Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Nina Canell - Reflexologies
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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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
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New monograph.
Babette Mangolte - Selected Writings - 1998-2015
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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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.
Ellen Cantor - A history of the world as it has become known to me
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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New monograph.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
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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.
Michel Auder - Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
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New monograph, with texts by Quinn Latimer and an extensive interview with the artist by Adam Szymczyk, also including a catalogue raisonné of Auder's video works.
Silke Otto-Knapp - Questions of Travel
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Monograph / catalogue of two parallel exhibitions.
Hito Steyerl - Too Much World - The Films of Hito Steyerl
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
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A series of essays and close readings of Steyerl's films from the past ten years.
Nina Canell - Stray Warmings
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Geta Brătescu - Atelierul | The Studio
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Reference monograph dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde.
Jorge Pardo - Tecoh
2013
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
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A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.
Paul Sietsema - Interviews on films and works
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema.
Akram Zaatari - A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press
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An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary.
Tauba Auerbach - Folds
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.
Sung Hwan Kim - Ki-Da Rilke
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.
R. H. Quaytman - Spine
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press
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The catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman's work since 2001.
Andreas Eriksson -
2011
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press
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Monograph based on Swedish artist's project for the Nordic Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Shahryar Nashat - Downscaled and Overthrown
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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First monograph on the work of the Swiss artist.
 Bless - Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.
Moyra Davey - Speaker Receiver
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press
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Complete monograph bringing the diverse aspects of Moyra Davey's work together.
Joseph Grigely - Exhibition Prosthetics
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press
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An exploration of the artist's use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real (first of a series engaging with publications as a primary medium of practice, enabling artists to explore the inherent constraints and possibilities of the printed document.
Friedrich Kunath - Home wasn\'t built in a day
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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Monograph.
 Dexter Sinister - Portable Document Format
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press
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An exploration of contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense (pieces of writings written since the conception of Dexter Sinister's New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006 / reproductions of a series of lithographic proof prints).
 Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber - Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
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The artist book by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on an unpublished text by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre which is printed as a facsimile and accompanied by essays from Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith.
Mariana Castillo Deball - These Ruins You See / Estas ruinas que ves
2008
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
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These Ruins You See shifts between politics, history, heritage, and identity in an attempt to find, in the present, the vestiges of archaeological practice in Mexico.
Michael Sailstorfer - Reaktor
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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This book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity.
 Bless - Celebrating 10 years of Themelessness - n° 00 – n° 29
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
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This fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless' activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
Bernhard Willhelm -
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
An exemplary look at the work of Bernhard Willhelm, the German fashion designer whose sartorial skills have been hailed by both the fashion industry and the art world.
Cerith Wyn Evans - Cerith Wyn Evans
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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A comprehensive overview of the artist's body of work.
Gerard Byrne - Books, Magazines, and Newspapers
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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In his seminal essay, author George Baker links Gerard Byrne's work to theatre and notes that the presence of avant-garde dramatist Bertolt Brecht has never been less discussed, but more widely explored, than in the last decade of artistic practice.
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