Writing

Contributions in catalogues & books


 


To conspire with the river. Memories of Sabina Holzer’s riverhood
Essay • August 2025


You see? That which intended to enlighten the world, in practice darkened it.” On Olena Newkryta’s work

Essay • Camera Austria • June 2025

 
To what is unspoken and unseen. A speculative glossary as worlding treat
 

Essay • Outro of A Treatise on Fugueology • 2025

 
How to Resist Disaster? About Anne Juren’s WAAM – We Are All Mothers

Essay • Wien Modern Catalogue • 2024


Life is of a Presentness that Burns. Christiana Perschon 

Essay • Exhibition Text for Christiana Perschon’s solo show Spending Time. Holding Space • DAS WEISSE HAUS • 2024

 
Forensic Poetics. For our granddaughters

Essay • testing grounds • Exhibition catalogue • Published on the occasion of the Katrin Hornek’s solo show • Secession Vienna Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König Cologne • 2024

 

(Un)sitings. Kristin Wenzel’s monumental care

Essay • Die Vorstellung des Buchstabens Y: Eine psychogeographische Untersuchung • Book on the project • 2024

 

The commonplace I sing

Introductory essay of Common Grounds. A Project for the public space by Irena Eden and Stijn Lernout realised in 2021 • Edited by Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout • Schlebrügge Vienna • 2023

 

Unfinished Conversations: An Opener

Introductory essay of the monograph H(a)untings. Heimsuchen. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński • Published in the framework of the artist’s solo show at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2021 • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2023

 

Contemporary Unconscious

Introduction, conversation with the artist and artworks’ texts in the monograph of Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulović* • Published in the framework of the artist’s solo show at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2021 • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2023

 

How to Inhabit a Skin

Essay in the artist’s book Private Book by Julia Hohenwarter • Edited by Julia Hohenwarter • Distanz Verlag Berlin • 2023

 

Die Zeichen bilden eine Sprache, aber nicht die, die du zu kennen glaubst [The signs form a language, but not the one you believe to know]

Essay in the monograph of Ting Jun Chen • Published on the occasion of the Kunsthalle Vienna Prize 2018 • Edited by Maximilian Geymüller • Sternberg Press • 2023

 

Alfred Lenz: Methods

Introduction to the artist’s monograph Early Works • Edited by Alfred Lenz • Monochrom Editions Vienna • 2022

 

For Alix. Les passeuses d’écume [They, who pass over the foam from the sea]

Essay in the artist’s book Noa & Snow by Alix Eynaudi • Concept by Alix Eynaudi and Goda Budvytytè • BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE Berlin • 2022

 

The Measure of Closeness

Essay in the monograph of Marlies Pöschl • Published in conjunction with the exhibition Marlies Pöschl: Les Maintenants • Salzburger Kunstverein • Schlebrügge Vienna • 2021

 

Vestiaire/Bestiaire ou : Quand les humains s’entraînent, les sacs dansent. Sur les objets interlopes de Delphine Reist[Changing Room/Bestiary or: When the humans train, their bags dance. On Delphine Reist’s weird objects]

Essay on the artist’s work published in Le Comportement des Choses [The Behaviour of Things] • Edited by Emanuele Quinz • ArTeC Paris & Les Presses du Réel Dijon • 2021

 

Ho Rui An. The Ends of A Long Boom

Introductory essay and artworks’ texts in the exhibition booklet • Published on the occasion of the solo show of the artist at Kunsthalle Vienna • 2021

 

Wilfrid Almendra. The Promise of the Waves 

Essay in the monograph of the artist published on the occasion of his solo show Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap at Fogo Island Gallery in 2016 • Edited by Alxandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2019

 

Hysterical Mining 

Introductory essay and artworks’ texts in the exhibition booklet • Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, part of the Vienna Biennial for Change Schöne Neue Werte. Unsere Digitale Welt gestalten [Brave New Virtues. Shaping Our Digital World] • 2019

 

Food Only Exists on Pictures

Essay in the monograph of Marlene Maier • Published on the occasion of the Prize Kunsthalle Vienna exhibition 2017 at Kunsthalle Vienna • Edited by Lukas Gehrmann • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2017

 

Work it, feel it! 

Introductory text and artworks’ texts in the exhibition booklet • Booklet conception • Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, part of the Vienna Biennial for Change Robots. Work. Our Future • Edited by Anne Faucheret and Eva Meran • 2017

 

Working Bodies Today

Essay written together with Eva Meran in the catalogue of the Vienna Biennial for Change Robots. Work. Our Future • Verlag für Moderne Kunst Vienna • 2017

 

Art and Place: Connections 

Essay in the publication Don’t Call it Offspace published at the occasion of the 10. anniversary of das weisse haus • Edited by Alexandra Grausam • Verlag für Moderne Kunst Vienna • 2017

 

The Promise of Total Automation 

Co-editor with David Jourdan of the concept book after the exhibition The Promise of Total Automation at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2016 • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2017

 

The Presence of Absence 

Essay in the monograph of Alfons Pressnitz • Published on the occasion of the artist’s solo show Bildmodelle at the Stadtgalerie Czernowitz & in the Literature Museum Odessa Ukraine • Knyhy21 Czernowitz • 2017

 

Subjective Atlases. Plural Portraits. Ricardo Okaranza

Essay in the artist’s book Bretxa Erretratuak. Atlas Subjetivo. Vol III (2010-2017) • Published on the occasion of San Sebastián Capital European de la Cultura 2016 • Edited by Ricardo Okaranza • Gipuzkoako Foro Aldundia San Sebastiàn • 2017

 

Truth is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics

Co-Editor with steirischer herbst, Florian Malzacher & Kira Kirsch • Sternberg Press Berlin • 2014


Contributions in Art Magazines

Letter for a Future Conversation with Andreia Santana

Essay on the artist’s work • Contemporânea Lisbon • 2023 


Crip magazine. The Vienna Edition 

Co-editor with Eva Egermann of the issue 4 of the Crip magazine, a magazine for crip cultures • Published by Eva Egermann, Anne Faucheret & WHW • 2021

 

Proposing a Text in Three Voices

A conversation with Anne Lise Le Gac and Arthur Chambry on Ductus Midi • TQW Magazine • May 2020

 
The Future is Now!

Essay on the visual arts program of the festival • Published on the occasion of steirischer herbst 2017 • Edited by steirischer herbst & Andreas R. Peternell • Herbst Magazin 2017

 

Make Your Brain Expand. Mark Leckey + Alessandro Raho. We Transfer 

Exhibitions’ review • Camera Austria International • 132 • 2015

 

The Phantom of the Exhibition. Pierre Huyghe

Review of the artist’s solo show at Centre G. Pompidou Paris • Camera Austria International • 125 • Autumn 2014


Lorna Simpson. "Is she as pretty as a picture / … / or black as coal / …" 

Review of the artist’s solo show at Galerie Jeu de Paume Paris • Camera Austria International • 123 • August 2013

 

Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel [New Impressions on Raymond Roussel]

Review of the exhibition at Palais de Tokyo Paris • Camera Austria International • 122 • June 2013 

 

Stéphane Bérard. L’art en déroute [Stéphane Bérard, Art on the Run]

Essay • art21 • 30 • Spring 2011

 

Atlas in Bewegung [Atlas in Motion]

Review of the exhibition Atlas. Truths, Details, Intervals and the Afterlives of the Image at Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva • Texte Zur Kunst • 81 • March 2011

 

Franz West. Lumière rouge, larves et lémuriens [Franz West. Red light, Larvae and Lemurs]

Essay • art21 • 27 • June 2010

 

Andreas Fogarasi. Occuper, disent-ils [Occupy, they say]

Review of the artist’s solo show 1998 at Ludwig Forum for International Art Aix-la-Chapelle • art21 • 27 • June 2010

 

Marc Camille Chaimowicz. A rebours [Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Against the grain]

Review of the solo exhibition at Secession Vienna • Camera Austria International • 109 • Spring 2010

 

Keren Cytter. Le spectacle de la vie [Keren Cytter. The Spectacle of Life]

Essay • art21 • 25 • Winter 2009-2010