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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
www.sternbergpress.com
mail@sternberg-press.com
 
928 titles
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Ministry of Highways - A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi
Ministry of Highways – A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi
2013
English edition
sold out
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 Whole Earth - California and the Disappearance of the Outside
The Whole Earth – California and the Disappearance of the Outside
2013
English edition
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Cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of “One Earth” and the ecological paradigm associated with it.
Art as a Thinking Process - Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
Art as a Thinking Process – Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
2013
English edition
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Art as the result of a thinking process (a vast survey of recent debates around art schools and their methods).
T. J. Demos - Return to the Postcolony - Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
T. J. Demos
Return to the Postcolony – Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
2013
English edition
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Contemporary art and the “colonial present.”
Gardar Eide Einarsson - Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs
2013
English edition
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First monograph.
Ulf Linde - De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
Ulf Linde
De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
2013
English edition
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Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.
EP Vol. 1 - The Italian Avant-Garde – 1968-1976
EP Vol. 1 – The Italian Avant-Garde – 1968-1976
2013
English edition
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Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.
Chantal Mouffe - The Space of Agonism - Critical Spatial Practice 02
Markus Miessen, Chantal Mouffe
The Space of Agonism – Critical Spatial Practice 02
2013
English edition
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A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.
Jorge Pardo - Tecoh
Jorge Pardo
Tecoh
2013
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.
Bulletins of The Serving Library - Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Bulletins of The Serving Library #03 – Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
2013
English edition
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An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Thinking through Painting - Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas
Thinking through Painting – Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas
2013
English edition
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Painting's traits and reception in cultural and socioeconomic discourse.
In a Manner of Reading Design - The Blind Spot
In a Manner of Reading Design – The Blind Spot
2012
English edition
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New perspectives on design and its possible critical dimension.
Hito Steyerl - E-flux journal - The Wretched of the Screen
Hito Steyerl
E-flux journal – The Wretched of the Screen
2012
English edition
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In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in.
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? - Critical Spatial Practice 01
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? – Critical Spatial Practice 01
2012
English edition
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What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?
Cultures of the Curatorial
Cultures of the Curatorial #01
2012
English edition
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A curatorial turn in contemporary cultural practice and discourse.
Actors, Agents and Attendants - Social Housing – Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice
Actors, Agents and Attendants – Social Housing – Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice
2012
English edition
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How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.
Performing the Curatorial - With and Beyond Art
Performing the Curatorial – With and Beyond Art
2012
English edition
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The performative dimension of the curatorial.
Work, Work, Work - A Reader on Art and Labour
Work, Work, Work – A Reader on Art and Labour
2012
English edition
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What is “work” today and what is its relation to art.
Juliane Rebentisch - Aesthetics of Installation Art
Juliane Rebentisch
Aesthetics of Installation Art
2012
English edition
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A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.
Paul Sietsema - Interviews on films and works
Paul Sietsema
Interviews on films and works
2012
English edition
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Interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema.
Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets - A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios
Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets – A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios
2012
English edition
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The complex and contested entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets.
Raimundas Malašauskas - Paper Exhibition - Selected Writings
Raimundas Malašauskas
Paper Exhibition – Selected Writings
2012
English edition
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An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.
Eyal Weizman - Mengele\'s Skull - The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
Thomas Keenan, Eyal Weizman
Mengele's Skull – The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
2012
English edition
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A study in which Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman discusses the way that forensic investigation and identification of Joseph Mengele's remains marks a transition, giving way to an "era of forensics", in which things—such as bones—act as the witnesses of past events.
Akram Zaatari - A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
Akram Zaatari
A Conversation with an Imagined Israeli Filmmaker Named Avi Mograbi
2012
English edition
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An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary.
Alex Coles - The Transdisciplinary Studio
Alex Coles
The Transdisciplinary Studio
2012
English edition
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A study of transdisciplinary studio models of artists (Olafur Eliasson and Jorge Pardo), product designers (Konstantin Grcic), and graphic designers (Åbäke).
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Bulletins of The Serving Library #02
2012
English edition
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Second issue of the biannual publication from Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt (Dexter Sinister): contributions by Dimmi Davidoff, Július Koller, Fischli & Weiss, Rob Giampietro, Anthony Huberman, Junior Aspirin Records, Perri MacKenzie, David Senior, Jan Verwoert.
Design Act - Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today – Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics
Design Act – Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today – Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics
2012
English edition
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A project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues.
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
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Minimalism and the return of human figure in art, in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism.
Tauba Auerbach - Folds
Tauba Auerbach
Folds
2011
English edition
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Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.
R. H. Quaytman - Spine
R. H. Quaytman
Spine
2011
English edition
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The catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman's work since 2001.
Andreas Eriksson -
Andreas Eriksson
2011
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
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Monograph based on Swedish artist's project for the Nordic Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Momus - Solution 214-238 - The Book of Japans
Momus
Solution 214-238 – The Book of Japans
2011
English edition
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The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”
E-flux journal - Are You Working Too Much? – Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
E-flux journal – Are You Working Too Much? – Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
2011
English edition
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When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?
Gabriel Kuri - Join the dots and make a point
Gabriel Kuri
Join the dots and make a point
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This monograph documents the solo exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Freiburg and also focuses on Kuris' marble works since 2006.
Jan Verwoert - Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
Jan Verwoert
Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
2010
English edition
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A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.
Markus Miessen - The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality)
Markus Miessen
The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality)
2010
English edition
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The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.
Shahryar Nashat - Downscaled and Overthrown
Shahryar Nashat
Downscaled and Overthrown
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
First monograph on the work of the Swiss artist.
Boris Groys - E-flux journal - Going Public
Boris Groys
E-flux journal – Going Public
2010
English edition
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A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.
Bless - Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
Bless
Retroperspective Home N° 30 – N° 41
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.
Moyra Davey - Speaker Receiver
Moyra Davey
Speaker Receiver
2010
English edition
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Complete monograph bringing the diverse aspects of Moyra Davey's work together.
Philippe Parreno -
Philippe Parreno
2010
English edition
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A selection of Parreno's films and collaborative projects.
The Power of Judgment - A Debate on Aesthetic Critique
The Power of Judgment – A Debate on Aesthetic Critique
2010
English edition
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Comprised of a lecture by Christoph Menke and two respective responses to it by Daniel Loick and Isabelle Graw, The Power of Judgment both attests to the importance of judgment in art criticism and argues against its determining verdicts.
Animism
Animism
2010
English edition
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Theoretical and artistic reflections on the history and contemporary relevance of animism.
Joseph Grigely - Exhibition Prosthetics
Joseph Grigely
Exhibition Prosthetics
2010
English edition
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An exploration of the artist's use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real (first of a series engaging with publications as a primary medium of practice, enabling artists to explore the inherent constraints and possibilities of the printed document.
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice - The Reader
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice – The Reader
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
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What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?
Isabelle Graw - High Price - Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture
Isabelle Graw
High Price – Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture
2010
English edition
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Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.
Friedrich Kunath - Home wasn\'t built in a day
Friedrich Kunath
Home wasn't built in a day
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
sold out
Monograph.
Institution Building - Artists, Curators, Architects in the Struggle for Institutional Space
Institution Building – Artists, Curators, Architects in the Struggle for Institutional Space
2009
English edition
sold out
A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.
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