Melanie Josefine Bühler
Curator, currently Senior Curator at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
melanie@m-j-b.info
| CH | +41 76 566 38 31 |
I am a curator based in Zürich and St.Gallen. I am responsible for Lunch Bytes – a project on art and digital culture including talks, discussions and an online platform and the exhibition series Inflected Objects among other curatorial projects. I am the editor of The Art of Critique (Lenz Press/Frans Hals Museum, 2022) and No Internet, No Art. A Lunch Bytes Anthology (Onomatopee, 2015) and co-editor of The Transhistorical Museum (Valiz/Frans Hals Museum, 2022). My writings regularly appear in various exhibition catalogues, publications and magazines and I was the guest-editor of Metropolis M, August/September 2016. Between 2017 and 2022 I was the Curator Contemporary Art at Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem and in October 2022 I've been appointed Senior Curator at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland. I am the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and hold an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
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TALK: THE ART OF CRITIQUE - A Talk on Institutional Critique Today, Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, May 6, 2020
- TALK: KRITIK – Institutional Critique in the Age of Networked Capitalism, Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie Universität Köln, 12 December 2019
- TALK: Stedelijk Video Club: Undoing Desire, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Feb 15 2019
- TALK: Perspectives on Photography, ECAL, Lausanne, May/Dec 2016
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TALK: Post-Photography – a New Paradigm?, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Nov 2016
Panel Discussion
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TALK: Where's the Digital at? A Subjective Perspective on the History of Digital Art from 2011 on, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag, May 30 2016
Lecture
- TALK: Digital Dissolution, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, April 30 2016
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TALK: Vital Things and Humming Networks. Artworks and Autonomy, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, April 9 2016
Lecture as part of Bots, Bodies, Beasts – The Art of Being Humble conference-festival
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TALK: The Technological Future and Art, organized by Metropolis M at Art Rotterdam, Feb 13 2016
Chairing a series of talks and discussions
With Florian Cramer, Orit Gaat, Jonas Lund, Martijn Hendriks and Femke Herregraven - TALK: Zum Digitalen in der Kunst nach Post-Internet, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Feb 3 2016
- TALK: Artist Talk with Cécile B. Evans, Impakt, Utrecht, Oct 31 2015
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TALK: Boundless Digital Worlds, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Oct 2 2015
Chair the panel discussion Boundless Digital Worlds as part of the symposium Sailing under False Colors. Transdisciplinary and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art organized by Medienwerk NWR
With Hans Bernhard, Cécile B. Evans, Paul Feigelfeld and Michelle Kasprzak - TALK: On Hype-Cycles, Post-Internet and How the Digital Became Fashionable, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sept 2 2015
- TALK: Post-Internet & Lunch Bytes – Labels, Categories and Catchphrases, Witte de With, Rotterdam, May 23 2015
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TALK: Blame it on the Algorithm, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, April 4 2015
Chair Panel Discussion
With Kari Altmann, Bettina Speckmann and David Wightman - TALK: Opening Lecture Lunch Bytes Conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, March 20 2015
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TALK: Various Lunch Bytes Discussions, throughout 2014
Introducing and chairing various Lunch Bytes Discussions at Foam, Amsterdam; CCA, Glasgow; ICA, London; Sinne, Helsinki; IMMA, Dublin; GL STRAND, Copenhagen; Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm
- TALK: Artist talk with Martijn Hendriks, Monumenta, Amsterdam, Nov 2 2014
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TALK: Internet Art Beyond the Internet, RUA RED, Dublin, May 5 2014
Lecture as part of the Run Computer, Run Conference
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TALK: Curating Digital Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Feb 4 2014
Lecture at the Center for Advanced Media Studies