Sternberg Press

A continuation (rather than simply documentation or commentary) of the exhibition “The Crime Was Almost Perfect” at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

A collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition.

Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, with an essay by Hanne Loreck, an afterword by Eva Schmidt and texts by Victor Burgin.

The first instance of considering Okiishi's work from the last fifteen years as a heterogeneous whole.

The chimerical final work by Maxim Komar-Myshkin, one of the most elusive and tragic figures in Israeli-Russian art.

The art/research articulation.

Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.

Monograph / artist's book, with a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine's approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation, as well as three essays that investigate Valentine's process.

This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

First monograph.

Second edition of Jalal Toufic's collection essays.

Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.

This issue poses as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania curated by Anthony Elms. As such, its nominal theme is Fashion.

The urgency of building subtraction.

A collection of essays that reveals layers of unknowing and open-endedness within a diversity of contemporary art practices since the 1970s.

A selection of Jan Verwoert's most recent writings.

A long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa, on the theme of the stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde.

Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work.

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.

The novel by Brian O'Doherty, written from the perspective of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810), who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity, reveals the radical modernity of one of the eighteenth century's most mysterious figures.

An A-to-Z of the exhibition.

A collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history.

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.

The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimer's invitation to present his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition “Villa Romana 1905–2013: Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz” at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.

Seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert.

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

A new collaborative publication, that has evolved within the framework of two geographically separate yet collaboratively conceived exhibitions.

How the diagrammatic forms affect the worlds of images in contemporary art.

A compilation of interviews with thirty-one artists related to questions about the value of attention and spectacle..

Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.

The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Comprehensive monograph.

The first edition of the triennial of contemporary art Bergen Assembly.

Critical texts by Kim Gordon brought together for the first time.

Models of subjective and situational ethics in the contemporary cultural field.

Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.

Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Twelve theoretical investigations on the crisis (both economical and personal) issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics, originated with artist Deborah Ligorio's research.

A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.

Largely due to the “linguistic turn” that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O'Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities.

Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of “seriousness” in art and culture.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.