Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist’s theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
Shahryar Nashat inserts his art in the pages of this new artist’s book, which takes the form of a catalogue-turned-manual: but instead of explaining its meaning, he strips it of its aura, flaunts its nature as an object and describes step-by-step how to create it.
Martin Heidegger, Glenn Gould, Jacques-Louis David, Cy Twombly, Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein: characters that Francesco Arena has chosen or rediscovered in multiple contexts over the time recur in this book. Ranging from philosophy, to music, to visual arts, they embrace the whole world of knowledge.
This first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri aims to highlight the themes and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects at GAMeC, Bergamo; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; Swiss Institute, New York; Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; and the National Gallery, London.
The book highlights the main characteristics of the collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread’s project for GAMeC. The psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis map out a composite picture, starting from the sense of vulnerability and collective loss associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
This book, with follows the eponymous exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg, is constructed as a story, with a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue: an intuitive journey through the voices of thirty-four artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Edited by Theodor Ringborg
Texts by Tyler Coburn and Anders Kreuger
With a conversation between Filipa Ramos and Ann Böttcher
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2021, English, softcover, 24 x 33.5 cm, 192 pages
ISBN 978-88-945353-9-6
This major monographic publication is the first in-depth study of the oeuvre of Swedish artist Ann Böttcher. Her practice looks at folklore, Nazi ideology, ethnology, sanatoriums, and forest dieback, reproduced through drawings and craft in a remarkable study of nature and historical forms of reflection.
At the center of Böttcher’s imagery we find the spruce. Through exquisite craftsmanship, and with reference to romantic nationalism, the artist explores how aesthetic and political projections characterize notions of nature, and how such conceptions are taken up by countries, political movements, and other institutions. This richly illustrated volume reflects, among other themes, the role the spruce has served as a symbol for the formation of Nordic territorial claims and national identities. Published on the occasion of the artist’s mid-career survey exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.
Ann Böttcher, born in Bruzaholm, Sweden, studied at Konstfack, Stockholm and the Art Academy in Malmö. Today she lives and works in Malmö. Solo exhibitions include “The 1st at Moderna,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005), “The Entrance to the Sanatorium,” INDEX, Stockholm in (2007), and “Beskåda detta otäcka land” at Vandalorum in Värnamo (2015). She has participated in group exhibitions at venues including Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (2014, 2010); EVA International Biennial, Limerick (2014); Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten (2013); Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2011); Malmö Konstmusem, Malmö (2010); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (2009); WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2009); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2008); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008); and the MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006).