Mike Sperlinger

Mike Sperlinger is writer and curator based in Oslo. He is currently Professor of Writing and Theory at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art. Recent independent curatorial projects include The Social Life of Film (a congress of nomadic screening collectives in Copenhagen, 2023), and a series of exhibitions with the late German artist Marianne Wex. His writing has featured in journals including Afterall, Radical Philosophy, and Texte zur Kunst as well many exhibition catalogues, including recent texts about Ed Atkins, Gerard Byrne and Laure Prouvost. He is the author of Occasional Criticism (2018), a chapbook about autobiographically-informed film writing, as well as the editor of several publications including Afterthought: New Writing on Conceptual Art (2005) and Here Is Information. Mobilise – Selected writings by Ian White (2016). Other previous positions have included Head of Programme at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (2024-5) and Assistant Director of LUX, a London-based organisation for artists working with the moving image which he co-founded with Benjamin Cook (2001-13).