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Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design. Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.

01/08/2024

PROVENCE was founded in 2009 in Nice, France, and has since shape-shifted through a variety of constellations. On the occasion of its 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.

With contributions by: Andrea Legiehn, Anonymous, Artists Space, castillo / corrales, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Daniele Buetti, Edgars Gluhovs, Enzo Camacho & Amy Lien, Felix Vogel, Huysmans Ringheim, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Karl Holmqvist, Lucie Kolb, Mariuccia Casadio, Olga Hohmann & Sophia Eisenhut, PROVENCE, Raphael Gygax, Robert Walser, Sylvie Fleury, Tom Holert, Tyler Dobson, Ulf Wuggenig, and Yugoexport.

Additionally, “My Alphabet” is accompanied by a poster by Daniele Buetti hidden in the dust jacket and 26 postcards, each sporting a letter sponsored by institutions, galleries, artists, and friends.

Conceived by Philip Pilekjær, Samuel Haitz, Paolo Baggi and Tobias Kaspar for PROVENCE.
Design by Pascal Storz and Lucas Manser.
2024, softcover, 20 x 25 cm, 200 pages + 26 postcards (each sporting a letter sponsored by institutions, galleries, artists and friends).
ISBN: 979-1-280579-41-6
25 euros
Published by Lenz
More info: www.lenz.press

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10/07/2024

Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

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 Fredi Fischli ( ) and Niels Olsen ( )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( .marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo ( )

03/07/2024

OUT NOW Sidsel Meineche Hansen: Metal Works

This new book is a complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017. The artist’s practice addresses the industrial complex of virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to labor in tech, po*******hy and gaming. While some sculptures were conceived as individual pieces, others were created with digital counterparts within installations that typically include CGI animation, documentary video, drawing and prints.

By presenting the metal works as stand-alone pieces, this book adheres to ’s concern with the material means of production, highlighting their concrete yet elusive nature. Several pieces in the publication are accompanied by poems written by artist Diego Marcon in response to the works. As an artist’s project and an archival document, the publication echoes the tradition of documentary photography devoted to sculpture.

Edited by Fredi Fischli ( ) and Niels Olsen ( )
Poems by Diego Marcon ( .marcon )
Design by Teo Schifferli ( )
2024, English, softcover, 16.5 x 22 cm, 96 pages
€ 20
ISBN: 979-12-80579-40-9

Photos: Paola Caputo ( )

02/07/2024

Magali Reus
KOOL. A Type Specimen

This compelling artist’s book is built around KOOL (“cabbage” in Dutch), an original font designed by , somewhere between a plant alphabet and concrete poetry. The publication draws on the type specimen book tradition to present new typefaces.

The project is the upshot of a three-year research project focused on the visual and calligraphic relationship between scraps of red cabbage and letters of the Roman alphabet. The volume is inspired by the traditional format of the type specimen book, or type foundry sample book, used to show clients the myriad graphic possibilities, layouts, and configurations unique to a new typeface.

Texts by Emily king and Rebecca May Johnson
Design by .studio
Co-published with
More info: www.lenz.press

2024, English, softcover, 16 x 28 cm, 48 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-51-5

26/06/2024

‼️ OUT NOW: Magali Reus. KOOL. A Type Specimen

KOOL. A Type Specimen is an artist’s book built around KOOL (“cabbage” in Dutch), a new font designed by Magali Reus, winner of the seventh edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture. Midway between a plant alphabet and concrete poetry, the KOOL font is created in collaboration with Antonio de la Hera and Kia Tasbihgou and includes twenty-six lowercase letters, twenty-six uppercase letters, a complete set of numbers, sixteen punctuation marks, and six symbols.

The book features texts by design writer Emily King and Rebecca May Johnson, a food specialist, and was created in conjunction with “Off Script”: a solo exhibition by Reus staged by the in collaboration with the in Milan.

Texts by Emily king and Rebecca May Johnson
Design by .studio
Co-published with Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro
More info: www.lenz.press

2024, English, softcover, 16 x 28 cm, 48 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-51-5

17/06/2024

OUT NOW
Francesco Gennari: I’d Like to Lose Myself, Never to Find Myself Again

Through a rich selection of images, this artist’s book, published in two editions—gold and silver—explores the birth, life and death of Francesco Gennari’s work “Vorrei perdermi e non trovarmi più” (2022), exhibited for the first time at the gallery in Paris. Instinct, creativity, and loss of control characterize the publication, in which the artist further develops his research into the concept of “identity” along with the sense of the boundary and dispersion in space. This volume is created in two editions, one gold and one silver, and provides an escape from reality towards a broader and more mysterious experience, one in which the limits of human existence and the desire/need to go beyond them remain at the heart of the narrative.

Edited by and
Design by
2024, softcover, 15 x 20 cm, 320 pages
ISBN: 979-12-80579-55-3
€ 30
More info: www.lenz.press

14/06/2024

‼️OUT NOW
Francesco Gennari: I’d Like to Lose Myself, Never to Find Myself Again

Through a rich selection of images, this artist’s book, published in two editions—gold and silver—explores the birth, life and death of Francesco Gennari’s work “Vorrei perdermi e non trovarmi più” (2022), exhibited for the first time at the gallery in Paris. Instinct, creativity, and loss of control characterize the publication, in which the artist further develops his research into the concept of “identity” along with the sense of the boundary and dispersion in space. This volume is created in two editions, one gold and one silver, and provides an escape from reality towards a broader and more mysterious experience, one in which the limits of human existence and the desire/need to go beyond them remain at the heart of the narrative.

Edited by and
Design by
2024, softcover, 15 x 20 cm, 320 pages
ISBN: 979-12-80579-55-3
€ 30
More info: www.lenz.press

30/05/2024

🔥 Anita Chari: A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine

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.

“Fluently traversing critical theory, political philosophy, and artistic discourse, this is a brilliant, engaging book on the art and writings of Claire Fontaine—‘readymade artist’ and conceptual provocateur—as well as a vital elucidation of paths toward a transformative mode of living in the present. Writing with and through rather than, as usual, ‘on’ her subject, Chari provides her readers with a ‘how-to’ manual to Claire Fontaine’s practice, finding in it a model for embodied resistance.”—Tom McDonough, author of “The Beautiful Language of My Century”

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21/05/2022

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Lenz Press

Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design. Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.

Lenz is a new publishing house with an interdisciplinary approach. Visual arts form the backbone of our catalog. In parallel, Lenz publishes titles on theory, architecture, design, and other disciplines shaping the contemporary cultural field.

Open to discovery and reappraisal, Lenz strives to form a distinctive selection of titles on prominent and emerging artists, writers, and visual practitioners, as well as spotlighting on previously unpublished pioneers.

Lenz can provide the full range of services and logistics for book making, following every phase of a book’s production with selected graphic designers, editors, and suppliers.