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
 
893 titles
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Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
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This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
E-flux journal - What\'s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?
2017
English edition
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Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.
Kenneth Michael Hays - Architectural Ethnography
2017
English edition
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This publication documents a workshop by Atelier Bow-Wow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm asked students to create a pencil drawing which would record their considerations on their surroundings. The resulting discussion with professor K. Michael Hays reflected on architecture as a central means of practicing livelihood and on the development of an “architectural ethnography.”
Material Utopias
2017
English edition
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In this publication, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated.
Quinn Latimer - Like a Woman - Essays, Readings, Poems
2017
English edition
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Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.
Quand le numérique marque-t-il l\'architecture ?
2017
French edition
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The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
Eternal Erasure - On Fashion Matters
2017
English edition
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Students and teachers of the Fashion Matters masters program at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, discuss innovative ways of designing, producing, promoting, financing, selling, and eventually consuming in today's fashion industry.
Matter Fictions
2017
English edition
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Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.
When Is the Digital in Architecture?
2017
English edition
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The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
Maria Thereza Alves - The Long Road to Xico / El largo camino a Xico, 1991-2015
2017
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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The catalogue is the first comprehensive survey about the works and projects by the Brazilian artist and activist, spanning 1991 until 2015. It also includes unpublished artist's text by Alves, and essays by Pedro de Llano and T. J. Demos.
Olafur Eliasson - Green light - An artistic workshop
2017
English edition
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This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.
Shirana Shahbazi - First Things First
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).
Reto Pulfer - Zustandskatalog - Catalog of States and Conditions
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).
Roee Rosen - Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
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At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.
Cultures of the Curatorial - Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions
2017
English edition
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This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for refugees.
I Can\'t Work Like This – A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
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An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.
On Things as Ideas
2017
English edition
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This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.
Kim West - Life on Sirius - The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art
2017
English edition
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Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.
Spaces of Commoning
2017
English edition
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This publication is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists, who, in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession, explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Big Objects Not Always Silent (2 vol.)
2017
English edition
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This two-volume publication consists of an artist's book by Nathalie Du Pasquier with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of her paintings and a publication with photographic portraits of her works from the past decades by Delfino Sisto Legnani.
Martin Herbert - Tell Them I Said No
2017
English edition
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This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).
Francis McKee - How to Know What\'s Really Happening
2016
English edition
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In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.
Seth Siegelaub - Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
2016
English edition
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Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. This highly documented publication features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
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Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Jumana Manna - Ars viva 2017
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Catalogue of the Ars viva Prize who has been awarded annually since 1953 to young artists living in Germany whose work stands out for its innovative potential and high artistic quality. The recipients of the 2017 prize are Jan Paul Evers, Leon Kahane, and Jumana Manna.
Keren Cytter - A-Z Life Coaching
2016
English edition
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The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
Kate Cooper - Look Book
2016
English edition
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Kate Cooper stages CGI female models in a parody of lookbook. Reproducing the patterns of hypercapitalist aesthetics, her images underlie a powerful reflection on gender, representation, and the potentialities of the digital world.
How to Frame - On the Threshold of Performing and Visual Arts
2016
English edition
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From 2012 to 2016, Foreign Affairs, the international performing arts festival of Berliner Festspiele, and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) have been investigating the relations between the performing and visual arts. The festival has continuously produced projects with international artists that experiment with various institutional frameworks. This book is both a question and a manual, collecting ideas, knowledge and experiences that stem from the theory and practices developed over the past few years.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
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An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Chen Zhen - Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
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This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.
Frederick Kiesler - Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.
Rare Earth
2016
English edition
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An attempt to define the spirit of an age: exploring how today's myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.
Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant - 1989-1991
2016
English edition
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An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant provides the reader with alternative written and drawn narratives to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice adopting the point of view of Jewish moneylender Shylock.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Seven Work Ballets
2016
English edition
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Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.
 Metahaven - Black Transparency - The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance
2016
English edition
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Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.
Pink Labor on Golden Streets - Queer Art Practices
2016
English edition
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Based on an exhibition and conferences that took place in 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this volume expands on the issues raised by queer art practices through interviews, essays, collages, as well as personal and academic texts.
Marcos Lutyens - Memoirs of a Hypnotist - 100 Days
2015
English edition
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An account of Lutyens' long-term Hypnotic Show at Documenta 13 in 2012.
Vincent Fecteau -
2015
English edition
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A selection of visual source materials which browse Fecteau's influences, inspiration and research methods.
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky
2015
English edition
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This publication documents a collective project conceived by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, and chef Antto Melasniemi, which takes the form of an experimental platform, working as the extension of an artistic community based in Thailand. This large-scale installation explores urbanization in a post-rural condition, the act of building as a collaborative process, and land as a concept that can exist outside of ownership.
 Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal - Freedom of Use
2015
English edition
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A fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal's oeuvre based on the duo's lecture at Harvard University in 2015.
Art in the Periphery of the Center
2015
English edition
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This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.
Realism Materialism Art
2015
English edition
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Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.
Textiles - Open Letter
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
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New monograph.
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.
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