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Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil.

Ana Hoffner

PhD

Univ.-Prof. for Artistic Research⋅Institute for Open Arts

Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* is an artist, researcher and writer. She* works within and about contemporary art, art history, cultural studies and critical theory. She is interested in queerness, displays of global capital, coloniality and the East, forms of escape, early psychoanalysis as well as politics of memory and war. Hoffner works with video, photography, installation and performance.

She* employs means of appropriation such as restaging photographs, interviews and reports, and searches for ways to desynchronize normative belongings of body and voice, sound and image. She* works explicitly against the current domination of corporate aesthetics, images of disgust and horror and the right-winged establishment by insisting on analysis, contextualization and reflection. Hoffner seeks to introduce temporalities, relations and spaces in-between iconic images and highly performative events of our totalizing contemporaneity.

_{*on the crossroads of who was born 1980 in Paraćin (Yugoslavia), who was moved in 1989, and received capitalist citizenship (Austria) with a new name in 2002.}

Monographies

Contemporary Unconscious
Sternberg Press, MIT Press, 2023.
The Queerness of Memory
b_books Berlin, 2018.

Dissertations

Desynchonizing the Contemporary
Dr.phil, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2014, Appraisers: Sabeth Buchmann, Lee Edelman
The Queerness of Memory - Historicity, Belatedness and the Embodiment of Trauma.
PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2014, Appraisers: Renate Lorenz, Anette Baldauf and Suzana Milevska

Contributions for Catalogues and Books

Hexenküche (the witch rarely appears in the history of the proletariat). In: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. Ed.: Ines Kleesattel (with Angela Anderson). (peer reviewed)
With and against Contemporaries - Anna Daucikova’s 33 Scenes. In: Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice. Ed.: Anamarija Batista, Berlin: De Gruyter 2022.
The Time in Time of Hospitality. In: They’ll Never Walk Alone. The Life and Afterlife of Gastarbeiters. Ed.: Boris Buden, Lina Dokuzovic, Vienna: transversal texts 2018, p. 161 - 179
Transferred Memories - Embodied Documents/The Queer Family Album. In: Destination Vienna ebook, http://kunsthallewien.at/kataloge/Destination-Wien-2015 (8.07.15)
Kunst-basierte Forschung und methodischer Störsinn. In: Critical Studies, Kultur- und Sozialtheorie im Kunstfeld. Ed.: Elke Gaugele & Jens Kastner, Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2015 (with Anette Baldauf)
Methodischer Störsinn. In: Künstlerische Forschung. Ein Handbuch. Ed.: Jens Badura, Selma Dubach, Anke Haarmann et al. Zürich: Diaphanes 2015. (with Anette Baldauf), p. 81 - 84
Queer Archive and Queer Memory: Chronopolitical Reflections on the Family Album. In: Not Now! Now! Chronopolitics, Art & Research, Ed.: Renate Lorenz, Berlin: Sternberg Press 2014, p. 50 - 55
After the Transformation / Future Anterior - Illustrations of War. In: ... Was ist Kunst? ... Resuming Fragmented Histories, Ed.: Sandro Droschl, Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2014, p. 170 - 175
Examples and Case Studies of Artistic Research: Queer Memory - Historicity, Neglect and the Embodiment of Trauma. In: Share, Handbook for Artistic Research Education, Ed.: Mick Wilson & Schelte van Ruiten, Amsterdam: Share Network 2013, p. 78 - 80
Check Instead: The Colonial Matrix of Power!. In: Utopia of Alliances, Conditions of Impossibilities and the Vocabulary of Decoloniality, Ed.: The Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Geneologies, Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2013 (with Ivana Marjanovic, Miltiadis Gerothanasis and Marissa Lobo), p. 148 - 155
Wissensdramatisierung - Sprechstück. In: Diktatorpuppe zerstört, Schaden gering - Kunst und Geschichtspolitik im Postnazismus, Ed.: Lisa Bolyos/Katharina Morawek, Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag 2012, p. 340 - 341
Was ist Kunst - a Product of Circumstances?. In: Private Investigations - Paths of Critical Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art, Ed.: Andrei Siclodi, Innsbruck: Büchs’n’Books - Art and Knowledge Production in Context, Volume 3, 2011, p. 76 - 87
Transition: Knowledge, Migration and Difference. In: Are you talking to me? Ed.: H.arta/Katharina Morawek, Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2008, p. 12 - 17
Panika: pervertirana. In: Kontekst Arhiva 06/07/08. Ed.: Vida Kneževic and Ivana Marjanovic, Beograd: Kontekst Beograd 2008, p. 87 - 89
Gazimestan 08. In: Exhibition catalogue, 49th October Salon. Artist-Citizen, Contextual Art Practices, Cultural Centre Beograd 2008, p. 208 - 209

Contributions for Journals and Magazines

Wo Kunst Geschehen kann - Die frühen Jahre des CalArts. In: springerin, issue 4, winter 2020.
VALIE EXPORT: Collection Care / Hommage à VALIE EXPORT. In: Camera Austria International, issue 152, 2020.
The Availability of the East. A Conversation with Sónia Melo and Flavia Matei, conducted by Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*. In: thirsty for words, Kunsthalle Vienna, 2020.
Jens Kastner: Kunst, Kampf und Kollektivität Die Bewegung Los Grupos im Mexiko der 1970er-Jahre. In: springerin, issue 3, fall 2020. Hans Haacke - All Connected. In: springerin, issue 2, spring 2020.
Non-aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-Orientalism, and Queerness. In: e-flux Journal #97, February 2019, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/97/252398/non-aligned-extinctions-slavery-neo-orientalism-and-queerness/
Excerps from ‘The Queerness of Memory’. In: The Large Glass. Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory, No. 25/26, 2018, p. 118 - 128
Queer look, Future Anterior and the Image of War. In: Analyze. Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies, Issue No. 8/ 2017, p. 65 - 88 (peer reviewed)
The Time in Time of Hospitality. In: Remembering Gastarbeiters: Labour and Migration in the Age of Neoliberalism, transversal journal, 07/18, https://transversal.at/transversal/0718/hoffner/en
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985. In: springerin, issue 4, autumn 2018, p. 65 - 67
“...Wissensproduktion als Möglichkeiten des Eingreifens zu verstehen...”. Kunst, Forschung, Politik im Gespräch mit Ana Hoffner und Nicole Alecu de Flers. In: Bildpunkt - Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst, spring 2018, p. 10 - 12
Interview with school (Yasmina Haddad, Andrea Lumplecker). In: version, Nr. 3, 2017, p. 31 - 32
Ein kobaltblauer Teller. In: Theater der Zeit. scores 12/14. Opening (Stadt) Parcours, No.12, December 2014, p.4
After the Transformation (Transcript of a video). In: arta - revista de arte vizuale, No.11, 2014, p. 54 - 55
(Post)koloniale Sexualitäten, queere Aktionen - Assemblagen visueller und diskursiver (Wissens)Produktionen im Prozess der Europäisierung. http://eipcp.net/projects/creatingworlds/hoffner/de (07.11.12)
Performative Praktiken als queer migrantische Überlebensstrategien - Transkript einer Präsentation an der UdK, Berlin. In: Ve.schheft, No. 5, April 2012, p. 2 - 3
Celebrations of collapse: Some notes on Ivan Jurica’s film 1989 - 2009: Look Back! Boys from Town Healing the Grief of Beautiful Girls. In: Your periphery is my center, Lost in Transition, Ed.: Rael Artel, July - August 2011, p. 12 - 17
SOS Queer - Die ‘Einheit Europas’ wird durch einen sexuellen Rettungsdiskurs gestärkt.In: an.schläge - Das feministische Magazin, Oktober 2010, p. 20 - 21
Check instead: the Colonial Matrix of Power. In: Kulturrisse - Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik, No.1 2010 (with Ivana Marjanovic)
Movement, privatized. In: Reartikulacija - Artistic, Political, Theoretical, Discursive Platform, No. 6 2009
Bewegung, privatisiert. In: Bildpunkt - Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst, Praxistheorien, Herbst 2009, p. 12
Hunde, die bellen... Keine Geschichten über MIgration. In: Kulturrisse - Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik, No. 4 2008, p. 64 - 68
Moebius. Self-production in the framework of the Working Grant, Vienna, 2008
Panic: Perverted. In: Reartikulacija - Artistic, Political, Theoretical, Discursive Platform, No. 4 2008

2022

VOICES, (curated by Michaela Schwentner), echoraum, Vienna
Materiality of Memories (curated by Borjana Gaković and Madeleine Bernstorff), Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
Disenchanted Labor – Breaking the Spell of Capitalist Reproduction (curated by Anne Faucheret and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*), mumok cinema, Vienna

2019

Transform she said #4, Blicke Kino/ Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna
Queer Experimental Film Night, Queer Stories, Kino Lumiere, Bratislava

2018

The Queerness of Memory, Screening and book presentation with Karolin Meunier, Lothringer13_Florida, München & b_books, Berlin

2017

Afterimages – Art Practice in Times of Conflict, Screening and Talk, International Experimental Engraving Biennial - IEEB7, Atelier 030202, Bucharest

2016

Transferred Memories - Embodied Documents, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Un_University Platform, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2015

Share - too much history, MORE future, National Museum of Montenegro, Atelier DADO Gallery, Cetinje

2014

Share - too much history, more future, donumenta Regensburg, Cinema Andreasstadel & Moderna Galerija, Metelkova, Ljubljana & The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade & MSU, Zagreb & 21er Haus, Vienna & International Videofestival namaTRE, Trebinje
The Production of Space – Architecture as Site as Stage as Screen as Ruin as Movement, Videoex Festival, Zurich

2013

EGO fütter mein, Living Room Producs, Liquid Loft, Vienna
Shifts in Time - Performing the Chronic, mumok Kino, Vienna

2012

History Lessons, mumok Kino, Vienna
PANic 7, Performance and Video, mediaOpera, Rinderhalle, Vienna
Wisdom of shadow, 4th Sinop International Biennial “Sinopale 4”, Pervane Medresesi / Madrassa, Sinop
Performative Screening #11, Almost present, but not quite, school, Vienna

2011

Decolonial Aesthetics, Fredric Jameson Gallery & Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham

2010

Europe, war, migrations and queer, El "ParQuerdero", Museum of art Banco de la Republica, Bogota
City of women, Kinodvor, Ljubljana
elles tournent, Brussels Women's Film Festival, Le Botanique, Brussels
Internationales FrauenFilmFestival, Filmpalette, Dortmund/Köln

2008

Bleiberecht für alle!, Schikaneder, Vienna

2006

Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinema, Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival, Paris

2005

Aprilski susreti, SKC Galerija, Beograd