Brit Barton is an artist, writer, and editor based in Zürich. She is interested in criticism as a discursive, expansive genre as it relates to contemporary and conceptual discourse.

She has published widely across international publications and exhibition catalogues. As of December 2025, she is the founder and editor of Art & Order Journal and Relative Press—two projects that correlate to time, as dual concurrent and long-term publication practices. She can be contacted here
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Selected Writings, PROJECTS, AND PROGRAMMING  


2026

Essay, Review, Editing, and Publication: Art and Order Journal, a bimonthly online publication focusing on cultural criticism through analytic and discursive text practices.

  •           Issue Seven, forthcoming: Infrastructure/Infrastruktur, Co-edited with Jennifer Teets
    Issue Six, forthcoming: On Masks, Co-edited with Max Guy
    Issue Five: Death and Taxes
    Issue Four: Swiss Risk
    Issue Three: Spring Awakening: A Tourist's Tragedy
  •           Issue Two: Double Take and Deja Vu

Essay: “The Choreography of the Encounter: On Lauryn Youden”  with the Berlin Program for Artists at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. forthcoming

Essay:  “Pigeon Theory” for Le Fond de l’Air at Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d’art Bienne, online


Feature: "On the Goth and the Pop: Best of Zurich" Spike, online

Review: "The Performance of Resistance: On Mimosa Echard" Mousse, online

Essay: "Slow down, Speed up, Don't stop" in Yearbook Temporars Susch/The Exemplary Syllabus Collection, Pt. 1, Edited by Mareike Dittmer and designed by mono.studio, online
 
Lecture: The Case of Trisha Donnelly, at University of Basel with Aïcha Revellat, Basel, Switzerland

Guest reading: "Lurker Moxie Heart: Fan Fiction Readings" with Slow Reading Club and Texte zum Nachdenken at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland; online


2025

Review: “So to Speak: On Niloufar Emamifar at Progetto” Art and Order Journal, online

Review: “On Lauryn Youden at Circuit Lausanne” Frieze, online

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: Something On Silence” with Max Guy, Good Weather, Chicago, transcript/audio forthcoming; review by Annette LePique for Portable Gray Magazine 

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: Something On Certainty” with Jennifer Teets, Agence de Voyage, Paris

Essay: “My Roman Empire: Jan Vorisek at Kunstmuseum Winterthur” in Jan Vorisek: Private Fictions, edited by Alison Coplan. Published by the Swiss Institute and Lenz Press*

Review: “On Henrik Olesen and Isidore Isou” Frieze, no. 254 (August 2025), online

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: Artists and Writers/Writers and Artists” with: Angharad Williams, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Katharina Hausladen, Mira Mann, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. Event series presented at the Swiss Art Awards, Basel. June 17-19, 2025

Publication: “Sitting Ovation: A Study in Slow Criticism” with: Angharad Williams, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Katharina Hausladen, Mira Mann, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, edited by Brit Barton, edition of 300. Not for sale, online or public distribution

Profile: “The Risk Analyst: On Virginia Ariu” Mousse Magazine, no. 92 (June 2025), online

Essay: “Quick to Feel, Slow to Say: Five Texts on Unstructured Feeling”, Untitled ETH publication

Lecture: “The Hidden Texts of Lauren Berlant” with Waves at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich


2024

Review: “On Ian Penman’s Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors” The Public Review, online

Essay: “City Slicker” in Max Guy: But tell me, is it a civilized country? at the Renaissance Society, published by the Renaissance Society and University of Chicago Press* 

Lecture: “Power, Corruption, Lies: On Andrea Fraser at LUMA Westbau” at the University of Zürich

Review: “Horror Patriae: Steirischer Herbst ’24, Graz” Mousse Magazine, online

Essay: “Pope.L 1955-2023” Texte zur Kunst, no. 134 (June 2024)

Essay: “Sleights of Hand and Circumstance” Karen Moser at Stadtgalerie Bern, edited by Katharina Hausladen. Published by Stadtgalerie Bern*    

Letter: “An Encapsulated Audience: On Jan Vorisek” PW Magazine, online


2023

Review: “Interdependencies at Migros Museum” Mousse Magazine, online

Essay: “Push Comes to Shove: Fugacity at Linnahall” PROVENCE*

Essay: “A Review of a Review Makes it a Feature: with Iris Touliatou” PROVENCE*

Review: “False Friends: On Iris Touliatou’s Gift at the Kunsthalle Basel” The Public Review, online

Discussion: “On Video Art Today” with Ian Wooldridge at Blue Velvet Projects

Reading: “Pippa Garner: Selected Readings” with Hard to Read at the Kunsthalle Zürich


2022

Profile: “Don’t Flinch: On B. Ingrid Olsen” Mousse, no. 82 (December 2022), online

Review: “Autoerotics: Pippa Garner at Kunstverein München” Texte zur Kunst, online

Essay: “The Anxiety of Autobiography: Trajal Harrell” PAJ: MIT Press, vol. 44, no. 3 (Sept. 2022)*

Review: “Monotonous Methods: Dora Budor” Texte zur Kunst, no. 126 (June 2022)*

Review: “Sisyphus in Vortex: Laura Grisi” Texte zur Kunst, no. 126 (March 2022)*


*PDF available upon request


Education, Awards, and Fellowships

2025

Guest resident at Muzeum Susch, Susch, Switzerland

2024         

Swiss Art Awards: Critique, Publishing, Exhibition (Laureate)

2018         

Chicago Manual of Style Certificate, Graham School at the University of Chicago 

2016 - 2018     

Inaugural Artist Award and Fellowship, the Arts Club of Chicago

2017 - 2018     

Teaching Fellowship, the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Art 

2016         

Master of Fine Art, the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Art 

Thesis advisors: Pope.L and Matthew Jesse Jackson, Ph.D. 





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