Max L. Feldman

Max L. Feldman (born London, 1988) is a writer, critic, and educator based in Vienna.

He’s dug into forgotten German abstract painters and the wild gatherings of alleged witches from 17th century Sicily; covered minimalist sculpture in big museums and ‘ancient alien’ conspiracy theories online; produced comparative reviews of opera and school plays; written about war, architecture, illness, tourism, selfies — how we carry myths, griefs, and misunderstandings from the past into the present using the arsenal of an academic background to make sense of the emotional texture of things. If this approach has a name, it’s ‘sober surrealism’.

He studied at Heythrop College (University of London), Birkbeck College, The University of Warwick, and The New School for Social Research, New York.

Now he teaches at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna and University of the Arts Linz. He has also taught at Heythrop College, The University of Roehampton, and The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

His writing has appeared in Artforum, e-flux, Frieze, The Spectator, Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, Verso, Texte zur Kunst, Dublin Review of Books, and many others, reflecting a commitment to critical thinking across ideological and disciplinary lines.