Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

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I work site-specifically on performances, installations, books and films. Often in collaboration and over long periods of artistic-research, my projects include monographs, theatre plays, performance lectures, video installations and text based works that you can read about under Publications.

My research is grounded in an interest in history, I have a PhD in Art and Architectural history from Harvard University. I am a Professor at the Central European University Vienna and honorary Professor and Chair of Global Art at the University of Birmingham. Combining historical and speculative research, storytelling is often my method for finding missing narratives. My interests range widely from plants to surveillance.

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Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll works on colonial histories through contemporary art. She is currently working on a comparative history of repatriation. Her art practice involves montaging words and images within films and installations that voice alternate histories through texts and performances.

Khadija holds a PhD from Harvard University and has curated/co-created various exhibitions internationally including The Lost World (Part 2), Kranich Museum, Vienna Zocolo, and Botanical Drift.

On this website you can read about the stories she is working on in situations where dislocation and conflict lay bare the historical relationships between humans and objects. Art in the Time of Colony, her monograph was published in 2014, and her other work can be seen both on her publication page and on academia.edu.

This website presents a selection of the exhibition outcomes of her research. Her performances and videos have been shown most recently at the Venice Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Art London, the Sharjah Biennale, and the National Maritime Museum London.

Inquiries are welcome, also from prospective PhD students. See the CEU pages, where she is Professor of History, for details.


Exhibitions and Screenings

2022    Tiny Unpredictable Things, Forum Wissen Goettingen Germany

Repatriates, Secession Vienna

Orchidism, ORCHID HOUSE Australia

  Wind – Contingent Agency, Liquid Architecture Melbourne

2021    Monuments to Protest, Fluc Vienna

Te Moana, St Kilda Film Festival

2020    Critical Zones, ZKM Karlsruhe

Storytelling and the Sea, Manifesta 13, Marseilles

Ocean Archive, Ocean Space, Venice

Parliament of Waters, Dubai Expo, Sustainability Pavilion

Women in Waiting, Stanford University Nitery Theatre, San Francisco

2019    Deframed, Institute of Contemporary Art London

Reflecting Relational Traces, Sharjah Biennale

Palace of Ritual, Venice Biennale

Contingent Agencies, Research Pavillion, Venice

Cook’s New Clothes, Brunei Gallery, SOAS London

Cook’s New Clothes, University of Oslo

2018    Immigrate into your Shadows, The House theatre, Plymouth

Kunst Macht Frei, Bonavero Oxford

New Work, Styrx Gallery Birmingham

Men in Waiting, Nottingham Contemporary

Art and Migration, Darwin Cambridge

The Gift, Fault Line, Australian Embassy Berlin

2017    Silver Sehnsucht, Frieze

The Restitution of Complexity, Austrian Cultural Forum London

Art in the Time of Colony Hay Festival

Snail Eating Theatre, International Film and Video Art Festival Casablanca

Shadows Talk, Konzerthaus Theatre, Bern

Limbah Berbunyi, Contemporary Art Jogjakarta

Botanical Drift, Vegetal Mediations, Translocal Budapest

2016       Imigrazie, Pesta Boneka Festival, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Screening at LUX London, and Calvert22 Gallery London

Casablanca International Film and Video Festival, Morocco

2015        Snail Eating Theatre and Dissident Domesticity SPACE Gallery, London

A Breathcrystal, Project Space Dublin & Irish Film Institute

2014        Prison House, UrbanLab, London

Botanical Drift, Kew Gardens, London, co-curated with Petra Lange-Berndt

Ethnographic Conceptualism and the City, University College London

                Allegory of Cave Painting, Extracity Kunsthal, Antwerpen

                Wilkommen, Bitte Gehen Sie Weiter, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

                Investigated, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, together with Jesse Shipley

2013        Skins Cloak, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

That Breathed, Chisenhale Gallery, London

                The Lost World (Part 2), Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge & Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart. Curated solo exhibition of Julie Gough.

2012       Partial Proclamations, permanent display, MAA Cambridge.

40,000 Years of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art London, On Language series.

The Rise and fall, performance installation, Marrakech Biennale, Morocco.

2011       Vienna Zocalo, International Biennale Xalapa Mexico, Gallery Carlos Fuentes.

Kranich Museum, permanent exhibition, Hessenburg Germany, co-curated with Alex Schweder

2010       Homebase V Berlin, cultural program, co-curated with Anat Litwin

   The Architect and The Urn, Greg Lundgren, Seattle, together with Alex Schweder

2007      Graffiti Monument, Venice Biennale, Memosphere, Rumanian Pavilion

  Europe Lost and Found, Plausible Artworlds, Philadelphia Institute of       Contemporary Art

            Track Changes, Lost Highway Exhibition, Skuc Gallery Ljubljana

PARK[ing] day, Los Angeles, with Adobe Architects

               Constructing Nature: Swiss Landscape Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

2006       Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney (Curatorial assistant to the public program)

            6: six artists from the MIT visual arts program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Centre for Advanced Visual Studies and Space Other Gallery Boston.

            DADA, with Diller Scofidio Architects, Museum of Modern Art NYC.

2005       PROJECT ZAGREB: Transition as Condition>Strategy>Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Zagreb City Museum.

2003       The Sign Painters, Platform Gallery, Melbourne; Gallerie Blumberg, Vienna; Gallery Espace, New Delhi.

Free Radicals, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, also curator of: “Low-fi Video, International Selection, Belgrade 1999-2002”, Loop.

Insert New Image Here, Soho in Otterkring Festival, Vienna.


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