Sternberg Press - Les presses du réel

Mary Walling Blackburn
E-flux journal – Cream Psychosis

2026

English edition

forthcoming

Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.

Plant Space – Territories, Architectures and Technologies of the Vegetal

2026

English edition

forthcoming

How plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.

The Oracle – On Fantasy and Freedom

2026

English edition

forthcoming

An inquiry into the potential regeneration of democracy: how artists can work towards a sense of collective relevance required to face the future's dark challenges.

Brackish Waters

2026

English edition

forthcoming

The third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island, this publication responds to oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.

Intersubjectivity – Vol. 4 – Network Affect

2026

English edition

forthcoming

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

The Institution and Its Intentions

2026

English edition

forthcoming

An invitation from Mudam Luxembourg to consider the place, role and future of cultural institutions in the twenty-first century.

Virginie Bobin
Unlearning with Translation – A Critical and Collective Practice

2026

English edition

forthcoming

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

Agnieszka Kurant
Collective Intelligence

2026

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.

Nida Sinnokrot
Palestine Is Not a Garden

2026

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.

Emilija Škarnulytė
Waters Call Me Home

2026

English edition

forthcoming

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

Joar Nango

2026

bilingual edition (English / Sámi)

forthcoming

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

Karenna Gore
The Circle and the Sphere – Earth Ethics as Inspiration

2026

English edition

forthcoming

Karenna Gore posits a future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.

Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall – Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory

2026

English edition

forthcoming

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.

Nicolas Bourriaud
Relational Aesthetics

2025

English edition

forthcoming

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.

Mark Lee
Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture

2025

English edition

forthcoming

Architect Mark Lee presents a body of work on the basis of five considerations: on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point.

Jonathan Faiers
The Sound of Fashion Thinking

2025

English edition

An account of an imaginary fashion exhibition that has no clothing, but in its place, sonic responses to garments and cloth act as a series of calls to explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.

Liam Gillick
A Variability Quantifier

2025

bilingual edition (English / French)

Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder
The Contemporary Condition – Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices

2025

English edition

The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.

Standpoint Autotheory – Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices

2025

English edition

currently out of stock

In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

$Sexual Dissidences - Frau Diamanda\'s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge$

Sexual Dissidences – Frau Diamanda's Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge

2025

English edition

Drawing together together numerous travesti writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this collection amounts to a narrative of survival.

Omar Kholeif, Huguette Caland

2025

English edition

This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.

Does the sun have a translucent shell? – (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 5)

2025

English edition

Thirty international artists, writers, and thinkers consider timely themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.

Josephine Berry
Planetary Realism – Art Against Apocalypse

2025

English edition

currently out of stock

Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.

Isabelle Graw
Fear and Money – A Novel

2025

English edition

Written in the stirring style of an intense inner monologue, Isabelle Graw captures the various manifestations and effects of fear in relation to money or the lack of it.

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
A Moratorium on New Construction – Critical Spatial Practice 14

2025

English edition

A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

Jessica Backsell
Provoking the Freeport Magic – Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism

2025

English edition

How practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Writings and Interviews

2025

English edition

The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simone Fattal

2025

English edition

Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.

Staci Bu Shea
Solution 305 – Dying Livingly

2025

English edition

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.

Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

2025

English edition

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.

Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production

2025

English edition

A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.

Alex Coles
Fusion! – From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

2024

English edition

The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.

$Leonor Antunes - The constant inequality of Leonor\'s days*$

Leonor Antunes
The constant inequality of Leonor's days*

2024

English edition

This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.

The Contemporary Condition – Challenging Institutionalization – A propositional Toolkit for doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research 

2024

English edition

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

Skye Arundhati Thomas, Lalitha Lajmi

2024

English edition

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.

$Siôn Parkinson - Stinkhorn - How Nature\'s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen$

Siôn Parkinson
Stinkhorn – How Nature's Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen

2024

English edition

currently out of stock

Siôn Parkinson's first, non-fiction book, inspired by his research into sound and smell (particularly "bad" smells) imagined through the figure of the stinkhorn mushroom and his passion for the fungal world more broadly.

Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today

2024

English edition

First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.

Ines Doujak
Twisted Language

2024

English edition

Through a close examination of the political and aesthetic strategies that artist Ines Doujak employs in her work, this book explores the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises.

The 14th Shanghai Biennale – Cosmos Cinema

2024

English edition

Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.

Richard Sennett
Democracy and Urban Form

2024

English edition

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.