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), 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.

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/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.), 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 #2/2023: Die Stärken der Schwäche (ed. with Karin Harrasser), Cologne, 2023. (German)
• Kunstforum #270: exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis (ed. with Gudrun Ratzinger), Cologne, 2020. (German)
• Kunstforum #252: publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis (ed.), Cologne, 2018. (German)
• springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst #2/2018: originalcopy (ed.), Vienna, 2018. (German)
• Kunstforum #243: Postdigital 2. Erscheinungsformen und Ausbreitung eines Phänomens (ed.), Cologne, 2016. (German)
• Kunstforum #242: Postdigital 1. Allgegenwart und Unsichtbarkeit eines Phänomens
 (ed.), Cologne, 2016. (German)

Artists' books

• 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.
• Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014. Performance: Miss Read – The Berlin Art Book Fair, Berlin.
• A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015. Exhibition: Karst, Plymouth/UK
• This Page Intentionally Left Blank (ed./cur.), Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2014. Exhibition: Akbank Sanat, Istanbul.

Other

• inframince infra-mince infra mince (ed. with TransArts), Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021. Exhibition: Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna.
• originalcopy: Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation (ed./cur. with Michael Kargl), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
• 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. 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.