Marina Vishmidt (1976-2024) was a American writer, editor, and critic born in Kharkiv in the former Soviet Union. She was Professor of Art Theory in the Department of Art Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna until April 2024. She was a fellow at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture and Society, Lüneburg, 2024, held the Rudolph Arnheim Guest Professorship in Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin, April–September 2022 and held a Visiting Professorship at the Department of Critical and Cultural Theory, Södertörn University, Stockholm, September 2020. She was a lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London 2016–2023 and taught art theory at the Netherlands Art Institute in Arnhem 2014–2018.
Marina’s writing, talks and non-academic works are now preserved on Memory of the Wolrd (MOTW). The linked bibliography can be accessed at https://on-vishmidt.memoryoftheworld.org and the collection at https://vishmidt.memoryoftheworld.org.