Lenz Press

Founded by Edoardo Bonaspetti and Stefano Cernuschi in 2020 Milan, Lenz is a publishing house with an interdisciplinary approach. Visual arts form the backbone of the catalog. In parallel, Lenz publishes titles on theory, photography, architecture, design, and other disciplines shaping the contemporary cultural field.
Open to discovery and reappraisal, Lenz strives to form a distinctive selection of titles on prominent and emerging artists, writers, and visual practitioners, as well as spotlighting on previously unpublished pioneers.

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66 titles

William Scott

2022

English edition

Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Dirty Evidence

2022

English edition

Richly illustrated, this book provides for the first time a visual overview of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's works of more than a decade, and elaborates on a formal vocabulary characterized by the aesthetics of sound and language.

Nairy Baghramian
Misfits

2022

English edition

This catalogue explores some of the pivotal themes of the artist's research, from her interest in crossing and redefining the border between interior and exterior to the relationship between the aesthetic object and its institutional context.

Paloma Bosquê
Matéria

2022

English edition

This first monograph dedicated to Paloma Bosquê addresses the Brazilian artist's frustration with the visual as key to understanding of what lies beyond language, of that matter that can be perceived, but not rationalized.

Marco Fusinato
Desastres

2022

English edition

currently out of stock

An experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation (the publication accompanying Marco Fusinato's immersive project for the Australia Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, with texts by Branden W. Joseph, Elizabeth Povinelli, Chus Martínez, Thurston Moore, Stephen O'Malley, Bruce Russell, etc.).

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Lap-See Lam
Dreamers' Quay, Dreamers' Key

2022

English edition

First monograph.

Mathis Altmann
Amalgamate

2022

English edition

This first overview of Altmann's work to date, characterized by a strongly socio-critical consciousness, reveals the artist's influences and inspirations.

Alessandro Pessoli
Testa Cristiana

2022

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

A project for which Alessandro Pessoli brings together some previously created pieces and others made specifically for the spaces of the Cloisters of Sant'Eustorgio.

Shahryar Nashat
Keep Begging

2022

English edition

New monograph.

Vogliamo Tutto – Cultural Practices and Labor

2021

English edition

Thirteen artists were invited to reflect on the change of labor in the contemporary context.

Mauro Restiffe
Santo Sospir

2021

English edition

A series of images of Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the "Tattooed Villa" transformed into an artwork by Jean Cocteau, whose Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe reveals the hidden details during a residency.

James Richards, Leslie Thornton
Divine Drudgery

2021

English edition

Divine Drudgery is an artist book with collages and artworks by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, and contributions by artists, writers and poets centred around liminality and the aesthetics and politics of the invisible.

Hrair Sarkissian
The Other Side of Silence

2021

English edition

The first monograph of London-based Syrian-Armenian artist Hrair Sarkissian—one of the leading figures working with photography globally today.

Gili Tal
Spaces for Reflection

2021

English edition

Monograph.

Voices (Towards Other Institutions)

2021

English edition

An critical exploration of the public role of cultural institutions in times of global crisis.

Athanasios Argianas
Species Counterpoint

2021

English edition

Retrospective monograph.

Raphael Hefti
Salutary Failures

2021

bilingual edition (English / German)

First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).

Diego Marcon
Three Works

2021

English edition

This monograph deals with Diego Marcon's overall practice through the analysis of three works.

Ann Böttcher
Works 2000-2020

2021

English edition

This major monographic publication is the first in-depth study of the oeuvre of Swedish artist Ann Böttcher.

Diego Marcon
Oh mio cagnetto

2021

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Oh mio cagnetto is the artist's first book of writings, conceived as an artwork. It is a collection of 81 little poems that revolve around the missed and mourned figure of a puppy.

Chus Martínez
Corona Tales – Let Life Happen to You

2020

English edition

When she started writing the Corona Tales, Chus Martínez had been weighing how people and the media were addressing the outbreak of the virus as an unprecedented disaster. One possible contribution, as curator and writer, would be to write a short story a day and post it on an Instagram account that many could access…

BANK
The BANK Fax-Bak Service

2021

bilingual edition (English / French)

sold out

A comprehensive record of the London-based art collective BANK's notorious project from the late 1990s, a fierce critic of the language elements of the art market.