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'''Franz Thalmair''' is a curator, writer, and editor, based in Vienna, Austria.
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'''Franz Thalmair''' (he/they) is a curator, writer, and editor, based in [[Vienna]], Austria.
  
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Currently, he works as a curator for contemporary art at the [https://www.mumok.at/ mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien] in Vienna (since 2019) and as artistic director and co-curator at the [https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at Kunstraum Lakeside] in Klagenfurt (since 2018) | Curatorial director of the arts-based research project [http://www.ocopy.net originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation], University of Applied Arts Vienna (2016-2019) | Managing curator at the [https://secession.at Secession] in Vienna (2010-2014) | Freelance curatorial projects at institutions such as Museo Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina UNAM in Mexico City; Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels; Greylight Projects in Brussels; Karst in Plymouth (UK); Akbank Art Center in Istanbul; Mala Galerija/Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana.
Curator for contemporary art, [https://www.mumok.at/ mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien], Vienna (since 2019) | Artistic director and curator (with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), [https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at Kunstraum Lakeside], Klagenfurt (2018-2026) | Managing curator, [https://secession.at 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), 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), Freies Theater (Innsbruck), Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), Flucc (Vienna) etc.
 
  
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Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, [https://transarts.at TransArts Transdisciplinary Art] (2013-2025) | Lecturer, [https://www.aau.at University of Klagenfurt], Cultural Analysis – Visual Culture (2018-2021) | Lecturer, [https://www.kunstuni-linz.at University of Arts Linz], Media Culture and Art Theories (2012-2013) | Head of the culture department and editor for visual arts, [https://www.derstandard.at/kultur derStandard.at] (2007-2010) | Since 2007 comprehensive writing and editing for media such as [https://www.artforum.com/author/franz-thalmair Artforum], [https://www.kunstforum.de/person/thalmair-franz/ KUNSTFORUM International], [https://springerin.at/en/search/?q=Franz%20Thalmair springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst], as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues, art and artists' books.
Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, [https://transarts.at TransArts - Transdisciplinary Art] (2013-2025) | Director (with [[Michael Kargl]]) of the arts-based research project [http://www.ocopy.net originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation], University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Theory (2016-2019) | Lecturer, [https://www.aau.at University of Klagenfurt], Cultural Analysis – Visual Culture (2018-2021) | Lecturer, [https://www.kunstuni-linz.at University of Arts Linz], Media Culture and Art Theories (2012-2013).
 
  
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==Publications and exhibitions (selection)==
Head of the culture department and editor for visual arts, [https://www.derstandard.at/kultur derStandard.at] (2007-2010) | Since 2007 comprehensive writing and editing for media such as [https://www.artforum.com/author/franz-thalmair Artforum / Artforum.com], [https://springerin.at/en/search/?q=Franz%20Thalmair springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst], [https://www.kunstforum.de/person/thalmair-franz/ KUNSTFORUM International], as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues, art and artists' books.
 
  
==Publications/exhibitions (selection)==
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; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
  
; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
 
 
* ''[https://www.mumok.at/en/exhibitions/agnes-fuchs Agnes Fuchs. Her Eyes Were Green]'' (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023.
 
* ''[https://www.mumok.at/en/exhibitions/agnes-fuchs Agnes Fuchs. Her Eyes Were Green]'' (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023.
 
* ''[https://www.mumok.at/en/exhibitions/mixed-up-with-others-before-we-even-begin mixed up with others before we even begin]'' (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022.
 
* ''[https://www.mumok.at/en/exhibitions/mixed-up-with-others-before-we-even-begin mixed up with others before we even begin]'' (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022.
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; Kunstraum Lakeside
 
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* ''Host'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2025.
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* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/host-annual-publication-2024/ Host]'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/hollow-ground-doppelter-boden-annual-publication-2023/ Hollow Ground]'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.  
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/hollow-ground-doppelter-boden-annual-publication-2023/ Hollow Ground]'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024.  
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/future-perfect-vollendete-zukunft-annual-publication-2021/ A Sense of Relatedness]'' (ed. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023.
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* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/a-sense-of-relatedness-beziehungsweisen-annual-publication-2022/ A Sense of Relatedness]'' (ed. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/future-perfect-vollendete-zukunft-annual-publication-2021/ Future Perfect]'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2022.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/future-perfect-vollendete-zukunft-annual-publication-2021/ Future Perfect]'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2022.
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/format-annual-publication-2020/ Format]'' (ed.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2021.
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* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/format-annual-publication-2020/ Format]'' (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2021.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/process-prozess-annual-publication-2019/ Process]'' (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/process-prozess-annual-publication-2019/ Process]'' (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/research-recherche-annual-publication-2018/ Research]'' (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019.
 
* ''[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/research-recherche-annual-publication-2018/ Research]'' (ed./cur.), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019.
  
 
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; Secession
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* ''[https://secession.at/shop_produkt_mitgliederedition_making_of_en making of. Members' edition]'' (ed.), Vienna: Secession Edition, 2013.
 
* ''[https://secession.at/shop_produkt_mitgliederedition_making_of_en making of. Members' edition]'' (ed.), Vienna: Secession Edition, 2013.
 
* ''[https://secession.at/ausstellung_slavs_and_tatars_en Slavs and Tatars. Not Moscow Not Mecca]'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2012.
 
* ''[https://secession.at/ausstellung_slavs_and_tatars_en Slavs and Tatars. Not Moscow Not Mecca]'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2012.
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* Figurationen. Gender Literatur Kultur, #2/2023: [https://figurationen.ch/hefte/die-st-rken-der-schw-che-virtues-of-vulnerability/ ''Die Stärken der Schwäche''] (ed. with Karin Harrasser), Cologne, 2023.
 
* Kunstforum #270: [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2020-270-exhibit-ausstellen-als-kuenstlerische-praxis/ ''exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis''] (ed. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), Cologne, 2020. {{de}}
 
* Kunstforum #252: [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2018-256-publish-publizieren-als-kuenstlerische-praxis/ ''publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis''] (ed.), Cologne, 2018. {{de}}
 
* springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2/2018: [https://springerin.at/2018/2/ ''originalcopy''] (ed.), Vienna, 2018. {{de}}
 
* Kunstforum #243: [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2016-243/ ''Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens''] (ed.), Cologne, 2016. {{de}}
 
* Kunstforum #242: [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2016-243/ ''Postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens
''] (ed.), Cologne, 2016. {{de}}
 
  
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* [https://figurationen.ch/hefte/die-st-rken-der-schw-che-virtues-of-vulnerability/ ''Die Stärken der Schwäche''] (ed. with Karin Harrasser), figurationen. gender literatur kultur #2, 2023.
* ''inframince infra-mince infra mince'' (ed. with TransArts), DeGruyter, Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021.
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* [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2020-270-exhibit-ausstellen-als-kuenstlerische-praxis/ ''exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis''] (ed. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]]), KUNSTFORUM International #270, 2020.
* ''[[Media:Kargl Michael Thalmair Franz eds originalcopy Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation 2019.pdf|originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation]]'' (ed./cur. with Michael Kargl), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
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* [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2018-256-publish-publizieren-als-kuenstlerische-praxis/ ''publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis''] (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #252, 2018.
* ''VIE 02/01/17—03/31/17 TYO'' (ed.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2019.
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* [https://springerin.at/2018/2/ ''originalcopy''] (ed. with [[Michael Kargl]]), springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2, 2018.
* ''Marcus Boon, In Praise Of Copying (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 1–285.'' (ed.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2019.
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* [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2016-243/ ''postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens''] (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #243, 2016.
* ''ba ≠ b+a | From The Collection Of The City Of Vienna'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017
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* [https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2016-243/ ''postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens''] (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #242, 2016.
* ''Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014.  
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* ''Re-'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
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* ''A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
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* ''This Page Intentionally Left Blank'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014.  
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* ''inframince infra-mince infra mince'' (ed./cur. with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]] and TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021.  
* ''Origo (At Point Zero Of The Point Of View)'' (ed. with Birgit Rinagl)
, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2013.
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** Exhibition: [https://universitaetsgalerie.dieangewandte.at/ Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof], Vienna
* ''[[Media:CONT3XT.NET eds Content Form Im-material 2011.pdf|Content Form Im-material]]'' (ed. with [[CONT3XT.NET]]), Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011, 263 pp. [https://jacket2.org/commentary/cont3xtnet-everything]
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* ''[[Media:CONT3XT.NET eds Circulating Contexts Curating Media Net Art 2007.pdf|Circulating Contexts: Curating Media / Net / Art]]'' (ed. with [[CONT3XT.NET]]), Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2007.
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* ''[[Media:Kargl Michael Thalmair Franz eds originalcopy Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation 2019.pdf|originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation]]'' (ed./cur. with [[Michael Kargl]]), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
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** Exhibitions: [https://www.brux.at BRUX Freies Theater], Innsbruck | [https://ail.angewandte.at Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab], Vienna | [https://www.wiels.org/ Wiels], Brussels
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* ''Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet – Possible Content for 18 Pages'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016.
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** Exhibition: [https://missread.com/ Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair], Berlin
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* ''A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper – Possible Content for 18 Pages'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.  
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** Exhibition: [https://karst.org.uk Karst], Plymouth/UK
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* ''This Page Intentionally Left Blank – Possible Content for 18 Pages'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014.  
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** Exhibition: [https://www.akbanksanat.com Akbank Sanat], Istanbul
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* ''ba ≠ b+a. From The Collection Of The City Of Vienna'' (ed./cur.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017
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** Exhibition: [https://www.wienmuseum.at/ Musa Wien Museum], Vienna
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* ''Re-'' (ed./cur. with TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
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** Exhibition: [https://www.kunstraum.net/ Kunstraum Niederösterreich], Vienna
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* ''Origo (At Point Zero Of The Point Of View)'' (ed./cur. with Birgit Rinagl)
, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2013.  
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** Exhibition: [https://www.wuk.at/kunsthalle-exnergasse/ Kunsthalle Exnergasse], Vienna
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* ''[[Media:CONT3XT.NET eds Content Form Im-material 2011.pdf|Content Form Im-material]]'' (ed. with [[CONT3XT.NET]]), Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011. [https://jacket2.org/commentary/cont3xtnet-everything]
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** Exhibitions: [https://www.mg-lj.si/en Mala Galerija/Moderna Galerija], Ljubjlana
 | [https://www.kuveti.at Kunstpavillon], Innsbruck | 
[https://www.i-a-m.tk Institut für Alles Mögliche], Berlin

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==Links==
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* [https://secondarypractice.net/ Website]
  
 
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Franz Thalmair (he/they) is a curator, writer, and editor, based in Vienna, Austria.

Currently, he works as a curator for contemporary art at the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna (since 2019) and as artistic director and co-curator at the Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt (since 2018) | Curatorial director of the arts-based research project originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation, University of Applied Arts Vienna (2016-2019) | Managing curator at the Secession in Vienna (2010-2014) | Freelance curatorial projects at institutions such as Museo Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina UNAM in Mexico City; Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels; Greylight Projects in Brussels; Karst in Plymouth (UK); Akbank Art Center in Istanbul; Mala Galerija/Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana.

Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art (2013-2025) | Lecturer, University of Klagenfurt, Cultural Analysis – Visual Culture (2018-2021) | Lecturer, University of Arts Linz, Media Culture and Art Theories (2012-2013) | 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, KUNSTFORUM International, springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues, art and artists' books.

Publications and exhibitions (selection)[edit]

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Kunstraum Lakeside
Secession
Magazines
Miscellaneous
  • 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.
  • ba ≠ b+a. From The Collection Of The City Of Vienna (ed./cur.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017
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  • Re- (ed./cur. with TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.
  • Origo (At Point Zero Of The Point Of View) (ed./cur. with Birgit Rinagl)
, Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2013.

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