Markus Miessen (*1978) is a registered architect, spatial designer, consultant and writer. Miessen studied at Glasgow School of Art (BArch), graduated from the Architectural Association in London with Honours (AADiplHons) and received a Master in Research degree from the London Consortium (MRes). He defended his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, in 2015.

Miessen is a Full Professor in Design at the Academy of Design (HDK), University of Gothenburg, Sweden. From 2011-16, he was Distinguished Professor in Practice at the University of Southern California, USC (Los Angeles). Since 2011, Miessen has been a guest professor at the post-graduate visual arts program work.master at HEAD (Geneva). From 2011-13, he held a Stiftungsprofessur for Architecture and Critical Spatial Practice at the Städelschule (Frankfurt), was visiting professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Karlsruhe, 2009-11), visiting professor at the Berlage Institute (Rotterdam, 2009-10), and a Unit Master at the Architectural Association (London, 2004-08). He has been a Harvard GSD Fellow in 2010. In 2008, Miessen founded the Winter School Middle East (Dubai, now Kuwait, ongoing).

At Studio Miessen, he oversees all projects as principle architect and director.

As a writer, Miessen contributes, edits and advises globally, and has delivered articles in newspapers, magazines and books, ranging from academic to scientific to popular culture. He frequently writes for periodicals such as Artforum, Bidoun, Volume, Urban Flux (China), Frieze, 032c, SPEX, Yale Constructs, Domus, Log, Metropolis M, Die Zeit, or Arch+.

The initiator of the Participation tetralogy, Miessen’s work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. He is best known for his theory of tactical intervention coined ‘Crossbenching’. He is the author of “Crossbenching” (Sternberg Press & Merve, 2016), “The Nightmare of Participation – Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality” (Sternberg Press, 2010), which is now available in English, German, Turkish, Chinese, Polish, Italian and Spanish (French and Korean editions forthcoming). In various collaborations, Miessen has edited and published books such as “The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict” (Sternberg Press, 2015), “Actors, Agents and Attendants – Caring Culture: Art, Architecture, and the Politics of Public Health” (Sternberg Press/ SKOR, 2011), “Waking Up From The Nightmare of Participation” (Expodium, 2011), “When Economies Become Form” (Berlage Institute, 2009), “Institution Building – Artists, Curators, Architects and the Struggle for Space” (Sternberg Press, 2009), “East Coast Europe” (Sternberg Press, 2008), “The Violence of Participation” (Sternberg, 2007), “With/Without –Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East” (Bidoun, 2007), “Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice” (MIT Press, 2006) and “Spaces of Uncertainty” (Müller+Busmann, 2002).

As an editor, Miessen has advised the boards of Volume (Amsterdam), Bidoun (New York), and Archive journal (Berlin/Turin). Together with Nikolaus Hirsch, Miessen is the editor of the “Critical Spatial Practice” book series at Sternberg Press, which has published authors and artists such as Beatriz Colomina, Keller Easterling, Chantal Mouffe, Eyal Weizman, Felicity Scott, Robert Jan van Pelt, Rabih Mroué, Armin Linke, and Trevor Paglen.

As a consultant, Miessen has worked with the Government of Slovenia during Slovenia’s presidency of the EU Council, advised The European Kunsthalle (Cologne), the Dutch Foundation for Art and Public Domain “SKOR” (Amsterdam), the Swiss think tank “WIRE” (Zurich), the Serpentine Gallery (London), the European Commission, and the Kosovo National Gallery. He has researched and proposed government policy for “General Public Agency” (London), and has written policy papers for the think tank for everyday democracy “Demos” (London). Miessen currently also acts as one of the curatorial “attachés” to the Sydney Biennale (2016). This advisory group directly contribute to the broad international conversation informing this exhibition and its public programs. He is a member of the European Cultural Parliament and has been on many academic search commissions including at the University of Luxemburg and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Apart from multiple international group exhibitions, Miessen’s work has been published and exhibited widely, including at the Venice, Manifesta, Istanbul, Lyon, Gwangju, and Shenzhen Biennials.

Miessen has lectured at institutions such as Columbia University (New York), The Vera List Centre for Art and Politics (New York), Cooper Union (New York), MIT (Cambridge), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge), The Graham Foundation (Chicago), Rice University (Houston), Artspeak (Vancouver), Tijuana Cultural Centre, CCA (Kitakyushu), Artsonje (Seoul), Kuwait Cultural Office, The Third Line (Dubai), Mardin Artuklu University, Palace of Culture and Science (Warsaw), iaspis (Stockholm), Democracy Club (London), NAi (Rotterdam), Jan van Eyck Akademie (Maastricht), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Bauhaus (Weimar), TU Berlin, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, HDK Gothenburg, Strelka (Moscow), Artissima and GAM (Torino) et al.

His work has received numerous awards including from the Flemish Government (Brussels), Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur (Amsterdam), Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Berlin), Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago), the Henry Saxon Snell Prize, and was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal.

In 2008, the British newspaper The Independent listed his book “Did Someone Say Participate” as one of the ten best architecture and design books of all time. In 2015, the Spanish edition of The Nightmare of Participation (published by dpr editorial) was a finalist at the prestigious FAD Pensamiento y Crítica awards.

Teaching Positions

• Nov 2016–ongoing
  Academy of Arts & Design (HDK)
  Gothenburg, SE

  Full Professor in Design

• Aug 2011–2016
  University of Southern California (USC)
  Los Angeles, US

  Distinguished Professor of Practice

• Sep 2015–Jul 2016
  MaHKU Utrecht
  Utrecht, NL

  Guest Professor for Research in Visual Art & Design

• Sep 2011–Feb 2015
  Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD)
  Geneva, CH

  Guest Professor for Research Design

• Sep 2011–Jul 2013
  Städelschule
  Frankfurt/ Main, DE

  Stiftungsprofessur for Critical Spatial Practice

• Sep 2011–Jun 2011
  Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)
  Cambridge (MA), US

  Research Fellow

• Sep 2009–Jul 2011
  University of Arts and Design
  Karlsruhe, DE

  Hochschule für Gestaltung
  Guest Professor for Temporary Architecture & Curating Content

• Oct 2009–Jul 2010
  Berlage Institute, Center for Advanced Studies
  Rotterdam, NL

  Visiting Professor for Urban Studies and Spatial Design

• Aug 2008 (ongoing)
  Winter School Middle East
  Kuwait

  Director

• Sep 2004–Jul 2008
  Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)
  London, UK

  Unit Master

Selected Projects (as Principle Architect)

• 2018 Revamping Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE, (Consulting, Spatial Design)
• 2018 PAM Pavilion, Munich, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2017 Barbara Kruger Untitled (The Drop) Performa 17 Biennial, New York, US, (Spatial Design)
• 2017 Performa 17 Biennial Hub, New York, US, (Spatial Design)
• 2017 Kunsthalle Vienna How to Live Together, Vienna, AT, (Exhibition Design)
• 2017 documenta 14 – Stefanos Tsivopoulos The Precarious Archive, Kassel, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2017 Nová Synagóga, Žilina, SK, (Consulting, Spatial Design)
• 2017 Xeno-architecture at KAAI, Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match, Brussels, BE, (Spatial Design)
• 2017 documenta 14 – Parallel Program, State of Concept: 'Heiter bis Wolkig' at Future Climates, Athens, GR,
• 2016 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, ReVision, Hamburg, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2016 Omer Fast, Talking is not always the solution, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE,
• 2016 Blumenthal House, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2016 Berlin Biennale Discreet, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2016 Slater Bradley Studio, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2016 Stefanos Tsivopoulos The Precarious Archive, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES, (Exhibition Design)
• 2016 Conditions of Political Choreography, CCA Tel Aviv, IL / nbk Berlin, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2016 The day will come when photography revises, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, AT, (Exhibition Design)
• 2016 Kunstverein in Hamburg, New Foyer, New Foyer, Hamburg, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2016 Horizontal Assemblies. Europe as a perpetually unfinished project of Dissensual Interregionalism, A contribution to the book Warum Europa Eine Republik Werden Muss! Eine politische Utopie by Ulrike Guérot, A contribution to the book Warum Europa Eine Republik Werden Muss! Eine politische Utopie by Ulrike Guérot, (Spatial Design, Consulting, Research, Infrastructure)
• 2015 The day will come when photography revises, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2015 When we share more than ever, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2015 Hito Steyerl, Artists Space, New York, US, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Institute of Moden Art, Brisbane, AU, (Spatial Design)
• 2014 A Paradise Built in Hell, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Dundee Symposium, Dundee, UK, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Hito Steyerl, IMA, Brisbane, AU, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Hito Steyerl, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Hito Steyerl, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL, (Exhibition Design)
• 2014 Artsonje Center, Seoul, KR, (Spatial Design)
• 2014 Galeria e Arteve e Kosovës / The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo, (Consultancy)
• 2014 b-05, Montabaur, DE, (Spatial Design / Infrastructure)
• 2014 Revamping Witte de With, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, (Spatial Design)
• 2014 Ware und Wissen, Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2013 Performa 13 Hub, New York, US, (Spatial Design)
• 2013 Bergen Assembly, Bergen, NO, (Exhibition Design and Spatial Framework)
• 2013 Hito Steyerl, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US, (Exhibition Design)
• 2013 The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, (Spatial Framework)
• 2013 Evident in Advance, 55th Venice Art Biennale, Venice, IT, (Exhibition Design)
• 2012 School as School, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, (Spatial Design)
• 2012 Hito Steyerl, Design for Solo Exhibitions in eflux (New York), Overgaden (Copenhagen), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), and Wilfred Lentz (Rotterdam), (Exhibition Design)
• 2012 Archive Kabinett: Sunday Book Fair, Temporary pop up store, Temporary pop up store, Berlin, DE,
• 2012 19 Hours at the Kiosk, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE, (Curatorial & Spatial Design)
• 2012 Consensus Bar, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, (Spatial Design)
• 2012 Dissenting Histories, 25 years at the Power Plant, Toronto, CA, (Spatial Design)
• 2012 LU Arts Centre & Radar Hub, Loughborough, UK, (Consultancy)
• 2011 SKOR Actors, Agents and Attendants 2, Amsterdam, NL, (Conference)
• 2011 Archive Kabinett, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Design)
• 2011 Duas Barras, Coruripe, BR, (Spatial Framework and Educational Program)
• 2011 Gwangju Hub for the Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, KO, (Spatial Design and Exhibition)
• 2011 Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Tschlin and Faernigen, (Consultancy and Educational Program)
• 2011 Performa 11 Hub, New York, US, (Spatial Design)
• 2011 Space Station – 0047, Oslo, NO, (Spatial Design)
• 2011 Kunstraum Lüneberg, Lüneberg, DE, (Spatial Design and Framework)
• 2011 Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Design and Consultancy)
• 2011 Archive as Productive Space of Conflict, Karlsruhe, DE and Geneva, CH, (Consultancy)
• 2011 Scaffolding of Contrition, (Consultancy and Research)
• 2011 Testify!, The Consequences of Architecture, The Consequences of Architecture, (Consultancy)
• 2010 Dewaniya: Architectural Space of Political Exchange, with Joseph Grima, with Joseph Grima, Kuwait and Boston, (Research)
• 2010 Art Forum Berlin / Focus, Berlin, DE, (Spatial Consultancy)
• 2010 SKOR Actors, Agents, and Attendants, Amsterdam, NL, (Conference)
• 2010 CentQuatre, Paris, FR, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 MoCHA Archive, Murcia, ES, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 Antigua Oficina De Correos Y Telègrafos, Murcia, ES, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 Hub 2.0 MAC, Santiago, CL, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 Backbench, Murcia, ES, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin, DE, (Lecture)
• 2010 International Chilliwack Biennial, Chilliwack, CA, (Spatial Design)
• 2010 Art Basel Statements,
• 2009 Performa 09 Hub, New York, US, (Spatial Design)
• 2009 Closed Waters, Berlin, DE, (Exhibition Design)
• 2009 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, (Exhibition Design)
• 2009 Dubai Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE, (Consultancy)
• 2008 East Coast Europe, New York, US, (Curatorial)
• 2008 The Great Pyramid, with Nikolaus Hirsch and Ingo Niermann, with Nikolaus Hirsch and Ingo Niermann, Germany,
• 2008 Credit Suisse, Dubai, New York, Berlin, Moscow, Geneva, Milan, Madrid, and London, (Traveling Exhibition Design)
• 2007 European Kunsthalle, Köln, DE, (Consultancy and Spatial Framework)
• 2007 Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search, with Patricia Reed, with Patricia Reed, Geneva, CH, (Spatial Framework)
• 2007 Lyon Biennale, Lyon, FR, (Research)
• 2006 43b bar at Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK, (Spatial Design)
• 2006 The Momental, Sparwasser, Berlin, DE, (Consultancy)
• 2006 Pyongyang: rules of engagement, Pyongyang, North Korea, (Consultancy)
• 2006 Walsall Council: An Urban Line, Walsall, UK, (Consultancy)
• 2006 Substitune, London, UK, (Consultancy)

Education

• 2005–2015 Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, UK, (PhD), supervised by Eyal Weizman and Keller Easterling
• 2004–2005 London Consortium, London, UK, (MRes)
• 2002–2004 Architectural Association, London, UK, (AADiplHons, with honours)
• 1998–2001 Glasgow School of Art, (Barch)

Publications / Books

• The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict Edited by Markus Miessen, Yann Chateigné, Sternberg Press, 2015
• Mould (issue 1) Curated by Studio Miessen, Mould Press, 2014
• La Pesadilla de la Participación By Markus Miessen, dpr-barcelona, 2014
• L’incubo della partecipazione By Markus Miessen, Archive Books, 2014
• Koszmar partycypacji By Markus Miessen, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, 2014
• Katılım Kâbusu By Markus Miessen, Metis Kitap, 2013
•  参与的恶梦 By Markus Miessen, 翁子健 金城出版社, 2013
• Albtraum Partizipation By Markus Miessen, Merve Verlag, 2012
• Eine Zukunft nach der Zukunft Edited by Markus Miessen and Felix Vogel, GfZK, 2012
• Actors, Agents and Attendants, Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health Edited by Andrea Phillips & Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2011
• Architectural Space as Agent Conversation with Markus Miessen, Patricia Reed, Kenny Cupers, Fillip, 2011
• Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Participation Edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen, Expodium, 2011
• The Nightmare of Participation (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality) By Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2010
• When Economies Become Form. Micro-Economic Models as Spatial Prescriptions in Northeast Brazil Edited by Tina DiCarlo & Markus Miessen, Berlage Institute, 2009
• ¿Alguien Dijo Participar? Edited by Markus Miessen, Shumon Basar, dpr-barcelona, 2009
• Institution Building – Artists, Curators, Architects, and the Struggle for Space Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, Matthias Görlich, Sternberg Press, 2009
• East Coast Europe Edited by Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2008
• The Violence of Participation Edited by Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2007
• With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East Edited by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, and Markus Miessen, Bidoun, 2007
• Did someone say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice Edited by Markus Miessen & Shumon Basar, MIT Press, 2006
• Substitune – A Manual By Markus Miessen, AA Publications, 2005
• Spaces of Uncertainty By Kenny Cupers & Markus Miessen, Müller+Busmann, 2002

Lecturing

• Jun 2016
  Kunsthalle Wien
  Vienna, AT

  L'exposition Imaginaire

• Mar 2016
  Mextrópoli
  Mexico City
• Mar 2016
  UNAM
  Mexico City
• Nov 2015
  MaHKU Utrecht
  Utrecht, NL
• Nov 2015
  Sydney Biennial
  Sydney, AU
• Oct 2015
  Goldsmiths
  London
• Sep 2015
  Gothenburg Art School
  Gothenburg

  Making/Narratives

• Jun 2015
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles
• Apr 2015
  Innsbruck University
  Innsbruck
• Mar 2015
  Samuso
  Seoul
• Feb 2015
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles
• Jun 2014
  IMA
  Brisbane
• Jun 2014
  HEAD
  Geneva
• 2014
  EACC
  Castellon

  Espacios de Anticipación

• Apr 2014
  Glasgow School of Art
  Glasgow

  It's Not Very Nice That

• Apr 2014
  Mardin Artuklu
  Mardin
• Mar 2014
  iaspis
  Stockholm
• Nov 2013
  Künstlerhaus
  Stuttgart
• Oct 2013
  HEAD
  Geneva
• Jul 2013
  Weltkulturen Museum
  Frankfurt

  Think-Tank III: „Speaking on behalf of others”

• Apr 2013
  Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee
  Berlin
• Mar 2013
  Städelschule
  Frankfurt

  Role (Models)

• Apr 2013
  Artsonje
  Seoul
• Oct 2012
  Vienna Art Week
  Vienna

  Predicting Memories

• Oct 2012
  Witte de With
  Rotterdam

  Welcome to Harmonistan!

• Sep 2012
  ETH
  Zurich
• Jul 2012
  Goethe Institut
  Madrid

  Participar.de

• May 2012
  Bucharest Biennial
  Bucharest
• May 2012
  Linz University
  Linz

  Cultures of Assembly

• May 2012
  Städelschule
  Frankfurt

  Cultures of Assembly

• Apr 2012
  Weimar Bauhaus
  Weimar

  Horizonte. Angst

• Apr 2012
  Kuwait Cultural Council
  Kuwait
• Mar 2012
  HEAD
  Geneva
• Mar 2012
  Columbia University
  New York
• Feb 2012
  Artsonje

  Roundtable—9th Gwangju Biennale: Workstation 1

• Oct 2011
  Rice

  Fall Lecture Series. Judgement

• Oct 2011
  Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
  Warsaw

  Under Construction festival

• Sep 2011
  GfZK
  Leipzig

  Szenarien über Europa

• Sep 2011
  Louisiana
  Oslo

  The Louisiana Response: New Sensitivity in Contemporary Architecture

• Aug 2011
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles

  Keynote lecture in the context of a week-long workshop (see workshops)

• Jun 2011
  Pavilion
  Bucharest

  On modes of Critical Spatial Practice

• Jun 2011
  iaspis
  Stockholm

  On The Violence of Participation

• Jun 2011
  Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Edinburgh

  On the politics of space

• May 2011
  Umea School of Architecture
  Umea

  On The Nightmare of Participation

• May 2011
  Kunstraum Lüneburg
  Lüneburg

  Opening of the nOffice-designed space;
  In conversation with Julia Moritz, Andrea Phillips and Magnus Nilsson

• May 2011
  Art Brussels
  Brussels

  Architist:
a ‘domus’ roundtable discussion
  With Alexandra Midal, Joseph Grima, Jan de Cock and Angelique Campens

• Apr 2011
  Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
  Stuttgart

  On institutional critique through spatial practice

• Apr 2011
  Laznia
  Gdansk

  On institutional critique through spatial practice

• Mar 2011
  Kölnischer Kunstverein
  Cologne

  The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
  Lecture and discussion with Rabih Mroué

• Mar 2011
  Architectural Association
  London

  The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
  Panel discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Armin Linke and Samantha Hardingham

• Feb 2011
  Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, HEAD
  Geneva

  On archival practice and its spatial repercussions

• Jan 2011
  Winter School Middle East
  Kuwait

  On The Violence of Participation
  Hosted by Kuwait Cultural Council; see also: www.winterschoolmiddleeast.org

• Dec 2010
  GAM
  Turin

  On The Violence of Participation

• Dec 2010
  Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology
  Krakow

  On The Violence of Participation

• Dec 2010
  Harvard Graduate School of Design
  Cambridge, MA

  On Diwaniyah: the space of consensus

• Nov 2010
  Städelschule
  Frankfurt

  On The Violence of Participation

• Oct 2010
  Expodium
  Utrecht

  On The Violence of Participation

• Oct 2010
  Goldsmiths College, University of London
  London

  On The Violence of Participation

• Sep 2010
  OK Do
  Helsinki

  On The Violence of Participation

• Jul 2010
  Goethe Institute HQ
  Munich

  On territorial perception of Europe

• Jun 2010
  Studio Olafur Eliasson
  Berlin

  On the production of dissensual space

• May 2010
  Kuwait Cultural Council
  Kuwait

  On the Winter School Middle East

• May 2010
  SKOR
  Amsterdam

  On The Violence of Participation

• Mar 2010
  Stroom
  The Hague

  On The Violence of Participation

• Feb 2010
  Field Operations
  New York

  On masterplanning Content

• Feb 2010
  Serpentine Gallery
  London

  On Crossbench Praxis

• Nov 2009
  Graham Foundation
  Chicago

  The Nightmare of Participation
  Graham Foundation website

• Oct 2009
  SKOR Loko at The Kunstlinie Theatre
  Almere

  Keynote lecture on critical participation beyond romanticism

• Jun 2009
  ProQM
  Berlin

  Institution Building. Artists, Curators, Architects, and the Struggle for Space Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, Matthias Görlich (ed.)
  Book launch with the editors and Nina Möntmann

• Jun 2009
  NAi – Netherland Architecture Institute
  Rotterdam

  The Architecture of Knowledge On Archives and Libraries
  Visit Event Website: http://www.thearchitectureofknowledge.nl/

• Jun 2009
  Designmai Berlin, International Design Festival
  Berlin

  Civic City (ZHdK) presentation and panel
  With Jesko Fezer and Matthias Görlich

• Apr 2009
  University of Innsbruck
  Innsbruck

  Alpine Centre for Critical Spatial Practice
  Audition/lecture for Professorship

• Mar 2009
  BAF Art School
  Dubai

  Friendship of the Peoples: Contemporary Collaborations
  With Zak Kyes, Ralf Pflugfelder, Eva Munz, Ayzit Bostan, Markus Miessen, Shumon Basar and Ingo Niermann

• Mar 2009
  Artspeak
  Vancouver, BC

  FILLIP: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism – Sessions
  The Nightmare of Participation, with Amy Zion and Kristina Lee Podesva

• Jan 2009
  PROGRAM Initiative for Art + Architecture collaborations
  Berlin

  A Multidisciplinary Team Talk
  With Antonia Hirsch, Julian Kücklich, Anastasia Lavrova, Kirsten Maar and Markus Miessen

• May 2008
  Berlage Institute
  Rotterdam

  Violating Consensus

• Nov 2007
  MIT
  Cambridge, MA

  Frameworks: Modes of Interference On alternative institutional/spatial models
  Lecture and discussion with Ute Meta Bauer
  Download Event Poster as PDF (108kb)

• Nov 2007
  The Political Equator II
  Tijuana

  Centro Cultural Tijuana
  On the Lyon project
  Download Event Poster as PDF (164kb)

• May 2007
  International Design Forum
  Dubai

  Regarding the launch of Al Manakh and With/Without
  With Rem Koolhaas, Antonia Carver, and Shumon Basar

• May 2007
  inSITE, The Situational Drive (Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement)
  New York

  Cooper Union
  Round-table panel discussion with Anton Vidokle, Mans Wrange, and Doug Ashford Cooper Union, in cooperation with creativetime and inSITE
  Download Poster (628 kb)

• Mar 2007
  Columbia University
  New York

  Lecture on Spatial Practice and Participation beyond Models of Consensus

• Mar 2007
  Royal College of Art
  London

  Conflict as Practice: Spatial Practices beyond Models of Consensus

• Feb 2007
  Architecture as Initiative Symposium, AA
  London

  Trigger Talk

• Dec 2006
  Stuttgart University, IGMA
  Stuttgart

  The Violence of Participation
  Download Event Poster (2.4 Mb)

• Nov 2006
  Architectural Association
  London

  Lecturer and round-table host
  ‘Did we mean participate or did we mean something else?’
  (with S. Basar, J. Grima, C. Condorelli, and B. Gibson)

• Sep 2006
  Columbia University (New York)
• Sep 2006
  Van Alen Institute/ Storefront Gallery
  New York

  Round-table discussion ‘Did Someone Say Participate?’
  (with S. Basar, L. Kurgan, S.J. Weiss, L. Skrebowski, and A. Shamir)

• Jul 2006
  24hr Interview Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
  London

  Interviewed by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  'Did Someone Say Participate?' An Atlas of Spatial Practice' launch
  (with S. Basar and Abake)

• Mar 2006
  Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst
  Cologne

  Lecturer
  ‘Spaces of Production’ (with Hirsch, Misselwitz and Goerlich)

• Oct 2005
  9th International Istanbul Biennale
  Istanbul

  Lecturer

• Nov 2006
  Casco/ Camp for Oppositional Architecture
  Utrecht

  Lecturer ‘The Violence of Participation’

• Jul 2004
  Architectural Association Summer Symposium (London)

Exhibitions

• 2016
  Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other vegetables.
  Utrecht, NL

  (A Possible Dialectics On The Politics Of Misunderstanding)

  MaHKU graduation exhibition, curated by Markus Miessen.

  From 24 June to 3 July 2016, BAK's exhibition space is one of the venues for the MaHKU graduation show Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other vegetables (A Possible Dialectics On The Politics Of Misunderstanding).

  Other venues are the Academiegalerie, Minrebroederstraat 16, Utrecht, and the Universiteitsmuseum, Lange Nieuwstaat 106, Utrecht. The MaHKU is the MA trajectory in Fine Art at HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, and a long time collaboration partner in Learning Place, BAK's platform for education and talent development.

  Contributions to this exhibition, curated by Markus Miessen, by: Marija Angelovska, Goeun Choi, Stavroulla Gregoriou, Ola Hassanain, Kathy Holowko, Willem Holtrop, Pooja Hukku, Kristina Országhová, KT Rangnick, Constanze Schreiber, Iliana Soriano, Felipe Zapata Zuluaga.

• Sep 2015
  A Space is A Space is A Space

  Berlin, DAZ
  Curators: Karima Boudou, Céline Poulin, Agnès Violeau
  Spatial Concept: Jean-Pascal Flavien

  Artists: Kader Attia / Rosa Barba / Nina Beier & Marie Lund / Laetitia Bénat / Peggy Buth / Natalie Czech / Jason Dodge / Jimmie Durham / Jean-Pascal Flavien / Alicia Frankovich / Rainer Ganahl / Christian Jankowski / Thomas Locher / Markus Miessen / Joanne Pouzenc / Michael Riedel / Lyllie Rouvière / Dennis Rudolph / Vanessa Safavi / Eric Stephany / Rosemarie Trockel / Clémence de la Tour du Pin / Tris Vonna-Michell

• Jun 2015
  Project Brennero

  Innsbruck University

• Mar 2015
  Territories of Assembly

  Live in your Head, Geneva

  Research directed & curated by Markus Miessen

• Oct 2014
  Territories of Assembly

  Artsonje, Seoul

  Research directed & curated by Markus Miessen

• Jan 2015
  Correspondents at Kunstraum Innsbruck

  CORRESPONDENTS is a project by Stefano De Martino and Karen Lohrmann and lauched in 2009. Set up as a periodical, each issue is produced by one personality or group, on one subject.

  CORRESPONDENTS is deliberately not a magazine, or a collection of articles. It acts as a free agent, its content determined and uncompromising.
  There is no relation between the separate issue, other than the fact that they can all relate and invite some sense of exteriority.

  CORRESPONDENTS is a drop in the ocean of printed matter.

• Jan 2014
  In-Between. Spatial Discourse in Visual Culture

  Part 1: "Incertitudes" by Andreas Gehrke & Markus Miessen

  The first part of the series "Incertitudes" is a collaboratively developed exhibition by Berlin-based photographer and publisher Andreas Gehrke with architect and writer Markus Miessen. It revisits various spaces and places within the city of Berlin and follows their evolution over the course of the last decade. "Incertitudes“ can be understood as both a retrospective view and a new perspective on the project "Spaces of Uncertainty" by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen (Berlin, 2002). It acts as a visual and narrative archive of urban uncertainties.

• Sep 2013
  Planning for Protest

  Publication, exhibition and associated project of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

  Organized by Ben Allen, James Bae, Ricardo Gomes, Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels.

  Participants include: Antonas Office (Athens), Studio Miessen (Berlin), studioBasar (Bucharest), Cluster (Cairo), Culturstruction (Dublin), Superpool (Istanbul), Ateliermob (Lisbon), public works with Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (London), Ecosistema Urbano (Madrid), Srdjan Jovanović Weiss / NAO (New York), PioveneFabi with 2A+P/A (Rome), Vapor 324 (São Paulo).

• Feb 2013
  Stealth Architecture

  Weltkulturen Museum

• Oct 2011
  Space Station – 0047 Oslo
  Oslo, Norway

  Space Station is a spatial and social framework that, continuously and accumulatively, negotiates the relationship between various modes of production, display and its spatial envelope. Consisting of a series of open residencies and public activities, ‘Space Station’ discusses and challenges models of presentation and mediation, whilst promoting the perception of architecture as an active device capable of probing and altering institutional settings and their political conditions.

• June 2011
  Edinburgh International Film Festival

  24 hours of Spatial Politics (ongoing film-programme), curated by Markus Miessen, June 21-22

• Apr 2011
  Superposition
  Frankfurt

  curated by Phillip Zach

• Mar 2011
  Wish We Were Here – Cedric Price: Mental Notes
  London

  Touring exhibition curated by Samantha Hardingham and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  Local show in collaboration with Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall (POA); cooperation with the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG); Kilian Fabich and Stella-Sophie Seroglou, supervised by Wilfried Kühn, Armin Linke and Markus Miessen.
  http://szenografie.hfg-karlsruhe.de/huo/archive.html

• May 2011
  Curated by_Vienna: East by South West
  Vienna

  Kerstin Engholm Galerie curated by Adam Budak
  EAST: EXCITABLE SPEECH: WEST, with Armen Eloyan,
 Mekhitar Garabedian,
 Agnieszka Kurant,
 Markus Miessen,
 Hans Schabus,
 Slavs and Tatars, Sergiej Paradjanov and Abbas Kiarostami

• Oct 2010
  Overscore
  Murcia

  Overscore, curated by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum Bassam El Baroni and Jeremy Beaudry
  Contribution: Backbench (at the Old Post Office) and display strategy and structure for the MoCHA Archive, both conceived and designed nOffice

• Aug 2010
  Interview Archive Hans Ulrich Obrist

  Venice Biennale

• May 2010
  Plus10
  London
• May 2010
  1000, 3
  Berlin

  1000, 3; solo show Markus Miessen and Ralf  Pflugfelder with John McCusker (graphic design)

• Apr 2010
  They go round and round
  Oslo, Norway

  They go round and round, curated by Carson Chan
  Kunsthalle Dubai Düsseldorf, with Ralf Pflugfelder

• Feb 2010
  The Process Room at the Serpentine Gallery

  Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care.
  Serpentine Gallery

• Nov 2009
  Performa Biennial, New York City
  New York

  The Recital: Performa Hub, Cooper Union, Union Square
  Designed and built by nOffice
  Curated by RoseLee Goldberg
  Performa Biennial

• Sept 2009
  4th Intern. Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

  Open City: Designing Coexistence/ Refuge
  Curated by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay
  4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

• Jun 2009
  Why not to settle – migrate?
  Locarno

  Apppart Gallery
  A tiny atlas by Alessandro Martinelli about Hans Ulrich Obrist and the edge of curatorial practice (with textual interventions by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grigely and Markus Miessen)

• Feb 2009
  Buchmann Galerie
  Berlin

  Monuments with a Horizon Line II
  Closed Waters (with Bettina Pousttchi)

• 2009
  Convergence
  Ordos Mongolia

  '<em>Convergence</em>' project, curated by Joseph Grima and Beatrice Galilee
  Contribution: Heavyweight (52° 29' 2.53" N 13° 22' 17.94" E)

• Jan 2010
  Portscapes
  Rotterdam

  Portscapes, curated by Theo Tegelaers (SKOR) in collaboration with Latitudes

• Jan 2009
  East Coast Europe revisited
  Munich
• Nov 2008
  When Economies become Form
  Berlin

  When Economies become Form
  Curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi

• July 2008
  Manifesta 7

  The Museum for Franco Basaglia (by Stefano Graziani)
  Contributors include Stefano Boeri, Franco Rotelli, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Beppe Dall’Acqua, Markus Miessen, Michele Zanetti, Donatello de Mattia, and others.

• Jun 2008
  1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
  Tehran

  When Economies become Form
  Curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi

• Mar 2008
  Art Dubai (UAE)
  Various Cities

  Chelsea Art Museum (New York); National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow); Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (Geneva); Phillips de Pury (London)
  Credit Suisse Collection
  In collaboration with Ralf Pflugfelder & nOffice
  Curated by Michelle Nicol

• Mar 2008
  Toronto Free Gallery

  Creative Activism (with Patricia Reed)

• Dec 2007
  Krome Gallery
  Berlin

  East Coast Europe
  Curated by Markus Miessen and Zak Kyes

• Sep 2007
  Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
  Los Angeles

  Critical Planning and Spatial Justice/ An Atlas of Radical Cartography
  Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search with Patricia Reed
  Curated by Ava Bromberg and Nicholas Brown

• Sept 2007
  The History of a Decade that has not yet been named
  Lyon

  The History of a Decade that has not yet been named
  Europe: The Violence of Participation
  Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon

• Mar 2007
  Gulf Art Fair/ Bloomberg
  Dubai

  Reading Room, curated by Bidoun & Third Line

• Mar 2007
  revisit: URBANISM MADE IN LONDON
  Linz, Austria

  ‘revisit: URBANISM MADE IN         LONDON’
  Mapping London’s Spatial Practitioners
  (curated by Peter Arlt with Public Works and Muf)

• May 2006
  Milan Triannale, Festa dell’Architettura
  Milan

  A Monument waiting to Happen
  A strategic design proposal for a re-appropriation of the Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea (with S. Basar)
  Curated by Stefano Boeri and Joseph Grima

• May 2006
  Architectural Association
  London

  Every Little Helps
  On the urban impact of the NHS and Tesco estates
  Curated by Markus Miessen and Matthew Murphy

• Jan 2006
  Volume
  Web Based

  Shareware
  On the impossibility of a roadmap for Europe
  Curated by Ole Bouman

• Nov 2005
  Aedes
  Berlin

  Find the Gap
  New heads and paths in contemporary German architecture
  Curated by Kristin Feireiss
  AedesBerlin

• Jun 2005
  2nd International Architecture Biennale
  Rotterdam

  ‘The Flood’
  A deck of cards taken from the cultural history of the Flood (with VOLUME)
  Curated by Ole Bouman

• Jun 2005
  2nd International Architecture Biennale
  Rotterdam

  The Flood
  A deck of cards taken from the cultural history of the Flood (with VOLUME)
  Curated by Ole Bouman

• Mar 2005
  Galerie Platform
  Berlin

  ‘Raumpioniere’ Stadtentwicklung durch Zwischennutzung
  Curated by Klaus Overmeyer

• Jan 2004
  66East (Centre for Urban Culture)
  Amsterdam

  Spaces of Uncertainty
  Curated by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen
  66East Link

• Oct 2003
  Spaces of Uncertainty
  London

  ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
  Curated by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen at the Architectural Association

• Nov 2003
  Recyclart
  Brussels

  I hate Sunday - Space Time Energy
  Curated by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen

• Oct 2003
  Urban Drift
  Berlin

  (Transformers/ Pirated Space), ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
  Curated by Francesca Ferguson
  Exhibition Link: http://urbandrift.org/

• Sep 2003
  Galerie Framework
  Berlin

  Spaces – Time – Energy
  Curated by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen

• Jul 2001
  International Congress Centre (ICC)
  Berlin

  Beijing Multiplicities
  Curated by Zamp Kelp

• Aug 2000
  The Lighthouse
  Glasgow

  GIA Prize
  Curated by Stuart MacDonald

Conferences

• Dec 2016
  The Bedford Tapes, AA
  London

  The bedford tapes

• Mar 2016
  Mextrópoli
  Mexico City
• Set 2015
  Black Mountain
  Berlin

  Problems and perspectives of interdisciplinary art, education and research

• May 2014
  Espacios de Anticipación
  Castellon

  EACC Castellon, Spain

• Apr 2014
  Talks at the Lighthouse
  Glasgow
• Mar 2014
  Critical Spatial Practice III: Beatriz Colomina launch
  Berlin
• Jul 2013
  Think-Tank III: „Speaking on behalf of others”
  Frankfurt

  Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum

• Apr 2013
  Content as Signature?
  Frankfurt

  Speculations on contemporary roles in spatial practice and the architect as uninvited outsider

  Hosted by Markus Miessen, the symposium invites Erhan Oze, Kai Vöckler and Matthias Görlich to explore the question, 'Content as Signature?' The theme is set against the problem of 'participation' in contemporary planning and design processes.

• Feb 2013
  Critical Spatial Practice Series
  New York, USA

  On the occasion of the book launch of What is Critical Spatial Practice?, editors Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen invite a series of protagonists from the fields of architecture, art, philosophy, and literature, including Beatriz Colomina, Liam Gillick, Aaron Levy, Suhail Malik, Reinhold Martin, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jorge Otero-Pailos, John Rajchman, Dieter Roelstraete, Martha Rosler and Felicity D. Scott to discuss the question of “what, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?

• Oct 2012
  Urban Matters
  Vienna
• Sep 2012
  ETH
  Zurich
• Jul 2012
  Participar.de
  Madrid
• May 2012
  Planning Unplanned, Exploring the New Role of the Urban Practitioner
  Linz
• Mar 2012
  Conference on Architecture, European Urbanisation and Globalisation
  New York

  Columbia University

• Oct 2011
  Judgement
  Houston

  Rice University, Houston

• Oct 2011
  Under Construction festival
  Warsaw

  Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

• Sep 2011
  The Louisiana Response: New Sensitivity in Contemporary Architecture
  Oslo
• Sep 2011
  Urban States
  Los Angeles

  University of Southern California

• Jun 2011
  Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Edinburgh

  24 hours of Spatial Politics, curated by Markus Miessen
  Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
  www.edfilmfest.org.uk

• Nov 2010
  Centre for the Study of Democracy/ University of Westminster
  London

  Democratic Politics: Between Antagonism and Agonism (An International Symposium on the Work of Chantal Mouffe)
  With Doreen Massey, Alex Duttmann, Katja Kipping, Frank Cunningham, Oliver Marchart, Terrell Carver, Nico Carpentier, Yannis Stavrakakis and Markus Miessen

• Mar 2011
  The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
  London
• Nov 2010
  Lisbon Architecture Triennale, International Conference
  Lisbon

  Architecture [in] ]out[ Politics
  With, amongst others, Jeffrey Inaba, Reinhold Martin, Yona Friedman, Jonathan Hill, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Sarah Whiting and Philippe Rahm
  http://www.trienaldelisboa.com/2010/en/international-conference

• Oct 2010
  Expodium
  Utrecht

  On The Nightmare of Participation
  With: Mika Hannula, Luc Janssens, Bart Witte, Vesna Madzoski
  Workshop with students from MaHKU, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design

• Oct 2010
  SKOR – Felix Meritis
  Amsterdam

  Actors, Agents and Attendants: Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility

• Jun 2010
  Institut für Raumexperimente
  Berlin

  Space Activism Marathon
  With: Vito Acconci, Monica Bonvicini, Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, Mathias Heyden, Bjarke Ingels, Achim Menges, Robert Merk, Markus Miessen, Office for Subversive Architecture, François Roche, Anri Sala, Tomas Saraceno, SMAQ, Topotek 1 and Christina Werner

• Dec 2009
  Jan van Eyck Academie
  Antwerp

  The Unresolved Borders of Europe
  With Chantal Mouffe, Paul Scheffer, Markus Miessen, Lieven De Cauter, Saskia Sassen and Etienne Balibar.
  Conference PDF (1Mb)

• Jun 2009
  Portscapes
  Rotterdam

  A series of conversations lead by Markus Miessen, injected into the project framework alongside the construction of Maasvlakte 2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Jul 2009
  Haus der Architektur
  Graz

  Joint Action in Architecture – getting political again?
  With Petra Ceferin, Brian Cody, Christian Felber, Francesca Ferguson, Zvi Hecker, Markus Miessen, Roger Riewe, Werner Sewing, Michael Sorkin, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

• Jul 2009
  University of Brighton – Centre for Research and Development
  Brighton

  Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space
  With Irit Rogoff, Eyal Weizman, Neil Leach, Fred Scott, Maxine Naylor and Markus Miessen

• April 2009
  London Festival of Europe
  London

  The Courtauld Institute of Art
  Discussion panel with Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  Download Conference Poster as PDF (2Mb)

• Mar 2009
  Emily Carr University of Art and Design
  Vancouver

  Writing/Art symposium

• Oct 2008
  Technical University Delft
  Delft

  Architecture & The Mind: from bio-politics to noo-politics
  Speakers and Participants include: Yann M. Boutang, Charles Wolfe, John Proveti, Keller Easterling, Markus Miessen, Bruce Wexler, Scott Kelso, Jordan Crandall, Andreas Angelidikas, Abdul – Karim Mustapha
  Download Conference Poster as PDF (584kb)

• Oct 2008
  Swiss Institute, NYC
  New York

  East Coast Europe talks and book launch
  Panel discussion with Eda Cufer, Zak Kyes and Markus Miessen

• Sept 2008
  Neue Nationalgalerie
  Berlin

  40 Years of Neue Nationalgalerie
  Michael Kimmelman (New York Times) in conversation with Matthias Böttger, Jürgen Mayer-H and Markus Miessen

• Sept 2008
  Venice Biennale, Dutch Pavilion Archiphoenix: Beyond the Singular
  Venice

  Tomislav Medak (Multimedia Institute), Marko Sancanin (Platforma 9.81), Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen), Damon Rich (CUP), and Joseph Grima (Store Front Gallery).
  Download Conference Poster as PDF (588kb)

• Apr 2008
  New School – Vera List Centre for Arts and Politics
  New York

  East Coast Europe (panel discussion and presentations)
  Participants: Carin Kuoni, Alenka Suhadolnik, Markus Miessen, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Reinier de Graaf, Marjetica Potrc, Aaron Levy, and Dan Perjovschi.

• Nov 2007
  The Political Equator II
  Tijuana

  Centro Cultural Tijuana
  Moderated discussion with John Palmesino, Kyong Park, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Lieven de Cauter
  Download Conference Poster as PDF

• Nov 2007
  AA
  London

  On Boundaries
  Roundtable with Nikolaus Hirsch and Shumon Basar

• May 2007
  inSITE, The Situational Drive
  New York

  Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement
  Cooper Union
  Round-table panel discussion with Anton Vidokle, Mans Wrange, and Doug Ashford Cooper Union, in cooperation with creativetime and inSITE

• May 2007
  International Design Forum
  Dubai
• Mar 2007
  Evasions of Power
  Philadelphia

  University of Pennsylvania
  Department of Architecture, PENN School of Design
  Slought Foundation
  Conference, Conversation, Tour and Roundtable

• June 2007
  Venice Biennale ‘New City-Territories’
• Nov 2006
  The Camp for Oppositional Architecture
  Utrecht

  Presenting Paper: The Violence of Participation
  Download Conference Poster as PDF

• May 2006
  The Transient Institution – Institute of Urban Memory
  Berlin

  Workshop on the occasion of the exhibition "The Momental" at Sparwasser HQ

• Jun 2004
  Camp for Oppositional Architecture
  Berlin