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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Philippe Parreno -
Philippe Parreno
2010
English edition
currently out of stock
A selection of Parreno's films and collaborative projects.
Raqs Media Collective - Seepage
Raqs Media Collective
Seepage
2010
English edition
A compilation of texts authored by Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta).
Haegue Yang - Siblings and Twins
Haegue Yang
Siblings and Twins
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, part of a serial project designed by Yang in which she staged additional installations in other international exhibition sites.
Visible - Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else
Visible – Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else
2010
English edition
Visible documents a research project by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna. The publication highlights nine curators, who showcase forty-one ways of making art.
Keren Cytter -
Keren Cytter
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.
Ingo Niermann - Solution 186-195 - Dubai Democracy
Ingo Niermann
Solution 186-195 – Dubai Democracy
2010
English edition
Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.
Internal Necessity - A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
Internal Necessity – A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
2010
English edition
Internal Necessity was the topic of the Sommerakademie 2009, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. The result is an independent reader that does not aim to merely document the academy 2009, but reflects and develops its topics in a rich diversity of visual and textual forms.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie - Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie – Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
2010
English edition
An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.
Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
Jean-Yves Leloup
Digital Magma
2010
English edition
New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.
Julika Rudelius - Soft Intrusion
Julika Rudelius
Soft Intrusion
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
22.00 11.00 €
An extended selection of edited video stills, Soft Intrusion offers a coherent oeuvre of Julika Rudelius's video works.
Silberkuppe - Under One Umbrella
Silberkuppe – Under One Umbrella
2010
English edition
The first overall presentation of Silberkuppe, one of Berlin's most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art.
Peter Friedl - Secret Modernity - Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
Peter Friedl
Secret Modernity – Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
2010
English edition
A representative selection of Friedl's (partly unpublished) texts, along with a series of interviews.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Solution 168-185 - America
Tirdad Zolghadr
Solution 168-185 – America
2010
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
A compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that.
Anton Vidokle - Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
Anton Vidokle
Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
2010
English edition
A collection of essays and interview by an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects.
Net Pioneers 1.0 - Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
Net Pioneers 1.0 – Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
2010
English edition
19.00 9.00 €
Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.
Bettina Funcke - Pop or Populus - Art Between High and Low
Bettina Funcke
Pop or Populus – Art Between High and Low
2010
English edition
19.00 9.00 €
A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).
E-flux journal - What Is Contemporary Art?
E-flux journal – What Is Contemporary Art?
2010
English edition
E-flux journal: What Is Contemporary Art? puts the apparent simplicity and self-evident term into doubt, asking critics, curators, artists, and writers to contemplate the nature of this catchall or default category.
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
Semiotext(e) – The German Issue
2009
English edition
A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Voice Over - On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
Voice Over – On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
2009
English edition
Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.
Nicolas Bourriaud - The Radicant
Nicolas Bourriaud
The Radicant
2009
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Sven Lütticken - Idols of the Market - Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
Sven Lütticken
Idols of the Market – Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
2009
English edition
19.00 9.50 €
This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.
Diango Hernández - Losing You Tonight (2 books)
Diango Hernández
Losing You Tonight (2 books)
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Two volumes artist's book.
Dominic Eichler - Written All Over Us
Dominic Eichler
Written All Over Us
2009
English edition
The first book of poems by art critic, artist, musician, and curator Dominic Eichler. With illustrations by Nairy Baghramian, Julian Göthe, Shahryar Nashat, Henrik Olesen, and Danh Vo.
E-flux journal reader 2009
E-flux journal reader 2009
2009
English edition
A fresh approach to the function of an art journal as something that situates the multitude of what is currently available, and makes that available back to the multitude.
Gleis 17/Track 17
Gleis 17/Track 17
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
19.00 9.50 €
A critical review of the issues of the memorial for Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel.
Mike Bouchet - Selected Works 1989-2008
Mike Bouchet
Selected Works 1989-2008
2009
English edition
First monograph on American artist Mike Bouchet: an overview of selected works from the last ten years.
Simon Dybbroe Møller - Kompendium
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Kompendium
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
An artist book accompanying the Danish artist's first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunstverein Hannover.
Liam Gillick - How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
Liam Gillick
How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Liam Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009.
Loris Gréaud - Trajectories <strike>and Destinations</strike>
Loris Gréaud
Trajectories and Destinations
2009
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
An artist book documenting a selection of Gréaud's works, with a special contribution by Daniel Birnbaum.
Olaf Holzapfel - Nakano Sakaue - Verhandelte Zeichen
Olaf Holzapfel
Nakano Sakaue – Verhandelte Zeichen
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nakano Sakaue documents a series of photographs realized by Olaf Holzapfel during a residency in Tokyo. The artist has depicted a kind of residue from the city's buildings: neon lights, images, and street signs, which are featured as so many promises for orientation.
Dave Hullfish Bailey - What\'s left
Dave Hullfish Bailey
What's left
2009
English edition
Using non-linear heuristic methods and experimental webs of information to draw links between the cities of Utrecht, and Slab City, California, USA, this book brings together speculative proposals that ask basic questions about public space, conceived as a physical and conversational sphere.
Klaus Weber - Secession
Klaus Weber
Secession
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.
Making a Scene / Fare una scenata
Making a Scene / Fare una scenata
2009
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
15.00 8.00 €
“Fare una scenata” was the first group show at Fondazione Morra Greco in Naples. It featured the work of nine international artists who are either commissioned new work, or asked to adapt existing work specifically to the picture-gallery and basement spaces of this newly established foundation located in an old palazzo in the heart of Naples.
Helke Bayrle - Portikus Under Construction (3 DVD)
Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction (3 DVD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
For many years now, Helke Bayrle has documented the activities of the Portikus. The result is a unique collection of artist portraits. Portikus Under Construction presents the last decade, edited backstage material that the viewer of the finished exhibitions never sees.
Ingo Niermann - Solution 1-10 - Umbauland
Ingo Niermann
Solution 1-10 – Umbauland
2009
English edition
Ingo Niermann devises in this book ten provokingly simple ideas which would see Germany work it out after all, including a new grammar, a new political party, assigning allotment gardens to unemployed people and retirees, and the Great Pyramid, the tallest building of the world which would serve as a democratic tomb for millions of people.
East Coast Europe
East Coast Europe
2008
English edition
“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.
The Question of the Day
The Question of the Day
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).
Thinking Worlds - The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
Thinking Worlds – The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
2008
English edition
Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.
Daniel Birnbaum - The Hospitality of Presence
Daniel Birnbaum
The Hospitality of Presence
2008
English edition
(last copies available!)
19.00 12.00 €
A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).
M/M (Paris) - Live Recorded Delay (box set) - An Archive of “Il Tempo del Postino”
M/M (Paris)
Live Recorded Delay (box set) – An Archive of “Il Tempo del Postino”
2008
English edition
Luxurious publication in a box conceived by the graphic design team documenting the project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno (limited edition).
Legend
Legend
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Catalogue of an exhibition which assembles the recent work of 50 international artists who interrogate the artificiality of the current world and render up intensified visions of it.
Otra de vaqueros
Otra de vaqueros
2008
English edition
Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas - Villa Lituania
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
Villa Lituania
2008
English edition
The artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are representing Lithuania at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. This book documents the artistic process of the Villa Lituania project, collecting the archival material associated with the challenge of building a pigeon loft in Rome, and a visual and textual artists' diary.
Solution 9 - The Great Pyramid
Solution 9 – The Great Pyramid
2008
English edition
19.00 7.50 €
The first in the Solution series where authors are asked to develop an abundance of compact and original ideas for other countries and regions.
Canvases and Careers Today - Criticism and Its Markets
Canvases and Careers Today – Criticism and Its Markets
2008
English edition
currently out of stock
Book based on the conference “Canvases and Careers Today” which was initiated by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main.
Under Pressure - Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Under Pressure – Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
2008
English edition
Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.
The Violence of Participation
The Violence of Participation
2008
English edition
Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.
Jörg Heiser - All of a Sudden - Things that Matter in Contemporary Art
Jörg Heiser
All of a Sudden – Things that Matter in Contemporary Art
2008
English edition
A sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp.
Peter Friedl - Working at Copan / Trabalhando no Copan
Peter Friedl
Working at Copan / Trabalhando no Copan
2008
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
A collection of interviews with workers and employees at Edifício Copan, a landmark modernist architecture by Oscar Niemeyer in the center of São Paulo, embodying an era of radical political and economic changes within Brazilian society.
Antje Majewski - My Very Gestures
Antje Majewski
My Very Gestures
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of Antje Majewski's work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre.
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