UNICA, edited by Junia Tiede, Dennis Brzek and Markus Hannebauer, with an introduction by Junia Thiede and Dennis Brzek and texts by Claire Finch, Lisa Jeschke and Luisa Lorenza Corna, Fluentum with DISTANZ, Berlin, 2022. ISBN 978-3-95476-503-4
Ultimate Substance, edited by Annette Südbeck and Tiny Lipsky, with an introduction by András Pálffy and texts by Richard Seaford and Anja Kirschner, Secession, Vienna, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, CentrePasqueArt, Biel with Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86895-223-0
The Empty Plan, edited by Alice Kögel, with an introduction by Alice Kögel and texts by Alice Kögel, Kerstin Stakemeier, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2011. ISBN 978-3-9812986-4-2
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, edited by Polly Staple and Francis McKee, with an introduction by Polly Staple, a text by Francis McKee and a film script by Anja Kirschner, Chisenhale Gallery, London and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow with Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2009. ISBN 978-1-901066-11-1
Baumuster, Anja Kirschner, Nieves Books, Zurich, 2009.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (selection)

Kathy Acker. Get Rid Of Meaning, edited by Anja Casser and Matias Viegener, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2022. ISBN 978-3-7533-0118-1
Illiberal Arts, edited by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt with PoLYpeN, Berlin, 2021. ISBN 978-3-942214-41-4
Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989, edited by Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London and New Haven, 2019. ISBN 978-1-913107-01-7
Post-apocalyptic Realism, edited by Tonio Kröner, Laura Preston and Tanja Widmann, Museum Brandhorst with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018. ISBN 978-3-96098-463-4
Entgrenzter Formalismus: Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik, Kerstin Stakemeier, POLYpeN, Berlin, 2017. ISBN 978-3-942214-17-9
Sculpture on Screen: The Very Impress of the Object, Penelope Curtis, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2017. ISBN 978-989-8758-38-5
Here Is Information. Mobilise. Selected Writings by Ian White, edited by Mike Sperlinger, LUX, London, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9928840-5-5
Animal of The State: Fiction through Reality, edited by Survival Kit, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München with Harmann von Mier Verlag, Munich, 2016. ISBN 978-3-932934-36-0
Moving Image, Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Omar Kholeif, Whitechapel Galley, London, with MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2015. ISBN 978-0-85488-238-0
Cross-Examinations, edited by Mihnea Mircan, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, 2015. ISBN978-94-92321-07-7
Power of Material/Politics of Materiality, edited by Kerstin Stakemeier and Susanne Witzgall, Diaphanes, Berlin, 2014. ISBN 978-3-03734-987-8
Requiem for a Bank, edited by Fabian Saavedra-Lara and Judith Funke, Hardware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, 2014. ISBN 978-3-86206-361-1
Anfang Gut. Alles Gut., edited by Eva Birkenstock, Nina Köller and Kerstin Stakemeier, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86335-144-1
Notes on The Magic of the State, edited by Silvia Sgualdini, Sarah Rifky, Jens Maier-Rothe and Antonia Alampi, Lisson Gallery with Cornerhouse Publications, London 2013. ISBN 978-0-947830-41-0
The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image, edited by Bridget Crone, Intellect, Bristol, 2012. ISBN 978-1-78320-769-5
Nought to Sixty: 60 Projects, 6 Months, edited by Mark Sladen, Richard Birkett, Mason Leaver-Yap, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 2009. ISBN 978-1-900300-59-9

PRESS (selection)

REPRINT: “Lights, Camera, Now-Time! Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands” Marina Vishmidt (2006), selected by Danny Hayward and Kerstin Stakemeier, Moussse #89, Fall 2024
Autonomy’s Double Bind, Rose-Anne Gush, Brand New Life, 7 December 2023
So ist das Gebäude, der Spiegel des Körpers, Steph Holl-Trieu, Texte zur Kunst, 23 September 2022
Re-Orienting Narration: An Interview with Anja Kirschner, Cristina Ramos, Berlin Art Link, 7 July 2022
Anja Kirschner: UNICA, Sam Dolbear, Art Monthly, Issue 458, July-August 2022
Normal People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum Diary, 5 May 2022
Wiederholt es, bis die Katastrophe einen Platz in euch findet. Anja Kirschner bei Fluentum, Maximilian Wahlich, art-in-berlin, 3 May 2022
Die Echtheit der Emotion, Franziska Linhardt, Passe-Avant, 13 Jun 2020
A Feminist Axis, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Art Monthly, Issue 434, Mar 2020
Touching Sights, Bleeding Edges, Anja Kirschner, Florida Magazine, Issue 5: Florida_Beyond, Mar 2019
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning, Hestia Peppe, Afterall, 19 Mar 2019
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning, McKendzie Wark, Brooklyn Rail, 5 Feb 2019
In a Manner of Speaking, Anja Kirschner, Texte zur Kunst, Issue 108, Dec 2017
Anja Kirschner and David Panos - Uncanny Valley, ICA Bulletin, 16 Dec 2013
Anja Kirschner: I'm Frightened. Bring Popcorn, ATPdiary, 27 Nov 2013
The Magic of the State, Mia Jankowicz, Frieze, Issue 156, Jun 2013
The Hunger, Katie Kitamura, Frieze, Issue 156, Jun 2013
Anja Kirschner & David Panos: Ultimate Substance, Els Fiers, Metropolis M, Issue 2, Apr 2013
Schmelzende Münzen, Johannes Paul Raether, Texte zur Kunst, Dec 2012
Art & Politics: A Survey, Part 2, Frieze 12 Sep 2012
After Effects - The Art of Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Marin Herbert, Artforum, May 2012
More than a Feeling: A round-table discussion with artists Ed Atkins, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner and Ben Rivers, Dan Kidner, Frieze, Issue 142, Oct 2011
Anja Kirschner & David Panos: The Empty Plan, John Douglas Millar, Art Monthly, Feb 2011
Interview: Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Saim Demircan, Tank Magazine, Autumn 2010
Jack’s Back! In the Movies at Last!, Peter Linebaugh & A Response to Peter Linebaugh, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Mute, Jan 2010
The Artists’ Artists: Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Susanne M. Winterling, Artforum, Dec 2009
Interview: Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Neil Gray, Variant, Winter 2009
Notes on The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims, Benedict Seymour, Mute, Vol.2 , Issue 13, Autumn 2009
Production: Steven Cairns in conversation with the artists, MAP, Issue 19, Autumn
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Kate Forde, Frieze, Issue 125, Sep 2009
The Bubble Economy, Brian Dillon, New Statesman, 21 May 2009
Artist of the week 40: Anja Kirschner, Jessica Lange, The Guardian, 13 May 2009
Western vérité, Alli Beddoes, Mousse, April/May 2009
Duck! You Regeneration Sucker, Neil Gray, Mute, Spring 2009
On the Ground: London, Emily Pethick, Artforum, Dec 2008
Craven New World, Tom Jennings, Variant, Summer 2008
Offshore Speculation: In conversation: Anja Kirschner, director of Polly II Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Will Fowler, Vertigo, Jan 2007
The Films of 2006, Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight & Sound, Jan 2007
On the Ground: London, Melanie Gilligan, Artforum, Dec 2006
Lights, Camera, Now-Time! - Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Marina Vishmidt, Untitled 36, Autumn 2006.

Poetry Gathering
Soli Poets
Athens School of Fine Art, Rhodos Annex

With Chupan Atashi, Aron Barbier, Eleni Bourou, Maxe Crandall, Helen Dimos, Ezzo Scourti, mkx, Blaise Kirschner, William Rowe, Caterina Stamou, Tonia Tzirita-Zacharatou, Alci Zalavras.

Organised by mkx with Ari Banias.

Workshop
Exile Poetry
Blaise Kirschner

The poet Viktoria Theodorou was a political prisoner on Trikeri island following the Greek Civil War. Theodorou's poems in Η ΕΚΔΡΟΜΗ (The Excursion, 1973) describe her return to Trikeri 20 years later and recall events and scenes from the prison camp. The first part of the workshop explores the spatial and temporal proximities and dislocations performed by the poems to mark the loss of poems secretly written during imprisonment, while simultaneously retrieving some of their contents. The second part of the workshop delineates the task of translating the poems from Greek to English.

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29-31 January 2025

Workshop
Marina’s Cues: Infrastructures of Disalienation
The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

With Maria Chehonadskih, Louisa Lorenza Corna, Sam Dolbear, Melanie Gilligan, Larne Abse Gogarty, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Lizzie Homersham, Anthony Iles, Blaise Kirschner, Demetra Kotouza, Karolin Meunier, Avigail Moss, Alexei Penzin, Kerstin Stakemeier, Zoe Sutherland.

Workshop organised by Kerstin Stakemeier, LIAS Associate Fellow and Danny Hayward, LIAS Artist Fellow.

This public workshop brings together fifteen international writers, artists and poets whose work developed with that of the writer, editor, and critic Marina Vishmidt (1976-2024): producing with her, organising with her, being in conversation with her, sharing their lives with her.

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28 November 2023

Workshop
In the rooms, corridors and streets of the body
as part of Reproduction and its Discontents
IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz

The workshop departs from Blaise Kirschner's film UNICA (2022), which developed out of an in-depth engagement with the work of the artist and writer Unica Zürn. It analyses Zürn's drawing “Plan of the House of Illnesses,” which depicts Zürn’s body and its institutionalisation as one formation: a two-dimensional floor plan of a hospital, with its chambers and halls formed of body parts and organs, that both constitute and house the speaking self (alongside doctors, guards and enemies). Against a biocentric conception of the body as an organic and anatomically bounded entity, the “Plan of the House of Illnesses” thus offers a mapping of its biocultural emergence and antagonisms, incorporating elements that precede, coincide with, and exceed individual lifespans.

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8 December 2020

Workshop
Page to Picture! Screenwriting for Artists
Goldsmiths, University of London, London

The practical and theoretical workshop is designed for artists working in the moving image who want to develop screenwriting as an integral part of their practice. It introduces basic screenwriting rules alongside approaches to screenwriting outside of conventional formats, and looks at how those may be adapted for the specific needs of a range of artists' moving image projects, using examples from Kirschner's work and that of other artists, writers, choreographers and directors.

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3 - 7 February 2020

Workshop
Gamic Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to Machinima as Artistic Strategy
Piet Zwart Institute/Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

Machinima means using and manipulating computer game technology in order to make films and videos. Originating in gamer culture this technique has been increasingly appropriated by contemporary artists, probing the virtualisation and gamification of life in late liberalism.

This workshop introduces practical and theoretical approaches to post-cinematic media and virtual worlds, resulting in the production of collaborative video works, woven from computer animation and observational footage.

It draws on Kirschner’s research into immersion as well as films and videos by Chen Zhou, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Jacky Connolly and others who have explored deeply personal and wider social phenomena, often counterintuitively mixing machinima with observational documentary elements.

The aim is to make the world of videogames open for investigation to players and non-players and seek to draw wider connections between technology and personhood and the modulation of contemporary life through games and simulations.

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20 - 24 January 2020

Workshop
Cinematic Objects
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe

Based on videos by Rachel Reupke, Romily Alice Walden, Hanna Rullmann and Faiza Ahmad Khan and other artists, this workshop deals with the filmic staging of objects, things and matter, linked to queer, feminist and decolonial approaches to materialisms, ecologies and non-humanisms (Dana Luciano, Claire Colebrook, Sylvia Wynter).

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4 November 2019

Seminar
"Technology is not neutral, and there is no virtual world."
Piet Zwart Institute/Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

The seminar focuses on how seemingly immaterial, digital technologies need to be thought in material terms, using examples from science fiction, gaming and moving image and linking these to decolonial and queer-feminist debates.

The history of technology from antiquity to the 21st century is also that of mining, slavery and ‘surplus populations’, of uprisings on earth and in space. Here political action repeatedly comes up against the question of its reality: Should you swallow the red or the blue pill? Are you on a psychotic 'ego trip' or on the way to a revolutionary consciousness? Woman or machine?

Put differently: would it be more effective to refuse to think in binary terms about realities and virtualities, organisms and technologies? Has not the cyber-utopianism of the 1990s failed, insofar as it merely imagined the net as an unregulated revolutionary space? What is the bias of technology in 2049? Can technê and technology be conceived as universal? And will all these questions still be relevant in 2098, when Usha Adebaran-Sagar graduates in Exoanthropology at ISS Multiversity?

Departing from Louis Chude-Sokei's discussion of "Caribbean Pre-Posthumanism" in relation to Sylvia Wynter, and Claire Colebrook's writing on artificiality and extinction, the seminar focuses on the critique and complication of current new materialist and posthumanist discourses through queer-feminist and critical race theory.

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5 November 2019

Seminar
Navigating the Virtual
Piet Zwart Institute/Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

This seminar considers immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and other digital simulations (in gaming, training and design), not as ‘neutral’ technologies for modelling physical reality, but as technologies that have emerged from the military-entertainment-research complex and are actively shaping the physical world and modulating affects, behaviours and dispositions within it.

Drawing on Harun Farocki’s exploration of digital animation and Virtual Reality exposure therapy and the way these inform recent theoretical texts on navigating the virtual (by Tom Holert, Pasi Väliaho, Orit Halpern), it explores the politics of virtuality, artificiality and survival (Claire Colebrook).

In particular, it focuses on the rise of dominant navigational paradigms and what the visual culture theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff has called decolonial countervisuality, or the right to look, which “refuses to allow authority to suture its interpretation of the sensible to power, first as law and then as the aesthetic.”

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Academic Year 2018/2019

Seminar
Radical Matter
Royal College of Art, London

As a member of the RCA research community, Kirschner co-taught the “Radical Matter” seminars lead by her PhD supervisor Prof. Johnny Golding. The seminars introduce MA students in the Arts and Humanities to foundational texts and recent critical theory on matter and technology, with an emphasis on quantum physics, digital poetics and artifical intelligences (Karen Barad, Matteo Pasquinelli, Orit Halpern, Luciana Parisi, Louis Chude-Sokei, Black Quantum Futurism, N. Katherine Hayles, Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon, Nils Bohr, Alan Turing).

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26 April - 1 May 2018

Seminar
Szenerie Als Protagonistin (Scenery as Protagonist) II
School of Applied Arts Vienna, Class of Tanja Widmann

Through examples from the artistic practice of Kirschner and others in the field of moving image (Zhou Chen, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Basma Alsharif, Karrabing Film Collective, Eric Baudelaire, Masao Adachi) the life of props, landscapes and interiors is illustrated and theoretically linked to discourses that deal with queer and feminist approaches to new materialisms, ecology and the non-human (Johnny Golding, Karen Barad, N. Katherine Hayles, Elisabeth A. Povinelli, Dana Luciano).

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8 February 2018

Public Lecture and Workshop
"Technology is not neutral, and there is no virtual world."
Academy of Fine Arts Munich

The lecture and workshop address how seemingly immaterial, digital technologies need to be thought in material and decolonial terms, using examples from science fiction, gaming and moving image, departing from to Louis Chude-Sokei's book The Sound of Culture, Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2016).

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18 - 22 December 2017

Seminar
Szenerie Als Protagonistin (Scenery as Protagonist) I
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Class of Anja Dorn

The seminar pursues strategies and approaches for experimental film scenography in which the scenery is in the foreground and acts as the actual protagonist. Starting from the three focal points of landscape, interior and object, a double question is explored, namely, how can a thinking, feeling and acting subject be portrayed by (supposedly) inanimate objects and how does such a portrait destabilise and expand the conventional conception of the subject itself?

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2017

Workshop
Page to Picture! Screenwriting for Artists
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Class of Angela Melitopoulos

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23-25 February 2017

Masterclass
SUPERLUX Masterclass with Anja Kirschner
Glasgow Film Festival in association with LUX, Scotland

Workshop
SUPERLUX Workshop with Anja Kirschner:
Page to Picture! Screenwriting for Artists
Glasgow Film Festival in association with LUX, Scotland

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16-17 February 2017

Workshop
Professional Practice: Screenwriting for Artists with Anja Kirschner
LUX, London

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2015

Workshop
Schreiben um Gedreht zu Werden (Writing for Shooting)
GEGENkino und Klasse Expanded Cinema, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Leipzig

Symposium
Collective Agency in the Era of Authoritarian Automation
REMESO, Linköping University, and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

With lectures by Matteo Pasquinelli, Jonathan Beller, Esther Leslie and interventions by Karin Krifors, Blaise Kirschner, Axel Gagge.

Organised by Stefan Jonsson and Anna Ådahl.

Intervention
Topographies of Resistance
Blaise Kirschner

I share my current research on ΣΤΡΑΤΟΠΕΔΑ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ (Women’s Camps, 1976), a collective account of political imprisonment on the island of Trikeri, secretly written by a group of exiles in the wake of the Greek Civil War, alongside reflections on Unica Zürn’s illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958), in which Zürn conceives of her body and her institutionalisation as one formation. Reading both texts with attention to how resistance to pathologisation and political re-education are figured in relation to architectures and landscape as both violent and resistant continuations of individual and collective bodies, I speculate on how such figurations can inform a present imaginary and praxis of collective agency in the face of technologically and algorithmically enhanced authoritarianisms.

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30 October – 1 November 2024

Conference
As We May See: Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki
Seminar für Filmwissenschaft der Universität Zürich und des ZKK - Zentrums Künste und Kulturtheorie (UZH and ZHdK), Zurich.

With Johannes Binotto, Noam Elcott, Anselm Franke, Tom Holert, Ute Holl, Blaise Kirschner, Occitane Lacurie, Kevin B. Lee, Laliv Melamed, Doreen Mende, Roland Meyer, Katja Müller-Helle, Clio Nicastro, Volker Pantenburg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal a.o.

Organised by Volker Pantenburg and Roland Meyer in collaboration with Anselm Franke (ZHdK), Ute Holl (Universität Basel), Kevin B. Lee (Università della Svizzera italiana) and the Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin (Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, Clio Nicastro, Elsa de Seynes).

Public Lecture
The Haunting of Image-Systems
Blaise Kirschner and Anselm Franke

Harun Farocki's interest in image systems was above all an interest in the historical relationship between social struggles, technologies, myths and systems of domination. Taking Farocki and Sylvia Wynter as their point of departure, the artist Blaise Kirschner and the author and curator Anselm Franke examine the current reproduction and reconfiguration of the worldmaking, ‘mythopoeitic’ function of modern and a-modern image systems: materials for the anatomy of a newly consolidating fascism.

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23 November 2023

Public Lecture
Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dr. Blaise Kirschner
The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm

In My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Kathy Acker writes: “To substitute space for time. What’s this mean? I’m not talking about death. Death isn’t my province… Myself or any occurrence is a city through which I can wander if I stop judging.”

Acker’s substitution of space for time deborders the self and renders its anatomical arrangement (as body) into an architectural and social one (as city). Narration gives way to navigation, as the speaking self no longer moves through time, but through the spatialisation of its specific individuation. If this formulation seems abstract, then a drawing by Unica Zürn illustrates it concretely. Entitled “Plan of the House of Illnesses” it depicts Zürn’s body and its institutionalisation as one formation: a two-dimensional floor plan of a hospital, with its chambers and halls formed of body parts and organs, that both constitute and house the speaking self (alongside doctors, guards and enemies). Against a biocentric conception of the body as an organic and anatomically bounded entity, the “Plan of the House of Illnesses” thus offers a mapping of its biocultural emergence and antagonisms, incorporating elements that precede, coincide with, and exceed individual lifespans.

Analogously to Acker’s proposed substitution of space for time and Zürn’s body-building, what would it mean to imagine the movement of moving image (primarily considered a time-based medium) not as a movement through time, but rather as a movement through space? What if a film is approached as a form of environment, rather than a form of narration? What can be learned from related, post-cinematic media, such as gaming and VR simulations, in which filmic montage is replaced by navigation through computationally constructed space, as Alexander Galloway and Harun Farocki have so extensively theorised? And what are the technical and conceptual limitations of computer simulations and avatars when confronted with Acker’s and Zürn’s ‘both/and’ figurations of self and environment in text and image?

Working with and through these propositions, Blaise Kirschner’s inaugural lecture develops a post-cinematic poetics of the moving image that attends to the ways in which something like a body and something like an environment are formed, in order to disrupt the codes and violences that perpetuate themselves in and through such formations.

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6 Juli 2023

Public Lecture
Riemschneider-Curator-Series with Anselm Franke, Guest: Blaise Kirschner
State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe

Blaise Kirschner's lecture centres on their film UNICA (2022), which deals with the mechanisms of immersion in the post-cinematic visual worlds of computer games. The post-apocalyptic landscapes, in which digital avatars have to assert themselves against a hostile environment, are set in relation to Unica Zürn's illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958) and the post-Nazi renaturalised Schuttberge (mounts made from the debris of WWII ruins) on the outskirts of Berlin. The introduction by Anselm Franke and the subsequent discussion focuses on the (in)legibility of the stories of violence inscribed in the present, on the body as a battlefield, and on the question - structuring this year's series - of the cosmological codes of the present, of apocalypse and rebirth and symbolic life and symbolic death, and their figurations in popular culture.

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28-30 April 2022

Symposium
Abstraction and Economy
Department of Art & Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

With adO/Aptive collective, Clemens Apprich, Gerald Bast, Brenna Bhandar, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Karel Císař, Patricia Grzonka, Gabriele Jutz, Eva Kernbauer, Blaise Kirschner, Sven Lütticken, Falke Pisano, Cauleen Smith, Beat Weber, Rebecca H. Quaytman.

Organised by Eva Maria Stadler and Jenni Tischer.
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17-18 March 2021

Symposium
Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care
In memory of Marion von Osten
Art Institute HGK FHNW, Basel

With Maria Thereza Alves, Ursula Biemann, Regina Bittner, Katya García-Antón, Anja Kirschner, Kapwani Kiwanga, Maria Lind, Otobong Nkanga, Lydia Ourahmane, Myriam Amroun, Filipa Ramos, Kerstin Stakemeier, Yvonne Volkart, Peter Spillmann.

Organised by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer.
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22-24 November 2018

Symposium
Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

With Dodie Bellamy, Hanjo Berressem, Ruth Buchanan, Georgina Colby, Leslie Dick & Audrey Wollen, Claire Finch, Johnny Golding, Anja Kirschner, Douglas A. Martin, Jason McBride, Karolin Meunier & Kerstin Stakemeier, Daniel Schulz, McKenzie Wark.

Organised by Matias Viegener and Anja Casser.
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3 June 2018

Symposium
Vision's Bleeding Edge:
On nonhuman vision, liquid and crystal intelligence and AI
Royal College of Art, London

Talks by Esther Leslie and Joanna Zylinska. Performances and videos by Anna Ådahl, Anja Kirschner, Lawrence Lek, Mayra Martin Ganzinotti, Anna Nazo, Emma Somerset Davis, Adam J B Walker.

Organised by SOAH Researchers Anja Kirschner, Mayra Martin Ganzinotti, Anna Nazo, Emma Somerset Davis and Adam J B Walker with Aura Satz.
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14 December 2017

Symposium
ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
Hidden Forms of Directing
tranzitdisplay, Prague

With Jana Baierová, Zuzana Blochová, Jan Bernard, Michal Bregant, Mikuláš Brukner, Barbora Dayef, Bracha L. Ettinger, Šárka Gmiterková, Linda Hauerová, Libuše Heczková, Anna Hejmová, Edith Jeřábková, Jesse Jones, Tereza Kanyzová, Anja Kirschner, Jan Kolský, Kateřina Konvalinová, Francis McKee, Ruth Noack, Matěj Pavlík, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Johannes Paul Raether, Michaela Režová, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Sláva Sobotovičová, Kateřina Svatoňová, Tomáš Uhnák, Marina Vishmidt.

Organised by Zuzana Blochová and Edith Jeřábková with Anja Kirschner.
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16 May - 13 June 2017

Lecture Series
Die Zukunft des Vergangenen. Moderne im Spiegel der Gegenwartskunst / The Future of the Past. Modernity in the Mirror of Contemporary Art
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main

With Florian Pumhösl, Asier Mendizabal, Anja Kirschner, Laura Horelli.

Organised by Sebastian Mühl.
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21-23 April 2017

Conference and programme of screenings and performances
Speak, body:
Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
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20-22 April 2017

Symposium
Media Revolutions/Mediale Revolutionen
Academy of Fine Art Hamburg

With Klaus Birnstiel, Jodi Dean, Diedrich Diederichsen, Bernhard Dotzler, Arnold Dreyblatt, Yuk Hui, Anja Kirschner, Peter Osborne, Dont Rhine/Ultra Red, Kerstin Stakemeier.
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17-18 March 2017

Talks, screenings and performances
Post-Apocalyptic Realism:
It’s After the End of the World. Don’t You Know That?
Museum Brandhorst, Munich

With Juan Atkins, Jacky Connolly, Helmut Draxler, Georgia Sagri, Hassan Khan, Anja Kirschner, Nina Könnemann, Dana Luciano, Inka Meißner, Robert Müller and Tanja Widmann, Michael Smith, Peter Wächtler, Jutta Zimmermann.

Curated by Tanja Widmann and Tonio Kröner.
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28-30 October 2016

Symposium
WE NEED YOUR CARKEYS! The Horizons of Horror
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede

With Anselm Franke, Bracha L. Ettinger, Melanie Bonajo and Laboria Cuboniks (Diann Bauer, Helen Hester).

Organised by Sam Basu, Anke Hennig and Anja Kirschner.
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9 June – 30 July 2016

Exhibition and research project
5 Uneasy Pieces + An Open Investigation
UM gallery, UMPRUM Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague

With Adam Chodzko, Stephan Dillemuth and UMPRUM students, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Anja Kirschner, Nova Melancholia with Dora Economou.

Curated by Anja Kirschner and organised by Are.
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4 March 2015

Interdisciplinary lecture series, screenings and performances
Are You Alive Or Not?
Looking at Art through the Lens of Theatre (Act 1, Scene 6)
Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academy

With Clare Butcher, Klaas Tindemans, Anja Kirschner.
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17-39 October 2014

Symposium
Psycho Materialism
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede

With Kerstin Brätsch/Debo Eilers, Helmut Draxler, Johnny Golding, Anja Kirschner, Benjamin Noys, Johannes Paul Raether, Juliane Rebentisch and Kerstin Stakemeier.

Organised by Tim Voss and Kerstin Stakemeier.
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12-16 November 2013

Symposium, Screenings and Workshop
I'm Frightened. Bring Popcorn.
Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome

With Dario Argento, Enrico Ghezzi, Marco Greganti, Douglas Mortimer Collective, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Valerio Di Simone.

Organised by Anja Kirschner.
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19 March 2013

Artist's talk
Movie lights switching on and erasing the image or illuminating darkness
Beirut, Cairo

Organised by Sarah Rifky, Antonia Alampi and Jens Maier-Rothe
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26-27 January 2013

Symposium
Art as a Form of Crisis
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Organised by Kerstin Stakemeier and Sophie Golz.
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10 January 2013

Interdisciplinary lecture series
Power of Material/Politics of Materiality:
The (Im)materiality of the Economy
cx centre for interdisciplinary studies, Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Organised by Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier.
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7-8 June 2010


Symposium
WHEN HISTORICAL

Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

Organised by Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai.

Exhibition
έξω φρενών από ευχαρίστηση/outraged by pleasure
'Nobel' Building, cultural space of the municipality of Chalandri, Athens

With Antoinetta Angelidi, Patricia Apergi & Aerites Dance Company, Tosh Basco, The Callas (Lakis Ionas & Aris Ionas), Daglara, Sofia Dona, Navine G. Dossos with James Bridle, Georgia Fambris, Family Business, iLiana Fokianaki (with Danae Io, Harun Farocki, Mary Zygouri), FYTA, Ιoanna Gerakidi (with Yianna Charachlianni, Leah Clements, Anna Savvatopoulou), Pinelopi Gerasimou, Hypercomf, Dimitris Ioannou, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou (with Pegy Zali, Sofoklis Koutsourelis, Panagiotis Lianos), Athina Koumparouli, Lito Kattou, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Blaise Kirschner, Katerina Komianou, Konstantinos Ladianos, LALA, Kostas Lambridis, Iris Lykourioti, Irini Miga, Rashaad Newsome, Nionia Films (Maria F. Dolores, Sofia Dona, Alkisti Efthymiou, Smaro Papaevangelou), Malvina Panagiotidi, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Eva Papamargariti, Agnieszka Polska, Filipa Ramos, Teos Romvos & Chara Pelekanou, Kostas Sfikas, Gabriella Simossi, Panos Sklavenitis, Kostis Stafylakis & Theo Triantafyllidis, Nancy Stamatopoulou (with Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, Makis Faros, Tassos Vrettos), Eva Stefani, Valinia Svoronou, Temporary Academy of Arts, Eleni Tomadaki, Thanassis Totsikas, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou / Bunny, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis), Marina Velisioti, Nikos Velmos, Hypatia Vourloumis (with Jackie Abhulimen, Eleni Ikoniadou, Maria Sideri, Taka Taka), Iria Vrettou, Rea Walldén, Marie Wilson-Valaoritis (with Zoe Valaoritis & Katerina Valaoritis).

Curated by Nadja Agyropoulou.
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22 April - 10 September 2023

Exhibition
Illiberal Lives
Ludwig Forum, Aachen

With Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, Jordan Strafer, a.o.

Curated by Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten and Kerstin Stakemeier

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1 March 2023

Screening
Haunted Engines: UNICA and Other Films from Computer Generated Worlds
BFI Southbank, London

Curated by Will Fowler.

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26 October 2022

Screening
Double Feature
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

Curated by Matthias Ulrich.

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27 April - 16 July 2022

Solo Exhibition
UNICA
Fluentum, Berlin

Curated by Junia Thiede and Dennis Brzek.Commissioned and co-produced by Fluentum.

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Launched on 27 April 2022 - ongoing

Online
ANIMATEASSEMBLY.ORG

With Ramon Amaro, Ama Josephine Budge, Federico Campagna, Rebecca Carson, Mike Cooter, Kazuhiro Goshima, Minori Ishida, Gabriele Jutz, Roshanak Kheshti, Joon Yang Kim, Anja Kirschner, Kyoo Lee (Q), Deborah Levitt, Ruth Maclennan, Sara Mameni, Miltos Manetas, Angela Melitopoulos, Jonathan Miles, W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Newman, Nikolaus Perneczky, Lea Porsager, Pete Jiadong Qiang, Marie-France Raphael, Paul Roquet, Kohei Saito, Caroline Sebilleau, Tomoko Tamari, Ueno Toshiya, Jalal Toufic.

ANIMATE ASSEMBLY is organised by Verina Gfader, Anke Hennig, Esther Leslie and Edgar Schmitz.

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11 September - 21 November 2021

Exhibition
Illiberal Arts
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

With Ho Rui An, Raven Chacon, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Cut away, with effects (2021), Övül Durmuşoğlu, Bill Dietz, Stephan Dillemuth, Thomas Eggerer, Frank Engster, Ciarán Finlayson, keyon gaskin, Melanie Gilligan, Larne Abse Gogarty, Nicholas Grafia, Tamar Guimarães, Danny Hayward, Johanna Hedva, Anne Imhof, Lisa Jeschke, Karrabing Film Collective, Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby, Anja Kirschner, Dani Leder, Rosalind C. Morris, MYSTI, Jota Mombaça, Jenny Nachtigall, Henrike Naumann, Fumi Okiji, Casandra Press, Steve Reinke, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Mikołaj Sobczak, Juliana Spahr, Jordan Strafer, Sunset Open Call (Kasi Althaus, Andrea Victoria Paradiso, Elena Peters Arnolds, Denise Pinnell, Christin Rothe, Suzie Sullivan, Kathy Seitzinger Hepburn, Amy Sutryn, Rosana Van Horn, Laura L. LePere, Aude Lèvere), Orakel, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Marina Vishmidt, Philip Wiegard, Kandis Williams, Simone White, Constantina Zavitsanos.

Curated by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier.

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21 May - 12 June 2021

Online screening
The Telling Image
Estuary 2021, Thames Estuary

With Jem Cohen, Anja Kirschner, Eelyn E Lee, Gideon Mendel, Hannah Oliver, Stanley Schtinter, Sarah Wood & Ali Smith, Morgan Quaintance.

Curated by Gareth Evans.

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16 July - 23 August 2020

Open air screening
20 Sunsets: Kino
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

With Heba Y. Amin, James Benning, Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki, Filipa César, Denis Coté, Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy, Stephan Geene, Adamu Halilu, Thomas Heise, Armin Linke, Anja Kirschner, Daniel Kötter & Constanze Fischbeck, Maha Maamoun, Trinh T. Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier, Hila Peleg, Stefan Römer, Philip Scheffner, Werner Schroeter, Ibrahim Shaddad, Wael Shawky, Shelly Silver, Kidlat Tahimik, Firas Taybeh, Akram Zaatari.

Curated by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art.

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17 - 19 July 2020

Screening
Under the Ground
Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon

With Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Gary Beydler, Ursula Biemann, Louis Henderson, Karrabing Film Collective, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Sandra Lahire, Basim Magdy, Nicholas Mangan, Toshio Matsumoto, Lisa Rave.

Curated by Sara Castelo Branco and Hugo de Almeida Pinho.

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24 - 28 June 2020

Online screening
metakino #5: economy
metakino, Helsinki

With Veikko Aaltonen, Richard Brouillette, Josef Dabernig, Harun Farocki, René Frölke, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Pere Portabella, William E. Jones, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Lotte Schreiber, Hito Steyerl, Matthew C. Wilson, Sebastian Winkels.

Curated by Hannu Nuotio.

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29 May - 28 August 2020

Online screening
Kino Siemensstadt: The image of the city in the cinematic space
Scharaun, Berlin

With Filipa César, Ofir Feldman, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Dani Gal, Andy Graydon, Claire Hooper, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Nina Könnemann, Knut Klassen & Carsten Krohn, Korpys/Loeffler, Sophie Nys, Mario Pfeifer, Anri Sala, Amie Siegel, Shingo Yoshida, Tobias Zielony.

Curated by Olaf Stüber und Jaro Straub.

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4 May - 14 June 2020

Exhibition
Anja Kirschner & David Panos:
Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances
Kunstverein München, Munich

Curated by Gloria Hasnay.

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16 January 2019

Screenings, Performances
Ian White: Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object
Arsenal, Berlin

With Rosa Barba, Rainer Bellenbaum & Megan Francis Sullivan, Scott Caruth, Guillaume Cailleau & Timo Kreuser, Martin Ebner, Anja Kirschner, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Klaus Weber, Sam Williams and Florian Zeyfang.

Curated by Anne Breimaier

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5 October - 2 December 2018

Exhibition
Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

With Eleanor Antin, Alan Benson, Ruth Buchanan, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Kathy Brew, Kaucyila Brooke, William S. Burroughs, Jonathan Dawson, Michel Delsol, Leslie Dick & Audrey Wollen, Diane DiMassa & Freddie Baer, Michael du Plessis, Michael Hemmingson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Gary Indiana, Anja Kirschner, Robert Kushner, Olivia Laing, Marcus Leatherdale, Sylvère Lotringer, Jackson Mac Low, Jo Mazellis, The Mekons, Karolin Meunier, Ulrike Müller, Lil Picard, Jill Posener, Steve Pyke, Val Rauzier, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Carolee Schneemann, Alan Sondheim, Kika Thorne, Cesar Vallejo, Del LaGrace Volcano.

Curated by Matias Viegener and Anja Casser.

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14 July - 26 August 2018

Solo exhibition
New Genres
kunstbunker, Nuremberg

Curated by Hans-Jürgen Hafner.

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25 May - 10 June 2018

Exhibition
Acropolis at the Bottom
Athens School of Fine Art, Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Hall, Athens

With Dimitris Andreadis, Andreas Angelidakis, Aristides Antonas, Katerina Apostolidou, Nikos Arvanitis, ath1281, Christos Athanassiadis, Anastasia Ax, Vicky Betsou, Panos Charalambous, Thalia Chioti, Vaggelis Choursoglou, Costas Christopoulos, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Prinz Gholam, Anestis Ioannou, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Hiwa K, Anton Kats, Em Kei, Antonis Kiourktsis, Anja Kirschner, Ioanna Kostika, Konstantinos Kotsis, Varvara Liakounakou, Caroline May, Malvina Panagiotidi, David Panos, Panos Papadopoulos, Angelo Plessas, Socratis Socratous, Theofilos Tramboulis, Alexandros Tzannis, Dimitra Vamiali, Jannis Varelas, Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

Curated by Katerina Nikou.

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15 May - 10 June 2018

Exhibition
Film London Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade
Whitechapel Gallery, London

With previous Jarman Award winners Luke Fowler, Lindsay Seers, Emily Wardill, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, James Richards, John Smith, Ursula Mayer, Seamus Harahan, Heather Phillipson and Oreet Ashery, alongside films commissioned from shortlisted artists by Channel 4.

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2 May 2018

Book Presentation and Screening
A Deborderd Formalism
mumok, Vienna

Screening of an excerpt of Moderation (Anja Kirschner, 2017) in the context of a presentation of Kerstin Stakemeier's book Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik (A Debordered Formalism. Methods of Antimodernist Aesthetics); followed by a conversation with Kerstin Stakemeier, Helmut Draxler and Anja Kirschner.

Moderated by Manuela Ammer.

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23 February-17 June 2018

Exhibition
You Remind Me of Someone
49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine, Metz

With Naama Arad, Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Stefanie Knobel, Nicolas Party, Marie Voignier, Nicole Wermers, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Manon de Boer, Boris Ondreicka, Jiri Skala.

Curated by Fanny Gonela.

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14 December 2017 – 21 February 2018

Exhibition
ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
Yeti – Wear the Amulet – Tangle Up the Archive
tranzitdisplay, Prague

With Mikuláš Brukner, Barbora Dayef, Daniela & Linda Dostálková, Bracha L. Ettinger, Jesse Jones, Tereza Kanyzová, Anja Kirschner, Jan Kolský, Kateřina Konvalinová, Ester Krumbachová, Kris Lemsalu, Marie Lukáčová, New Noveta, Matěj Pavlík, Johannes Paul Raether, Michaela Režová, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Sláva Sobotovičová.

Curated by Zuzana Blochová and Edith Jeřábková with Anja Kirschner.

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14 November 2017 - 28 January 2018

Exhibition
Wie werden wir uns wiedererkennen
Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen

With Naama Arad, Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Stefanie Knobel, Nicolas Party, Marie Voignier, Nicole Wermers.

Curated by Fanny Gonela.

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8 November 2017 - 28 January 2018

Exhibition, Perfomances and Screenings
Box with the Sound of Its Own Making
Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest

With Geert Goiris, Susanne Kriemann, Fabio Mauri, Philip Metten, Phillip Warnell, Sarah Browne, Erik Bünger, Ho Rui An, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sarah Browne, Erik Bünger, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Josef Dabernig, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Daria Martin, Laure Prouvost, Anri Sala, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Phillip Warnell, Bedwyr Williams, John Williamson.

Curated by Mihnea Mircan.

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13 June - 2 October 2017

Exhibition
Sculpture on Screen. The Very Impress of the Object
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

With Rosa Barba, Mark Lewis, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Fiona Tan, Anja Kirschner & David Panos.

Curated by Penelope Curtis.

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22 March - 21 May 2017

Exhibition
Paratoxic Paradoxes
Benaki Museum, Athens

With Loukia Alavanou, Sophia Al Maria, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Vasilis P. Karouk, Anja Kirschner, Eva Kotatkova, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Eva Papamargariti, Agnieszka Polska, Mika Rottenberg, Wu Tsang.

Curated by Nadja Agyropoulou.

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10 February - 21 May 2017

Exhibition
Who Pays?
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

With Ovidiu Anton, Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, Susanne Bosch, Marcel Broodthaers, Filipa César, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Diango Hernández, Thomas Hirschhorn, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Alicja Kwade, Thomas Lehnerer, Mark Lombardi, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Christof Salzmann.

Curated by Christiane Mayer-Stoll.

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17 & 18 March 2017

Event series
Post-Apocalyptic Realism:
It’s After the End of the World. Don’t You Know That?
Museum Brandhorst, Munich

With Juan Atkins, Jacky Connolly, Helmut Draxler, Georgia Sagri, Hassan Khan, Anja Kirschner, Nina Könnemann, Dana Luciano, Inka Meißner, Robert Müller and Tanja Widmann, Michael Smith, Peter Wächtler, Jutta Zimmermann.

Curated by Tanja Widmann and Tonio Kröner.

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29 September 2016 - 29 January 2017

Exhibition
ATLAS of the ruins OF EUROPE
CentroCentro, Madrid

With Abbé de Saint-Non, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Jules Andrieu, Iván Argote, Kader Attia, Babi Badalov, George Bailey, Erick Beltrán, Jeremy Bentham, William Blake, Arthur T. Bolton, Antonio Bosio, Johann F. Blumenbach, Pablo Bronstein, Jacques Callot, Marie-Antoine Carême, Carl Gustav Carus, C.A.S.I.T.A., Giovanni Battista da’ Cavalieri, Hyeronymus Cock & Joannes van Doetechum, Francesco Colonna, Conde de Caylus, Alfonso Chacón, Édouard Dangin, Marco Dente, Dept. of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, Louis Jean Deprez , Wendel Dietterlin, Edmund Engelmann, Vincenzo Feoli, Esther Ferrer, Forensic Architecture, Ernst Friedrich, Sigmund Freud , Paolo Fumagalli, Simón García, Joseph Gandy, Leah Gordon, Francisco de Goya, Adelita Husni Bey, William Hogarth, Abel Jaramillo, Jeleton, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Karl August Kruger, Jacques Philippe Le Bas, Le Corbusier, Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, Julien-David Le Roy, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Alexandre Lenoir, Alphonse Liébert, Pirro Ligorio, Philibert de L’Orme, Crisóstomo Martínez, Charles Marville, Irene Mohedano, Filippo Morghen & Antonio Joli, Antoni Muntadas, Uriel Orlow, Abraham Ortelius, José Ortiz y Sanz, Andrea Palladio, Martin Parr, Benjamin Péret, François Perrier, Richard Peter, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Diego del Pozo, Quatremère de Quincy, Man Ray, Pedro José Márquez, Jorge Ribalta, Charles James Richardson, André Romao, Pedro G. Romero, Hrair Sarkisian, Diego de Sagrado, W. G. Sebald, Sebastiano Serlio, Vladislav Shapovalov, Alfred Speer, Paulo Tavares, Giorgio Vasari, Andrea Vesalio, Marco Vitruvio Polión, Viollet-le-Duc, Conde de Volney, J.J. Winckelmann.

Curated by Julia Morandeira and José Riello.

BLAISE KIRSCHNER (they/them) is an artist who primarily works in the moving image. Kirschner’s films and video installations draw on histories from below, popular genres and speculative fiction and examine how socio-political, economic and ecological ruptures, and the fantasies and fears animated by them, are encoded in cultural forms.

Kirschner has widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Secession (Vienna), Chisenhale Gallery (London), Extra City (Antwerp), NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin) and CCA - Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) and group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), Benaki Museum (Athens), HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Whitechapel Gallery (London) and others.

They were the winner of the prestigious Jarman Award in 2011 and participated in the British Art Show (2011), the Liverpool Biennial (2012) and the Athens Biennale (2009, 2013) as well as many film festivals, including the 60th BFI London Film Festival, 57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 66th Berlinale and the 53rd and 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Their films are distributed by LUX and held in the British Film Institute Artists’ Moving Image Collection (both London), and the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin), and private collections.

Since 2023 Blaise Kirschner is a Professor in Fine Art with Focus on Moving Image at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Between 2013 to 2016 they co-led the DAAD-funded educational and artistic research programme Survival Kit, a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Athens School of Fine Art, and were part of a team of artistic mentors and students who initiated and ran Circuits and Currents, the project space of the Athens School of Fine Art.

CV

EDUCATION

PhD Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London,
Supervisors: Prof. Johnny Golding, Prof. Kerstin Stakemeier (2017-2022)
LUX Associate Artists Programme, London (2008-2009)
Foreign Study Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000)
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London (1998-2002)

AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND GRANTS

TECHNE AHRC PhD Studentship (2017-2022)
Fluentum Art Commission (2021)
PCAI Art Commission (2015)
Winner of the Jarman Award (2011)
Shortlisted for the Jarman Award (2009)
FLAMIN Productions Award (2009)
Henry Moore Foundation Grant (2008)
Elephant Trust Awards (2008 – 2013 – 2015)
LAFVA London Artists Film and Video Award (2007)
Arts Council Grants for the Arts (2003 – 2006 – 2009 – 2012)

RESIDENCIES

Beirut Artists’ Research Residency, Cairo (2013)
Visual Arts Creative Development Residency, Cove (2008)

EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS (selection)

2023
GROUP EXHIBITION:
Illiberal Lives, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
έξω φρενών από ευχαρίστηση/outraged by pleasure, 'Nobel' Building, cultural space of the municipality of Chalandri, Athens

SCREENING:
Haunted Engines: UNICA and Other Films from Computer Generated Worlds, BFI Southbank, London

2022
SOLO EXHIBITION:
UNICA, Fluentum, Berlin

SCREENING:
Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2021
GROUP EXHIBITION:
Illiberal Arts, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

SCREENING:
Estuary 2021, online

2020
SOLO EXHIBITION:
Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, Schaufenster, Kunstverein München

SCREENINGS:
20 Sunsets: Kino, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Under the Ground, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon
Kino Siemensstadt: The image of the city in the cinematic space, Scharaun, Berlin
Hunter Movie Club, Hunter College, New York
metakino #5: economy, metakino, Helsinki

2019
SCREENING and PERFORMANCE:
Ian White: Cinema as Life Art / Becoming Object, Arsenal & silent green, Berlin

2018
SOLO EXHIBITION:
New Genres, kunstbunker, Nuremberg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Acropolis at the Bottom, Nikos Kessanlis Hall, Athens
Film London Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade, Whitechapel Gallery, London
You Remind Me of Someone, 49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine

SCREENINGS:
Videoart at Midnight: VAM Festival '18, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
Moderation, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
A Debordered Formalism, mumok, Vienna

2017
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ: Yeti – Wear the Amulet – Tangle Up the Archive, tranzitdisplay, Prague
Wie werden wir uns wiedererkennen, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen
The Very Impress of the Object, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Who Pays?, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Athens
ATLAS of the Ruins OF EUROPE, CentroCentro, Madrid

SCREENINGS:
Post-Apocalyptic Realism: It’s After the End of the World. Don’t You Know That? Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
Glasgow Film Festival, Crossing the Line
Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest

2016
GROUP EXHIBITION:
5 Uneasy Pieces + An Open Investigation, UM Gallery, Prague

SCREENINGS:
57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Fast Forward
60th BFI London Film Festival, Experimenta
66th Berlinale, Forum Expanded
Geopolitics and Bodies, Lenbachhaus in cooperation with DOK.fest, Munich

2015
GROUP EXHIBITION:
Whose Subject Am I?, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

SCREENINGS:
GEGENkino and Klasse Expanded Cinema (HGB), UT Connewitz, Leipzig
Moving Pictures: Artists' Films from the Film London Jarman Award, Tate Britain
PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, An Taibhdhearc, Galway

2014
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances, Tenderpixel, London
Nikos Arvanitis, Stephan Dillemuth, Anja Kirschner, Karolin Meunier, Zafos Xagoraris, Françoise Heitsch, Munich
Metal: AV Festival 2014, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Newcastle
A Machine Needs Instructions As A Garden Needs Discipline, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
Rekurze 1.618, Oblastní galerie Liberec Lázně
51 Zero Festival, Rochester

SCREENINGS:
Assembly: A Survey of recent Artist’s Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013, Tate Britain
Art on Screen, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Glasgow
Artists’ Moving Image Programme, ICA, London

2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Ultimate Substance, CentrePasquArt, Biel
Ultimate Substance, Extra City, Antwerp

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Ultimate Substance, B3 - Biennale des bewegten Bildes 2013, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
STOP!, Art On the Underground with ICA, London
Requiem for a Bank, HMKV, Dortmund
Momentous Times, CCA, Derry-Londonderry
The Magic of the State, Lisson Gallery, London
The Magic of the State, Beirut, Cairo
HELL AS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

SCREENINGS:
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen
AGORA, 4th Athens Biennale, Athens
A Theatre Cycle, Nomas Foundation at Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome

2012
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Ultimate Substance, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Lights, Tears and Real Abstractions, Books & Talks, Artist Space, New York
Ultimate Substance, Secession, Vienna
Living Truthfully under Imaginary Circumstances, Transmission, Glasgow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Liverpool Biennial, FACT, Liverpool
Lights, Camera, Action!, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Bachelor Party, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

SCREENINGS:
Random Acts, Channel 4
Avantgarde ist keine Strömung, D21 Kunstraum & Filmgalerie Alpha60, Leipzig
Signal:Noise II, The Showroom, London

2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Living Truthfully under Imaginary Circumstances, Hollybush Gardens, London
The Projecting Stage, castillo/corrales, Paris
The Empty Plan, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
The Empty Plan, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Anfang Gut, Alles Gut, Basso, Berlin and Kunsthaus Bregenz
British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery, London; CCA, Glasgow; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Hydrachy, Museu Marítim, Barcelona

SCREENINGS:
Moving Image, Artissima, Turin
LOOP, Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona
A Film Cycle, Nomas Foundation at Cinema Farnese, Rome
Video Art at Midnight, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
Jarman Award Shortlist Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Picture This, Bristol

2010
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
The Empty Plan, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Galerie Krobath, Vienna

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
British Art Show 7, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham
Hydrachy; power and Resistance at Sea, Gasworks, London
TINA, Konsthall C, Stockholm; Storey Gallery, Lancaster
From One Thing to Another, Rumanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm

SCREENING:
Legal Disagreements, Villa Romana, Florence

2009
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Chisenhale Gallery, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Depression, Marres Institute, Maastricht
Everything then passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens

SCREENINGS:
East End Film Festival, London
Images of the Lost, the Reforgotten & the Resistance, East End Film Festival, London
Polly II, FACT, Liverpool

2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Trail of The Spider, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Trail of the Spider, Nought to Sixty, ICA, London
Trail of The Spider, Art Premier, Hollybush Gardens at Art Basel, Basel
Polly II - Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
TINA, The Drawing Room, London
Contrapolis; or, Creativity and Enclosures in the Cities, NAi, Rotterdam

SCREENINGS:
Container Project, Palmers Cross, Jamaica
Trail of The Spider, LUX at Chat’s Palace, Hackney, London
Trail of The Spider, Tate Modern, London

2007
SOLO EXHIBITION:
Polly II - Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

SCREENINGS:
Polly II, Tate Modern, London
New Lands, BFI Southbank, London
Polly II, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

2006
SOLO EXHIBITION:
Polly II - Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, Whitechapel Project Space, London

GROUP EXHIBITION:
Was Wäre Wenn, Jet, Berlin

2004
SOLO EXHIBITION:
Supernumeraries, Whitechapel Project Space, London

CONFERENCES and SYMPOSIA (selection)

2025
Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation, REMESO, Linköping University, and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. With Matteo Pasquinelli, Jonathan Beller, Esther Leslie, Karin Krifors, Blaise Kirschner, Axel Gagge. Organised by Stefan Jonsson and Anna Ådahl.

2024
As We May See: Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki, Seminar für Filmwissenschaft der Universität Zürich und des ZKK - Zentrums Künste und Kulturtheorie (UZH and ZHdK), Zurich. With Johannes Binotto, Noam Elcott, Anselm Franke, Tom Holert, Ute Holl, Blaise Kirschner, Occitane Lacurie, Kevin B. Lee, Laliv Melamed, Doreen Mende, Roland Meyer, Katja Müller-Helle, Clio Nicastro, Volker Pantenburg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal a.o. Organised by Volker Pantenburg and Roland Meyer in collaboration with Anselm Franke (ZHdK), Ute Holl (Universität Basel), Kevin B. Lee (Università della Svizzera italiana) and the Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin (Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, Clio Nicastro, Elsa de Seynes).

2022
Abstraction and Economy, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. With adO/Aptive collective, Clemens Apprich, Gerald Bast, Brenna Bhandar, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Karel Císař, Patricia Grzonka, Gabriele Jutz, Eva Kernbauer, Blaise Kirschner, Sven Lütticken, Falke Pisano, Cauleen Smith, Beat Weber, Rebecca H. Quaytman. Organised by Eva Maria Stadler and Jenni Tischer.

2021
Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care. In memory of Marion von Osten, Art Institute HGK FHNW, Basel. With Maria Thereza Alves, Ursula Biemann, Regina Bittner, Katya García-Antón, Anja Kirschner, Kapwani Kiwanga, Maria Lind, Otobong Nkanga, Lydia Ourahmane, Myriam Amroun, Filipa Ramos, Kerstin Stakemeier, Yvonne Volkart, Peter Spillmann. Organised by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer.

2018
Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. With Dodie Bellamy, Hanjo Berressem, Ruth Buchanan, Georgina Colby, Leslie Dick & Audrey Wollen, Claire Finch, Johnny Golding, Anja Kirschner, Douglas A. Martin, Jason McBride, Karolin Meunier & Kerstin Stakemeier, Daniel Schulz, McKenzie Wark. Organised by Matias Viegener and Anja Casser.

Vision's Bleeding Edge: On nonhuman vision, liquid and crystal intelligence and AI, Royal College of Art, London. With by Esther Leslie (Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck) and Joanna Zylinska (Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths). Organised by by SOAH Researchers Mayra Martin Ganzinotti, Anja Kirschner, Anna Nazo, Emma Somerset Davis and Adam J B Walker with Aura Satz, Moving Image Tutor and Reader in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. Moderated by Anja Kirschner and Adam J B Walker.

2017
Media Revolutions/Mediale Revolutionen, Academy of Fine Art Hamburg. With Klaus Birnstiel, Jodi Dean, Diedrich Diederichsen, Bernhard Dotzler, Arnold Dreyblatt, Yuk Hui, Anja Kirschner, Peter Osborne, Dont Rhine/Ultra Red, Kerstin Stakemeier.

ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ: Hidden Forms of Directing, tranzitdisplay, Prague. With Jana Baierová, Zuzana Blochová, Jan Bernard, Michal Bregant, Mikuláš Brukner, Barbora Dayef, Bracha L. Ettinger, Šárka Gmiterková, Linda Hauerová, Libuše Heczková, Anna Hejmová, Edith Jeřábková, Jesse Jones, Tereza Kanyzová, Anja Kirschner, Jan Kolský, Kateřina Konvalinová, Francis McKee, Ruth Noack, Matěj Pavlík, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Johannes Paul Raether, Michaela Režová, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Sláva Sobotovičová, Kateřina Svatoňová, Tomáš Uhnák, Marina Vishmidt. Organised by Zuzana Blochová and Edith Jeřábková with Anja Kirschner.

2016
We Need Your Carkeys! The Horizons of Horror, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede. With With Anselm Franke, Bracha L. Ettinger, Melanie Bonajo and Laboria Cuboniks. Organised by Sam Basu, Anke Hennig and Anja Kirschner.

2015
Are You Alive Or Not? Looking at Art through the Lens of Theatre, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.

2014
Psycho Materialism, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. With Kerstin Brätsch/Debo Eilers, Helmut Draxler, Johnny Golding, Anja Kirschner, Benjamin Noys, Johannes Paul Raether, Juliane Rebentisch and Kerstin Stakemeier. Organised by Kerstin Stakemeier and Tim Voss.

2013
I'm Frightened. Bring Popcorn.,Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome. With Dario Argento, Enrico Ghezzi, Marco Greganti, Douglas Mortimer Collective, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Valerio Di Simone. Organised by Anja Kirschner

Art as a Form of Crisis, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin. Organised by Kerstin Stakemeier and Sophie Golz.

2010
WHEN HISTORICAL, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Organised by Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016
5 Uneasy Pieces + An Open Investigation. With Adam Chodzko, Stephan Dillemuth, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Ester Krumbachová and Nova Melancholia with Dora Economou. Curated by Anja Kirschner and organised by Are. UM Gallery, UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague.

2008
Stephan Dillemuth: Selected Films. Curated by Anja Kirschner. LUX, London.