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Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2026
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
Mapping Krasinski\'s Studio
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
forthcoming
This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.
Going Public - Creating Visibility in the Field of Art
2026
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act.
2026
English edition
Mount Analogue
forthcoming
New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.
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
English edition
Maison ONA
forthcoming
Moondog's poetic autobiography.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
Saud\'s Adventure in the Art World
2026
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
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.
Aletheia Casey - A Lost Place
2026
English edition
Damiani - Photography
forthcoming
Through a series of manipulated and recontextualized images, Aletheia Casey reflects on the environmental and personal impact of the unprecedented wildfires that ravaged New South Wales, Australia, and examines the relationship between colonialism and climate change.
 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.
2026
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
forthcoming
Invited by Erik Verhagen, a group of artists from both sides of the Atlantic share their views on François Morellet's work.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create another pedagogical turning point.
Sigismond de Vajay - Nouveaux Désastres - Expanded
2026
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
KBB
forthcoming
New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.
Matthieu Peck - Descent to Bahia
2026
English edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.
Bianka Rolando - Inselbergs
2026
English edition
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.
Filipka Rutkowska - Gender is Over
2026
Polish edition
HELA Press
forthcoming
Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside (Polish edition).
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.
Emanuele Quinz - Ars Naturans - L\'art à l\'épreuve du vivant
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.
Yto Barrada - Color Problems
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
Yto Barrada - Color Problems
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Comprehensive monograph.
Jérôme Game - Feuilles de salle - Écrire l\'Art II – 2024
2026
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
forthcoming
Writer and artist Jérôme Game is an author associated with the 2024 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. He immersed himself in the universe of the exhibitions, and composed freely around the works and ideas he perceived there.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Darkness Casts its Own Form of Light
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
First reference monograph.
Arab Design Now - Volume 2
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.
Andrea Pinotti - Nonument - Un paradoxe de la mémoire
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.
D. N. Rodowick - Ce que la philosophie attend des images
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
KBB
forthcoming
This extensive monographic publication offers a comprehensive examination of Rómulo Macció's painting, situating his work within the development of modern and contemporary Latin American art.
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.
David Martens - Écrivains commissaires - La littérature au service des musées
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
An essay on the figure of the writer-
Saudi Art - Reflections on Mediums of Modernity and Contemporality
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
forthcoming
A broad overview of the evolution of the Saudi art scene from the 1950s to the present day.
What is highly unlikely but not impossible?
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
forthcoming
A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of artist Hiwa K.
Transgresoras - Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
A survey of Latinx and Latin American women artists that used mail art, postal networks, messages, and distribution in their work.
Silicon Forest - The Understories of Data and Forests
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.
Tools - To Blow
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
forthcoming
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing.
ToiletEllen PapervonUnwerth - Calendar 2027
2026
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
forthcoming
The ToiletEllen PapervonUnwerth wall calendar 2027 features photographs conceived by Ellen von Unwerth, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Magnum Chronicles - GenZ
2026
English edition
Magnum Chronicles
Magnum Photos
forthcoming
Magnum Chronicles: GenZ is the new edition of Magnum Photos' annual independent publication, dedicated to collective documentary photojournalism. Building on the legacy of the Generation X project launched by Robert Capa in 1951, it brings together photographers from the cooperative around the globe to create a vivid and nuanced portrait of Generation Z—those aged 14 to 29 born between 1997 and 2012.
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).
Martin Brandlmayr - Interstitial Spaces (vinyl LP)
2026
Faitiche
forthcoming
For his debut release on Faitiche, in an award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings.
Mike Cooper - The Dream Island of Birds (vinyl LP)
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with The Dream Island of Birds, a release that blurs the lines between memory, field recording, and reimagined sound.
 CREAHM Fribourg -
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An overview of the unique work produced by the studio for artists with disabilities that has been active in Fribourg since the late 1990s.
Francis David - Un Monde Parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.
Brunhild Ferrari - L\'oreille voleuse (vinyl LP)
2026
Persistence of Sound
forthcoming
Brunhild Ferrari's new work L'oreille voleuse (The Thieving Ear) and an extraordinary live reinterpretation by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, recorded in October 2025 in Paris.
Ivo Gattin -
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
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).
Samuel Herzog - Scarabeo
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
The Swiss artist and writer studies a place at beetle height.
Omar Kholeif - World Child
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
forthcoming
An exploration into the wild and wonderful world of Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009), an obscure jewel of late modernism and "enfant terrible" of the Portuguese art scene.
 Lagoss - Música para Plátanos (vinyl LP)
2026
Discrepant
forthcoming
Música para Plátanos takes its name—and much of its inspiration—from the group's recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.
Brilant Milazimi - Hard Teeth
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
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.
Merlin Modulaw - Times Ahead (were once an optimistic place)
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
An artistic inquiry into "future nostalgia".
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