Contemporary art

Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside.

Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.

The first in a series of four books in children's book format, composed as a series of tragic children's stories that Jérôme Zonder knows so well how to write and draw.

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.

A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of artist Hiwa K.

A survey of Latinx and Latin American women artists that used mail art, postal networks, messages, and distribution in their work.

First monograph.

Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.

Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years.

A further in-depth insight into the paradoxical universe of Beni Bischof.

The Swiss artist and writer studies a place at beetle height.

The artist's photographic view of the folk tradition that celebrates Swiss tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.

An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

A portrait of a unique artist family.

An exciting exploration of the imaginary world of Belgian artist Panamarenko, who became internationally renown for his groundbreaking creations connecting art with science and technique.

The first major monograph dedicated to Dutch artist Charl van Ark.

A transversal and analytical reading of Éric Baudart's entire body of work.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

A genealogy of the modern artist.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

A pair of small-format artist's books, conceived as two visual sequences bound together by tension, attraction, and delay.

The first retrospective of the work of Jean-Claude Guillaumon (1943-2022), a self-taught artist who defies categorization, associated with the French Fluxus scene, avid practitioner of happenings and other forms of ephemeral art.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

Artist's book.

A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).

A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.

An artist's book conceived by Jorge Macchi as a return—both literal and conceptual—to the city of Buenos Aires as a field of investigation.

The relationship between art, agriculture, and biodiversity.

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.

A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.

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...

Issue 40 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo features a constellation of artists and critical thinkers whose practices are shaped by the lived experiences of disability and issues of accessibility.