Franz Thalmair
Franz Thalmair is a curator, writer, and editor, based in Vienna, Austria
Curator for contemporary art, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (since 2019) | Artistic co-director with Gudrun Ratzinger, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2018-2026) | Managing curator, Secession, Vienna (2010-2014) | Co-founder of CONT3XT.NET (2006-2012) | Freelance curatorial 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.
Visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts - Transdisciplinary Art (2013-2025) | Co-director of the arts-based research project originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation with Michael Kargl, 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)
Head of the culture department and editor for visual arts, derStandard.at (2007-2010) | Since 2007 comprehensive writing for media such as Artforum / Artforum.com, KUNSTFORUM International, springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues, art and artists' books
- Publications
- Circulating Contexts: Curating Media / Net / Art (editor, with CONT3XT.NET), Vienna, 2007, 160 pp.
- Content Form Im-material (editor, with CONT3XT.NET), Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011, 263 pp. [1]
- Kunstforum 243: "Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens" (editor), 2016. [2] (German)
- originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation (editor, with Michael Kargl), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 375 pp. Research project. Publisher. [3]
- Kunstraum Lakeside — Recherche | Research (editor), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019, 112 pp. (German)/(English)
- Kunstraum Lakeside — Process | Prozess (editor), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020, 112 pp. (German)/(English)
- Kunstraum Lakeside — Format (editor), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2021, 112 pp. (German)/(English)
- Kunstraum Lakeside — Future Perfect | Vollendete Zukunft (editor, with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2022, 88 pp. (German)/(English)
- Kollaborationen (editor, with Heike Eipeldauer), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, and Vienna: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2022, 240 pp. Catalogue. (German)
- Collaborations, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, and Vienna: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2022, 240 pp. Publisher. Exhibition.
- mixed up with others before we even begin (editor), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, and Vienna: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2022, 112 pp. Catalogue. Publisher. Exhibition. (German)/(English)
- Kunstraum Lakeside — A Sense of Relatedness | Beziehungsweisen (editor, with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2023, 88 pp. (German)/(English)
- Kunstraum Lakeside — Hollow Ground | Doppelter Boden (editor, with Gudrun Ratzinger), Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2024, 88 pp. (German)/(English)
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