I am pleased to announce that I have joined the Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at Münster University as a senior fellow. While it seemed that the promise of participation and accessibility, so central to all 1960s conceptual projects, had finally come true in the new networked cultures of the World Wide Web, there is an irony in the current inaccessibility of many early net art projects: websites of virtual exhibitions have been shut down, and virtual works stored on CD-ROMs rely on outdated and now inaccessible software. Upcoming fellow lecture on Monday, 2 December 2024, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm (Lecture Hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster).

Thanks to a travel grant for curatorial research by the Goethe Institut for my project “Reading Artists’ Books”, I am headed to New York and Chicago this fall for six weeks. I will study both Doro Boehme’s (1957-2020) private collection of artists’ books and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked as a curator and librarian for many years.

Naranja Publicaciones from Santiago invited me to participate in their “Visual Questionnaire” – a project which presents, through images, some of the aspects that make up a person or collective in relation to artists’ publications.

Einladung zum Screening Warum ist Frau B. glücklich? (BRD 1968) von Erika Runge. Einführung und Moderation: Regine Ehleiter, im Anschluss Podiumsdiskussion mit Britta Caspers und Katharina Król. Die Veranstaltung findet am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2024, 18–20 Uhr, im Foyer des Museum unter Tage in Bochum statt.

On Saturday, June 29, 1.30 pm, I will give a paper on Mirtha Dermisache’s artists’ publications at the symposium “Artists’ Publications – A Critical Approach to Historical and Contemporary Formats of Artistic Publishing” at the Center for Artists’ Publications, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen.

Mirtha Dermisache with her first artist’s book Libro Nº 1, Buenos Aires, 1967. © 2024 Legado Mirtha Dermisache.

“How to Become a Fossil. Prähistorie und Planetarität in der zeitgenössischen Kunst”, gemeinsamer Vortrag mit Daniel Falb, beim interdisziplinären Workshop “Postmoderne Prähistorie” am Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.

Please join us for the opening of “Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read“, the first solo exhibition by the Argentinian conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache (1940–2012) in Germany, a collaborative project between the Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities’ of the Freie Universität Berlin, A–Z, oxfordberlin and the Legado Mirtha Dermisache.

My book is out! It’s a transnational study on exhibitions of the 1960s which were presented in the form of publications. Published with Edition Metzel, 2024, 320 pages, 17 x 22 cm, 92 illustrations, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-88960-240-4.

Please join us in Leipzig for an artist talk with Robin Waart on ‘Library Projects’ as part of his upcoming solo exhibition at IDEAL art space.

Plenumsvortrag zum “Ausstellen in Publikationen” auf Einladung des Gradiertenkollegs “Kleine Formen” der Humbold Universität Berlin.

“Erika Runge und das systemsprengende Potenzial des Glücksanspruchs“: One-day workshop with screenings and talks at the Freie Universität Berlin, dedicated to the German author (“Bottroper Protokolle”, 1968), filmmaker, feminist and communist Erika Runge (1939–2023).

Please join us in Düsseldorf, I’ll present a number of conceptual publications of the 1960s, accompanied by a small one-night book exhibition. The event is part of the photobook talks series ANT!FOTO, organized by BoehmKobayashi (Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber). Starts 6 pm at the Central Library (Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1).

Grand opening of the festival “Assemblage Berlin. 60 Years of Intermediality in Literature” at the Literary Colloquium Berlin that I co-curated. Speeches start at 6 pm, followed by a reception on the beautiful Wannsee terrace, music, talks and performances until late: https://www.temporal-communities.de/assemblage

Next Monday in Dresden I will give a talk on “The ‘Portable Gallery’: Transformations in Exhibition Practice in the 1960s” in Prof. Angela Matyssek’s lecture series on “Exhibiting”. Starts at 3.30 pm at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, Güntzstrasse 34, lecture hall 222. All welcome.

I will be giving a lecture in Weimar on Julia Born’s project “Title of the Show” (2009) and its links to Conceptual exhibitions of the 1960s, as part of the series “Bauhaus Masters Lectures“, organized by the Department for Visual Communication. 7 pm, Hauptcampus, Van-de-Velde-Bau, R. HP05.

Join us this Sunday at KV Leipzig for the launch of Antye Günther’s new artist publication THE BEHEADING OF THE FRUIT FLY (How will I know if you are truly a sentient being?), published with fw:books, Amsterdam. We will start at 6 pm with a listening session, followed by a conversation.

I will be giving a talk in Halle on ‘Wall and Page: Spaces of Display’ at the art school Burg Giebichenstein as part of the symposium ‘Von hier aus… noch zu bestimmen‘ (see panel on ‘Spaces’/’Räume’), organized by the Communication Design Department. Please register here.

New issue of Texte zur Kunst is out! Including my review of Seth Siegelaub. ‘Better Read Than Dead’, Writings and Interviews 1964–2013. Read full text here (in German).

Please join us for the launch of Catalog / Artists’ Books / Printed Matter / 1976–2020 / $48.66 with Berlin-based artist Samuel Bich in conversation with Executive Director of Printed Matter, Inc. Max Schumann and art historian Regine Ehleiter. A recording is now available on Printed Matter’s Youtube channel.

In January, I’ll be teaching a workshop on “Fiktive Institutionen” (fictitious institutions) at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. Guests including Marion Kliesch, Falk Messerschmidt and Stefan Riebel. More info here.

DasKunstbuch.at has published a number of short texts on artists’ books written by students in my seminar on “Practices of Publishing in Contemporary Art” at the University of Hildesheim. For more info, see here.

One-night exhibition in Berlin: I will present selected works from the (magazine) exhibition “Re: Groups” at Kunstquartier Bethanien, starting from 7 pm. “Re: Groups” was published in the “Forum” section of Camera Austria No. 147 (Fall 2019).

Join us at the Vienna Art Book Fair: I curated the exhibition “Re: Groups”, based on instructions by Lucy R. Lippard, with works by David Horvitz, Natalie Czech, Laida Lertxundi, Triin Tamm, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Alwin Lay, Philipp Grünewald, Maria Anwander, Alina Schmuch, Anika Liberatore, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan.

Just out: a new publication on Günther Förg, including my essay on his artist’s books  (“Im Umkreis der Bücher. Günther Förgs Künstlerbücher als Produkt der Bibliothek”/ “In the Domain of Books: Günther Förg’s Artist’s Books as a Product of His Library”, in: Günther Förg. Werke in der Sammlung Friedrichs, Berlin: Holzwarth, 2019, pp. 186-197).

I recently reviewed Michalis Pichler’s book Publishing Manifestos. An International Anthology from Artists and Writers (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London; Miss Read, Berlin 2019) for issue 146 of Camera Austria magazine.

I am giving a paper at a conference on “Curatorial Practices of Comparing | Kuratorische Praktiken des Vergleichens” in Bielefeld, organized by Britta Hochkirchen. Full list of speakers and more details here (pdf).

MAP #9 on “The Book as a Archival Space and Medium of Art” was just released and includes my article on the experimental publications Christian Chruxin designed for his gallery situationen 60 in Berlin.

Catalogue launch in conjunction with the opening of Exhibiting the Exhibition at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. See here for excerpts of my essay “The Catalogue as Exhibition. Suggestions for an Expanded Understanding of Display”.

I’m a visiting lecturer this term in the M.A. program Curatorial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt with a seminar on Seth Siegelaub and the Expansion of Curatorial Space.