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
- figurationen. gender literatur kultur #2: Die Stärken der Schwäche (ed. with Karin Harrasser), Cologne, 2023.
- Kunstforum #270: exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis (ed. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Cologne, 2020.
- Kunstforum #252: publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis (ed.), Cologne, 2018.
- springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2: originalcopy (ed.), Vienna, 2018.
- Kunstforum #243: postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens (ed.), Cologne, 2016.
- Kunstforum #242: postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens (ed.), Cologne, 2016.
- Other
- inframince infra-mince infra mince (ed./cur. with Gudrun Ratzinger and TransArts), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021. Exhibition: Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna.
- 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.
- originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation (ed./cur. with Michael Kargl), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
- Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet. Possible Content for 18 Pages (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016. Performance: 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 . 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./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]
- Circulating Contexts: Curating Media / Net / Art (ed. with CONT3XT.NET), Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2007.
