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2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
Ko Murobushi - Fierce Unworking
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
Adama Delphine Fawundu - Praise House
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
An art book by Adama Delphine Fawundu that celebrates life through the female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—who have shaped the artist's cultural and personal history.
 Ghost Agency - Digital Sanctuaries
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
At the intersection of art, technology, and humanitarian inquiry, this book provides insight into Ghost Agency's desire for agency across artistic reasearch, institutions, and civic life in the digital age.
Vasıf Kortun - How Did We Get Here - Reading Vasıf Kortun
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
A look back at the career and work of Vasıf Kortun, an exhibition curator, author, and educator.
Rikke Luther - We Lost Control Again
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
We Lost Control Again surveys the questions raised by the work of artist Rikke Luther between 2015 and 2025, exploring the long-range effects of this era of collapse, and the effect on social orders and the stability of the Earth system.
Rikke Luther - Mud … and the Earth System
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.
 mountaincutters - Shake the Riverbed
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
forthcoming
An ambitious publication by the artist duo mountaincutters, offering an in-depth insight into their multidisciplinary practice.
Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
Romana Schmalisch - Labour Power Plant
2026
French edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Comprehensive documentation and various theoretical perspectives on the film Labor Power Plant by Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht, a caustic, documentary-inspired science fiction narrative that, among other things, examines the unique nature of the relationships formed by the labor market.
Ana Teixeira Pinto - The World Ends, Masculinity Endures / After Homonationalism
2026
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
forthcoming
Two sharp accounts by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Abeera Khan on the current ideological shifts and the subsequent forms of violence they produce.
 WEINBENAMI - Visiting the Osaka World Expo
2026
English edition
MER. Books
forthcoming
A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.
Anne Loch - Painting: So What? / Malerei: Na Und?
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Jesse Feinman - God Emptied My Glass
2026
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
forthcoming
The first major poetry collection by Jesse Feinman, a graphic designer known for his work on numerous books and album covers, founder of the photography publishing house Pomegranate Press, and a remarkable poet.
Les architectes au défi de la précarité - Comprendre, proposer, rechercher
2026
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
forthcoming
A broad exploration of precariousness—whose contours and realities are constantly evolving—examined through the lenses of architecture, the city, and the landscape.
Fluent - 2016–2026
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Marking fluent's tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization's archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.
Architectes : portraits de groupes
2026
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
forthcoming
A renewed and expanded approach to writing the history of architecture and the profession.
Angela Brandys - Outta Love
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Outta Love documents Angela Brandys's new series of large-scale textile works, conceived in 2024–25 and made from her own wardrobe—designer clothing torn apart, reduced to their baseline fabric, and reassembled into images drawn from the Renaissance tradition.
Ndayé Kouagou - Real Things Start Outside
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
First monograph.
Peter Wächtler - Crackers
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.
 Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé - The ABCC of CACB
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
forthcoming
A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.
Hélène Binet - Dixit - Switzerland!
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
forthcoming
A special edition bringing together three issues of the journal of architecture criticism under a single title: "Dixit: Switzerland!". Six prominent figures with links to Switzerland (Hélène Binet + Elli Mosayebi; Tiphaine Abenia + Alia Bengana; Carlotta Darò + Raphaël Kadid) are invited to discuss common and topical issues.
Phill Niblock - BLK+LND / K&L for KL (vinyl LP)
2026
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023, based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.
Leszek Brogowski - Cent prises de position et œuvres malgré moi - Un essai de philosophie par l’ordre des images
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens
forthcoming
A philosophical perspective on photographic images.
Térésa Faucon - Gestes contemporains du montage - Entre médium et performance
2026
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.
Peter Greenaway - Il lisait dans la nuit profonde - Nouvelles 1-100
2026
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
forthcoming
A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and animator Stefano Bessoni.
Peter Greenaway - He Read Deep Into The Night - Stories 1-100
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
forthcoming
A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and animator Stefano Bessoni.
Peter Greenaway - The Empress and the Eunuch
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
forthcoming
The script (with drawings) for Peter Greenaway's film tells of a 19th century Chinese love affair and its consequences, based apparently upon a real historical situation taking liberties with history to make an extravagant fantasy.
John Durham Peters - Les merveilleux nuages - Vers une philosophie des médias élémentaux
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
forthcoming
A fascinating journey through the long history of media before the age of mass media.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie debout
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
Ettore Sottsass - Écrits
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
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.
Toiletpaper
2026
no text
Toiletpaper
Damiani - Toiletpaper
forthcoming
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Couvre-chef - Maison Michel
2026
French edition
Éditions 7L
forthcoming
A book that unfolds around a single word: headwear. An unusual, compound word, this broad title opens the doors to the history of the hat, to its forms and functions, to the importance of a vital accessory.
Headwear - Maison Michel
2026
English edition
Éditions 7L
forthcoming
A book that unfolds around a single word: headwear. An unusual, compound word, this broad title opens the doors to the history of the hat, to its forms and functions, to the importance of a vital accessory.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).
Marion Cachon - La Gauchère
2026
Tombolo Presses
forthcoming
La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).
Jeanne Hubert - Peuples du rivage
2026
no text
ION
forthcoming
Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings.
2026
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
forthcoming
Philippe Jaffeux explores each letter of the alphabet through experimental poetry, continuing the tradition of the Lettrist movement.
 Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.
Antony Gormley - Geestgrond
2026
English edition
MER. Books
Reference monograph.
Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya - Skinchangers - Begotten of my Flesh
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
First monograph.
Brilant Milazimi - Hard Teeth
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
A companion to Kosovar artist Brilant Milazimi's exhibition for the Republic of Kosovo Pavillion at the 2026 Venice Biennale that reflects on waiting, clenching, sovereignty, perseverance, and teeth.
Sigismond de Vajay - Nouveaux Désastres - Expanded
2026
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
KBB
New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.
Valentin Fleuret - Mauvaises Graines
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
forthcoming
This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.
Maaza Mengiste - Of Interest to the General Public
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Objects Talk Back
Of Interest to the General Public is a narration by the Ethiopian writer and photographer Maaza Mengiste inspired by the history of the 1868 Napier expedition and the burning of the palace fortress at Magdala.
Jonathan Crary - L\'attention en suspens - Crise de la perception dans la culture moderne
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.
Francis David - Un monde parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of folk art and art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.
Karel Teige - Poetry and Revolution
2026
English edition
Suture Press
forthcoming
Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.
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