From 24 September–14 November, 2026, ER Publishing is taking over The Shelf at Maximillian William.

ER Publishing was founded in New York in 2020 by Elodie Rahard and is now based in Paris. The publishing house is dedicated to artists’ writing. Its main series, Transatlantique, features major North American and European artists, whose work emerged in the twentieth century, bringing together new contributions by contemporary artists from both sides of the Atlantic.

The contributing artists offer their perspectives on the featured artist’s practice, enriching the critical discourse surrounding their work with contemporary and personal insights. Each English-French bilingual volume of Transatlantique is edited by a Guest Editor who is a recognized expert on the featured artist. The Guest Editor proposes the contributors, and shapes and oversees the publication. Through this collaborative approach, Transatlantique creates a dialogue between generations, artistic practices, and cultural contexts, offering new ways of engaging with the legacies of some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

There are two types of artists to whom Transatlantique has devoted a volume. Firstly, those with a manifestly transatlantic identity, such as James Bishop, Louise Bourgeois, Guy de Cointet, Sam Francis, Eva Hesse, Shirley Jaffe and Joan Mitchell. These are artists who lived most of their lives and developed their work on a continent other than the one on which they were born. The second category would be that of figures whose reception on the other side of the Atlantic was admittedly recent, but fundamental and deserving of enlightenment through the eyes of a younger generation of artists. These include Martin Barré, Simon Hantaï, Michel Parmentier and Alice Neel.

Transatlantique’s contributors are chosen first and foremost with a view to highlighting transgenerational links. In the case of Martin Barré, Simon Hantaï and Michel Parmentier, the idea was to call on a younger generation of artists living on the other side of the Atlantic, allowing them to take a fresh look at their work and analyse it through the prism of their own culture. For Alice Neel, the decision to ask only women artists was the starting point for Fabienne Dumont, who directed the publication, a choice that was entirely appropriate in view of the artist's personality and commitments, and their contemporary resonance. 

Opening up the collection to conceptual art, Transatlantique highlights the links between European and North American artists, but is not intended to be tied to any particular trend or movement.