Seamus Kealy

PUBLICATIONS (Editor/Publisher, Co-Editor or Co-Publisher)

“Film as Muse,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Digital Catalogue, 2021

Tatjana Danneberg, (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2021)  (co-p)

… Line as Thought, Lines as Universe …  (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2021) (e/p)

Gernot Wieland, (Salzburger Kunstverein & Kunsthalle Saint Gallen), 2020 (co-p)

Ashley Hans Scheirl, (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, Künstlerhaus Graz & Salzburger Kunstverein, 2020) (co-p)

Katarina Zdjelar: In the break … Vladimir. (Salzburger Kunstverein & SpazioA, 2020) (co-p)

20 Propositions (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2018) (e/p)

A Painter’s Doubt (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2017) (e/p)

Invisible Violence (Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Salzburger Kunstverein, Artium, Vittoria, 2017) (co-editor with Zoran Eric & Blanca de la Torre) (co-e/co-p)

The People’s Cinema (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2016) (e/p)

 

Punctum: Reflections on Photography (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein & Fotohof, 2014) (e/p)

Isabel Nolan: Intimately Unrelated (Sligo: The Model, 2011) (e/p)

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Angelology (Sligo: The Model, 2010) (e/p)

Jack B.Yeats: The Outsider (Sligo: The Model, 2010) (e/p)

Anti-Catalogue (edited with Amish Morrell) (Sligo: The Model, 2010) (co-e/p)

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2008) (e/p)

18:Beckett (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2006) (e/p)

(Winner: Best Curatorial Essay, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, 2007)

Unterspiel (Vancouver: Belkin Gallery, UBC, 2005) (e/p)

 

OTHER ESSAYS AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES (SELECTED)

“Codes, Coddling and Creationism: Camille Henrot,“ in Camille Henrot: Mother Tongue, (Cologne: Walter König Books, 2021)

“Biennalist: Not a Project, A Format,” in Thierry Geoffroy, (Cologne: Walter König Books, 2021)

Foreword, Csaba Führjesi: Prints (2001-2021), (Salzburg) 2021 

“Flurry, Process, Quietude,” Tatjana Danneberg (Milan: Mousse Publishing), 2021

„Megan Rooney: I Want You Green,“ Salzburger Kunstverein, 2020

„On the Work of Gernot Wieland,“ Gernot Wieland. (Salzburger Kunstverein & Kunsthalle Saint Gallen), 2020

„Ob_scenery,“ Ashley Hans Scheirl (Künstlerhaus Graz, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2020)

„Declan Clarke: The Museum of Broadcasting & Loneliness,” Salzburger Kunstverein, 2020

“Adrian Paci: Chronicles of Severed Words, Chronicles of Displacement,” Catalogue: Adrian Paci. Kunsthalle Krems & Salzburger Kunstverein, 2019

“Omer Fast: The World is a Golem,” Salzburger Kunstverein, 2019

“Askance at the Past, Askance at the Future,” Alona Rodeh, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany. 2019 (catalogue)

Katarina Zdjelar (Salzburger Kunstverein, 2019) (introduction text) (catalogue)

“20 Propositions.” 20 Propositions. (Salzburger Kunstverein, 2018). (catalogue)

“Lucy Skaer: La Chasse.” Brochure: Lucy Skaer. Salzburger Kunstverein, 2018

“ATOM SPIRIT,” Ursula Mayer: ATOM SPIRIT, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2017

“Turtles, black buckets …. all the way down.”: Geoffrey Farmer & Gareth Moore (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2017)

“Repositories of Unseen Impulses.” Dejan Kaludjerovic: Conversations (Vienna: Weltmuseum), 2018 (catalogue)

“On Anja Ronacher’s Photography,” BC21 Award 2017 Catalogue. Belvedere Museum (Vienna: Belvedere Museum, 2017) (catalogue)

“Floating Self,” exhibition text for brochure, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2017

“A Painter’s Doubt: Notes towards an Exhibition,” A Painter’s Doubt (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2017) (catalogue)

“The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses,” Hans Schabus: The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses (Berlin: Revolver, Published by the Salzburger Kunstverein & Kunsthalle Darmstadt; 2017) (catalogue)

“Fuß nach Fuß: Ein Text für Ute Müller,” (Foot after Foot). Ute Müller (Vienna: Ute Müller, 2017) (catalogue)

“Figures of Invisible Violence in Europe,” Invisible Violence (Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Salzburger Kunstverein, Artium, Vittoria, 2017) (co-editor with Zoran Eric & Blanca de la Torre) (catalogue)

“Isurrenderdear,” exhibition text for brochure, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2016

“Desire, Time-Machines and the Heightened Moment.” The People’s Cinema (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 2016) (catalogue)

“Capua corrupted Hannibal,” Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent (Brussels: Ludion, in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels & Salzburger Kunstverein, 2015-2016) (catalogue)

“Ella Littwitz,” exhibition text for brochure, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2016

“On Akam Shex Hady’s Photographs,” exhibition text for brochure: Iraqi Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015 

“Überschönheit,” Überschönheit (Excessive Beauty), exhibition text for brochure, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2015

 “Four Texts on Stan Douglas,” Stan Douglas: Mise en Scene (Munich: Prestel / Haus der Kunst, 2014) (catalogue)

“Arriving at Punctum,” Punctum: Reflections on Photography (Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein & Fotohof, 2014) + (catalogue)

“Meta-campus,” Mondes modèles: Stephane Gilot (Montreal: Galerie de l’Universite de Québec, 2012) (catalogue)

”Armpit: The Liverpool Biennale,” Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention. Liverpool University Press. Edited by Ben Parry, Sally Medlyn, Myriam Tahir, 2011. (catalogue)

“A short sketch on the apparent in Isabel Nolan’s work,” Isabel Nolan: Intimately Unrelated (Catalogue for A hole within the future) (Sligo: The Model, 2011 (catalogue)

“Angelology,” Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Angelology (Sligo: The Model, 2010) (catalogue)

“No Center: Etienne Zack,” Etienne Zack (Montreal: Musee d’art contemporarain, 2010) (catalogue)

 “Who is the Master? – Paul Chan/Ivan Grubanov,” monochrom journal, Vienna, July 2010 

“A Few Notes on Deep Play,” Harun Farocki: Soft Montages (Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010) (catalogue)

“A Coterie by Difference: Dorm,” Anti-catalogue I (Sligo: The Model, 2010) (catalogue)

“A few notes on Reverse Pedagogy III,” Visual Arts Ireland, Dublin, November 2009

“Blasphemy and Art,” Visual Arts Ireland, Dublin, September 2009

“Renaming The Model,” Irish Independent, Dublin, August 2009

“The politics of everyday life and everyday art,” Visual Arts Ireland, Dublin, June 2009

“Biennalism,” Visual Arts Ireland, Dublin, April 2009

“Thierry Geoffroy at the Venice Biennale,” C Magazine, Toronto, April 2009

“A few notes on the recession,” Visual Arts Ireland, Dublin, November 2008

“Tilo Schulz,” TIlo Schulz: I WAS SHOT IN THE BACK, brochure, Blackwood Gallery, 2008

“Convictive Confession,” Isabelle Pauwels: Triple Bill (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008)

“Maneuvering in the Shadows of Absolute War,” Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2008), 49 – 91. Other contributors included, Boris Groys, Gene Ray. (editor) (catalogue)

“You Don’t Love Me Yet: Johanna Billing,” Look Behind Us A Blue Sky, (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag), 2007 (catalogue)

“Awareness Muscle,” Exhibition Text for Awareness Muscle (Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery,) 2007

“Ten Texts for 18:Beckett,” 18:Beckett (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2006), 41 – 73. contributors included Terry Eagleton (Kealy Text Awarded OAAG Curatorial Award) (editor) (catalogue)

“The King and Eye,” The King and I. (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, 2006), 2 – 11. (catalogue)

 “The Number One Galleries …,” The Fillip Review (Vancouver: Projectile Publishing, Winter 2006), 1, 4 – 6.

“Etienne Zack,” Canadian Art Magazine, (Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, Fall, 2005), 74-75.

“Sketches on Recent Viennese Art,” Unterspiel, (Vancouver: Belkin Gallery, UBC, 2005), 4-33. (catalogue)

“Steven Shearer,” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 241, March/April 2005), 92.

“Daniel Richter,” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 239, December, 2004), 87-88.

“Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, MUMOK, Vienna,” Canadian Art Magazine, (Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, Winter 2004), 77 – 78.

“Home and Away,” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 235, March-April 2004), 68.

“Letter from Mitte, Berlin” Canadian Art Magazine (Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, Vol 20, No 3, Fall 2003), 66-68.

“Martin Kippenberger: MUMOK, Vienna” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 231, July – September 2003), 82.

 “Armpit: Gelitin: Vienna,” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 230, Summer 2003), 64.

“The Phantom of Desire: Neue Galerie, Graz,” Canadian Art Magazine (Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, Summer 2003), 48 – 50.

“Lieber Maler, male mir: Kunsthalle Wien,” Canadian Art Magazine, (Toronto: Canadian Art Fdn, Vol 20, No 1, Spring 2003), 57-60.

 “Hans Schabus at Secession,” Flash Art International (Milan: Politi, No 229, April/May 2003), 44 – 46.

“Ron Terada”, Canadian Art (Toronto: Canadian Art Foundation, Vol 19, No 3, Fall 2002), 57.

“Royal Art Lodge,” Terminal City Weekly (Vancouver: Winter 2001), 35.

“Geoffrey Farmer,” Terminal City Weekly (Vancouver: Fall 2001), 38.

 

UNIVERSITY VISTING LECTURER / TEACHING / SYMPOSIA

• Guest Lecturer, Vienna Academy of Applied Arts, Class of Hans Schabus (Sculpture), 2021
• Guest Lecturer, Vienna Academy of Applied Arts, Class of Florian Medicus (Architecture), 2021
• Key Note Lecture, University of Salzburg: Graduating Masters Students, Kunst- und Tanz-wissenschaft, June 2018
• Guest Lecturer, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, November 2018
• Guest Lecturer & Workshop with Art History Students, Vienna University, Art History Department, Class of Noit Banai, Vienna, March / April 2016
• Guest Lecturer & Workshop, Stuttgart Art Academy, Stuttgart, April 2016
• Guest Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, March 2016
• Key Note Lecture, Mozarteum (Fine Arts Graduation), University of Salzburg, April 2014
• Lecture: “On War & Exhibitions,” War in the Visual Arts, Conference, University College Cork, September 2013
• Lecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, “The poetry of language …” Conference with Rabih Mroué & Aida Eltorie, December 2012
• Lecture, SOFAM Visiting Lecturer, Guelph University, Canada, September 2012
• Visiting Lecturer, Public Roundtable “On Arts Audiences,” National College of Art & Design, Dublin, March 2012
• Guest Lecturer, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, May 2011
• Lecture & Public interview with AA Bronson, University College Cork, 2009
• Visiting Lecturer, “Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War,” Concordia University, Montreal, 2008
• Co-Organiser, “Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War,” (Symposium co-organised with Prof. John Paul Ricco), University of Toronto, Mississauga, January 2008 (speakers included Boris Groys, WJT Mitchell)
• Curatorial Lecture and Guest Advisor, Sheridan College of Art and Design, Toronto, November 2007
• Visiting Lecturer & Guest Advisor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 2007
• Visiting Lecturer, Key Note Speaker, “Beckett & Aesthetics,” Symposium: Beckett, Contemporary Art, Film and New Media, Banff Centre for the Arts, May 2007
• Visiting Lecturer, “On Organising 18:Beckett,” Symposium: Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art: Goldsmiths College, London, November 2006
• Organiser & Lecturer, “Beckett, Contemporary Art and New Media,” Symposium: University of Toronto, November 2006
• Visiting Lecturer, “Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art:,” Symposium: Borderless Beckett, Waseda University, Tokyo, September 2006
• Visiting Lecturer, “Canadian Contemporary Art,” Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, September 2006
• Drawing & Painting Instructor (substitute), The University of British Columbia, 2004
• Curatorial / Research Assistant for Scott Watson, Director, Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2003 – 2005
• Lecture / Interview: “Painting as Ogress,” Interview with Professor Andreas Spiegl. Gemäldegalerie, Vienna Art Academy, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2003
• Drawing Instructor (substitute), Emily Carr Institute of Art, Vancouver. 2001
• Art History Course Instructor (adults), Dunbar Community Centre, Vancouver, 2000-2001
• At-Risk-Youth Art Instructor, Ministry of the Environment, Vancouver, 1999

 

LECTURES, INTERVIEWS & CONFERENCES (SELECTED)

• Curatorial Lecture, Vienna Academy for Applied Arts, Vienna, 2021
• October Talks, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburger Kunstverein (ongoing) (Chair):
  • 2021: Adam Budak, Julia Meier, Johan Grimonprez, Ila Beka
  • 2020: Bassam El Basoni & Aziza Harmel, Gernot Wieland
  • 2019: John C. Welchman, Adrian Paci, Omer Fast
  • 2018: Mirjam Varadinis, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Terry Eagleton
  • 2017: Terry Eagleton

• Public Lecture, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 2018
• Public interview with Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, August 2018
• Public interview with Gilbert & George, Halle Ropac, Salzburg, July 2018
• Public roundtable on Artist Publishing II, Salzburger Kunstverein, June 2018 (Chair)
• Public roundtable on Artist Publishing I, Salzburger Kunstverein, April 2018 (Chair)
• Public interview between Katarina Zdjelar & Sabeth Buchmann, April 2018 (Chair)
• Public interview between Lucy Skaer & Ursula Mayer, February 2018 (Chair)
• Amalia Ulman, artist talk and interview, July 2017
• Book Presentation: A Painter’s Doubt, Salzburger Kunstverein, March 2017
• Lecture by Kathrin Busch, Salzburger Kunstverein, March 2017 (Chair)
• Artist Roundtable: A Painter’s Doubt, Salzburger Kunstverein, February 2017 (Chair)
• Lecture: Friends of the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, November 2016
• Artist Roundtable: Anna-Sophie Berger, Hayley Silverman, Flaka Haliti, Angelika Loderer, September 2016 (Chair)
• Public Summer Talks at the Salzburger Kunstverein: Omer Fast, Anna Witt, Köken Ergun, Jesper Just, 2016
• Harun Farocki & Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, July 2016.
• Curatorial Roundtable, Vienna Contemporary, Symposium, September 2015
• “Constructing Meaning in Kunstvereine,” with Chris Fitzpatrick, Salzburg Summer Academy, Aug 2015
• The Arts Tonight, Interview (Radio), Dublin, June 2015
• Stan Douglas, public interview, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, June 2015
• Stan Douglas & Walter Asmus, public interview, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, June 2015
• Artist Roundtable, Überschönheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, April 2015 (Chair)
• Artist Talk with Nedko Solakov, Salzburger Kunstverein, April 2015
• Invisible Violence: Symposium: Etienne Balibar, Suzana Milevska, Keti Chukhrov, Salzburger Kunstverein, March 2015 (Chair)
• Invisible Violence: Artist Roundtable, Salzburger Kunstverein, February 2015 (Chair)
• “Arriving at Punctum,” Public Lecture for Punctum, Salzburger Kunstverein, September 2014
• Punctum Lectures with Boris Groys et al, Salzburger Kunstverein, June 2014 (Chair)
• Anne Schneider, public interview and talk, Salzburger Kunstverein, March 2014
• Lecture, “In Conversation with …” Dublin Contemporary, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, October 2011
• Public interview with Harun Farocki, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, February 2011
• The Arts Tonight, Interview with Omer Fast (Radio), Dublin, 2011
• Public interview with Omer Fast, The Model, 2011
• Public interview with Harun Farocki, The Model, 2011
• Public interview with Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, The Model, 2010
• Public interview with Duncan Campbell, The Model, 2010
• The Arts Tonight, Interview (Radio), Dublin, 2010
• Public Lecture, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2010
• Public Forum on the exhibition Unterspiel, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, July 2005