Sternberg Press

Catalogues

 
 Workshop of the Film Form / Warsztat Formy Filmowej -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Sternberg Press
25.00 18.75 €
An overview of the works of the avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WFF), pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe between 1970 and 1977. The publication examines all of the aspects of the WFF's activity, as well as their pedagogical heritage.
Zac Langdon-Pole - Ars viva 2018
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft has awarded the Ars viva Prize to young artists living in Germany. The 2018 edition goes to Anna-Sophie Berger, Oscar Enberg, and Zac Langdon-Pole.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition inspired by the Oulipo's literary strategies and the notion of potentiality. Nine artists presented a series of artworks in a display that changed continually according to the choice of the spectator.
The Site Residency
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Grounded in theories and practices of withdrawal and in the critical questioning of creation, materiality, and objectified artistic output, The Site Residency program at the Baltic Art Center was imagined as a residency that would result in no material production. This publication presents the outcomes of the program's three participating artists—Annika Eriksson, Susanne Kriemann, Agnieszka Polska—, including the results of their invited ghostwriters.
These are the tools of the present - Beirut – Cairo
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication comprises a series of interviews with contemporary artists, musicians, and writers who are in dialogue with Beirut and Cairo.
Helke Bayrle - Portikus Under Construction - 1992-2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Helke Bayrle has—on her own initiative—filmed the installations of exhibitions that have been held at Portikus since the end of 1992. This catalogue features more than 1,000 film stills, a full index of the recorded exhibitions, as well as texts by curators and deans who worked at Städelschule and Portikus over the years.
Seepage/ritual - The 2017 Abraaj Group Art Prize
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Sternberg Press
Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features "seepage/ritual," an exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia.
Future Imperfect - Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hubs and Fictions - On Current Art and Imported Remoteness
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.
New Ways of Doing Nothing
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
New Ways of Doing Nothing highlights artistic gestures challenging today's inclination towards productivity and growth (with Robert Breer, Claire Fontaine, Mathias Delplanque, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Karl Holmqvist, Jiří Kovanda, Superflex, Mario García Torres...).
The Baltic Atlas
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Celebrating the first-ever united Baltic Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Baltic Atlas intends to explore the built environment of the Baltic States as a shared space of ideas.
Apple - An Introduction (Over and over and once again)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This book centers around the apple as an art object and as a case study in biodiversity under threat.
United States of Latin America
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
20.00 15.00 €
Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey's of recent art from the region.
Transparenzen / Transparencies - The Ambivalence of a New Visibility
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents the eponymous double exhibition examining the ambivalent notions of transparency and opacity in the globalized world and their reflection in the work of contemporary artists.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Syntax and Society - The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
Political Landscape / Politische Landschaft - Kunst, Widerstand, Salzkammergut
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
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This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
Descartes\' Daughter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters - Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
A touring exhibition which explores the existing and sometimes hypothetical connections that led four Chinese artists to settle down in Eighties' New York.
Jack Smith - Hamlet, mise-en-scène - EXTRA TROUBLE – Jack Smith in Frankfurt
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
currently out of stock
The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).
Museum Off Museum
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
An exploration of the concept of the museum from an artistic and outside perspective.
The Crime Was Almost Perfect
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
A continuation (rather than simply documentation or commentary) of the exhibition “The Crime Was Almost Perfect” at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
We Are Living on a Star
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.
Schaubilder
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
How the diagrammatic forms affect the worlds of images in contemporary art.
Monday Begins on Saturday
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
The first edition of the triennial of contemporary art Bergen Assembly.
 Gelatin - Loch
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.
Ministry of Highways - A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press
A guidebook that maps the social, urban, and art discourses of Georgia's post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi (the catalogue of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale).
A World of Wild Doubt
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
22.00 11.00 €
Catalogue of the exhibition inspired by G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday (works by Robert Crumb, Jeremy Deller, James Ensor, Gilbert & George, Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Joachim Koester, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Félix Vallotton, Lawrence Weiner...).
Compilation of Translations - One Year at Ludlow 38
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press
An overview of the 2012 curatorial year at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, focused on different concepts of translation.
 Futurefarmers - A Variation on Powers of Ten
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press
Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.
After Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions, 2010-2011
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press
A series of interviews, between theory and practice.
Dealing with - Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press
Publication dedicated to Colin de Land and his legendary New York gallery American Fine Arts. Co. Ltd.
Cosmic Laughter No. 1 - Timewave zero, then what?
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
(last copies available!)
Exhibition catalogue with an introduction by the curators and texts contributed by Gary Lachman and Ana Teixeira Pinto.
3 Years - Arrow Factory
2012
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
A comprehensive documentation of some twenty-eight temporary site-specific works produced by Chinese and international artists at Arrow Factory since 2008.
From Berkeley to Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
A series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period.
Circular Facts
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
15.00 11.25 €
A collaborative endeavor between three European contemporary art organizations, which acted as an informal think tank and a mutual support structure for the production and dissemination of artistic projects.
A Cookbook for Political Imagination
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
A manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than forty international authors, rather than a traditional exhibition catalogue (publication accompanying the exhibiton for the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Der symbolische Auftraggeber / The Symbolic Commissioner
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This book centers around two exhibitions which took place at the Grazer Kunstverein, “Die Blaue Blume” (2007) and “Idealismusstudio” (2008).
Poor Man\'s Expression - Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
28.00 14.00 €
Poor Man's Expression examines the relationship between film, video, technology, and art, with a particular focus on the reciprocal influences between conceptual art and experimental film.
Visible - Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press
Visible documents a research project by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna. The publication highlights nine curators, who showcase forty-one ways of making art.
Silberkuppe - Under One Umbrella
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press
The first overall presentation of Silberkuppe, one of Berlin's most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art.
Making a Scene / Fare una scenata
2009
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press
15.00 8.00 €
“Fare una scenata” was the first group show at Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples. It featured the work of nine international artists who are either commissioned new work, or asked to adapt existing work specifically to the picture-gallery and basement spaces of this newly established foundation located in an old palazzo in the heart of Naples.
Legend
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
Catalogue of an exhibition which assembles the recent work of 50 international artists who interrogate the artificiality of the current world and render up intensified visions of it.
Otra de vaqueros
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press
Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.
 Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas - Villa Lituania
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press
The artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are representing Lithuania at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. This book documents the artistic process of the Villa Lituania project, collecting the archival material associated with the challenge of building a pigeon loft in Rome, and a visual and textual artists' diary.
A for Alibi
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press
Exploring the boundaries of scientific practice and art.
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