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Simple Architecture - The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
sold out
A dialogue between architectural history and design, in homage to Le Corbusier's theoretical vision behind the construction of the Villa Baizeau in Carthage.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Judith Bernstein - Active Figuration
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Judith Bernstein's Active Figuration series (2000) consists of ink-on-paper drawings created through a trance-like process, exploring the subconscious. The gestural images address the political injustices of their time, depicting figures in existential angst and turbulent relationships. "It's fun, but it's dead serious".
Cornelia Blatter - 10 letters from Furka Pass 
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Artist, designer and publisher Cornelia Blatter returns to the Alps of her childhood to release letters in balloons addressed to lost loved ones.
Elzo Durt - Complete Works #2 (2017-2023)
2024
no text
Timeless
A retrospective of Elzo Durt's work since 2017.
Daniel O\'Sullivan - The Shell is A Cell
2024
English edition
Timeless
The first book of visual artworks by acclaimed musical wunderkind Daniel O'Sullivan.
Leslie Roberts - I will console you with language
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
A series of works by Leslie Roberts, who transforms language into paint, capturing the flood of overlooked information around us.
Laura Mulvey - Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later / 40 Jahre später
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."
David Horvitz - Call To A Crow
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
KaPa
currently out of stock
A collection of short poems in a pocket-sized leporello book.
e-flux Index
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
sold out
This first issue of e-flux 's bimonthly publishing project presents the pieces published by e-flux in December 2023 and January 2024. The metadata gives some indication of its breadth, spanning 48 pieces, 52 authors, and over 150,000 words. Following its wider editorial ambitions to co-articulate multiple discourses, the Index removes the identity cards anchoring these pieces to their original provenance, and instead "meta-edits" them into nine emergent thematic strands.
Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water (vinyl LP)
2024
God Records
sold out
Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.
Davide Balula - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Takashi Homma - Tokyo Olympia
2023
no text
Nieves
sold out
A large-format board-book sequel to Homma's seminal photobook Tokyo Suburbia.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Sticky Selfies
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
Joseph Havel - Parrot Architecture
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
Bridget Mullen - Birthday
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Bridget Mullen's "Birthday" series of intimate-sized paintings expressing emotions through abstracted figures and features, with a conversation between the artist and Lucas Blalock.
Eugène Carrière - Scènes de la vie domestique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
An overview of Eugène Carrière's work, through a selection of little-known or previously unpublished paintings, alongside his major masterpieces.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Anuradha Vikram - Use Me at Your Own Risk - Visions from the Darkest Timeline
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Inter - Mélancolie à l\'ère de la technique
2023
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
On the melancholy and morality of digital ecosystems.
The Stonewall Nation
2023
English edition
Torpedo
(last copies available!)
20.00 € 14.00 €
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
Multiple x multiple
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An investigation of the multiple in art, through the works of some thirty artists.
Chrysalide - Le rêve du papillon
2023
French edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Chrysalis - The Butterfly Dream
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Ireland-Palestine united against apartheid; "dark romances": the problematic new publishing business; the breakdown of French cultural diplomacy in the Sahel; infiltration into armed survivalism; reportage in the dormitory town of Kiev; Alice Rohrwacher; Carolina Bianchi; Ben Rivers ; Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Hugo Pernet...
Flash Art - Winter 2023-24 – Failures of Influence
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Eric N. Mack & Kiko Kostadinov; Hannah Black; Mike Kelley in conversation with Larry Clark and John Waters; Elle Pérez; Farah Al Qasimi; Lotus L. Kang; focus on Tokyo by Chus Martínez; Yuko Hasegawa; Scott Cameron Weaver; Bouchra Khalili...
Daphne Ahlers - Die Würflerin
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Gaston Chaissac - Fétiches dernier cri
2023
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.
Christa Joo Hyun D\'Angelo - Fatal Attraction
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first monograph of the artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Fatal Attraction covers over a decade of work spanning collage, video, installation, and sculpture.
Werner Durand - Clearing (vinyl LP)
2023
Aguirre Records
The first published recording by Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand (fusing her Indian Raga singing in the Dhrupad style with his minimalist and experimental approach) and Uli Hohmann (joining them in a range of hand drums from the Middle East and North Africa, plus a dulcimer-sounding hammered guitar).
Aviva Endean - Moths & Stars (CD)
2023
Room40
Australian composer and clarinetist Aviva Endean has developed an impressive capacity for creating work that merges intense control (of breath, of instrument, of composition) and a willingness to allow the music to lead. On Moths & Stars, her second solo work, she charts out a sound world that is equal parts timbre and tone, placing sounds relationship to space as a paramount focus for her pieces.
Theresa Ganz - Grand Illusion
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible.
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
Benjamin Hirte - Modest Homes
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Halos of Perception (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
Drawing from Lisa Lerkenfeldt's field work and electroacoustic practices, piano, cello and tape loop arrangements light up lost chambers and underground histories in a patchwork of reflective musique concrète, instrumental composition and surreal cinema.
Lionel Marchetti - Inland Lake (le lac intérieur) (CD)
2023
Room40
The new alchemical collaboration between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.
Pablo Schlumberger - 1
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid publication, between an artist book, a monograph and a field report on a lost work.
Kasper T. Toeplitz - Érosions programmées (CD)
2023
Akousis Records
A piece for saxophones and electronics, performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz (real time electronics) and Bertrand Gauguet (alto & baritone saxophones).
Ralf Wehowsky - Spuren & Gegenworte (CD)
2023
Sonoris
"Spuren & Gegenworte" began with a quasi-telepathic collaboration between KM and RW. Both recorded a track on May 3, 2021, from 8:00 PM to 8:10 PM. These recordings were subsequently transformed, combined, juxtaposed, and further modified over the course of several months, resulting in the completion of the four pieces on the CD.
Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Almine Rech Editions
The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.
Frédéric Lagnau - Denis Chouillet plays Frédéric Lagnau (vinyl LP)
2023
Montagne Noire / GMEA
The first monograph devoted to the piano works of composer, pianist and improviser Frédéric Lagnau (1967-2010), whose music, with its communicative energy, offers a personal and poetic approach to minimalism. Sensitivity to sound, harmonic beauty and rhythmic intensity are its hallmarks.
Mike Cooper - Oceans Of Milk And Treacle (book + CD)
2023
Room40
Mike Cooper's new masterful experiment mixing free jazz, Oceanic, and Hawaiian inspirations, in collaboration with Geoff Hawkins, Jon Raskin and Tim Hill (saxophone), Elliott Sharp and Michael Thieke (clarinet), Scot Ray (lap steel guitar) and choreographer and dancer Ariella Vidach.
François Bayle - Le Projet Ouïr (CD)
2023
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.
Christophe Brunnquell - Happy Birthday Picasso
2023
no text
various
currently out of stock
Artist and Purple magazine artistic director Christophe Brunnquell and photographer Grégoire Alexandre continue their long-standing collaboration with a tribute to Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Sam Dunscombe - Two Forests / Oceanic (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
Sam Dunscombe's second album, Two Forests / Oceanic, uses field recordings and rational tuning practice to reimagine the music used for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions.
Jean-Luc Guionnet - Those whose dads never met (CD)
2023
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
currently out of stock
An improvised encounter between the two musicians (Jean-Luc Guionnet, alto saxophone / Lê Quan Ninh, percussion): five pieces of different lengths, alternating long periods of subtle restraint with moments of incredible intensity.
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