Writing

monographs

Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. ff49ce17e1541baa9298514ce6ad37ae-information-circle-icon-by-vexels (1) Reviewed in Fotolot (October 2022), The Burlington Magazine (March 2023, vol. 165, no. 1440) and the The British Art Journal (Vol. 23, No.2, Autumn 2022); won Offermann-Hergarten Award (University of Cologne) and the gold medal at Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2023/2024 (German Photo Book Award).

Francis Bacon, iBook in collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon and Art Finder, launched April 2012.

Francis Bacon. Metamorphoses, London: The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2011.

editing

kunsttexte.de 4/2024, section photography, special issue Re:Visions, Katharina Günther and Jule Schaffer, launched 12/2024.

Sammlungsforschung im digitalen Zeitalter. Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen, Katharina Günther and Stefan Alschner (eds.), Göttingen: Wallstein (Kulturen des Sammelns. Akteure, Objekte, Medien; vol. 5), 2024. Reviewed in Das Historisch-Politische Buch, Vol. 72, Iss. 3-4, February 2025.

essays

Gefühlt natürlich – die Topfpflanze als Motiv in der expressionistischen Malerei, in: Grüner Wohnen. Pflanzenkulturen um 1800 und um 1900, Zentrum für Klassikforschung/Klassik Stiftung Weimar (eds.), Göttingen: Wallstein, 2026.

Aris Kalaizis, Novus Mundi, 2022, in: Aris Kalaizis, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2024.

‘Was gelernt? Olaf Metzels „Deutschstunde“ im Weimarer Schloss Belvedere, 23 October 2024, blog of Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Lee Millers Buchenwald-Fotografien: „Believe It!“, 10 April 2024, blog of Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Systemsprenger – Augmented Reality in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, in: Wohnen – Sammeln – Erinnern – Visualisieren. Raumpraktiken gestern und heute, Christoph Schmälzle and Manuel Schwarz (eds.), Göttingen: Wallstein (Kulturen des Sammelns. Akteure, Objekte, Medien; vol. 7), 2024.

Die Frau mit den Benzinkanistern. Lee Miller in Weimar, klassisch modern, annual magazine of  Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Nr. 4, 2024. Read online: blog of Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Vom Leben und Sterbenlassen in Reece Mews. Francis Bacons fotografisches Arbeitsmaterial, in: “Verschwinden” Vom Umgang mit materialen und medialen Verlusten in Archiv und Bibliothek, Madeleine Brook, Stefanie Hundehege and Caroline Jessen (eds.), Göttingen: Wallstein (Kulturen des Sammelns. Akteure, Objekte, Medien; vol. 4), 2024.

Denis Wirth-Miller’s studio collection, The Burlington Magazine, September 2023, vol. 165, no. 1446, ‘Twentieth-century painting’.

‘Goethe’s house is severely wrecked‘ – Lee Miller at Buchenwald and Weimar, The Burlington Magazine, May 2023, vol. 165, no. 1442, ‘Photography’.

‘Take it very much further away from the photograph’ – How Francis Bacon (1909–1992) appropriated the photographs of John Deakin (1912–1972), British Art Journal, vol. XIX, no. 3, Winter 2018/2019.

‘Border Crosser’, introduction to And everything becomes nothing again, artist book by Léa Habourdin, 2016.

‘The Wivenhoe Chapter – Francis Bacon and Denis Wirth-Miller’, July 2015, Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Monaco, website.

‘Working material: Bullfighting’, Quarterly Focus, November 2014, Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Monaco, website.

reviews

exhibition: Mehr wagen! Lee Miller im Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg, Rundbrief Fotografie, vol. 30 (2023), no. 4.

exhibition: ‘Denis Wirth-Miller: Landscapes and Beasts’, Firstsite, Colchester, 10/22-01/23, The Burlington Magazine, January 2023, vol. 165, no. 1438.

exhibition: ‘Das Tier in Dir. Animalisches bei Bacon’, The Royal Academy, London, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, 01/22-04/22, Kunstchronik, vol. 75, no. 12, December 2022.

book: ‘Yves Peyré, Francis Bacon ou La mesure de l’excès’, Paris: Gallimard, 2019’, Regards croisés‚ Stella Kramrisch‘, no. 11, 2021.

exhibition: ‘Neo Rauch. Handlauf, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig, 09/20-12/20’, kunsttexte.de, Sektion Gegenwart, no. 1, 2021.

exhibition: ‘Das Unglaubliche Glauben. Lee Millers Kriegsfotografien in der Kunsthalle Erfurt’, Rundbrief Fotografie, vol. 28 (2021), no. 1.

exhibition: ‘Master of Photography Edward Burtynsky at Photo London 2018′, Master of Photography Edward Burtynsky, Photo London, 05/18, Super Massive Black Hole, 6/2018.

exhibition: ‘Seeing Something: Richard Mosse’s Incoming`, Richard Mosse, Incoming, Barbican, Curve Gallery, London, 02/17-04/17, Super Massive Black Hole, 5/2017.

exhibition: ‘Maria Lassnig, A Painting Survey, 1950 – 2007′, Hauser & Wirth, London, 03/17-04/17, this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, 4/2017.

exhibition: ‘Neo Rauch: Rondo’, Gallery David Zwirner, London, 10/16-11/16, this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, 11/2016.

book: ‘Francis Bacon – New Studies: Centenary Essays’, Martin Harrison (ed.), Göttingen: Steidl, 2009, on artbooks, blog by artbooksonline, 6/2016.

exhibition: ‘Under the Influence: John Deakin and the Lure of Soho’, The Photographers’ Gallery, London 04/14-07/14, Super Massive Black Hole, issue 17 ‘The Face of Latin America’, 9/2014.

exhibition: ‘Eoin McHugh: All Cognition is Recollection’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 07/09-09/09, Circa, 8/2009.

interviews

‘Bau, Zeit, Mensch. Ein Interview mit Michael Wesely’, kunsttexte.de 4/2024, section photography, special issue Re:Visions, Katharina Günther and Jule Schaffer, launched 12/2024.

‘Perry Ogden on documenting Reece Mews’, Super Massive Black Hole, issue 18 ‘Studio’, 12/2015.

exhibitions

‘Francis Bacon. A Terrible Beauty’, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 10/09-03/10, secondary school guide, Katy Fitzpatrick (ed.).

‘Shana Moulton: Whispering Pines’, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin 10/09-11/09, exhibition text with P. E. Moore.

francis-bacon.com

for example: ‘Influence & Inspiration’, section on Francis Bacon’s artistic influences and legacy, entries on Sergei Eisenstein, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso, John Deakin, Lucian Freud, the Independent Group, Roy de Maistre and Bacon’s legacy, launched from 7/2018.

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