Freda Fiala

writer, researcher and curator focused on performance-based artistic practices


Exhibition Texts and Performance Reviews

[2025] “Eine Wette auf die Zukunft. Das Kyoto Experiment Festival – die wichtigste japanische Fringe-Institution” [“A bet on the future. Kyoto Experiment Festival – the most relevant Japanese fringe institution”], in Theater der Zeit, 01/2025. [in German]

2024 “The Ball Goes into Play. Carola Dertnig’s Performative Practice as Showcased in the Retrospective. An essay on the exhibition Dancing Through Life,” in Carola Dertnig: Dancing Through Life [Exhibition Catalogue] (Berlin: DISTANZ).

2024 “He Yunchangs Defensive Performativität” [He Yunchang’s Defensive Performativity], in He Yunchang: The Golden Sunshine, eds. Isolde Perndl, Alfred Weidinger, Ai Weiwei (Berlin: DISTANZ). [in German]

2023 “Rage is a good feeling” Exhibition Essay for Nick Romeo Reimann and Olivia Axel Scheucher. Kunstverein Baden. [in German]

2023 “BONES and STONES – ein Performatives Habitat des Post-Anthropozän” [BONES and STONES – A performative Habitat of the Post-Anthropocene]. Performance Review for Claudia Bosse / theatercombinat, TQW.

2022 “The Dialectics of TING” (聽的辯證法),” in This Is A Complex Sentence : Ting-Jung Chen Solo Exhibition (Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum).

2022 “Enduring the Flag: Maria Kulikovska’s 254 Performance at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin,” ARTMargins.

2022 “Tianzhuo Chen leads us in a Trance,” RADII China (online).

2021 “How to get tongue-twisters rolling. On a performance by Jaha Koo,” TQW Tanzquartier Magazine. [in English and German, print and online]