Franz Thalmair

Franz Thalmair is a curator, writer, and editor, based in Vienna, Austria.

Curating

Curator for contemporary art, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (since 2019) | Artistic director and curator (with Gudrun Ratzinger), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2018-2026) | Managing curator, Secession, Vienna (2010-2014) | Co-founder of CONT3XT.NET (2006-2012) | Freelance projects for art spaces and institutions such as Museo Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina – UNAM, Mexico City; Wiels, Brussels; Greylight Projects, Brussels; Karst, Plymouth/UK; Akbank Art Center, Istanbul; Mala Galerija – Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica/Zagreb; Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin; Miss Read: Art Book Fair, Berlin; Vienna Art Book Fair, Vienna; Brux Freies Theater, Innsbruck; Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Flucc, Vienna etc.

Teaching and research

Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts - Transdisciplinary Art (2013-2025) | Director (with Michael Kargl) of the arts-based research project originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Theory (2016-2019) | Lecturer, University of Klagenfurt, Cultural Analysis – Visual Culture (2018-2021) | Lecturer, University of Arts Linz, Media Culture and Art Theories (2012-2013).

Writing and editing

Head of the culture department and editor for visual arts, derStandard.at (2007-2010) | Since 2007 comprehensive writing and editing for media such as Artforum / Artforum.com, springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, KUNSTFORUM International, as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues, art and artists' books.

Publications and exhibitions (selection)

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

• Agnes Fuchs. Her Eyes Were Green (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023.
• mixed up with others before we even begin (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022.
• Collaborations (ed./cur. with Heike Eipeldauer), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022.
• Ane Mette Hol. Becoming (working title) (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2021.

Kunstraum Lakeside

• Host (ed./cur. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2025.
• Hollow Ground (ed./cur. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.
• A Sense of Relatedness (ed. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023.
• Future Perfect (ed./cur. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2022.
• Format (ed.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2021.
• Process (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020.
• Research (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019.

Secession

• making of. Members' edition (ed.), Vienna: Secession Edition, 2013.
• Slavs and Tatars. Not Moscow Not Mecca (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2012.
• Wade Guyton. Drawings for a Small Room (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011.
• Attila Csörgő (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011.
• Maria Bussmann. Long Beach, NY (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2010.

Magazines

• figurationen. gender literatur kultur #2/2023: Die Stärken der Schwäche (ed. with Karin Harrasser), Cologne, 2023. (German)
• Kunstforum #270: exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis (ed. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Cologne, 2020. (German)
• Kunstforum #252: publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis (ed.), Cologne, 2018. (German)
• springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2/2018: originalcopy (ed.), Vienna, 2018. (German)
• Kunstforum #243: Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens (ed.), Cologne, 2016. (German)
• Kunstforum #242: Postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens
 (ed.), Cologne, 2016. (German)

Artists' books

• Marcus Boon, In Praise Of Copying (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 1–285. (ed.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2019.
• VIE 02/01/17—03/31/17 TYO (ed.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2019.
• Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014. Performance: Miss Read – The Berlin Art Book Fair, Berlin.
• A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015. Exhibition: Karst, Plymouth/UK
• This Page Intentionally Left Blank (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014. Exhibition: Akbank Sanat, Istanbul.

Other

• inframince infra-mince infra mince (ed. with TransArts), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021. Exhibition: Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna.
• originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation (ed./cur. with Michael Kargl), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
• ba ≠ b+a | From The Collection Of The City Of Vienna (ed./cur.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017
. Exhibition: Musa Wien Museum, Vienna.
• Re- (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015. Exhibition: Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna.
• Origo (At Point Zero Of The Point Of View) (ed. with Birgit Rinagl)
, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2013. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna.
• Content Form Im-material (ed. with CONT3XT.NET), Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011. [1]
• Circulating Contexts: Curating Media / Net / Art (ed. with CONT3XT.NET), Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2007.