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Dan Graham - Architecture / Astrologie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMiles PaperAldridge
2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Moving Landscapes
2025
English edition
Jeu de Paume
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
Décor - Contrefeu
2025
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.
Artforum - January 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Denzil Forrester, Sophie Calle, "The Imaginary Institution of India", PST ART, Bill Viola...
Revue & Corrigée
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
John Armleder - Autobiography
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
Denise Bertschi - Export Quality Poetry (1924–2024)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - In girum imus nocte
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.
Harun Farocki - About Narration - Materials, Comments, Interventions
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
Alain Gunst - Pourquoi peindre
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
Natalie Häusler - Corals
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Grégoire Motte - Witloof & Witty
2025
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Portées
A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Nicolas Trembley - My Craft - Entretien avec Véronique Bacchetta sur l\'exposition, l\'artisanat, l\'art, les hiérarchies culturelles et les typologies
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.
Edoardo Tresoldi - Monumento
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Documentation on sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi's permanent monumental installation in Venice's Procuratie Vecchie.
 Truwant + Rodet + - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Louis Ucciani - Avant-garde et contre culture
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Lentil Space - Recipes from Artists\' Homes
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.
Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
currently out of stock
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Anna Colin - Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs - De l\'utopie à l\'institutionnalisation
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
currently out of stock
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
2025
English edition
Bierke
currently out of stock
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Paysages mouvants
2025
French edition
Jeu de Paume
sold out
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Hélène Bellenger - Bianco Ordinario
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Editions de l'Observeur
An archaeology of the imagination / a new aesthetic of ruin (a sophisticated artist's edition in a box, inspired by the over-exploitation of Carrara marble quarries).
Maruja Mallo - Mask and Compass / Máscara y Compás
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This Side Up
sold out
Reference monograph of the Surrealist painter, one of the most important women artist in Spain in the 20th century.
The Contemporary Condition - Challenging Institutionalization – A propositional Toolkit for doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research 
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.
Eulàlia Grau - Etnografias - Collages
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
A panorama of the “ethnographic” collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, providing a visual dissection that criticizes capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression.
Jagna Ciuchta - Dilated I, Liquid Images and Carnivorous Plants
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Jagna Ciuchta's first monograph reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of the artist's work.
Clara Levy - Outre-Nuit (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
Clara Levy perofms Giacinto Scelsi, Kaija Saariaho, Erika Vega and Eva-Maria Houben.
Patrick Bouchain - La parole visible
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.
Alex Coles - Fusion! - From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.
Fiamma Montezemolo - Hidden in Plain Sight
2024
English edition
Nero
A publication tracing the itinerary of Fiamma Montezemolo's anthropological and artistic research, across Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
Dawit L. Petros - Prospetto a Mare
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The latest chapter of Eritrea-born artist Dawit L. Petros's long-term investigation of the impact of Italian colonialism and its subsequent imprint on the visual cultures, populations and built environments of Africa, Europe and North America.
Gretta Sarfaty -
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
various
First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.
Cally Spooner - A Hypothesis of Resistance
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration.
Ahmed Essyad - Moroccan Electroacoustic Music 1972-74 (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Ahmed Essyad - Moroccan Electroacoustic Music 1972-74 (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
e-flux Index
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.
Colorescenze - Artiste, Toscana, Futuro
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A publication about twelve women artists in Tuscany and their alternative ways of making art, departing from dominant, male-centered models to embrace regenerative practices and transformative imaginaries.
Artforum - December 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2024: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.
Festina Lente
2024
French edition
Festina Lente
The second issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.
Semaine 2018-2024 – La chapelle – espace d\'art contemporain - Le monde comme il va
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
The 22 exhibitions programmed by Philippe Piguet at La chapelle de la Visitation art center in Thonon-les-Bains since 2018, in 400 pages.
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