Sternberg Press

Sternberg Press is a London-based publishing house of art and cultural criticism, creative nonfiction, and literary and experimental fiction. Founded by Caroline Schneider in New York in 1999, it aims to support both new and established writers and nourish lasting editorial relationships. The press is committed to publishing books with an interdisciplinary focus on contemporary visual culture and related critical discourse.
 
Berlin / London
www.sternbergpress.com
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895 titles
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Tauba Auerbach - Folds
Tauba Auerbach
Folds
2011
English edition
sold out
Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.
Sung Hwan Kim - Ki-Da Rilke
Sung Hwan Kim
Ki-Da Rilke
2011
English edition
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Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.
R. H. Quaytman - Spine
R. H. Quaytman
Spine
2011
English edition
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The catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman's work since 2001.
Andreas Eriksson -
Andreas Eriksson
2011
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
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Monograph based on Swedish artist's project for the Nordic Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Momus - Solution 214-238 - The Book of Japans
Momus
Solution 214-238 – The Book of Japans
2011
English edition
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The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”
E-flux journal - Are You Working Too Much? – Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
E-flux journal – Are You Working Too Much? – Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
2011
English edition
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When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?
Gabriel Kuri - Join the dots and make a point
Gabriel Kuri
Join the dots and make a point
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This monograph documents the solo exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Freiburg and also focuses on Kuris' marble works since 2006.
Jan Verwoert - Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
Jan Verwoert
Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
2010
English edition
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A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.
Markus Miessen - The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality)
Markus Miessen
The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality)
2010
English edition
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The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.
Shahryar Nashat - Downscaled and Overthrown
Shahryar Nashat
Downscaled and Overthrown
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
First monograph on the work of the Swiss artist.
Boris Groys - E-flux journal - Going Public
Boris Groys
E-flux journal – Going Public
2010
English edition
sold out
A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.
Bless - Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
Bless
Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.
Moyra Davey - Speaker Receiver
Moyra Davey
Speaker Receiver
2010
English edition
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Complete monograph bringing the diverse aspects of Moyra Davey's work together.
Animism
Animism
2010
English edition
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Theoretical and artistic reflections on the history and contemporary relevance of animism.
Joseph Grigely - Exhibition Prosthetics
Joseph Grigely
Exhibition Prosthetics
2010
English edition
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An exploration of the artist's use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real (first of a series engaging with publications as a primary medium of practice, enabling artists to explore the inherent constraints and possibilities of the printed document.
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice - The Reader
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice – The Reader
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
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What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?
Isabelle Graw - High Price - Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture
Isabelle Graw
High Price – Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture
2010
English edition
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Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.
Friedrich Kunath - Home wasn\'t built in a day
Friedrich Kunath
Home wasn't built in a day
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Monograph.
Institution Building - Artists, Curators, Architects in the Struggle for Institutional Space
Institution Building – Artists, Curators, Architects in the Struggle for Institutional Space
2009
English edition
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A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.
Céline Condorelli - Support Structures
Céline Condorelli
Support Structures
2009
English edition
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A manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: a manual for those things that give support.
Dexter Sinister - Portable Document Format
Dexter Sinister
Portable Document Format
2009
English edition
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An exploration of contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense (pieces of writings written since the conception of Dexter Sinister's New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006 / reproductions of a series of lithographic proof prints).
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber - Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber
Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
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The artist book by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on an unpublished text by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre which is printed as a facsimile and accompanied by essays from Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith.
Roee Rosen - Sweet Sweat
Justine Frank, Roee Rosen
Sweet Sweat
2009
English edition
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Erudite, baroque, a dazzling writer and painter but maniacal and all-encompassing in his approach, Roee Rosen keeps erasing the fine line that separates fiction and truth, imagination and reality, just as Sade and Lautréamont have done before him. But this division doesn't exist anymore. What makes his summa erotica erotic is that, for him as for Georges Bataille, pornography is philosophy.
Klaus Weber - Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy) - Vinyl LP
Klaus Weber
Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy) – Vinyl LP
2009
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The sound of a 4.3 meters high wind chime recorded in the dome of Secession in Vienna.
Momus - Solution 11-167 - The Book of Scotlands
Momus
Solution 11-167 – The Book of Scotlands
2009
English edition
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At a time when functional independence seems to be a real possibility for Scotland—and yet no one is quite sure what that means—a delirium of visions, realistic and absurd, is necessary.
Anders Olsson - As a Weasel Sucks Eggs - An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism
Daniel Birnbaum, Anders Olsson
As a Weasel Sucks Eggs – An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism
2008
English edition
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As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.
Diedrich Diederichsen - On (Surplus) Value in Art
Diedrich Diederichsen
On (Surplus) Value in Art
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / Dutch)
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Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and post-modern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music—a traditionally immaterial art—in order to formulate a broad reflection on the current “crisis of value in the arts.”
Mariana Castillo Deball - These Ruins You See / Estas ruinas que ves
Mariana Castillo Deball
These Ruins You See / Estas ruinas que ves
2008
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.
Michael Sailstorfer - Reaktor
Michael Sailstorfer
Reaktor
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity.
The Greenroom - Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1
The Greenroom – Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1
2008
English edition
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An anthology of texts on documentary practices in contemporary art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - ...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop
Hans Ulrich Obrist
...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop
2006
English edition
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A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.
Bless - Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness - n° 00 – n° 29
Bless
Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness – n° 00 – n° 29
2006
English edition
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This fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless' activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
The Danish Pavilion - 51st Venice Biennale
The Danish Pavilion – 51st Venice Biennale
2005
English edition
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Five artists' books and one general catalogue document the works of Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard, and Gitte Villesen.
Keren Cytter - The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats
Keren Cytter
The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats
2005
English edition
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Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.
Bernhard Willhelm -
Bernhard Willhelm
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
An exemplary look at the work of Bernhard Willhelm, the German fashion designer whose sartorial skills have been hailed by both the fashion industry and the art world.
Cerith Wyn Evans - Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A comprehensive overview of the artist's body of work.
Ingo Niermann - Atomkrieg
Antje Majewski, Ingo Niermann
Atomkrieg
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This publication documents new works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Mathilde Rosier, Eva Rothschild or Gary Webb, invited to develop projects on the theme of nuclear war.
Gerard Byrne - Books, Magazines, and Newspapers
Gerard Byrne
Books, Magazines, and Newspapers
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
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In his seminal essay, author George Baker links Gerard Byrne's work to theatre and notes that the presence of avant-garde dramatist Bertolt Brecht has never been less discussed, but more widely explored, than in the last decade of artistic practice.
Aleksandra Mir - Corporate Mentality
Aleksandra Mir, John Kelsey
Corporate Mentality
2003
English edition
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For a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society (contributions by Bernadette Corporation, Will Bradley, Claude Closky, Dejanov & Heger, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Pflumm, Superflex...).
Julia Scher - Always There
Julia Scher
Always There
2002
English edition
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Always There offers a comprehensive survey of American artist Julia Scher's work. The artist's installations and performances have always featured a complex relation to techno-social control, demonstrating our complicity in the proliferating technologies used to surveil both our physical and virtual identities.
Swamps and the New Imagination - On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy
Swamps and the New Imagination – On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy
2024
English edition
forthcoming
An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.
Brian Dillon - In Pieces - Writings on Art, Etc.
Brian Dillon
In Pieces – Writings on Art, Etc.
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.
Joseph Kosuth - Redefining the Context of Art, 1968 and After - The Second Investigation and Public Media
Joseph Kosuth
Redefining the Context of Art, 1968 and After – The Second Investigation and Public Media
2024
English edition
forthcoming
This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).
Climate Engineering
Climate Engineering
2024
English edition
forthcoming
An inventory of the controversies surrounding the issue of geoengineering, as a set of the large-scale intervention into the earth's natural systems attempting to counter the adverse effects of climate change.
Microbiome
Microbiome
2024
English edition
forthcoming
An update on the issues at stake in the study of the human microbiome (various bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms that compose the human body's ecosystem), shedding new light on the relationship between humankind and nature and the new micro-biopolitics we are now facing.
Spyros Papapetros - Pre/Architecture - Critical Spatial Practice 14
Spyros Papapetros
Pre/Architecture – Critical Spatial Practice 14
2024
English edition
forthcoming
How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.
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