Kero Fichter
Kero Fichter is a Vienna-based art historian and writer whose work and public programming focus on sexuality, gender relations, body images, and queer perspectives in Western visual culture, especially Renaissance and early modern art.[1][2]
Education and academic work
Fichter holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Glasgow and a master's degree from the University of Vienna.[3]
In 2021, Fichter completed a master's thesis titled Two contour copies after Hans Baldung Grien and the sexualisation of the Fall of Man in the German Renaissance, supervised by Werner Telesko.[4][5]
Fichter worked in research at the Neue Galerie of the Hessen Kassel Heritage.[6] From 2021 to 2023, Fichter worked as an assistant curator in traineeship at Hessen Kassel Heritage, where Fichter collaborated on the exhibition Old Masters – A Queer Reading.[7]
He did research focused on sexuality, body images, and gender relations in the late Middle Ages and early modern period.[8]
Fichter has published on early modern visual culture, including the experimental printed book around 1500 and queer identities in early modern art.[9][10]
Queer art history and public programming
Fichter has participated in queer art history projects in Vienna, including lectures and curatorial work addressing gaps in art historical representation.[11]
Fichter co-curated the Queer Museum Vienna lecture series What’s Missing?, which addressed queer visibility in museums and archives.[11]
Fichter presented the lecture Where Have All the Lesbians Gone?, exploring female same-sex desire and the male gaze in Renaissance and Baroque art.[12]
The exhibition catalogue Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen, to which Fichter contributed, was discussed by queer.de as an example of self-confident queer readings of historical art.[13]
Fichter also works on the Belvedere museum’s Queering the Belvedere programme.[14][15]
Writing
Fichter contributes essays on sexuality, gender, and representation in historical art to DailyArt Magazine, including articles on Cleopatra, Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Margaret of Austria.[3]
Fichter contributed to The Free Lunch Magazine, including the second issue Entropy, published by Verlag für moderne Kunst in 2021.[16]
Additional writings include a text on "Historical Perspectives" examining lyrical male portraits.[17]
Selected publications
- Fichter, Kero. Two contour copies after Hans Baldung Grien and the sexualisation of the Fall of Man in the German Renaissance. MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2021.[4]
- Fichter, Kero. "Experiment Buch um 1500. Spielräume für Künstler und Auftraggeber." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, 2020.[9]
- Fichter, Kero. "Von verliebten Göttern und busengreifenden Nymphen – Wie spiegeln sich queere Identitäten in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit?" In Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen, Hessen Kassel Heritage, 2023.[18]
- Fichter, Kero. "Bromance or Romance? Homosozialität und die Spielräume gleichgeschlechtlichen Begehrens in der Frühen Neuzeit." In Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen, Hessen Kassel Heritage, 2023.[18]
- Fichter, Kero, and Johanna Frankfurth. "Ein Blick in die Hauptstadt: Das Schwule Museum in Berlin." In Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen, Hessen Kassel Heritage, 2023.[18]
Public appearances
In March 2025, Fichter lectured at Arse Elektronika 2025: Plug & Play! in Vienna, organized by the art collective monochrom. The talk, The Love of Statues: The Beginnings of Objectophilia in Western Art, covered attraction to statues from antiquity to modern robotics.[19]
References
- ↑ "Kero Fichter". DailyArt Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Arse Elektronika 2025 Biographies". monochrom. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kero Fichter". DailyArt Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Two contour copies after Hans Baldung Grien and the sexualisation of the Fall of Man in the German Renaissance (MA). University of Vienna. 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Akademische Schriften 2021". Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Vienna. 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Talk: Suicide in Art – Curiosity or Contemplation?". Museum für Sepulkralkultur. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Arse Elektronika 2025 Biographies". monochrom. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Talk: Suicide in Art – Curiosity or Contemplation?". Museum für Sepulkralkultur. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Autorenverzeichnis 1947–2024" (PDF). Bundesdenkmalamt. 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar – Lehrprogramm Sommersemester 2025" (PDF). University of Hamburg. 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "What's Missing?". Queer Museum Vienna. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? Weibliche Sexualität für den Male Gaze". Queer Museum Vienna. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Selbstbewusstes Queer-Reading historischer Kunst". queer.de. 2024-03-02. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Queering the Belvedere". Belvedere Museum. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Queering the Belvedere: Lesbia contra Motor". eSeL.at (in Deutsch). Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "The Free Lunch Magazine Issue 2: Entropy". Verlag für moderne Kunst. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Text Historische Perspektiven". Offerus Ablinger. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen – Inhaltsverzeichnis" (PDF). Hugendubel / Michael Imhof Verlag. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
- ↑ "Arse Elektronika 2025 Abstracts". monochrom. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
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- Kero Fichter at DailyArt Magazine
- "Breaking the Canon – Wie man die Kunst der Renaissance und des Barocks queert" at KUNST+kaviar
- Kero Fichter on IMDb
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