Sabeth Buchmann
20/08 - 12/10/2018

Sabeth Buchmann

Sabeth Buchmann is art historian and critic, Berlin/ Vienna, Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In spring term 2017 she took a a guest professorship at the University of Zurich/ Department for Art History. From January–March 2016 she was guest lecturer at the UCLA, LA. Since 2018 she is board member and guest lecturer Escola das Artes at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto. Since 1998 she is board member of the art magazine Texte zur Kunst. Regular contributions for magazines, reader and monographs as well as for art and exhibition catalogues.

Together wih Helmut Draxler, Clemens Krümmel, and Susanne Leeb she co-edits of PoLyPen a series on art criticism and political theory, published by b_books, Berlin). The last published book: Co-ed. with Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm: Putting Rehearsals to the Test. Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film. Theater, Theory, and Politics, Berlin/ Vienna 2016 (in the context of the exhibition and film program Putting Rehearsals to the Test at the Leonhard and Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University), the SBC Gallery and VOX - VOX - Centre de l’image contemporaine in Montréal. Earlier publications: Textile Theorien der Moderne. Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (ed. with Rike Frank), Berlin 2015), Hélio Oiticica, Neville D'Almeida and others: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa. London 2013 (with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz ), and Film Avantgarde Biopolitik , Vienna 2009 (ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica, Berlin 2007; Art After Conceptual Art (ed. with Alexander Alberrro), Cambridge/ Mass and Cologne 2006.