Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
This book accompanies 5 Works, Lydia Ourahmane’s first institutional solo show in Italy, staged at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Venice and curated by Polly Staple, during the 61st Venice Biennale, and includes newly commissioned texts and images that further contextualize the artist’s practice and work.
Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli’s 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist’s book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.
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.
A multifaceted perspective on contemporary sculpture that explores the practices and concepts of the medium through different approaches. The publication interweaves works by Yu Ji, Bronwyn Katz, Dan Lie, Trương Công Tùng, and Luana Vitra, with essays by Federico Giani, Sohrab Mohebbi, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Chiara Nuzzi, and Anne Reeve.
Suffused with specially conceived collages of the artist’s research materials, notes, and sketches, this is the first monograph on Castelli’s painting and sculpture, with essays by Sarah Crowe and Lillian Davies, and an artist interview by Francesco Manacorda. Published with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Kunsthalle Wien.
What if the shadow moved first? From March through May 2026, the exhibition The Second Shadow. Dozie Kanu Mirroring Marc Camille Chaimowicz, with Shared Echoes and Kindred Spirits at Fondazione ICA Milano unfolds online through a series of voices and crossings that shift its gravity. Not an extension. A displacement.
Edited by Nicola Wright
Texts by Andrew Bonacina, Jake Grewal and Philip Hoare
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
Co-published with Studio Voltaire
2025, English, hardcover, 33.5 x 23.5 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-91-1
Jake Grewal’s work explores the intertwined themes of landscape, identity, and queer embodiment. His paintings and drawings often depict solitary figures in natural settings that blur the boundary between the external world and inner emotion. The landscapes—misty forests, coastal horizons, and shifting terrains—act less as backdrops and more as psychological spaces where intimacy, vulnerability, and transformation unfold.
Central to Grewal’s practice is the relationship between human fragility and the cyclical processes of nature. Through motifs of erosion, water, and changing light, he reflects on time, memory, and renewal. His figures—often nude and rendered with tenderness—suggest both exposure and belonging, merging with their surroundings in ways that evoke the fluidity of identity and desire.
Grewal’s sensibility is deeply informed by his queer and diasporic experience. Rather than addressing these identities overtly, he weaves them into the emotional and atmospheric texture of his paintings. The result is work that feels both personal and universal: meditations on longing, connection, and the search for home within the self and the world.
Under the Same Sky is Grewal’s first monograph, published on the occasion of the artist’s recent exhibition at Studio Voltaire, London. Accompanied by a conversation between the artist and Andrew Bonacina and an essay by Philip Hoare, this book also features the paintings and drawings that informed Grewal’s past exhibitions at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi