Contemporary art

The small opera created by Nicolas Murer for Lili Reynaud-Dewar's installation presented at the 2014 Venice Biennale, sung by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Nicolas Murer and the choir of HEAD, Geneva.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.

Artist's book.

Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.

A collaboration between visual artist Myriam Mechita and musician Leonard de Leonard.

Mousse 51 is a photo issue dedicated to exhibitions from 1985 to 1995, the last ten years or so before exhibitions went online, and possibly, before the exhibition view became a requisite genre.

Appearing after the Reader, this second volume covering the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial features images from all artists participating in the exhibition, both in the pages of the publication and via a memory stick, incorporated in the spine.

Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

The first monograph detailing the work of Belgian artist Leon Vranken, this book presents the most significant and complex projects of a practice now spanning over fifteen years, and is accompanied by three essays that address the many facets of his meticulously constructed works.

Published for the first time, a selection of notes from the artist's private diaries.

Artist's book in two volume.

This issue considers the revitalization of pastoral narratives in contemporary art and recent artist contributions to radical theories regarding the so-called “end of nature.” Featuring: Dena Yago, Peter Nadin, Lawren Harris, Hayley Silverman, The sea in Cuban art, Charles Lim, The architecture of seasteading, Julia Tcharfas & Arseny Zhilyaev, Darren Bader, Mark von Schlegell, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster...

A collection of essays and interviews on the issue of curatorship in contemporary art with Pierre Restany, Zoran Kržišnik, Harald Szeemann, Daniel Buren, Charles Esche and Walter Benjamin.

The many representations of the Self and the Other in Africa, the Indian Ocean, Asia and Europe, through a selection of artists' portraits and self-portraits (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Reunion's collection).

Art & sex special issue.

First monograph.

Armleder's new series of works inspired by large scale anatomical models from the 19th & 20th centuries.

This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.

A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure

Publication based on the eponymous series of works (“The Catalan painting lesson”, a devious and ironic presentation of traditional standards of academic painting), with an interview and commissioned essays by Brigitte Léal and Pierre Restany.

The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.

This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.

A disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live (catalogue).

A topographical book by architect Tobias Engelschall that gathers photographs of 100 Berlin buildings, capturing their transformation through time.

In Lifestyles Andreas Sell combines a diary with photographic documentation, pictures of sculptures and drawings from 2010 to 2015. These excerpts reflect his nomadic-like life, the clearance of his parents' household and the enterprise of building a holiday house.

Monograph / catalogue dedicated to the work of kinetic artist and co-founder of Gruppo T Grazia Varisco.

A series of photographs by Martin Widmer, taken in Jonathan Binet's exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel. Widmer's over-exposure disrupts the traditional contours of the artwork and questions the notions of authority and subject.

Christelle Enault's last series: Voodoo priestesses cover their face with cartoon masks and lead ritual ceremonies where female creatures and priapic shapes perform erotic gestures in a poisonous and seminal environment. Yet, the delicate pencil line of the Parisian artist delivers a puzzling feeling of softness.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

A textual and visual account of Schaerf's FM-Scenario, an inter-media project using the Internet as a production site for generating content for further media. The core of this project is a fictitious radio station, moderated by a computer program meant to guaranty his listener full freedom of speech.

Cady Noland, Robert Gober, Sturtevant, Angela Bulloch, Sigmar Polke, Hilary Lloyd, Jeff Koons, Stephen Felton, Avery Singer, 12th Sharjah Biennale, Oscar Tuazon, Olivier Zahm, William Pope L., William Leavitt, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, the Picasso Museum photographed by Juergen Teller, Trisha Donnelly, “Disobedient Objects” by Bruno Serralongue, “Artists and Poets” by Marina Faust...

A documentation of the art space located in the center of Paris and programmed by Lionel Bovier & Clément Dirié, in relation with the editorial activities of Anna Sanders Films, bdv, Les presses du réel and JRP|Ringier.

In the fall of 2013, Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro traveled with Donatien Grau to a town in the French Alps to meet Michel Butor, one of the foremost innovators of postwar literature. This is their conversation.

Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.

An account of Lutyens' long-term Hypnotic Show at Documenta 13 in 2012.

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

This richly illustrated edition presents the ten-year performance career of Bergen visual artist Agnes Nedregård, looking at her practice from a diversity of perspectives and media.

A never-before-published selection of Paul-Armand Gette's lectures given between 1972 and 2015.

Milan Knížák 1979's masterpiece never re-released in vinyl before: classic collages of noises created during performances and happenings, widely regarded as important sound art documents on record.

Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho invited four other international artists from three different countries to participate at an artist's residency in Milan. Their preliminary idea was to think communication issues and artwork's ability to materialize the various forms of exchange. This catalogue covers the exhibition that followed this residency.

Thomas Müllenbach's series Halboriginale (“Semi-originals”), which he worked on from 2005-2013, constitutes an artistic appropriation of art-related documentation found in his mailbox over the years. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by the artist.

Designed on the basis of a contemporary Baedeker, this book offers an original itinerary in the historic center of the city of Genoa. It is a city-guide that links different places and times, and that also moves from the habit of moving, investigated as a typical phenomenon of the Grand Tour—and that is the origin of the term “tourism”.

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

Letters from Panduranga evokes the fate of the Vietnamese Cham community, whose territory is threatened by the construction of two nuclear power plants. Acting as an ethnologist Nguyen Trinh Thi explores the issues related to speech and history as well as new forms of colonialism.

A travel notebook covering the artist's stay in Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean.

The result of a series started in 2008, all of The Naked Eye photographs are looks between the fanned pages of paperbacks that date back to the 1950s–1970s. This first exhaustive monographic publication of an ongoing series reveal a particular taste for mass-market celebrity biographies and movie novelizations featuring photo sections and pulpy paper stained by brightly-dyed edges.

First monograph.