Franz Thalmair

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)

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

• Claudia Pagès Rabal. Feudal Holes (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025.
• The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present (ed./cur.), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025.
• 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, 2024.
• 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 International #270, 2020.
• publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #252, 2018.
• originalcopy (ed. with Michael Kargl), springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2, 2018.
• postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #243, 2016.
• postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens (ed.), KUNSTFORUM International #242, 2016.

Miscellaneous

• 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 | Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna | Wiels, Brussels

• 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, Innsbruck | 
Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin


Links

• Website