Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This richly illustrated publication combines artwork, archival and process imagery, and includes an extended interview with the artist, as well as new essays by key thinkers in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political economy and art history.
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.
Edited by Konrad Bitterli
Texts by Mitchell Anderson and Konrad Bitterli
Designed by Anne Stock
Co-published with Kunst Museum Winterthur
2025, English / German, Spiral-bound, 30 x 22 cm, 140 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-83-6
Lorenza Longhi’s practice centers on the circulation of images, materials, and value systems within consumer culture. Working across screen printing, sculpture, installation, and re-constructed furniture, she often reinterprets familiar objects and design elements to expose the subtle pressures embedded in them. By manipulating surfaces, textures, and production processes, Longhi reveals how aesthetics regulate social behavior, status, and aspiration. Her objects—whether printed panels or hybrid forms derived from interior décor—highlight the instability of meaning as things move between domestic, commercial, and institutional settings.
In her 2025 exhibition at Kunst Museum Winterthur, How About Another Problem?, Longhi elaborates these concerns through works that respond directly to the museum’s architecture. Screen-printed panels featuring abstracted flowers pierced by camera-lens motifs evoke the surveillance-driven visual culture shaping contemporary life. Meanwhile, elements resembling furniture or functional fixtures introduce a tension between utility and display, complicating expectations of refinement and production value. Irregularities—misalignments, visible joins, uneven prints—are deliberately preserved, foregrounding the labor behind objects typically associated with industrial perfection and consumer polish.
Longhi’s new spiral-bound catalogue echoes her longstanding interest in modest, industrially inflected production formats. By adopting a format associated with prototypes, manuals, or working documents, the catalogue positions itself as an active tool rather than a luxury object—extending Longhi’s ongoing examination of value, functionality, and the aesthetics of the everyday.
Photos: Flavio Karrer