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The Centre culturel suisse (CCS) bookshop offers a wide selection of books on contemporary art, photography, architecture, literature, youth, graphic design, as well as a selection of design objects and artist’s editions. This carefully curated selection is in line with the CCS programme and reflects the richness of contemporary Swiss creativity. Through books and design, the CCS supports and promotes these disciplines.
A true meeting place, the bookshop hosts numerous events throughout the year, such as publication launches, exhibitions and talks. To find out more about the programme, visit the Agenda tab.
Following the renovation of the CCS (2022–2026), the bookshop will become the sole entrance to the CCS.
Mousse Publishing
A fresh look at Walter Pfeiffer’s photographic practice.
Delcourt
In just over a hundred days in 1916 in Zurich, a group of artists took over the Cabaret Voltaire and shattered all the conventions of the old world. José-Louis Bocquet & Kent present a completely original account of the origins of the Dada movement and contemporary artistic revolutions.
Edition Patrick Frey
The artist’s photographic perspective on the folk tradition that celebrates Switzerland’s tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.
Edition Patrick Frey
A monumental book devoted to a significant body of work by David Weiss (1946–2012): Die Wandlungen (‘The Metamorphoses’) reproduces for the first time all 82 series of graphic metamorphoses created between 1975 and 1979 – the year in which Weiss began working with Peter Fischli – in Morocco and Switzerland.
Empire books
A comprehensive illustrated collection of typographic work produced by ECAL undergraduate and postgraduate students over the last ten years.
Präsens Editionen
The artist’s book *More Beautiful Than They Are* brings together drawings that Ventura has produced almost daily since 2020. In her drawings, Ventura blends a wealth of memories, encounters, forms and symbols drawn from her inner world with elements of pop culture and everyday life. The artist explores with curiosity that moment when tension rises and ‘the magic happens’. She juxtaposes graphic gestures, layers forms and materials, allows colours to clash and brings together elements that do not necessarily belong together. Page after page, Caroline Ventura seeks out visual analogies from a subjective perspective to structure the ambivalences that characterise our relationships. The book, designed by Dorothee Dähler, includes texts by Laura Breitschmid and Claire Hoffmann as well as a photographic essay by Dominik Hodel.
Edition Patrick Frey
Cars and motorbikes have been a driving force in Olivier Mosset’s life and work: as a mindset and way of life, as a means of transport, and then, from the mid-1990s onwards, as ready-mades. WHEELS traces his artistic career through the interaction between motor vehicles and painting, with brief descriptions of each vehicle he has used and how it fits into his biography.
Park Books
A selection of images and texts illustrating the work of BUREAU, an experimental architecture and design studio based in Geneva and Lisbon.
The Centre culturel suisse (CCS) bookshop offers a wide selection of books on contemporary art, photography, architecture, literature, youth, graphic design, as well as a selection of design objects and artist’s editions. This carefully curated selection is in line with the CCS programme and reflects the richness of contemporary Swiss creativity. Through books and design, the CCS supports and promotes these disciplines.
A true meeting place, the bookshop hosts numerous events throughout the year, such as publication launches, exhibitions and talks. To find out more about the programme, visit the Agenda tab.
Following the renovation of the CCS (2022–2026), the bookshop will become the sole entrance to the CCS.