Franz Thalmair

Curator
mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna

Franz Thalmair is a curator, editor, and writer, based in Vienna. He studied Romance philology and linguistics (French, Spanish, and Catalan) in Salzburg, Paris, and Barcelona. From 2007-2010, he was the head of the culture and arts department at derStandard.at, followed by the position of the managing curator at Secession, Vienna (2010-2014). He was the curatorial director of the arts-based research project originalcopy – Post-digital Strategies of Appropriation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Media Theory (2016-2019) and a lecturer at University of Klagenfurt in Visual Culture / Cultural Analysis (2018-2021)

Thalmair writes for media such as Artforum, Kunstforum International, Springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Camera Austria, Eikon, as well as numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues and started as a visiting professor and lecturer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, TransArts – Transdisciplinary Art, in 2013.

Since 2018, he is artistic co-director at Kunstraum Lakeside and became curator for contemporary art at mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna in the following year. He also does freelance curatorial and editorial projects for institutions such as Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, UNAM (Mexico City), Wiels (Brussels), Greylight Projects (Brussels), Karst (Plymouth, UK), Akbank Art Center (Istanbul), Mala Galerija – Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Galerija Galzenica (Velika Gorica) etc.

Franz Thalmair will visit Paris and Lyon on a research trip as part of the exchange with Trampoline Association in 2024.

mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien. Photo: Stefan Oláh