Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Zach Blas - Unknown Ideals
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press
An inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice through a series of newly commissioned essays, an interview and writings by the artist himself, expanding on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists.
Shona Illingworth - Topologies of Air
2022
English edition
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How research-led practices in the arts can develop legal frameworks for understanding the future of digital technologies and their relationship to airspace.
Gregor Schneider -
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Art historian Raimund Stecker looks back at the ever-changing work of German artist Gregor Schneider, who has been transforming his own domestic world since his youth.
Michael Stevenson - Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press
An unconventional invocation of Michael Stevenson's practice over the past 35 years.
 Goldin+Senneby - Economic Ekphrasis - Goldin+Senneby and Art for Business Education
2021
English edition
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What happens when social scientists write about artworks? How does it affect the academic environment of a business school and how does it change the perception of art? Can it be used as a novel scientific method in the business studies?
Elisabeth Haarr -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press
Retrospective monograph.
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams - 1976-1979
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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.
Edi Hila -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Sternberg Press
32.00 16.00 €
The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.
Jesse Ash - Avoidance – Avoidance
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
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)
Sternberg Press
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.
Josephine Meckseper -
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
New monograph / catalogue.
Elisabeth Wild - Fantasías
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
This monograph showcases Elisabeth Wild's kaleidoscopic and vibrantly colored collages titled Fantasías.
Ronny Delrue - Correspondances #1
2020
English edition
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A selection of drawings from the Belgian artist's extensive corpus.
Annette Kelm - Tomato Target
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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.
Joyce Campbell - On the Last Afternoon - Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
2020
English edition
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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
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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
Sternberg Press
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)
Sternberg Press
An insight into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of Serbian filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.
Leonor Antunes - A seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot
2020
English edition
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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
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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.
Pedro Barateiro - How to Make a Mask
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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.
Philippe Parreno - Synchronicity
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
This catalogue for Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, reveals the artworks presented in the exhibition.
Mischa Kuball - Res.o.nant
2019
English edition
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Res·o·nant documents the namesake light and sound installation created by conceptual artist Mischa Kuball for the Jewish Museum Berlin. The catalogue comprises contributions by a prestigious ensemble of international thinkers, artists, and writers.
Stephen Sutcliffe - At Fifty
2019
English edition
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First monograph dedicated to British filmmaker and video artist Stephen Sutcliffe. Including commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, At Fifty examines over twenty years of film collages practice, delving into Sutcliffe's extensive use of television archives and critical reflection on British cultural identity.
Peter Wächtler - Jolly Rogers
2019
English edition
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Jolly Rogers is a collection of Peter Wächtler's latest short texts, written in preparation of his two solo exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall and Kunsthalle Zürich (both 2019), and combined with a nearly complete collection of the artist's drawings and prints from recent years.
Irma Blank - Eigenschriften - 1968–1973
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.
Shirana Shahbazi - New Good Luck
2019
English edition
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A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.
Wilfrid Almendra - Light Boiled like Liquid Soap
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
Light Boiled like Liquid Soap is an immersive installation by Wilfrid Almendra featuring radio transmissions and a series of sculptural elements made of copper, plaster, and silicone in various states of dematerialization. Combining found and repurposed materials, the works attest to notions of desire, circulation, and flux, from protective spaces of retreat to global economies of exchange.
Florian Hecker - Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese
2019
English edition
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Large format catalogue documenting a multichannel installation by Florian Hecker at Kunsthalle Wien, transformated into a resonating space, with texts by curators, researchers, theorists, and art historians.
Andrea Pichl -
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
New monograph: an overview of Andrea Pichl's sculptural, drawn and photographic work, with four essays.
Francis Alÿs - La dépense
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.
Steve Bishop - Deliquescing
2019
English edition
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A body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter through the effects of time.
Doireann O\'Malley - Prototypes
2019
English edition
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Prototypes by Doireann O'Malley is a multi-screen film installation, a series of dreamscapes interrogating trans* semiotics through psychoanalytic practices, speculative technologies, and live action role-playing. O'Malley's work references scientific and medical investigations into the human psyche that address wider philosophical concerns relating to biology, gender embodiment, sexuality, utopianism,  and biomolecular advancement in human evolution.
Judy Radul - This Is Television
2019
English edition
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This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book, commenting on media's continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul's ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a box for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception.
Jennifer Bornstein - Prints
2019
English edition
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Prints by Jennifer Bornstein gathers together a body of work encompassing her latest projects in printmaking during a recent fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. These works are contextualized by earlier projects in drawing, film, and artist books that span the 1990s to the present.
Aslan Gaisumov - Keicheyuhea
2019
English edition
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This first monograph on Aslan Gaisumov borrows its title from a video work focusing on the traumatic aftermaths of post-World War II for the Chechen people under Soviet control. The publication documents in text and images this both historical and intimate project.
Erkan Özgen - Giving Voices
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
Giving Voices features documentation on four of Erkan Özgen's video works dealing with war, violence, and trauma—beyond the boundaries of the political, within the dimension of the private and the human. It includes essays and an interview with the artist lead by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hilde Teerlinck.
Amalia Pica - Please Listen Hurry Others Speak Better
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue accompanies three solo exhibitions in which two threads in Amelia Pica's practice are brought together: communication between humans and exchange between species. It includes a series of essays on animal rights and the artistic practice of the Argentine artist, as well as documents and an iconographic ensemble.
Rainer Ganahl - Manhattan Marxism
2019
English edition
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28.00 14.00 €
Since the 1990s, artist Rainer Ganahl has been inspired by Karl Marx's writings. In over 700 pages, this publication brings together essays, photographs and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl's projects adapted from Marx's theories.
Babette Mangolte - Selected Writings - 1998-2015
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
(last copies available!)
A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
Torbjørn Rødland - Fifth Honeymoon
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication accompanies Torbjørn Rødland's touring exhibition “Fifth Honeymoon,” featuring thirty new photographs and a new video work, his first in eleven years, as well as newly commissioned essays by the American writer and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai and artist colleague Matias Faldbakken.
Georgia Sagri - Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
As her first comprehensive publication, this catalogue surveys the multi-facetted oeuvre of the Greek artist/social activist Georgia Sagri. Across performance, video work, and sculpture, she explores the murky relationships between the artist's body and her body of work, subjectivity and persona, original and reproduction with equal parts humor and severity.
Guy Mees - The Weather is Quiet, Cool, and Soft
2018
English edition
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The late Belgian artist Guy Mees has been a central figure of Antwerp's art scene since the 1970s. This catalogue features emblematic works and unpublished archival materials from the artist's creative phases spanning the 1960s to 2000s; two unpublished essays, and an interview with the artist.
Magali Reus - Hot Cottons - As mist, description
2018
English edition
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(last copies available!)
This publication accompanies two exhibitions of recent sculptural work by the artist Magali Reus: “Hot Cottons” at Bergen Kunsthall and “As mist, description,” at the South London Gallery. Featuring an essay by writer and curator Laura Mclean-Ferris and a poetic response by writer and poet Quinn Latimer as well as a fully illustrated overview of Reus's work, this catalogue provides an in-depth exploration of the artist's recent sculptural practice.
Vincent Meessen - L\'Autre Pays / The Other Country
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
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(last copies available!)
Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.
Josephine Pryde - Lapses in Thinking By the person i Am
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue presents documentation and texts from the British artist's first exhibition in the United States, which combines a series of color photographs of hands touching objects with a scale-model freight train and track.
Tom Nicholson - Lines Towards Another
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
This first monograph gives compelling insight into Nicholson's diverse material approach, political practice, and historical context.
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