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Errant Sound Reader - Thoughts and Practices from the Berlin Artist-Run Space
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
Critical insight onto creative methods and discourses central to the field of sound art.
Epistemic Imaginaries - Learning as Festivity
2025
English edition
Errant Bodies
Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices.
LSD - A manga issue
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
The fourth issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center), under the sign of Japan.
Alphabet Magazine
2025
English edition
Alphabet
The second issue of the magazine made by artists, founded by Donatien Grau and Thomas Lenthal : contributions by Michael Amzalag, Laurie Anderson, Marisa Berenson, Marco Brambilla, Phong Bui, Joshua Cohen, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Diller, Lina Ghotmeh, Romeo Gigli, Emily Greenhouse, Daniel Humm, Miranda July, Na Kim, Glenn Ligon, José Tolentino Mendonça, Jill Mulleady, Federico Nicolao, Rick Owens, Peter Saville, Luigi Serafini, Maria Stepanova, Hito Steyerl, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bénédicte Savoy / Francesco Vezzoli, Sarah Sze, Kulapat Yantrasast, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Abécédaire of Fringes
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
The outcome of the artist residency promoted by Fondazione Crespo, which took place on the Irish coast of West Cork, "Abécédaire of Fringes" collects the contributions of Lorenzo Rebediani, Vera Scaccabarozzi, Luca Trevisani, and Francesca Verga.
 7038634357 - Waterfall Horizon (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357's second album with Blank Forms Editions, written for live performance and workshopped over successive shows during a 2022 tour: hallmarks of the artist's prior, studio-crafted recordings—slow-burning ambience and obfuscating digital distortion—are pared back, revealing borderline pop inflections.
Mohammed Alresayes - Between Forms
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A selection of works by the Saudi artist that center on mud-brick houses, their central courtyards, and distinctive elements—drawing on a personal archive of memory and place—as well as scenes of traditional Bedouin life.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (CD)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Ellen Arkbro's fourth album collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023–24.
Tolia Astakhishvili - To love and devour
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
Artist's book.
Jessica Backsell - Provoking the Freeport Magic - Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Experiments in Art and Capitalism
How practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.
Philip Guston - Ten Drawings
2025
no text
Nieves
Ten drawings by the American painter.
Khaleel Hassan Khaleel - The Whisper of Dreams
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory works by the Saudi artist that invite into a dreamlike realm where reality and imagination blur.
Éric La Casa - Contrefaçons (CD)
2025
Swarming
For their first collaboration, Marc Baron and Éric La Casa decided to examine representation from the angle of "counterfeiting", in order to think about our relationship to recording and the archive. It's a question of countering the way we fix reality, as if to get rid of all realism.
Frantz Loriot - Musique improvisée et questions politiques
2025
French edition
Bruit
Two figures of adventurous and creative music discuss the relationship between improvised music and socio-political practices, through the prism of anarchist thought.
 MBL architectes - Impasse des Lilas
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL.
Philippe Parreno - Voices
2025
English edition
M/M (Paris)
A landmark retrospective.
Emmanuel Saulnier - Partitions
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions du Regard
This monograph, authored by writer Frédéric Valabrègue and choreographer and art critic Daniel Dobbels, features extensive visual material and focuses on the public commissions and national and international exhibitions created by Emmanuel Saulnier over the course of a dozen years, as well as on all the publications he has edited or directed.
Kevin Tomkins - Domestic
2025
English edition
Timeless
A collection of lyrics and texts by Kevin Tomkins of Sutcliffe Jugend.
Samson Young - Intentness and Songs
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
This monograph focuses on a multimedia installation by Samson Young that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the research of the artist.
Afrosonica - Soundscapes (vinyl LP)
2025
Flee
This record brings together four original works commissioned for the exhibition Afrosonica – Soundscapes, presented at the MEG (Museum of Ethnography in Geneva) in 2025. Blending sound art with reflections on the democratization of museum collections, this recording project explores connections: between past and present, between archives and living practices, between sonic materials, collective imaginaries, and diasporic trajectories.
Afrosonica - Soundscapes (CD)
2025
Flee
This record brings together four original works commissioned for the exhibition Afrosonica – Soundscapes, presented at the MEG (Museum of Ethnography in Geneva) in 2025. Blending sound art with reflections on the democratization of museum collections, this recording project explores connections: between past and present, between archives and living practices, between sonic materials, collective imaginaries, and diasporic trajectories.
Frog
2025
texts in English and French
Frog
Mai-Thu Perret, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Genesis Tramaine, Mathieu Malouf, Tom Allen, Orson Gillick Morris, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Laurie Simmons, Mark Leckey, Andrew Power, Josh Smith, Annette Messager, Larry Johnson, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Ramsay McPhillips, Sarah Rapson, Michael Roy, Tom Burr, Mike Kelley, Sturtevant, Pierre Huyghe, Alexandre Singh...
Bernhard Siegert - Techniques culturelles - Grilles, filtres, portes et autres articulations du réel
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Emmanuelle Pireyre - La performance narrative - Art, Littérature, Scène
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Figures
A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.
Yves Sarfati - De l\'inconscient à l\'abstraction - Le cas Hartung
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.
Marine Schütz - Handmade readymade - Dessin et illustration dans le Pop art américain et britannique (1950-1975)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.
May
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
currently out of stock
Annie Ochmanek, Felix Bernstein, Alex Kitnick, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ama Birch, Frances Stark, Renee Gladman, Josephine Pryde, "Lacan: The Exhibition" by Cassandra Seltman, Cauleen Smith, the 60th Venice Biennale by Ken Okiishi, Constance DeJong, Civil War & Kirsten Dunst by Asha Schechter, Brice Dellsperger, Mathias Poledna, Women's History Museum by Ada O'Higgins, Renaud Jerez.
Afrosonica - Soundscapes
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
currently out of stock
Based on a collective research initiative and exhibition, the book Afrosonica offers a reflection on African and Afro-diasporic sound, published in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva.
Natasha Barrett - Toxic Colour (CD)
2025
Persistence of Sound
currently out of stock
A new collection of pieces originating from environmental sounds recorded using 3D ambisonic microphones, deconstructed, processed, and composed into abstract, deterritorialized musical journeys.
Rosanna McLaughlin - Against Morality
2025
English edition
Floating Opera Press
currently out of stock
A manifesto against the current moralizing trend in the arts.
Inter - Theatrum Mundi
2025
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
sold out
Theater of the world, between live art and visual arts.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There
2025
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
sold out
Every page of Here and There Vol.1 – Vol.13.5 in a single volume.
Aleksandra Waliszewska - Problem Issue 5
2025
no text
Timeless
sold out
A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).
Frank Malina - Light Art and Scientific Abstraction
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist, one of the fathers of light art.
Matt Copson - Sob Story
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
First monograph.
Louisa Gagliardi - Many Moons
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This luxurious monograph reveals the strangeness of the Swiss artist's practice, which blends traditional painting techniques with digital technology, and captures the very special texture of the works reproduced on the glossy surface of paper.
Lily Stockman - Minotaur
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Luca Lo Pinto - I Am Only the Housekeeper, but I Don’t Know…
2025
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A contemporary hommage of Jože Plečnik's oeuvre.
Stefan Tcherepnin - Return of the SAD 1024, Vol. I (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.
Stefan Tcherepnin - Return of the SAD 1024, Vol. II (vinyl LP)
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Contemporary artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin Stefan Tcherepnin—nephew of the inventor behind the Serge Modular system—meets electronic musician Anders Enge, on a suite of playfully haywire demonstrations of the vintage modular synth at EMS Stockholm.
Juan Araujo - Clouds and Shadows on Mars / Over Time
2025
English edition
Cura.
Blending critical discourse with striking visual documentation, this volume is both a tribute to a singular exhibition and a testament to Juan Araujo's enduring exploration of memory, perception, and the shifting nature of visual heritage.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.
Aline Wiame - Revenir d\'entre les morts - Deleuze et la croyance en ce monde au cinéma et dans les séries
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
Roberto Barbanti - Les sonorités du monde - De l\'écologie sonore à l\'écosophie sonore
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
Peinture & numérique - Pratiques et enjeux contemporains
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.
Faire – To look at things - \
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world's most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude Fellay discusses the challenges facing fashion research today.
Display, Distribute, Disrupt - Contemporary Moving Image Practices
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.
Shahrzad Malekian - Breaking Ground with Play - Shahrzad Malekian\'s Artistic Practice and Beyond
2025
English edition
Torpedo
An investigation into how spontaneous play and public interaction in contemporary art can subvert societal norms, based on the work of Oslo-based Iranian artist Shahrzad Malekian.
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