Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Vogliamo tutto. Pratiche culturali e lavoro è una pubblicazione sul lavoro all’interno del contesto socio-culturale in evoluzione: dagli impatti della rivoluzione industriale, al declino post-industriale, fino alla rapida accelerazione dell’era digitale.
Divine Drudgery is an artist book with collages and artworks by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, and contributions by artists, writers and poets centred around liminality and the aesthetics and politics of the invisible.
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.
Edited by Samson Young
Texts by Eric Schuldenfrei, Hsieh Feng-rong, and Katherine Adams
Designed by Lin Guan-ming
Co-published with New Taipei City Art Museum
2026, English / Chinese, hardcover, 19 × 26 cm, 168 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-97-3
Pavilion by multimedia artist Samson Young explores the legacy of the film THINK, created by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. At the dawn of the computer age, THINK pictured computers as models of how the human mind both receives and processes information, immersing audiences in a dynamic stream of images, sounds, and ideas. Taking as a point of departure THINK’s multiscreen setup and its distinctive orchestration of audio-visual rhythm, Pavilion revisits this early precursor to database cinema and reflects upon the optimism and apprehension that shaped its cultural context, at a time when generative AI has now exponentially increased the scale and speed of data patterning. Pavilion integrates filmed and archival material, and uses generative AI to composite footage iteratively. It features new choral compositions created by the artist for the occasion and performed by members of the Taipei Male Choir, presented in a multi-channel soundscape designed by Hsieh Hsien Te at the Taiwan Sound Lab.
This catalogue is published to coincide with the Pavilion exhibition, part of the NTCAM COMMISSION, a biennial commissioning program organized by the New Taipei City Art Museum. Each edition sees an internationally recognized artist or collective being invited to create new works specifically for one of the museum’s most challenging exhibition spaces.
Bringing together new essays by curator Hsieh Feng-rong and architect-scholar Eric Schuldenfrei, author of the monograph The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, the volume also includes two interviews conducted by curator Katherine C. M. Adams. Focusing on the artist’s approach to chance operation and computation, these conversations offer further insight into the work.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi