Contemporary art

A multidisciplinary perspective on illegibility as a cultural phenomenon (new edition).

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing (new edition).

An essay on the figure of the writer-

In this 16th issue, the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design) turns its attention to art direction.

Alexander Kluge by Ben Lerner, Hal Foster & Thomas Demand, Literalism: Art's Deadest End (Manifesta 16) by Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Marysia Paruzel's fairy-tale photos by Olivia Kan-Sperling, Tao Lin's private collection of ancient artifacts...

Special issue: 500 pages of interviews between artists.

How does artificial intelligence affect the way we represent reality? Is it still photography? By contextualising contemporary uses of photography generated or analysed with the help of artificial intelligence, this book offers a critical reflection on the aesthetic, political and theoretical stakes of these technologies.

Silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

An investigation into the repertoire of performative gestures emerging from the work of German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and the practice of her troupe of performers.

A poetry collection by Venetian anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Elia Romanelli, with drawings by Marzia Migliora.

Through a series of photographs of 1970s American cars created using expired Polaroids, Aurélien Mole pays a dual tribute to both photography and the history of the automobile.

The second book in the "Brookinette" children's book series (published by Brook), We Look Alike is a book for little ones and older children alike that tells the story—through the drawings of Dutch artist Kinke Kooi—of encounters, friendship, and little mistakes, featuring a cast of snails, flowers, fruits, and ladybugs.

An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.

The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine."

Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.

Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings.

A tribute to the French collective Pap' Circus, a post-Dada/Fluxus art troupe founded in 1980.

Issue 0 of the annual journal devoted to ceramics and related arts, dedicated to those who create, reflect on, observe, or draw inspiration from ceramics—without ever limiting themselves to it.

Diego Marcon by Matthew McLean, The Choreography of Police Work by Sophie Landres, The New Art Theater by Aria Dean, Prediction Addiction by Simon Denny, Simone Forti by Yvonne Rainer, Terry Iacuzzo and Tony Oursler by Katherine Rochester...

Led By Donkeys, Kenneth Goldsmith, Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff, Silvio Lorusso, Jasia Reichardt ephemeral's archive, Active and emancipatory publishing in France: the cases of Déborder Bolloré and WHOISBN, In the Aspyxiating Culture of the Total Library, Transmediale 2026 + Echoes of Tumult exhibition, Screentime/s; The Lure of the Image...

For our Autumn 2026 issue, Spike looks at the growing obsession with sound—from algorithmic earworms to immersive exhibitions and music made by machines—and asks: Why is something so elusive becoming our favorite way to set the mood?

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).

This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.

A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

This recording (2002) captures the two instruments central to Conrad's practice at the time: his self-built Long String Instrument and his amplified violin. He performed hidden behind a large sheet, and the nature of what unfolded behind it was never disclosed to the audience.

One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023, based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.

Issue 41 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo looks at the realities of artistic creation beyond urban areas and interrogates the idea of territory.

Published in conjunction with the 11th Contour Biennial, this book edited by curator Sofia Lemos weaves together curatorial reflection, philosophical invocation, and playful fable, moving between essay, image, and story.

Sol Calero – Cuadernos Pica Pica is the first comprehensive monographic publication dedicated to the work of Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based artist Sol Calero. Conceived as an evolving publication in the form of a serial magazine, it brings together five individual issues (01–05), offering an extensive overview of the artist's practice from 2013 to 2023.

A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced between 2019 and 2026. 

Artist's book.

A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions.

Stephen Felton's first major monograph traces a decade of painting between spontaneity and reflection.

La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).

The dangerous liaisons between art and oil: the question of artworks and the postcolonial power dynamics shaped by the oil industry, in the era of global warming and of our civilization burning.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches.

Issue 1 of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, focusing on the theme of vertigo.

A collective reflection on the key role that creative uses (and appropriations) of new technological tools play in the evolution of musical and sound practices and cultures.

A photographic and conversational study of public sculptures embedded within Jeddah's urban circulation.

This posthumous work is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Palestinian artist and activist Amal Abdenour (1931–2020).

Leszek Brogowski continues his search for milestone markers (artist's books).

A painter-poet reflects on Laozi and Zhuangzi "from the heart" in an illustrated volume featuring his ink drawings.