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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E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
E-flux journal – Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
Alexandra Midal
The Murder Factory – Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
Helen Khal - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
Helen Khal
Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
2023
English edition
Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.
Aria Dean - Bad Infinity - Selected Writings
Aria Dean
Bad Infinity – Selected Writings
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? – (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
Thus Waves Come in Pairs – Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Alex Coles - Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
Alex Coles
Tainted Love – From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
2023
English edition
The first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency, from Frank Sinatra and Serge Gainsbourg to Kendrick Lamar via Soft Cell or PJ Harvey and Nick Cave.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
Kathrin Böhm
Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
Ana Prvački
Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - Curating Capitalism - How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Curating Capitalism – How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
How art and the artist inspire business: an examination of the origins of this relationship from Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
Mladen Stilinović - My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) - Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
Mladen Stilinović
My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) – Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
2023
English edition
A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.
Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz
Mochu
Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
English edition
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Pidginization as Curatorial Method – Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
T. J. Demos - Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
T. J. Demos
Radical Futurisms – Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
2023
English edition
What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
Dan Graham
Some Rockin' – Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic
Contemporary / Unconscious
2023
English edition
First monograph.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
Larne Abse Gogarty
What We Do Is Secret – Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Isabelle Graw - On the Benefits of Friendship
Isabelle Graw
On the Benefits of Friendship
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
Isabelle Graw reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus.
Sven Lütticken - Objections - Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
Sven Lütticken
Objections – Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
2023
English edition
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
Mathilde Supe - Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share - A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
Mathilde Supe
Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share – A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
2023
English edition
The adventures of a French art student as she visits New York to work as an assistant for an established artist.
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? - Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession
And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? – Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession
2023
English edition
An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.
Roee Rosen - Kafka for Kids
Roee Rosen
Kafka for Kids
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Publication based on Roee Rosen's film Kafka for Kids, a cross-generic film combining a fiction drama with a documentary and a musical. The law as a central motif in Kafka's writings, and the fact that the film, supposedly, addresses children, lead to an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally defined in the Palestinian occupied territories.
Sibyl\'s Mouths
Sibyl's Mouths
2023
English edition
Sibyl's Mouths is the most recent in a series of publications by Pure Fiction, a writing and performance group with shifting members active since 2011.
Metalworks - Designing and making
Metalworks – Designing and making
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Inclusions - Aesthetics of the Capitalocene
Nicolas Bourriaud
Inclusions – Aesthetics of the Capitalocene
2022
English edition
The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era.
Viktor Misiano - Curator without a System - Viktor Misiano: Selected Writing
Viktor Misiano
Curator without a System – Viktor Misiano: Selected Writing
2022
English edition
Curator without a System brings together, for the first time in English, a rich variety of essays by the curator Viktor Misiano written between 1988 and 2005.
Peter Fend - Africa-Arctic Flyway - Physiocratic States
Peter Fend
Africa-Arctic Flyway – Physiocratic States
2022
English edition
The use of art and architecture to develop practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.
Omar Kholeif -
Omar Kholeif, Sonia Balassanian
2022
English edition
The first comprehensive monograph of the art and life of Iranian American artist of Armenian descent Sonia Balassanian: in this deeply personal portrait, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.
Solitary
Solitary
2022
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
A South Korean wellness center designed as a mock-prison: a project initiated by artist Tyler Coburn on sensory deprivation, monastic life, the wellness industry, the prison-industrial complex, and the history of solitude.
Ina Blom - Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
Ina Blom
Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
2022
English edition
Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic "trouble."
Curating beyond the Mainstream - The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström
Curating beyond the Mainstream – The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström
2022
English edition
Through four case studies, Curating beyond the Mainstream researches decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
Assuming Asymmetries - Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s
Assuming Asymmetries – Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s
2022
English edition
Through conversations with curators and participating artists, this book revisits some of the most groundbreaking yet under-researched European and US public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 1990s.
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition
Beatrice von Bismarck
The Curatorial Condition
2022
English edition
An analysis of the relations created by the curatorial—relations that also constitute it.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
Latifa Echakhch
The Concert
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Music, sound, memory and perception in Latifa Echakhch's practice and work.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli - E-flux journal - Routes/Worlds
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
E-flux journal – Routes/Worlds
2022
English edition
Elizabeth Povinelli's anthropology of the otherwise locates itself within forms of life that run counter to dominant modes of being under late settler liberalism. In these essays, she considers the emergence of new worlds and the extinguishment of old ones, seeking to develop a social imaginary that can sustain radical potentiality without turning a blind eye to our deep interdependence.
EP Vol. 3 - Post-Craft
EP Vol. 3 – Post-Craft
2022
English edition
The new meaning of craft.
Zdenka Badovinac - Unannounced Voices - Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions
Zdenka Badovinac
Unannounced Voices – Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions
2022
English edition
Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.
Jacob Lund - The Changing Constitution of the Present - Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity
Jacob Lund
The Changing Constitution of the Present – Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity
2022
English edition
How our experience of presence, time, and history are articulated in contemporary artistic practices.
From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square - A composition of artworks, dinners, words and people
From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square – A composition of artworks, dinners, words and people
2022
English edition
How urban spaces are finding new life through communities of gardeners, cooks, ceramicists, and creatives.
Between the Material and the Possible - Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art
Between the Material and the Possible – Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art
2022
English edition
From "institutional critique" to "infrastructural critique" .
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
Nathalie du Pasquier
RO-SÉ – A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
Leslie Thornton -
Leslie Thornton
2022
English edition
An overview of the influential work of a key figure in experimental film and video.
Diamela Eltit - Custody of the Eyes
Diamela Eltit
Custody of the Eyes
2022
English edition
A story that explores how power is enacted on and through the body—the physical, the social, and the political.
Valerie Solanas - Up Your Ass
Valerie Solanas
Up Your Ass
2022
English edition
Valerie Solanas's rarely published, legendary play, Up Your Ass (1965), explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and camp.
Denise Ferreira da Silva - Unpayable Debt
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Unpayable Debt
2022
English edition
currently out of stock
An examination of the relationship between coloniality, raciality, and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel Kindred (first volume in the On the Antipolitical series).
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 3 – Relative Intimacies
Intersubjectivity – Vol. 3 – Relative Intimacies
2022
English edition
Technology, intimacy and alternative intersubjectivities.
Zach Blas - Unknown Ideals
Zach Blas
Unknown Ideals
2022
English edition
An inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice through a series of newly commissioned essays, an interview and writings by the artist himself, expanding on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists.
Shona Illingworth - Topologies of Air
Shona Illingworth
Topologies of Air
2022
English edition
How research-led practices in the arts can develop legal frameworks for understanding the future of digital technologies and their relationship to airspace.
Gregor Schneider -
Gregor Schneider
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Art historian Raimund Stecker looks back at the ever-changing work of German artist Gregor Schneider, who has been transforming his own domestic world since his youth.
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