Sternberg Press - Les presses du réel

Olivia Plender
Rise Early, Be Industrious

2016

English edition

In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.

Transparenzen / Transparencies – The Ambivalence of a New Visibility

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue documents the eponymous double exhibition examining the ambivalent notions of transparency and opacity in the globalized world and their reflection in the work of contemporary artists.

Charlemagne Palestine
GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt

2016

English edition

This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.

Wendelien Van Oldenborgh
Amateur

2016

bilingual edition (English / Dutch)

Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.

The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict

2016

English edition

This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.

Syntax and Society – The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)

2016

English edition (texts in English and Arabic)

This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).

Painting beyond Itself – The Medium in the Post-medium Condition

2016

English edition

An historical and theoretical account of painting as a privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity (contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, Isabelle Graw, Jutta Koether, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Matt Saunders...).

Josephine Meckseper
10 minutes after

2016

English edition

New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.

Individual Stories – Collecting as Portrait and Methodology

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.

Olafur Eliasson
Baroque Baroque

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.

Shahryar Nashat
Obituary

2016

English edition

With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.

Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung – Public Design Support 2011-2016

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.

John C. Welchman
Past Realization – Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1

2016

English edition

This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.

Eva Grubinger
Black Diamond Bay

2016

English edition

~~6.00~~ 3.00 €

Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.

Benjamin H. Bratton
E-flux journal – Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution

2016

English edition

Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.

Bulletins of The Serving Library #10

2016

English edition

Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.

Felicity D. Scott
Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs – Critical Spatial Practice 07

2016

English edition

Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.

Tom Burr
Anthology – Writings 1991-2015

2016

English edition

Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.

Dexter Sinister
Universal Serial Bus (USB card)

2016

English edition

Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Fine Arts

2016

English edition

Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.

Mario Pfeifer
Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear

2016

bilingual edition (English / Spanish)

This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.

A Journal of the Plague Year

2016

English edition

~~29.00~~ 21.75 €

Starting with the SARS outbreak that affected Hong Kong in the spring of 2003, this publication traces the different narratives, historical backgrounds as well as the implications of these events in relation to the contemporary culture and politics of Hong Kong.

Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik des Lebendigen – Jahresring #62 – Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

Drawing on key texts by S. M. Eisenstein, Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Donna Haraway et al., and analyzing works by iconic artists and contemporary ones, this volume brings together theory and art, showing how both turned to animals to find new ways of problematizing “life.”

Keren Cytter, Nora Schultz
Terminal

2016

English edition

Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).

On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency

2016

English edition

On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame.

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
The Rumors of the World – Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet

2015

English edition

This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.

Alhena Katsof & Dana Yahalomi
Solution 263 – Double Agent

2015

English edition

A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure

Ingo Niermann
Solution 264-274 – Drill Nation

2015

English edition

Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea.

Michel Butor, Dan Graham
Conversation

2015

English edition

In the fall of 2013, Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro traveled with Donatien Grau to a town in the French Alps to meet Michel Butor, one of the foremost innovators of postwar literature. This is their conversation.

Irena Haiduk
Spells

2015

English edition

~~18.00~~ 9.00 €

Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.

Marcos Lutyens
Memoirs of a Hypnotist – 100 Days

2015

English edition

An account of Lutyens' long-term Hypnotic Show at Documenta 13 in 2012.

Tony Conrad
Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken

2015

bilingual edition (English / German)

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Sarah Entwistle
Please send this book to my mother

2015

English edition

~~22.00~~ 11.00 €

An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.

Dora García
I See Words, I Hear Voices – Mad Marginal – Cahier #4

2015

bilingual edition (English / French)

The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.

Political Landscape / Politische Landschaft – Kunst, Widerstand, Salzkammergut

2015

bilingual edition (English / German)

An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.

Final Vocabulary

2015

bilingual edition (English / Arabic)

Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.

Eyal Weizman
The Roundabout Revolutions – Critical Spatial Practice 06

2015

English edition

How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the place of its undoing: the roundabout revolutions, from South Korea to recent Arab Spring.

The Brancusi Effect – An Archival Impulse

2015

bilingual edition (English / German)

Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.

Filip Markiewicz
Paradiso Lussemburgo

2015

bilingual edition (English / French)

(last copies available!)

Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Sculpture Unlimited 2 – Materiality in Times of Immateriality

2015

English edition

The second volume of Sculpture Unlimited looks at the influence of new technologies on the practice of sculpture.

Jens Hoffmann
Theater of Exhibitions

2015

English edition

Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.

Guttu Ane Hjort
Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

2015

bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)

This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.

Flaka Haliti
Speculating on the Blue

2015

English edition

Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.

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Not Suitable for Work – A Chairman's Tale

2015

English edition

This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

Mathilde ter Heijne
Performing Change

2015

English edition

This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.

Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn

2015

English edition

This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.

+ que 20 ans après – Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images

2015

bilingual edition (English / German)

This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.

Ziran / Nature – Art, Nature, and Ethics

2015

English edition

A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.