Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
The artist’s book to love and devour by Tolia Astakhishvili was published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the new site of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
This monograph, published on the occasion of Samson Young’s exhibition at SFMOMA, focuses on his latest project, Intentness and Songs, a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the artist’s work.
The book, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at CAM – Gulbenkian in Lisbon, explores convergences in the work of Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935 – London, 2022) and Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), although they belong to different generations and come from different backgrounds.
O livro, lançado por ocasião da exposição homónima no CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, em Lisboa, explora as convergências nas obras de Paula Rego (Lisboa, 1935 – Londres, 2022) e Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), apesar de pertencerem a gerações e contextos distintos.
The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.
Emanuele Coccia describes the radical creative freedom inscribed in Ernesto Neto’s practice, analyzing the workings of the Brazilian artist’s pieces of living architecture. Art on Earth is the third book in a series of short essay collections inspired by the site-specific projects conceived for GAMeC at Palazzo della Ragione.
Edited by Gina Buenfeld-Murley and Martin Clark
Essays by Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Leonie Radine, Géraldine Gourbe
Designed by Sara De Bondt
Published with Camden Art Centre, London; Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France; Kunsthalle Wien – Stadt Wien
Kunst GmbH, Vienna, and Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano/Bozen
2025, English / French / German / Italian, softcover, 240 pages, 20 x 26 cm
ISBN 979-12-80579-67-6
This fully illustrated monograph marks the occasion of the first European survey of Nicola L. (1932–2018). Often discussed in the context of Pop Art, activism, feminism, and design, this is the first in-depth exploration of the multi-layered and expansive nature of her extraordinary practice, which also encompassed cosmology, environmental concerns, spirituality, political protest, and sexuality.
With new scholarly essays translated into English, French, Italian, and German, and supplementary texts on major bodies of work, Nicola L. I Am The Last Woman Object offers novel perspectives on the artist’s practice from some of the exhibitions’ curators: Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Géraldine Gourbe, and Leonie Radine. Together, they reflect on her life in Paris, Ibiza, Beirut, and New York, situating her within the politics and the social movements of her time. They also bring her work fully into the present by placing it in the context of the social, political, and ecological challenges facing the world today, thus enabling the resonance of her extraordinary practice to continue more than half a century after she began working. Taken together, the texts reveal Nicola L.’s remarkable and lifelong commitment to art, creativity, and radical subversion, presenting a long-overdue appraisal of a practice that straddled many movements and styles in twentieth-century art but resolutely defied categorization.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi