Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and cultural critic. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, and is co-editor of the journals K&K and Mr Antipyrine.

Mikkel has published a number of books in Danish Den sidste avantgarde (The Last Avant-Garde, 2004), I sammenbruddets tjeneste (In the Service of the Break-Down, 2008), Avantgardens selvmord (The Suicide of the Avant-Garde, 2009), En anden verden (Another World, 2011), and Samtidskunstens metamorfose (The Metamorphosis of Contemporary Art, 2016), and two books in English: Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International (Sternberg Press, 2014) and Crisis to Insurrection (Minor Compositions, 2015).

He has published articles about anti-capitalist activism, the revolutionary tradition, and the Situationist International, in journals such as e-flux journal, Multitudes, Rethinking Marxism, Texte zur Kunst, and Third Text. He has co-edited Totalitarian Art and Modernity (Aarhus University Press, 2010, co-edited with Jacob Wamberg), Expect Everything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere (Autonomedia, 2011, co-edited with Jakob Jakobsen), and Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere (Autonomedia, 2015, co-edited with Jakob Jakobsen).

Other recent activities include the exhibition “This World We Must Leave” (made in collaboration with Jakob Jakobsen) at Kunsthall Oslo, Dec. 2016-Jan-2017).