Contemporary art

Stéphane Blanquet's new facsimile sketchbook: drawings made on trains, public transport, notes, drawings everywhere.

A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.

Emerging from the curatorial project FUORI! (Bologna, 2022-2023), this book brings together a series of interviews with theorists, artists, and performers. It focuses on the political, social, and community-based role of contemporary art.

Artist's book printed in risograph in a limited edition of 250 copies.

Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

The catalogue of the manifesto exhibition that seeks to lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of 21st-century extra-terrestrial art.

An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.

On the occasion of Seasons, Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at GAMeC, art historian Lisa Parola, investigates how contemporary art can redefine the idea of the monument.

Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.

"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.

A long conversation about the work and life of Portuguese artist Ana Jotta, accompanied by 60 previously unpublished photographs of her homes (in Brazil, Morocco, and Zanzibar) and her years in theater in the late 1970s.

A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2024 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

An artistic stroll with Vanessa Morisset.

The latest, massive volume in the Solution series of collected all-new and most recent landscape paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska.

The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

A mapping of the international landscape of technological archives.

How the right wing is ruining culture, part II; in Sicily, humanitarian flotillas bound for Gaza are on the US Army's radar; Alice Diop and the Black Venus; Iraqi singer Sajda Obeid unites the country; theater according to Sylvain Creuzevault; the British left reveals fascism...

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, this issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what 'technology' is.

The best of 2025: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.

This publication looks back on the Studio of the South residency, hosted in Arles by LUMA and Owens and undertaken by 23 international artists between September 2020 and July 2023.

Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.

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.

A series of pencil drawings by Japanese artist Emi Ueoka depicting youth in their everyday urban environment.

This interview of Brandon LaBelle with curator, artist, and researcher Berit Fischer offers insight into her transformative approach to contemporary art practice that challenges conventional notions of empathy and ecological awareness.

a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.

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).

Universality, multiplication of identities, and disappearance of otherness.

The 2026 wall calendar designed by Studio Manuel Raeder featuring contributions by Martha Hellion, Andreas Sell, Álvaro Urbano & Petrit Halilaj, Heinz Peter Knes, Anna M. Szaflarski, Pablo Schlumberger, Nick Mauss, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Ieva Epnere, Shirin Sabahi, Yoshie Sugito, and Mariana Castillo Deball.

Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.

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.

The first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of the British-born Nigerian artist and film director Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

First monograph.

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

This publication aims to provide a critical and profound reading of Alice Neel's humanism, constructing a journey through her artistic and personal life. The book includes texts by academics and artists, enriched by an extensive number of illustrations, archival photographs and documents.

Comprehensive documentation of the Italian artist's latest works, in which he playfully explores the theme of light.

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.

Retrospective monograph / artist's book.

American surrealism meets popular culture meets political criticism: Jim Shaw's obsessive series of drawings devoted to Donald Trump.

Rene Matić, Josiane M.H. & Emily Pozi, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Olivia van Kuiken, Tasneem Sarkez, alfatih, Ruoru Mou, Adam Patrick Grant, Siyi Li, Ruofan Chen, Megan Mi-Ai Lee, Tommy Xie, davi de jesus do nascimento, Zora Sicher...

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.