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Klaus Speidel

KLAUS SPEIDEL is an art critic, theorist, and curator based in Vienna.

Theater
SIGNA’s “The Final Year” at Wiener Festwochen
By Klaus Speidel
On Jun 10, 2025

In a six-hour performance-installation at Funkhaus, Vienna, over-direction stymies the bleed between make-believe hospice and real-life aging and dying.

Exhibitions
Bruno Gironcoli & Toni Schmale’s Machines for Thinking
By Klaus Speidel
On Jul 22, 2024

At Albertina Modern, Vienna, fantastical humanoid contraptions and very literal fitness sculptures hum with new, postindustrial purpose.

Performance
Dancing With Death at Wiener Festwochen
By Klaus Speidel
On Oct 25, 2021

Productions by playwright Azade Shahmiri, choreographer Ula Sickle, and visual artist Markus Schinwald get all up in your business.

Exhibitions
Josef Bauer at LENTOS Kunstmuseum
By Klaus Speidel
On Sep 22, 2020

Has Conceptualism run out of runway? In Linz, a kind of homecoming retrospective finds a rare practitioner who still has fresh ideas.

Curation
Collective WHW on Their Appointment as Directors of Kunsthalle Wien
By Klaus Speidel
On Jun 18, 2019

Formed in Zagreb in 2000, What, How and for Whom have come into the limelight of European art by re-crystallizing the exhibition as a site of transformative politics.

Art
On Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket”
By Klaus Speidel
On Mar 24, 2017

A controversy around a painting as a symptom of an art-world malady.

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