Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This artist’s first monograph brings together sketches, documentation and installation shots, as well as an in-depth analysis of her practice. It highlights her process of making art, from the conception of an idea to the finished work, and from the deconstruction and re-assembling of her characters’ identities to the relentless creation of new worlds.
Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in Italy by Jenna Gribbon, staged at the Collezione Maramotti, Mirages showcases a wealth of images that highlight the fluid, sensual output of this artist who, in repeatedly portraying her wife, the musician Mackenzie Scott (aka TORRES), explores the implications inherent in seeing and being seen.
The catalogue of this ambitious project, held at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in 2017, reflects on the centrality of writing in contemporary visual art practices. Documenting its slippages from printed matters to the digital realm, from voice modulations to its sculptural presence, this book celebrates the word in all its forms.
A book emerged from the need to try to tell the story of architecture in a way quite unlike how it’s usually told, in a continuous dialogue between the anthropological gaze of Armin Linke’s photos compared with the ideation process of two public works by the Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli architecture office.
The book documents and brings together two exhibition projects by Nina Canell and Maria Hassabi. Essays, unpublished materials and a rich set of photographic materials form the driving force behind two visual narratives that offer new keys to understanding the research of the two artists.
Can art, literature, filmmaking, and music draw out, make visible, legible, audible, or even contestable the patterns in which our lives are held? Considering the work by Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ingri Fiksdal, Åke Hodell, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, Susan Philipsz, and Elizabeth Price, this publication entertains this question.
Edited by Valentina Gervasoni and Lorenzo Giusti
With contributions by Annamaria Ajmone, Atelier dell’Errore, Elena Bassi, Enrico Bassi, Yesmine Ben Khelil, Cecilia Bengolea, Julius von Bismarck, Bianca Bondi, Emanuela Borgnino, Sonia Boyce, Roberto Casti, Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriel Chaile, Mosè Cometta, Giulia Costanzo Talarico, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Giammarco Cugusi, Marta Cuscunà, Michela de Mattei, Adele Dipasquale, EX., Adriano Favole, Simone Ferracina, Francesco Ferrero, Frantoio Sociale, Gaia Fugazza, Ilaria Gadenz, Agnese Galiotto, Chiara Gambirasio, Valentina Gervasoni, Lorenzo Giusti, Agostino Iacurci, Michael Jakob, Zeyn Joukhadar, Alice Kentridge, Amal Khalaf, Invernomuto, Brandon LaBelle, Alice Labor, Greta Martina, Alessandra Mignatti, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Mozzarella Light, Bertram Niessen, Serpil Oppermann, Veronica Pecile, Francesco Pedrini, Marie Petersmann, Roberto Picchi, Giulia Rispoli, Francesca Rossi, Angela Rui, Lin May Saeed, Ana Silva, Giulio Squillacciotti, Studio Ossidiana, Federica Timeto, Miriam Tola, Mauro Varotto, Pedro Vaz
Designed by xxy studio
2026, English, softcover, 21.5 x 16,5 cm, 720 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-84-3
An Orobic Journey: On Migratory Restlessness, Community, and Multispecies Geographies brings together a layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.
The book originated as an online magazine and an expansion of the biennial program Thinking Like a Mountain (2024–25), a project inspired by Aldo Leopold’s exhortation to abandon an anthropocentric gaze in favor of a geological outlook on the peaks, thereby acknowledging the intrinsic value of every natural element. An Orobic Journey developed independently from the exhibition program and is not limited to mere documentation; instead, it functions as a parallel research tool articulated through essays, conversations, and visual documentation, featuring contributions from artists, scientists, researchers, anthropologists, ornithologists, curators, academics, architects, writers, and other experts.
Embracing Ursula K. Le Guin’s “carrier bag theory,” An Orobic Journey brings together non-heroic tales of resistance, adaptation, and cohabitation. The book opens with a reflection on species migration and “migratory restlessness”: a condition that does not only concern the spontaneous return of wolves to the Alps or the transit of birdlife, but becomes a metaphor for a shared condition of continuous movement and searching. The future of the mountain—amid tourist monocultures and acts of transformative care—is investigated by conceiving the Alpine landscape as a political space shaped by power relations, images, and collective memories, and inhabited by multispecies communities that dwell in a place, weaving intergenerational relationships. With both a poetic and political approach, An Orobic Journey attempts to rethink ways of looking at the mountain landscape while imagining new collective rituals.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi