Das Sporadische Institut A public art commission developed from the forms and stories that disappeared during the renovation of a university campus. Expressed in an artist book, seating objects and a permanent installation. artwork, project, research, text2025
Practices of Relation My PhD thesis explores the conceptualization of artists’ practices that have recently emerged in critical relation to institutions through an analysis of the relation between the formation of institutions and the concept of practice. research2024
memeclassworldwide: how did we get here? Text and research for memeclassworldwide "videotutorial-documentation", tracing the history of the central european art academy. Ramona Kortyka, Mateusz Dworczyk, Juan Blanco, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler research, text2020
Making It Up: Critical Practices of Instituting Essay for the Critical Makers Reader, edited by Loes Bogers & Letizia Chiappini, published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019. research, text2019
Visiting Scholar at The New School School of Social Research Between October 2019 to June 2020, work continues on “What Artists Institute,” which proposes an extension of the vocabulary with which practices of relation between artists and institutions are conceptualized. research2019
Institutional Studies by Artists Lecture Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2019: The Future of Work. Université de Neuchâtel Lucie Kolb research2019
Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a postdigital memory-site Artist Talk at the Department of Digital Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna Seth Weiner project, research2019
Institutions as a Way of Life SNF funded research project hosted by the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at HGK Basel. 2017–2021. Institutions as a Way of Life explores and projects the legacy of Institutional Critique and develops models of instituent practices in terms of micropolitical actions, radical pedagogies and artistic processes. It will reveal how technology, media and art can reflect and open up new infrastructures for thinking and doing. It aims at generating a critical understanding of the relation between institutions and individuals as a condition to and as a shaper of our relations to the world. Jamie Allen, Lucie Kolb, Mela Dávila Freire research2017
Palais des Beaux Arts Wien A 1:1 scale model of an art institution for the wireless belle époque. The Palais des Beaux Arts is a conceptual art space set between the historical and stylistic presence of the pre-Secessionist Jugendstil landmark from 1908 and the material and electromagnetic layers of the public space around it. Selected international artists and curators are commissioned to create site-specific works and interventions on our wireless network and the unmarked space around it. The vernissage is on the trottoir. Bernhard Garnicnig was the Very Artistic Director between 2014 and 2018 and was succeeded by Seth Weiner. Seth Weiner project, research2014