Marion von Osten (born 1963) works with curatorial, artistic, and theoretical approaches that converge through the medium of exhibitions, installations, video and text productions, lecture performances, conferences, and film programs. Her main research interests concern the cultural production in post-colonial societies, technologies of the self, and the governance of mobility. She is a founding member of Labor k3000, kpD-kleines post-fordistisches Drama, and the Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture, Berlin. Since 2006 she is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Prior to that she was Professor and researcher at the Institute for the Theory of Art and Design & Institute for Cultural and Gender Studies, ZHdK, Zürich from 1999–2006 and a lecturer at the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö. Von Osten co-curated (with Kathrin Rhomberg) Projekt Migration on the history of migration in post-war Germany and was artistic director of TRANSIT MIGRATION (2003–2005), an experimental and multidisciplinary component of the larger project, Cologne, 2002–2006. Recent projects include: In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After, House of World Cultures, Berlin and Abattoirs, Casablanca, 2008–2009; reformpause, Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, 2006; Atelier Europa, a collaboration with a social scientist that included von Osten’s film project Kamera Läuft! (The Camera is Running! Material for a Film), Kunstverein München, Munich, 2004; and Be Creative! The Creative Imperative!, Museum for Design, Zurich, 2003. Her publications include: Projekt Migration (with Kathrin Rhomberg) (2005); Norm der Abweichung [Norm of Deviation] (2003); and MoneyNations (2003). Von Osten lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.
