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
 
906 titles
Series:
 
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
Produced under the auspices of the exhibition “Transmitting Andy Warhol” at Tate Liverpool, this issue includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, a collage of voices that conjure Warhol's aura by Michael Bracewell...
Turning Inward
2015
English edition
A selection of texts by international artists, critics, and curators, which aims to renegotiate the relationship between centers and peripheries in contemporary art worlds.
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Ilit Azoulay - Finally Without End
2015
English edition
New monograph.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Das Wunder des Lebens
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Drawings.
Michael Tedja - Aquaholism
2015
English edition
Michael Tedja's Aquaholism is an exhibition catalogue, a published oeuvre, an artistic treatise, a poetry collection, a visual essay, an artist's book. It is a polyphonic collage of text and image. More than seventeen years of artistic output unfold between the first and last pages. With its thoroughness, density, and associative power, the book embodies Tedja's artistic essence: voluminous, interrelated, and in continuous motion.
Jenni Tischer - Pin
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue.
Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead
2015
English edition
A novel.
Open Form - Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
19.00 9.50 €
This publication examines the impact of Oskar Hansen within contemporary visual culture and the redefined role of the viewer since the 1960s.
Manfred Hermes - Hystericizing Germany - Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz
2015
English edition
19.00 8.00 €
An excursive analysis of the potential of narration within the paradoxes of cinematic representation.
Poetic Series - Noon on the Moon
2015
English edition
The fourth issue in the “Poetic Series” is a seasonally themed special issue, a festive anthology composed of contributions from more than twenty writers and artists.
Not Now! Now! - Chronopolitics, Art & Research
2015
English edition
The question of the temporal politics in the field of art.
 Krüger & Pardeller - Aesthetic Basic Chronicle, Vol. 1
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
First comprehensive monograph.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
Ines Lechleitner - The Imagines
2015
English edition
First monograph, based on the texts of four writers (Agnieszka Gratza, Béatrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand, and Allen S. Weiss) that each engage with a recent project by Ines Lechleitner.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Aftershow
2015
English edition
A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.
Leander Schönweger - Die Nebel lichten sich
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue.
 Yarisal & Kublitz - Bling blang, ching chang, give me some of that yin yang
2015
English edition
The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.
Art and the F Word - Reflections on the Browning of Europe
2015
English edition
The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.
Assign & Arrange - Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance
2015
English edition
The exchanges and transgressions between art and dance today.
PS: - Jahresring #61 – Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
An intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality.
The Reluctant Narrator - A Survey of Narrative Practices Across Media
2015
English edition
(last copies available!)
The Reluctant Narrator attempts to map the migration of narrative modes across several media, bringing together works that intertwine personal biography with historical events, or that deal with stories that fell through the crevices of history.
Josef Bauer - Werke 1965-Heute / Works 1965-Today
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.
Carsten Höller - Leben
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.
Paul Sietsema - At the hour of tea
2015
English edition
39.00 29.25 €
An unique artist's book based on Paul Sietsema's 16 mm eponymous film, with laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages.
Museum Off Museum
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
An exploration of the concept of the museum from an artistic and outside perspective.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
This issue concerns itself with “numbers,” ranging from a brief note on “The Psychology of Number” by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronico'ss historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure “truths from thin air” (such as proof of the existence of god).
Armando Lulaj - Albanian Trilogy - A Series of Devious Stratagems
2015
English edition
This catalogue-reader accompanies Armando Lulaj's project for the Albanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. A time capsule of the country's past, presenting strange memorabilia and trophies that tread the line between fact and fiction.
Kevin Schmidt - EDM House
2015
English edition
Monograph / catalogue.
Katja Eydel - Schattenfuge / Shadow Gap
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Katja Eydel's photographic body of work.
Eva Grubinger - Café Nihilismus
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue.
Florian Zeyfang - Slow Narration Moving Still
2014
English edition
Reference monograph.
Poetic Series - Fear of Language
2014
English edition
The third issue in the Poetic Series takes its title Fear of Language from the work of emerging Slovenian poet Katja Perat, featured alongside poetry by Judith Goldman and excerpts from Eileen Myles's forthcoming memoir, Afterglow. Artwork is provided by Willem de Rooij.
Michael Schindhelm - Solution 262 - Lavapolis
2014
English edition
The tenth volume in the Solution series edited by Ingo Niermann: a speculative novel that accompanies “Friday in Venice,” a transmedia storytelling project about a possible Europe.
Mark von Schlegell - Ickles, Etc. - Critical Spatial Practice 05
2014
English edition
Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”
Cluster - Dialectionary
2014
English edition
12.00 6.00 €
The manifesto of the network of contemporary art centers.
Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill - A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana
2014
English edition
The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.
Ulrike Grossarth - Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color / Wäre ich von Stoff, ich würde mich färben
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.
Lisa Oppenheim -
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
First monograph.
The Crime Was Almost Perfect
2014
English edition
A continuation (rather than simply documentation or commentary) of the exhibition “The Crime Was Almost Perfect” at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
Hu Fang - Dear Navigator
2014
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
A collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition.
Victor Burgin - Five Pieces for Projection
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, with an essay by Hanne Loreck, an afterword by Eva Schmidt and texts by Victor Burgin.
Ken Okiishi - The Very Quick of the Word
2014
English edition
The first instance of considering Okiishi's work from the last fifteen years as a heterogeneous whole.
Roee Rosen - Vladimir\'s Night
2014
English edition
The chimerical final work by Maxim Komar-Myshkin, one of the most elusive and tragic figures in Israeli-Russian art.
Troubling Research - Performing Knowledge in the Arts
2014
English edition
The art/research articulation.
We Are Living on a Star
2014
English edition
Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.
 J. Parker Valentine - Fiction
2014
English edition
Monograph / artist's book, with a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine's approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation, as well as three essays that investigate Valentine's process.
Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
2014
English edition
This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.
Melissa Gordon - Material Evidence
2014
English edition
First monograph.
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