Contemporary art

The artist Denise Bertschi highlights the little-known Swiss presence between the two Koreas in the aftermath of the war in 1953, and questions the supposed neutrality of the country.

The birth and evolution of graffiti writing in Italy.

Artist's book.

Artist's book.

In the age of "post-truth", Spike busts the line between fact and fiction open, untangling the politics and implications of crafting (and being crafted by) narrative.

Retrospective monograph of the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989).

The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, ​A Series of Open Questions.

Mark Leckey finally presents the soundtrack to his autobiographical allegory 'O' Magic Power of Bleakness', a mind sluicing fantasy/autobiographical narrative inspired by folklore and half-remembered tales of teenage life growing up in the Wirral, a personal history woven into screwed 808s, ringtones, sacred chimes, smudged synths, sirens and levitating ambience that sounds like nowt else.

Reference monograph of Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), a major figure of mid-20th century abstraction, founder of Lyrical Abstraction, inventor of performance art, pioneer of Action Painting, speed and risk, dripping, early inspirer of street art.

A multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines, some of the most ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. A sonic exorcism filled with ancestral frequencies, haunted ghosts, and other animistic spirits from the Pinatubo forests, going from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract.

The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.

A series of failed, rejected, or unused animals from Rop van Mierlo's archive; the reserve bench animals.

The first photographic book by agnès b., reinterpreting two portraits by Claire Tabouret, displayed in the fashion designer's garden.

The catalogue of the 2021 Belgrade Biennale, exploring the space of dream as a metaphorical space of freedom, capable of re-reading categories, rules, and the most common certainties.

The 2022 Toilet Paper wall calendar features food-themed photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their cult and obsessive image-only magazine.

On the occasion of Natures Mortes, her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo, the artist Anne Imhof is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 31 of the magazine PALAIS.

The exhibition catalogue for the Château d'Oiron presents more than 170 artworks from the collection of Antoine de Galbert, placed in such a way as to dialogue with the permanent collection of contemporary art Curios & Mirabilia, assembled by Jean-Hubert Martin in 1993.

A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's ballpoint pen drawings.

A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.

The complete edition of Takashi Homma's acclaimed homage.

An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.

A “minimal encyclopedia” for ideas and visions beyond the pandemic, that also contributes to a polyphonic and polysemous vision of contemporary Italian artistic production.

Cao Fei, Fatima Al Qadiri, Caterina Barbieri, Will Benedict, Cecilia Bengolea, Giulia Essyad, Roe Ethridge, Jenna Gribbon, Ru Kwok, Lydia Ourahmane, Heron Preston, Emily Segal...

Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.

Deluxe boxed set of Graham Lambkin's remastered first four solo records, including an expansive 42-page book with unseen photos and reproductions of artworks as well as essays and anecdotal recollections.

The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Mette Ingvartsen, Violaine Lochu, Sonia Chiambretto, Garance Dor, Aurélie Noury, Melaine Dalibert, Didier Aschour, Roland Sabatier, Vincent Menu, IKHEA@SERVICES, Florent Delval & David Liver, Pierre di Sciullo.

How the organization of time structures the creative process and more broadly our relationship to the world.

The archives of the 1980s: 23 archives involved, 106 archival documents found, 6 original interviews, 1 horoscope from Gilardi's Phototeca in a poster size.

Dave McEnzie, Luke Libera Moore, Niki de Saint Phalle, Chao-Chen Yang...

The iconic everyday objects, “soft” sculptures, ceramic pieces and collages by the Swiss duo.

An artistic project around the secret code of the Incas developed with a system of knotted cords.

The power of art to anticipate future social and technological developments inspired the new issue of Cura. to investigate the notion of futurity through the work of some of the most visionary and promising artists of the contemporary landscape.

Retrospective monograph.

An industrial and psychedelic sound piece recorded at the opening of CM von Hausswolff’s solo exhibition “INSNITT” at 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg, in 2018, with John Duncan, Leif Elggren, Jean Louis-Huhta, Joachim Nordwall, and Henrik Rylander.

A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).

169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

A comprehensive record of the London-based art collective BANK's notorious project from the late 1990s, a fierce critic of the language elements of the art market.

One of Andrée Putman's latest home designs, from the plans, drawings, and pictures of an amazing apartment in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain).

The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.

Newly remastered by Rashad Becker for this vinyl edition, “Echo” finds Félicia Atkinson synching her feelings into a watercolour suite of solo keys, voice and field recordings, unfurling 40 minutes of new breathtaking music.

A collection of essays and honest conversations with practitioners around collaborative practices, at the intersection of art, education, and activism.

New monograph.

A photo book by Jacopo Benassi that brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist. 

An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century.

The Milanese photographer and long-distance traveler captures the light (and visual contrasts) of Rome while walking through the city.

Helen Marten, Carl Craig, Anne Imhof, Julie Mehretu, Kaspar Müller, Promising Young Woman, Hito Steyerl, Telfar, Grace Wales Bonner...

A selection of works on paper by Swiss visionary outsider artist and healer Emma Kunz (1892-1963), close to geometric abstraction.