Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Susanne Kriemann - Duskdust
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
A photographic artist's book focusing on a former cement factory in Sweden. Kriemann's concern with archaeology, archival materials, and lost narratives is once again affirmed in this publication which came as the result of a residency program in Gotland Island and for which she collaborated with poet Maria Barnas and writer Kirsty Bell, among others.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Ull Hohn - Foregrounds, Distances
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
currently out of stock
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
Tom Burr - Anthology - Writings 1991-2015
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
 Dexter Sinister - Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Fine Arts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
Nora Schultz - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
(last copies available!)
Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.
Sarah Entwistle - Please send this book to my mother
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
22.00 11.00 €
An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
Filip Markiewicz - Paradiso Lussemburgo
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
Yto Barrada - Before History
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.
Mirjam Thomann - 2015
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Ilit Azoulay - Finally Without End
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
New monograph.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Das Wunder des Lebens
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Drawings.
Michael Tedja - Aquaholism
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Michael Tedja's Aquaholism is an exhibition catalogue, a published oeuvre, an artistic treatise, a poetry collection, a visual essay, an artist's book. It is a polyphonic collage of text and image. More than seventeen years of artistic output unfold between the first and last pages. With its thoroughness, density, and associative power, the book embodies Tedja's artistic essence: voluminous, interrelated, and in continuous motion.
Jenni Tischer - Pin
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Catalogue.
Josef Bauer - Werke 1965-Heute / Works 1965-Today
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.
 Krüger & Pardeller - Aesthetic Basic Chronicle, Vol. 1
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
First comprehensive monograph.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
Ines Lechleitner - The Imagines
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
First monograph, based on the texts of four writers (Agnieszka Gratza, Béatrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand, and Allen S. Weiss) that each engage with a recent project by Ines Lechleitner.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Aftershow
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.
Leander Schönweger - Die Nebel lichten sich
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Catalogue.
 Yarisal & Kublitz - Bling blang, ching chang, give me some of that yin yang
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.
Carsten Höller - Leben
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.
Paul Sietsema - At the hour of tea
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
39.00 29.25 €
An unique artist's book based on Paul Sietsema's 16 mm eponymous film, with laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages.
Armando Lulaj - Albanian Trilogy - A Series of Devious Stratagems
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue-reader accompanies Armando Lulaj's project for the Albanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. A time capsule of the country's past, presenting strange memorabilia and trophies that tread the line between fact and fiction.
Kevin Schmidt - EDM House
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Monograph / catalogue.
Katja Eydel - Schattenfuge / Shadow Gap
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Katja Eydel's photographic body of work.
Eva Grubinger - Café Nihilismus
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Catalogue.
Florian Zeyfang - Slow Narration Moving Still
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
Reference monograph.
Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill - A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.
Ulrike Grossarth - Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color / Wäre ich von Stoff, ich würde mich färben
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.
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