Lenz Press

Founded by Edoardo Bonaspetti and Stefano Cernuschi in 2020 Milan, Lenz is a publishing house with an interdisciplinary approach. Visual arts form the backbone of the catalog. In parallel, Lenz publishes titles on theory, photography, architecture, design, and other disciplines shaping the contemporary cultural field.
Open to discovery and reappraisal, Lenz strives to form a distinctive selection of titles on prominent and emerging artists, writers, and visual practitioners, as well as spotlighting on previously unpublished pioneers.
Milan
 
85 titles
 
Charlotte Posenenske - Installation Views
2025
English edition
Conceived as a visual résumé, Installation Views provides both a comprehensive overview of Charlotte Posenenske's solo exhibitions and a record of her numerous group shows.
Sigefride Bruna Hautman - The House of Doors
2025
First monograph on the work of Belgian artist Sigefride Bruna Hautman.
Yngve Holen - 6G
2025
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An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.
Jac Leirner - Tickets to the Core
2025
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Artist's book.
Jill Mulleady - Fight-or-Flight
2025
English edition
The first major monograph on Swiss-Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger.
Jan Vorisek - Private Fictions
2025
English edition
The first monograph devoted to the Swiss artist's immersive installations of found objects and sound machines.
The Museum Is Not Enough (No. 10–14)
2025
English edition
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
Basma al-Sharif - Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.
Antonio Obá - Rituals of Care
2025
English edition
A broad survey of the Brazilian artist's work since 2016, dwelling on the recurring motifs and iconographic sources that feed the complex imagery of his painting.
Tolia Astakhishvili - To love and devour
2025
English edition
Artist's book.
Nicola L. - I Am The Last Woman Object
2025
quadrilingual edition (English / German / French / Italian)
This fully illustrated monograph marks the occasion of the first European survey of Nicola L. (1932–2018).
Adriana Varejão - Between Your Teeth
2025
English edition
A fascinating encounter between two artists from different generations.
Samson Young - Intentness and Songs
2025
English edition
This monograph focuses on a multimedia installation by Samson Young that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the research of the artist.
Adriana Varejão - Entre os vossos dentes
2025
Portuguese edition
A fascinating encounter between two artists from different generations.
Curatorial Design - A Place Between
2025
English edition
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The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.
Ernesto Neto - Art on Earth
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Emanuele Coccia analyzes Ernesto Neto's artistic practice and its profound relationship to the body, the senses, the environment and the wider community.
Santiago de Paoli - First Meeting
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Ffirst monograph on Argentinian artist Santiago de Paoli.
Andrea Mancini - A Comparative Dialogue Act - The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (book + vinyl LP)
2025
Consisting of a richly illustrated booklet and a record vinyl, this special release accompanies the performative sound-based project A Comparative Dialogue Act by artists Andrea Mancini and the collective Every Island, hosted in the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Tomaso Binga - Euforia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.
Brandon LaBelle - The Joy of Cacophony
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
2024
English edition
First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
Fredrik Værslev -
2024
English edition
Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
2024
English edition
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
2024
English edition
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
Francesco Gennari - I’d Like to Lose Myself, Never to Find Myself Again
2024
English edition
Through a rich selection of images, this artist's book, published in two editions—gold and silver—explores the birth, life and death of Francesco Gennari's work Vorrei perdermi e non trovarmi più, 2022, exhibited for the first time at the Ciaccia Levi Gallery in Paris.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Metal Works
2024
English edition
A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.
 PROVENCE - My Alphabet
2024
English edition
On the occasion of PROVENCE's 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
Magali Reus - KOOL - A Type Specimen
2024
English edition
An artist's book built around KOOL ("cabbage" in Dutch), a new font designed by Magali Reus, winner of the seventh edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture.
Nicholas Mangan - A World Undone
2024
English edition
New monograph.
 Claire Fontaine - A User\'s Manual to Claire Fontaine
2024
English edition
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Shahryar Nashat - 17 Waves
2024
English edition
New monograph.
Feet of Clay
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
After Laughter Comes Tears
2024
English edition
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night
2024
English edition
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Beatrice Gibson - Dreaming Alcestis
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
Rachel Whiteread - The Mark of Trauma
2024
English edition
Two essays by psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis on Rachel Whiteread's singular project and experience in Bergamo, Italia.
Chrysalis - The Butterfly Dream
2023
English edition
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Chrysalide - Le rêve du papillon
2023
French edition
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
John Armleder - It Never Ends
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
Federico Chiari - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
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