Matthew Rana (1981/US) is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His writing has appeared in e-flux Criticism, Jacket2, OEI, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among others, and he is a regular contributor to Kunstkritikk and Frieze. Currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, he lives and works in Stockholm.
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22 December 2023: Maratonläsning av Bernadette Mayers Midvinterdag, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm (SE)
Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022); available via Small Press Distribution
World of Yum-Yum: On Studying Hunger, The Poetry Project Newsletter, No.272
Poetry’s best-kept secret – in conversation with Matthew Rana on the cinematic work of poet Bernadette Mayer, Metropolis M
The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer, Symposium of the Network for New York School Studies, 20 April 2022, Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris, FR)
G R G W R G R B R B R B W G W G R B B B B, on Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals (Station Hill Press, 2011). Jacket2
From Memory to Reproduction: The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer, NICA Institute
Det enda som fattas är neon, review of häremellan rummen, Marabouparken, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet
9 September 2023: Poesimässan, Stockholm (SE)
9 June 2023: Bernadette Mayer Round Table, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL)
8 June 2023: this poem's got no parents, Perdu, Amsterdam (NL)
Un-Settling Art Criticism, interview with David Garneau. Kunstkritikk
In the Wait, review of Becoming, Tarik Kiswanson at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE), 26 April 2023–18 June 2023. Kunstkritikk
29 April 2023: Ardour: Poems from the Daud, Anti, Malmö (SE)
Hate the Game, review of Somalitown, Salad Hilowle at Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm (SE), 30 March 2023–6 May 2023. Kunstkritikk
21 March 2023: Chateaux Presents: Matthew Rana & Nion Editions, Fabelbar, Stockholm (SE)
Dance Revolution? review of Portrait of a Movement, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, curated by Övül Durmuşoğlu for Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (SE), 18 March 2023–20 August 2023. Kunstkritikk
Forget Rilke, review of Third Eye Butterfly, curated by Cathrin Mayer for Mint, Stockholm (SE), 1 December 2022–18 February 2023. Kunstkritikk
Mara Lee's Monstrous Demand, review of Loving Others, Othering Love: On a Few Tropes and Emotions that Shape the Image of the Stranger, Mara Lee (Praun & Guermouche, 2022). Kunstkritikk
The Politics of Bad Neighbours, review of Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art, Ina Blom (Sternberg Press, 2022). Kunstkritikk
Was Nancy Holt a Feminist or a Mystic? review of Inside Outside, Nancy Holt at Bildmuseet, Umeå (SE), 17 June 2022–29 January 2023. Frieze
The Phantasmic World of Lap-See Lam, review of Dreamers' Quay, Dreamers' Key, Lap-See Lam at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE), 9 February–3 April 2022. Frieze
Bad Contemporaneity, interview with Sianne Ngai. Kunstkritikk