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of titles on prominent and emerging artists, writers, and visual practitioners, as well as spotlighting on previously unpublished pioneers.
Milan
 
66 titles
 
 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
2024
English edition
forthcoming
First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
Tomaso Binga - Euforia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.
Brandon LaBelle - The Joy of Cacophony
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
Fredrik Værslev -
2024
English edition
Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
2024
English edition
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
2024
English edition
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
Francesco Gennari - I’d Like to Lose Myself, Never to Find Myself Again
2024
English edition
Through a rich selection of images, this artist's book, published in two editions—gold and silver—explores the birth, life and death of Francesco Gennari's work Vorrei perdermi e non trovarmi più, 2022, exhibited for the first time at the Ciaccia Levi Gallery in Paris.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Metal Works
2024
English edition
A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.
 PROVENCE - My Alphabet
2024
English edition
On the occasion of PROVENCE's 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
Magali Reus - KOOL - A Type Specimen
2024
English edition
An artist's book built around KOOL ("cabbage" in Dutch), a new font designed by Magali Reus, winner of the seventh edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture.
Nicholas Mangan - A World Undone
2024
English edition
New monograph.
 Claire Fontaine - A User\'s Manual to Claire Fontaine
2024
English edition
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Shahryar Nashat - 17 Waves
2024
English edition
New monograph.
Feet of Clay
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
After Laughter Comes Tears
2024
English edition
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night
2024
English edition
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Beatrice Gibson - Dreaming Alcestis
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
Rachel Whiteread - The Mark of Trauma
2024
English edition
Two essays by psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis on Rachel Whiteread's singular project and experience in Bergamo, Italia.
Chrysalis - The Butterfly Dream
2023
English edition
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Chrysalide - Le rêve du papillon
2023
French edition
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
2023
English edition
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
John Armleder - It Never Ends
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
Diego Marcon - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
 Eva & Franco Mattes - Fukushima Texture Pack
2023
English edition
This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
Diego Marcon - Glassa
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A polyphonic examination of the Italian artist's project for the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the largest display of the artist Diego Marcon artworks in an Italian institution, reviewing some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Luca Monterastelli - Pardon Façade
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Pardon Façade documents the artistic output of Luca Monterastelli, showcasing almost all of the sculptures and installations that he produced between 2011 and 2022.
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Proof of stake - Technological claims
2023
English edition
Proof of Stake – Technological Claims reflects on the themes of technology, organization, and ownership to investigate how objects are framed as technological and are used to organize life.
Maria Hassabi - Hardscapes / Here
2023
English edition
Hardscapes / Here documents and brings together two exhibition projects by artists Nina Canell and Maria Hassabi. Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions of the same name curated by Samuele Piazza at the OGR Torino, the publication consists of two graphically specular books that merge into a single volume.
Caroline Mesquita - Ideas
2023
English edition
First monograph.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, revealing the porosity between art and poetry.
 Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli - Luoghi Comuni
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
A reflection on the approach of the Italian-based architectural office Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli based on the the peculiarities of places, from two important public buildings in South Tyrol, photographed by Armin Linke.
Jenna Gribbon - Mirages
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
The intimate and unpublished portraits of the American artist's partner.
Holding Pattern
2022
English edition
Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kunstnernes Hus Director and former Wire editor Anne Hilde Neset to award-winning novelist Tom McCarthy, invited to unpack, via contemporary art, the themes dealt with in his books.
Ibrahim Mahama - Voli-ni
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
A visual diary of Ibrahim Mahama's impressive work in his native Tamale in Ghana, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress.
Life and Limbs - Annual Architecture and Design Series
2022
English edition
Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.
Biennale de l\'Image en Mouvement 2021 (2 volume box set) - A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song
2022
English edition
The catalogue of the 17th Geneva Biennial, dedicated to artists' film and video, curated by the New York-based collective DIS and Andrea Bellini.
Christian Frosi - The Empty Room - Christian Frosi and Other Escapes from the Art Scene
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This publication brings together the work of Cristian Frosi with the human and artistic vicissitudes of other famous dropouts over the last 50 years: from Marcel Duchamp to Agnes Martin, and from Lee Lozano to Charlotte Posenenske.
The Art of Critique
2022
English edition
A feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical definitions of institutional critique.
Emmy Hennings -
2022
English edition
As a cofounder of Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, Emmy Hennings, with her partner, the Dadaist Hugo Ball, is recognized as having established and environment for collective experimentation. This book gathers an extensive collection of Hennings's writings, ephemera, and art, to give shape to a practice and an individual so ofter flattened for the sake of art historical narrative.
Ida Ekblad - Melted Snow
2022
English edition
A lavish, riveting and monumental collection of works and exhibition from 2007–2021, accompanied by newly commissioned texts, on 500 pages (new edition).
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