Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, and dramaturg as well as the host of The Art of Assembly, a series of lectures and talks about the potential of gathering in art, activism, and politics (since 2021). He is co-editor of the series Postdramatic Theater in Portraits published by Alexander Verlag Berlin. 2013-17 he was Artistic Director of the Impulse Theater Festival (Düsseldorf, Cologne and Mülheim/Ruhr), 2006-12 co-programmer of the multidisciplinary festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria, and 2018-20 curatorial advisor of the Ruhrtriennale.

After completing his studies in Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen, he initially worked as a freelance theater critic and cultural journalist for large daily newspapers and national as well as international magazines. As a dramaturge he has worked at theatres and festivals such as Burgtheater Vienna, Gorki Theater Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Wiener Festwochen and Ruhrtriennale with artists like Rimini Protokoll, Lola Arias, Mariano Pensotti, Tania Bruguera or, regularly, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. He was a founding member of the independent curatorial collective Unfriendly Takeover in Frankfurt (2001-08).

Next to festivals Florian Malzacher (co-)curated, among others,

• the International Summer Academy (Mousonturm Frankfurt, 2002 & 2004),
• Dictionary of War (2006/07), Performing Lectures (Frankfurt 2004-06),
• Truth is concrete (Graz, 2012),
• Appropriations (Ethnological Museum Berlin, 2015), * Artist Organisations International (with Jonas Staal & Joanna Warsza, HAU Berlin, 2015),
• Sense of Possibility. On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Revolution (St. Petersburg, 2017), * After Supervising the Machinery (Engelskirchen, 2020),
• Training for the Future (with Jonas Staal, since 2018),

as well as various performative conferences.

Guest professorships, teaching assignments, and master classes have taken him to universities and art academies in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Giessen, Helsinki, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Oslo, Stockholm, Taipei, Vienna, Zagreb and Zurich, among others.

Florian Malzacher is (co-)editor of monographs on artists such as

• Forced Entertainment (2004),
• Rimini Protokoll (2007),
• Nature Theater of Oklahoma (2019), andCompany&co. (2021),
• and Boris Nikitin (2022).

Other publications include:

• Curating Performing Arts (ed., 2010),
• Truth is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics (2014),
• Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre of Today (2015),
• The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy (2016),
• Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy (2017),
• and The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today (2020/23).

His texts have been translated into more than 15 languages.