Contemporary art

This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.

An interdisciplinary and critical examination of the role of hope in contemporary art and activism.

First monograph.

Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.

First monograph, featuring the artist's long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian "archive of coloniality" and its structural violence.

By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

A collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia.

A book inspired by the artist's research in intersectional environmentalism, deep listening, and decoloniality.

Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.

The first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini.

The voice as a space of publication in itself.

German artist Leila Orth deals with the question of what places of remembrance there are and can be.

This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.

An album entirely dedicated to the sound composition created by Éric La Casa for Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening, based on recordings (images and sounds) made in Paris and Glasgow. A new stereo version from 2023 interacts with the original mono soundtrack from 2009.

Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.

The first monograph of American artist Spencer Lewis.

The first issue in a collection of typographic specimens, each inviting a designer to create a fictional story around one of their typefaces, this volume is by Grégoire Romanet, who has repurposed 18th-century Texas Cattle Brand symbols to create a typeface.

New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.

Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.

First monograph devoted to the artist's research on the materiality of images through an exploration of the conditions of visibility of secretions.

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.

The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.

Ayoung Kim, Tom Lloyd, Karimah Ashadu, Photography's Materialities (roundtable and portfolios), Rosemarie Trockel, Amie Siegel...

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".

The new, adapted and expanded edition of Benjamin Sommerhalder's children's book (the story of the little ghost Knigi, learning how to read).

A compilation of all the covers created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez for Wes Anderson's film The French Dispatch.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.

An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.

Taking its title from the seminal book by the priest, philosopher, and historian Michel de Certeau, this publication, which accompanies the eponymous Capc exhibition, bears witness to unique ways of being in the world through the transformation of materials, tools, and everyday practices, inscribed directly onto the pages of a regional daily newspaper.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, R.I.P. Germain, Petra Cortright, Sophia Al-Maria, Aleksandra Domanović, Dennis Cooper, Philippa Snow, Banks Violette, Simon Denny & Hito Steyerl, Cory Arcangel & Maya Man, Diego Marcon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, LuYang, Florentina Holzinger, Candela Capitán, Steffani Jemison, Charmaine Poh...

A collection of essays and interviews reflecting on the future through the lens of artistic thought and action.

A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.

A wide selection of paintings and drawings by Margherita Manzelli from the 1990s to the present day.

Andrew Berardini on Artificial Intelligence; Pepón Osorio; Arash Nassiri; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Marcela Guerrero speaks with C. Ondine Chavoya; Daisy Lafarge; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Davide Stucchi speaks with Alex Bennett; Luca Lo Pinto on Hanuman Editions; Reynaldo Rivera & Abdellah Taïa; Jungle Books...

A broad overview of the contemporary Mexican art scene through a series of conversations with its leading figures.

A selection of the most significant contemporary practices by Portuguese or Portugal-based artists.

Research on materials conducted by two leading figures in 20th-century Italian art, Enrico Prampolini (1894–1956) and Alberto Burri (1915–1995).

Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.

A comprehensive survey of Ahmet Doğu İpek's artistic journey over a decade.

An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.

142 drawings realized over a decade, addressing the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw's practice.

Reference monograph.

This book brings to life the artistic and literary community that flourished in Carona, Ticino, from 1968 to 1978. Centered on Swiss artist David Weiss (1946–2012) and his circle of friends, it explores their works, processes, and the communal spirit that fueled artistic experimentation.

Violence and visual culture (a critical examination of pressing aspects and implications of the visual representation of violence, and of the intricate relationship between visual culture and the social and economic conditions that influence and are influenced by it).

This second edition of Alcove deepens the archive of Modern Arab art through 30 new personal essays.

Amalgama is the outcome of the fourth edition of Convivial Tables, a field-based research project commissioned by TBA21–Academy for Ocean Space, dedicated to exploring the relationships between food and ecology, and their impact on bodies of water.

The first comprehensive study of Lucia Marcucci.