Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
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.
This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces.
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.
Edited by Theodor Ringborg
Texts by Tyler Coburn and Anders Kreuger
With a conversation between Filipa Ramos and Ann Böttcher
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2021, English, softcover, 24 x 33.5 cm, 192 pages
ISBN 978-88-945353-9-6
This major monographic publication is the first in-depth study of the oeuvre of Swedish artist Ann Böttcher. Her practice looks at folklore, Nazi ideology, ethnology, sanatoriums, and forest dieback, reproduced through drawings and craft in a remarkable study of nature and historical forms of reflection.
At the center of Böttcher’s imagery we find the spruce. Through exquisite craftsmanship, and with reference to romantic nationalism, the artist explores how aesthetic and political projections characterize notions of nature, and how such conceptions are taken up by countries, political movements, and other institutions. This richly illustrated volume reflects, among other themes, the role the spruce has served as a symbol for the formation of Nordic territorial claims and national identities. Published on the occasion of the artist’s mid-career survey exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.
Ann Böttcher, born in Bruzaholm, Sweden, studied at Konstfack, Stockholm and the Art Academy in Malmö. Today she lives and works in Malmö. Solo exhibitions include “The 1st at Moderna,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), “The Entrance to the Sanatorium,” INDEX, Stockholm in (2007), and “Beskåda detta otäcka land” at Vandalorum in Värnamo (2015). She has participated in group exhibitions at venues including Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (2014, 2010); EVA International Biennial, Limerick (2014); Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten (2013); Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2011); Malmö Konstmusem, Malmö (2010); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (2009); WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2009); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2008); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008); and the MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006).