Dr. Frank Wasser
The Archivorum Publication Award is presented to Dr. Frank Wasser, featured in the Emergent section of miart by COMMUNE gallery in Vienna, for a lucid and incisive artistic practice that rigorously engages with structures of power, class, and identity.
Through performance and theoretical research, Dr Frank Wasser does not simply question the conventions of art, but exposes its internal dynamics, opening up spaces for reflection that resist the superficiality and speed of the contemporary system.
Archivorum was founded from this very urgency: to create a space where art is not only about visibility, but about real possibility. A context in which opportunities emerge because they are actively built, with the intention of addressing a gap in a landscape that too often chases the ephemeral.
Supporting Wasser was therefore a natural gesture. The publication is not merely an award, but an extension of his practice: a tool to accompany and amplify a body of work that deeply intertwines theory, writing, and action.
With this recognition, Archivorum aims to contribute to strengthening a more layered and rigorous field of reflection, making space for perspectives that do not seek immediate consensus, but instead build a necessary critical discourse over time.