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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2026

Two of our titles among the winners!

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Miles Davis – Three Days in Malibu

The Malibu Reportage from 1989 – a photo book paying homage to the jazz legend

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Liz Craft!

Dreamlike stories inspired by 1960s American counterculture: the art of Liz Craft

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Maria Ceppi

Between naturalness and artificiality – Maria Ceppi's wide-ranging repertoire

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The Tea Towel

In dialogue with an everyday object – journalistic, artistic, cultural, and technical investigations

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Studio

A sophisticated play on reality – Cortis & Sonderegger encourage a closer inspection

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Vallotton Forever

Celebrating an extraordinary artist and key works from all periods of his career

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Spillover

A visual examination of Switzerland as a leading financial center, it’s numerous past challenges and the decision makers involved in overcoming these crises

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New Books

Susan Hefuna

Maude Léonard-Contant

Gathering

Séverin Guelpa

Trembling

Liz Craft!

L'art, encore et toujours

La collection d'Elisabeth Feller et la Feller SA

Miles Davis—Three Days in Malibu

Photographs by Ralph Quinke

Maria Ceppi

Werke

Impressions of Japan

Loving Shedhalle—Resonance

40 Years of Shedhalle Zurich

Studio

Blending Model With Reality

Spillover

Switzerland’s Financial Center in Crisis Mode—Portraits of Decision-Makers

Vallotton Forever

The View Out of My Window

Seoul, Busan, Tokyo, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

Fotografendynastie Feuerstein

Johann Feuerstein, Domenic Feuerstein, Jon Feuerstein, Mic Feuerstein

The Tea Towel

Perspectives on an Everyday Item

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Highlights

Miles Davis—Three Days in Malibu

Photographs by Ralph Quinke

Impressions of Japan

Vallotton Forever

Fotografendynastie Feuerstein

Johann Feuerstein, Domenic Feuerstein, Jon Feuerstein, Mic Feuerstein

Leiko Ikemura

The Sea in the Mountains

King Stag

Carlo Gozzi’s Tragicomedy in a Staging for Marionettes by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, René Morax, and Werner Wolff

Collective Threads

Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory

Françoise Pétrovitch

De l’absence

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

Brancusi

Circle! Square! Progress!

Zurich's Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times

HR Giger

The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976

Soviet Design

From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920-1980

Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramović

Artist meets Jeannette Fischer

Charlotte Perriand

Complete Works. Volume 1: 1903–1940

Alberto Giacometti

Traces of a Friendship

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

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Florian Graf. School Models

Herausgegeben von Florian Graf
Gestaltet von Stoecklin & Wilson, Zürich
Lithografie von Marjeta Morinc
@_a_language_ @marjetamorinc
Gedruckt bei der DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
@dza.druck

Other Voices, Other Rooms. Eine Ausstellung als Erinnerung für eine Zukunft

Herausgegeben von Adam Szymczyk
Gestaltet von Cornel Windlin
Gedruckt von der Druckerei Odermatt
@druckerei_odermatt_ag

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The Tea Towel. Perspectives on an Everyday Item

The dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. In some kitchens, special attention is also required, as there is one for the hands and one for the dishes.

For a long time, specially made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardized cheap goods.

In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, 13 authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a literary, journalistic, artistic, technical, and sociopolitical perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. In text and images, the book encourages a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object with which many socially relevant topics are associated.

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Edited by Basil Linder, Vera Roggli and Eva Wolf
@evabasil.studio @ve_ro_studio

With contributions by @masentov Tabea Andres @estellebourdet @re_domig @annadreussi Hans F?ssler @tamarajanes Kim Lang @francescalucchitta @ivieadaonaiwu @ve_ro_studio @_lavender__june @samirav0gl

Book design by Studio Eva Basil

Image processing by Marjeta Morinc
@marjetamorinc

Printed by TBS la Buona Stampa, Pregassona

#teatowel #kitchentowel #everydayitems #textileart #culturalhistory

The View Out of My Window
Seoul, Busan, Tokyo, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

Since 2015, Swiss photographer Goran Potkonjak has visited ten major Asian cities: Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. His large-scale art project documents these megacities and their architecture through images taken from two different viewpoints: from the upper floors of high-rise buildings and at street level. The result is a multilayered, precise view of each of these vibrant metropolises.

The View Out of My Window brings together 215 photographs from this artistic research—around 20 views of each city. The book thus reveals the essence of our urban present in a fascinating way: such vast cities thrive on their contradictions, in which inexhaustible energy often alternates with surprising calmness. Goran Potkonjak’s images impressively illustrate this balance.

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By Goran Potkonjak
@goranpotkonjak68

With an essay by Matthias Fischer

Book design by Bonbon, Zurich
@bonbon_zurich

Printed by Graphicom, Vicenza
@graphicom_printing

#goranpotkonjak #asianmegacities #architecturalphotography #scheideggerspiess internationallyavailable

Maude Léonard-Contant. Gathering

Maude Léonard-Contant’s imagery is nourished by language—the shape of letters, words, and fragments of sentences. It is manifested in idiosyncratic, often space-filling works that are spread out on the floor. Language is palpable even when her installations are barely comprehensible. Léonard-Contant navigates the nonverbal through meticulous articulation of shapes and surfaces, textures, and space. Her engagement with materials she loves and which she carefully selects for their erotic and narrative potential forms a syntax with which meaning is created and narratives unfold.

This book features a series of four site-specific works the artist created between 2023 and 2025 for displays in museums in Switzerland, Italy, and France. Texts by Maude Léonard-Contant, as well as essays contributed by writer and critic Estelle Hoy, curator Elise Lammer, and art historian Gabriela Christen, supplement the images.

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Edited by Nidwaldner Museum
@nidwaldner_museum

@mille_pages

With contributions by Gabriela Christen, Estelle Hoy, Elise Lammer and Maude Léonard-Contant
@christen_gabriela @est_elle_hoy____ @lammerelise

Book design by Bonbon, Zurich
@bonbon_zurich

Printed by Druckerei Odermatt
@druckerei_odermatt_ag

#maudeleonardcontant #werkjahrfreynäpflinstiftung #sitespecificart #contemporaryartist #scheideggerspiess

Susan Hefuna

Susan Hefuna explores the interplay between place, time, and perception. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography, installation, video, and performance. Her art reflects the duality of public and private spaces and opens up new perspectives on subjective perceptions and realities. Hefuna’s works tell poetic stories of cities, landscapes, and cultural dialogues, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in her artistic world and perceive connections across boundaries.

Susan Hefuna is published in conjunction with the artist’s first major exhibition in Switzerland. Produced in close collaboration with Hefuna, the book offers a survey of her multifaceted oeuvre to date. The essays are contributed by curator and critic Nat Muller, art historian Linda Schädler, curator William Wells, and by Stephan Kunz, the director of the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. A conversation between Susan Hefuna and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist rounds out the volume.

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Edited by Stephan Kunz

@buendnerkunstmuseum

With contributions by Stephan Kunz, Nat Muller, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Linda Schädler and William Wells
@drnatmuller @hansulrichobrist

Book design by Muriel Comby
@murielcomby

Printed by Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich GmbH

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Modell Neutralität

«Wie stehen Sie zur Neutralität?» Mit dieser klassischen politischen Gretchenfrage lädt das Aargauer Kunsthaus Autorinnen und Autoren ein, sich mit dem Konzept der Neutralität auseinanderzusetzen, das im Schweizer Selbstverständnis einen so zentralen Platz einnimmt. Darunter sind weitherum bekannte Persönlichkeiten wie der Schriftsteller Lukas Bärfuss, die Satirikerin Patti Basler, die politische Philosophin Katja Gentinetta und der ehemalige Fussballschiedsrichter Urs Meier. Zu Wort kommen auch weniger bekannte, aber nicht weniger wichtige Stimmen wie die Historikerin und Ausstellungsmacherin Samia Henni, die Juristin Helen Keller, die Kolumnistin Fatima Moumouni und X Schneeberger, Schriftsteller*in und Aktivist*in.

Ihre Texte und Gespräche begleiten eine faszinierende Vielfalt künstlerischer Perspektiven, die nicht nur ein tiefergehendes Verständnis für die Bedeutung von Neutralität in unserem Alltag fördern, sondern auch anregende Diskussionen über das Zusammenleben in einem neutralen Land entfachen. Das Buch bildet ein reichhaltiges Nachschlagewerk für alle, die sich für die Themen Neutralität und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung interessieren. Es ermutigt, eigene Standpunkte zu hinterfragen und aktiv an der politischen Meinungsbildung teilzunehmen.

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Bild Slide 1: Le Miracle d’Helvetia, Guerreiro do Divino Amor, 2022 [Detail der Leuchttafel Desideria Patria,100x70x10 cm] Mehrteilige Multimediainstallation, Masse variable Coll. Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneve © Guerreiro do Divino Amor

Herausgegeben von Dr. Katharina Ammann und Bassma El Adisey
@aargauerkunsthaus @katharina.ammann

@lukas_baerfuss @pattibasler @therealhelenkeller @f.moremoney @xschneeberger @luziatschirky

Gestaltet von A Language, Zürich (Martin Stoecklin & Melina Wilson)
@_a_language_ @marstoeck

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