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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920 titles
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Ana Teixeira Pinto - Death Wall - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall – Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
2025
English edition
forthcoming
How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
Liam Gillick
A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
Nida Sinnokrot
Palestine Is Not a Garden
2025
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 -
Joar Nango
2025
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.
Mark Lee - Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture
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.
Virginie Bobin - Unlearning with Translation - A Critical and Collective Practice
Virginie Bobin
Unlearning with Translation – A Critical and Collective Practice
2025
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.
Jonathan Faiers - The Sound of Fashion Thinking
Jonathan Faiers
The Sound of Fashion Thinking
2025
English edition
forthcoming
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.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
Agnieszka Kurant
Collective Intelligence
2025
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.
Felix Stalder - The Contemporary Condition - Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
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
Standpoint Autotheory – Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices
2025
English edition
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 -
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)
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
Josephine Berry
Planetary Realism – Art Against Apocalypse
2025
English edition
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
Staci Bu Shea
Solution 305 – Dying Livingly
2025
English edition
currently out of stock
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
Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
2025
English edition
currently out of stock
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
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
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 
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
Kim West
The Contemporary Condition – The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
2024
English edition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
Why I Do What I Do - Global Curators Speak
Why I Do What I Do – Global Curators Speak
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.
What to Let Go?
What to Let Go?
2024
English edition
What gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting?
Trevor Paglen - Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations - Research/Practice 04
Trevor Paglen
Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations – Research/Practice 04
2024
English edition
currently out of stock
How machine learning and computer vision generate images.
Eva Forest - A Strange Adventure
Eva Forest
A Strange Adventure
2024
English edition
Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.
Raven Chacon - A Worm\'s Eye View From a Bird\'s Beak
Raven Chacon
A Worm's Eye View From a Bird's Beak
2024
English edition
An overview of the career of Amerindian composer and artist Raven Chacon.
Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
Anton Vidokle
Citizens of the Cosmos
2024
English edition
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.
Jean-Paul Martinon - Visual Cultures as World-Forming
Adnan Madani, Jean-Paul Martinon
Visual Cultures as World-Forming
2024
English edition
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)
192 Pages (notebook)
2024
no text
This notebook from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna contains 192 blank pages for making your own notes.
Magda Stawarska -
Omar Kholeif, Magda Stawarska
2024
English edition
This critical biography guides readers through artist Magda Stawarska's practice via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
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
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
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.
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