Les espaces indépendants / Die unabhängigen Räume / Independent Spaces is devoted to independent art spaces and to the role they play in the production, presentation, and circulation of contemporary art.

Framed as a multilingual publication, the book approaches these spaces not as secondary structures around institutions, but as places where artistic positions, curatorial models, and forms of exchange can emerge with particular freedom and immediacy.

The title already defines its subject with precision: independent spaces are understood here as self-organized or alternative contexts that operate alongside established museums, kunsthalles, and commercial galleries. The publication can therefore be read as a reflection on the importance of such spaces within a broader art ecosystem, especially where experimentation, discourse, and provisional formats are concerned.

Associated with Lionel Bovier and Christophe Cherix, both closely linked to contemporary art publishing and curatorial practice, the book belongs to a context in which the publication itself functions as a space of documentation and thought. Rather than treating independent spaces as marginal, it positions them as active sites of cultural production and as places where new artistic and institutional possibilities take shape.

I could not find a fuller reliable public description of the book’s exact internal structure or contents, so I have kept this text close to what can be supported by the title and the documented editorial context.