Biografie
Barbara Preisig is an art historian and art critic whose research focuses on contemporary artistic practices and their social and political contexts. In exploring translocal, transdisciplinary, and nonacademic ways of writing and thinking, she addresses a range of subjects, including artistic research, feminism, institutional studies, and the politics of authorship.
She works as a researcher and lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts, Department Fine Arts and at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR). Besides she is co-editor of the magazine Brand-New-Life.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Publications (selection):
Barbara Preisig, "The Tour. A Close Listening", in: Polyphonic Art Histories: Locality and the Living Archive, Third Text, No. 186–187, Vol 38, Issue 1–2, January–March 2024, S. 21–27. DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2024.2303916
Barbara Preisig, "Inv. 2016, 83/260. Lifelines of an Invitation Card", in: Invitations – Archive as Event, ed. by Jael Annette Lehmann and Anna-Lena Werner, Leipzig: Spector Books (forthcoming).
Barbara Preisig, Laura von Niederhäusern, and Jürgen Krusche (eds.), Camera Work in Trading Zones. An Epistemological Journey at the Interface of Art and Ethnography, Berlin: Archive Books 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5734214
Ju Anqi. Films, ed. by Barbara Preisig, Christoph Schenker and Gitanjali Dang, Zurich University oft he Arts, DVD, 2020.
Barbara Preisig, Mobil, autonom, vernetzt. Kritik und ökonomische lnnovation in Ephemera der Konzeptkunst, 1966–1975, Munich: Edition Metzel, 2018. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1119
Paratexte. Scharnier zwischen Produktion, Vermittlung und Rezeption, ed. by Barbara Preisig, Lucie Kolb and Judith Welter, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2018. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6798075
Barbara Preisig, Elena Filipovic and Sarah Owens, "Learning to Speak? Part 2. A discussion about ‹black›ness in Switzerland and why art institutions should burn their fingers on this issue", in: Brand-New-Life, 15.12.2017, http://brand-new-life.org/b-n-l/learning-to-speak-2/.
Barbara Preisig, "Macht und Expansion im Netzwerk. Zürich, ZHdK, Pfingstweidstrasse 96 – Peking, 43 Rixin Road, West Tiangezhuang", in: The Air Will Not Deny You. Zürich im Zeichen einer anderen Globalität, ed. by Daniel Kurjakovic, Franziska Koch and Lea Pfäffli, Zürich: Diaphanes, 2016.
Barbara Preisig, "What colour is your Higgs particle?", in: Frieze d/e, No. 6, 2012, https://www.frieze.com/article/welche-farbe-hat-dein-higgs.
Teaching (2016-ongoing):
Polyphonie. Mehrstimmigkeit in der Gegenwartskunst, University of Zurich
Art & Research: One Body, many voices. Art Goes Poly, MFA, ZHdK
Seilschaften, Kollaborationen, Allianzen. Eine Beziehungsanalyse des globalen Kunstkontexts, University of Zurich
with Kris Decker: Das Klima der Kunst, University of Lucerne
Theorie. Einführung, BFA, ZHdK
with Kris Decker: Nachtmethoden, colloquium, ZHdK
Künstlerbilder, BFA, ZHdK
Das Kunstfeld, ZHdK