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Hoda Kashiha - Slipping on Fragmented Shapes
2026
trilingual edition (English / Persian / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph devoted to the explosive and colorful abstract paintings of the Iranian artist.
Duan Jianyu - Yúqiáo
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The first English-language catalogue dedicated to the Guangzhou-based artist.
Arduna
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A spectacular journey through 80 major works of modern and contemporary art (by Picasso, Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and Hockney to Manal AlDowayan, Etel Adnan, and Imran Qureshi) in AlUla, an oasis located on the ancient incense route, taking the image of the "garden in the desert" as a starting point for artistic reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature.
Brackish Waters
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.
FUORI! - Rehearsing a City for All
2026
English edition
Bruno
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.
Lisa Mazenauer - Photographie et écologie
2026
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
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.
Enis Maci - Eiscafé Europa
2026
English edition
HELA Press
Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement.
16 millions de signes - From and about books
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.
The Oracle - On Fantasy and Freedom
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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.
Artforum - January 2026
2026
English edition
Artforum
Álvaro Urbano by Javier Montes, Togar by Hung Duong, Kerry James Marshall by James Meyer...
The Institution and Its Intentions
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.
Revue & Corrigée
2026
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Red Rubber Road; Fatena Abu Mostafa; Inner Lifts (Sissel Vera Pettersen, Randi Pontoppidan, CTM, Sissi Rada, Meriheini Luoto, Berlinde Deman, Claire M Singer, IKI, Bridget Ferrill); Erell Latimier; Claire Serres & les Sirènes; Xavière Fertin & Louis Frères; Seijiro Murayama; Sophie Agnel; Tom Johnson (1939-2025)...
e-flux Index
2026
English edition
e-flux Index
Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.
L\'art extra-terrestre au XXIe siècle
2026
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
The catalogue of the manifesto exhibition that seeks to lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of 21st-century extra-terrestrial art.
Über Brücken Bridging
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The editorial extension of a long-term art and performance program in Cologne's public space, on and around its seven bridges over the Rhine.
Festina Lente
2026
French edition
Festina Lente
The fourth and final issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.
Spike - Salad Days!
2026
English edition
Spike
Spike #86 rehabilitates the entire younger generation.
Marie Adjedj - Déhiérarchiser le monde de l\'art - Usages du document au tournant des années 1970 par Germano Celant, Carla Lonzi, Lucy R. Lippard, Seth Siegelaub
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub
Catherine Beaugrand - Against Relationalism and the Tyranny of Context - Anthropological Ideas and the Volume of Being
2026
English edition
Naima
A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.
Carlos Bunga - Inhabit the Contradiction
2026
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.
Simone Carraro - Era un cavallo elettrico - Breviario post-padano
2026
no text
Bruno
Artist's book printed in risograph in a limited edition of 250 copies.
Mario Ceroli - Ceroli Totale
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A retrospective tracing seventy years of work by Mario Ceroli (born in 1938), a central figure in 20th-century Italian sculpture.
Brice Dellsperger - Twelve Body Doubles
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Huellas Entreveradas (CD)
2026
Persistence of Sound
This vinyl record brings together three pieces that play mischievously with the voice as a sound source, narrative source or diverted object: "Huellas Entreveradas" (2018), "La Baballe du Chien Chien à la Mé-Mère" (2001) and "Deux Dents Dehors" (2007).
Lorenza Longhi - How About Another Problem?
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Lenz Press
Lorenza Longhi unfolds her strategies of subversion/reappropriation of the visual signs and codes of the society of control and consumption in the spaces of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.
 Moni<!----> -
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).
Paul O\'Neill - Beyond Caring - Para-hosting as Curatorial Escape
2026
English edition
Floating Opera Press
"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.
Emilio Prini - … E Prini
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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.
Leonard Rickhard - Between Construction and Collapse
2026
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph: a large retrospective of the work of Norwegian painter Leonard Rickhard (1945-2024) spanning more than half a century.
Karin Schmuck - Limitis.
2026
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A photographic reflection on place and borders (artist's book).
Zeynep Toraman - Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon - For instrumental ensemble, electronics and film (vinyl LP)
2026
Speckled Toshe
Created for instrumental ensemble, electronics and film, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon is a spacious and quietly enigmatic work by composer and writer Zeynep Toraman, bringing together clarinet, cello, violin, electric guitar and electronic textures with a subtly unfolding visual layer.
Nobuko Tsuchiya -
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Antoine de Galbert Foundation
The sixth volume in the collection published by the Antoine de the Galbert Foundation, dedicated to the artist Diego Vecchio.
Gus Van Sant - Paintings
2026
English edition
Blue Moon Press
The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.
Aleksandra Waliszewska - Solution Issue 5
2026
no text
Timeless
The latest, massive volume in the Solution series of collected all-new and most recent landscape paintings by Aleksandra Waliszewska.
Mary Walling Blackburn - Cream Psychosis
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.
Faire – To look at things - The Billboard Image: In, Around, and About
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A reflection on what becomes of and what is produced by images displayed in public spaces.
Éric La Casa - Paris Public Spaces 2 (book / CD)
2026
Swarming
A series of short sound interventions, in pairs, in public spaces in Paris, both outdoors (passages, squares, esplanades, parks) and indoors (bridges, tunnels), from the Bois de Vincennes to La Défense, between May and October 2025.
Ré Soupault - L\'esprit avant tout – Du Bauhaus au reste du monde - Souvenirs
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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.
Penser l\'intelligence artificielle - Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l\'automatisation numérique
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
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.
Sophie Ristelhueber - The War within
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian - La conquête d\'une autorité - Historiennes de l\'art en France
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.
Charlemagne Palestine - The Organ is the World\'s Greatest Synthesizer (vinyl LP)
2026
Staalplaat
currently out of stock
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).
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra - Soy Energía
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
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.
Charlotte Moth - A Rounded Landscape
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMC+ (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole)
New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.
Isabella Ducrot - Profusione
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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.
Takashi Homma - This Is Not My Cat
2025
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.
Karimah Ashadu - Tendered
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Voice Seeping Into Time - Of Thoughts Finding Form
2025
English edition
Archive Books
The voice as a space of publication in itself.
Brandon LaBelle - Fluid Compostings
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
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.
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