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:
 
Tom Nicholson - Lines Towards Another
2018
English edition
This first monograph gives compelling insight into Nicholson's diverse material approach, political practice, and historical context.
Profit over Peace in Western Sahara - How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic), German insert
20.00 10.00 €
This publication examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of the Western Sahara, a territory considered by the United Nations to still be awaiting decolonization. Its liberation from colonial rule has come to a standstill due to Morocco's continued military occupation of a part of the territory. The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara.
Marcel Odenbach - Beweis zu nichts
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Departing from his eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, this catalogue examines new works by acclaimed video and visual artist Marcel Odenbach. The series gathered in the publication reflect on the persistence of the victim-perpetrator structure within post-war society, in Germany or Africa.
Merlin Carpenter - “The Outside Can\'t Go Outside”
2018
English edition
Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary art theory following the financial crisis of 2007/8.
Wolfgang Tillmans - What Is Different? - Jahresring #64
2018
English edition
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Was ist anders? - Jahresring #64
2018
German edition
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Cécile B. Evans - (1770–25k)
2018
English edition
This catalogue documents three video works by the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, in which she explores the impact of digital technology on human condition.
Botanical Drift - Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium
2018
English edition
currently out of stock
A global and transdiciplinary study on botanics.
Myths of the Marble
2018
English edition
Myths of the Marble documents a 2017 group exhibition which reflects upon how the “virtual” has been engaged by contemporary artists as a way to consider the world as a site of possibility and limitation that both permeates physical space and online experience.
The Museum of Rhythm
2018
English edition
This catalogue documents a collective project intitiated by curator Natasha Ginwala entitled The Museum of Rhythm: a speculative institution that engages rhythm as a tool for interrogating the foundations of modernity and the sensual complex of time in daily experience. Deriving from an eponymous exhibition, the publication includes visual documentation of the exhibition as well as essays.
Border Thinking - Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence
2018
English edition
Border Thinking: Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence aims to question and provide answers to current border issues in Europe. Central to this investigation is a refugee crisis that is primarily a crisis of global Western capitalism and its components: modernization, nationalism, structural racism, dispossession, and social, political, and economic violence.
Marlene Maier - Food only exists on pictures - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2017
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Publication documenting a project by German artist Marlene Maier, the joint recipient of the 2017 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. In her 3-channel video installation Food only exists on pictures, Marlene Maier finds a visual “language” for the blurring and absence resulting from the opaque merging of technological and techno-political processes.
Oraib Toukan - Sundry Modernism - Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Artist Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho.
Heman Chong - Ifs, Ands, or Buts
2018
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
The catalogue for Heman Chong's first solo museum exhibition in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, provides an insightful and critical look into the Singaporean artist's recent practice.
Craig Kalpakjian - Intelligence
2018
English edition
Craig Kalpakjian is a pionneer in the use of digital software for artistic purposes. This first monographic book is an in-depth look at Kalpakjian's work Black Box, an installation featuring a robotic dog taking pictures. The artist examines this work in cunjunction with declassified CIA and Army Intelligence interrogation manuals. The publication includes an interview with Bob Nickas, and essays by curator Paul Wombell and Gilles Deleuze.
The Promise of Total Automation
2018
English edition
This catalogue surveys the literature on our relationship to a world of machines, new technologies, and electronic devices. It brings thoughts on automation and its promises, primarily the end of labor. The publication unfolds a bibliography and chronology on the subject.
Solution 275-294 - Communists Anonymous
2018
English edition
Transdisciplinary collection of essays and stories providing new propositions for the concepts associated with communism in relation to a variety of contemporary issues. Contributions are drawn from the project “The Kids Want Communism”—a clandestine public series of events marking the century of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Fiction as Method
2018
English edition
Fiction as Method brings authors into dialogue with artists, technologists, theorists and filmmakers in order to examine the diverse ways in which fiction manifests. The aim is to explore the concept through direct and indirect means, ultimately considering how fictions proliferate, take on flesh and come to act in the world.
Armen Avanessian - Miamification
2018
English edition
18.00 9.00 €
Armen Avanessian's Miami chronicles: An inventory of the self in the second person, intertwining thoughts on the art world and interrogations on our digital times.
Visions of the Now - Stockholm Festival for Art and Technology (2 books box set)
2018
English edition
Two-volume box set documenting a 2013 eponymous international festival reflecting on the impact of technologies in our present and future lives. Inspired by a seminal 1966 Stockholm festival, this event featured both lectures and artistic acts. The publication gathers the catalogue and proceedings of the 2013 event, archival materials, and includes unpublished correspondence by John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller, and texts by Alvin Lucier and Nam June Paik.
 Art+Positive - Militant Eroticism - The ART+Positive Archives
2018
English edition
28.00 14.00 €
This catalogue is the first survey of the art and practice of Art+Positive, a significant affinity group of ACT UP New York during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The publication presents previously unseen archives featuring artworks, documents, protest ephemera, and meeting notes, as well as commissioned essays and unpublished writings.
Peter G. Rowe - Design Thinking in the Digital Age
2018
English edition
In this essay, professor Peter G. Rowe gives an overall description of how new technologies transformed the field of architectural design, addressing issues such as the precision and incompleteness of information, schema theory and heuristics.
Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series) - Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013–14
2018
English edition
A collection of new writing and curatorial projects stemming from the activities of the Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, from 2013 to 2014. These projects reflected on the conditions for making curatorial “events” that are extended over longer durations to connect their constituent elements—exhibitions, texts, projects—across space and time.
Theo Eshetu - The Body Electric
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
The first comprehensive survey of video artist and filmmaker Theo Eshetu's extensive body of work. It provides documentation and critical analysis of Eshetu's practice, in which he examines the imagery of the collective unconscious, exploring cultural identity and challenging official media narratives through a complex interplay of signs and symbols.
Allan Sekula - Okeanos
2018
English edition
This publication is charting the Allan Sekula's research into and investigation of the oceans. It intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of the artist's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks.
Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny - or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order” Treatise
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
The publication traces the architectural program carried out by par Pierre Bal-Blanc at CAC Brétigny from 2003 to 2015, a series of site-specific projects with both creative and pedagogic purposes, favoring relations with the outside and the local residents.
 Workshop of the Film Form / Warsztat Formy Filmowej -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
25.00 18.75 €
An overview of the works of the avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WFF), pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe between 1970 and 1977. The publication examines all of the aspects of the WFF's activity, as well as their pedagogical heritage.
Zac Langdon-Pole - Ars viva 2018
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft has awarded the Ars viva Prize to young artists living in Germany. The 2018 edition goes to Anna-Sophie Berger, Oscar Enberg, and Zac Langdon-Pole.
Jalal Toufic - E-flux journal - What Was I Thinking?
2017
English edition
In this treatise, Jalal Toufic investigates the arts as the privileged site of thinking and confronts his thoughts with texts taken from the traditional religions and mystics of the past.
Rethinking Density - Art, Culture, and Urban Practices
2017
English edition
A collection of transdisciplinary essays considering the recently renewed interest for the concept of density in both architecture and artistic research.
David Claerbout - Olympia - The Real-Time Disintegration into Ruins of the Berlin Olympic Stadium over the Course of a Thousand Years
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Charlotte Birnbaum - On the Table 5 - Bon! Bon! – On the Charms of Sweet Cuisine
2017
English edition
The fifth publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art, Bon! Bon! uncovers the wonderful world of all things sugary through surprising anecdotes and historical accounts, each accompanied by delectable recipes that are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
currently out of stock
A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
E-flux journal - Art Without Death – Conversations on Russian Cosmism
2017
English edition
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
 Dexter Sinister - The Contemporary Condition - Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
2017
English edition
Three interconnected essays on typography.
 Raqs Media Collective - The Contemporary Condition - We Are Here, But Is It Now? (The Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity)
2017
English edition
Searching for the present: an account of contemporaneity by the Dehli-based trio Raqs Media Collective.
Mari Shaw - The Noble Art of Collecting #01 - Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit
2017
English edition
First in Mari Shaw's series “The Noble Art of Collecting,” this publication is dedicated to book collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it.
T. J. Demos - Against the Anthropocene - Visual Culture and Environment Today
2017
English edition
Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, T. J. Demos critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations, trough a series of cases study taken from contemporary visual culture.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
2017
English edition
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition inspired by the Oulipo's literary strategies and the notion of potentiality. Nine artists presented a series of artworks in a display that changed continually according to the choice of the spectator.
School of Missing Studies
2017
English edition
15.00 7.50 €
This publication presents the goals and objectives of the The School of Missing Studies—a collaborative and experimental platform study on urbanism in transition.
Stephan Dillemuth - Sound and Smoke – A Revue in Pictures / Schall und Rauch – Eine Revue in Bildern
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Featuring newly conceived works, hand in hand with some older works from the 1980s, this catalogue illustrates Dillemuth's exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Graz, in which he created a new way of presenting his oeuvre, setting up site-specific theatrical scenes.
Tom Humphreys - Plates
2017
English edition
Artist's book documenting works produced by Tom Humphrey between 2009 and 2016 using industrially manufactured ceramic plates as a support medium. This extensive volume reproduces four hundred and twenty works from this series at a one-to-one scale, in precisely rendered photographs.
Katja Novitskova - If Only You Could See What I\'ve Seen with Your Eyes
2017
English edition
Published for the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Katja Novitskova's catalogue addresses emerging potentialities between visual culture, big-data-driven processes, and ecology.
Leonard Qylafi - Occurrence in Present Tense / Ndodhi në kohën e tashme
2017
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
The catalogue of the Albanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale presents the work of painter and video artist Leonard Qylafi, whose practice has recently been focusing on processes of change and recollection. The featured works investigate the history of Albania and reflect on the nature of the image as such.
Blake Rayne - Tense and Spaced Out - Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos and the Ecology of Misery
2017
English edition
Catalogue spanning the last ten years of works by the American painter whose practice revolves around linguistic issues and reflexive material practices in art. The publication includes texts by artists, curators and scholars, documentation of the exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum by a group of local high-school students and a magazine dedicated to Rayne's 2013 book-object Almanac.
The Site Residency
2017
English edition
Grounded in theories and practices of withdrawal and in the critical questioning of creation, materiality, and objectified artistic output, The Site Residency program at the Baltic Art Center was imagined as a residency that would result in no material production. This publication presents the outcomes of the program's three participating artists—Annika Eriksson, Susanne Kriemann, Agnieszka Polska—, including the results of their invited ghostwriters.
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