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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895 titles
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Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
Olaf Holzapfel
The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
New monograph.
Artist Novels - The Book Lovers Publication
Artist Novels – The Book Lovers Publication
2015
English edition
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This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Two Days after Forever – A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
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An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Jutta Koether - f.
Jutta Koether
f.
2015
English edition
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First published in German in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koether's meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet, coral, the curtain, money, color, red.
K. D. - Headless
K. D.
Headless
2015
English edition
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Headless, an exhilarating murder-mystery by the elusive K. D., probes the sordid secrets and sinister deeds of powerful financiers who use Caribbean firms to conceal their fortunes.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - On the Table 4 - The Futurist Cookbook
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fillìa
On the Table 4 – The Futurist Cookbook
2015
English edition
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A manifesto-as-culinary-innovation.
Cultures of the Curatorial - Timing – On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting
Cultures of the Curatorial #02 – Timing – On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting
2014
English edition
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The exhibition as a transdisciplinary and transcultural set of spatiotemporal relations.
Isa Genzken - I\'m Isa Genzken, the Only Female Fool
Isa Genzken
I'm Isa Genzken, the Only Female Fool
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
New monograph.
Aesthetic Politics in Fashion
Aesthetic Politics in Fashion
2014
English edition
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Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.
Michel Auder - Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder
Michel Auder
Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder
2014
English edition
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New monograph, with texts by Quinn Latimer and an extensive interview with the artist by Adam Szymczyk, also including a catalogue raisonné of Auder's video works.
Per/Form - How to Do Things with[out] Words
Per/Form – How to Do Things with[out] Words
2014
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
sold out
The meaning of performance and performativity today.
The Phantom of Liberty - Contemporary Art and the Pedagogical Paradox
The Phantom of Liberty – Contemporary Art and the Pedagogical Paradox
2014
English edition
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A manifesto to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art, pedagogy, and psychology, philosophy, critical journalism, etc.
Truth is Concrete - A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
Truth is Concrete – A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
2014
English edition
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The possibility of concrete truth as a working hypothesis, for an art that not only represents and documents, but engages in specific political and social situations—and for an activism that searches for intelligent, creative means of self-empowerment.
Silke Otto-Knapp - Questions of Travel
Silke Otto-Knapp
Questions of Travel
2014
English edition
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Monograph / catalogue of two parallel exhibitions.
Performing the Sentence - Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts
Performing the Sentence – Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts
2014
English edition
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Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools.
Forensis - The Architecture of Public Truth
Forensis - The Architecture of Public Truth
2014
English edition
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This book excavates the notion of forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) to designate the role of material forensics in articulating new notions of public truth. The condition of forensis is one in which aesthetic practices, new technologies, and architectural research methodologies bear upon the legal implications of political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change.
Andreas Töpfer - Speculative Drawing - 2011-2014
Armen Avanessian, Andreas Töpfer
Speculative Drawing – 2011-2014
2014
English edition
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Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011.
Hito Steyerl - Too Much World - The Films of Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl
Too Much World – The Films of Hito Steyerl
2014
English edition
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A series of essays and close readings of Steyerl's films from the past ten years.
Poetic Series - Peacocks with Hiccups
Poetic Series #02 – Peacocks with Hiccups
2014
English edition
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The second issue in the “Poetic Series”, initiated by Keren Cytter, takes its title Peacocks with Hiccups from the poetry of Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist, whose work is featured alongside American poet Catherine Wagner and emerging Spanish writer Luna Miguel, with artwork by Koo Jeong-A.
Nina Canell - Stray Warmings
Nina Canell
Stray Warmings
2014
English edition
sold out
New monograph.
Peter Wächtler - Come On
Peter Wächtler
Come On
2014
English edition
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Ten texts written by Peter Wächtler between 2011 and 2013.
Geta Brătescu - Atelierul | The Studio
Geta Brătescu
Atelierul | The Studio
2014
English edition
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Reference monograph dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde.
Chantal Pontbriand - The Contemporary, the Common - Art in a Globalizing World
Chantal Pontbriand
The Contemporary, the Common – Art in a Globalizing World
2014
English edition
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A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.
Rémy Zaugg - The Art Museum of My Dreams or A Place for the Work and the Human Being
Rémy Zaugg
The Art Museum of My Dreams or A Place for the Work and the Human Being
2014
English edition
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In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.
Art Production beyond the Art Market?
Art Production beyond the Art Market?
2013
English edition
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Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.
Poetic Series - The Atlantis Search Engine
Poetic Series #01 – The Atlantis Search Engine
2013
English edition
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The Atlantis Search Engine, the first edition in the Poetic Series, features a selection of poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Roman Baembaev, Josef Strau, and drawings produced specifically by John Kelsey based on the film The Canyons.
The Whole Earth - California and the Disappearance of the Outside
The Whole Earth – California and the Disappearance of the Outside
2013
English edition
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Cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of “One Earth” and the ecological paradigm associated with it.
Art as a Thinking Process - Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
Art as a Thinking Process – Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
2013
English edition
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Art as the result of a thinking process (a vast survey of recent debates around art schools and their methods).
T. J. Demos - Return to the Postcolony - Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
T. J. Demos
Return to the Postcolony – Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
2013
English edition
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Contemporary art and the “colonial present.”
EP Vol. 1 - The Italian Avant-Garde – 1968-1976
EP Vol. 1 – The Italian Avant-Garde – 1968-1976
2013
English edition
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Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.
Jorge Pardo - Tecoh
Jorge Pardo
Tecoh
2013
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.
Bulletins of The Serving Library - Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Bulletins of The Serving Library #03 – Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
2013
English edition
sold out
An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Thinking through Painting - Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas
Thinking through Painting – Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas
2013
English edition
sold out
Painting's traits and reception in cultural and socioeconomic discourse.
In a Manner of Reading Design - The Blind Spot
In a Manner of Reading Design – The Blind Spot
2012
English edition
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New perspectives on design and its possible critical dimension.
Hito Steyerl - E-flux journal - The Wretched of the Screen
Hito Steyerl
E-flux journal – The Wretched of the Screen
2012
English edition
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In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in.
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? - Critical Spatial Practice 01
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? – Critical Spatial Practice 01
2012
English edition
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What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?
Cultures of the Curatorial
Cultures of the Curatorial #01
2012
English edition
sold out
A curatorial turn in contemporary cultural practice and discourse.
Actors, Agents and Attendants - Social Housing – Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice
Actors, Agents and Attendants – Social Housing – Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice
2012
English edition
sold out
How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.
Performing the Curatorial - With and Beyond Art
Performing the Curatorial – With and Beyond Art
2012
English edition
sold out
The performative dimension of the curatorial.
Work, Work, Work - A Reader on Art and Labour
Work, Work, Work – A Reader on Art and Labour
2012
English edition
sold out
What is “work” today and what is its relation to art.
Paul Sietsema - Interviews on films and works
Paul Sietsema
Interviews on films and works
2012
English edition
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Interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema.
Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets - A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios
Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets – A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios
2012
English edition
sold out
The complex and contested entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets.
Raimundas Malašauskas - Paper Exhibition - Selected Writings
Raimundas Malašauskas
Paper Exhibition – Selected Writings
2012
English edition
sold out
An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.
Eyal Weizman - Mengele\'s Skull - The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
Thomas Keenan, Eyal Weizman
Mengele's Skull – The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
2012
English edition
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A study in which Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman discusses the way that forensic investigation and identification of Joseph Mengele's remains marks a transition, giving way to an "era of forensics", in which things—such as bones—act as the witnesses of past events.
Akram Zaatari - A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
Akram Zaatari
A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
2012
English edition
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An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary.
Alex Coles - The Transdisciplinary Studio
Alex Coles
The Transdisciplinary Studio
2012
English edition
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A study of transdisciplinary studio models of artists (Olafur Eliasson and Jorge Pardo), product designers (Konstantin Grcic), and graphic designers (Åbäke).
Design Act - Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today – Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics
Design Act – Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today – Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics
2012
English edition
sold out
A project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues.
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