. Books
currently out of stock
First comprehensive monograph on American artist Ann Leda Shapiro (b. 1946), including previously censored and rarely seen works, contextualized within feminist art histories.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.
2026
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa revisits a sequence of Morocco's cultural history: the encounter of two anthropologists and the intersecting history of their approaches to popular and traditional art objects.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zzz
An immersion in the flow of language, words, and images within David Douard's work.
2026
English edition
Tonini Editore - Taccuini d'architettura
Third issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studiospazio.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos engages in a dialogue with the city of Rome, the world of haute couture, and the work and legacy of Valentino (1932-2026).
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Espace art actuel # 142, focusing on the theme of "prophecies" in contemporary artistic practices.
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The guide and extension of the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2026), featuring 67 international artists.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The definitive publication on Carl Cheng's genre-defying work.