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Andrea Steves
artist / curator / producer / organizer

About

Collaborations
  1. Museum of Capitalism
  2. Essential Services
  3. Artist Project Group
  4. deurendis
  5. FICTILIS
  6. with Ryts Monet

Publications / Writing / Talks (selected)
  1. Tracing The Line: The Promissory Politic of Climate Change (eflux)
  2. Museum of Capitalism Second Edition Publication (Inventory Press)
  3. Works Fall: On Ryts Monet and Ruins (EN / IT)
  4. Alienation in the Museum of Capitalism (FWD Museums Journal, but I will read it to you.)
  5. Art After the Future (with James McAnally)
  6. Looking for Justice Downwind of Trinity (podcast with Gem Romuld)
  7. What Is The Speculative? Sublevel Magazine
  8. Curating "Outside" of the Institution (Exhibitions on the Cusp)

Press / Interviews (selected)
  1. A View From the Edge of the Earth (interview for The Chart)
  2. “In Pursuit of A Dream Museum” -- Museum of Capitalism and Paul Farber for Monument Lab
  3. Building A Museum of Capitalism (NYT)
  4. What Would A Museum of Capitalism Look Like? (New Yorker)
  5. 100 Works of Art that Defined the Decade (Artnet)
  6. This New Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism Is Dead (Sarah Burke for Artsy)
  7. A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism

Older Collaborations
  1. RADIO GRAVEYARD ORBIT (w/Laressa Dickey)
  2. with Steffi Sembner
  3. Half-Life Collective
  4. Center for Hydrosocial Studies
  5. Double Vision in Maine / California














 
Mark
Essential Services

Essential Services is a Vienna-based atelier founded in 2020 by visual artists and cultural workers Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Andrea Steves dedicated to essential problems, and problems of essentiality, in art and beyond.

Let It Return! (working title) is a publication and exhibition edited by Essential Services (Andrea Steves & Enar De Dios Rodriguez) that deals with the pillage, plunder, and public exhibition of cultural artifacts by various institutions throughout history. The project includes texts and artistic interventions which explore various possibilities, speculations, and frictions of repatriations in the present and future, gesturing towards reparations, reclamation, and justice. The publication was the winner of the 2021 Emerging Concepts publication award from PrivatePrint and will be released in 2023.