Maximilian is a curator, critic and art historian emphasizing horizontal work structures and conceiving art and curating as epistemological forms to understand critical temporalities and the non-normative. Current projects include the public program for Planetary Peasants in 2025 at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg (Halle/Saale) and the 4th-WALL Biennial 2027 for Prospect Art (Los Angeles). He was associate curator for the 70th anniversary festival at International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in 2023, and co-founder of The Real Office, Stuttgart. Maximilian curated exhibitions, among others, for Salzburger Kunstverein, aqb (Budapest), Škuc Gallery (Ljubljana), Nova BAZA (Zagreb) or ElectroPutere (Bucharest). Maximilian’s writing is published in Parnass, Artforum, BLOK, Kajet, RevistaArta and he was the 2022 Critic-in-Residence at Igor Zabel Association. He studied art theory and philosophy in Paris, Stuttgart, and Linz and at CuratorLab, Konstfack Stockholm.
Maximilian Lehner
Curator, critic and art historian conceiving art and curating as epistemological forms to understand critical temporalities and the non-normative.
