Contemporary art

Centered on the emblematic figure of Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), this issue of Revue Faire explores the director's publishing work during his time at the head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, from 1960 to 1973.

The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.

This book, the first dedicated to the work of Michaela Sanson-Braun, traces thirty years of practice across Germany, London, and France. Bringing together paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and installations, it also features sixteen paintings conceived especially for this publication and printed on uncoated paper.

This unprecedented catalogue collects over 300 pieces reated by Adriano Costa over three decades, listed in alphabetical order—titles are a key part of Costa's works—, alongside new writing by Fernanda Brenner and Milovan Farronato, two critics who have long followed and championed the artist's practice.

First monograph on the British painter.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.

This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.

The artist's travel diary in New York.

Focused on the questions of image-making and image display, Craft is an artist's book by made up of a substantial body of images that, directly or indirectly, engage with the notion of fabrication—manufactured objects, compositional experiments, architectural forms and more.

A retrospective of the London-based Dutch artist's work over two decades.

27 features 27 recent works from two series titled Clementine and Merlin (2023–24) by London-based artist Magali Reus. This book, in its beautifully crafted materiality, format and typography, mimics a diary or romantic novel.

Jennifer Rochlin's first monograph covers over 7 years of artistic practice and gathers more than 40 works, illustrated by 131 color plates. The publication features essays by journalist and writer Alexis Okeowo and by artist Tony Marsh.

A limited edition flexi publication that combines field recordings by Robin Watkins with a suite of riso prints by Nina Canell.

A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

The emergence of a geological consciousness in contemporary art.

Ibrahim Mahama by Edna Bonhomme; Okwui Enwezor by Simon Njami; ecoformalism by Harmon Siegel; culture wars of the late 1980s and '90s by Ron Athey, Karen Finley, Andres Serrano, Helen Molesworth & Tina Rivers Ryan...

For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book.

Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Echoes, vibrations, transmissions, and shared energies between Sufism and contemporary artistic practices.

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

The garden as an expression of ecology—both experiential and performative.

Monograph / artist's book, including contributions by a variety of writers as well as materials.

Artist's book.

The publication "Travail à façon" by French artist Élisabeth Ballet presents research carried out with the textile industry between 2011 and 2022.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).

An archaeological journey through the renowned Swiss curator's “Museum of Obsessions”.

An extensive and sophisticated exploration of a recurring theme in global comics—black box—which the artist has gathered and reorganized into a large-scale, collective, transtemporal and transgeographic narrative.

A letter from the musician to the painter, imagined by Guillaume Belhomme.

Art Across the Arabian Gulf brings together 78 pioneering artists from across the Gulf to trace the region's artistic evolution from the mid-twentieth century through the 1990s.

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).

An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).

Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.

The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.

The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.

A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).

Zero zine is a contemporary art zine for children. It offers them a direct experience of art without filters or barriers, encouraging them to explore, feel, think, and imagine. The first issue presents the work of Léa Katharina Meier, Maude Gyger, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Pedro Wirz and Xenia Lucie Laffely.

For over 20 years, the author kept in a drawer the little pieces of paper on which he noted things to do. "Mesmots" carry the archives of his life.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).

A major retrospective monograph, published on the 20th anniversary of Arman's death, presenting the artist's visual works from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well as his lesser-known yet radical performances, with a text by Bernard Blistène and numerous illustrations from archives and documents.