Sternberg Press - Les presses du réel

2017

English edition

A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.

Gordon Bennett
Be Polite

2017

English edition

Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.

Margit Busch
If–Then–Else – Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.

Andrej Polukord
The Sarcophagus – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.

Hannah Rickards
Grey light – Left and right back, high up, two small windows

2017

English edition

Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.

Monica Ross
Ethical Actions – A Critical Fine Art Practice

2017

English edition

British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.

Future Imperfect – Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East

2017

English edition

Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.

Hubs and Fictions – On Current Art and Imported Remoteness

2017

English edition

Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.

Martin Herbert
Tell Them I Said No

2017

English edition

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms: Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York (new edition).

Nicholas Mangan
Limits to Growth

2017

English edition

Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.

Lydia Okumura
Situations

2017

English edition

(last copies available!)

Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction

Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund
The Contemporary Condition – Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art

2017

English edition

Introductory book to the “Contemporary Condition” series, which brings out some of the key issues relating to contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present—and vows to rethink the deep structures of temporalization as we know it.

Jussi Parikka
The Contemporary Condition – A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture

2017

English edition

Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.

Terry Smith
The Contemporary Condition – The Contemporary Composition

2017

English edition

A visionary essay on the notion of artistic composition in a world spinning into a confused chaos.

EP Vol. 2 – Design Fiction

2017

English edition

The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).

Tirdad Zolghadr
Traction

2016

English edition

A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.

Irena Haiduk
Seductive Exacting Realism

2016

English edition

Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.

Karina Mendreczky
Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.

James Richards
Requests and Antisongs

2016

English edition

Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.

Anastasiya Yarovenko
Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.

Shezad Dawood
Kalimpong

2016

English edition

Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.

Boris Groys
Particular Cases

2016

English edition

New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Behavioral Objects I – A Case Study

2016

English edition

(last copies available!)

An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

Angela Bulloch, Maria Zerres
Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos

2016

English edition

This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.

David Harvey
Abstract from the Concrete

2016

English edition

Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his 2016 lecture at Harvard with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why.

Jill Magid
The Proposal – Critical Spatial Practice 08

2016

English edition

The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.

Putting Rehearsals to the Test – Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics

2016

English edition

An investigation of the role and function of the rehearsal in artistic production at large.

Signature Strengths

2016

English edition

Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.

Ingo Niermann
Solution 257 – Complete Love – A novel

2016

English edition

Set during the 2011 Occupy movement, the tell of a love revolution started by an army of activists willing to bring justice and equality for all on an intimate level.

T. J. Demos
Decolonizing Nature – Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

2016

English edition

T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.

The Baltic Atlas

2016

English edition

Celebrating the first-ever united Baltic Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Baltic Atlas intends to explore the built environment of the Baltic States as a shared space of ideas.

Markus Miessen
Crossbenching – Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice

2016

English edition

The limits of the participatory game in nowadays democracies.

Fredrik Værslev
All Around Amateur

2016

English edition

A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.

Cave 1 – Territories

2016

English edition

Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.

Intersubjectivity – Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding

2016

English edition

Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.

The Silent University – Towards a Transversal Pedagogy

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

(last copies available!)

This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.

Florian Hecker, John McCracken

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.

Dysfunctional Comedy – A Reader

2016

English edition

currently out of stock

This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.

Presence – A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

2016

English edition

Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?

2016

English edition

~~26.00~~ 19.50 €

A reader examining the curatorial approaches of New Institutionalism—which emerged in the 1990s to reshape the art institution into a more democratic and egalitarian public sphere.

John Douglas Millar
Brutalist Readings – Essays on Literature

2016

English edition

A significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring essays on the highs and lows of the conceptual turn in poetics, avant-garde literary genealogies, and monographic pieces on Paul B. Preciado, Chris Kraus, and Pierre Guyotat, among others, Brutalist Readings explores the radical histories of writing, as well as its potential now.

Apple – An Introduction (Over and over and once again)

2016

English edition

This book centers around the apple as an art object and as a case study in biodiversity under threat.

United States of Latin America

2016

English edition

~~20.00~~ 15.00 €

Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey's of recent art from the region.

I Have Left You the Mountain (vinyl LP + book)

2016

bilingual edition (English / Albanian)

Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).

Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck
Visual Cultures as Opportunity

2016

English edition

Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck analyze the networked spaces of global informal markets, the cultural frontiers of speculative investments, and recent urban protests, and discuss crucial shifts in the process of collective articulation within today's “crowd economy.”

Ina Blom
The Autobiography of Video – The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

2016

English edition

The birth and life of video art.