Lukas Feichtner Galerie curated by David Harper & Martha Kirszenbaum
„The Petrified River“

* 1982 in Hackensack, New Jersey, lives and works in New York David Harper is the curator of the visual art program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York and also currently works as a freelance curator and writer. Recent projects include exhibitions at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York including The Seen and the Hidden (2009) and NineteenEighty- Four (2010), co-curated with Martha Kirszenbaum, and Fünf Räume (2011); he is also serving as the first Curatorial Fellow for the blog Art Fag City (2011) and serving as visiting critic and catalogue essayist at Indiana University (2012). His most recent exhibitions include Pariset, Steciw & Wilson at toomer labzda and Bcc#7 at STAdIUM gallery, co-curated with Karen Archey (2012).
* 1983 in Vitry-sur-Seine, lives and works in Paris Martha Kirszenbaum is an independent curator based in Paris. She has worked at the department of Media and Performance Art of the Museum of Modern Art, the department of photography of the Centre Georges Pompidou and as a research assistant at the New Museum. Independently, Kirszenbaum has organized exhibitions, projects and screenings in the United States (Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Harris Lieberman Gallery), Europe (Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, European Culture Congress in Wrocław, Galerie Crèvecoeur in Paris) and at the Marrakech Biennale. She was a curator-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and is currently guest curator at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, where she will organize two interventions. She regularly contributes to Kaleidoscope, L’Officiel and Voxpop and has led seminars on curatorial practices at the Université Paris 8 and Parsons Paris.