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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Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
Josephine Meckseper
10 minutes after
2016
English edition
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
Individual Stories - Collecting as Portrait and Methodology
Individual Stories – Collecting as Portrait and Methodology
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
Olafur Eliasson
Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Ull Hohn - Foregrounds, Distances
Ull Hohn
Foregrounds, Distances
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
currently out of stock
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
Shahryar Nashat
Obituary
2016
English edition
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung - Public Design Support 2011-2016
Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung – Public Design Support 2011-2016
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.
John C. Welchman - Past Realization - Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1
John C. Welchman
Past Realization – Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1
2016
English edition
This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
Eva Grubinger
Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
Benjamin H. Bratton - E-flux journal - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
Benjamin H. Bratton
E-flux journal – Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
2016
English edition
Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Bulletins of The Serving Library #10
2016
English edition
Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.
Felicity D. Scott - Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs - Critical Spatial Practice 07
Felicity D. Scott
Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs – Critical Spatial Practice 07
2016
English edition
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
Tom Burr - Anthology - Writings 1991-2015
Tom Burr
Anthology – Writings 1991-2015
2016
English edition
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
Dexter Sinister - Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
Dexter Sinister
Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
2016
English edition
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Fine Arts
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Fine Arts
2016
English edition
Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
Mario Pfeifer
Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year
2016
English edition
29.00 21.75 €
Starting with the SARS outbreak that affected Hong Kong in the spring of 2003, this publication traces the different narratives, historical backgrounds as well as the implications of these events in relation to the contemporary culture and politics of Hong Kong.
Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik des Lebendigen - Jahresring #62 – Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst
Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik des Lebendigen – Jahresring #62 – Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Drawing on key texts by S. M. Eisenstein, Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Donna Haraway et al., and analyzing works by iconic artists and contemporary ones, this volume brings together theory and art, showing how both turned to animals to find new ways of problematizing “life.”
Nora Schultz - Terminal
Keren Cytter, Nora Schultz
Terminal
2016
English edition
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
2016
English edition
(last copies available!)
Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency
2016
English edition
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame.
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
The Rumors of the World – Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Alhena Katsof & Dana Yahalomi - Solution 263 - Double Agent
Alhena Katsof & Dana Yahalomi
Solution 263 – Double Agent
2015
English edition
A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure
Ingo Niermann - Solution 264-274 - Drill Nation
Ingo Niermann
Solution 264-274 – Drill Nation
2015
English edition
Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea.
Dan Graham - Conversation
Michel Butor, Dan Graham
Conversation
2015
English edition
In the fall of 2013, Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro traveled with Donatien Grau to a town in the French Alps to meet Michel Butor, one of the foremost innovators of postwar literature. This is their conversation.
Irena Haiduk - Spells
Irena Haiduk
Spells
2015
English edition
18.00 9.00 €
Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007.
Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
Tony Conrad
Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.
Sarah Entwistle - Please send this book to my mother
Sarah Entwistle
Please send this book to my mother
2015
English edition
22.00 11.00 €
An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Bulletins of The Serving Library #09
2015
English edition
Issue number nine tackles all manner of sports and games, providing commentary on their language, politics, and philosophies.
Final Vocabulary
Final Vocabulary
2015
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
Dora García
I See Words, I Hear Voices – Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
Political Landscape / Politische Landschaft - Kunst, Widerstand, Salzkammergut
Political Landscape / Politische Landschaft – Kunst, Widerstand, Salzkammergut
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.
Eyal Weizman - The Roundabout Revolutions - Critical Spatial Practice 06
Eyal Weizman
The Roundabout Revolutions – Critical Spatial Practice 06
2015
English edition
How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the place of its undoing: the roundabout revolutions, from South Korea to recent Arab Spring.
The Brancusi Effect - An Archival Impulse
The Brancusi Effect – An Archival Impulse
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.
Filip Markiewicz - Paradiso Lussemburgo
Filip Markiewicz
Paradiso Lussemburgo
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Sculpture Unlimited 2 - Materiality in Times of Immateriality
Sculpture Unlimited 2 – Materiality in Times of Immateriality
2015
English edition
The second volume of Sculpture Unlimited looks at the influence of new technologies on the practice of sculpture.
Jens Hoffmann - Theater of Exhibitions
Jens Hoffmann
Theater of Exhibitions
2015
English edition
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
Guttu Ane Hjort
Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
Flaka Haliti
Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
Jaanus Samma
Not Suitable for Work – A Chairman's Tale
2015
English edition
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
Mathilde ter Heijne
Performing Change
2015
English edition
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
+ que 20 ans après – Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
Ziran / Nature - Art, Nature, and Ethics
Ziran / Nature – Art, Nature, and Ethics
2015
English edition
A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
Gabriel Lester
Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Descartes\' Daughter
Descartes' Daughter
2015
English edition
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters - Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters – Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
2015
English edition
A touring exhibition which explores the existing and sometimes hypothetical connections that led four Chinese artists to settle down in Eighties' New York.
World of Matter
World of Matter
2015
English edition
An aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of natural resources. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, “World of Matter” provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
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