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Johana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Heads Together - Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, revealing the porosity between art and poetry.
 General Idea - Ecce Homo
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The General Idea drawings.
William Leavitt - Installations, Plays, Video - 1970-2018
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A retrospective overview of the work of a pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles
Armando Alleyne - A Few of My Favorites
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.
Denise Bertschi - State Fiction - The Gaze of the Swiss Neutral Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
sold out
The artist Denise Bertschi highlights the little-known Swiss presence between the two Koreas in the aftermath of the war in 1953, and questions the supposed neutrality of the country.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 09 (#31, 32, 33, 34)
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Yana Wernicke - Zenker
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.
 Bastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard - La Période Molle
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nieves
sold out
The iconic everyday objects, “soft” sculptures, ceramic pieces and collages by the Swiss duo.
Teo Schifferli - 2/5
2021
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
 Veli & Amos - This is not a commercial - Billboard/Billding
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Artists' book.
Elisabeth Wild - Fantasías
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monograph showcases Elisabeth Wild's kaleidoscopic and vibrantly colored collages titled Fantasías.
Sympathie
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
The catalogue / temporal synthesis of the evolutionary and challenging exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel.
Rob van Leijsen - Copy, Tweak, Paste - Methods of appropriation in re-enacted artists\' books
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
sold out
An essay on the modes of re-enactments, appropriation or reinterpretations of artists' books.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 06 (#19, 20, 21)
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 19 to 21 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Roger Eberhard - Human Territoriality
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of photographs of former border regions around the globe and down through the course of human history.
Mimi von Moos - Die Verwandte - Aus dem fotografischen Nachlass der Anne-Marie von Wolff
2020
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication brings together a selection of family photos taken between the 1930s and 1950s by amateur photographer Anne-Marie von Wolff. A fascinating, powerful work, brought to light by her great-grandniece, artist Mimi von Moos.
The Museum Is Not Enough
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
Olivier Suter - Children
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of photographs of children who grew up to become famous in a variety of fields, from literature to arts, sports, politics, and even crime. A photographic “Guess Who” of the 20th century in the making.
Our Happy Life - Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
Our Happy Life investigates the architectural implications of the new happiness emotional paradigm by dissecting and questioning the political, economic, and emotional conditions that generate space today.
Alex Hanimann - Etwas fehlt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book: a catalogue of Alex Hanimann's photographic explorations over the past twelve years, with interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist and two essays.
Veronika Minder - Alfred Jonathan Steffen - Art Décor
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
brings back to life the forgotten art of window-dressing, through an artistic and intimate portrtait of window-dresser Bob Steffen.
Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks
2017
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.
Shirana Shahbazi - First Things First
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - Continental Drift
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
(last copies available!)
Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.
Arno Brandlhuber - Legislating Architecture Schweiz
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
Matt Mullican - Rubbings - Catalogue – 1984-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).
Female Chic
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Albert Oehlen - In der Wohnung
2015
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
(last copies available!)
Albert Oehlen's collages (artist's book): a spatial and temporal journey into the tradition of artistic representations of domestic interiors, from the great names of art history to the artist's own works.
Eric Bachmann - Muhammad Ali, Zurich, 26.12.1971
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich, covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.
Thomas Ruff - Zeitungsfotos - Newspaper Photographs
2014
English edition
various
Artist's book.
Atrocity Exhibition Archive Paradoxe - Déambulations dans La Foire aux atrocités
2014
French edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A guide for J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, between human sciences and science fiction, between the history of art and the medicine including reproductions of 20s pulps and of 60s independent magazines.
Ashley Bickerton - Susie
2014
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first monographic close reading of Ashley Bickerton's influential early work (texts by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Bob Nickas, Thomas Lawson, John C. Welchman...).
Carl Andre - Poems
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Carl Andre's poems (retrospective monograph).
The Rendering Eye - Urban America Revisited
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of images of the urban United States based on 3D screenshots taken from Apple Maps, by Regula Bochsler.
Pierre Schwerzmann -
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Boabooks
Artist's book.
Pierrette Bloch -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective monograph: the first complete publication dedicated to Pierrette Bloch' practice from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Robby Müller - Cinematography
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The art of filming.
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - Drawing
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Bouroullecs' drawing practice.
Keiichi Tanaami - No More War
2013
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.
David Maljković - Sources in the Air
2012
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Piero Gilardi -
2012
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the pioneer of Arte Povera, inventor of a “relational aesthetics” in the 1960s, political activist, and advocate of an ecologically concerned undertaking in the visual arts
Fernand Baudin Prize 2011
2012
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
various
9.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia.
 FLAG (Sébastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard) - In the Beginning it was Humid
2012
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A broad selection of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard's ceramic works.
Benjamin Sommerhalder - Ghost Knigi
2011
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.
Wade Guyton - Black Paintings
2011
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book: Wade Guyton brings his conception of painting and its reproducibility to the book format.
Jürg Lehni - Empty Words
2011
no text
Nieves
sold out
Artists' book.
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