Tristan Bera (he/him) is an author, researcher, and cultural voyeur whose solo, collaborative, and conversational practice includes critical and fictional writing, curating, and filmmaking.
His papers, published in magazines (Artpress, The Art Newspaper) and exhibition catalogues (Centre Pompidou-Metz, MAM Rio, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection), are concerned with knowledge transfers across literature, art criticism, and experimental philosophy. They blend socio-political reflection, stream of consciousness, postcolonial topics, and pop culture.
In 2024, Bera was selected as writer-in-residence at Salzburger Kunstverein. He was awarded, together with Stefan Kalmár, a curatorial fellowship with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, for an exhibition dedicated to the influence of independent press Semiotext(e).
He is currently working on a book about 'magnificent obsessions', whose research started at the Walter Benjamin Archive with the support of Onassis Foundation.
