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Selected Exhibitions
2023
The Territory Is Not the Map (as curator), Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, September 13 — October 31.
2022
Missed Encounters from the Field: Stories from the Researcher’s Notebook (as curator/conceptualizer in collaboration with academic researchers from ZMO), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, November 15 — December 15.
Mapping (Un)solidarities (group show), A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, and The Mosaic Room, London, October 2 — November 6.
Manifestiamo: A Three Month Conference (group show, discursive event), Villa Romana, Florence, May 6 — July 21.
2021
The Ghost Ship and the Sea Change: Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), June 5 — November 21.
2020
Invisibility Chronicles, Part One (two-person show), after-the-butcher Austellungsraum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, October 9 — November 8.
2019
Helicotrema Festival 2019 (festival of sound works), Palazzo Grassi and Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, November 6 — 8.
”… and digging reveals unforeseen finds” — Reports from the Capitalocene (group show), Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, May 17 — August 3.
2017
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War (group show), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, November 3, 2017 — January 8, 2018.
2016
Unter Waffen. Fire and Forget 2 (“Under Arms. Fire and Forget 2”) (group show), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, September 8, 2016 — February 26, 2017.
ORDETS AKT: 250 Years of Swedish Press Freedom (group show), Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Almedalen Week in Visby, and Gothenburg Book Fair, May 3 — September 25.
“Speech Acts” (performance event), Mumok Kino, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, April 27/
Land ohne Land (group show), Heidelberger Kunstverein, February 27 — April 10.
2015
Speech Acts (group show) Forum Stadtpark (as part of Steirischer Herbst), Graz, September 26 — October 20.
Drucken, Heften, Laden (group show, symposium) Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, January 8 — 18.
2014
Berlin Documentary Forum 3 (documentary biennial) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
May 29 — 31.
Words as Doors (group show), Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien Graz, March 16 —
May 18.
2013
Black or White (group show) Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 8 —
November 17.
2011
6th Momentum Biennial Moss, Norway, June/July.
10th Sharjah Biennial (in the context of Decolonizing Architecture’s installation), Sharjah, March 16 –May 1.
2009
Silence After Noise: Version Number 2 (solo show), Galeria Plan B, Berlin, October 30 —
December 9.
The Other Shadow of the City various venues, East Jerusalem, October.
Kunstler als Selber Was (group show) Kunstlerhaus Exnergasse, Vienna, April 3 — May.3
Silence After Noise: Version Number 1 (solo show) Ellen de Bruijn Projects, Amsterdam,
January 17 — February 21.
Publishing Activity
Selected graphic works for publication:
2021 — White Collar Crime. The Current Thing, Issue Two, Berlin/Mexico City.
2014 — An Oral History of Picasso in Palestine. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt. (online publication).
2012 — Michael Baers Talks to an Artwork. In: A Prior No. 23, Ghent, 188 — 195.
- Scenes from an Unwritten Novel. In: Modern Painters, September — December.
2010 — Response to Three Essays: Television. In: ACAF (ed.) Manifesta 08. Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 144 — 149.
2009 — Michael Baers in Rotterdam. In: Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood (eds.), e-flux journal reader 2009. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2002 — 2008.
- Concerning Matter to be Left for a Later Date (Parts 1- 4). In: Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood (eds.), e-flux journal, Nos. 3 — 7. (online journal).
2008 — A Day at the Opera or Rakett meets the New Public Management. In: Sum Magazine for Contemporary Art, No. 3, 65 — 71.
- What Life Could Be. In: Robert Hamelinjk and Nienke Terpsma (eds.), Fucking Good Art No 20: The Swiss Issue, Zurich: Editions Fink, 245 — 260.
Books:
2016 — An Oral History of Picasso in Palestine. Hamburg: adocs verlag
Lectures/Talks
Work Talk on the Western Sahara conflict. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). Berlin, December 9, 2021.
Give us time, give us time, and we’ll be a multitude: Notes on the artistic doctorate. As part of EQ-Arts Creator Doctus (CrD) Workshop, Merz Akademie Hochschule für Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien, Stuttgart, February 10, 11, 2020.
The Outside of the Inside and the Inside of the Outside: Resuscitating the emancipatory pedagogical project of the historical avant-gardes after the emergence of postcolonial studies. As part of Art, Spatiality, Politics Ringvorlesung, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Winter Semester 2019-20, February 6, 2020.
The Nowhere of the Archive, as part of The Conscience of an Archive, New Europe College, Bucharest, October 26, 2018.
Escape Routes: A proposal for the re-organization of artistic pedagogy at the graduate level, as part of: Phase 3—How We Do Research, Muthesiuns University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, 18 — 20 May, 2017.
The Social Democratic Carnivalesque Part Four: Mom and Jerry, an evening of presentations on art & provocation, Moderna Museet, Malmö, September 28, 2016.
The Ballad of Picasso in Palestine, lecture on my work with the Picasso in Palestine project, Malmö Academy of Art and Valand Academy, University of Gotebörg, September, 2015.
Tiergarten: A Crime Story, as part of the symposium Tiergarten: Landscape of Transgression, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (organized by Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization, Technische Universität Berlin), July 3, 2015.
Working with Allen Sekula (with Christine Würmell), as part of a symposium on the artistic legacy of Allen Sekula, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, August 16 — 17, 2014.
Grants and Awards:
Guest Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, October — December, 2021.
Fellow, Kunstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, 2018 — 2019.
Recipient, research funding, 2016 project funding, nGbK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin.
Recipient, award, 2014 Zed Grant in Artistic Research, Istanbul.
Recipient, stipend and residency, IASPIS, Stockholm, November — January 2014.
Recipient, working grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), fall 2006
Recipient, stipend and residency, DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artists) fellowship, March — June 2006.
