b. 1994, Scunthorpe, UK
lives and works in Vienna, AT

2017-2019, MA Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2012-2015, BA History of Art, University of Oxford

Miriam Stoney is a writer, artist and translator.

­Exhibitions, Performances, etc.

2024
dilithium, chapter 2: doppelgängers – Group exhibition for curatedby at EXILE, curated by Jen Kratochvil, Vienna, AT
I can't just, or I just can't / You could just – Performance / Workshop for Church of Ignorance at DH5, Linz, AT
Solo presentation with house of spouse at Art-o-Rama, Marseille, FR
I'm just saying – Performance with Robert Schwarz at Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE
A very one-sided discussion / Eine sehr einseitige Diskussion – Audioguide for Unknown Familiars. The Vienna Insurance Group Collections at Leopold Museum, Vienna, AT
Assistances (Ongoing Title) – Presentation for workshop at Akademie der bildenden Künste Nürnberg, DE
Eckdaten – Solo exhibition at Brunette Coleman, London, UK
Doppelte Buchführung – Reading for Thomas Baldischwyler book launch, BEEK, Hamburg, DE
Begegnungen / Encounters – Lecture performance & group exhibition at Austrian Cultural Forum London, UK
2023
Systems of Support – Group exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein, AT
Otherwise Humane – Reading in the installation The Most Humane with Tom Glencross, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT
aus dem Außen hineingesagt (from the Outside spoken in) – Artist talk at Salzburger Kunstverein, AT
Just to let you know – Performance with Robert Schwarz, Kunstverein München, DE
Unwissen – Book selection at about_bookshop, Berlin, DE
Kyiv Biennial 2023, Main exhibition at Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT
Persuasion – Solo presentation for Monster & Zeitfragen at Maksimum Kubik, Berlin, DE
Not Either Or, But And – Group exhibition for VCT Statement curated by Laura Amman at das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
Über das Neue – Group exhibition at Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
Just to let you know – Performance with Robert Schwarz, curated by Juliane Bischoff at Klosterruine Berlin, DE
Nora, or Dora – Performance for DOLLHOUSES, group programme in Riehl, Cologne, DE
Sinngemäß: Trajectories of Despair – Reading performance with Sophia Eisenhut, Tanzquartier Wien, AT
The Tether-Tennis Symphony – Performance lecture for Inkarnationswochenende with Tom McCarthy & Suhrkamp Verlag, daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
2022
Common Notions – Duo exhibition with Katharina Schilling at house of spouse, Vienna, AT
Schlechte Wörter – Live performance at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Because you remind me of you – An evening of readings with Albin Bergström, Leonie Huber and Martin Karcher at Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, AT
All along, the x-axis – Performance Passage, curated by Andrea Maurer, Museumsquartier, Vienna, AT
Remain Calm: Live + – Live performance with Nile Koetting and Nozomu Matsumoto in Roter Salon, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, DE
Debt Verses – Publication project for The Fortune Teller: Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron with Northing Space/Bergen Assembly, NO
Rehearsals of Madness with Laura Hatting, Krõõt Juurak, Sophia Roxane Rohwetter and Miriam Stoney – Reading/Performance at Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, AT
Twenty-seven years of hurt – Performative reading for Public Fictions book launch at Museum Morsbroisch, Leverkusen, DE
„nominiert …“ Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendium 2022 – Group exhibition at mumok, Vienna, AT
Living Slippy – Performance for Blickle Archive Series #53: Surface Tension, curated by Mirela Baciak at Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
Consuming Spirits: A Conversation on the Fantastical Self-Regard of the Autonomous Subject, Permeable Identities and the Remainders of Animism – Talk with Niklas Lichti at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
Keeping Tabs – Performative reading at ABC, Hamburg, DE
Befindlichkeiten – Group exhibition curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster at Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin, DE
Education, Education, Education. – Image spread for Texte zur Kunst, issue no. 125 "GENRES AND GESTURES OF DISSENT"
2021
Jahresgaben – Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, AT
Wet Bias: ­ magazine Release – Reading at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Big Critical Energy: Book Presentation – Conversation with İpek Hamzaoğlu, Leonie Huber, Valerie Ludwig and Andrea Zabric, Exhibit Forum/Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AT
PlusX w/ and yes I said yes I will Yes hosted by Tabea Marschall + Luisa Kleemann – Cashmere Radio
Autohaus St. Marx – Group exhibition organised by Benjamin Hirte, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, AT
The Poiesis of Composting – Textual contributions for booklet and group exhibition at Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AT
DOLLHOUSES – Performance with Olga Gry Becker, Liza Dries, Jakob Engel, Moritz Englebert, Paula Erstmann, Rosanna Graf, Lisa Klosterkötter, Philomena Lauprecht, Niels Bendix Neumann, Johannes Hoffmann, Signe Raunkjaer Holm, Philipp Joy Reinhardt, Miriam Stoney, My Anh Chi Trinh, Gesa Troch & Frederik Vium, Hotel Heimat, Hamburg, DE
Because you remind me of you – An evening of readings with Benedikt Bock, Laura Hinrichsmeyer and Simon Nagy at schleuse.biz
Mit dem ganzen Körper greifen, avec la langue especially – Reading for Laube zur schiefen Lage with Benedikt Bock at Cabaret Voltaire (Münsterhof), Zurich, CH
and yes I said yes I will Yes – Group exhibition at Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin, DE
I have been / Correct me if I'm wrong – Performance for Вокзал для двоих. Bahnhof für zwei at Pik Deutz, Cologne, DE
Volks Center – Texts for video work by Nile Koetting for Armen Avanessian & Enemies: Next Waves Theater, Volksbühne Digital
Indebtedness: Die Haftung der Geschenknehmenden – Solo exhibition with Tom Glencross, Yung Singh, ao., Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, AT
Three fantasies of dethronement in a pathology of want – Poetry contribution for Info UnLtd ft. Schloss Salon, hosted by Sofia Leiby, Cashmere Radio
2020 
Jahresausstellung – Group exhibition with MA Critical Studies class, Ungargasse 38, Vienna, AT
Parasite Salon with Jackie Grassmann, Leonie Huber and Simon Nagy, ao. – for Cruel Summer Camp, Exile, Vienna, AT.
The exquisite solitude of the city cyclist – Audio play featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing Arts with Gemma Cairney
SILKY SOFT BIOMETRICS / What’s a brown girl to do? – Textual performance and sound installation at Haus Wien, Vienna, AT
Remain Calm (Reduced +) – Text and performance with Nile Koetting a.o., Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Experience screams, “Growth through Destruction!” – Reading for Texte zum Nachdenken, Zurich, CH
The human argument on Berzelius  – Audio contribution in collaboration with Vinzenz Schwab, for PlusX with Nile Koetting & the Satori Culture Center hosted by Dylan Spencer-Davidson, Cashmere Radio
SILKY SOFT BIOMETRICS / What are you if not evil? – Virtual Listening Session with EBM(T) for Mutant Promise at Somerset House Studies, London, GB
Conversation pieces ­­– Audio work for exhibition by Richard Frater, What remains of a naturalist, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, NZ
HAUS & FREU(N)DE – Group exhibition with Gleb Amankulov, Lisa Jäger, Tabea Marschall and Antonia Nannt, Schweidlgasse 15/14, Vienna, AT
2019
Remain Calm – Text and performance with Nile Koetting and others, Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Shanghai, PRC
~ Paradise Found at Klosterruine Berlin, DE
~ Kunstverein Göttingen, DE
Kaskade – Text and reading with Richard Frater and Karamia Müller, Tropez, Berlin, DE
Big columns that lack artistic taste, or: Better learn history by reading books – Text and reading for launch of Fluff by Philip Poppek, Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

Selected Texts

2023
AUTRE-FICTION: 1. to /ˈɹaɪt/ every Homonym according to Desire not purpose | 2. Swan Song on repeat | 3. morality cast off as Trash, e.g. “[true Fact], or my Name isn’t Oscar Wilde!” – Essay for GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP Magazine
2022
Debt Verses – Narrative poem, Chinese and Norwegian translations (Bergen: Kinakaal Vorlag/Bergen Assembly)
Twenty years of hurt – in Public Fictions, edited by Anna Dietz and Johanna Terhechte (Berlin: Distanz Verlag)
Schlechte Wörter / Bad Words – Text contribution for audio series, HKW, online here.
Good Assistants – in dis/claim, online here.
2021
People to whom I could say things – in ­ digital magazine, Wet Bias, online here.
The chapter house – for Armin Lorenz Gerold, Verstärkung (Amplification) at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark & Montez Press Radio
Die Liebe hat keinen Rhythmus – WUK Magazin, online here.
 “I had a thought,” “I hope you were sitting down.” – Maruša Sagadin, A Happy Hippie (Leipzig: Spector Books)
On the limits of representation: I cannot be knowing – Nora-Swantje Almes, How to Fall in Love with Anxiety (Leipzig: Edizione Multicolore)
Scunthorpe Correspondences – written with Tom Glencross for the exhibition Indebtedness: Die Haftung der Geschenknehmenden at Kunstverein Kevin Space
We fools on fertile ground, or: Where angels fear to tread – Leonie Huber, Valerie Ludwig & Andrea Zabric (eds.), Big Critical Energy (Vienna: Schlebrügge)
2020                            
The Winks / Growth through Destruction – for Texte zum Nachdenken #5 (Zurich)
Notes on Translation – Philip Poppek, ‘est pas une, (Eindhoven: Onomatopee)
The thing about holes is that they have boundaries – Anna Holzhauer, Tunnel als Löcher (Dortmund: Verlag Kettler)
2019                            
If narrative emerged from psychedelic patterns and therapy really worked – Exhibition text for Katharina Schilling, The Second Day, stadium Berlin
A thousand metres back and forth maps but a single circuit in – Agathe Bauer, Issue Zero: Picking Up Promises (Berlin: TLTRPreß)
Some meditations, or rather mediations, on the way to relief – Luise Marchand, Die Zeichen stehen gut (Leipzig: Edizione Multicolore)