Books and chapters (selected)

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“Mapping Passage. Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s Stories of Migration and Loss,” Sadik Kwaish Alfraji: In Search of Lost Baghdad. Exhibition catalogue. Amersfoort: Pulication KA Series 34, 2021. p. 6-11. Order here

“Artists of the World Unite: A Kitchen Table Polemic,” with Ferry Biedermann. Fabricating Publics.The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era. Eds. Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito. London: Open Humanities Press, 2021. P135-142. Download here

“On the Preservation of Loss: Scaling the Dark Seeds, Sands, Moons." Exhibition catalogue Issam Kourbaj — Fleeing the Dark. Ed. Sarah Johnson and Issam Kourbaj. Amsterdam: Tropenmuseum, 2021. Order here

“Before and after a Disaster: Unsettling Representation in Larissa Sansour’s Heirloom.” Heirloom. Research/Practice 03. Ed. Anthony Downey. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019. P. 6-22. Order here

“Spectres of the Past meet the Ruins of the Future in All Or Nothing At All.” Exhibition catalogue Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács: All Or Nothing At All. Viborg: Viborg Kunsthal, 2019. P11-13.

Walid Siti. Ed. Nat Muller. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2020. Order here

“Collecting Notes to and for the Future”. Ed. A.S. Brueckstein. Fragments from our Beautiful Future: Rebecca Raue & Steve Sabella. Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2017. P.16-18. Order here

This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time. Ed. Angela Harutyunyan and Nat Muller. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016.

"Tasting Power, Tasting Territory". Food and Museums. eds. Nina Levent and Irina D Mihalache. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing , 2016. Order here

"Beauty in Times of Monsters." Two Suns in a Sunset: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Koenig Books, 2016. p. 87 -95, 411 - 419, 609 - 616. Order here

Nancy Atakan. Passing On. Ed. Nat Muller. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. Order here

"Making Things Permeable: Susan Hefuna". Common Grounds. Ed. Michael Burs and Verena Hein. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015. p. 78-91. Order here

"Missing Beats: The Suggestive Politics of Rhythm." Cevdet Erek: Less Empty Maybe. Ed. Süreyya Evren. Art-ist: Istanbul, 2015. p.84-90. Order here and listen here

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji. Ed. Nat Muller. Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2015. Order here

"No Show: Refusal as Strategy”. Aesthetic Justice. Eds. Pascal Gielen & Niels van Tomme. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2015. P.277-289. Order here

"Of Transformations and Revolutions: Moataz Nasr". Moataz Nasr: the Journey of the Griffin. Ed. Ilaria Mariotti. Pistoia: Gli Ori, 2014. p.101-108. Order here

"Performing the Undead" in Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East. Ed Anthony Downey. London: I.B.Tauris, 2014. Order here

Spectral Imprints. Abraaj Capital Art Prize: Dubai, 2012. Order here

New Aesthetic, New Anxieties. With David M. Berry, Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle Kasprzak, Rachel O'Reilly and José Luis de Vicente. (2012) free download

"Introducing Complicity". Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Art World. Ed. Paul Sloman. London: Blackdog Publishing, 2009. p.12-25. Order here

"Proposal for the Venice Biennial Inter-Galactic Pavilion. New Nonel&Vovel Commission: Heroism: An Epic Out of the Frame" The Novel of Nonel and Vovel. Eds. Oreet Ashery & Larissa Sansour. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2009. p. 176-179 Order here

Mag.net Reader 3: Processual Publishing.Actual Gestures. Arteleku: 2008. Order here

Mag.net Reader 2: Between Paper and Pixel. Bari: OpenMute, 2007. Order here

Feelings are Always Local. Eds. Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, Nat Muller and Laura Martz.V2_Publishing/NAI Publishers: Rotterdam, 2004. Order here

Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession. Eds. Nat Muller, Stephen Kovats & kuda.org. Futura Publicacije: Novi Sad, 2004.

txOom [tks’u.m] DVD catalogue texts. Ed. Nat Muller. Culture 2000 project of FoAM vzw, 2003.

Ctrl+Shift Art – Ctrl+Shift Gender: Convergences of New Media, Art and Gender. Ed. Nat Muller. Axis: Amsterdam, 2000.

Selected Articles

“Sour Things by Mirna Bamieh.” Mousse Magazine, 16 October 2024.

"H(a)unting for Tomorrow: Spectral Temporalities and Sites in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s Tomorrow’s Ghosts". Perspective, June 2024.

Raed Yassin. Allegorical Ruins. Gallery Isabelle, Dubai. 7 May - 27 June 2024. Catalogue text.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji. Charcoal, Ink, and a Donkey. Gallerie Tanit, Beirut. April 11 - 16 May 2024. Catalogue text.

"I Wan’na Be Like You, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács." Opening speech, 5 April 2024, Grote Kerk, Alkmaar.

As told to Nat Muller. "How I became an artist: Manal AlDowayan", Art|Basel, February 20, 2023.

Exhibition Review: "Wael Shawky’s Double Estrangement,” Burlington Magazine, 20 July 2022.

“Laughter through Disaster, or How the Joke Speaks Back Strangely,” Künstlerinnenpreis NRW 2022.

“Nat Muller on I’m So Sorry.” Frames of Representation 2021. Festival Catalogue. London: ICA, 2021.

"Bordering the Frame: Superheroes, Art, and the Rethinking of Borders in Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour’s The Novel of Nonel and Vovel.” SFRA Review, Vol51, No1 (2021).

“Lunar Dreams: Space Travel, Nostalgia, and Retrofuturism in A Space Exodus and The Lebanese Rocket Society.” Science Fiction Studies Vol. 48, No. 1, SF and Nostalgia (March 2021), pp. 124-138.

Laudatory Speech for AICA Nederland for Walid Raad’s solo Exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 3 March, 2021.

Book Review: Islam, Science fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life.” Qatar Foundation, 3 February, 2021.

“Between the Eye of the Drone and the Eye of the Stork.” A Wildness Distant, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University. Editor and curator Irene Sunwoo, December 2020.

"From the Galleries to the Streets.” Ocula, 8 November, 2019.

"Collapsing Backwards: On Forgetfulness in Crisis”, Open Space, August 2019.

Art Critics’ Reading List: Nat Muller. Artpulse 2019.

“Stones Turned: Digging into the Past, Digging into the Present.” Di'van. A Journal of Accounts, no5 December 2018, p.44-53.

“The Sirenia’s Tale.” Ascending from the Liquid Horizon. Ed. Kati Ilves.
Rome: Cura.Books, 2018. 83-86.

"Voyage Voyage: The Politics of Travel and Mobility in Contemporary Visual Practices from Lebanon.” Saradar Collection, 2018.

“Curing Curatorial Fees”
Retort #20, Platform BK, 4 June 2018.

"Dislocating Time and Place: Basma Alsharif’s Ouroboros."
In/Out. Nang #4, Spring 2018, p. 65-70.

"Tomorrow Girls: Sci-fi, Other Worlds and Geo-politics in Media Art from the Middle East."
Divan. A Journal of Accounts, no3 December 2017, p.114-121.

“Amsterdam: Counting our Precarious Blessings?” ArtsEverywhere, Artist (Residency) and the City Global Roundtable, Published November 2017.

“A good neighbour? The 15th Istanbul Biennial”, Published 5 October 2017. Ocula, Published 5 October 2017.

"The grander nationalist ostentatiousness gets, the smaller and quieter bodies become": A conversation between Nat Muller & Sandra Noeth about movement, nationalism and collectivity, Etcetera, Published 13 November 2017.

“Uninvited and Disenchanted come to Town: A Modern-day Fable.” Published June 2017.

“A Poetic Sharjah Biennial for a World in Turmoil”, Hyperallergic, published 12 May 2017.

“Reluctant Heroism: Larissa Sansour” 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Oberhausen: Kurzfilmtage, 2017. p. 265-270.

“Lines of Subjectivity”. Lines of Subjectivity: Portrait and Landscape Painting. Sharjah: Barjeel Art Foundation, 2017. P8-13.

“Picture Palestine”. Catalogue 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Rotterdam: IFFR, 2017. P.252-258.

"Presents of the Past." Interview between Raúl Ortega Ayala and Nat Muller. Dürst Britt & Mayhew, January 2017

"Slow Burn", Scores #5. intact bodies/under protest. Vienna: Tanzquartier Wien, 2016. p.24-31. Download here

"What Representations? Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With", Ibraaz 010/05, published 30 October 2016.

"Who's Afraid of Representation: Vijftien Jaar Kunst uit en over het Midden-Oosten in het Westen." MetropolisM no 5 2016, okt/nov, p. 46 - 50.

"A Number is a Number is not a Number: Uncomfortable Data in Contemporary Art from the Middle East". MetropolismM No6 (Dec 2015 - Jan 2016). p.76-81.

"Chasing Ghosts Through Bathhouses and Cisterns at the 14th Istanbul Biennial", Hyperallergic

"The Politics of the (im)Possible." Review of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Ibraaz

"Value-washing the Arts: On the Quantification and Instrumentalisation of Art", Broadsheet 44:1 (2015). p.22-26

Interview with Nat Muller, by Paco Baragan, ArtPulse, No. 19 Vol. 5 Year 2014.

"Technologies of History: Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller", Ibraaz

"No stone throwing in glass houses. Ripples of the Arab uprisings in the Gulf". With Ferry Biedermann. Springerin: Arab Summer vol 3. Summer 2014. p.37-42. (in German translation). (Download pdf - English version from Eurozine)

Power Plays: Yara El Sherbini's 'The Current Situation', published on the occasion of El Sherbini's solo show at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2014 (Download pdf, 2.5Mb)

Interview Wael Shawky, Metropolis M no6 Dec2013-Jan2014. p56-61

"Bones of contention: notes on the mediated body, performance and dissent". Broadsheet 42.4, 2013. p.284-286.

“The Ominous Future of Things Past and Present. A Review of Home Works 6”. ArtAsia Pacific Sept/Oct 2013. ArtAsiaPacific 85, Sep/Oct 2013. P.61-2

“Of Images, Ghosts and Other Tomorrows: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige”. ArtAsiaPacific. issue 82, Mar/Apr 2013. P.71-81.

Nat Muller in Conversation with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. ArtPapers. Jan/Feb 2013. P33-36.

“Curating Cairo: Tales of Countering the Epic”, Springerin 2/09. p.11-13.

“Review:Tea with Nefertiti” Ibraaz

“The Many Metamorphoses of Mounira al Solh: Nat Muller in Conversation with Mounira al Solh”. Ibraaz

“Noise in the Courtyard: Review of Sharjah Biennial 11”. Ibraaz.

“Rabih! Rabih!: Review of I, the Undersigned”. MetropolisM. Republished in the Daily Star.

“Review Homeworks IV”, Springerin 3/08. p39-41

“Navigating the Fissures of a Remembering Past and an Amnesiac Present: Contemplating Oraib Toukan’s Counting Memories”, Catalogue for “Counting Memories”, Darat al Funun: Amman, 2007. p.60-65. Republished abridged in Bidoun fall 2007. p. 31.

“[Re]tribute Beirut: Impressions of Proxy Readings”, Springerin: Friend Foe. 2/2005