Lucy McKenzie

An archive of texts by, and on the work (and related projects) of visual artist Lucy McKenzie

News

New texts added. Under Fiction: Throbbing Gristle Volksbuehne 2005, under Non-Fiction: Vionnet, Kirke and Platonic Illusions and under Texts and Articles: Ben Eastham reviews “Pervert or Detective”
Plastic Newspaper, solo exhibition, curated by Marie Canet, 21 March - 06 September 2026 CRAC, Sète, France
Manosphere, group exhibition, 18 April - 02 August, 2026 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Watch Náhrdelník (Necklace) II (Loos’ dream)

Fiction
- Throbbing Gristle Live, Volksbuehne, 2005, part of the box set devoted to Throbbing Gristle's New Year's concert, on Mute Records. A letter from Dieter to his former lover, 2025
- Pebbles, chrome, silk, cedar, and anecdotes, to accompany A Fairytale for Adults photo essay by Valentina Cameransi and Camille Vivier. Self-published, 2020
- Not Where but When, a screenplay for a time travel adventure in: The Inventors of Tradition II, London: Koenig Books, 2015
- Ost End Girls, a lookbook fashion crime drama in: Ost End Girls, Brussels: Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2014
- Shooting Diary, published together with three short stories by fellow painter Alan Michael, this crime story was a contribution to Volcano Extravaganze: Evil Under the Sun: Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael, Unlawful Assembly, London: Scelus Libri and Koenig Books, 2013
- Saint Michael, in: Alan Michael, London: HOTEL / David Kordansky Gallery, 2011
- Ripley under Glass, written for Scorched Earth magazine, unpublished, then in limited edition with Italian translation (La Stretta Di Ripley) by Cabinet Gallery and Shin Production, 2010. Scorched Earth was a magazine intended to explore drawing's commodity status. Since architectural plans, comics and fashion illustration where to be excluded, crime fiction was produced instead.
- Desky Maidens, for Paulina Olowska catalogue Romansując z awangardą, wyst. ind. PGS Sopot; Rzeczywiście, młodzi są realistami, CSW Warszawa; Germination 13, Paryż; (06.04.–05.05.02), 2002. The story was then transformed into a radio play for an audio guide that was as an intrinsic part of Olowska's exhibition Sie musste die Idee eines Hauses als Metapher verwerfen at Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2004.
- Schreibtischliche Fauleins, the German translation of Desky Maidens, published by Markus Selg's Possible Press imprint, 2002.
Non-Fiction
- Vionnet, Kirke and Platonic Illusions, essay published in Volume 3, Taxonomies, part of the series The Crafts of Fashion, published by Éditions B42, 2025
- Lucy McKenzie with Beca Lipscombe, Atelier E.B – Back-to-back, in: Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- Passer-by – Powersharing With the Muse, in: Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- Jasperwear, in: Jasperwear,lookbook, 2018, and Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- They steal your watch and then tell you the time, Texte zur Kunst, March 2018
- Appropriation Replication Imitation, on the work of Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Parkett, no. 96, 2015
- Lucy McKenzie & Alan Michael, Note to Self, foreword to the 2nd edition of Unlawful Assembly, London: Koenig Books, 2013
- Rodchenko’s Worker’s Suit Had No Fly, in: The Inventors of Tradition. London: Koenig Books, 2011, The Inventors of Tradition Collection, New York: Thea Westreich Ethan Wagner Publications, 2011 and Afterall, No. 34 (Autumn/Winter), 2013
- We Are All Egyptians, in: Town-Gown Conflict, Kunsthalle Zurich & JRP Editions, 2011
- Canvases Stretched in a Studio Far Less Convenient than One’s Own, in: Lucy McKenzie: Chêne de Weekend, 2006–2009, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009
- Sublets, in: Lucy McKenzie: Chêne de Weekend, 2006–2009, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009
- Veronique Branquinho: Die Show, Mode Depesche, no. 6, September 2007
- Now That This Has been Done, in: Nach Kippenberger, Walther König, 2003
- Preface, in: Richard Kern: Model Release, Cologne: Taschen, 2000
Conversations
- INTERIORITY An Interview with Lucy McKenzie, by Christopher Page, Effects Journal, 2023 (read with online version with images here)
- In the studio with … Lucy McKenzie, in: apollo-magazine.com, 29th October 2021
- Interview with Astrid Vereycken, in: TIM magazine, no. 0, 2020 www.timmagazine.be/
- Conversations on Exhibiting Fashion between Beca Lipscombe, Lucy McKenzie and Amy de la Haye, in: Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- On The Beach: Lucy McKenzie in conversation with Marie Canet, in: Mousse, January 2018, http://moussemagazine.it/lucy-mckenzie-marie-canet-2017/
- Adventures Close to Home: Lucy McKenzie and Marc Camille Chaimowitz in conversation with Michael Bracewell, in: Mousse, No. 29, Summer 2011 (Reprinted in Mousse, No. 56, December 2016 – January 2017)
- K/L/M/O/P – A conversation via email, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Ken Okiishi, Mick Mauss, in: Noel sur le balcon / Hold The Color, Munich: Sammlung Goetz, 2007
- K/L/M/O/P – Ein Gespräch, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Ken Okiishi, Mick Mauss, in: Noel sur le balcon / Hold The Color, Munich: Sammlung Goetz, 2007
Texts and articles
- Nova Popularna - Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska, in: Nova Popularna, Warsaw: Foksal Gallery Foundation (Reprinted in Metropolis M, no. 5.), 2003
- Ben Eastham reviews “Pervert or Detective”, in Criticism on e-flux.com, May 30, 2025
- Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanizzato, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Exhibition booklet, 2023-24
- Ellen Mara De Wachter, Pleasure’s Inaccuracies, in: The World of Interiors, February 2021
- Laura McLean-Ferris: No Motive, review in: Features - art-agenda March 23, 2021
- Maija Timonen: Mirror Mode, review of Giving Up The Shadows On My Face at Cabinet, London. Texte zur Kunst Issue No. 117 / March 2020
- Phillip Ekardt: Interfacing Paris, in: Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- Marie Canet: Look Like a Like, in: Atelier E.B Passer-by. London: Koenig Books, 2020
- Kat Herriman: Role Models, in: Cultured, 10.03.2018. https://www.culturedmag.com/atelier-e-b/
- Jessica Gysel with photos by Katja Mater, A Day Spent Photographing the Atelier E.B Collection, in: Le Salon published 18.11.2015. www.welcometolesalon.be
- Ed Atkins & Martin McGeown: There is Nothing Behind This Book, introduction to 1st edition of Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael: Unlawful Assembly, London: Koenig Books, 2013
- Milovan Farronato: A Restless Subject, in: Flash Art (November – December 2013). flash---art.com/article/a-restless-subject/
- Michael Bracewell: Au Bonheur des Dames, unpublished, commissioned by Mu-ZEE Oostende for the exhibition Te Kust En Te Keur, 2012
- Michael Bracewell: No Ordinary Cats, in: Frieze, Issue 146, April 2012. https://frieze.com/article/no-ordinary-cats
- Peter York: Quodlibet, in: Town-Gown Conflict, Kunsthalle Zurich & JRP Editions, 2011
- Małgorzata Charyło: Let's Meet at NP, for Nova Popularna LP on Decemberism records, 2004

Links

Texts

Plastic Newspaper, CRAC Occitanie view 1

Plastic Newspaper, CRAC Occitanie view 2

Plastic Newspaper, CRAC Occitanie view 3

Fiction

2024 Throbbing Gristle Live, Volksbuehne, 2005, Boxset Mute records

2020 Pebbles, chrome, silk, cedar, and anecdotes.pdf

2015 “Not Where but When,” in The Inventors of Tradition II.pdf

2013 Ost End Girls Lookbook story.pdf

2013 Shooting Diary Unlawful Assembly.pdf

2011 Saint Michael for Alan Michael catalogue.pdf

2007 Ripley under Glass for Scorched Earth magazine

2002 Desky Maidens for Paulina Olowska catalogue.pdf

2002 Schreibtischliche Fauleins Possible Press.pdf

Non-Fiction

Éditions B42 The Crafts of Fashion Taxonomies Vionnet, Kirke and Platonic Illusions, 2025

2020 Lucy McKenzie with Beca Lipscombe, “Atelier E.B — Back-to-back,” in Atelier E.B Passer-by.pdf

2019 AtelierEB Passer_By Powersharing.pdf

2018 “Jasperwear” in Jasperwear, 2018, and Atelier E.B Passer-by.pdf

2018 They Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time.pdf

2015 Appropriation Replication Imitation

2013 Note to Self_Lucy McKenzie & Alan Michael.pdf

2011 Rodchenko’s Worker's Suit Had No Fly_The Inventors of Tradition I IOT I.pdf

2011 We Are All Egyptians_Town-Gown conflict catalogue.pdf

2009 Canvases Stretched in a Studio Far Less Convenient than Ones Own.pdf

2009 Sublets.pdf

2007 Veronique Branquinho Die Show.pdf

2003 Now That This Has Been Done_Nach Kippenberbger catalogue.pdf

2000 Preface_Richard Kern Model Release.pdf

Conversations

INTERIORITY An Interview with Lucy McKenzie by Christopher Page, Effects Journal, 2023

In the studio with … Lucy McKenzie in apollo-magazine.com, 29th October 2021

2020 Astrid Vereycken interview TIM magazine.pdf

2020 Conversations on Exhibiting Fashion.pdf

2018 On the Beach_Mousse Magazine.pdf

2011 Adventures Close to Home Lucy McKenzie Marc Camille Chaimowitz Michael Bracewell.pdf

2007 KLMNOP_English_Noel Sur le balcon_HOLD THE COLOUR catalogue.pdf

2007 KLMNOP_German_Noel Sur le balcon_HOLD THE COLOUR catalogue.pdf

Texts and articles

2003 Nova Popularna Lucy McKenzie & Paulina Olowska_Nova Popularna catalogue.pdf

Ben Eastham reviews “Pervert or Detective” - Criticism - e-flux May 30, 2025

Pinacoteca Agnelli Lucy McKenzie Vuncanizzato Booklet

Ellen Mara De Wachter, Pleasure’s Inaccuracies in The World of Interiors, February 2021

Lucy McKenzie’s “No Motive” by Laura McLean-Ferris - Features - art-agenda March 23, 2021

Maija Timonen: Mirror Mode, TzK 2020.pdf

2020 “Interfacing Paris,” Phillip Ekardt in Atelier E.B Passer-by.pdf

2020 “Look Like a Like,” Marie Canet in Atelier E.B Passer-by.pdf

2018 Role Models_Kat Herriman_Cultured.pdf

2015, A Day Spent Photographing the Atelier E.B Collection, text by Jessica Gysel with photos by Katja Mater (Le Salon)

2013 There is Nothing Behind This Book, Ed Atkins & Martin McGeown.pdf

2013 A Restless Subject Milovan Farronato Flash Art.pdf

2012 Au Bonheur des Dames Michael Bracewell unpublished.pdf

2012 No Ordinary Cats Michael Bracewell

2011 Quodlibet Peter York Town-Gown Conflict catalogue.pdf

2004 Let's Meet at NP Małgorzata Charyło for Nova Popularna LP on Decemberism records.pdf