Sternberg Press

Sternberg Press is a London-based publishing house of art and cultural criticism, creative nonfiction, and literary and experimental fiction. Founded by Caroline Schneider in New York in 1999, it aims to support both new and established writers and nourish lasting editorial relationships. The press is committed to publishing books with an interdisciplinary focus on contemporary visual culture and related critical discourse.
 
Berlin / London
www.sternbergpress.com
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Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
2025
English edition
forthcoming
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Josephine Berry - Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse
Josephine Berry
Planetary Realism – Art Against Apocalypse
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
Agnieszka Kurant
Collective Intelligence
2025
English edition
forthcoming
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
Nida Sinnokrot
Palestine Is Not a Garden
2025
English edition
forthcoming
Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Staci Bu Shea - Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
Staci Bu Shea
Solution 305 – Dying Livingly
2025
English edition
forthcoming
A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
2025
English edition
forthcoming
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Hans Ulrich Obrist -
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simone Fattal
2025
English edition
forthcoming
In this deeply personal volume, Simone Fattal's close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist delves into the artist's past to explore the remarkable breadth of her body of work.
Ana Teixeira Pinto - Death Wall - Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall – Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory
2025
English edition
forthcoming
How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
Anna Colin
Alternative Pedagogical Spaces – From Utopia to Institutionalization
2025
English edition
forthcoming
A critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
Griselda Pollock
Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio – Reflections Across Four Decades
2025
English edition
forthcoming
In two lectures four decades apart, féminist art historian and curator Griselda Pollock denounces the gender politics of art education and resituates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts in the world since 1968.
Alex Coles - Fusion! - From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
Alex Coles
Fusion! – From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
2024
English edition
The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno.
Leonor Antunes - The constant inequality of Leonor\'s days*
Leonor Antunes
The constant inequality of Leonor's days*
2024
English edition
This publication documents artist Leonor Antunes's installation at Lisbon's CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.
The Contemporary Condition - Challenging Institutionalization – A propositional Toolkit for doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research 
The Contemporary Condition – Challenging Institutionalization – A propositional Toolkit for doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research 
2024
English edition
PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.
Skye Arundhati Thomas -
Skye Arundhati Thomas, Lalitha Lajmi
2024
English edition
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
Siôn Parkinson - Stinkhorn - How Nature\'s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
Siôn Parkinson
Stinkhorn – How Nature's Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
2024
English edition
Siôn Parkinson's first, non-fiction book, inspired by his research into sound and smell (particularly "bad" smells) imagined through the figure of the stinkhorn mushroom and his passion for the fungal world more broadly.
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
2024
English edition
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
Ines Doujak - Twisted Language
Ines Doujak
Twisted Language
2024
English edition
Through a close examination of the political and aesthetic strategies that artist Ines Doujak employs in her work, this book explores the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises.
The 14th Shanghai Biennale - Cosmos Cinema
The 14th Shanghai Biennale – Cosmos Cinema
2024
English edition
Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.
Richard Sennett - Democracy and Urban Form
Richard Sennett
Democracy and Urban Form
2024
English edition
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
Kim West
The Contemporary Condition – The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
2024
English edition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
Why I Do What I Do - Global Curators Speak
Why I Do What I Do – Global Curators Speak
2024
English edition
Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.
What to Let Go?
What to Let Go?
2024
English edition
What gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting?
Trevor Paglen - Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations - Research/Practice 04
Trevor Paglen
Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations – Research/Practice 04
2024
English edition
How machine learning and computer vision generate images.
Eva Forest - A Strange Adventure
Eva Forest
A Strange Adventure
2024
English edition
Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.
Meandering - Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
Meandering – Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
2024
English edition
Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.
Raven Chacon - A Worm\'s Eye View From a Bird\'s Beak
Raven Chacon
A Worm's Eye View From a Bird's Beak
2024
English edition
An overview of the career of Amerindian composer and artist Raven Chacon.
Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
Anton Vidokle
Citizens of the Cosmos
2024
English edition
This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.
Jean-Paul Martinon - Visual Cultures as World-Forming
Adnan Madani, Jean-Paul Martinon
Visual Cultures as World-Forming
2024
English edition
How does the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.
192 Pages (notebook)
192 Pages (notebook)
2024
no text
This notebook from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna contains 192 blank pages for making your own notes.
Magda Stawarska -
Omar Kholeif, Magda Stawarska
2024
English edition
This critical biography guides readers through artist Magda Stawarska's practice via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
Agonistic Assemblies – On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
2024
English edition
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
Michel Majerus
What looks good today may not look good tomorrow – The Legacy of Michel Majerus
2024
English edition
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Martine Syms - She Mad
Martine Syms
She Mad
2024
English edition
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
Nikil Saval - A Rage in Harlem - June Jordan and Architecture
Nikil Saval
A Rage in Harlem – June Jordan and Architecture
2024
English edition
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
Ingo Niermann - The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
Ingo Niermann
The Monadic Age – Notes on the Coming Social Order
2024
English edition
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
Nadia Belerique - Body In Trouble
Nadia Belerique
Body In Trouble
2024
English edition
A poetics of perception, between sculpture, architectural installations and photography.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
Katrina Daschner
Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
Dexter Sinister
yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
E-flux journal - Wonderflux – A Decade of e-flux Journal
E-flux journal – Wonderflux – A Decade of e-flux Journal
2024
English edition
Wonderflux brings together a group of longtime contributors with graphic artists to collaborate on illustrated essays and develop a new pictorial language around some of the emergent consistencies and overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal.
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
Dennis Pohl
Building Carbon Europe – Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
The White West - Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
The White West – Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
2024
English edition
Fascism, neo-colonialism and capitalism.
Chus Martínez - The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
Chus Martínez
The Complex Answer – On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence
2023
English edition
The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński - H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen
2023
English edition
Dealing with the hauntings and echoes of Austria's colonial past, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński—visual artist, writer, and recipient of the Camera Austria Prize 2021—sets the stage for the what-if, while confronting viewers with the violence of the Western gaze.
No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
No Dandy, No Fun – Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
2023
English edition
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future
Sahara – A Thousand Paths Into the Future
2023
English edition
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
Ella Finer - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
Ella Finer, Vibeke Mascini
Silent Whale Letters – A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
(last copies available!)
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
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