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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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
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An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
Joyce Campbell - On the Last Afternoon - Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
2020
English edition
Monographic catalogue examining the forcefield of relations artist Joyce Campbell has activated between photography, philosophy, ecology, material history, science fiction, and the care and reading of sacred and symbolic landscapes, over the course of her near three-decade career.
Peter Friedl - Rehousing
2020
English edition
Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”
Janek Simon - Synthetic Folklore
2020
English edition
This monographic catalogue maps and decodes fifteen years of an artistic practice oriented towards DIY strategies and new technologies, investigating manifold spaces of reflections with a powerful political and theoretical radicality.
Želimir Žilnik - Shadow Citizens
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
An insight into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of Serbian filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.
Migration - Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling
2020
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration?
Ingo Niermann - Solution 295-304 - Mare Amoris
2020
English edition
Against globalization's noxious exploitation of maritime resources, Ingo Nierman provides new practical, technological, and metaphysical scenarios to renew the relationship between men and the sea.
Critique in Practice - Renzo Martens\' “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty”
2020
English edition
This publication explores the legacy of Renzo Martens' landmark film Enjoy Poverty: a provocative work establishing how poverty became Congo's most lucrative export.
From a History of Exhibitions towards a Future of Exhibition-Making - China and Southeast Asia
2020
English edition
This publication is the outcome of a touring assembly platform bringing together writers, curators, and art practitioners to reflect on exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.
Reinventing Daily Life
2020
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Art as a tool to reinvent our daily reality: textual and visual outcomes of the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
Of(f) Our Times - Curatorial Anachronics
2020
English edition
A collection of conversations, essays, artists' projects, and inserts, critically reflecting on the concept of “exhibition history”.
Jens Hoffmann - In the Meantime - Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions
2020
English edition
An anthology of texts by the influential American critic and curator. The publication includes essays on artists, exhibitions, and curating, catalogue texts, and interviews.
Maria Lind - Seven Years - The Rematerialisation of Art from 2011 to 2017
2020
English edition
An anthology of texts on contemporary art during the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik - The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation - Critical Spatial Practice 10
2020
English edition
This publication documents new spatial notational systems developed by architect Nina Valerie Kolowratnik to help Indigenous communities from New Mexico to protect and regain traditional lands.
Michael Rakowitz - I\'m good at love, I\'m good at hate, it\'s in between I freeze - Research/Practice 01
2020
English edition
The inaugural publication of the “Research/Practice” series focuses on an artistic research by Michael Rakowitz on the aftermath of a canceled show by Leonard Cohen initially scheduled in Palestine.
Larissa Sansour - Heirloom - Research/Practice 03
2020
English edition
This publication documents the artistic research for Sansour's project for the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a dark science fiction narrative set after an eco-disaster, evolving into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia.
Dizziness - A Resource
2020
English edition
A cross-disciplinary reader investigating dizziness in artistic, art-historical, philosophical and natural scientific sources.
Art, Self & System
2020
English edition
Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.
Jörg Heiser - Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
2020
English edition
The relationships of art and pop music from the 1960s to the present.
Leonor Antunes - A seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot
2020
English edition
Catalogue of the artist's exhibition in the Portuguese pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a sculpture project engaging the heritage of post-war Italy's architecture and Italian vernacular craftsmanship.
Fredrik Værslev - Tan Lines
2020
English edition
This catalogue presents the artist's Sail Paintings series—32 hybrid compositions reminiscent of a boat's sail. This monumental publication (30 x 40 cm) is designed as a graphic extension to the project.
Abstract Hungary
2020
English edition
This catalogue stems from two eponymous exhibitions examining Hungary's art scene's drive toward abstraction to reflect on the complex social conditions of the country, from the 1960s to the present-day.
The Mill
2020
English edition
Artistic views on forestry and its actors (catalogue).
Radical Cut-Up - Nothing Is Original
2020
English edition
(last copies available!)
A transdisciplinary anthology of essays and articles investigating the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production.
Ana Ofak - Agents of Abstraction
2019
English edition
This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the first Yugoslavian abstract art group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.
Pedro Barateiro - How to Make a Mask
2019
English edition
This monographic volume dedicated to the work of Pedro Barateiro spans a period that dates back to 2008 and features extensive visual and written material of key projects presented in solo exhibitions, as well as other relevant installations, videos and performances.
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