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Anderson Zaca - Fire Island Invasion - Day of Independence
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Inside the drag-queen “Invasion” on Fire Island.
Claire Zaniolo - Le passage
2025
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.
Bruno Zhu - Fiction Non Fiction - Volume 1
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A critical reflection on colonial spaces initiated by the Portuguese artist.
Richard Niessen - Faire – To look at things - A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Four epistolary exchanges between Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen about the Palace of Typographic Masonry, a project initiated in 2014 by the Dutch graphic designer as an imaginary architecture devoted entirely to the variety, abundance, digressions and poetry of graphic expression.
Miriam Cahn - Könnteichsein + Gepäck/Gefühl (2 books)
2025
no text
Nieves
Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 39 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy.
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
Offline
2025
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
currently out of stock
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
 Banha Da Cobra - Lava Love (vinyl LP)
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020—amidst the pandemic, no less—, the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their "Mãe D'Água" debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aquapelago Series through a split with tropical druids Lagoss.
Florian Hecker - UPIC Diffusion Session #23 (vinyl LP)
2025
Editions Mego
currently out of stock
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker pursue their exploration of the computer music system invented by Xenakis.
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch (vinyl LP)
2025
Faitiche
currently out of stock
A remastered 20th-anniversary reissue of the album released on the ~scape label in 2005 and long out of print on vinyl, with which Jan Jelinek turned away from his earlier jazz-glitch experiments and dance-floor incursions to venture into the organic sounds of early krautrock bands.
Ergo Phizmiz - Selected Ambient & ASMR Works 2001-2003 (vinyl LP)
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Ergo Phizmiz creates a time loop with his ambient recordings made two decades before the memefication of ASMR videos.
Steve Roden - Forms of Paper (vinyl LP)
2025
Aurora Central Records
currently out of stock
The first-ever release on vinyl of the important 2001 lowercase work "Forms of Paper" by Steve Roden. Lovingly remastered by Taylor Deupree of 12K Masters in 2024 from the original recording, this limited-edition LP features Steve Roden's artwork on the cover/packaging.
Michael Snow - Music for Today - Solo piano (vinyl LP)
2025
Editedby
currently out of stock
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
Roland Kayn - Elektroakustische Projekte & Makro (5 CD box set)
2025
Reiger Records Reeks
currently out of stock
A major reissue of Roland Kayn's cybernetic music: a 5-CD boxed set based on the original recordings from the Lydia and Roland Kayn Archive, sensibly remastered by Jim O'Rourke.
Luca Trevisani - Amazoom (vinyl LP)
2025
Xing
currently out of stock
Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.
Vikram Divecha - Short Circuits
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.
Dan Graham - Architecture / Astrologie
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMiles PaperAldridge
2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Moving Landscapes
2025
English edition
Jeu de Paume
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
Artforum - January 2025
2025
English edition
Artforum
Denzil Forrester, Sophie Calle, "The Imaginary Institution of India", PST ART, Bill Viola...
Revue & Corrigée
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
John Armleder - Autobiography
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
Denise Bertschi - Export Quality Poetry (1924–2024)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - In girum imus nocte
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.
Anna Colin - Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs - De l\'utopie à l\'institutionnalisation
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Harun Farocki - About Narration - Materials, Comments, Interventions
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
Alain Gunst - Pourquoi peindre
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
Natalie Häusler - Corals
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Grégoire Motte - Witloof & Witty
2025
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Portées
A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Nicolas Trembley - My Craft - Entretien avec Véronique Bacchetta sur l\'exposition, l\'artisanat, l\'art, les hiérarchies culturelles et les typologies
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.
Edoardo Tresoldi - Monumento
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Documentation on sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi's permanent monumental installation in Venice's Procuratie Vecchie.
 Truwant + Rodet + - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
IAM / PDR - Instituto de Arte Moderno Premio De Ridder (2-book box set)
2025
Spanish edition
KBB
IAM/PDR unveils a missing chapter in the cultural history of Argentine modernity. Through the intertwined stories of the Instituto de Arte Moderno and the Premio De Ridder, this two-volume publication reveals how a visionary patronage network connected Buenos Aires with the international avant-garde and shaped generations of artists.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Louis Ucciani - Avant-garde et contre culture
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
currently out of stock
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
2025
English edition
Bierke
currently out of stock
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Paysages mouvants
2025
French edition
Jeu de Paume
sold out
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
Lentil Space - Recipes from Artists\' Homes
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
sold out
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
Hélène Bellenger - Bianco Ordinario
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Editions de l'Observeur
An archaeology of the imagination / a new aesthetic of ruin (a sophisticated artist's edition in a box, inspired by the over-exploitation of Carrara marble quarries).
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