Italy

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing (new edition).

em>The Prodigal Daughter, which earned Alice Ceresa the prestigious Viareggio Prize in 1967, is at once a narrative in rhythmic verse, a feminist pamphlet, a poetic parable, and a philosophical tirade.

In simple yet evocative language, Alice Ceresa reveals the workings of a timeless social reality.

A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions.

An account of a pilgrimage amid the sacred and the profane through the cemeteries of the Swiss Confederation, to pay tribute to the memory of illustrious figures from the worlds of poetry, literature, religion, painting, fashion, sport, philanthropy, cinema and psychoanalysis.

Andrea De Fusco captures, through Polaroid photographs, the boat crossings from Naples to the Aeolian Islands, as the seasons and years go by.

Taking the RAL colour chart as its starting point, Piovenefabi brings together a selection of projects produced by the architecture office over the past ten years.

A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Furio Jesi's work offers us a powerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics.

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz, this volume brings together for the first time in French some fifty texts written by Ettore Sottsass between 1945 and 2001—essays, columns, and literary narratives—that reveal a constantly evolving philosophy of design.

Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

Following the Italian art collective’s gallery on four wheels.

A photographic narrative centered on a series of performative banquets conceived by Luca Trevisani across France, Switzerland, and Croatia in 2025, unfolding through the activation of a group of stoneware sculptures developed from a research process focused on the Toirano Caves.

Eight issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studio Wok.

An investigation by the Italian artist into obstetric violence, drawing on her family history.

This illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.

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

Seventh issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Lopes Brenna.

A new monograph on the Italian artist Chiara Camoni, published in conjunction with her exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale.

This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.

An exploration of the future of Rome through what has become forbidden.

Paolo Monti's photographs capture the affirmation of modernist aesthetics and the dawn of the golden age of Milanese architecture in the postwar period.

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

The first reprint since its 1970 release of Bruno Munari's legendary artist's book Xerografia: an intimate look into Munari's groundbreaking experimentation with the Xerox machine, where technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

The first reprint since its 1970 release of Bruno Munari's legendary artist's book Xerografia: an intimate look into Munari's groundbreaking experimentation with the Xerox machine, where technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

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

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Interviews with Machine Listening, Tomomi Adachi, Erin Gee, Pedro Oliveira; article: The Watery Graves of Electronic Speech, or Phonemes in Davey Jones' Locker; reports: Festival de la Imagen 2025, Choose Your Filter!...

A behind-the-scenes look at Luca Guadagnino’s film, captured in Yannis Drakoulidis's set photographs.

A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

Gabriele Basilico's photographs dedicated to Aldo Rossi's architecture, brought together for the first time.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

An original project by the Italian artist that brings art and science into dialogue by exploring "non-optical images" (the visual processes through which the human brain forms mental images using all the senses except direct sight).

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos engages in a dialogue with the city of Rome, the world of haute couture, and the work and legacy of Valentino (1932-2026).

First monograph.

This monograph retraces Paolo Colombo's career through its recurring concerns: literature and poetry, which he practices himself; Greek culture, from classical to modern; rebetika music; and a sustained dialogue with artists such as Fausto Melotti and Alighiero Boetti.

Sixth issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office ErranteArchitetture.

Fifth issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to Lorenzo Guzzini's architectural office.

Third issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studiospazio.

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera, explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions.

A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.

Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in poetry and performance clubs that have become legendary, featuring Pallotta's immersive photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.

Emerging from the curatorial project FUORI! (Bologna, 2022-2023), this book brings together a series of interviews with theorists, artists, and performers. It focuses on the political, social, and community-based role of contemporary art.