Sternberg Press

Sternberg Press is a Berlin-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
 
892 titles
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Writings and Interviews
2024
English edition
forthcoming
The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
2024
English edition
forthcoming
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
2024
English edition
forthcoming
This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.
Ana Teixeira Pinto - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
2024
English edition
forthcoming
How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.
What to Let Go?
2024
English edition
forthcoming
What gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting?
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
2024
English edition
forthcoming
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
Meandering - Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
2024
English edition
forthcoming
Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
2024
English edition
forthcoming
Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Joar Nango -
2024
bilingual edition (English / Sámi)
forthcoming
Centering on a notion of nomadic space, this publication offers the first in-depth overview of the projects, photo archives, and architectural investigations of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, and includes a series of essays and conversations with long-time collaborators and discussion partners.
Jean-Paul Martinon - Visual Cultures as World-Forming
2024
English edition
forthcoming
How does the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.
192 Pages (notebook)
2024
no text
forthcoming
This notebook from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna contains 192 blank pages for making your own notes.
Eva Forest - A Strange Adventure
2024
English edition
forthcoming
Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.
Hans Ulrich Obrist -
2024
English edition
forthcoming
In this deeply personal volume, Simone Fattal's close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist delves into the artist's past to explore the remarkable breadth of her body of work.
Magda Stawarska -
2024
English edition
forthcoming
In this critical biography, Omar Kholeif offers an introductory field guide to Magda Stawarska's practice.
Skye Arundhati Thomas -
2024
English edition
forthcoming
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
Raven Chacon - A Worm\'s Eye View From a Bird\'s Beak
2024
English edition
forthcoming
An overview of the career of Amerindian composer and artist Raven Chacon.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
2024
English edition
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
2024
English edition
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Martine Syms - She Mad
2024
English edition
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
Nikil Saval - A Rage in Harlem - June Jordan and Architecture
2024
English edition
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
Nadia Belerique - Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
 Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
E-flux journal - Wonderflux – A Decade of e-flux Journal
2024
English edition
Wonderflux brings together a group of longtime contributors with graphic artists to collaborate on illustrated essays and develop a new pictorial language around some of the emergent consistencies and overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal.
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
The White West - Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
2024
English edition
Fascism, neo-colonialism and capitalism.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2023
English edition
The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
2023
English edition
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future
2023
English edition
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
Vibeke Mascini - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
Helen Khal - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
2023
English edition
Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.
Aria Dean - Bad Infinity - Selected Writings
2023
English edition
The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Alex Coles - Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
2023
English edition
The first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency, from Frank Sinatra and Serge Gainsbourg to Kendrick Lamar via Soft Cell or PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - Curating Capitalism - How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
2023
English edition
How art and the artist inspire business: an examination of the origins of this relationship from Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
Mladen Stilinović - My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) - Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
2023
English edition
A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.
 Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
English edition
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments.
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