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Leila Orth - We as water
2025
English edition
Archive Books
German artist Leila Orth deals with the question of what places of remembrance there are and can be.
Sam Porritt - Album
2025
no text
Nieves
An artist's book composed of six loose A3 sheets, folded in half and assembled at random, which can be taken apart and framed, and which together form an anthology of Sam Porritt's drawings of the last twenty years.
Gina Proenza - o a  o a
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Retrospective monograph / artist's book.
Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan
2025
English edition
Archive Books
This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.
Grégoire Romanet - Under my hat
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ROBO BOOKS
The first issue in a collection of typographic specimens, each inviting a designer to create a fictional story around one of their typefaces, this volume is by Grégoire Romanet, who has repurposed 18th-century Texas Cattle Brand symbols to create a typeface.
Jim Shaw - The End Really is Here!
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
American surrealism meets popular culture meets political criticism: Jim Shaw's obsessive series of drawings devoted to Donald Trump.
Davide Stucchi - Light Lights
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive documentation of the Italian artist's latest works, in which he playfully explores the theme of light.
Natália Trejbalová - Never Ground
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book composed of fragments of texts from different eras and contexts—literary, science fiction, philosophical, scientific—all centered on the theme of the subterranean.
Emi Ueoka - Intersections
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of pencil drawings by Japanese artist Emi Ueoka depicting youth in their everyday urban environment.
 Yang Yong -
2025
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A monumental retrospective spanning over 1,000 pages of the Chinese artist's creative practice from 1996 to 2025, organizing his thirty-year journey into six chapters, each covering a five-year period.
 Dr Lakra - Coloring Book
2025
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.
Destination: Tashkent - Experiences of Cinematic Internationalism
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The legacy and posterity of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which was held between 1968 and 1988 in Uzbekistan.
Melvin Edwards - Echoes of the Weld
2025
English edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
currently out of stock
An intimate exploration and meditation on Melvin Edwards' work (a zine produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop).
Fred Frith - Nature (CD)
2025
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
The meeting between Fred Frith's guitar strings and percussionist Karen Stackpole's gongs.
 Le Nemesiache - Reclaiming Mythological Rituals
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.
Jean Schwarz - Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002) (vinyl LP)
2025
Transversales Disques
currently out of stock
This compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Jean Schwarz's personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the dance, screen or the performing arts.
Instituting - Space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond
2025
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.
Archivio - The Tech Issue
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
sold out
A mapping of the international landscape of technological archives.
Luïza Luz - Beneath the Surface
2025
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.
 Chen Fei - Grand Lobby
2025
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.
Margherita Manzelli - Le Signorine
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
A wide selection of paintings and drawings by Margherita Manzelli from the 1990s to the present day.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.
Amelia Cuni - Melopea (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
Two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches.
Thomas Ankersmit - The Dip (vinyl LP)
2025
Students Of Decay
Comprised of two expansive, sidelong pieces composed entirely on the Serge Modular synthesizer, The Dip signals a subtle yet significant shift in the Berlin-based artist and composer Thomas Ankersmit's trajectory, imbuing the hyper-physical, psychoacoustic intensities of his live performances with introspective, atmospheric, and even melodic elements.
David Dubois - En mouvement
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.
Magali Reus - Our Volumes
2025
English edition
MER. Books
A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.
Magali Reus - 27
2025
English edition
MER. Books
27 features 27 recent works from two series titled Clementine and Merlin (2023–24) by London-based artist Magali Reus. This book, in its beautifully crafted materiality, format and typography, mimics a diary or romantic novel.
Jérôme Game - Intr/ansitif - Poétique de l\'interstice
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
Global Conversations - Mexico
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.
Radicale24
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.
Lucid Reverie - Panorama of Portuguese Contemporary Art
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of the most significant contemporary practices by Portuguese or Portugal-based artists.
Incompiuto - The Birth of a Style
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.
Azimuts - Graphisme(s): Transmitting gestures, tools, thoughts and practices today
2025
English edition
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.
Liliane Giraudon - Fragments polyphoniques
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
Afterwards - Art in the Time of Change
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A collection of essays and interviews reflecting on the future through the lens of artistic thought and action.
Optically Suspicious
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Edited, designed and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book is the first in the Tehnika series and is based on research into the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 30s.
Neural - Reorientations
2025
English edition
Neural
Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.
L\'Invention du quotidien
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
Taking its title from the seminal book by the priest, philosopher, and historian Michel de Certeau, this publication, which accompanies the eponymous Capc exhibition, bears witness to unique ways of being in the world through the transformation of materials, tools, and everyday practices, inscribed directly onto the pages of a regional daily newspaper.
Magma - Archive of the Future
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.
Cura. - Blackout
2025
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Nadya Tolokonnikova, R.I.P. Germain, Petra Cortright, Sophia Al-Maria, Aleksandra Domanović, Dennis Cooper, Philippa Snow, Banks Violette, Simon Denny & Hito Steyerl, Cory Arcangel & Maya Man, Diego Marcon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, LuYang, Florentina Holzinger, Candela Capitán, Steffani Jemison, Charmaine Poh...
Artforum - November 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Ayoung Kim, Tom Lloyd, Karimah Ashadu, Photography's Materialities (roundtable and portfolios), Rosemarie Trockel, Amie Siegel...
Mousse
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Andrew Berardini on Artificial Intelligence; Pepón Osorio; Arash Nassiri; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Marcela Guerrero speaks with C. Ondine Chavoya; Daisy Lafarge; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Davide Stucchi speaks with Alex Bennett; Luca Lo Pinto on Hanuman Editions; Reynaldo Rivera & Abdellah Taïa; Jungle Books...
Le musée ne suffit pas (No. 10–14)
2025
French edition
Lenz Press
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
The Listening Biennial Reader - Vol. 2: Infralistening
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
Listening as a means of building community and knowledge.
Violent Images
2025
English edition
Nero
Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).
Myrna Ayad - Alcove - Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists Vol. II
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.
Antonio Beato - Ritorno a Venezia
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
This volume explores the life and work of Antonio Beato (c. 1835–1905), aiming to address the gaps in existing scholarship on this remarkable photographer. It highlights his distinctive body of work, his role in nineteenth-century photography, and the significance of his images in documenting the Middle East.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.
Marco Cassani -
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.
Adriano Costa - Works A—Z
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
This unprecedented catalogue collects over 300 pieces reated by Adriano Costa over three decades, listed in alphabetical order—titles are a key part of Costa's works—, alongside new writing by Fernanda Brenner and Milovan Farronato, two critics who have long followed and championed the artist's practice.
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