Contemporary art

A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.

Launching a series of children's books published by Kaph in Beirut, Saud's Adventure in the Art World recounts the initiatory wanderings of a child lost in a museum.

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.

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

A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.

The second monograph on artist Sarah Tritz looks back on the last ten years of her work.

Retrospective monograph.

A portrait of a unique artist family.

The first major monograph dedicated to Dutch artist Charl van Ark.

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

A transversal and analytical reading of Éric Baudart's entire body of work.

New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

A genealogy of the modern artist.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

The first volume of a new series of art history publications dedicated to the artistic scenes of former Yugoslavia, this publication offers the first comprehensive overview on the life and work of Ivo Gattin (Split, 1926–Zagreb, 1978).

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

A tour of works by artists Georges Rousse and Vladimir Skoda created in rural public spaces as part of an art biennial in a small village in Saône-et-Loire, in the Burgundy region.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

The first monograph on the Paris-based Algerian artist, whose strikingly realistic paintings meticulously explore the movements of the body in intimate spaces.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

Scholar and curator Christine Eyene serves as guest editor for this special issue, featuring a central section dedicated to the work and place of women—particularly Lubaina Himid—within the Black Arts Movement.

A look at a href="index_theme.php?id=224&menu=4">South Korea's contemporary art scene through the medium of video art.

First monographie.

An artists' book in which Anri Sala interacts with the corpus of paintings by Edi Hila.

A renewed reading of Walter Pfeiffer's photographic practice.

A book dedicated to the last drawings created between 2021 and 2022 by Gianfranco Baruchello, who passed away in January 2023.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

A comprehensive guide to the monumental, immersive installation created by Nabil Nahas for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

A work conceived as an installation, as part of the project created by Amina Agueznay for the Moroccan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

The catalogue of the 18th Geneva Biennial, dedicated to artists' film and video, curated by Nora N. Khan and Andrea Bellini.

First comprehensive monograph on Guglielmo Castelli's painting and sculpture.

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama is A Maior's second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in February 2025. Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, and speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and setting in real time.

A transcript of a lecture by Harun Farocki exploring the relationship between architecture and cinema.

Conceived as a hybrid between an exhibition catalogue and a fashion lookbook, as well as a document of their practice and a sculptural object in its own right, the Women's History Museums' first publication interweaves newly commissioned texts with illustrated image spreads that reference iconic precedents, from Matsuda's 1990s lookbooks to early Vivienne Westwood.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

A 33-year journey through the Venice Biennale (1993–2026).

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.