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./cur.), 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

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

Other

• inframince infra-mince infra mince (ed./cur. with Gudrun Ratzinger and TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art), 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.
  • Exhibitions: BRUX Freies Theater, Innsbruck; Wiels, Brussels; Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna

• Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet – Possible Content for 18 Pages (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016.
  • Exhibition: Miss Read – The Berlin Art Book Fair, Berlin

• A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper – Possible Content for 18 Pages (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
  • Exhibition: Karst, Plymouth/UK

• This Page Intentionally Left Blank – Possible Content for 18 Pages (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014.
  • Exhibition: Akbank Sanat, Istanbul

• ba ≠ b+a | From The Collection Of The City Of Vienna (ed./cur.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017
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  • Exhibition: Musa Wien Museum, Vienna

• Re- (ed./cur. with TransArts - Transdisciplinary Art), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
  • Exhibition: Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

• Origo (At Point Zero Of The Point Of View) (ed./cur. 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]
  • Exhibitions: Mala Galerija – Moderna Galerija, Ljubjlana
; Kunstpavillon – Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck; 
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna; Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin


Links

• Website