Franz Thalmair | Curator mumok Vienna and Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt

Curator, author, and editor, lives and works in Vienna. Studied Romance languages and linguistics in Salzburg, Paris, and Barcelona. Curator for contemporary art at mumok, Vienna (since 2019); Artistic Director and Co-Curator (in collaboration with Gudrun Ratzinger) at Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2018–2026); Executive Curator at Secession, Vienna (2010–2014); Guest professor and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art (2013–2025); Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt, Visual Culture / Cultural Analysis (2018–2021); Curatorial lead of the research project originalcopy – Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Theory (2016–2019); Head of the Arts Section and Editor for Visual Arts at derStandard.at (2007–2010). Since 2007, extensive publishing activity for media such as Artforum / Artforum.com, springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, KUNSTFORUM International. Independent curatorial projects include inframince infra-mince infra mince, University Gallery of the Angewandte at Heiligenkreuzerhof (2021), ba ≠ b+a. From the Collection of the City of Vienna, Wien Museum MUSA (2018), A Set Of Lines, A Stack Of Paper, Karst, Plymouth (2015), This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul (2014), and Origo (At the Zero Point of Standpoint), Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna (2013).