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Books, catalogues and publications (selection)

2020

Omer Fast in München, Evelyn Vogel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16 October

Omer Fast ehrt Max Beckmann, Jüdische Allgemeine, 7 October

De Oylem iz a Goylem and Unreliable Tales: A Conversation with Omer Fast, Vincenzo Estremo, Flash Art, November

2019

Omer Fast Blends Medieval Jewish Tales with the Contemporary Grotesque, Hili Perlson, Frieze, Issue # 207

2018

The Death of the Artist, Sam Durant, Omer Fast, Till Gathmann, Tom McCarthy, Susan Ploetz, Eva Stenram, Cabinet Books

Omer Fast at James Cohan, Jeffrey Kastner, Artforum, January 2018, p. 211

2017

Omer Fast: Talking Is Not Always the Solution, Isabella Zamboni in Mousse Magazine

In conversation with Omer Fast, Laura Herman, Feature in Metropolis M, (October)

2016

Temps à l’image et cartographie, Entretien with Omer Fast, Judith Souriau, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, (Issue # 137)

View from On High, The Ambiguitites of Drone Warfare, Mark W. Scala, Nashville Arts Magazine

Omer Fast in Berlin, Verstörende Bilder, Susanne Altmann, Art Das Kunstmagazin, (November)

Omer Fast: Reden ist nicht immer die Lösung, Art in Berlin, (November)

Omer Fast, Emily Steer, Elephant, Issue # 28,

Omer Fast On the Past and Present Continuous at Baltic, Craig Hubert, Blouin ArtInfo, (March)

Omer Fast’s Remainder, Erika Balsom, Art Direction, Artforum, (January)

Re-viewing the past, Steven Cairns, Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Issue # 130, (Spring)

Omer Fast, in conversation with Aude Launay, 02 Magazine, (Winter)

Portrait: Omer Fast, Alexander Scrimgeour, Spike, Issue # 46, (January)

Les boucles filmiques dans l’œuvre d’Omer Fast et d’autres artistes contemporains, Kate Warren, Le Magazine du Jeu de Paume, (January)

2015

Omer Fast: trouble faits, Elisbeth Franck-Dumas, Libération, (December)

Omer Fast, Helen Sumpter, ArtReview (Vol 67, Issue # 7), (October)

Omer Fast on the Striptease of Revealing His Characters, Questioning Truth, and Failing Consistently, Emily Nathan, Artsy Editorial, (October)

Fast and Curious, Claire Moulène, Les Inrocks, (Issue # 97)

Truth and Other Casualties of War, Aesthetica Magazine, (October)

Omer Fast Film maker (…), Karen Wright, The Independant, (October)

Omer Fast, le roi du montage, Elisabeth Vedrenne, Connaissance des Arts

Omer Fast, jeu de rôle, Audrey Illouz, Art Press (December)

Omer Fast, Le présent continue / Present Continuous, Jeu de Paume, Paris; Baltic Center of Contemporary Arts, Gateshead; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg

Omer Fast, texts by Delfina Jalowik, Maria Anna Potocka, Omer Fast, co-published by MOCAK & Goethe Institut, Krakow

2014

Interrupting Entropy, Selections from the Betlach Collection, Santa Clara University, CA

Ways of Looking, How to experience contemporary art, Ossian Ward

ART/ HISTORIES, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Hirmer Verlag

2013

Drone Encounters, Matt Delmont, American Quartely

Art in the Drone Age, Susanna Davies-Crook Dazed and Confused Magazine, (June)

Omer Fast: Continuous Coverage, Blake Fitzpatrick, Ciel Variable Magazine, Issue # 94

Blurred Visions, Christy Lange, Frieze Magazine, Issue # 155

2012

Omer Fast, 5,000 Feet is the Best, co-published by Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo and The Power Plant, Toronto

2011

Medium Religion, ZKM/center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln Aschemünder, Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Hatje Cantz Verlag

2010

A Million and One Days, Lithuanian Art Museum

In Memory: Omer Fast, The Green Box, Berlin

Che Cosa Sono le Nuvole ? Works from the Enea Righi Collection, edition Kaleidoscope Press, Milano

Un pays supplémentaire, Pascale Cassagneau, Editions Beaux Arts de Paris

The Art of Tomorrow, Distanz

2009

Omer Fast, Editions Lunds Konsthall

2008

Catalogue Manifesta, Bolzano

Omer Fast, text by Matthias Michalka, Mumok, Walter König Editions

2008 Biennial Exhibition Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art/Yale University Press

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, published by The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.

Les Inquiets: Cinq Artistes sous la Pression de la Guerre, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Greenroom, Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Catalog, New York

The Casting, Monographpublished by The Museum of Modern Art, Vienna and Walter König Verlag

2007

Book Future Amnesia, Pascale Cassagnau, Isthme éditions, Paris

Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

2006

Why Pictures Now, Mumok, Vienne and Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuernberg

Report (Not Annoucement), published by Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, edited by Binna Choi

2005

Godville, Midway Contemporary Art and Revolver Verlag

Experience, Memory, Reenactment, published by Anke Bangma, Steve Rushton, Florian Wüst, Piet Zwart Institute

Cut/Film as Found Object, Stefano Basilico, published by Milwaukee Museum of Art

Second Sight, Prague Biennale, published by the National Galerie, Prague

The Imaginary Number Anselm Franke, published by Kunstwerke Berlin

Covering the Real: Art and the Press Picture, Hartwig Fischer, published by Museum of Fine Arts, Basel

Reprocessing Reality, by Claudia Spinelli, Château de Nyon

Life, Once More: Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Art, Sven Lütticken, published by Witte de With, Rotterdam

2004

Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life, Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, published by Skira Edition

Beyond Form, Omar Calderon, Christine Calderon, Peter Dorsey, eds. Lusitania Press, New York

2003

Facing Footage: Film in Art, textes by Brigitte Weingart, Jennifer Allen, Bernhart Schwenk, published by Ars Viva, Kultur Kreis der Deutschen Industrie

Cream 3: Contemporary Art in Culture, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Phaidon Press, London

Incommunicado, published by Hayward Gallery, London

Fast Forward: Media Art, Sammlung Goetz published by Ingvild Goetz, Munich

In Media Res: Information, Contre-Information, Galerie Art & Essai, University Rennes

Printemps de Septembre : Gestes, published by Actes Sud, Toulouse

Hidden in a Daylight, Festival Era New Horizons in Ciezzyn, Gutek Film Ltd, published by Foksal Gallery

2002

Inside out, Fifth Festival of Contemporary Art, Berlin

Omer Fast: I wanna tell you something, texts by Tracy L. Adler & Judicaël Lavrador, published by gb agency, Paris

Second Sight, Alumni Exhibition, published by Hunter College Art Gallery, New York

Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Press (selection)

2020

The Challenge Was to Articulate a Voice: Watch Artist Omer Fast Splice Together CNN Clips to Convey a Personal Message About 9/11, Caroline Goldstein, artnet news (September)

2016

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Videokünstler Omer Fast fordert unsere Wahrnehmung heraus, Ingeborg Ruthe, Berliner Zeitung, (November)

Remainder: Tom McCarthy and Omer Fast’s avant-garde explosion, Phil Hoad, The Guardian, (June)

Omer Fast’s Film ‘Remainder’ is poised to bring him a broader audience, Brett Sokol, New York Times, (April)

Omer Fast: Present Continuous review - teasing takes on sex, death and trauma, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, (March)

2014

Novel Idea, Omer Fast’s film adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s book, Remainder, Tom Morton, Frieze, (May)

2013

Avec ou sans corps, Patrick Scenama,  La République (de l’Art)

Home and away: Use of drone technology, Sanam Maher, The Express Tribune (November)

Toward a social cinema revisited, Erica Levin, Millennium Film Journal, N°58

An NSFW Masterpiece, Blake Gopnik, The Daily Pic, (October)

The Art of Work, Hard-Core Edition, Omer Fast Considers the Craft of Pornography, Blake Gopnik, The New York Times

War Game, Laura Gascoigne, Imperial War Museums, (September)

Omer Fast : 5000 feet is the best ,Sophie J Williamson, Imperial War Museums, (September)

Frieze Art fair 2013: 10 things to see, The Guardian

How Truth and Fiction Became Blurred, Charles Darwent, The Independent, (August)

Life as a US Drone Operator, Mark Brown, The Guardian, (July)

Omer Fast’s Film, 5,000 Feet is the Best, Fiona MacDonald, Metro, London, (July)

The Hunger, Katie Kitamura, Frieze Magazine, Issue # 156

Continuity, d’Omer Fast, au MAC: Les Richesses de l’ambiguïte, Éric Clément, La Presse, (May)

Komfortzone und Krieg: Alles ist politisch, Christian Pichler,Neues Volksblatt, (April)

Drone Encounters: Noor Behram, Omer Fast, and Visual Critiques of Drone Warfare, Matt Delmont, American Quaterly, (March)

Wenn Eltern ihre Kinder auswechseln, Tim Ackermann, Die Welt, (January)

Omer Fast at Arratia Beer, Maia Gianakos, Art Agenda, (January)

2012

Omer Fast On Making The News New Again, Bryne McLaughlin, Canadian Art, (September 20)

documenta, looking back and ahead, Jennifer Allen, Frieze d/e, (Summer)

Unstable Realities in Omer Fast’s Five Thousand Feet is the Best, ,Kate Warren, Discipline, (Autumn)

Omer Fast, Ines Kleesattel, Springeren, (Spring)

Documenta 13, Ute Thon, Art Das Kunstmagazine

Cologne, Omer Fast, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Astrid Wege, Artforum (February)

Chroniques d’une disparition: honte et émotion, Éric Clément, (January)

Allegory of the Cave, Smadar Sheffie, Haaretz, (February 8)

Video Artist Omer Fast Examines Power Relations, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Haaretz, (Febuary)

Documenta 13, Quinn Latimer, Art Agenda, (June 9)

2011

Omer Fast im Kölnischen Kunstverein, Stadtrevue, (December)

Ritt auf der Rakete, Der Videokünstler Omer Fast im Kunstverein in Köln, Fabian Granzeuer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (November)

Von Fallen und Fernbedienungen, Omer Fast im Kölnischen Kunstverein, Christoph Platz, Artblogcologne.com (November)

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Marion Rücker, Draussenseiter, Issue # 115 (October)

Omer Fast, Kunstaspekte (October)

Omer Fast 5000 feet is the Best, Barnaby Drabble, Metropolis M (June / July)

Omer Fast, Ines Kleesattel, springerin

Tonalité sombre à la 54e Biennale d’art de Venise, Philippe Dagen, Le Monde (June)

Out of Time, Tim Griffin, Artforum (September)

Petra Heck, Interview, Booklet NIMk, Amsterdam

Eine Geschichete des medialen Erzählens - Omer Fast im Kölnischen Kunstverein, Report-k.de (March)

True Lies?, Barbara Pollack, ART News (February)

2010

Omer Fast, Emmanuelle Lequeux, Le Monde (October 11th)

Interview avec Omer Fast, Frédéric Bonnet, Le Journal des Arts (October 22nd)

Omer Fast: Nostalgia, Laurent Boudier, Telerama (September 29th)

‘Shooting Gallery, Christy Lange, Frieze Magazine, Issue # 132, (Summer)

Rights of Passage, Mark Godfrey, TJ Demos, Eyal Weizman, Ayesha Hammed Tate Etc. Issue # 19

Nothing But the Truth, Andreas Schlaegel, Programma Magazine, (Spring)

Omer Fast, Truth Bends & Decays As It Travels, James Trainor, Art Asia Pacific, contemporary visual culture (Issue # 68)

Omer Fast: Talk Show, Claudia Wahjudi, Zitty Magazine, Berlin, (May)

Duplicated Replications: The Interventions of Omer Fast, Tina Wasserman, Afterimage, Vol # 37 No 5

 Foresight into the New African Century, Nav Haq, Kaleidoscope Issue #5 (February)

Omer Fast, Nostalgia, Joseph Wolin, Time Out New York, (February 4-10)

Subliminal Hypothesis, Kevin McGarry, Rhizome, (February)

Omer Fast, Shane McAdams, Brooklyn Rail, (February)

Is it Reality or Fantasy, the Boundaries are Blurred, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, (January)

2009

Dramatic Witness: The Art of Omer Fast, Kari Rittenbach, Art in America

The Truth Is Out There, Carly Berwick, New York Magazine, (December)

Performa 09, Emily Stokes, New York Financial Times, (November)

Performa 09: Omer Fast, Talk Show, Joshua Mack, Art Review, (November)

Omer Fast, Patricia Maloney, Artforum critic, (November)

Omer Fast at South London Gallery, Skye Sherwin, Time Out London, (November)

Pleasure & Pain: Omer Fast, Marcus Verhagen, Art Monthly, Issue # 330, (October)

Back to the Present, Interview in Displayer Issue # 3

Missing in Action, William Pym, Art Asia Pacific, (November/December)

The Dialectics of Time, Jennifer E. Quick, Trajectories, Art Gallery/University of Maryland

Of Coffins and Kids, Joey Anderson, Cornell Daily Sun, (October)

Wenn ein Europäer in Afrika um Asyl bittet, Jens Bisky, Süddeutsche Zeitung, (September)

Elisabeth Lebovici / Maria Muhle, Omer Fast, Afterall, (March)

Omer Fast, Redacting, Barbara Casavecchia, Mousse Magazine

Omer Fast im Kunsthaus Baselland, Eva Scharrer, Kunstbulletin, (March)

Omer Fast, Kristina Tieke, Artist Kunstmagazin, Issue # 78

De Grote Boodschap in Museum Contemporary ArtKate Green, Denver’ ArtInfo, (January)

Nostalgia/Matrix 230, Leigh Markopoulos, Art Practical, Issue # 4

2008

Sarah Rosenbaum-Kranson, Interview Omer Fast, Museo

Philippe Reigner, Imagine, Journal des Arts, (October)

Chen Tamir, Omer Fast, New Magic Realism, Flash Art 114, (October)

Adrian Searle, Cowpokes and Yetis, The Guardian, (September 23)

Charlotte Higgins, Liverpool Biennial: A Patchy Event, Guardian, (September 19)

Mary Voelz Chandler, Two Perspectives on Truth, Rocky Mountain News, (September 4)

Bert Rebhandel, Omer Fast, Frieze, (April)

Joanna Fiduccia, Omer Fast, Critics Pick Artforum, (April)

Bert Rebhandel, Back, Frieze, (April)

Blake Gopnik, Indelible Impressions, Washington Post, (March)

Peter Schjeldahl, Lessness, The Withney Biennial, The New Yorker, (17 March)

Blake Gopnik, Indelible Impressions, Washigton post, (7 March)

Guillaume Désanges, Omer Fast, Exit, (February)

Naoko Kaltschmidt, Wiederholung und Widerhall, issue 16 www.textem.de

Sean James Rose, Incertains Regards, Libération, (February)

Tom Holert, Attention Span, Artforum, (February)

Thomas Seifert, Irak-Krieg, Kunst und Realität, Die Presse, (January)

Astrid Mania, Omer Fast, The Casting, ArtReviews, (January)

Rainer Bellenbaum, Change of Dispositif III, Camera Austria

Joanna Fiduccia, A Multiple Eye, UOVO #17

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The Reanimator Omer Fast’s, Virtualrealities

Frank Westermeyer, The Casting, Schnitt Film Magazine, #48

Astrid Mania, Omer Fast, The Casting, ArtReviews , (January)

2007

Omer Fast im MUMOK, Kunst-Bulletin, (December)

Casting Doubt: Omer Fast at the MUMOK, Mark Godfrey, Texte Zur Kunst, Issue # 68, (December)

Ohne Drehschluss, Dominikus Muller, Artnet, (November)

Narben der Erinnerung, Dominik Kamalzadeh, Der Standard, (October)

Trau keinem Film trau keinen Bildern, Miriam Muller, Berliner Zeitung, (October)

2006

Omer Fast at gb agency, Simon Rees, Art US, # 13, (June)

Making History, Mark Godfrey, Frieze, (April)

Omer Fast at gb agency, Thierry Davila, ArtPress, (March)

 Lies and Videotape, Carly Berwick Artnews, (February)

Alexandre Quoi, Paris Art, (February)

Omer Fast in Paris, Claire Moulène, Les Inrocktibles (January)

Passé Décomposé, Elisabeth Lebovici, Libération, (January)

Joshua Mack, Modern Painters, (January)

2005

Omer Fast Godville, Nav Haq, Bidoun, (December)

Omer Fast at Postmasters, Emily Hall, Artforum, (December)

Omer Fast at Postmasters, Brian Boucher, Art in America, (December)

Omer Fast at InIVA, Eliza Williams, Londres, ArtReview, (December)

Godville Daniel Baird, The Brooklyn Rail, (November)

Omer Fast at Postmasters, Holland Cutter, New York Times, (October)

The Fast Lane, Rachel Withers, The New Statesman, (October)

Tell A Vision Pittsburgh, Bill ODriscoll, City Paper, (September)

Gated History, Sven Lütticken, Texte Zur Kunst, Volume # 59, (September)

Macht nur soviel Ihr Könnt, Ulrich Gutmair, Netzzeitung, (August)

Fresh Revisions, Ruth Lopez, Time Out / Chicago, (July)

Below the Radar, Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, (May)

At the Whitechapel London, Peter Campbell, Review of Books, Issue # 27,

2004

Voluntary Memory, Simon Gould, Contemporary, Issue # 70, (December)

Omer Fast, Contemporary Visual Arts #61, (March)

Omer Fast au Centre national de la Photographie, Les Inrockuptibles, (March)

La vidéo mode d’emploi, Jüdicaël Lavrador, Journal du CNP, (February)

Was wahr sein könnte, Sandra Danicke, Frankfurter Rundschau, (February)

Eine Nagelschere für den Vorgarten, Konstanze Crüwell, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (January)

2003

Fiction or Reality, Felicity Lunn, Artforum, (December)

Omer Fast à Postmasters, Jennifer Ostrower, Art in America, (October)

Hidden in Daylight, Anke Kempkes, Frieze # 78, (October)

Vision: Omer Fast, Chris Chang, Film Comment, (July)

History, Memory, Fiction, Brian Boucher, bbs.thing.net, (May)

 Omer Fast at Postmasters, Rachel Stevens, Flash Art, (June)

Omer Fast at Postmasters, Roberta Smith, New York Times, (April)

Goings on about Town: Omer Fast at Postmasters, Peter Schgeldahl, New Yorker, (April)

Get Real: Two contemporary Israeli artists subvert the documentary tradition, David Deitcher, Time Out New York, (April)

Based upon true stories, Régis Durand, Art Press, (April)

Based upon true stories, Silvia Rottenberg, De Witte Raaf, N°102, (April)

Whitney Biennial 2002: American Blandstand, Village Voice, (March)

Wenn ich Soldat bin Silke Hohmann, Frankfurter Rundschau, (February)

Blick aus dem Panzer, Christoph Schütte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (February)

De wereld ligt open, Jan Braet, Knack Weekblad, n°7, (February)

Aux frontières du réel, Stéphane Roussel, D Letzenbuerger Land 7, (February)

Een volle tank, Karin van Kooten, NIW 22, Cultuur, (February)

2002

Omer Fast: Citoyen dun Monde qui Cloche Le Monde, Emmanuelle Lequeux, (Aden), (June)

Never Mind the Art Police, These Six Matter, Holland Cotter, New York Times, (May)

Second Site New York Times, Holland Cotter, Art in Review, (March)

Omer Fast and Akiko Ichikawa at Momenta Art, Susan Wise, Williamsburg

2001

Some New Minds, NY Times, Holland Cotter, Art in Review : (February)

2000

Death Race, Ken Johnson, New York Times, (December)

*Omer Fast and Akiko Ichikawa at Momenta Art, Susan Wise, Williamsburg, Quarterly