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
 
895 titles
Series:
 
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology - With a Special Project by Paul Chan
2007
English edition
Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.
Ina Blom - On the Style Site - Art, Sociality, and Media Culture
2007
English edition
A new reading of the relationship between art and the "question of style", in a social perspective.
Nikolaus Hirsch - On Boundaries
2007
English edition
In several theoretical essays, dialogues on collaborative projects and reflections on his own work, the architect Nikolaus Hirsch explores the critical transformations of contemporary space and its effects on spatial practice.
A for Alibi
2007
English edition
Exploring the boundaries of scientific practice and art.
In The Poem About Love You Don\'t Write The Word Love
2006
English edition
This book provides a theoretical and critical framework to examine how contemporary art and cinema can still hold out against an experience of vision and of the “visual.”
Tue Greenfort - Photosynthesis
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
In all of his works the Danish artist demonstrates an interest in an expanded notion of ecology, one that encompasses cultural history and sociopolitics as well as natural resources.
Manuel Raeder - Popurri - Agenda 2007
2006
English edition
Agenda is an ongoing project by graphic designer Manuel Raeder which focusses on different methods of how people organize, in a personal or non-personal way, their time.
The Uncertain States of America Reader
2006
English edition
29.00 15.00 €
An unique compilation of writing around art and cultural politics in America since 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, Bernadette Corporation, Trisha Donnelly, Isabelle Graw, Robert Morris, Seth Price...), as an addendum to the traveling exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Michael Beutler - Pecafil
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
This first monographic book discusses issues of art in public space and the social-political implications of Beutler's work.
 Bik Van der Pol - Fly Me To The Moon
2006
English edition
Taking as their starting point one of the oldest objects in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, a moon rock, artists Bik Van der Pol invited different writers to comment on issues of site-specificity, museum collections, and space law.
Josephine Meckseper - The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2
2006
English edition
A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.
Aleksandra Mir - The Meaning of Flowers
2006
English edition
32.00 15.00 €
Drawing upon the classic notion that flowers are imbued with meanings and a specific set of semantics with idealistic and hopeful connotations, Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir has edited and revised the botanical code in a more socially relevant fashion.
Jennifer Higgie - Bedlam
2006
English edition
24.00 15.00 €
A novel inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital – more commonly known as Bedlam.
The Populism Reader
2005
English edition
The Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends.
Melik Ohanian - Cosmograms
2005
English edition
A book conceived as an extension of Melik Ohanian's film Seven Minutes Before, with contributions by Cecil Balmond, Gilles Clément, Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Richard Drayton, David Elbaz, Patricia Falguières, Medard Gabel, André Gaudreault, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Anna Halprin, David Held, Pekka Himanen, Bruno Latour, Charles Musser, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Poynter, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, John Tresch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Robert Whitman.
The Populism Catalogue
2005
English edition
The Populism Catalogue documents the namesake exhibition and features works of fiction as a literary approach to the theme of populism.
Ingo Niermann - Skarbek (+ vinyl LP)
2005
trilingual edition (English / German / Polish)
29.00 15.00 €
A dance-theater project initiated by the German artist Antje Majewski in collaboration with the author Ingo Niermann, in a record-size album, featuring the electronic music commissioned for the piece.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - oVER
2005
English edition
currently out of stock
Initiated by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, An innovative publishing format for artists, photographers, architects, musicians, poets, and other groups and individuals that can join in and collaborate any time, from anywhere.
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology
2005
English edition
A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - Culture as screenplay: How art reprograms the world
2005
English edition
The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.
Alex Morrison - Giving the Story a Treatment
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
The first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. Best known for his documentations on the skater culture, Morrison's videos, photographs and drawings reveal the growing aestheticisation of the political within the cultural spectrum.
Peter Friedl - Four or Five Roses
2004
English edition
Some 45 narratives by children presented in the form of a monologue. Edited from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa, Peter Friedl creates a hybrid genre that is both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice.
Terminal 5
2004
English edition
39.00 15.00 €
Catalogue of an exhibition at the JFK airport, closed by the authorities just after the opening night party (with Vanessa Beecroft, Douglas Coupland, Kendell Geers, Dan Graham, Fabrice Gygi, Mark Handforth, Ryoji Ikeda, Jonathan Monk, Tom Sachs...).
Klaus Weber - Kranke Fuchs (vinyl EP)
2004
(last copies available!)
35.00 20.00 €
An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).
Fundamentalisms of the New Order
2004
English edition
24.00 10.00 €
Conceived as a textbook with images rather than an exhibition catalogue, the book reflects on the diversity of fundamentalisms, a phenomenon that is not confined to particular cultures or modes of thought; its intention is to explore the concept in its many forms and multiple origins.
Markus Schinwald -
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
The films, photos, installations, and graphic artworks of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald create a highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being stands in the focal point of observation.
Jean-Charles Massera - Sex, Art, and the Dow Jones
2003
English edition
25.00 15.00 €
How can the events in which we are supposed to participate be translated into experience? How can we represent ourselves in a History that is being written in terms of the economy and the stock market? Along these questions, French author Jean-Charles Massera discusses the works of various artists (Vito Acconci, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, et al.) and film-makers (Jean-Luc Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al.).
Sture Johannesson -
2003
English edition
39.00 20.00 €
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Michaela Melián - Triangel
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
19.00 15.00 €
This catalogue is the most comprehensive treatment of Michaela Melián's œuvre to date and constitutes, with numerous essays and illustrations, a long due documentation of the German artist's work.
Marcel Odenbach - Blenden/Blinds
2002
bilingual edition (English / German)
19.00 10.00 €
With its comprehensive illustrations and essays, including a text by the artist, this book features Odenbach's most important works.
Non-Places
2002
German edition
14.00 10.00 €
Non-Places questions the redefined relationship between public and private space as well as the phenomenon of modern “nonplaces,” which appear to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time: airports, shopping malls, anonymous new suburbs, or international franchise companies.
Neue Welt
2001
German edition
19.00 10.00 €
Neue Welt (New World) documents a group show which investigates the political and social restructuring of recent years. Going beyond one-dimensional statements, the texts discuss the redefinition of public space and the effects of a globalized economy.
Liam Gillick - Five or six
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.
Isa Genzken - Urlaub
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Urlaub constitutes Genzken's multilayered inquiry into the meaning of work and leisure.
Eva Grubinger - Group.sex
1998
bilingual edition (English / German)
The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.
Microbiopolitics of Milk
2023
English edition
sold out
Milk as a bio-cultural substance (texts by Heather Paxson, Esther Leslie & Melanie Jackson, Harry G. West, Vinciane Despret, Chris Fite-Wassilak and Richie Nimmo).
Ramon Amaro - The Black Technical Object - On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
2023
English edition
sold out
A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
What Makes an Assembly? - Stories, Experiments, and Inquiries
2022
English edition
sold out
A crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies.
What happens between the knots? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 3)
2022
English edition
sold out
The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.
YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds - Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction
2022
English edition
sold out
A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.
Radicalizing Care - Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating
2022
English edition
sold out
What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating?
Amazonia - Anthology as Cosmology
2021
English edition
sold out
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.
Frida Orupabo -
2021
English edition
sold out
First monograph.
Yannis Tsarouchis - Dancing in Real Life
2021
English edition
sold out
Retrospective monograph of the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989).
Non-Extractive Architecture Vol. 1 - On Designing without Depletion
2021
English edition
sold out
The necessary new paradigms to invent in architecture and design in the context of the environmental crises.
Everything Passes Except the Past - Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives, and Public Space
2021
English edition
sold out
Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.
Cybernetics of the Poor
2021
English edition
sold out
The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.
The Wild Book of Inventions
2020
English edition
sold out
Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.
Institution as Praxis - New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research
2020
English edition
sold out
An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.
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