Sternberg Press

Second edition of Jalal Toufic's collection essays.

Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.

This issue poses as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania curated by Anthony Elms. As such, its nominal theme is Fashion.

The urgency of building subtraction.

A collection of essays that reveals layers of unknowing and open-endedness within a diversity of contemporary art practices since the 1970s.

A selection of Jan Verwoert's most recent writings.

A long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa, on the theme of the stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde.

Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work.

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.

The novel by Brian O'Doherty, written from the perspective of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810), who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity, reveals the radical modernity of one of the eighteenth century's most mysterious figures.

An A-to-Z of the exhibition.

A collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history.

An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.

The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimer's invitation to present his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition “Villa Romana 1905–2013: Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz” at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.

Seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert.

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

A new collaborative publication, that has evolved within the framework of two geographically separate yet collaboratively conceived exhibitions.

How the diagrammatic forms affect the worlds of images in contemporary art.

A compilation of interviews with thirty-one artists related to questions about the value of attention and spectacle..

Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.

The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Comprehensive monograph.

The first edition of the triennial of contemporary art Bergen Assembly.

Critical texts by Kim Gordon brought together for the first time.

Models of subjective and situational ethics in the contemporary cultural field.

Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.

Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Twelve theoretical investigations on the crisis (both economical and personal) issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics, originated with artist Deborah Ligorio's research.

A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.

Largely due to the “linguistic turn” that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O'Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities.

Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of “seriousness” in art and culture.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.

Complex relationships inside art, culture, political economy, immaterial production, and the public realm today.

A collection of nonfiction essays that provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today.

The entrance of art into culture at large.

Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the present.

Dénes Farkas's project for the Estonian Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale.

An in-depth view into the work of Susanne Kriemann.

Monographic exhibition catalogue, with an interview, an essay, a conversation, and a photo series by the artist.

Viable forms of refusal and imagine prospects for a post-work future.

The genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.

The largest presentation of Marie-Louise Ekman's art ever featured in the form of a book.

This publication accompanies the eponymous exhibition at TBA21–Augarten in Vienna (showing together for the very first time Cerith Wyn Evans' luminous works that have been collected by TBA21 over the past ten years), and brings together threads and voices of leading contemporary artists, scientists, and theoreticians exploring the artist's polyphonic oeuvre.

A guidebook that maps the social, urban, and art discourses of Georgia's post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi (the catalogue of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale).

The biopolitical and psychosexual topic of love.

Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point. Germany, and often the author's specific relationship to the German language, is the unifying thread that unites these diverse pieces.