Bettina Funcke

Bettina Funcke (b. 1971) is a German writer, editor, and publisher based in New York. She studied at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her writings on contemporary art and its conditions of production have been published in Artforum, Afterall, Bookforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Parkett, for which she served as Senior Editor for the United States.

She edited books at the Dia Art Foundation from 1999 to 2007, and was Head of Publications for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012, where she conceived and produced the series 100 Notes — 100 Thoughts, a set of 100 short-run publications by artists and thinkers accompanying the exhibition. Her book Pop or Populus: Art between High and Low (Sternberg Press, 2009), translated from the German, examined the dialectical relationship between high culture and mass culture in twentieth-century art, drawing on a range of critical thinkers from Adorno and Greenberg to Rancière and Boris Groys. She co-founded The Leopard Press, which has published work by artists including Seth Price. She has lectured on aesthetics, art theory, and art writing at Bard College, Columbia University, Yale University, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Her position sits at the intersection of art-critical writing, publishing, and the institutional structures that condition the circulation of contemporary art.