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03 MAY - 06 JUL 2025 Villa Stuck, Munich & online stream

The Condition of No

German Case Studies of Cancellation and Boycott

With Aziz Al-Azmeh, Candice Breitz, Tania Bruguera, Elke Buhr, Meron Mendel, Christoph Möllers, Susan Neiman, Geraldine Rauch, Bernd M. Scherer, Margarita Tsomou, Eyal Weizman

Curated by Tania Bruguera, Florian Malzacher, Roland Wenninger

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Liberation Theology

Spike Art Magazine (June 2024)

Deine Texte waren unsere Identity Monologe

Theater Heute 04 (2024): 37.

The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today

Florian Malzacher. Berlin/New York: Alexander Verlag & Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2023.

Elegantly written.The New Yorker

A clever analysis, enjoyable and accessible even for the theory-shy. A briefing on the state of the discourse and a declaration of love for theatre.Suzanne Zahnd, Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ)

A very good overview of current postdramatic events, bringing together a great deal of empirical material.Simon Strauß, FAZ

Alexander Verlag
Florian Malzacher in conversation with Claire Bishop

Book Talk: The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today

21 SEP 2023 Segal Theatre Center, CUNY, NYC

Florian Malzacher in conversation with Claire Bishop about the impact of political theatre today, post-dramatic theatre in general and the difficult necessity of assembling in times of crisis.

How can one employ strategies from theatre as curatorial strategies?

In: Curating Dramaturgies: How Dramaturgy and Curating Are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts. Eds. Peter Eckersall & Bertie Ferdman. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. 141-150.

Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly

Since 2021 Different venues & online platform

Hosted by Florian Malzacher

With Athena Athanasiou, Marco Baravalle, Merve Bedir, Claire Bishop, Claudia Bosse, Tania Bruguera, Judith Butler, Phil Collins, Jodi Dean, Radha D’Souza, Mette Edvardsen, Didier Eribon, Marcelo Expósito, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius / raumlaborberlin, Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan, Oliver Frljić, Núria Güell, Alexander Karschnia / andcompany&Co., Max Haiven, Michael Hardt, Satu Herrala, Lisa Ito-Tapang, Edit Kaldor, Wolfgang Kaleck, Atiyyah Khan, jaamil olawale kosoko, Brandon LaBelle, Oliver Marchart, Renzo Martens, Markus Miessen, Alia Mossallam, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Negri, Sibylle Peters, Milo Rau, Lady Bitch Ray, Oliver Ressler, Tino Sehgal, Jonas Staal, Nora Sternfeld, The Church of Stop Shopping, Lotte van den Berg, Eva von Redecker, Joanna Warsza, Dana Yahalomi, Ann Liv Young et al.

Training for the Future

Since 2019 Bochum, Bogotà, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dêrik, Manilla, New York, Torino, Venice, Zurich

A project by Jonas Staal
Curated and co-programmed by Florian Malzacher

Come together now: Theatre as arena for struggle and agreement

24 Sep 2021 Taoyuan Iron Rose Festival & the Goethe Institute in Taiwan (online)

Lola Arias: Identities in Negotiation

In: Lola Arias: Re-enacting Life. Ed. Jean Graham-Jones. Abersystwyth: Performance Research Books, 2019. 242-247.

“We need a new social Imaginary”

In: Demokratie heute. Probleme der Repräsentation. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Raimar Stange. Exhibition Catalogue. Berlin: KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2021. 14-15.

Theatre as Assembly

In: Why Theatre? Eds. Milo Rau / NTGent et al. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2020. 170-173.

The Life and Work of Nature Theater of Oklahoma

Ed. Florian Malzacher. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2019.

The lovingly designed book is a successful mixture of analysis, biographical material, and voices of artist friends. Karin Cerny, Profil

Alexander Verlag

Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy

Eds. Florian Malzacher & Joanna Warsza. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2017.

Also available in Chinese language
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Bethinking One’s Own Strengths. The Performative Potential of Curating

In: Curating Live Arts. Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice. Eds. Dena Davida et al. New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. xvi-xxi.

“I Guess the Objects Remained Rather Unimpressed”

In: Curatorial Things. Eds. Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019. 118-130.

Truth is Concrete

21-28 SEP 2012 steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria

Curated by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch & Florian Malzacher (idea & concept)

Truth is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics

Eds. Florian Malzacher & steirischer herbst. Sternberg Press, 2014.
Coedited by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch, Andreas R. Peternell, and Johanna Rainer.

Available also in Polish language
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Curating Performing Arts

Eds. Florian Malzacher, Tea Tupajić, Petra Zanki. Zagreb: Frakcija. Performing Arts Journal. No. 55, summer 2010.

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