Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This compelling artist’s book is built around KOOL (“cabbage” in Dutch), an original font designed by Reus, somewhere between a plant alphabet and concrete poetry. The publication draws on the type specimen book tradition to present new typefaces.
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.
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.
This richly illustrated publication combines artwork, archival and process imagery, and includes an extended interview with the artist, as well as new essays by key thinkers in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political economy and art history.
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 inserts his art in the pages of this new artist’s book, which takes the form of a catalogue-turned-manual: but instead of explaining its meaning, he strips it of its aura, flaunts its nature as an object and describes step-by-step how to create it.
Edited by Lydia Ourahmane and Polly Staple
Texts by Nicoletta Fiorucci, Lydia Ourahmane, Polly Staple
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2026, English, softcover, 16.5 × 24 cm, 384 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-98-0
This book accompanies 5 Works, Lydia Ourahmane’s first institutional solo show in Italy, staged at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice and curated by Polly Staple, during the 61st Venice Biennale. As Ourahmane’s first publication, the book sets a template for her future editorial projects. Central to this design is the custom typeface “LL,” created by the artist with graphic designer Lorenzo Mason. Ourahmane’s new commission, 5 Works, followed her residency at the Foundation, which saw her living and working in Venice from January to May 2026.
One of the show’s prerequisites was that many of the artworks should be created in Venice. Ourahmane thus worked with Venetian craftspeople and technicians but also with organisations in the city and the surrounding Veneto region. 5 Works combines a wide range of visceral media—antique sculpture moulds, church lighting and decommissioned bed linen among them—with traditional conceptual gestures such as the recontextualization of found objects and the presentation of documentary processes. Several works in the exhibition are the direct result of negotiations, transactions and exchanges specific to historic sites and activist associations in Venice: the church of San Giovanni Crisostomo, Poveglia per tutti, Banco Lotto No. 10: Il Cerchio, Lavanderia LSG and TOCIA! Cucina e Comunità.
The publication encompasses the following elements: 282 photographs that Ourahmane shot during her residency in Venice while preparing 5 Works; an introduction to Ourahmane’s work and to the exhibition, written by Staple; a conversation between Ourahmane and Staple, structured as a walking tour of the exhibition; installation views, by photographer Marco Cappelletti, sequenced in the order visitors encountered the works; the floor plan of the exhibition—appearing on the book’s cover—complete with the list of works; and an endnote by Nicoletta Fiorucci.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi