Simon Baier

Simon Baier is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Oslo. From 2017 to 2023 he was Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. He has published Field and Signal. Aporias of Painting in Malevich and Lissitzky, 1928 (2021) and co-edited Aesthetics of Equivalence. Art in Capitalism (2024).

Simon Baier er førsteamanuensis i kunsthistorie ved Universitetet i Oslo. Fra 2017 til 2023 var han professor i samtidskunst ved Universitetet i Basel. Han har gitt ut Field and Signal. Aporias of Painting in Malevich and Lissitzky, 1928 (2021) og vært medredaktør for Aesthetics of Equivalence. Art in Capitalism (2024).

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How it Stacks

Sculpture is re-articulated as a type of gathering in Silje Figenschou Thoresen’s exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo.

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Scarred Eyes

Tracey Emin’s art may often be dismissed as self-centered or banal, but her unsentimental life’s work delivers the necessary reminder that the private remains common.

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