Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Loris Gréaud - Trajectories <strike>and Destinations</strike>
2009
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
An artist book documenting a selection of Gréaud's works, with a special contribution by Daniel Birnbaum.
Olaf Holzapfel - Nakano Sakaue - Verhandelte Zeichen
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press
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.
Ian Wallace - A Literature of Images
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press
The first extensive survey catalogue of the work of a key figure of the extraordinary artistic ferment in the Canadian city of Vancouver and a pioneer and theorist of its internationally regarded tradition of photo-conceptualism.
Klaus Weber - Secession
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.
 M/M (Paris) - Live Recorded Delay (box set) - An  Archive of “Il Tempo del Postino”
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press
Luxurious publication in a box conceived by the graphic design team documenting the project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno (limited edition).
Peter Friedl - Working at Copan / Trabalhando no Copan
2008
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press
A collection of interviews with workers and employees at Edifício Copan, a landmark modernist architecture by Oscar Niemeyer in the center of São Paulo, embodying an era of radical political and economic changes within Brazilian society.
Antje Majewski - My Very Gestures
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of Antje Majewski's work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre.
Tue Greenfort - Photosynthesis
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
In all of his works the Danish artist demonstrates an interest in an expanded notion of ecology, one that encompasses cultural history and sociopolitics as well as natural resources.
Manuel Raeder - Popurri - Agenda 2007
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
Agenda is an ongoing project by graphic designer Manuel Raeder which focusses on different methods of how people organize, in a personal or non-personal way, their time.
Michael Beutler - Pecafil
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This first monographic book discusses issues of art in public space and the social-political implications of Beutler's work.
 Bik Van der Pol - Fly Me To The Moon
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
Taking as their starting point one of the oldest objects in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, a moon rock, artists Bik Van der Pol invited different writers to comment on issues of site-specificity, museum collections, and space law.
Josephine Meckseper - The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.
Aleksandra Mir - The Meaning of Flowers
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
32.00 15.00 €
Drawing upon the classic notion that flowers are imbued with meanings and a specific set of semantics with idealistic and hopeful connotations, Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir has edited and revised the botanical code in a more socially relevant fashion.
Melik Ohanian - Cosmograms
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press
A book conceived as an extension of Melik Ohanian's film Seven Minutes Before, with contributions by Cecil Balmond, Gilles Clément, Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Richard Drayton, David Elbaz, Patricia Falguières, Medard Gabel, André Gaudreault, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Anna Halprin, David Held, Pekka Himanen, Bruno Latour, Charles Musser, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Poynter, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, John Tresch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Robert Whitman.
Alex Morrison - Giving the Story a Treatment
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. Best known for his documentations on the skater culture, Morrison's videos, photographs and drawings reveal the growing aestheticisation of the political within the cultural spectrum.
Peter Friedl - Four or Five Roses
2004
English edition
Sternberg Press
Some 45 narratives by children presented in the form of a monologue. Edited from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa, Peter Friedl creates a hybrid genre that is both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice.
Markus Schinwald -
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The films, photos, installations, and graphic artworks of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald create a highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being stands in the focal point of observation.
Sture Johannesson -
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press
39.00 20.00 €
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Michaela Melián - Triangel
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
19.00 15.00 €
This catalogue is the most comprehensive treatment of Michaela Melián's œuvre to date and constitutes, with numerous essays and illustrations, a long due documentation of the German artist's work.
Marcel Odenbach - Blenden/Blinds
2002
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
19.00 10.00 €
With its comprehensive illustrations and essays, including a text by the artist, this book features Odenbach's most important works.
Isa Genzken - Urlaub
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Urlaub constitutes Genzken's multilayered inquiry into the meaning of work and leisure.
Eva Grubinger - Group.sex
1998
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.
Frida Orupabo -
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
First monograph.
Yannis Tsarouchis - Dancing in Real Life
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Retrospective monograph of the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989).
Beatrice Gibson - Deux Soeurs
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.
Nina Canell - Reflexologies
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Cable cuts, energetics, and gunk: moving back and forth between a group of core subjects, Reflexologies converts the past five years of Nina Canell's sculptural work into a 384-page book.
Jumana Manna - A Small Big Thing
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Ellen Cantor - A history of the world as it has become known to me
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Publication focusing on Cantor's final project Pinochet Porn (2008–16)—an epic experimental film taking the form of a soap opera about the intimate life of people under the military dictatorship of Chile. A dramatic, transgressive and explicitly feminist work, embodying and radically extending Cantor's multifaceted artistic practice.
Uriel Orlow - Theatrum Botanicum
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.
Gianni Pettena - Non-Conscious Architecture
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and visual artist Gianni Pettena. Focusing on a rich ten-year period of production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new attention to the artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of the main exponents of the Radical Architecture movement.
Otobong Nkanga - Luster and Lucre
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
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.
Maria Thereza Alves - The Long Road to Xico / El largo camino a Xico, 1991-2015
2017
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
sold out
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
Sternberg Press
sold out
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)
Sternberg Press
sold out
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)
Sternberg Press
sold out
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).
Nathalie du Pasquier - Big Objects Not Always Silent (2 vol.)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
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.
Seth Siegelaub - Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
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
Sternberg Press
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Kate Cooper - Look Book
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
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.
Chen Zhen - Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
sold out
This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.
Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant - 1989-1991
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
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
Sternberg Press
sold out
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
Sternberg Press
sold out
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.
Vincent Fecteau -
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A selection of visual source materials which browse Fecteau's influences, inspiration and research methods.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
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)
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Isa Genzken - I\'m Isa Genzken, the Only Female Fool
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
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