Michal B. Ron is an art theoretician and historian. She has completed a PhD dissertation at the Free University in Berlin, on the question of time in the work of Marcel Broodthaers, as related to historical thinking, to animals, and to children.
Michal B. Ron
The Present in Drag and Drop: On the 9th Berlin Biennale
“Welcome to the post-contemporary,” say the DIS collective, curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale, with the hospitality of border control. Michal B. Ron shares her impressions of the biennial in a new critique for Tohu Magazine.
The Presence of Works
Michal B. Ron looks for eggs and feathers in Marcel Broodthaers's retrospective at MoMA
When the Angel of History Plays with Fire
Producing some of the wittiest artistic pranks in sculptures, installations, photography, and video works, in an ever more pompous art world, Fischli/Weiss have always advocated wild thinking. Michal B. Ron writes about the duo's major retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim.
No Tricks, No Scams. Marcel Broodthaers at the Fridericianum, Kassel
Did this year’s posthumous attempts at exhibiting Marcel Broodthaers's work rise to the challenge? Would his future retrospective at MoMA? Michal B. Ron is tackling these questions and their inherent paradox.
Messages in Bottles: Impressions from the 14th Art Biennial in Istanbul
The opening days of the 14th art biennial in Istanbul were haunted by a child’s ghost, three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, who had drowned during his fatal journey, fleeing Syria. Michal B. Ron on the Istanbul Biennial