About
Maggessi received an MA in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) and a BA in Communication Design from the Mainz University of Applied Sciences (DE). His writing has been published in Big Critical Energy (schlebrügge.editor), re-coding every day technology (the working group for unusual output media), springerin magazine, and more. He is also a board member of ig bildende kunst and a founding member of kuntsverein.
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
A Sketch for Wolfgang, Qwien (Vienna)as M/M.
The Mirror, The Corridor, Piana Gallery (Kraków)as M/M.
One Flushed Cheek, 8B®1 (Vienna), with Seth Weiner & Sadie Siegelas M/M.
Fokus: Glanzstoff, Tangente St. Pölten, Glanzstoff Areal (St. Pölten), with Julia Wieger.
being (t)here, Rundgang 24’, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, with Sattva Giacosa.
when the pool is raining, MKC Gallery (Split)as M/M.
there’s room to sprawl, time freezes in a sense, SPEDITION (Bremen)as M/M.
In the Meantime of a Wormhole, VBKÖ (Vienna)as M/M.
Group Exhibitions
Living Apart Together, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna)as M/M.
HIDEAWAYS/GIVEAWAYS, Festival der Regionen (Upper Austria)as M/M.
Über das Neue. Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus, B21 (Vienna)as M/M.
PARCOURS, magda hotel (Vienna).
To work the room, Rundgang 20’, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Performances
Wormhole Stories, Lecture performance, Rehearsals for future conversations, MORPHO/KunsthalExtraCity (Antwerpen)as M/M.
Wormhole Stories, WUK performing arts (Wien)as M/M.
Wormhole Stories #3: Flash/Dim, imagetanz festival (Wien)as M/M.
Wormhole Stories #2: To Mean Time, Bears in the Park (Wien)as M/M.
Wormhole Stories #1: Duration Trouble, artist statement #14, Kunstraum Lakeside (Klagenfurt)as M/M.
dot, pause, dot, dot, The New Normal Festival, Volkstheater (Wien)as M/M.
48h Büro, Rathausplatz Mainz, putputput festival (Mainz).
Curatorial Projects
Codes and How to Conduct, ig bildende kunst (Vienna), curated exhibition in collaboration with Ruby Sircar.
Chance Meetings, Blickle Kino, B21 (Vienna), curated screening-cycleas M/M.
The Wreading Library, Volkskundemuseum (Vienna), in collaboration with Rafał Morusiewicz and Ruby Sircar.
Emergent/cy, Entre (Vienna), group exhibition, curated in collaboration with Marilyn Volkman and Rafał Morusiewicz.
Fever Dreams, Blickle Kino, B21 (Vienna), curated screening-cycleas M/M.
an archive, a body, an album, and a story, Klub Kocka (Split), exhibition and publication launchas M/M.
Turning, Turns, Blickle Kino, B21 (Vienna), curated screening-cycleas M/M.
an archive, a body, an album, and a story, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse (Vienna), exhibition and public programas M/M.
Edit Affects, Blickle Kino, B21, curated screeningas M/M.
The Poiesis of Composting, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse (Vienna)as M/M.
Publications
An overhead shot of two gloved hands opening an acid-free box, published by Guilherme Maggessi, Rafał Morusiewicz, and Ruby Sircar, edition of 50.
Arhiv tijelo album i priča [An Archive, a Body, an Album, and a Story], published by queerANarchive (HR).
Mischief Managed. Notes on the queer use of maps, maps that are queer, and other technologies of way-finding-and-making in: Re-coding Everyday Technology, ed. Working Group for Unusual Input and Output Media.
Wormholes and Archives: Queering Artistic-Research Practices, springerin, Queer Postsocialist, Heft 3/2023, 18-22as M/M.
“Fields are, of course, made”: Notes on Decomposing Violence in Representation in: Big Critical Energy, hrsgb. v. Leonie Huber, Valerie Ludwig, and Andrea Zabric (Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor), 143–149.
In Conversation, Blind Spot – Spaces of Lockdown, Film Place Collective.
Bibliography
Über das Neue. Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus [exhibition catalogue], eds. S. Rollig, C. Erharter, C. Slanar, L. Ziaja (pp. 98-105). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
G. Ratzinger, F. Thalmair, Statement #14, Duration Trouble (In the Meantime of a Wormhole #1), in: Vollendete Zukunft. Future Perfect, eds. G. Ratzinger, F. Thalmair (pp. 59-61). Verlag für moderne Kunst.
Teaching
Popcorn, Crocodiles, and Ugly Flags, Kids Workshop with Juca Fiis, 8B®1 (Vienna).
Collaborating, Composting, and Queering Singularities, Collective Publication Workshop with students from Webster St Louis, Art Abroad Program lead by Seth Weiner, Webster Vienna (WVPU)as M/M.
Master Projekt Seminar (in collaboration with Rafał Morusiewicz and Ruby Sircar), Summer Semester 25, Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Seminar “Other Grids, queer cut-ups,” Gender-Queer-Decolonial Lecture Series, Summer Semester 25, Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Media Theory Seminar (with Dr. Jakob Krameritsch), Winter Semester 24/25’, Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Guest Lecture at Master Seminar: Reading Film Through a Feminist Lens, lead by Rebecca Jane Arthur, KASK & Conservatorium (Gent)as M/M.
Curatorial Studies Seminar (with Rafał Morusiewicz), Summer Semester 22’, Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Education
M.A., Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Master in Critical Studies, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies.
B.A., University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Kommunikationdesign, Fachbereich Gestaltung.