recent & upcoming ::: in writing

  • upcoming August 2026: "Läufe und Gegenläufe der Bedingungen von Kunstfreiheit: Münchner Tendenzen in den Jahren 1978/79", Kunstchronik (Sonderausgabe: Die Zeitschrift „tendenzen“, 1960–1989).
  • "Fiction of Neutrality: Secondo Movimento" [with Victor Sternweiler], porcile.org (May 2026) [click here].
  • "Fiction of Neutrality: On Dialogues and Exclusions"[with Victor Sternweiler], porcile.org (April 2026) [click here].
  • "Eine Akademie für sich allein? Das Symposium 'Kunst und/von Frauen' 1982", Kunstchronik, Vol. 79, No. 3  (March 2026), 162-178.
  • "Maurizio Cattelan and the Re-Privatization of Art", Spike online, December 11, 2025 [click here].
  • "Playtime. For Children, Haus der Kunst, Munich", Spike, No. 85 (Autumn 2025), 120–121. 
  • "Rosemarie Trockel. Bildparodie als Entthronung von Heldentümern", in: Cahiers d'ètudes germaniques. "Avant-gardes au prisme du genre de 1945 à nos jours: Esthétiques, mémoires, actualité, No. 88 (April 2025), 65–86.
  • "Carol Rama als Opfer und Täterin des Avantgarde-Narrativs,"Kunstchronik, Vol. 78, No. 3 (March 2025), 141–146.
  • "Everything is Permitted. Amy Sillman 'Oh, Clock!' Kunstmuseum Bern" Spike, Nos. 81/82 (Winter 2024), 190–191.

recent & upcoming ::: live

  • Upcoming June 16, 2026: "Eine Akademie für sich allein? Das Symposium Kunst und/von Frauen 1982", Stiftung Van de Loo, München.
  • February 4, 2026: "Eine Akademie für sich allein? Das Symposium Kunst und/von Frauen 1982", Seminar-Workshop "Current Research", Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München.
  • December 12, 2025: "Von Kulturpolitik zum Kulturkampf: München in 1978 und die Grenzen der Kunstfreiheit", Werkstattgespräch zur Zeitschrift „tendenzen“ (1960–1989). Forschungspotenziale und Historisierung, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München.
  • July 24, 2025: "Staging the Crucible. Painted Narratives and Satirical Musings in Moscow 1909–1910", XI World Congress, International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), University College London, London.
  • October 11, 2024: "Hannah Höch. Eine Subversion im Detail", Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, Symposium "Wortgebilde. Deutungsanspruch und Selbstpositionierung  in Künstler:innenschriften der Moderne"

bio

  • Beniamino Foschini is a scholar of modern and contemporary art with interests and practices in curating, art criticism, comics, and aesthetics.
  • He has been a research associate the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and is currently a lecturer at the Theaterakademie August Everding in the same city.
  • His essays have been published internationally in academic journals such as Cahiers d'ètudes germaniques (France), K (France-Italy), Zeszyty Artystyczne (Poland), and Kunstchronik (Germany), as well as in exhibition catalogs. He has written for art magazines such as Exibart, Flash Art, and Doppiozero, and is currently a contributor to Spike. He's co-founder of porcile.org

  • His current interests include the writing of Hannah Höch, the strategies of women artists in Munich during the 1970s and 1980s, and the impacts of algorithmic thought processes on contemporary visual art.