Sabeth Buchmann

Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin/ Vienna); since 2004 Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Vienna; guest lecturer ar the Maumaus, Lisbon; co-editor of PoLyPen - a series on art criticism and political theory (b_books, Berlin), board member of the art magazine Texte zur Kunst and of the European Kunsthalle. Recent publications: author of Kunst als Infrastruktur (2023), co-editor of Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022), co-editor of Die Stimme als Voice & Vote. Festschrift für Diedrich Diederichsen (2018); co-editor of Putting Rehearsals to the Test. Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film. Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016). Previous publications and activities: co-editor of art works. Ästhetik des Postfordismus (2015), co-editor of Textile Theorien der Moderne. Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (2015); co-author of Hélio Oiticica & Neville D’Almeida: Experiments in Cosmococa (2013), co-ed. of Film, Avantgarde und Biopolitik (2009); author of Denken gegen das Denken – Produktion, Technologie, Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2007); co-editor of Art After Conceptual Art (2006); founding member of the artist group Minimal Club (1984-1999) and of the art and theory magazine A.N.Y.P. (1989-1999).

Modern and contemporary art from a social and economic critical perspective with a focus on notions of work and production, film and media history, discourses of biopolitics and infrastructure; many years of research on experimental procedures and practices of rehearsal in the visual and performative arts. (2025)

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