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
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906 titles
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Cornerstones
Cornerstones
2012
English edition
Collective book with essays by leading art historians and experts based on a series of conferences held at Witte de With.
Art and Subjecthood - The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Art and Subjecthood – The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
2012
English edition
(last copies available!)
Minimalism and the return of human figure in art, in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism.
Chris Evans - Goofy Audit
Chris Evans
Goofy Audit
2012
English edition
A comprehensive survey of Chris Evans' work.
Hassan Khan - The Agreement - Five Stories by Hassan Khan
Hassan Khan
The Agreement – Five Stories by Hassan Khan
2012
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
A series of narrative portraits and accompanying images of his recent sculptures by Egyptian artist, musician and writer.
Tom Humphreys - Flaca
Tom Humphreys
Flaca
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Emerging from the eponymous exhibition at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, this catalogue reflects on the London exhibition space, Flaca, that Tom Humphreys organized between 2003 and 2007.
A Thousand Eyes - Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics
A Thousand Eyes – Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics
2011
English edition
How the aesthetics of new media technology and its spatial implementations affect the judicial system in relation to fundamental concepts such as truth and representation.
Urban Images - Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture
Urban Images – Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture
2011
English edition
An anthology.
From Berkeley to Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
From Berkeley to Berkeley – Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
2011
English edition
A series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period.
Caring Culture - Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health
Caring Culture – Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health
2011
English edition
Changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies, and how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations.
Casco Issues XII - Generous Structures
Casco Issues XII – Generous Structures
2011
English edition
A playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice.
Ingo Niermann - The Future of Art - A Manual (+ DVD)
Erik Niedling, Ingo Niermann
The Future of Art – A Manual (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel - How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
Antje Majewski
The World of Gimel – How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.
Circular Facts
Circular Facts
2011
English edition
15.00 11.25 €
A collaborative endeavor between three European contemporary art organizations, which acted as an informal think tank and a mutual support structure for the production and dissemination of artistic projects.
Merlin Carpenter - The Opening
Merlin Carpenter
The Opening
2011
English edition
Focused on a series of exhibitions entitled The Opening—marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings—the book documents all six events via text and snapshot-like images.
On the Table 1 - Three Banquets for a Queen
On the Table 1 – Three Banquets for a Queen
2011
English edition
Inaugurating the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art, Three Banquets for a Queen recounts the spectacular feasts that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome in 1668
Brice Dellsperger - Body Double
Marie Canet, Brice Dellsperger
Body Double
2011
English edition
Artist's book (an hallucinated portrait gallery of most of the characters created by Brice Dellsperger for his film remakes) / first substantive study of his work, with an essay by Marie Canet.
Sung Hwan Kim - Ki-Da Rilke
Sung Hwan Kim
Ki-Da Rilke
2011
English edition
Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Fia Backström -
Fia Backström
2011
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Monograph based on Swedish artist's project for the Nordic Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafson - Under Deconstruction
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafson
Under Deconstruction
2011
English edition
First comprehensive overview / in depth analysis of more than ten years of the Spanish-Icelandic duo's artistic practice—leading up to their most current works.
Birgit Megerle -
Birgit Megerle
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
Monograph.
Zin Taylor - Growth
Zin Taylor
Growth
2011
English edition
Artist's book.
Markus Weisbeck - Surface
Markus Weisbeck
Surface
2011
English edition
A selection of seminal graphic design projects developed by Weisbeck and his firm, Surface, over the last ten years.
Brian Dillon - Sanctuary
Brian Dillon
Sanctuary
2011
English edition
A story about what survives—of bodies, ideas, objects and the artistic or literary forms that might describe them—in the wake of catastrophe.
Susanne Kriemann - Reading Susanne Kriemann
Susanne Kriemann
Reading Susanne Kriemann
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
The book is comprised of texts on Susanne Kriemann's practice and its relation to the concept of Reading in a wider sense: reading photographs, archives, and texts and transforming these into new compositions with photography, urban space, and historiography.
Dora García - L\'Inadeguato / Lo Inadecuado / The Inadequate - Mad Marginal – Cahier #2
Dora García
L'Inadeguato / Lo Inadecuado / The Inadequate – Mad Marginal – Cahier #2
2011
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Italian)
The second cahier of Dora García's Mad Marginal project, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.
Christoph Schlingensief - German Pavilion, 2011 - 54th Venice Biennale
Christoph Schlingensief
German Pavilion, 2011 – 54th Venice Biennale
2011
English edition
29.00 14.50 €
A tribute to one of Germany's most radical, experimental, and progressive voices, with contributions from over thirty internationally renowned curators, artists, critics, theorists, directors, and practitioners.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - A Well Respected Man, or Book of Echoes
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh
A Well Respected Man, or Book of Echoes
2011
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / Indonesian Bahasa)
Artist's book.
A Cookbook for Political Imagination
A Cookbook for Political Imagination
2011
English edition
A manual of political instructions and recipes, delivered by more than forty international authors, rather than a traditional exhibition catalogue (publication accompanying the exhibiton for the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Bulletins of The Serving Library #01
2011
English edition
The new biannual publication from Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt (Dexter Sinister), which continues where the final issue of their previous house journal Dot Dot Dot left off.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth - Chardin Material
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Chardin Material
2011
English edition
The dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* - *But Were Afraid to Ask
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* – *But Were Afraid to Ask
2011
English edition
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book.
Anton Vidokle - New York Conversations (DVD)
Anton Vidokle
New York Conversations (DVD)
2011
English edition
A text film documenting three days of public conversations between artists, critics, curators, and a free floating public.
Options with Nostrils
Options with Nostrils
2011
English edition
A collection of previously unpublished essays, both theoretical and visual, by artists, curators, a writer, a scholar, and a group of postgraduates from the Piet Zwart Institute's Fine Art programme in Rotterdam, who together founded the “Office for the Unknown.”
Miki Kratsman - All about us
Miki Kratsman
All about us
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
New works.
Mario Pfeifer - Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 - by Mario Pfeifer, 2009
Mario Pfeifer
Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 – by Mario Pfeifer, 2009
2011
English edition
The book discusses Mario Pfeifer's recent 16mm film installation Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974. This installation, consisting of two synchronized, looped, and parallel projected films, takes it point of departure from the first monograph of Baltz's work, published by Castelli Graphics, New York in 1974.
Der symbolische Auftraggeber / The Symbolic Commissioner
Der symbolische Auftraggeber / The Symbolic Commissioner
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
This book centers around two exhibitions which took place at the Grazer Kunstverein, “Die Blaue Blume” (2007) and “Idealismusstudio” (2008).
Solution 196-213 - United States of Palestine-Israel
Solution 196-213 – United States of Palestine-Israel
2011
English edition
An anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region.
Knut Åsdam - The long gaze, the short gaze
Knut Åsdam
The long gaze, the short gaze
2011
English edition
A book appearing as a result of Knut Åsdam's 2010 exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, and the production of his two new films Abyss and Tripoli (both 2010).
Valérie Mannaerts - An Exhibition - Another Exhibition
Valérie Mannaerts
An Exhibition – Another Exhibition
2011
English edition
First monograph, with an essay by Anselm Franke, a conversation between the artist and Ann Demeester, and images and illustrations of the two exhibitions.
Poor Man\'s Expression - Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
Poor Man's Expression – Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
28.00 14.00 €
Poor Man's Expression examines the relationship between film, video, technology, and art, with a particular focus on the reciprocal influences between conceptual art and experimental film.
Katya Sander - Meaning is what hides the instability of one\'s position
Andrea Geyer, Katya Sander
Meaning is what hides the instability of one's position
2010
English edition
An artists' book conceived as a flip book: a photographic essay that takes us through spaces of international airports.
Maria Fusco - The Mechanical Copula
Maria Fusco
The Mechanical Copula
2010
English edition
The first collection of short stories by Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco, tracking the slimy path of social mobility with serious playfulness and an eye for the absurd.
Maria Lind - Selected Maria Lind Writing
Maria Lind
Selected Maria Lind Writing
2010
English edition
Twenty-two essays selected by Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick, Brian Kuan Wood, and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Hu Fang - Garden of Mirrored Flowers
Hu Fang
Garden of Mirrored Flowers
2010
English edition
19.00 9.50 €
Novel (an adaptation and transformation of the classical Chinese novel Jin Hua Yuan, or Flowers in the Mirror).
John Kelsey - Rich Texts - Selected Writing for Art
John Kelsey
Rich Texts – Selected Writing for Art
2010
English edition
Compiled for the first time here, the critic, artist, gallerist, dealer, translator John Kelsey's selected essays gamesomely convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates.
Agnieszka Brzeżańska - L\'artiste, le modèle et la peinture
Agnieszka Brzeżańska
L'artiste, le modèle et la peinture
2010
English edition
First monograph.
Auguste Orts - Correspondence
Auguste Orts
Correspondence
2010
English edition
Catalogue of the first collective exhibition by Auguste Orts, which came about on the basis of the frequent letters the four members exchanged about their work
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