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
 
894 titles
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Nikil Saval - A Rage in Harlem - June Jordan and Architecture
2024
English edition
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
Nadia Belerique - Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
 Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
E-flux journal - Wonderflux – A Decade of e-flux Journal
2024
English edition
Wonderflux brings together a group of longtime contributors with graphic artists to collaborate on illustrated essays and develop a new pictorial language around some of the emergent consistencies and overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal.
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
The White West - Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
2024
English edition
Fascism, neo-colonialism and capitalism.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2023
English edition
The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
2023
English edition
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future
2023
English edition
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
Vibeke Mascini - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
Helen Khal - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
2023
English edition
Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.
Aria Dean - Bad Infinity - Selected Writings
2023
English edition
The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Alex Coles - Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
2023
English edition
The first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency, from Frank Sinatra and Serge Gainsbourg to Kendrick Lamar via Soft Cell or PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - Curating Capitalism - How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
2023
English edition
How art and the artist inspire business: an examination of the origins of this relationship from Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
Mladen Stilinović - My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) - Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
2023
English edition
A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.
 Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
English edition
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
T. J. Demos - Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
2023
English edition
What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
2023
English edition
First monograph.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Isabelle Graw - On the Benefits of Friendship
2023
English edition
Isabelle Graw reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus.
Sven Lütticken - Objections - Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
2023
English edition
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
Mathilde Supe - Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share - A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
2023
English edition
The adventures of a French art student as she visits New York to work as an assistant for an established artist.
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? - Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession
2023
English edition
An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.
Roee Rosen - Kafka for Kids
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Publication based on Roee Rosen's film Kafka for Kids, a cross-generic film combining a fiction drama with a documentary and a musical. The law as a central motif in Kafka's writings, and the fact that the film, supposedly, addresses children, lead to an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally defined in the Palestinian occupied territories.
Sibyl\'s Mouths
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
Sibyl's Mouths is the most recent in a series of publications by Pure Fiction, a writing and performance group with shifting members active since 2011.
Metalworks - Designing and making
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Inclusions - Aesthetics of the Capitalocene
2022
English edition
The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era.
Viktor Misiano - Curator without a System - Viktor Misiano: Selected Writing
2022
English edition
Curator without a System brings together, for the first time in English, a rich variety of essays by the curator Viktor Misiano written between 1988 and 2005.
Peter Fend - Africa-Arctic Flyway - Physiocratic States
2022
English edition
The use of art and architecture to develop practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.
Omar Kholeif -
2022
English edition
The first comprehensive monograph of the art and life of Iranian American artist of Armenian descent Sonia Balassanian: in this deeply personal portrait, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.
Solitary
2022
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock-prison: a project initiated by artist Tyler Coburn on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry, the prison-industrial complex, and the history of solitude.
Artistic Ecologies - New Compasses and Tools
2022
English edition
Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.
Ina Blom - Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
2022
English edition
Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic "trouble."
Curating beyond the Mainstream - The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström
2022
English edition
Through four case studies, Curating beyond the Mainstream researches decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
Assuming Asymmetries - Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s
2022
English edition
Through conversations with curators and participating artists, this book revisits some of the most groundbreaking yet under-researched European and US public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 1990s.
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition
2022
English edition
An analysis of the relations created by the curatorial—relations that also constitute it.
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