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 Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the artist’s work.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 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