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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906 titles
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Futurity Report - Counter-Histories Vol. 1
Futurity Report – Counter-Histories Vol. 1
2020
English edition
Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself.
Bordered Lives - Immigration Detention Archive
Bordered Lives – Immigration Detention Archive
2020
English edition
Drawing on original documents, photographs and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the UK.
Tom Holert - Knowledge Beside Itself - Contemporary Art\'s Epistemic Politics
Tom Holert
Knowledge Beside Itself – Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics
2020
English edition
A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of knowledge.
Annette Kelm - Tomato Target
Annette Kelm
Tomato Target
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
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.
The New Model - An Inquiry
The New Model – An Inquiry
2020
English edition
This catalogue stems from an exhibition program which investigated the heritage of the 1968 project The Model, for which Stockholm's Moderna Museet was transformed into an adventure playground for children.
Roee Rosen - Desire and Dust
Roee Rosen
Desire and Dust
2020
English edition
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
Martin Herbert - Unfold This Moment - The Art of Carol Bove
Martin Herbert
Unfold This Moment – The Art of Carol Bove
2020
English edition
20.00 10.00 €
An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
Joyce Campbell - On the Last Afternoon - Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
Joyce Campbell
On the Last Afternoon – Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
2020
English edition
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
Peter Friedl
Rehousing
2020
English edition
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
Janek Simon
Synthetic Folklore
2020
English edition
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
Želimir Žilnik
Shadow Citizens
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
An insight into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of Serbian filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.
Migration - Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling
Migration – Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling
2020
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration?
Ingo Niermann - Solution 295-304 - Mare Amoris
Ingo Niermann
Solution 295-304 – Mare Amoris
2020
English edition
Against globalization's noxious exploitation of maritime resources, Ingo Nierman provides new practical, technological, and metaphysical scenarios to renew the relationship between men and the sea.
Critique in Practice - Renzo Martens\' “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty”
Critique in Practice – Renzo Martens' “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty”
2020
English edition
This publication explores the legacy of Renzo Martens' landmark film Enjoy Poverty: a provocative work establishing how poverty became Congo's most lucrative export.
From a History of Exhibitions towards a Future of Exhibition-Making - China and Southeast Asia
From a History of Exhibitions towards a Future of Exhibition-Making – China and Southeast Asia
2020
English edition
This publication is the outcome of a touring assembly platform bringing together writers, curators, and art practitioners to reflect on exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.
Reinventing Daily Life
Reinventing Daily Life
2020
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Art as a tool to reinvent our daily reality: textual and visual outcomes of the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
Of(f) Our Times - Curatorial Anachronics
Of(f) Our Times – Curatorial Anachronics
2020
English edition
A collection of conversations, essays, artists' projects, and inserts, critically reflecting on the concept of “exhibition history”.
Jens Hoffmann - In the Meantime - Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions
Jens Hoffmann
In the Meantime – Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions
2020
English edition
An anthology of texts by the influential American critic and curator. The publication includes essays on artists, exhibitions, and curating, catalogue texts, and interviews.
Maria Lind - Seven Years - The Rematerialisation of Art from 2011 to 2017
Maria Lind
Seven Years – The Rematerialisation of Art from 2011 to 2017
2020
English edition
An anthology of texts on contemporary art during the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik - The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation - Critical Spatial Practice 10
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation – Critical Spatial Practice 10
2020
English edition
This publication documents new spatial notational systems developed by architect Nina Valerie Kolowratnik to help Indigenous communities from New Mexico to protect and regain traditional lands.
Michael Rakowitz - I\'m good at love, I\'m good at hate, it\'s in between I freeze - Research/Practice 01
Michael Rakowitz
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze – Research/Practice 01
2020
English edition
The inaugural publication of the “Research/Practice” series focuses on an artistic research by Michael Rakowitz on the aftermath of a canceled show by Leonard Cohen initially scheduled in Palestine.
Larissa Sansour - Heirloom - Research/Practice 03
Larissa Sansour
Heirloom – Research/Practice 03
2020
English edition
This publication documents the artistic research for Sansour's project for the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a dark science fiction narrative set after an eco-disaster, evolving into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia.
Dizziness - A Resource
Dizziness – A Resource
2020
English edition
A cross-disciplinary reader investigating dizziness in artistic, art-historical, philosophical and natural scientific sources.
Art, Self & System
Art, Self & System
2020
English edition
Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.
Jörg Heiser - Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
Jörg Heiser
Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
2020
English edition
The relationships of art and pop music from the 1960s to the present.
Leonor Antunes - A seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot
Leonor Antunes
A seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot
2020
English edition
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
Fredrik Værslev
Tan Lines
2020
English edition
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.
Abstract Hungary
Abstract Hungary
2020
English edition
This catalogue stems from two eponymous exhibitions examining Hungary's art scene's drive toward abstraction to reflect on the complex social conditions of the country, from the 1960s to the present-day.
The Mill
The Mill
2020
English edition
Artistic views on forestry and its actors (catalogue).
Ana Ofak - Agents of Abstraction
Ana Ofak
Agents of Abstraction
2019
English edition
This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the first Yugoslavian abstract art group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.
Pedro Barateiro - How to Make a Mask
Pedro Barateiro
How to Make a Mask
2019
English edition
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.
The D-Tale - Video Art from the Pearl River Delta
The D-Tale – Video Art from the Pearl River Delta
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
An overview of video art production from the Pearl River Delta in China: having emerged in the mid-1980s, this vital yet under-represented art scene is thoroughly documented in this richly illustrated catalogue (460 ill.) which features works by nearly sixty artists (catalogue of the inaugural exhibition at Times Art Center Berlin).
Love and Ethnology - The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
Love and Ethnology – The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
2019
English edition
Halfway between a catalogue and a reader, this publication documents a long-term, touring exhibition project on the critical reception of Hubert Fichte's ethnographic travel literature. This large-scale initiative brings forth a multi-faceted debate on colonial modernism, ethnography, poetry and sexuality.
Of Other Spaces - Where Does Gesture Become Event?
Of Other Spaces – Where Does Gesture Become Event?
2019
English edition
Stemming from the namesake exhibition program at Cooper Gallery, Of Other Spaces draws on women artists' activism from the 1970s to the present day to build a reflection on feminist thinking as a provocative and cogent mode of creative and critical inquiry.
Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD)
Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD)
2019
English edition
(last copies available!)
This publication presents the outcomes of the master Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD) at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. The contributions reflect on the program's quest to re-establish the material at the center of art and design practices.
Philippe Parreno - Synchronicity
Philippe Parreno
Synchronicity
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
This catalogue for Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, reveals the artworks presented in the exhibition.
What about Activism?
What about Activism?
2019
English edition
This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.
Jill Johnston - The Disintegration of a Critic
Jill Johnston
The Disintegration of a Critic
2019
English edition
currently out of stock
Thirty texts by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition - Texts on Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist
An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition – Texts on Hans Ulrich Obrist
2019
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
A collection of essays and portraits on one of the most influential art critic and curator of today.
Mischa Kuball - Res.o.nant
Mischa Kuball
Res.o.nant
2019
English edition
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
Stephen Sutcliffe
At Fifty
2019
English edition
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
Peter Wächtler
Jolly Rogers
2019
English edition
currently out of stock
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.
Waiting for Omar Gatlato - A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora
Waiting for Omar Gatlato – A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora
2019
English edition
This catalogue offers diverse representations of everyday life in Algeria and its diaspora through film, paintings, photography and sculpture by twenty-five contemporary artists. It includes the first English translations of key theoretical texts on Algerian contemporary art.
Sven-Olov Wallenstein - Spacing Philosophy - Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition
Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Spacing Philosophy – Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition
2019
English edition
Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's “Les Immatériaux” exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology.
Verina Gfader - The Contemporary Condition - The Last Resident
Verina Gfader
The Contemporary Condition – The Last Resident
2019
English edition
The publication presents a collective project lead by artist and researcher Verina Gfader.
Jacob Lund - The Contemporary Condition - Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination
Jacob Lund
The Contemporary Condition – Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination
2019
English edition
This theoretical essay advocates for the overcoming of the dominant notion of the contemporary as the point of departure for the development of (art-) historical imagination.
Michael Zinganel - Stop and Go - Nodes of Transformation and Transition
Michael Hieslmair, Michael Zinganel
Stop and Go – Nodes of Transformation and Transition
2019
English edition
This publication presents the results of a research project which explored the transformation of informal structures within the road transport corridors connecting Eastern and Western Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The Place Is Here - The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
The Place Is Here – The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
2019
English edition
The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.
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