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 Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the artist’s work.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 Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata
Texts by Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Teresa Kittler, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti, Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky, Giovanna Zapperi
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2026, English, softcover, 13 x 21 cm, 504 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-93-5
A project by Fondazione In Between Art Film, edited by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, and Maria Alicata, this illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.
With 18 newly commissioned essays about artists and filmmakers Valentina Berardinone, Anna Valeria Borsari, Pia Epremian, Giosetta Fioroni, Rosa Foschi, Laura Grisi, Ketty La Rocca, Le Nemesiache, Cecilia Mangini, Federica Marangoni, Marisa Merz, Gina Pane, Marinella Pirelli, and Angela Ricci Lucchi, it charts a captivating, multifaceted period, the elements of which have now been compiled for the first time in this publication.
Each chapter, which is accompanied by illustrations and previously unpublished archival documents, analyzes a series of moving-image works as well as the personalities of pioneering (and on occasion non-professional) female directors and artists involved, who embraced the camera as a medium for investigation, documentation, and critique. In their efforts to construct a form of agency for visual imagery, they fostered new narratives, leaving in their wake a plethora of stories and visual strategies that remain vital and worthy of re-examination today.
The contributions of academics, researchers, and art historians such as Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Teresa Kittler, Caterina Iaquinta, Laura Iamurri, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti with Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky, and Giovanna Zapperi problematize the two decades under examination, which panned out in parallel with the protest movements, and navigate a phase of Italian history, art, and culture that was shot through with changes and transformations, in part arising from the women who decided to take back control—of themselves, even before they reached for a film camera. Therefore, they endeavor to glean an understanding of the transformations of language, subjectivity, identity, ways of seeing, and imaginaries through what women filmmakers described, documented, recorded, and wrote. At the same time, the book constructs an Italian history of this cinematic output in order to then understand how specific, identity-forging visions can be expanded or connected within a broader story, composed of cultural differences and urges that enter into a transnational dialogue. To this end, the book also includes a specially conceived timeline of the main socio-political events that occurred and the most important moving-image works that were produced over the two decades under consideration.
Photos: Giacomo Bianco