Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
The book is the first comprehensive monograph on the polymorphous work of Athanasios Argianas. It is published on the occasion of Hollowed Water, a major solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre in 2020 and ARCH, Athens, in 2021.
Through exquisite craftsmanship, and with reference to romantic nationalism, Ann Böttcher explores how aesthetic and political projections characterize notions of nature, and how such conceptions are taken up by countries, political movements, and other institutions.
Voices (Towards Other Institutions) is the final act of the coral, multiform, articulated, two-year-long experiment carried out by Open, the Russian Federation Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
The book deals with Diego Marcon’s practice through the analysis of three film and video works. Monelle (2017), Ludwig (2018), and The Parents’ Room (2020) are his most recent and complex projects, and they are all emblematic of central aspects of his production.
Over the last ten years, Raphael Hefti has created an astonishingly body of work consisting of sculptures and installations, performance and “art-in-public-spaces.” The first comprehensive monograph is published on the occasion of his major exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel.
Between 1998 and 1999, the London-based art collective BANK operated the Fax-Bak Service. The group’s members proof-read and copy-edited more than 300 press releases by galleries. The publication is the most comprehensive record of this notorious project.
Edited by Samson Young
Texts by Karen Cheung, Alison Guh, Xiaoyu Weng, Samson Young
Designed by Dixon Chan
2025, English, 19 x 24 cm, 120 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-63-8
This monograph, published on the occasion of Young’s exhibition at SFMOMA, features two new essays by curators Karen Cheung and Alison Guh, as well as a conversation between Xiaoyu Weng and the artist that delves into the exhibition’s emotional resonance and the philosophical implications of memory, AI, and time. The publication also includes an extended note on the technical aspects of the work. The texts are accompanied by archival image collages by book designer Dixon Chan.
Intentness and Songs is a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, and experiences of time. In this interconnected audiovisual landscape, Young draws on the duration and rhythm of human and generative AI memory-recall processes as the basis for polychromatic sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape. Visitors are invited to wander through pathways of wooden boards, with markings created through a mix of techniques, and 3D-printed boards, etched and embedded with objects and memories excerpted from the lives of the artist and his husband.
Photos: Dixon Chan