Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Darja Bajagić - Unlimited Hate
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
First monographic catalogue dedicated to the works of multidisciplinary artist Darja Bajagić who culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web.
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Be Polite follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett. Including drawings, acrylic/gouache and watercolor paintings, poetry, and essays—the exhibition and publication are the first to present the work of Bennett since his death, and to pay homage to a figure of the post-colonial thought.
Margit Busch - If–Then–Else - Welcome to Transciency – Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Publication documenting a project installation by German artist Margit Busch, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Busch's project sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses.
Andrej Polukord - The Sarcophagus - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Publication documenting the eponymous installation by Lithuanian artist Andrej Polukord, the joint recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, in which the artist transforms the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle into an inverted forest floor.
Hannah Rickards - Grey light - Left and right back, high up, two small windows
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Catalogue documenting a video installation in which the British artist pursues her investigation on the translation of elusive, natural phenomena into formal language. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, Grey Light finds its origins in the notion of the foghorn as an auditory marker for opacity.
Monica Ross - Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.
Nicholas Mangan - Limits to Growth
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Irena Haiduk - Seductive Exacting Realism
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.
Karina Mendreczky - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.
James Richards - Requests and Antisongs
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.
Anastasiya Yarovenko - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Behavioral Objects I - A Case Study
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.
Maria Zerres - Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - I Want
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
I Want reviews the eponymous duo's double-projection film installation examining issues of gender, sexuality and performativity—and inspired by the words of punk poetess Kathy Acker and convicted whistle-blower Chelsea Manning.
Signature Strengths
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
John McCracken -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
Tom Burr - Anthology - Writings 1991-2015
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
 Dexter Sinister - Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Fine Arts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
Nora Schultz - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
(last copies available!)
Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.
Sarah Entwistle - Please send this book to my mother
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
22.00 11.00 €
An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
Filip Markiewicz - Paradiso Lussemburgo
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
Yto Barrada - Before History
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.
Mirjam Thomann - 2015
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Ilit Azoulay - Finally Without End
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
New monograph.
 Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - Das Wunder des Lebens
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
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