Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
In her work, Cally Spooner crystallizes an absurd contemporary ecosystem in which entities run the risk of managing themselves and one another to death. Featuring newly commissioned essays alongside a lecture by Spooner, SWEAT SHAME ETC. is the first comprehsive survey of the artist’s output of the last five years.
This new anthology brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010. New essays and conversations reflect on radical technological and poetic transformations in the works of the generation of digital native artists.
Center of the Frame is the artist’s first monograph and brings together paintings made between 1997 and 2024. The publication provides an in-depth look at Eisler’s fascination with cinema and with the transmission of images through the various formats of analog film, television broadcasts, Internet video and, of course, the painted canvas.
At 500 pages, this is the most comprehensive book yet on Norwegian artist, Ida Ekblad. Appearing three years after the artist’s show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Melted Snow took certainly a long time—all the time is takes to ponder fifteen years of the artist’s career.
On the occasion of PROVENCE’s 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
This publication is devoted exclusively to the metal works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Catalogued here is every cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculpture made since 2017. Poems by the artist Diego Marcon annotate and respond to the individual pieces.
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