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Zyman, Daniela. Das Lachen der Quallen. Zur künstlerischen Gegenforschung jenseits des Menschen. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2024. Monograph.
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Essays, Book Chapters, and Online Publications

Zyman, Daniela. “Minor Futures: Ceremonial Practices for Ending Worlds.” In Mythopoesis for Techno-Living Systems, edited by Ursula Mayer. Vienna: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (forthcoming).

Zyman, Daniela. “In Conversation with the Liquid Planet.” In OCEAN / UNI, edited by Pietro Consolandi and Fiona Middleton. TBA21–Academy online publication, 2026 (forthcoming).

Zyman, Daniela. “Alle Träume richten sich nach dem Munde.” In the catalogue for Olaf Nicolai: Ein nicht gedeuteter Traum ist wie ein ungelesener Brief. Synagoge Stommeln, 2026 (forthcoming).

Zyman, Daniela. “Organic Technologies in the Works of Patricia Domínguez .” In Incomputable Earth—Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis, edited by Antonia Majaca, Theory in the New Humanities series. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/incomputable-earth-9781350264977/

Zyman, Daniela. “The Endless Labor of Abolition / Die endlosen Mühen der Abolition.” In Violence of Images – Images of Violence: Challenges for the Curatorial Practice, edited by Ida Clay, Zarah Gutsch, Paul-Julien Robert, and Elisabeth Schäfer, 17–36. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2026. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6956-5/gewalt-der-bilder-bilder-der-gewalt/violence-of-images-images-of-violence/

Zyman, Daniela. “Tell the Earth…” In Terrafilia. Más Allá de lo Humano en las Colecciones Thyssen-Bornemisza, edited by Daniela Zyman and Álex Martín Rod, 196–201. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2025.

Zyman, Daniela. “When a River Gains Rights / Vom Recht der Flüsse, lebhaft zu sein.” In Plop Drop Slop: Ein nasses Manifest, edited by Michal B. Ron. Paderborn: Verlag Kettler, 2025. https://www.verlag-kettler.de/de/buecher/tatort-paderborn/

Zyman, Daniela. “Thoughts on Repair and Remediation.” The Curatorial, October 10, 2025. Edited by Steven Henry Madoff, School of Visual Arts, New York City. https://www.thecuratorial.net/index/critical-curating/thoughts-on-repair-and-remediation-zyman

Zyman, Daniela. “El espacio entre la reparación y la reconstrucción,” 19–31; and “¿Y si la paz fuese un recipiente?” 153–164. In Remedios. Ecologías de la Paz, edited by Álex Martín Rod and Daniela Zyman. Madrid: Turner, 2025. https://www.turnerlibros.com/libro/remedios-ecologias-de-la-paz/

Zyman, Daniela. “Diseñar un planeta en transición.” ICON. El País Semanal, July 2025, 40.

Zyman, Daniela. “A World of Many Worlds: Enacting Abundance in Times of Scarcity / Un mundo de muchos mundos: promover la abundancia en tiempos de escasez.” In Futuros abundantes / Abundant Futures. Obras de la colección TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, edited by Eva Ebersberger et al., 17–28 and 49–59. Madrid: Turner Ediciones, 2023. https://www.turnerlibros.com/libro/futuros-abundantes/

Zyman, Daniela. “A piece about the oceans and the many ghosts, phantoms, revenants, who inhabit and have traversed them. Some ghosts are protagonists of modern history. For them, the oceans perform a specific form of labor.” In Atlantida. Estudos e Criação Artística e Literária, Vol. LXVII, 2022. Edited by WATA.

Zyman, Daniela. “The Ocean’s Many Waters.” Strelka Magazine, online publication, 2021. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/the-ocean-s-many-waters

Zyman, Daniela. “The Eightfold Way: Notes on Floating in Water and Air.” maat extended, online publication, September 2, 2021. https://ext.maat.pt/longforms/eightfold-way-notes-floating-water-and-air

Zyman, Daniela. “Entertainment for Angels: Walid Raad’s Cotton Under My Feet.” In Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet, edited by Daniela Zyman and Eva Ebersberger, 34–45. Madrid: Verlag Walther König, 2021. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Walid-Raad-Cotton-Under-Thyssen-Bornemisza/dp/3753301035

Zyman, Daniela. “Unlearning the Anthropocene Oceans.” In Oceans Rising, edited by Daniela Zyman, 32–38. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2021. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/oceans-rising/

Zyman, Daniela. “Ruderalism and the Mineral City (Lois Weinberger).” In Wait a Minute: Recorded in Vienna and Los Angeles, edited by Peter Noever and Andrea Lenardin. Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2021. https://www.schlebruegge.com/en/content/wait-minute

Zyman, Daniela, and Eva Ebersberger, eds. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/thyssen-bornemisza-art-contemporary-the-commissions-book/

Contributions by Daniela Zyman:

“The Charismatic Agency of Commissioning,” with Eva Ebersberger, 24–35.
“Green Light’s Transformative Agencies,” 104–123.
“In Conversation with Brad Kahlhamer – Post-Smithsonian Delinquency and Native Alterinstitutionalism,” 174–189.
“Dan Graham and Tony Oursler featuring Japanther and the Huber Marionettes Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, 2004 – Wild Greetings from Topanga Canyon,” 448–461.
“A Hymn to the Survival of the Artistic Spirit: The Palace of the Summerland, by Ragnar Kjartansson & Friends,” 492–515.
“Mario García Torres’s Conjectural Maneuvers,” 570–589.
“A World System Narrative for the Oceans: Allan Sekula’s Maritime Space,” 638–675.
“The Oceans Are Never Without Sounds: On and with Dark Morph’s The So(nG)qe/Tovuto Kyrrahafið Sound Field,” 802–897.
“In Conversation with Matthew Ritchie – Fractal Thinking on Cosmic, Quantic, and Political Scales,” 876–879; 1055–1079.
“Worldmaking: Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Baroque Baroque,’” 1242–1249.
“Lopudian Dreamings,” with Boris Ondreička, 1302–1309.
“Permuting, Fragile, Free-Floating Forms of Conviviality: Ephemeropteræ at Vienna’s TBA21–Augarten,” with Boris Ondreička, 1302–1309.

Zyman, Daniela. “Über das fortschreitende Verblassen des Gebräuchlichen,” 33–36; and “On the Progressive Disappearance of Habit,” 49–52. In Gilbert Bretterbauer: Cover in Colors—Different Paths to the Same Destination. Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2019.

Zyman, Daniela. “Du Petit Risoud aux profondeurs du Lac de Joux.” On Jana Winderen’s eponymous performance, edited by Audemars Piguet. House of Electronic Arts Basel, 2019. https://www.audemarspiguet.com/com/en/news/art/Jana-Winderen-Du-Petit-Risoud-aux-profondeurs-du-Lac-de-Joux.html

Zyman, Daniela. “Not Just a Fish Story.” In Allan Sekula: OKEANOS, edited by Daniela Zyman and Cory Scozzari, 22–30. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/allan-sekula-okeanos/

Zyman, Daniela. “Shifting Agencies.” In Olafur Eliasson. Green Light. An Artistic Workshop, edited by Daniela Zyman and Eva Ebersberger. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/green-light-an-artistic-workshop/

Zyman, Daniela. “On Mistakes, Failure, Unfinitude.” In Mario García Torres. An Arrival Tale, edited by Daniela Zyman and Cory Scozzari, 178–187. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/an-arrival-tale/

Zyman, Daniela, and Franziska Sophie Wildförster. “Ancestral Futures.” In Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin: Aru Kuxipa – Sacred Secret, edited by Daniela Zyman, 47–63. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/aru-kuxipa-sacred-secret/

Zyman, Daniela. “Undermining Sovereignty.” In Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest, edited by Daniela Zyman. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-sovereign-forest/

Zyman, Daniela. “LEBEN (night version).” In Carsten Höller: LEBEN, edited by Daniela Zyman. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/leben/

Zyman, Daniela, and Eva Wilson. “The Parallax Man.” In Simon Starling: Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, edited by Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman, 98–109. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/reprototypes-triangulations-and-road-tests/

Zyman, Daniela. “Who Am I, Dancing Body?” In Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, edited by Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/sharon-lockhart-noa-eshkol/

Ankele, Gudrun, and Daniela Zyman. “Handwork — Constructing the World,” 7–12; and Zyman, Daniela. “The Contradictory Nature of Things; or, Tropical Political: Los Carpinteros in Conversation with Gudrun Ankele and Daniela Zyman,” 165–175. In Los Carpinteros: Handwork — Constructing the World, edited by Gudrun Ankele and Daniela Zyman. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010.

Zyman, Daniela. “Die Balade der Untoten / The Ballad of the Undead,” 7–10. In John Bock: Die malträtierte Fregatte / Maltreated Frigate. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007.

Zyman, Daniela. “Introduction.” In Shooting Back, edited by Daniela Zyman and Gabrielle Cram, 8–19. Vienna: TBA21, 2008.

Zyman, Daniela. “Killing Time.” In Gregor Schneider: 19–20:30 Uhr 31.05.2007, edited by Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 12–21. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007.

Zyman, Daniela. “Vor Ort.” In Michael Kienzer, Tobias Pils, Markus Wilfling, catalogue for the exhibition at Museum Stift Admont, 2007.

Zyman, Daniela. “Radical Peripheries.” Život umjetnosti – Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, no. 81 (2007): 18–29. https://hrcak.srce.hr/199476

Zyman, Daniela. “Zum Verhältnis von Film, Fotografie und Kunst.” In Dennis Hopper: A System of Moments, edited by Peter Noever, 236–247. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2001.

Zyman, Daniela. “The Other Horizon: Zur Ausstellung im MAK.” In James Turrell: The Other Horizon, edited by Peter Noever, 15–19. Vienna: MAK / Hatje Cantz, 1999.

Zyman, Daniela. “Heavy/Soft Metal.” In Chris Burden: Beyond the Limits, edited by Peter Noever, 52–57. Vienna: MAK / Cantz Verlag, 1996.

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