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Anna Colin - Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs - De l\'utopie à l\'institutionnalisation
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
restocking in progress
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.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
currently out of stock
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.
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).
 Untitled Noise - Decay Music n.8 - I Hate All the Words (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
sold out
"I hate all the words" by Luca Scarabelli and Michele Lombardelli's Untitled Noise, the eight instalments in the celebrated Die Schachtel's "Decay music" series, is a concept album composed of three tracks designed to explore the remote and hidden depths of psyche.
On a wildflower lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare…
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / Arabic / Greek / Turkish)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Musafiri - Of Travellers and Guests
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.
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.
Instituting - Space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.
Damir Avdagić - Transmissions
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
First monograph.
Chipo Chipaziwa - My Mother, My Home - Archiving Presence with/in Absence
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.
Alessandra Ferrini - Like Swarming Maggots - Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.
Vlatka Horvat - By the Means at Hand
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.
Luïza Luz - Beneath the Surface
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.
Yon Natalie Mik - Studies on Squats
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.
Margherita Moscardini - Metropolitan Voids Agency
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.
Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan
2025
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
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.
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 (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
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 (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.
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.
Residencies Reflected
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.
Echoing the Land
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Catalog of an exhibition that presents the discourse and developments in the arts of Saudi Arabia that took place between 1959 and the 1980s, highlighting a group of Saudi artists who contributed to shaping the identity of the local art movement.
Flash Art - Winter 2024-25 – Post-Desire Land
2024
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Tom Burr, Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin, Brett Ginsburg, Coumba Samba, Matthew Barney, Gordon Matta-Clark; Laura Orozco, Jasmine Gregory, Maren Karlson, Elaine Cameron-Weir, B. Ingrid Olson, David L. Johnson, Nina Hartmann...
Mouvement
2024
French edition
Mouvement
Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...
Spike - The Post-Cool
2024
English edition
Spike
Spike is turning twenty with a special double issue.
Luvah - Mode
2024
French edition
Luvah
The cross-generational literary journal Luvah continues its comeback with an eclectic mix of fashion-related offerings.
Taha Alsabban - Muse\'s Reverie
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.
Leonor Antunes - The constant inequality of Leonor\'s days*
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Calendrier 2025
2024
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.
Jean-Yves Bosseur - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
2024
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Elisa Caldana - The Falcon of Karachi
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Elisa Caldana's The Falcon of Karachi investigates stories of the laggar falcon, a species endemic to Pakistan, India, and Myanmar that is slowly disappearing in the wild.
Francesco Cavaliere - I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite (vinyl LP)
2024
Xing
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.
Radu Comșa -
2024
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the vast production of the Romanian artist Radu Comșa.
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