elisa r. linn
(she/they)
@email kmtemporaer.de Film Club der polnischen Versager*innen e.V.
Elisa R. Linn (Elisa Linn Roguszczak) is a writer, exhibition maker, and educator from Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. Since 2022 she is the Co-Director and Curator of the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. and teaches at the Leuphana University. In her practice, she is concerned with politics of self-organization, representation, collectivity, migration, non-essentialist notions of identity, and the minor, challenging modernist conceptions of the state and the 'great man.'
She studied sociology, art history, visual culture and film studies, and curatorial studies and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Curatorial Program. Linn is pursuing her PhD in philosophy with Marina Gržinić at AdbK Vienna and has held the interim professorship of the chair of Art Theory and Mediation (Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stakemeier) at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg for the summer semester 2022. In her research, she examines the impact of “border thinking” and "borders" on marginalized communities and how their strategies of self-organization from below can dismantle necropolitical conditions. In this context, she is interested in how the Berlin Wall was utilized as a "condom” against the “Other” during the AIDS pandemic and in the Cold War confrontation.
Since 2012, with architect and curator Lennart Wolff, she has been jointly running the curatorial and artists project km temporaer. She is co-organizing the Film Club der polnischen Versager*innen at the Club der polnischen Versager in Berlin-Mitte.
Linn has worked with and curated exhibitions at The Kitchen, South London Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the National Gallery Prague among others. She has given lectures and taught at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, TU Berlin, Pratt Institute, Royal Academy of Arts in London, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, The New School, Eugen Lang College of Liberal Arts, Barnard College/Columbia University in New York among others. She has contributed to publications and magazines such as Frieze, Starship, artforum, Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, and Jacobin.
recent exhibition projects
– Irma Hünerfauth: Speaking Boxes in dialogue with Planned City Cinema, a moving image program, SIMIAN, Copenhagen, May 19 – Jul 9, 2023
– KP Brehmer – Welt im Kopf [World in Mind], Maxwell Graham Gallery & Petzel Gallery, New York, March 1 – April 29, 2023
– the future looms, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, curated by, September 10 – October 8, 2022
With works by Anna Andreeva, Jordan/Martin Hell, Charlotte Johannesson, Lorenza Longhi, VNS Matrix, Melika Ngombe Kolongo
– the state I am in, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, June 23 – August 6, 2022
With works by James Gregory Atkinson, Noah Barker, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Peter Fend, Lea Grundig, Jacqueline de Jong, Laura Langer, Louise Lawler, Oswald Oberhuber, Li Ran, Lotty Rosenfeld, Bruno Serralongue, Bri Williams and Leyla Yenirce
– Mit Parallelität von Widersprüchen wird Komplexes missverständlicher,
– Blue Gloves, White Gloves, AA Visiting School Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, August 2021
Noah Barker, Erica Baum, Juan Downey, Rochelle Feinstein, Irma Hünerfauth, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Kitty Kraus, Phung-Tien Phan, Schmelzdahin, Geschichtswerkstatt Mönchengladbach
– Vera Molnár, Wanda Czełkowska, Milena Usenik, Laibach Kunst, Tadej Pogačar, Sanja Ivekovic, Eva Bodnar, fotoform, Diet Sayler, André Verlon, Tamás Konok, Explorations, viennacontemporary, Vienna, September 24 - 27, 2020
– KP Brehmer Song of Growth, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland, June 27 - September 5, 2020
– Carolyn Lazard, Julia Heyward, Weekend & Plaste, Nicolás Guagnini, Screening, Kino Süd, 2020
– House of Sleep in collaboration with Frances Scholz and Klasse Scholz, HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, 2020
– Peter Fend AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY, Museo Nivola, Sardinia, Italy, 2019-2020
– When you’re on the Net, are you lost? Or found? And the rest of us—lost or found—are we on it, or in it?, Museum für Fotografie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2019
– Absolute Thresholds curated by John Miller, Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff
with Patricia L. Boyd, Rochelle Feinstein, Dan Graham, Matt Keegan, Yves Klein & Claude Parent,
Nina Könnemann, Carolyn Lazard, John Miller, Kaspar Müller, Karin Schneider, Greg Parma Smith,
Aura Rosenberg, Camilla Wills, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, 2019
– Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, 2019
– Archive Fever with Özgür Kar, Adriana Lara, Dena Yago, Emalin, London, 2018
– Daily Operation with Anna Daučíková, Zbyněk Baladrán, Julia Heyward, Georgie Nettell, John Smith,
and Will Benedict, National Gallery Prague, 2018
– Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter: One against All [Uno contro tutti], Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2018
– Omnipresence, With works by: Peggy Ahwesh, Ei Arakawa and Miho Hatori, Ericka Beckman, KP Brehmer,
Olga Chernysheva, Selina Grüter and Michèle Graf, Jason Hirata, Ho Rui An, Alan Ruiz,
Carey Young, Jessica Vaughn, and Constantina Zavitsanos
curated by Elisa R. Linn, Joseph Lubitz, Ellen Pavey, and Manabu Yahagi, The Kitchen, New York City, 2018
– Peter Fend/Yona Friedman - Filling the absence, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, 2019
– Architecture of Storage, DAZ German Center for Architecture, Berlin, 2018
With contributions by: Studio Christian Wassmann, Alice Creischer, Martti Kalliala, Gili Tal, Hollwich Kushner & Liam Gillick,
Kaspar Müller, Aaron Flint Jamison, MyPlace, Atelier d'Architecture 3bm3, Petra Beck, John Kelsey,
DAZ German Center for Architecture Berlin, 2018
– Julia Heyward, Nothing Random Access Memory, Bronx Museum, New York City, 2018
– John Russell, Doggo, British School at Rome, 2018
– Julia Heyward, Nothing Random Access Memory, South London Gallery, London, 2018
– To a Body, Shoot the Lobster, New York City, 2017
– Debo Eilers, No Pushing No Stealing, WNTRP, Berlin, 2017
– Real Life, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich, 2017
– Cos only difference can return my friend, 83 Pitt Street, New York City, 2016
– Genesis BREYER-P-ORRIDGE, Vosberg, Cologne, 2016
– I Pledge Allegiance, On Stellar Rays, New York City, 2016
– Rosa Aiello / Cooper Jacoby, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2015
– Grand Opening Reception, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2015
recent teaching, talks, lectures & seminars
– (De-)Politicising Art Studies. Marxist Traditions Since 1968, TU Berlin, 2023
– The State I am In, Seminar and Lecture with Lennart Wolff, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 2022
– Reading, Das Lachen der Lämmer, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, January 23, 2022
– Reading "da ich nichts weiter tue als mich in mir umzutun,”
– Exhibiting Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Visiting School Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2021
– SEMANTIC POLLUTION - VISUALIZATION PROBLEMS AFTER KP BREHMER, Kunstverein Hamburg July 22, 2021
– Lecture/Workshop: Michèle Graf & Elisa R. Linn, On Collectivity, Self-Organization and Being Without, AdBK Nürnberg, 2021
– Exhibiting Architecture - Media, Methods, Agents, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Visiting School Zurich, 2020
– Guest Crit, Junior Research, Pratt Institute, Berlin, 2020
– ART CAN PRODUCE HISTORY – lecture with Peter Fend, The New School, Eugen Lang College of Liberal Arts, New York City, 2020
– Public Lecture, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden, 2019
– Exhibiting Architecture – Media, Methods, Agents, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Visiting School Zurich, 2019
– The Coming Community – Self-Organization, Collectivity and Representation in Exhibition Making – Public Talk / Workshop,
HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, 2019
– Workshop and public lecture, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, 2019
– Architecture of Painting – Rochelle Feinstein, Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff in conversation Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018
– Lecture National Centre for Contemporary Arts, NCCA/Nemoskva, Khabarovsk, 2018
– Public Lecture, Xitek New Talent Award, Beijing, China, 2018
– Guest Lecture Art Criticism, Department of Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University, New York City, 2018
– Guest Lecture Junior Research, Pratt Institute, New York City, 2017
– Conversation with Christian von Borries, Ben Kaufmann, Lennart Wolff, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2015
– Reading with Rosa Aiello, Hannah Black, Tess Edmonson, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2015
selected texts & publications
– Leyla Yenirce: Ich krieg Geschwindigkeit, exhibition text, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, November 2023
– A History of Conflicts after WWII: Beyond the Nation State: Towards an Epistemology of Transitional Justice, Journal for the History of Knowledge (To be published)
– The Margins of Events: Bruno Serralongue by Elisa R. Linn & Lennart Wolff, Mousse 82, 2023
– Peter Fend: AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY I PHYSIOCRATIC STATES, Sternberg Press, MIT Press 2022
– Strichjungen dürfen nicht Präsident werden, Elisa R. Linn über Jürgen Baldiga bei Cordova, Barcelona, Texte zur Kunst, HEFT #125, 2022
– Sophie Reinhold, MENACE, exhibition text, Sophie Tappeiner Gallery, Vienna, 2021
– Mikołaj Sobczak, Illiberal Arts, booklet, edited by Anselm Franke, Kerstin Stakemeier and HKW, Berlin, 2021
– A Collective Effort in Sensecore, Elisa R. Linn & Nicholas Grafia in dialogue about Gaze Faze I & II, and Times New Romans
(As Page Turning As Eye Opening), Illiberal Arts, booklet, edited by Anselm Franke, Kerstin Stakemeier and HKW, Berlin, 2021
– Complicating Meaning: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, BOMB Magazine, 2021
– Raphaela Vogel, Interview, Triennale Beaufort, 2021
– No Next Time, Nina Könnemann, High Art, Paris, 2021
– Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms, Julian Irlinger, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
– KP Brehmer, VERLORENE ARBEITSTAGE, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, 2020 - 2021
– On Nicolás Guagnini, Galerie Max Mayer, 2020
– Vessel, Piotr Łakomy, Simian, Copenhagen, 2020 - 2021
Designed by Anne Stock, 124 pages, colour, Hacienda Books, Weiss Falk Basel, 2020
– Cage of Eden, Essay Richard Sides, ars viva-Preis, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2020
– Bugs in Amber, Essay Jan Vorisek, Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2020
– Interview Sarah Schulman, What ACT UP Can Teach Us About the Current Health Emergency, Frieze, 2020
– The Ecology of Visibility, Julia Scher, DREI, Cologne, 2020
– Sung Tieu, Kaleidoscope, Issue SS20, 2020
– VON BALKEN UND SPLITTERN, León Ferrari, Texte zur Kunst, Issue no. 117 March 2020
– da ich nichts weiter tue als mich in mir umzutun, Starship Magazine 19, 2020
– A Decade Of Submission, Özgür Kar, Édouard Montassut, Paris, 2020
– ANDERE ORTE, Ariane Müller, Texte zur Kunst, Issue no. 116 December 2019
– A True Mirror Nina Beier & John Miller, Hunt Kastner, Prague, 2019
– Searchers And Sifters, Julia Scher, Texte zur Kunst, 2019
– The Thin Red Line, Sprüth Magers / Mousse Publishing, 2018
– Johannes Paul Raether, Kaleidoscope, Issue #32 Spring/Summer 2018
– KP Brehmer, Spike Art Quarterly, #54 WINTER 2018
– Michael E Smith, ARTFORUM, 2018
– Catalog Essay: Andy Boot, Floating Opera Press, 2017
– Interview Alexandra Bircken, Kaleidoscope, #31 Fall/ Winter 2017
– Michel Majerus, ARTFORUM, 2017
– Tina Braegger, The Great Fool Braegger, Weiss Falk, Basel, 2017
– Interview Pamela Rosenkranz, Kaleidoscope Berlin Gallery Weekend 6/6, 2017
– Kaspar Müller, ARTFORUM, 2017
– Amelie von Wulffen, ARTFORUM, 2017
– Timothée Calame, Frieze d/e, Issue 25, Autumn 2016
– Amy Sillman, Frieze, Issue 181, September 2016
– Focus: Anna Zacharoff, Frieze d/e, Issue 20, March, 2016
fellowships, residencies & awards
– Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona, October 2021
– Fabio Mauri Studio, Research Residency, co-hosted by Hauser & Wirth, Rome, October 2021
– Curatorial Research Programme, Danish Arts Foundation, 2021
– Research Fellowship Mexico City, Goethe-Institut, Munich, 2020
– Nomination Lorenzo Bonaldi Award for Art, GAMeC, Bergamo, 2019
– Residency Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague, 2018
– Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York City, 2017-18
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