Sternberg Press

Monographs and artists' books

 
Michael Beutler - Pecafil
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
This first monographic book discusses issues of art in public space and the social-political implications of Beutler's work.
 Bik Van der Pol - Fly Me To The Moon
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
Taking as their starting point one of the oldest objects in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, a moon rock, artists Bik Van der Pol invited different writers to comment on issues of site-specificity, museum collections, and space law.
Josephine Meckseper - The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.
Aleksandra Mir - The Meaning of Flowers
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press
32.00 15.00 €
Drawing upon the classic notion that flowers are imbued with meanings and a specific set of semantics with idealistic and hopeful connotations, Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir has edited and revised the botanical code in a more socially relevant fashion.
Melik Ohanian - Cosmograms
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press
A book conceived as an extension of Melik Ohanian's film Seven Minutes Before, with contributions by Cecil Balmond, Gilles Clément, Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Richard Drayton, David Elbaz, Patricia Falguières, Medard Gabel, André Gaudreault, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Anna Halprin, David Held, Pekka Himanen, Bruno Latour, Charles Musser, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Poynter, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, John Tresch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Robert Whitman.
Alex Morrison - Giving the Story a Treatment
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. Best known for his documentations on the skater culture, Morrison's videos, photographs and drawings reveal the growing aestheticisation of the political within the cultural spectrum.
Peter Friedl - Four or Five Roses
2004
English edition
Sternberg Press
Some 45 narratives by children presented in the form of a monologue. Edited from numerous interviews and conversations recorded on playgrounds in South Africa, Peter Friedl creates a hybrid genre that is both fictionalised speech and serious counter-voice.
Markus Schinwald -
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The films, photos, installations, and graphic artworks of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald create a highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being stands in the focal point of observation.
Gerard Byrne - Books, Magazines, and Newspapers
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
(last copies available!)
In his seminal essay, author George Baker links Gerard Byrne's work to theatre and notes that the presence of avant-garde dramatist Bertolt Brecht has never been less discussed, but more widely explored, than in the last decade of artistic practice.
Sture Johannesson -
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press
39.00 20.00 €
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Michaela Melián - Triangel
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
19.00 15.00 €
This catalogue is the most comprehensive treatment of Michaela Melián's œuvre to date and constitutes, with numerous essays and illustrations, a long due documentation of the German artist's work.
Marcel Odenbach - Blenden/Blinds
2002
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
19.00 10.00 €
With its comprehensive illustrations and essays, including a text by the artist, this book features Odenbach's most important works.
Eva Grubinger - Group.sex
1998
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.
Frida Orupabo -
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
First monograph.
Yannis Tsarouchis - Dancing in Real Life
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Retrospective monograph of the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989).
Beatrice Gibson - Deux Soeurs
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.
Nina Canell - Reflexologies
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Cable cuts, energetics, and gunk: moving back and forth between a group of core subjects, Reflexologies converts the past five years of Nina Canell's sculptural work into a 384-page book.
Francis Alÿs - La dépense
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
sold out
The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.
Jumana Manna - A Small Big Thing
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Babette Mangolte - Selected Writings - 1998-2015
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
Ellen Cantor - A history of the world as it has become known to me
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Publication focusing on Cantor's final project Pinochet Porn (2008–16)—an epic experimental film taking the form of a soap opera about the intimate life of people under the military dictatorship of Chile. A dramatic, transgressive and explicitly feminist work, embodying and radically extending Cantor's multifaceted artistic practice.
Uriel Orlow - Theatrum Botanicum
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.
Magali Reus - Hot Cottons - As mist, description
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication accompanies two exhibitions of recent sculptural work by the artist Magali Reus: “Hot Cottons” at Bergen Kunsthall and “As mist, description,” at the South London Gallery. Featuring an essay by writer and curator Laura Mclean-Ferris and a poetic response by writer and poet Quinn Latimer as well as a fully illustrated overview of Reus's work, this catalogue provides an in-depth exploration of the artist's recent sculptural practice.
Gianni Pettena - Non-Conscious Architecture
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and visual artist Gianni Pettena. Focusing on a rich ten-year period of production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new attention to the artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of the main exponents of the Radical Architecture movement.
Vincent Meessen - L\'Autre Pays / The Other Country
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.
Ineke Hans - Was ist Loos?
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
This catalogue surveys the work of object design creator Ineke Hans.
Asta Gröting - Berlin Fassaden
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Exhibition catalogue documenting the eponymous sculptural project showcasing silicone impressions of Berlin's bullet-ridden facades from the Second World War. These architectural traces embody trauma and time, from the war to nowadays. The publication catalogues these facades and focuses on the making of the project. It features a text by writer Deborah Levy.
Otobong Nkanga - Luster and Lucre
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.
Maria Thereza Alves - The Long Road to Xico / El largo camino a Xico, 1991-2015
2017
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press
sold out
The catalogue is the first comprehensive survey about the works and projects by the Brazilian artist and activist, spanning 1991 until 2015. It also includes unpublished artist's text by Alves, and essays by Pedro de Llano and T. J. Demos.
Olafur Eliasson - Green light - An artistic workshop
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.
Shirana Shahbazi - First Things First
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).
Reto Pulfer - Zustandskatalog - Catalog of States and Conditions
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).
Victor Man - Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough
2017
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Artist's book focusing on Victor Man's series of paintings first exhibited as part of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and later developed for a solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B, Berlin. The publication includes essays by poet and translator Bogdan Ghiu, curator Mihnea Mircan, and literary critic Laura Pavel.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Big Objects Not Always Silent (2 vol.)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
This two-volume publication consists of an artist's book by Nathalie Du Pasquier with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of her paintings and a publication with photographic portraits of her works from the past decades by Delfino Sisto Legnani.
Seth Siegelaub - Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. This highly documented publication features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Kate Cooper - Look Book
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Kate Cooper stages CGI female models in a parody of lookbook. Reproducing the patterns of hypercapitalist aesthetics, her images underlie a powerful reflection on gender, representation, and the potentialities of the digital world.
Chen Zhen - Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press
sold out
This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.
Susanne Kriemann - Duskdust
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A photographic artist's book focusing on a former cement factory in Sweden. Kriemann's concern with archaeology, archival materials, and lost narratives is once again affirmed in this publication which came as the result of a residency program in Gotland Island and for which she collaborated with poet Maria Barnas and writer Kirsty Bell, among others.
Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant - 1989-1991
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant provides the reader with alternative written and drawn narratives to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice adopting the point of view of Jewish moneylender Shylock.
Ull Hohn - Foregrounds, Distances
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles - Seven Work Ballets
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.
 Metahaven - Black Transparency - The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.
Vincent Fecteau -
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A selection of visual source materials which browse Fecteau's influences, inspiration and research methods.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Isa Genzken - I\'m Isa Genzken, the Only Female Fool
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph.
Michel Auder - Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
New monograph, with texts by Quinn Latimer and an extensive interview with the artist by Adam Szymczyk, also including a catalogue raisonné of Auder's video works.
Silke Otto-Knapp - Questions of Travel
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
Monograph / catalogue of two parallel exhibitions.
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