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

Spring/Summer 251
“Dear World Thank You for Chewing Me Up and Spitting Me Out Exactly Where I Started“

Matthew Heberline Contemporary



PP 2
“USELESS ON PAPER” Immersive art experience created for the museum lobby of 33 S. Wabash and it’s street-level windows, like stepping into Bambi’s travel diaries.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago



3
“The Overcoat” 
Pop–up movement performance during the opening of SAIC’s Grad Show I. Getting into and out of an oversized cashmere menswear coat as an act of public vulnerability.
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















































 



























 






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: Adressing the Arms Dealer Upstairs: An Election Day Dissertation Defense to the Painting and Drawing Department, Sponsored by General Dynamics, a part of the MK-80 Performance Series” 
60 min

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



3
“Instant Classic: Aaaaand They Kicked Me Off Campus. Bambi Barred from Spring Term Classes and Evicted from Graduate Studio 60 Days Before Thesis Show, a part of the MK-80 Performance Series.”
15 min film

School of the Art Institute of 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 on Dance Floor During Squat Party. Only Have Until Eviction in the Morning to Finish the Painting.” (After Katharina Grosse) Hosted by the A.narchist N.etwork of U.ngovernable S.quatters (A.N.U.S.)
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


7
“Who Reviews the Reviewer?
Bambi Reviewed by 
Notable Millennial Cringe Internet Art Critic Brad Troemel in Post. Troemel Calls Antifascist e–girls “smol beans” with a quote: “anti–social attitude... who spend their days self–diagnosing newly invented disorders to put in their bio,” equates Queer Gen Z with Blackpilled Incels. 
Ongoing Beef

Online


8
“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





























 

Bambi Kunst 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 Hal Foster
were an Ai girlfriend chatbot who could only publish articles while shouting out a plumping lipgloss sponsorship. 

Or Bruno Latour or Roland Barthes or Guy Debord or any of them... 
 
time
Is this thing on?

Do people even read
Art writing anymore?
 


(b. 1996, Southern Appalachia) to Teenage grunge musician parents, Bambi is like if a nepo baby inherited noise and cultural critique instead of Money. 

time


Form follows waste in Amerikkka. Bambi is simply wasting time. 


Wondering,,,

If Rome was built from Etruscan stones, what can be built from the holes cut in fences around data storage centers?


time
deinfluencer, cultural critic








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
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Spring/Summer 25

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

Archer Ballroom, Chicago

 2
“Performing the Critic for an Audience of Critics, Part II: 50 Paintings at
Milwaukee Art Museum and Mary Louise Schumacher’s Out of the Picture at the Milwaukee Film Festival“
4 hours

Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee Film Festival 


3
“Fugue Studies,” A Performance Lecture comparing fugue states in psychology to fugues in music
60 min

School of the Art Institute of Chciago

  
4
“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 



5
“Girlypop Brutalism at Influencer Lunch” in collaboration with FIZZY Mag during Berlin Fashion Week
15 min film

Berlin Fashion Week


6
“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 at the 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

Bloko Venice, 
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,” 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


















































“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’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