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
www.sternbergpress.com
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882 titles
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Writings and Interviews
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.
Ana Teixeira Pinto - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
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.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
Agonistic Assemblies – On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
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.
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
Ingo Niermann
The Monadic Age – Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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
Nadia Belerique
Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
Katrina Daschner
Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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
Dexter Sinister
yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
Michel Majerus
What looks good today may not look good tomorrow – The Legacy of Michel Majerus
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
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.
Martine Syms - She Mad
Martine Syms
She Mad
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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.
Joar Nango -
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.
No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
No Dandy, No Fun – Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
2024
English edition
forthcoming
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
Dennis Pohl
Building Carbon Europe – Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
forthcoming
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
Hans Ulrich Obrist -
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simone Fattal
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 -
Omar Kholeif, 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 -
Skye Arundhati Thomas, Lalitha Lajmi
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.
The White West - Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
The White West – Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
2024
English edition
forthcoming
Fascism, neo-colonialism and capitalism.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
Chus Martínez
The Complex Answer – On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2024
English edition
forthcoming
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.
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into 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
Ella Finer, Vibeke Mascini
Silent Whale Letters – A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Pidginization as Curatorial Method – Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
T. J. Demos - Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
T. J. Demos
Radical Futurisms – Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
2023
English edition
What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
Dan Graham
Some Rockin' – Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic
Contemporary / Unconscious
2023
English edition
First monograph.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
Larne Abse Gogarty
What We Do Is Secret – Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Isabelle Graw - On the Benefits of Friendship
Isabelle Graw
On the Benefits of Friendship
2023
English edition
Isabelle Graw reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus.
Sven Lütticken - Objections - Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
Sven Lütticken
Objections – Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
2023
English edition
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
Mathilde Supe - Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share - A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
Mathilde Supe
Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share – A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
2023
English edition
The adventures of a French art student as she visits New York to work as an assistant for an established artist.
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? - Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? – Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession
2023
English edition
An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.
Roee Rosen - Kafka for Kids
Roee Rosen
Kafka for Kids
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Publication based on Roee Rosen's film Kafka for Kids, a cross-generic film combining a fiction drama with a documentary and a musical. The law as a central motif in Kafka's writings, and the fact that the film, supposedly, addresses children, lead to an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally defined in the Palestinian occupied territories.
Sibyl\'s Mouths
Sibyl's Mouths
2023
English edition
Sibyl's Mouths is the most recent in a series of publications by Pure Fiction, a writing and performance group with shifting members active since 2011.
Metalworks - Designing and making
Metalworks – Designing and making
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.
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