Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
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.
Martin Heidegger, Glenn Gould, Jacques-Louis David, Cy Twombly, Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein: characters that Francesco Arena has chosen or rediscovered in multiple contexts over the time recur in this book. Ranging from philosophy, to music, to visual arts, they embrace the whole world of knowledge.
This first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri aims to highlight the themes and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects at GAMeC, Bergamo; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Swiss Institute, New York; Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; and the National Gallery, London.
The book highlights the main characteristics of the collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread’s project for GAMeC. The psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis map out a composite picture, starting from the sense of vulnerability and collective loss associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edited by Tenzing Barshee, Gallien Déjean, and Dan Solbach
Co-published with Treize, Galerie Neu, and Kunsthalle Zürich
Designed by Dan Solbach
2021, English / French, softcover, 24 x 31 cm, 352 pages
ISBN 978-88-945353-5-8
Between 1998 and 1999, the London-based art collective BANK operated The BANK Fax-Bak Service. For the project, the group’s members, Simon Bedwell, John Russell and Milly Thompson proof-read and copy-edited more than 300 press releases published by galleries in London and New York. The procedure was simple: after adding their mocking corrections, the artists faxed the promotional texts back to the respective galleries. The BANK Fax-Bak Service exposes the art market’s (ongoing) sisyphean effort to legitimize itself through boasting, self-important and nonsensical language. Published in collaboration with Treize (Paris), this volume is a comprehensive record of BANK’s notorious project from the late 1990s.
The publication was generously supported by CNAP – Centre national des arts plastiques and Fluxus Art Projects.
Tenzing Barshee is a writer and curator. Since 2020, he is the program director of Efremidis in Berlin. Previously, he was a curator at Kunsthalle Bern and Elaine, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel. His writing appeared regularly in international art press and catalogs. He is a columnist for Starship magazine (Berlin) and a contributor to Contemporary Art Daily.
Gallien Déjean is an art critic and curator. He teaches art history and theory at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland and at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) in France. He is a member of Treize, an organization of production, exhibition, and publication. Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as a curator at Palais de Tokyo. He has published several books as an author and editor.
Dan Solbach is a Swiss graphic designer based in Berlin specializing in book design and visual identities. His practice focuses on design for artists, galleries, and contemporary art institutions. He is a recipient of the Goldene Letter—Best Book Design from all over the World, and was awarded The Most Beautiful Swiss Books and the Swiss Design Award.