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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895 titles
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Hans Ulrich Obrist - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* - *But Were Afraid to Ask
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* – *But Were Afraid to Ask
2011
English edition
currently out of stock
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book.
Anton Vidokle - New York Conversations (DVD)
Anton Vidokle
New York Conversations (DVD)
2011
English edition
A text film documenting three days of public conversations between artists, critics, curators, and a free floating public.
Options with Nostrils
Options with Nostrils
2011
English edition
A collection of previously unpublished essays, both theoretical and visual, by artists, curators, a writer, a scholar, and a group of postgraduates from the Piet Zwart Institute's Fine Art programme in Rotterdam, who together founded the “Office for the Unknown.”
Miki Kratsman - All about us
Miki Kratsman
All about us
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
New works.
Mario Pfeifer - Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 - by Mario Pfeifer, 2009
Mario Pfeifer
Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 – by Mario Pfeifer, 2009
2011
English edition
The book discusses Mario Pfeifer's recent 16mm film installation Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974. This installation, consisting of two synchronized, looped, and parallel projected films, takes it point of departure from the first monograph of Baltz's work, published by Castelli Graphics, New York in 1974.
Der symbolische Auftraggeber / The Symbolic Commissioner
Der symbolische Auftraggeber / The Symbolic Commissioner
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
This book centers around two exhibitions which took place at the Grazer Kunstverein, “Die Blaue Blume” (2007) and “Idealismusstudio” (2008).
Solution 196-213 - United States of Palestine-Israel
Solution 196-213 – United States of Palestine-Israel
2011
English edition
An anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region.
Knut Åsdam - The long gaze, the short gaze
Knut Åsdam
The long gaze, the short gaze
2011
English edition
A book appearing as a result of Knut Åsdam's 2010 exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, and the production of his two new films Abyss and Tripoli (both 2010).
Valérie Mannaerts - An Exhibition - Another Exhibition
Valérie Mannaerts
An Exhibition – Another Exhibition
2011
English edition
First monograph, with an essay by Anselm Franke, a conversation between the artist and Ann Demeester, and images and illustrations of the two exhibitions.
Poor Man\'s Expression - Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
Poor Man's Expression – Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
28.00 14.00 €
Poor Man's Expression examines the relationship between film, video, technology, and art, with a particular focus on the reciprocal influences between conceptual art and experimental film.
Katya Sander - Meaning is what hides the instability of one\'s position
Andrea Geyer, Katya Sander
Meaning is what hides the instability of one's position
2010
English edition
An artists' book conceived as a flip book: a photographic essay that takes us through spaces of international airports.
Maria Fusco - The Mechanical Copula
Maria Fusco
The Mechanical Copula
2010
English edition
The first collection of short stories by Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco, tracking the slimy path of social mobility with serious playfulness and an eye for the absurd.
Maria Lind - Selected Maria Lind Writing
Maria Lind
Selected Maria Lind Writing
2010
English edition
Twenty-two essays selected by Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick, Brian Kuan Wood, and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Hu Fang - Garden of Mirrored Flowers
Hu Fang
Garden of Mirrored Flowers
2010
English edition
19.00 9.50 €
Novel (an adaptation and transformation of the classical Chinese novel Jin Hua Yuan, or Flowers in the Mirror).
John Kelsey - Rich Texts - Selected Writing for Art
John Kelsey
Rich Texts – Selected Writing for Art
2010
English edition
Compiled for the first time here, the critic, artist, gallerist, dealer, translator John Kelsey's selected essays gamesomely convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates.
Agnieszka Brzeżańska - L\'artiste, le modèle et la peinture
Agnieszka Brzeżańska
L'artiste, le modèle et la peinture
2010
English edition
First monograph.
Auguste Orts - Correspondence
Auguste Orts
Correspondence
2010
English edition
Catalogue of the first collective exhibition by Auguste Orts, which came about on the basis of the frequent letters the four members exchanged about their work
Philippe Parreno -
Philippe Parreno
2010
English edition
A selection of Parreno's films and collaborative projects.
Raqs Media Collective - Seepage
Raqs Media Collective
Seepage
2010
English edition
A compilation of texts authored by Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta).
Haegue Yang - Siblings and Twins
Haegue Yang
Siblings and Twins
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, part of a serial project designed by Yang in which she staged additional installations in other international exhibition sites.
Visible - Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else
Visible – Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else
2010
English edition
Visible documents a research project by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna. The publication highlights nine curators, who showcase forty-one ways of making art.
Keren Cytter -
Keren Cytter
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.
Ingo Niermann - Solution 186-195 - Dubai Democracy
Ingo Niermann
Solution 186-195 – Dubai Democracy
2010
English edition
Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.
Internal Necessity - A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
Internal Necessity – A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
2010
English edition
Internal Necessity was the topic of the Sommerakademie 2009, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. The result is an independent reader that does not aim to merely document the academy 2009, but reflects and develops its topics in a rich diversity of visual and textual forms.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie - Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie – Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
2010
English edition
An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.
Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
Jean-Yves Leloup
Digital Magma
2010
English edition
New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.
Julika Rudelius - Soft Intrusion
Julika Rudelius
Soft Intrusion
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
22.00 11.00 €
An extended selection of edited video stills, Soft Intrusion offers a coherent oeuvre of Julika Rudelius's video works.
Silberkuppe - Under One Umbrella
Silberkuppe – Under One Umbrella
2010
English edition
The first overall presentation of Silberkuppe, one of Berlin's most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art.
The Power of Judgment - A Debate on Aesthetic Critique
The Power of Judgment – A Debate on Aesthetic Critique
2010
English edition
(last copies available!)
Comprised of a lecture by Christoph Menke and two respective responses to it by Daniel Loick and Isabelle Graw, The Power of Judgment both attests to the importance of judgment in art criticism and argues against its determining verdicts.
Peter Friedl - Secret Modernity - Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
Peter Friedl
Secret Modernity – Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
2010
English edition
A representative selection of Friedl's (partly unpublished) texts, along with a series of interviews.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Solution 168-185 - America
Tirdad Zolghadr
Solution 168-185 – America
2010
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
A compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that.
Anton Vidokle - Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
Anton Vidokle
Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
2010
English edition
A collection of essays and interview by an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects.
Net Pioneers 1.0 - Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
Net Pioneers 1.0 – Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
2010
English edition
19.00 9.00 €
Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.
Bettina Funcke - Pop or Populus - Art Between High and Low
Bettina Funcke
Pop or Populus – Art Between High and Low
2010
English edition
19.00 9.00 €
A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).
E-flux journal - What Is Contemporary Art?
E-flux journal – What Is Contemporary Art?
2010
English edition
E-flux journal: What Is Contemporary Art? puts the apparent simplicity and self-evident term into doubt, asking critics, curators, artists, and writers to contemplate the nature of this catchall or default category.
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
Semiotext(e) – The German Issue
2009
English edition
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Voice Over - On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
Voice Over – On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
2009
English edition
Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.
Nicolas Bourriaud - The Radicant
Nicolas Bourriaud
The Radicant
2009
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Sven Lütticken - Idols of the Market - Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
Sven Lütticken
Idols of the Market – Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
2009
English edition
19.00 9.50 €
This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.
Diango Hernández - Losing You Tonight (2 books)
Diango Hernández
Losing You Tonight (2 books)
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Two volumes artist's book.
Dominic Eichler - Written All Over Us
Dominic Eichler
Written All Over Us
2009
English edition
The first book of poems by art critic, artist, musician, and curator Dominic Eichler. With illustrations by Nairy Baghramian, Julian Göthe, Shahryar Nashat, Henrik Olesen, and Danh Vo.
E-flux journal reader 2009
E-flux journal reader 2009
2009
English edition
A fresh approach to the function of an art journal as something that situates the multitude of what is currently available, and makes that available back to the multitude.
Gleis 17/Track 17
Gleis 17/Track 17
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
19.00 9.50 €
A critical review of the issues of the memorial for Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel.
Mike Bouchet - Selected Works 1989-2008
Mike Bouchet
Selected Works 1989-2008
2009
English edition
First monograph on American artist Mike Bouchet: an overview of selected works from the last ten years.
Simon Dybbroe Møller - Kompendium
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Kompendium
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
An artist book accompanying the Danish artist's first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunstverein Hannover.
Liam Gillick - How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
Liam Gillick
How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Liam Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009.
Loris Gréaud - Trajectories <strike>and Destinations</strike>
Loris Gréaud
Trajectories and Destinations
2009
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
An artist book documenting a selection of Gréaud's works, with a special contribution by Daniel Birnbaum.
Olaf Holzapfel - Nakano Sakaue - Verhandelte Zeichen
Olaf Holzapfel
Nakano Sakaue – Verhandelte Zeichen
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nakano Sakaue documents a series of photographs realized by Olaf Holzapfel during a residency in Tokyo. The artist has depicted a kind of residue from the city's buildings: neon lights, images, and street signs, which are featured as so many promises for orientation.
Dave Hullfish Bailey - What\'s left
Dave Hullfish Bailey
What's left
2009
English edition
Using non-linear heuristic methods and experimental webs of information to draw links between the cities of Utrecht, and Slab City, California, USA, this book brings together speculative proposals that ask basic questions about public space, conceived as a physical and conversational sphere.
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