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
Series:
 
Želimir Žilnik - Feminist Takes - “Early Works” by Želimir Žilnik
2021
English edition
The prospects of revolutionary feminism, from Želimir Žilnik's canonical film.
Elisabeth Haarr -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Retrospective monograph.
Lionel Ruffel - The Contemporary Condition - I Can’t Sleep
2021
English edition
An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.
Oceanography
2021
English edition
Microbial oceanography as a means to better understand the conditions of life (and survival) in the Anthropocene era.
Why are they so afraid of the lotus? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 2)
2021
English edition
The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, ​A Series of Open Questions.
Parapolitics - Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
2021
English edition
Artistic production as a tool of political and diplomatic influence during the Cold War.
 Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet - Tell it to the Stones - Encounters with the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
2021
English edition
Artists, scholars, filmmakers, and writers revisit the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams - 1976-1979
2021
English edition
Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.
Polys Peslikas - Umm Kulthum faints on stage - The Cyprus Pavilion
2021
English edition
This catalogue brings together a series of contributions taking as inspiration Polys Peslikas's painting at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, in 2017.
Karol Radziszewski - The Power of Secrets
2021
English edition
The Polish artist's memorial archive traces a history of homosexuality and queer culture in Eastern Europe and opens up possibilities for the future.
Emilija Škarnulytė - Sirenomelia
2021
English edition
currently out of stock
A poetic and scientific meditation on the artist's iconic cinematic installation exploring post-human mythologies, future archaeology, and the invisible structures that enfold us, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political.
Don\'t Follow the Wind - Critical Spatial Practice 12
2021
English edition
The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series focuses on “Don't Follow the Wind,” the acclaimed collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone.
Ayesha Hameed - Visual Cultures as Time Travel
2021
English edition
Visual Cultures as Time Travel proposes a notion of time travel in the aftermath of transatlantic slavery and in the moment of mass illegalized migration, of wildfires and floods, of lost and co-opted futures.
INTRA! INTRA! - Towards an INTRA SPACE
2021
English edition
Thinkers revisit INTRA SPACE, an artistic research project that experiments with the substances, constructions, and manifestations of our bodies.
Edi Hila -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
32.00 16.00 €
The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.
(W)archives
2021
English edition
Digital and data technologies are actively transforming the archives of contemporary warfare. Bringing together a range of scholarly perspectives and artistic practices, (W)archives investigates digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes.
Graham Harman - Artful Objects - Graham Harman on Art and the Business of Speculative Realism
2021
English edition
Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.
Ilona Németh - Eastern Sugar
2021
English edition
This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh's extensive research into the history of sugar production in Central Europe, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century.
Jesse Ash - Avoidance – Avoidance
2021
English edition
The script for, and conversations around, artist Jesse Ash's multi-dimensional project built around a play about a bitter argument between two ex-lovers.
 Ho Tzu Nyen - G for Gong
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
G for Gong looks at the artistic practice of Singaporean video artist and theater director Ho Tzu Nyen. An extension of the artist's large-scale solo exhibition in 2019, this book not only explores Ho's distinctive artistic approach but also dives deeper into the themes of his work.
Jenny Odell - Inhabiting the Negative Space
2021
English edition
currently out of stock
Artist and writer Jenny Odell speaks about the role of design and observation in a fully virtual commencement ceremony for Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Isabelle Graw - Three Cases of Value Reflection - Ponge, Whitten, Banksy
2021
English edition
In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term "value reflection", focusing on the artistic production of three individuals—Francis Ponge, Jack Whitten and Banksy.
Josephine Meckseper -
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
New monograph / catalogue.
Elisabeth Wild - Fantasías
2021
English edition
This monograph showcases Elisabeth Wild's kaleidoscopic and vibrantly colored collages titled Fantasías.
Mark Wigley - Konrad Wachsmann\'s Television – Post-architectural Transmissions - Critical Spatial Practice 11
2021
English edition
In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television.
Heba Y. Amin - The General\'s Stork - Research/Practice 02
2021
English edition
The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare in the Middle East from a bird's eye view.
Aesthetics of Standstill
2020
English edition
The essays of this book transverse the vqrious dimensions of standstill as an in-between of time (with essays by Georges Didi-Huberman, David Lapoujade, Peter Osborne, Jacques Rancière, Christine Ross, and others as well as conversations with Via Lewandowsky, Aernout Mik and Marcel Odenbach).
Come Closer - The Biennale Reader
2020
English edition
Come Closer: The Biennale Reader, published on the occasion of the inaugural Prague biennale, considers the present via counter-hegemonic readings of the past. The book explores various perspectives of class, race, and gender differences in post-socialist states, past and present.
Art & Energy
2020
English edition
Art as a specific and autonomous form of energy (publication arising from the 2019 activities of the MA Fine Arts program at the Zurich University of the Arts, directed by Donatella Bernardi).
Isabelle Graw - In Another World - Notes, 2014–2017
2020
English edition
This book merges memoir and social critique in an original fashion. By combining personal observations with a general systemic analysis, it thereby seeks to propose a new genre of writing.
Ronny Delrue - Correspondances #1
2020
English edition
A selection of drawings from the Belgian artist's extensive corpus.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - The Commissions Book
2020
English edition
This comprehensive publication by the art foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) engages with more than 100 works of art in over 1,300 pages, proposing a speculative topography that organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations along with close examinations of different works of art and a collective archive of images.
 Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper - The Currency  (vinyl LP)
2020
A collaboration between artists Musquiqui Chihying (Taipei, Taiwan/Berlin) and Gregor Kasper (Berlin) together with rapper Elom 20ce (Lomé, Togo).
Luis Camnitzer - E-flux journal - One Number Is Worth One Word
2020
English edition
This collection of texts—with many unpublished—spans over half a century of the conceptual artist's radical engagement with art education and its institutions.
Hannah Beachler - Design in a Frame of Emotion
2020
English edition
American production designer Hannah Beachler engages in a conversation with Jacqueline Stewart and Toni L. Griffin about set building and curation, urban design, location scouting, Afrofuturism, fictional histories, and Black feminist narratives, and elucidates her role.
Johanne Løgstrup - The Contemporary Condition - Co-existence of Times – A conversation with John Akomfrah
2020
English edition
In the form of a conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, this book sets out to explore how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways.
Mieke Bal - The Contemporary Condition - Exhibition-ism – Temporal Togetherness
2020
English edition
In Exhibition-ism, theorist and artist Mieke Bal develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary.
Master of Voice
2020
English edition
The question of the voice and its prominent role in our postindustrial society.
Where are the tiny revolts? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 1)
2020
English edition
A collection of reflections and literary and artistic contributions inspired by the themes at the heart of American writer Dodie Bellamy's work, and driven by the central question “What are we learning from artists today?”
Futurity Report - Counter-Histories Vol. 1
2020
English edition
Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself.
Bordered Lives - Immigration Detention Archive
2020
English edition
Drawing on original documents, photographs and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the UK.
Tom Holert - Knowledge Beside Itself - Contemporary Art\'s Epistemic Politics
2020
English edition
A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of knowledge.
Annette Kelm - Tomato Target
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
A comprehensive look at the unique artistic work of German photographer Annette Kelm and the visual idiom she has developed over the course of her career.
The New Model - An Inquiry
2020
English edition
This catalogue stems from an exhibition program which investigated the heritage of the 1968 project The Model, for which Stockholm's Moderna Museet was transformed into an adventure playground for children.
Roee Rosen - Desire and Dust
2020
English edition
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
Red Love – A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai - Kollantai – A Play by Agneta Pleijel
2020
English edition
currently out of stock
This reader revisits the formidable legacy of Russian revolutionary,  feminist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) in light of current feminist struggles. Includes the first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.
Martin Herbert - Unfold This Moment - The Art of Carol Bove
2020
English edition
20.00 10.00 €
An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
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