Contemporary art

A great Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet, Fan Zeng conveys the spirit of literati painting in these studies, which draw on classical texts and his own experience with the painting.

Through a dated diary and film photographs, a young woman explores her Algerian and Kabyle roots: a sensitive account of a language that was never passed down, family memory, and personal decolonization.

Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts.

This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of Anna Franceschini's practice. Organized around recurring themes, its associative structure reflects her interest in repetition, transformation, and unstable images.

Lydia Ourahmane’s first monograph, documenting a project developed through immersion during a several-month residency in Venice, as part of the 61st Venice Biennale.

Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.

A comprehensive retrospective of Gilles Berquet's fetishist photographic work, presented as a tribute to Pierre Molinier.

Raphaëlle Ricol's offbeat, cruel, or deceptively innocent paintings and drawings.

A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.

The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition).

The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality."

A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.

As part of the 7L's Correspondances program, Katrien de Blauwer explored the collection of books and magazines of Karl Lagerfeld's library at 7L, and reinterpreted it through a new series of photomontages in which the images serve as both a reference and a mirror.

Anne-Marie Morice traces the "urban drift" carried out in the northern suburbs of Paris in the 1950s by members of the Lettrist International, and later by those of the nascent Situationist International, led by Guy Debord, and analyzes how this way of experiencing urban space influenced both their artistic practice and their theoretical work.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art.

Celebrating Jacques Villeglé's centennial, this retrospective publication—designed as a black-and-white album/magazine (complete with a sheet of colorful stickers to place on certain pages!)—traces nearly sixty years of work by a "flâneur," a collector of posters torn down by anonymous hands.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.

The graphic, spatial and temporal possibilities that emerge from the use of grids, from linear perspective to 3D modelling.

Anna Homler by Rachel Hahn, Gabriele Stötzer by Elisa R. Linn, Cao Fei by Pablo Larios, AI for Modernists by Mario Carpo...

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

The most comprehensive publication on Ser Serpas' work to date, Loogie traces the first decade of the artist's multidisciplinary practice anti-chronologically, bringing together 650 illustrations alongside newly commissioned texts.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).

Through his sculptures in black-stained wood, set with fragments of stone and bitumen, Theo Guicheron Lopez traces, across the remains of ancient stone, a sensory landscape for a poetics of the ground.

A.I.L.O (Atelier d'Immersion Lumineuse et Obscure), founded by Anna-Eva Berge with Fabrice Leroux, has created a work of light and sound for Pile Pont Expo, inviting visitors to move through and engage with the work, the architecture, and its soundscape. Optical effects offer a new experience of this space, reminiscent of a concrete cathedral.

The artist duo Sarah Laaroussi and Matteo Magnant (Atelier Bicéphale) are writing a new chapter in the performative and participatory project Habiter la pente, and explores the relationships we maintain with our environment and its evolution.

The donation by Elisabeth and Alain Clément of a group of paintings, sculptures, and gouaches on paper enriched, in 2024, a body of work already held in the collection of the Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, creating a journey through the artist's work.

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 series of previously unpublished interior paintings by Karen Kilimnik.

The new edition of the cult bestiary by Amsterdam-based artist and graphic designer Rop van Mierlo.

A companion to Kosovar artist Brilant Milazimi's exhibition for the Republic of Kosovo Pavillion at the 2026 Venice Biennale that reflects on waiting, clenching, sovereignty, perseverance, and teeth.

A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 numbered risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard).

A philosophical perspective on photographic images.

An artistic and documentary exploration of the transformation of the Swiss Cultural Center building in Paris and the renovation process carried out between 2022 and 2026 by the architectural agencies ASBR (Paris) and Truwant + Rodet + (Basel).

In the staccato, nervous, vivid and even resonant language of the flea markets that Oriol Vilanova frequents, Le prix des choses discusses economics as a flow—that is, the exchange of goods for monetary value.

Yalda Afsah, Tolia Astakhishvili, Alvaro Barrington, Dora Budor, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Lap-See Lam, Vladislav Markov, Armineh Negahdari, Lydia Ourahmane, Ewa Poniatowska, Thomas Ruff, Martín Sabyno, Maria Toumazou, Bruno Zhu...

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.

What counts as reality when images can be generated, manipulated, and circulated with unprecedented ease? The Future of Reality asks filmmakers and scholars to respond to a contemporary reality framed and filtered by algorithms and synthetic media.

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

First monograph.

An exploration of the relationship between art and science through a cross-disciplinary journey featuring some 100 works of art and scientific artifacts by approximately 30 artists, from the Renaissance to the present day.

New monograph.

The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory.

Erik Verhagen brings together seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic, who offer their perspectives on François Morellet's work, bearing witness to the enduring vitality of his legacy.

Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.