Sabeth Buchmann

Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic based in Berlin and Vienna. She is Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Futher more she is co-editor of PoLyPen – a series on art criticism and political theory (b_books, Berlin), board member of Texte zur Kunst, The European Kunsthalle and the Documenta Institut. Her recent  publications include: Kunst als Infrastruktur (2022), Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022, co-ed. with Martin Beck, Beatrice von Bismarck, and Ilse Lafer ) – based on a collaboration (exhibition and reader) with the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig; Putting Rehearsals to the Test. Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016, co-ed with Constanze Ruhm and Ilse Lafer) – based on a exhibition and film program at the mumok, Vienna, the Leonhard and Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University), the SBC Gallery and VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine in Montréal.  Earlier publications: Textile Theorien der Moderne. Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (co-ed. With Rike Frank, 2015), Hélio Oiticica, Neville D’Almeida and others: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa. London 2013 (co-author: Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz ), and Film Avantgarde Biopolitik , Vienna 2009 (co-ed. with Helmut Draxler and Stephan Geene), Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica, Berlin 2007 (revised PhD) ; Art After Conceptual Art (co ed. with Alexander Alberro), Cambridge/ Mass and Cologne 2006. Sabeth Buchmann was a member of the artist group minimal club (1984–1999).