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New Titles in Art, Theory and Performance Arts

8 December 2025

Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics

Isbn 9783956795879
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250870
€ 19.95

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art’s turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Republished here in a revised edition nearly twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and forward by the author. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists’ works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English

Lucy Skaer – The Truth and Untruth of Stones

Isbn 9781912570119
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250868
€ 43.90

Lucy Skaer lives on the Isle of Lewis. She is an artist who works with sculpture, film, print and drawing. Her work slows ideas down to abstractions and makes them concrete. This book has been conceived as a moment in time. The sculptures that appear in its pages have been rephotographed to allow them to exist anew in book form, alongside recent photographs of surroundings, events and landscapes from the artist’s life. The images were then given to two writers to respond to directly. What emerges is ‘a space that contains her various sensibilities on pages partitioned, like rooms or chambers’, now receding in time. Contributions by Ingrid Schaffner and K Patrick.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English

The Tinklers Charts and Stories

Isbn 9783906213569
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 250927
€ 30.00

The Tinklers are an outsider band from Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1979 by Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason. Aside from singing and playing music, both band members are also active creators of visual art, poetry, and artists’ books. With ‘The Tinklers Charts and Stories’ they present an anthology of selected visual work, including the drawings from one irreverently humorous performance titled “The Tinklers History of the World”, which featured the duo playing songs while walking along a 15-metre-long visual timeline of various events in world history. In addition, the volume includes “The Tinklers Songs and Charts”, “Home by the River”, and “The Tinklers Encyclopedia”.

216 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English

Correspondences de Appel 1975–2025

Isbn 9789073501874
Publisher De Appel
Idea code 251017
€ 38.00

This volume brings together 50 years of correspondence from the archive of de Appel contemporary arts centre in Amsterdam. In tracing a relational and affective history of the institution, each piece offers a glimpse into the artistic projects and programmes de Appel has commissioned and championed; the cultural shifts and careers it has nurtured; the celebrations and struggles it has weathered; and the collaborations and friendships sparked along the way. The book gathers materials from more than 100 voices, with paper and digital exchanges covering an intricate web of people, places, and events, ultimately coalescing into what can be perceived as the unified work of an institution.

384 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English

See All This 40: Mory Sacko - Cooking is Caring

Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 251002
€ 24.30

The magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary with a festive issue devoted to food. ‘Cooking is Caring’ is all about how sharing a meal connects people across borders, cultures, and cuisines. Food is a culture we cannot help but consume, and each page explores its richness from a new angle: from nutritional approaches to modern living offered by the Islington Twins to the demystification of food chains through the lens of the humble pizza. Guest-curated by Michelin-starred chef Mory Sacko, it offers readers a glimpse into his world, where the African flavours of his ancestors, the French cuisine of his training, and Japanese sophistication come together on the plate.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Isbn 9789464448023
Publisher Subjective Editions
Idea code 251016
€ 25.50

This subjective atlas bring together over 80 personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders. Reduced to ethnic categories, entities, and war-era narratives, these people inhabit a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists. With a polyphonic cartography, the volume counters these simplifications, presenting visual voices that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today. Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions comprise drawing, collage, photography, and storytelling. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, the mappings aim to make the country tangible.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Bosnian/English

Jacob Lawrence - African American Modernist (Eng. Ed.)

Isbn 9789490153427
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 250966
€ 38.00

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) made his breakthrough in 1941 with his iconic series of paintings entitled ‘The Great Migration’. Comprising 60 panels, it tells the story of the mass migration of the Black population from the southern United States to the north. Lawrence would continue to focus on African-American history throughout his career. In the later years of the Harlem Renaissance, he developed his own autonomous painting style – an expressive sort of collage cubism – to convey powerful messages. He is now considered a giant of 20th-century American painting. This book appears with the first retrospective exhibition in Europe of works by Lawrence.

280 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English

Jacob Lawrence - African American Modernist (Dutch ed.)

Isbn 9789490153625
Publisher Kunsthal Kade
Idea code 250928
€ 28.50

This catalogue accompanies Kunsthal KAdE’s first European retrospective of African-American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), one of the most significant painters of the twentieth century. Best known for his landmark 1941 series The Great Migration - sixty panels chronicling the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North - Lawrence gave powerful visual expression to the struggles and triumphs of everyday life. Richly illustrated and featuring essays on Lawrence’s artistic legacy, historical context, and unique narrative style, this publication offers new perspectives on his groundbreaking body of work.

278 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Voice Seeping into Time - Of Thoughts Finding Form

Isbn 9783949973956
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251039
€ 18.40

“I am insisting on the voice as carrier of knowledge, a vessel that gives form to ideas, as a marker of spaces, the voice as container and content, the voice as space of resistance and insistence.” - Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Borrowing its title from Forough Farrokhzad’s Only Voice Remains, Voice Seeping into Time asserts the power of the voice to claim not only space but also duration. Gathering a selection of speeches delivered during Ndikung’s first two years as director and chief curator of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) between March 2023 and April 2025, the book expands his proposition that the voice is itself a form of publication. Articulated by a single speaker yet resonant with many perspectives, these texts trace the programmatic lines shaping HKW’s institutional outlook—an embrace of multiple cultures, epistemologies, sociopolitical positions, and spiritual imaginaries. Voice Seeping into Time offers a record of an evolving institution and of a voice attuned to plurality.

216 p, no ills, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English

Leila Orth - We as water

Isbn 9783912226010
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251041
€ 15.30

In We as Water, Leila Orth explores what forms places of remembrance can take today. Drawing on her long-standing artistic engagement with memorials, she uses the book to search for sites that exist beyond national frameworks - spaces where memory might flow across borders and open onto transnational forms of collective remembrance.

144 p, ills bw, 10 x 17 cm, pb, Korean/English

Art, Hope, Action - Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times

Isbn 9783949973413
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251042
€ 28.60

Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times brings together a diverse collection of artists, scholars, and activists to present an interdisciplinary and critical examination of hope’s potential for form, method, and action. Drawing on materials from the exhibition After Hope: Videos of Resistance, the volume explores themes of solidarity, queer theory, environmental degradation, narratives of exile, resilience, resistance, and the possibility of escape — as well as return. How do we plant the seeds for new and eclectic futures? What dreams shape our visions of togetherness? Can art challenge us to change and make a difference? This diverse collection includes essays, interviews, photographs, ephemera and more, centering the work of artists from across Asia and its diaspora, and their affinities with like-minded artists and activists and around the world, as guides and catalysts for further inquiry.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

Rose Nolan – Breathing Helps

Isbn 9781922545480
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251032
€ 38.45

Across a four-decade career, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rose Nolan has made a name for her experimentation with scale, material, and medium. Utilising painting, photography, and printmaking to playfully engage with the legacies and residues of modernism, her crystallised use of colour and powerfully graphic sensibility has formed a bridge between the codes of architecture, spatial practice, sculpture, and language. Published alongside the major solo exhibition of the same name at TarraWarra Museum of Art, the major new book Breathing Helps highlights the recurring spatial and performative threads that play out across Nolan’s practice, alongside documentation of new site-specific commissions that respond to the museum’s architecture.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English

Séance: Technology of the Spirit (13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale)

Isbn 9791193372357
Publisher Mediabus
Idea code 250972
€ 22.95

This richly illustrated volume documents and expands the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Séance: Technology of the Spirit. Curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis, it explores how artistic and spiritual practices have been intertwined from the dawn of modernity to today—linking mystics and mediums who anticipated modern and abstract art with contemporary artists worldwide. Across 650 pages, this bilingual English–Korean publication maps this complex relationship. Eleven newly commissioned essays reflect on how marginalized belief systems have shaped modern and contemporary art, proposing alternatives to dominant formalist, social, or materialist narratives.

650 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Korean/English

Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence

Isbn 9781915609557
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250883
€ 34.00

Agnieszka Kurant: Collective Intelligence is an innovative monograph of the acclaimed artist’s work covering the past ten years. The book explores Kurant’s interdisciplinary practice, which is focussed on collective intelligence - a phenomenon observed in bacteria, animals, social movements, internet, cities, and inside our brains - where novel forms emerge in unpredictable ways out of interactions between thousands of elements or agents in a complex system. It examines from different perspectives the topic of collective intelligence in nature and culture; non-human intelligence (animal, bacterial, Artificial Intelligence); the exploitations of social capital under surveillance capitalism; automation; artificial life, fictions as building blocks of social reality; and the future of labour and creativity in the 21st century.

400 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English

Fieldnotes Issue 7: folding the known

Isbn
Publisher Fieldnotes
Idea code 251013
€ 15.00

This seventh issue unfolds like a hole – an invitation to fall in. But what is a hole, if not a nothing? Answers hide in the blank spaces between the folds, in the thoughts between thoughts, in the days between one person and another. Each new day opens as if to say: read on. The issue features new writing and artwork from a range of contributors, among them American composer Julius Eastman, artist and radio host Riel Bellow, poet and painter Richard Siken, Danish writer Solvej Balle, Iranian filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran, writer Kami Enzie, visual artist Moyra Davey, poet and activist Rodrigo Toscano, multidisciplinary artist Adrienne Herr, filmmaker Ektoras Arkomanis, more.

158 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English

How We Made Noise: Reimagining the Museum from Within

Isbn 9789493382039
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 251006
€ 23.50

Institutions worldwide, especially museums, are rethinking their roles as they confront colonial, gendered, and other harmful legacies. This anthology draws on the practice of Buro Stedelijk, a physical space and institution within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Between 2022 and 2025, Buro Stedelijk collaborated with over 200 voices to test how institutions might be reimagined from within. Through ambitious and critically attentive programming, it explored the tensions between care and power, legacy and change. ‘How We Made Noise’ reflects on daily labour, self-implication, and whether such in-between spaces can open temporary pockets of transformative potential.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English

Hikari Ono - On a Still Surface

Isbn 9789464460940
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 251000
€ 15.55

Hikari Ono’s works are fundamentally tactile. She is mostly known for her small clay sculptures with minimal forms and muted colours. Her interest in returning to primary structures is reflected in this practice of clay modelling, the most archaic and direct way of shaping a material. Before working with clay, however, she had been making prints since 2015. She wanted to paint, but was searching for a medium that suited her better than traditional painting. Her discovery of monotype printing led to a series of works, then an urge to use her hands more, and a shift towards clay. Later, she would return to her monochrome prints and experiment further – the impetus for this book.

48 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 16 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Sandra Mujinga – Skin to Skin

Isbn 9789050062367
Publisher Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Idea code 250745
€ 32.50

Sandra Mujinga’s practice encompasses installation, sculpture, video, music, photography, and performance. As an artist, she is concerned with how we relate to bodies perceived as “other”. By staging encounters with beings unknown to us, Mujinga invites us to imagine alternative ways of existing and living together. Drawing on Afrofuturism, posthumanism, and science fiction, she conceives immersive environments that blend sculpture, sound, and light. ‘Skin to Skin’ appears with her eponymous solo exhibition – and most ambitious installation to date – at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Belvedere 21 in Vienna, offering deeper insight into her speculative world.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 33 cm, pb, English

Jani Ruscica - I for Iridescence

Isbn 9789527222201
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 250943
€ 37.65

'I for Iridescence' is an artist’s book by Jani Ruscica featuring dialogues with artists, writers, curators, and scholars including Tomaso Binga, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Diana Campbell, Angus Carlyle, Lex Morgan Lancaster, and Taneli Viljanen. The book acts as a meeting ground for reciprocal reflections on each participant’s practice, where formal experiments intertwine with intimate thoughts. Sprinkled through it is an artistic intervention—confetti made of recycled paper from Ruscica’s work Fate a modo vostro o com’è scritto nelle stelle. Ruscica’s interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, sculpture, print, and performance, engaging with the instability of meaning through fragmentary, pseudo-familiar forms. Their works feature in major collections, including the Centre Pompidou and Kiasma.

332 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English

Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation

Isbn 9783912226065
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251040
€ 15.30

In Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation, Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos examines the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil’s travesti community. She critiques traditional pedagogical frameworks that marginalize gender nonconforming narratives and highlights the effects of systemic discrimination on travestis’ psychosocial well-being. Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation advocates for inclusive educational practices and emphasizes the need for affirmative curricula. Newly translated from Portuguese, this work contributes towards connecting political struggles globally and navigating the complexities of translation - particularly of the term ‘travesti’ - across various geographical and political contexts, featuring a conversation between Araújo dos Passos and translator Natália Affonso.

194 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English

Eine Pädagogik der Travesti-Bewegungen

Isbn 9783912226072
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code
€ 15.30

Eine Pädagogik der Travesti-Bewegungen ist ein richtungsweisendes Werk, das die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Pädagogik, Identität und den soziopolitischen Bewegungen rund um die brasilianische travesti-Community auffächert. In einer Reihe von Kapiteln beleuchtet das Buch pädagogische Konzepte der travesti-Bewegungen, die traditionelle Bildungsparadigmen in Frage stellen und sich für Sichtbarkeit, Empowerment und die Freuden marginalisierter Identitäten einsetzen. Das HKW veröffentlicht jeweils erweiterte englische und deutsche Übersetzungen dieses wegweisenden Buches aus dem Jahr 2022. Sie bilden die ersten Publikationen im Rahmen der School of Quilombismo.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, German

Yoel Noorali - The Kingdom

Isbn 9789490334277
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250978
€ 18.80

Yoel Noorali is a former NHS administrator and writer of fiction and non-fiction living in London. In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdom follows a host of misfits and losers struggling to devote themselves to the religion of the 21st century: work. Set predominantly within the admin office of an NHS liver wing, the collection chronicles the strange behaviours of men cornered by a bureaucracy that lets indignity run rampant. from the book: "But before I heeded the call of accountancy, I needed to completely rule out the possibility I might be Philip Roth. My wife and I had agreed I’d admit defeat after four more years of clicking. Then, adequately crushed, my real life could commence. Until then, I’d open my novel in a tiny window in the bottom right-hand corner of my computer screen, the rest occupied by images from a stranger’s MRI, and write."

144 p, no ills, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English

Jim Shaw: The Ties that Bind: Study Drawings 2013–2023

Isbn 9788867494958
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 251005
€ 37.65

'The Ties That Bind' offers an immersive entry into the strange, incisive world of Jim Shaw, an artist who since the late 1970s has built a vast and eclectic practice spanning photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, film, and music. This publication, conceived for the exhibition at M HKA in Antwerp, gathers 142 drawings made between 2013 and 2023, revealing the recurring fascinations that shape Shaw’s work: morality and myth-making, conspiracy and power, patriarchal structures, fictional worlds, hair lore, and the mechanics of cultural production. Essays by Calla Henkel and Mark von Schlegell accompany the drawings, weaving fictional threads through Shaw’s imagery and opening new narrative pathways. Together, text and image form a universe where scenes, characters, and ideas blur into one another, inviting readers to inhabit the imaginative terrain that drives Shaw’s relentlessly curious vision.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Ishita Chakraborty – Whispers of the Unheard

Isbn 9783907262719
Publisher Edition Clandestin
Idea code 250995
€ 26.90

Ishita Chakraborty’s work is rooted in postcolonial discourse and deals with topics such as ecology, migration, and sociocultural inequality. Her artistic practice involves scratched drawings, installations, poetry, and sound. She investigates the strategies of resistance narrated by individuals – often the subalterns – whose contexts are marked by traces of displacement, the trauma of colonialism, and articulation in language, oral history, and identity. An illuminating look at her artistic practice, ‘Whispers of the Unheard’ is Chakraborty’s first monograph. Its restrained typographic design underlines the book’s aesthetic appeal without competing with the artistic works.

116 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English

Christian Hidaka - Staging Fire and Constellations

Isbn 9782494983311
Publisher Éditions B42
Idea code 250990
€ 36.55

This first monograph devoted to the work of Christian Hidaka looks back over his entire career (2002-2024) and presents a wide selection of his work. It is accompanied by a text by art historian Peter Read, who presents the different stages in the artist’s career and provides keys to understanding his symbolic work. Christian Hidaka’s enigmatic work, full of reminiscences, goes through the history of painting to offer a reading that is both reflexive and sensitive. Combining different pictorial references, the English artist succeeds in linking several aesthetics that seem to oppose each other. His artworks evoke Renaissance painting, characterised by Euclidean geometry, as well as traditional Sino-Japanese pictorial aesthetics, favouring a flat representation of landscapes and perspective. Hidaka’s work extends the field of figurative representation by incorporating a wide network of symbols as well as temporal and spatial references that embrace the history of Western and Eastern painting.

264 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, French/English

PIECING PAGES On working in fragments

Isbn 9789493246997
Publisher Line Arngaard, ed
Idea code 250989
€ 25.85

Piecing Pages is a (visual) reader which collects the work of fifteen artists, writers and designers across twelve contributions. Each contribution offers insights into a practice or research project that in some way embodies the notion of working in fragments. Together, these contributions unravel how a traditional women’s craft technique – assembling scraps – continues to influence and inform the fragmented working methods of designers, artists and writers today. With contributions by Asefeh Tayebani, Hanka van der Voet, Jess Bailey and Sharbreon Plummer, Joke Robaard, Linda van Deursen, Lucy R. Lippard, Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Ronja Andersen, Rosita Kær, Susu Lee, Youngeun Sohn.

248 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English

John Baldessari - Transatlantique

Isbn 9782493808080
Publisher ER Publishing
Idea code
€ 21.50

John Baldessari is one of the leading figures of  West Coast conceptual art. Baldessari explores the language and culture of mass media in his paintings and photographic compositions, questioning the relationship between images and texts. An inspiring teacher throughout his career for several generations of artists, his influence is still felt today in both North America and Europe. Marie de Brugerolle brings together ten artists who illustrate the impact of his work on both sides of the Atlantic.

168 p, no ills, 10 x 19 cm, pb, French/English

Veo Friis Jespersen

Isbn 9788792700551
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 250956
€ 42.00

Over the years, Danish sculptor and photographer Veo Friis Jespersen has revealed a distinctive way of seeing the world, one in which material and form are reduced to their essence. Her ongoing dialogue with her chosen media continually unfolds new possibilities for transformation and the emergence of other spaces, where elements of nature and culture coexist as interdependent conditions. Material relationships and juxtapositions resonate with our time, and perhaps also with a quiet spirituality, an awareness of something beyond what is seen. This monograph presents a wide selection of exhibitions, public sculptures, installations, and photographs spanning the years 2009–2025.

288 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 23 cm, hb, Danish/English

Self-Institution/ Terminology Audit

Isbn 9789083449869
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250946
€ 17.00

'Self-Institution/Terminology Audit' is a collection of profiles and lexicons documenting artistic practices that operate as self-declared institutions. It examines the act of self-institution as both a conceptual and operational approach, focusing on how these practices structure themselves and engage with their contexts. Initiated by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), this publication investigates artist offices, bureaus, departments, ministries, societies, centres, and other explicitly institutional invocations. The Terminology Audit reveals language and jargon unique to each practice. The case studies, currently active in the field, represent a broad range of approaches, including research-based, performance-driven, pragmatic, materially motivated, counter-institutional, esoteric, and absurd facsimiles of institutionhood.

128 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English

Arman - Tout ce qui reste

Isbn 9791097856113
Publisher Vallois
Idea code 250937
€ 37.65

A major retrospective monograph published on the 20th anniversary of Arman’s death, this volume presents the artist’s visual works from the 1950s to the 1990s alongside his lesser-known yet radical performances. Featuring a text by Bernard Blistène and a wealth of archival images and documents, the book offers a comprehensive insight into the life and work of one of the key figures of postwar art.

196 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, French/English

Resonant – Bodies, Songs, and Strings

Isbn 9782959479922
Publisher MACS MTO
Idea code 250940
€ 31.20

Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition Corps à cordes: Vibrations and Resonances at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO in Chatou, curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorák, this book explores the resonances between Sufism and contemporary artistic practice. Taking the setâr - a key Sufi instrument - as a central metaphor, it reflects on the vibratory nature of emotion, healing, and transmission across human, ecological, and spiritual realms. Conceived as both an extension of the exhibition and a poetic object in its own right, the publication gathers philosophical texts, visual scores, and poems, including a contribution by Denise Ferreira da Silva on sensing as a form of situated, embodied knowledge.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English

Yinka Ilori – Dreaming in Space

Isbn 9788412749328
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 250911
€ 41.35

'Yinka Ilori dreams Spaces'. As a British-Nigerian artist and designer, he channels life lessons learned through his upbringing between London and Lagos, to create joyful blooming environments that resonate with a global audience. Believing art and design should be accessible to all, he transforms spaces to foster community and spark optimism. This interactive publication is a mirror of Ilori’s perspectives on the world through imagination. Ilori challenges how we think about dimensionalities, allocation, and the right to claim the spaces we exist in – no matter your background. He creates four unique rooms inspired by past works that exemplary represent the thought processes throughout various areas he works across.

4 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, hb, English

Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation: A Critical and Collective Practice

Isbn 9781915609830
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250884
€ 12.00

Based on practical experiments, Unlearning with Translation posits the act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times. Written by French curator, writer, editor, and self-taught translatress Virginie Bobin, the essay revisits a series of workshops, exhibitions, and other collective activities that took translation as both subject and method to unsettle entrenched conceptions of language, identity, and belonging. Alongside collaborations with artists including Mercedes Azpilicueta, Serena Lee, and Mounira Al Solh, Bobin’s reflections are grounded in her experience co-founding and facilitating the editorial and curatorial platform Qalqalah قلقلة†, which relies on translation as a tool for the production and publication of situated knowledge in three languages – French, Arabic, and English. Informed by feminist genealogies and methodologies throughout, the book maintains that collective labor and relations are key aspects of any critical practice, as exemplified in the concluding correspondence with Andrea Ancira.

148 p, no ills, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English

NIGHTS. Five Centuries of Stars, Dreams, Plenilunes

Isbn 9791254931776
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 250897
€ 38.70

From the seventeenth-century research of Galileo and Maria Clara Eimmart to the works of Johann Carl Loth, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, and Antonio Canova, and through the nocturnes of artists such as Victor Hugo, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Cornell, to the contemporary cosmic visions of Vija Celmins and Thomas Ruff, this volume brings together over one hundred works from prestigious European institutions and the collections of GAM.Produced to accompany the exhibition held at GAM Torino from October 2025 to March 2026, curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, 'NIGHTS. Five Centuries of Stars, Dreams, Plenilunes' explores the night as a space for technical experimentation, scientific inquiry, and poetic introspection, from the early 17th century to the present day. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the allure of the nocturnal as a realm of ambiguity, mystery, and discovery, in a continuous dialogue between rationality and emotion, science and visionary imagination.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, hb, Italian/English

Usylessly Edition Two by John Morgan

Isbn 9781068294006
Publisher Ten Thousand Angels Press
Idea code 250930
€ 72.90

Edition two of ‘Usylessly’ by John Morgan offers a close observation of the blue cover and form of the first edition of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. It contains the two essays by Edward L. Bishop from edition one, plus a visual essay by Morgan. Unlike edition one, which appeared in 2021, edition two does not recreate the form of the 1922 Shakespeare & Co. edition of Joyce’s classic novel. The first essay, “Re-Covering Ulysses” (1994), explores the book’s “non-literary” aspects. The second, “Ulysses Blue” appeared for the first time in edition one. It begins in the archive of the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and follows Morgan and Bishop on their quest for the blue cover.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, pb, English

No One Leaves Clean - Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy.

Isbn 9789083579580
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250865
€ 23.10

No One Leaves Clean is a raw and haunting portrait of modern Ghana, where ambition collides with the crushing realities of urban life. In the streets of Takoradi and Accra, a man battered by stalled dreams and a marriage strained by desire for wealth fights to keep his dignity in a nation wrestling with its own broken promises. Blending realism with lyrical and magical currents, this novel explores the weight of history on ordinary people, the silent ruins of masculinity and marriage, and the fierce resilience demanded by poverty. Visceral, unflinching, and beautifully told, No One Leaves Clean reveals what it means to dream, survive, and leave a mark in a place where nothing and no one escapes untouched.

600 p, no ills, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English

When Words Fail - On Practice-Based Art, Design and Education

Isbn 9791221083620
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250866
€ 18.50

This volume explores how art and design create knowledge in a world where traditional language has reached its limits. Through the works and writings of more than one hundred artists, designers, and thinkers, it examines how images, gestures, and forms can reveal what words struggle to name. As the boundaries between disciplines dissolve, these contributors test new tools for understanding experience, confronting uncertainty, and challenging dominant narratives. Their practices show that visual work does more than represent reality. It can reshape it, offering critical, situated, and transformative ways of knowing in the blur of the contemporary moment.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English

Kei Imazu: Tanah Air

Isbn 9784908062636
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 250861
€ 35.65

Published alongside her first major solo exhibition in Tokyo, this catalogue explores Imazu's artistic practice since relocating to Bandung, Indonesia in 2017. The Japanese artist (b. 1980) processes digital imagery into oil paintings that examine urban development, environmental issues, and Indonesian mythology. The exhibition's title combines the Indonesian words for "earth" and "water," reflecting on the concept of homeland. Through archival images and multiple temporalities, Imazu weaves together eco-feminist perspectives, biological evolution, and cultural narratives from both her Japanese roots and Indonesian present.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Rachel Harrison – Hold Still, Henry!

Isbn 9783952569054
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 250871
€ 29.50

In her sculptures, drawings, and photographs, the New York-based artist Rachel Harrison has always loved bringing art history and popular culture into a playful dialogue with each other. For her Rookie Book, she draws inspiration from Hans Holbein’s 500-year-old portraits of King Henry VIII and his court. In 'Hold Still, Henry!' she vividly brings these historical sitters back to life, inviting readers of both classic and cool to meet with the Tudors anew in a fresh, contemporary light.

16 p, ills colour, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English

Nigel Peake - As If It Is (Poster)

Isbn
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250922
€ 23.35

10 shadows of a mountain in a folded page.

1 , ills colour, 14 x 22 cm, poster, English

Nigel Peake - As If It Is (Book)

Isbn
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250921
€ 26.25

The shadows painted of a mountain after a seven day visit to Miyota, Nagano, Japan. With twofolded text inserts, dust cover & open spine with white stitch.

84 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

Nigel Peake - Four Rivers North

Isbn
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250923
€ 29.15

Set of four folded drawings. The intention is for the history of the fold to remain present in theprint when flat.

4 , ills colour, 45 x 45 cm, poster, English


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