Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Mischa Kuball - Res.o.nant
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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)
Sternberg Press
A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.
Shirana Shahbazi - New Good Luck
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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.
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
Sternberg Press
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.
Vincent Meessen - L\'Autre Pays / The Other Country
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
(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.
Marcel Odenbach - Beweis zu nichts
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Departing from his eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, this catalogue examines new works by acclaimed video and visual artist Marcel Odenbach. The series gathered in the publication reflect on the persistence of the victim-perpetrator structure within post-war society, in Germany or Africa.
Cécile B. Evans - (1770–25k)
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents three video works by the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, in which she explores the impact of digital technology on human condition.
Ineke Hans - Was ist Loos?
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This catalogue surveys the work of object design creator Ineke Hans.
Marlene Maier - Food only exists on pictures - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2017
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Publication documenting a project by German artist Marlene Maier, the joint recipient of the 2017 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. In her 3-channel video installation Food only exists on pictures, Marlene Maier finds a visual “language” for the blurring and absence resulting from the opaque merging of technological and techno-political processes.
Heman Chong - Ifs, Ands, or Buts
2018
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
The catalogue for Heman Chong's first solo museum exhibition in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, provides an insightful and critical look into the Singaporean artist's recent practice.
Asta Gröting - Berlin Fassaden
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Exhibition catalogue documenting the eponymous sculptural project showcasing silicone impressions of Berlin's bullet-ridden facades from the Second World War. These architectural traces embody trauma and time, from the war to nowadays. The publication catalogues these facades and focuses on the making of the project. It features a text by writer Deborah Levy.
Craig Kalpakjian - Intelligence
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
Craig Kalpakjian is a pionneer in the use of digital software for artistic purposes. This first monographic book is an in-depth look at Kalpakjian's work Black Box, an installation featuring a robotic dog taking pictures. The artist examines this work in cunjunction with declassified CIA and Army Intelligence interrogation manuals. The publication includes an interview with Bob Nickas, and essays by curator Paul Wombell and Gilles Deleuze.
Theo Eshetu - The Body Electric
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The first comprehensive survey of video artist and filmmaker Theo Eshetu's extensive body of work. It provides documentation and critical analysis of Eshetu's practice, in which he examines the imagery of the collective unconscious, exploring cultural identity and challenging official media narratives through a complex interplay of signs and symbols.
Allan Sekula - Okeanos
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication is charting the Allan Sekula's research into and investigation of the oceans. It intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of the artist's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks.
David Claerbout - Olympia - The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Stephan Dillemuth - Sound and Smoke – A Revue in Pictures / Schall und Rauch – Eine Revue in Bildern
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Featuring newly conceived works, hand in hand with some older works from the 1980s, this catalogue illustrates Dillemuth's exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Graz, in which he created a new way of presenting his oeuvre, setting up site-specific theatrical scenes.
Tom Humphreys - Plates
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Artist's book documenting works produced by Tom Humphrey between 2009 and 2016 using industrially manufactured ceramic plates as a support medium. This extensive volume reproduces four hundred and twenty works from this series at a one-to-one scale, in precisely rendered photographs.
Katja Novitskova - If Only You Could See What I\'ve Seen with Your Eyes
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Published for the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Katja Novitskova's catalogue addresses emerging potentialities between visual culture, big-data-driven processes, and ecology.
Leonard Qylafi - Occurrence in Present Tense / Ndodhi në kohën e tashme
2017
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Sternberg Press
The catalogue of the Albanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale presents the work of painter and video artist Leonard Qylafi, whose practice has recently been focusing on processes of change and recollection. The featured works investigate the history of Albania and reflect on the nature of the image as such.
Blake Rayne - Tense and Spaced Out - Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos and the Ecology of Misery
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Catalogue spanning the last ten years of works by the American painter whose practice revolves around linguistic issues and reflexive material practices in art. The publication includes texts by artists, curators and scholars, documentation of the exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum by a group of local high-school students and a magazine dedicated to Rayne's 2013 book-object Almanac.
Pierre Bismuth - Things I Remember I Have Done, But Don\'t Remember Why I Did Them - Towards a Catalogue Raisonné
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Two-volume publication gathering a booklet accompanying Pierre Bismuth's 2015 solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, and a catalogue raisonné indexing his typically serial and often humorous work of the last three decades.
Jesse Jones - The Other North
2017
English edition (texts in English and in Korean)
Sternberg Press
The catalogue of the Irish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennal presents a video project by Jones in which Korean actors reenact a 1970s documentrary of a “conflict resolution therapy session” with individuals who experienced the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Martin Beck - An Organized System of Instructions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication both documents and extends Martin Beck's cycle of exhibition and residency at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Harvard. This two-year long project focused on the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the Carpenter Center, built in 1963 by Le Corbusier.
Merlin Carpenter - Midcareer Paintings
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Merlin Carpenter investigates the status of the midcareer artist with a conceptual project involving the exhibition of transit blankets. The publication documents these works and related gallery shows, in addition with texts by Kunsthalle Bern director Valérie Knoll and artist Sam Lewitt.
 Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin - Aru Kuxipa - Sacred Secret
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.
Mario García Torres - An Arrival Tale
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return, in a series of works that reflect on the European migrant crisis.
Nahum Tevet - The Rough Law of Gardens
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
The Rough Law of Gardens documents Olaf Holzapfel and Nahum Tevet's eponymous joint exhibition and explores the intergenerational differences between two unique artists. Both artists' work rejects the global logic of growth and traverses the bounds of sculpture and painting: each of their practices involves ideas to do with materiality, learning, and memory.
Sam Watson - CityCat Project - 2006-2016
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication traces the extraordinary collaboration between American artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and senior Aboriginal writer and activist Sam Watson. structured around their highly political work Maiwar Performance, this book also covers their activities both before and throughout their work together.
Edgar Leciejewski - Tones
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Documenting a six-month residence at Fogo Island Arts, Tones highlights the diversity of Leciejewski's practice—with works including collages, photographs, and found-objects sculptures—while bringing to the fore the artist's views on nature.
Cecilia Vicuña - Read Thread - The Story of the Red Thread
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue discusses the symbolic of the red thread in the work of the Chilean artist and poet. The publication includes a special documentation on quipus—large-scale immersive installations of thread, wool, and yarn—poetic texts and narratives by Vicuña, and two essays that shed light on a ritualistic symbolism relating to the function of textile, language, and menstrual blood.
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