Skip to content

Florian Malzacher

  • Curating
  • Writing
    • Writing
    • Books
    • Texts
  • Talking
  • About
  • Dates
  • Theatre as Assembly
  • Art & Politics
  • Postdramatic Theatre
  • Performative Curating
  • Staging Discourse
  • Artist Portraits
  • About
  • Dates
  • EN
  • DE
  • Theatre as Assembly
  • Art & Politics
  • Postdramatic Theatre
  • Performative Curating
  • Staging Discourse
  • Artist Portraits

Themen: Art & Politics

All texts

Català

Česki

Dansk

Deutsch

English

Español

Hrvatski

Italiano

Latviešu

Nederlands

Polski

Português

Slovenski

Svenska

Türk

中文

Tania Bruguera

The Condition of No

03 MAY - 30 JUN 2025 Villa Stuck, Munich / Germany & online live stream

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

Curated by Tania Bruguera, Florian Malzacher, Roland Wenninger

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.

Florian Malzacher in conversation with Claire Bishop

Book Talk: The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today

21 SEP 2023 Segal Theatre Center, CUNY, NYC

The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today

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

Also available in German language
Order at Alexander Verlag

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

Unsafe Safety

In: (Un)Commoning Voices and (Non)Communal Bodies. Eds. Maayan Sheleff, Sarah Spies. Zurich: OnCurating.org, 2021. 58-80.

Training for the Future. Handbook

Eds. Florian Malzacher & Jonas Staal. Sternberg Press, 2021.

Order at Sternberg Press

Come together now: Theatre as arena for struggle and agreement

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

“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.

Florian Malzacher with Armen Avanessian on Gesell­schafts­spiele. Politisches Theater heute

25 FEB 2021 Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin

In German language

Imagining Common Institutions and Commoning them Now

17 FEB 2021 Kaaitheater Brussels (online)

On Political Theater

15 Okt 2020 Martin E. Segal Center, CUNY (online)

After Supervising the Machinery

25-27 SEP 2020 Engelskirchen

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels

With contributions by Bini Adamczak, Ulf Aminde & Manuel Gogos, Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler, Dirk Baecker, Felicitas P. Berg, María do Mar Castro Varela, Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki, Manfred Fischedick, Daniel Häni, Dagna Jakubowska, Brigitta Muntendorf, Sibylle Peters, Dan Perjovschi, Alexandra Pirici, Quarantine, Dries Verhoeven, Zorka Wollny et al.

Curated by Florian Malzacher

Work in Crisis

2020 Online

In the frame of  After Supervising the Machinery on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels

With contributions by Bini Adamczak, Dirk Baecker, María do Mar Castro Varela, Manfred Fischedick, Julia Grillmayr, Daniel Häni, Bernadette La Hengst, Luise Meier, Birgitta Muntendorf & Sibylle Peters

Concept by Christian Esch und Florian Malzacher

In German language

Wirkungen und Nebenwirkungen. Die paradoxen Probleme der Identitätspolitik

In: Theater Heute 06 (2020): 48-53.

Organisation as Art

11. OKT 2021 Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart

In German language

“The Question ‘Is This Still Art?’ has accompanied all avant-gardes”

In: Dialogical Interventions. Art in the Social Realm. Ed. Martin Krenn. Berlin: De De Gruyter, 2019. 130-135.

How to prepare for the (un)predictable? A marathon

08 JAN 2018 INSTAR – Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, Havana, Cuba

Curated by Florian Malzacher & Joanna Warsza in collaboration with Abel González Fernández.

On invitation by Tania Bruguera

Aktivismus als Aufführung. Das agonistische Theater des Zentrums für Politische Schönheit

In: Haltung als Handlung. Das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit. Eds. Miriam Rummel, Raimar Stange, Florian Waldvogel. München: Edition Metzel, 2018. 321-330.

Almost Like a Teaching Play

In: Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere. Eds. Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt. London: Pelgrave Macmillan, 2018. 191-208.

Pisuar wraca do ubikacji. Symboliczna i bezpośrednia moc sztuki

In: Prawda jest konkretna. Artystyczne strategie w polityce. Ed. Florian Malzacher & steirischer herbst. Warsawa: Fundacja Nowej Kultury Bęc Zmiana, 2018. 12-25.

„Kunst allein kann die Welt nicht allein ändern”

In: The Silent University: Towards a Transversal Pedagogy. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Pelin Tan, Ahmet Öğüt. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. 34-42.

“How Can We Imagine a School Culture Based on Solidarity?”

In: The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Pelin Tan, Ahmet Öğüt. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. 12-23.

The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy

Eds. Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, Pelin Tan. An Edition by Impulse Theater Biennale. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016.

In English & German language
Order at Sternberg Press

Unrest and Discontent. Political Theatre and the Agonistic Field

www.goethe.de

“Art can’t change the world on its own”

In: The Silent University: Towards a Transversal Pedagogy. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Pelin Tan, Ahmet Öğüt. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. 12-23.

Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre of Today

Ed. Florian Malzacher. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2015

Order at Alexander Verlag

No Organum to Follow. Possibilities of Political Theatre Today

In: Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre of Today. Ed. Florian Malzacher. Berlin/London: Alexander Verlag & Live Arts Development Agency, 2015. 16-30.

Neue Engagierte Kunst

In: Theater Heute. Jahrbuch (2015). 88-94.

What Role Can Art Play in Politics

www.goethe.de

Artist Organisations International, HAU 1, 2015 (c) AOI & Lidia Rossner

Artist Organisations International

9-11 JAN 2015 HAU 1, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

A project by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal & Joanna Warsza

With Artists Association of Azawad; Dmitry Vilensky / Chto Delat – School of Engaged Art; Concerned Artists of the Philippines; Lorenzo Pezzani / Forensic Architecture; Federico Zukerfeld / Grupo Etcétera; Lada Nakonenchna / HudRada; Tania Bruguera / Immigrant Movement International; Renzo Martens / Institute for Human Activities (IHA); Milo Rau / International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM); Yael Bartana & Susanna Sachsse / Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP); Jan Ritsema / Performing Arts Forum (PAF); Marina Naprushkina / Office for Anti-Propaganda; Matthijs de Bruijne / Schoon Genoeg!; John Jordan / The Laboratory for Insurrectionary Imagination (labofii); Ahmet Öğüt / The Silent University; WochenKlausur; Zentrum für politische Schönheit et al.

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
Out of Print (For free download scroll down)

We need to create alternative Moments of Commemoration

In: Two Minutes of Standstill. A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana. Eds. Florian Malzacher & Stefanie Wenner. Sternberg Press Berlin: 2014. 12-23.

Putting the urinal back in the restroom. The symbolic and the direct power of art and activism

In: Truth is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics. Eds. Florian Malzacher & steirischer herbst. Sternberg Press, 2014. 12-25.

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)

“Occupy a museum near you”

In. Camera Austria 117 (2012). 21-28.

“We cannot be pessimistic”

In Camera Austria 117 (2012). 31-36.

Wörterbuch des Krieges

Eds. Multitude e.V. & Unfriendly Takeover. Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2008.

In German language
Order at Merve Verlag

Dictionary of War

2006 - 2007 Städelschule Frankfurt, steirischer herbst/Graz, Muffathalle München, Sophiensaele Berlin & online

A project by Multitude e.V. & Unfriendly Takeover

Developed and curated by Annett Busch, Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Tom Lamberty, Sebastian Lütgert, Florian Malzacher, Anke & Heike Schleper, Florian Schneider, Bernhard Schreiner

© 2025 florian malzacher
  • Newsletter
  • Contact & Imprint
  • Privacy
  • Settings