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

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920 titles

Series:

Daniel Birnbaum, Anders Olsson
As a Weasel Sucks Eggs – An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism

2008

English edition

sold out

As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.

Daniel Birnbaum
The Hospitality of Presence

2008

English edition

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A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

Diedrich Diederichsen
On (Surplus) Value in Art

2008

trilingual edition (English / German / Dutch)

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Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and post-modern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music—a traditionally immaterial art—in order to formulate a broad reflection on the current “crisis of value in the arts.”

Mariana Castillo Deball
These Ruins You See / Estas ruinas que ves

2008

bilingual edition (English / Spanish)

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These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.

Michael Sailstorfer
Reaktor

2008

bilingual edition (English / German)

sold out

This book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity.

The Greenroom – Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1

2008

English edition

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An anthology of texts on documentary practices in contemporary art.

Bernadette Corporation
Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte

2007

English edition

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A drama in three acts on the main theme of zombies: a novel by the artists' collective.

Hans Ulrich Obrist
...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop

2006

English edition

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A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.

Bless
Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness – n° 00 – n° 29

2006

English edition

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This fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless' activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.

The Danish Pavilion – 51st Venice Biennale

2005

English edition

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Five artists' books and one general catalogue document the works of Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard, and Gitte Villesen.

Keren Cytter
The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats

2005

English edition

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Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.

Bernhard Willhelm

2004

bilingual edition (English / German)

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An exemplary look at the work of Bernhard Willhelm, the German fashion designer whose sartorial skills have been hailed by both the fashion industry and the art world.

Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans

2004

bilingual edition (English / German)

sold out

A comprehensive overview of the artist's body of work.

Antje Majewski, Ingo Niermann
Atomkrieg

2004

bilingual edition (English / German)

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This publication documents new works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Mathilde Rosier, Eva Rothschild or Gary Webb, invited to develop projects on the theme of nuclear war.

Aleksandra Mir, John Kelsey
Corporate Mentality

2003

English edition

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For a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society (contributions by Bernadette Corporation, Will Bradley, Claude Closky, Dejanov & Heger, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Pflumm, Superflex...).

Julia Scher
Always There

2002

English edition

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Always There offers a comprehensive survey of American artist Julia Scher's work. The artist's installations and performances have always featured a complex relation to techno-social control, demonstrating our complicity in the proliferating technologies used to surveil both our physical and virtual identities.

Isa Genzken
Urlaub

2000

bilingual edition (English / German)

sold out

Urlaub constitutes Genzken's multilayered inquiry into the meaning of work and leisure.

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.

Swamps and the New Imagination – On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy

2025

English edition

forthcoming

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

Brian Dillon
In Pieces – Writings on Art, Etc.

2025

English edition

forthcoming

A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.

Joseph Kosuth
Redefining the Context of Art, 1968 and After – The Second Investigation and Public Media

2025

English edition

forthcoming

This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).

Spyros Papapetros
Pre/Architecture – Critical Spatial Practice 14

2025

English edition

forthcoming

How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.

Climate Engineering

2025

English edition

forthcoming

An inventory of the controversies surrounding the issue of geoengineering, as a set of the large-scale intervention into the earth's natural systems attempting to counter the adverse effects of climate change.

Microbiome

2025

English edition

forthcoming

An update on the issues at stake in the study of the human microbiome (various bacteria, viruses and micro-organisms that compose the human body's ecosystem), shedding new light on the relationship between humankind and nature and the new micro-biopolitics we are now facing.