How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).

"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.

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.

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.

Reference monograph: a large retrospective of the work of Norwegian painter Leonard Rickhard (1945-2024) spanning more than half a century.

A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).

The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.

Published on the occasion of the Chilean artist's first institutional survey exhibition in Europe, this monograph is dedicated to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's experimental practice and focuses on her spatial, energetic, and global thinking.

The latest, massive volume in the Solution series of collected all-new and most recent landscape paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska.

Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.

A reflection on what becomes of and what is produced by images displayed in public spaces.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

An inquiry into the potential regeneration of democracy: how artists can work towards a sense of collective relevance required to face the future's dark challenges.

An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.

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.

Recorded live at Amsterdam's Oude Kerk during the 2024 Sonic Acts Festival, The Organ is the World's Greatest Synthesizer finds Charlemagne Palestine returning to the Staalplaat catalog. Taking its title and cover from a drawing made by Palestine during the performance, the work expands his singular mythology of sound and spirit (hand screenprited cover).

Rene Matić, Josiane M.H. & Emily Pozi, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Olivia van Kuiken, Tasneem Sarkez, alfatih, Ruoru Mou, Adam Patrick Grant, Siyi Li, Ruofan Chen, Megan Mi-Ai Lee, Tommy Xie, davi de jesus do nascimento, Zora Sicher...

Universality, multiplication of identities, and disappearance of otherness.

Retrospective monograph / artist's book.

New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.

This publication aims to provide a critical and profound reading of Alice Neel's humanism, constructing a journey through her artistic and personal life. The book includes texts by academics and artists, enriched by an extensive number of illustrations, archival photographs and documents.

The first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of the British-born Nigerian artist and film director Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.

The voice as a space of publication in itself.

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

First monograph devoted to the artist's research on the materiality of images through an exploration of the conditions of visibility of secretions.

Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.

An intimate exploration and meditation on Melvin Edwards' work (a zine produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop).

An album entirely dedicated to the sound composition created by Éric La Casa for Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening, based on recordings (images and sounds) made in Paris and Glasgow. A new stereo version from 2023 interacts with the original mono soundtrack from 2009.

The first monograph of American artist Spencer Lewis.

A contemplative series of images by Spanish photographer Jorge Perez Ortiz exploring the relationship between the human body, water, and resilience.

American surrealism meets popular culture meets political criticism: Jim Shaw's obsessive series of drawings devoted to Donald Trump.

The meeting between Fred Frith's guitar strings and percussionist Karen Stackpole's gongs.

This interview of Brandon LaBelle with curator, artist, and researcher Berit Fischer offers insight into her transformative approach to contemporary art practice that challenges conventional notions of empathy and ecological awareness.

Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.

The catalogue of the exhibition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.

This publication looks back on the Studio of the South residency, hosted in Arles by LUMA and Owens and undertaken by 23 international artists between September 2020 and July 2023.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this book traces the rise of Mohamed Salah, the Egyptian footballer who went from playing on dusty village fields to scoring for the world's biggest clubs.

In this moving story, published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, young readers follow Mahmoud Darwish, the celebrated Palestinian poet whose words became a voice for the displaced.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, this issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what 'technology' is.

The best of 2025: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.