Estelle Hoy

Stranger Than Paradise Jim Jarmusch 1984 (film still)

Estelle Hoy is a writer and art critic based in Berlin. Her critically acclaimed book, Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville, was published in 2020 with an introduction by Chris Kraus. She is currently working on a collaborative book and exhibition at ICA Milano, “Jus d'Orange” with Camille Henrot, and a forthcoming book of essays (2024). Hoy regularly publishes in the international art press, including Mousse Magazine, Spike Art, e-flux, Artforum, Flash Art, and Frieze. She has exhibited in galleries including White Cube, Kamel Mennour, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, alongside artists including Camille Henrot, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas, Rick Owens, Bruce Nauman, and Michele Lamy.

PraXIS Statement

Pisti documents the journey of a Hungarian left activist and her anarchist collective, based in Belleville, Paris.  Over one night, the collective addresses contemporary politics, activism + art, violence, and sexual/queer politics.  (Freie University-  Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft/ The New School for Liberal Arts New York) 

Estelle is available for supervision to students (MFA, Ph.D.), mainly to writers, artists, and researchers with interests in art criticism, ficto-criticism, essays, auto-theory, and socially/politically engaged art involving marginalized and vulnerable communities (refugee, asylum seeker, new prison release, homeless, severe mental illness). She currently runs a Prison Writing Activist Project across Europe and America and a Writing Project engaging asylum seekers and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.