bambikunst@gmail.com










































“Traveling alone as a body–based critic is different than touring with a band. Sometimes, the idea of a clean t–shirt upon arrival is the only thing getting me to the next place.

Drifting can be brutal. 

I asked my tailor for a set of
t–shirts, made–to–measure for my body from a role of deadstock Helmut Lang cotton/cashmere t–shirt jersey. I comissioned one shirt per city on a 3–month tour.


The journals chosen fit in a baguette bag. Stains on the worn t–shirts become equivalent to
marks on the page.

Column(ist) makes evident my process of becoming a writer.”








Dirty
cotton/cashmere
t–shirts,
travel diaries


Column(ist)




























 

Bambi Kunst is a journalist and 
Body–based performance artist, Working at the rate of the media
Churn.

Even if that means there is no time for Writing.

That’s insane.

Like if ur favorite pet theorist
Were an Ai girlfriend chatbot who
Could only publish articles while
Shouting out a plumping lipgloss
S ponsorship. 

 
time
Useful 

Is a word 
With 
Holes 
Shot 
Through it. 
 


What is the character 
Of a heart that keeps beating 
While shot through with
Splinted and 
Splintered peepholes? 



And how to pick  
Just one,,,
To peek through when 
Examining form? 



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time
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Spring/Summer 24

1
“Introducing Bambi Kunst: Bambi Bound to 10’ Speaker Stack for 4 Hours,” at Valhek
4 hours

Archer Ballroom, Chicago


2
“Fugue Studies,”
 A Performance Lecture comparing fugue states in psychology to fugues in music
60 min

School of the Art Institute of Chciago

 

3
“I Went from the Margins to the Center and Back: Top Ten Things They Don’t Want You To Know!”
A Performance Lecture and Workshop, hosted by Temporary Spaces Atlier
120 min

University of the Arts Bremen 


4
“Girlypop Brutalism at Influencer Lunch”
 in collaboration with FIZZY Mag during Berlin Fashion Week
15 min film

Berlin Fashion Week


5

Conceptual Art Therapy”
for
Berlin Fashion Week and upcycled fashion brand Therapy Berlin, in collaboration with FIZZY Mag and Crystal Reneé Drake

120 minutes

Institute for Contemporary Art Italy, Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Kreutzberg


6
“Techno–fuedalist Deinfluencer: 10 Days Locked in A Tower”
 Instute for Contemporary Art Italy, hosted by Michelle Grabner
10 day residency

“Social Media is the New Arté Povera:
We All Know What Happened Last Time, Those Edgelords Became Fascists”
Companion Essay

Institute for Contemporary Art Italy, Umbria

7
“Venice is Drowning,”
curated by Hector Canonge for public space
90 min

PERFORMATICA at the 60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere


8
“POV with Bambi Kunst”
15 minute film

Institute for Contemporary Art Italy


9
“Embodied Nihilist at the Digital Escapist Garden Party”
4 hours

The Raft, Copenhagen


10
“Nørrebro Sign Walk with Veronika Skilte,” Copenhagen
4 hours

Heart Rock Studios, Copenhagen



11
“Vanity Crystal and Bambi Kunst in Fever Dream,”
in collaboration with Vic S. Porter (Negative Space, Rubber, Repetitive Strain) curated by Yves Sanglante.
1 week

Merging, London



12
“Love Interest with Amnesia,”
 in collaboration with artist Anne Joelle Tan for group show Our Delicate Armour
120 min

Stasia’s Gallery Gold Coast, Chicago





























 






Fall/Winter 24

1
“Bambi Chained to Wall 8 Hours Making Abstract Oil Painting at the Last Gabber / Hardstyle Rave of Summer”
at Underground Party Extended Release, Hosted by Mages Guild. Special thanks to Care Online. 

8 hours

Secret Location


2
“Bombshell Bambi’s Election Day Disseration Defenst to the Painting and Drawing Department: A Part of the MK80 Series” 

40 min lecture
+ 20 min questions

School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the first day of Trump 02


3
“Ego Death,
e–books and
e–girl Bathwater,”

A book launch hosted by Heather Hannoura from heavy electronic duo HIDE
4 hrs

HIDE’s warehouse studio space, Chicago


4
“Bambi Kunst: Found Object”
for
Half Mass, a
group exhibition with SAIC’s Graduate Sculpture Department

Base Space


5

“Bambi Chained to Wall Making Environmental Abstraction For Audience of Environmental Activists.Til Eviction in the Morning to Finish the Painting.” 
(After Katharina Grosse) Hosted by the B Squat

8 hours

Secret Location

A Fundraiser for Bloodfruit Library


6
“Spl/it Girl Semiotics: The First Rule of Fight Club is I Can’t Remember Fight Club.”
60 minutes

School of the Art Institue of Chicago
























Spring/Summer 25
1
“Dear World Thank You for Chewing Me Up and Spitting Me Out Exactly Where I Started“

3 person exhibition with Rohen Jones & Xindi with an X

Matthew Heberline Contemporary



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2
“USELESS ON PAPER”

Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago



3
“The Overcoat”

15 min

Useless on Paper Installation, Street-level Window at 33 S. Wabash, Chicago


4
“Midnight Waffle House,”
A guerilla performance lecture on Contemporary Criticism beginning at 11:59pm, word of mouth only. 

90 min

Secret Location




Works on Paper:  The 54’s

1
The e–girl 54
FW24

Avail. from Artist’s Studio Collection

22
The Sound Score 54
SS25

Avail. at Matthew Heberline Contemporary



3
I Want a Million Crumpled Bambi’s
SS24


4
Child of Grunge: Black Mountain College Score
SS24













10 days locked in a tower at 
the Institue for Contemporary
Art Italy
, Umbria

Techno–Fuedalist Deinfluencer

There’s Reading Foucault, and Then There’s Taking Feet Pics in a Medeival Landowner’s Watchtower Made From Etruscan Stones









10 day residency


















































Bambi’s Bathwater

Used e-girl bathwater,
Two spent matches, Bottles: sandblasted
where the two touch, Calfskin ribbon.







Bambi’s Crossbow

Police Issue Maglite
From DeKalb County
(weelaunee forest / Atlanta)
Rest in Power Tortuguita,

$50 paintbrush
Bought the day of the US Federal Funding freeze to social benenfits,

Brick


A 69 on Political Immediacy










Post–Gallery Model:
Works Sold Out of Studio
Or Made to be Destroyed


1
Used e–girl Bathwater, 2025
Bottles, used e–girl bathwater, two spent matches, calfskin ribbon

Avail. – $69


2
Collapse Contemporary
3D Lidar Scans

Avail. – Inquire within


3
Bambi’s Crossbow, 2025
Police Issue Flashlight from Dekalb County, (Weelaunee / Atlanta): Rest in Power Tortuguita, $50 Paintbrush bought the day of US Federal Funding Freeze, Brick

Artist’s Studio Collection


4
The MK–80 Series, 2025
Archival box full of edition of empty plastic bottles, each sandblasted with the silohette of the MK80 bomb, manufactured by Art Institute major donor General Dynamics, presented illuminated by a solo beam of light in a theater in the basement of the Art Institute of Chicago

True Cost Unknowable


5
Distressed DeSede, 2024
Rare 1 of 8 Brutalist sofa by luxury Swiss design studio, destroyed by studio cats Xerox and Risograph



6
Column(ist), 2024
Worn t–shirts made-to-measure from deadstock Helmut Lang cotton/cashmere t–shirt jersey and journals

Artist’s Studio Collection


7
Florasonic LP, 2024
Vinyl Record

Avail.  – $20


8
Divining Rod, 2024
Neon

Broken during Performance in collaboration with hoodoo channeler and performance artist Kezia Waters 

For ReHappening 11 at Black Mountain College



9
Sign/Symbol, 2024
Neon

Broken during Performance in collaboration with San Francicso based Gabber DJ GARTEX 

For VALHEK April Fools rave


10
Fixture, 2024
Slipcast ceramic

Artist’s Studio Collection


11

Puffy Prada Provinance, 2023
Napa leather and hardware

Arist’s Studio Collection


12

Stops, 2019
Edition of Concrete Poems on soft wood doorstops, poems get knocked out of the surface with use

Avail. – $40


13
Silk Slips, 2019
Laser engraved text and natural dye on silk panels

City of Portland, OR Permanent Art Collection

Reed College Art Collection

& in Various Fashion Archives


14
Cast Crisco Lightbulbs, 2018
Ritual object made in vegetable lard to accompany a text, “Mini Memoir Wrote this Morning” composed within Anne Hamilton’s textile Installation “Habitus”

Melted by the Sun During Converge45 


15

Curl Up, 2017
Hybrid Object Artist Book: laser-engraved Rives BFK, plexiglass, digital instructions

Reed College Artist Book Collection


16

To Be Held, 2014
Artist Book in canvas and thread.

Permanent Collection of Kristy Edmunds, MASS MOCA