Sternberg Press - Les presses du réel

2017

English edition

The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).

Tirdad Zolghadr
Traction

2016

English edition

A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.

Irena Haiduk
Seductive Exacting Realism

2016

English edition

Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.

Karina Mendreczky
Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.

James Richards
Requests and Antisongs

2016

English edition

Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.

Anastasiya Yarovenko
Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.

Shezad Dawood
Kalimpong

2016

English edition

Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.

Boris Groys
Particular Cases

2016

English edition

New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Behavioral Objects I – A Case Study

2016

English edition

An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

Angela Bulloch, Maria Zerres
Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos

2016

English edition

This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz
I Want

2016

English edition

I Want reviews the eponymous duo's double-projection film installation examining issues of gender, sexuality and performativity—and inspired by the words of punk poetess Kathy Acker and convicted whistle-blower Chelsea Manning.

David Harvey
Abstract from the Concrete

2016

English edition

Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his 2016 lecture at Harvard with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why.

Jill Magid
The Proposal – Critical Spatial Practice 08

2016

English edition

The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.

Putting Rehearsals to the Test – Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics

2016

English edition

An investigation of the role and function of the rehearsal in artistic production at large.

Signature Strengths

2016

English edition

Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.

Ingo Niermann
Solution 257 – Complete Love – A novel

2016

English edition

Set during the 2011 Occupy movement, the tell of a love revolution started by an army of activists willing to bring justice and equality for all on an intimate level.

T. J. Demos
Decolonizing Nature – Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

2016

English edition

T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.

New Ways of Doing Nothing

2016

English edition

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

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.

The Silent University – Towards a Transversal Pedagogy

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.

Markus Miessen
Crossbenching – Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice

2016

English edition

The limits of the participatory game in nowadays democracies.

Fredrik Værslev
All Around Amateur

2016

English edition

A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.

Cave 1 – Territories

2016

English edition

Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.

Intersubjectivity – Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding

2016

English edition

Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.

Florian Hecker, John McCracken

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.

Dysfunctional Comedy – A Reader

2016

English edition

This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.

Presence – A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

2016

English edition

Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?

2016

English edition

~~26.00~~ 19.50 €

A reader examining the curatorial approaches of New Institutionalism—which emerged in the 1990s to reshape the art institution into a more democratic and egalitarian public sphere.

John Douglas Millar
Brutalist Readings – Essays on Literature

2016

English edition

A significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring essays on the highs and lows of the conceptual turn in poetics, avant-garde literary genealogies, and monographic pieces on Paul B. Preciado, Chris Kraus, and Pierre Guyotat, among others, Brutalist Readings explores the radical histories of writing, as well as its potential now.

Apple – An Introduction (Over and over and once again)

2016

English edition

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

~~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.

I Have Left You the Mountain (vinyl LP + book)

2016

bilingual edition (English / Albanian)

Ten texts on the architecture of displacement set to music and sung by Albanian iso-polyphonic singers—commissioned for the Albanian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (songs based on texts by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, and Finn Williams).

Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck
Visual Cultures as Opportunity

2016

English edition

Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck analyze the networked spaces of global informal markets, the cultural frontiers of speculative investments, and recent urban protests, and discuss crucial shifts in the process of collective articulation within today's “crowd economy.”

Ina Blom
The Autobiography of Video – The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

2016

English edition

The birth and life of video art.

Olivia Plender
Rise Early, Be Industrious

2016

English edition

In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.

Transparenzen / Transparencies – The Ambivalence of a New Visibility

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

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.

Charlemagne Palestine
GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt

2016

English edition

This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.

Wendelien Van Oldenborgh
Amateur

2016

bilingual edition (English / Dutch)

Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.

The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict

2016

English edition

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)

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).

Painting beyond Itself – The Medium in the Post-medium Condition

2016

English edition

An historical and theoretical account of painting as a privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity (contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, Isabelle Graw, Jutta Koether, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Matt Saunders...).

Josephine Meckseper
10 minutes after

2016

English edition

New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.

Individual Stories – Collecting as Portrait and Methodology

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.

Olafur Eliasson
Baroque Baroque

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.

Shahryar Nashat
Obituary

2016

English edition

With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.

Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung – Public Design Support 2011-2016

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.

John C. Welchman
Past Realization – Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1

2016

English edition

This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.