Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
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.
In the Villa Santo Sospir, Jean Cocteau conceived his pictorial work through accumulation, inspired by Greek mythology and the Mediterranean landscape. Architecture permeates the subjects of Mauro Restiffe from a viewpoint that amplifies and reverberates the simple historical record.
Oh mio cagnetto, is the artist’s first book of writings, conceived as an artwork. It is a collection of 81 little poems that revolve around the missed and mourned figure of a puppy. It intentionally plays on the ambiguity of its nature, as both a book distributed in conventional ways and an art object.
When she started writing the Corona Tales, Chus Martínez had been weighing how people and the media were addressing the outbreak of the virus as an unprecedented disaster. One possible contribution, as curator and writer, would be to write a short story a day…
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