Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This two-volume catalog, curated by Andrea Bellini and the New York-based collective DIS, is the outcome of the 2021 edition of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (BIM’21), presented at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.
Christian Frosi was long considered one of the most inspiring and promising Italian artists debuting in the early 2000s. That is until just over ten years into his career, when he decided to make himself unreachable and remove himself from art history, its customs and figures.
At 500 pages, this is the most comprehensive book yet on Norwegian artist, Ida Ekblad. Appearing three years after the artist’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Melted Snow took certainly a long time—all the time is takes to ponder fifteen years of the artist’s career.
Featuring new contributions by Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and a wealth of commissioned texts and writings, this book is conceived as a continuation of the exhibition held at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich and, in a modified form, at Swiss Institute, New York.
In a context in which institutions are facing a surge of public scrutiny, the publication revisits the artistic practice of institutional critique to ask what it means today, and to consider its ability to respond to the urgent social, political, and economic issues of our time.
Covering the past thirty years of Scott’s practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
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.