Artist Biography

Born in Klosterneuburg, Austria, 1974.
Lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.

Education
Since 2007
Guest Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria 

2005 – 2006
Post-academic studies, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands

2000 – 2002
MA Visual arts, Transmedia art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

1997 – 2000
Sculpture class, B. Kowanz, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1992 – 1997
Anthropology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Exhibitions (selected)

* ... Publication
(S) ... Solo Show

2021
40 YEARS FOTOGALERIE VIENNA, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement, curated by Rana Öztürkart, Art space Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
...Line as Thought, Lines as Universe ..., Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburger, Austria
Universum, in the frame of the SEFO 2021 Triennial, curated by Barbora Kundračíková, Olomouc Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
DEUX SCÉNARIOS POUR UNE COLLECTION - Plan, image, sequence, Frac Normandie Rouen, Rouen, France
FIGURES DE PENSÉES. DENKBEWEGUNGEN,  Centre d'art contemporain - Les Tanneries, Amilly, France

2019
THE STARS LOOK SO DIFFERENT TONIGHT, Fotogalerie, Vienna, Austria
Leaving the Echo Chamber, curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons, SHARJAH BIENNIAL 14, Sharjah, United Arabian Emirates
) ( ) DRAWING AS THINKING IN ACTION, curated by Jeanette Pacher, Drawing Lab, Paris, France (S) 
Throught Phenomena Themselves - Contingent Agencies, workshop, coordinated by Alex Arteaga, Research Pavilion of the Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Modell Und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival 2019, Dessau, Germany
UNDERSTANDING – ART & RESEARCH, curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch and Barbara Putz-Plecko, MAK MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS, Vienna, Austria
Ecocinema / Ökokino, curated by Nina Tabassomi, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
While I Kiss The Sky, curated by Goschka Gawlik and Arkadiusz Półtorak, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna, Austria 
La bonne Éducation: regards contemporains sur l'école, Musée national de l'Education, FRAC Normandie-Rouen, France 
CrossSections project, curated by Basak Senova, Konstfack Art University, Stockholm, Sweden
Boundless Objects, curated by Monika Bakke, Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal
CrossSections project, curated by Basak Senova, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
MADE IN MARL, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany
tracing (in)tangibles, Crone Wien, Vienna, Austria (S)
The Extended Mind, curated by Miranda Anderson, Tessa Giblin and James Clegg, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Experimental Diagramming. Between Spatial Figuration and Abstraction, curated by Anna Hougaard and Lidia Gasperoni, Architecture Museum of the Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2018
CROSS-SECTIONS, curated by Basak Senova, Ex Lab, Helsinki, Finland
CON-NOTATIONS, curated by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel, Centre d'Art de la Villa Arson, Nice France (S)
Traces écrites, MLF | MARIE-LAURE FLEISCH, Brussels, Belgium
REGIME DER VORHERSAGE, curated by Sabine Winkler, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
KUNST & KOHLE - THE BATTLE OF COAL, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany
THE LONG NOW - Reflexions on time and transcience, curated by Reinhard Buskies, me - Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
REGIME DER VORHERSAGE, Galerie Weissen Elefant, Berlin, Germany
BETWEEN THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE, curated by Azadeh Fatehrad, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arabic Emirates
CrossSections: Intervals, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
A FIST OF PURE EMOTION, Gallery Crone Side, Berlin, Germany
VOLATILE DREAMS - Art of the World’s Fair, Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
MAC INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD 2018, The MAC - Metropolitan Art Centre Belfast, Belfast, North Ireland

2017
UNTERTAGÜBERBAU, Urban Lights Ruhr Festival, Marl, Germany
ba ≠ b + a: 10 YEARS MUSA, MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna, Austria
TRAJECTORIES #02, The Drawing Hub, Berlin, Germany
Bird's Eye Vienna. The city at a glance, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
Drawing Praxis, MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
Nikolaus Gansterer-Ephemeral Coherences, Sotheby’s Vienna, Vienna, Austria (S)
CrossSections: Potentials, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
DON’T CALL IT OFF-SPACE!, Kunstverein Das weisse Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria

2016
Labor der Plötzlichkeit, AlLab, Wien, Austria
Antenna Futura – Futurological Exercises for the Unknown, KEX-Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
AUSTRIAN CULTURAL PAVILION, Otets Paisiy Street, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Marseille Résonance 2016, MuCEM, Marseille, France
Kristalle im Beton – Die produktive Leichtigkeit, Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Marl, Germany
34. Österreichischen Grafik­wettbewerb, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bozen, Italy
Het kleine gebaar / The minor gesture / Le moindre geste, MSK - Museum for Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

2015
Winter Lab. Radical Scores of Attention | Residency Laboratory, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Between the Idea and the Experience, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
A call for drawings, BAK - Basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Immutable Mobiles, Memphis Art/Project Space, Linz, Austria

2014
From Inner to Outer Shadow, ACF, Istanbul, Turkey
Correlation, AIL, Vienna, Austria
Our City!, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria*
Time (less) signs, ACF, London, United Kingdom*
What If, Method Lab I, Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
Inventing Temperature, KCC, London, United Kingdom
Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Beyond The Line, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Drawing Now, Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris, France*
Movement Matters, Kunstverein Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
The Drawing Room, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria*
The Art of Bombing, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nikolaus Gansterer / Katja Davar, KunstWerk Koeln, Cologne, France

2013
My Brain is in my Inkstand, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit (MI), USA*
Drafts III, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
4th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece*
Artists in Multifunctions, Gallery Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli, India*
The Drawing Room, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany*
When Thought becomes Matter, Matter turns into Thought, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria (S)*
Thinking Matters, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy (S)*

2012
Zeit(lose) Zeichen / time(less) signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria*
Schaubilder/Diagrams, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany*
Play together, Wiener Art Foundation, Kunstraum Sellemond, Austria
Beziehungsweise, Wittmann Showroom, Vienna, Austria
A study on knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria*

2011
Lonely at the Top, Graphology#4, Muhka, Antwerp, Germany*
Traces of Spaces, Vooruit Art Centre, Ghent, Belgium (S)*
The Borders of Drawing, Weisses Haus, Vienna, Austria*
Connected – Listen to the other side, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria

2010
Story behold. Story be told, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria*
Convection, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen, Republic of China
Ohne Titel, Medienturm, Graz, Austria
Object Research Lab, M4, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kulturpreisausstellung, Noedok, Dokumentationsarchiv moderner Kunst, St. Pölten, Austria

2009
Bureau of Found Appropriations, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium (S)*
Mifan, Anni Art Gallery, Beijing, Republic of China*
Sound Escapes, Space Gallery, Electra, London, United Kingdom*
The Stone Road, Argos, Brussels, Belgium*
Structures, Club Transmediale, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany*
Quergeblickt, Technisches Museum, Vienna, Austria*
Konturen, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria*

2008
Am Sprung/Young Art Scene Austria, OK - Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
The Stone Road, KEX-Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Paraflows / Utopia, MAK, Depot of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Parcours Interdit, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf, Germany
Hypnorama Reflex, Wittmann Showroom & MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (S)
Kaap, Fort Ruigenhoeksedijk, Kl.Biennale, Utrecht, Netherlands
Projektor, Mama Showroom, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2007
Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy*
Science Fictions, Gallery Czarna, Warsaw, Poland
Down to Earth, K12 Galerie, Bregenz & ACF, Krakow, Poland
Global Players, Art stripe, Börse, Vienna, Austria (S)
Fresh Trips, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria*
Wrong Time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bioforms, Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece*
Artmart, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Kunstambassade, Pictura Drawing Center, Dordrecht, Netherlands

2006
Riss/Lücke/Scharnier, Galerie nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven / Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, Republic of China*
Grounded, E:vent Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Stained Perception, X.perimenta 06, Prater Planetarium, Vienna, Austria*
Gezeichnet, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria*
Profiler, Futura Project/ Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic

2005
Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London / Veemvloer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Zero Bending, P74 Galerie, Ljubljana (S)
Profiler, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria*
Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria / JVE Maastricht, Netherlands / CCA Tallinn, Estonia*
Spaciously, ACF, Warsaw, Poland*
Update, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Theoremkollektor, Transeuropa MQ, Vienna, Austria (S)

2004
Breaking the Visual, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria*
Mapping II, Mess Hall, Chicago (IL), USA
Spacemakers, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany*
Vom Rand der Dinge Sprache leihen, Auto, Vienna, Austria (S)

2003
Synapsentankstelle, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria (S)
Die Zeichnung als Frage, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Take_Off, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria*
Transfer Damaskus, Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna / Mücsarnok, Budapest, Bulgaria*
Zugluft, Vienna Special, Art Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

2002
Grazintern, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Memory Bank, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria
You Are Here, Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt/M, Germany*

2001
Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria (S)*
Starproject, Karajan Zentrum, Vienna, Austria*

2000
ChryslerGreissler, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria
Transpackaging, Kulturzentrum Minoriten, Graz, Austria

Performances (selected)
2021
LINES & SIGNS - 30 YEARS TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, curated by Walter Heun, Muffathalle Munich, Munich, Germany

2019
DRAWING MATTERS, curated by Joana P. R. Neves, Drawing Now Fair, Paris, France 
CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION: Drawing Between the Lines of Con-notation, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, collaborative performance, The Berlin Mobile Academy, Festsaal of Wiener Rathaus, Vienna, Austria

2018
ENTWURF EINER ERWEITERTEN GRAMMATIK DES KONTINUUMS, curated by Franz Thalmair, finissage of the exhibtion “ba ≠ b+a: 10 years MUSA”, MUSA museum Vienna, Austria
Choreo-graphic Figures, SALON FÜR ÄSTHETISCHE EXPERIMENTE - Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
ON ENCLOSED SPACES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS II – Invisible transformations in the Anthropocene, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
PARALLEL-PARASITE, Parallel-Parasite Project, ZSenne ArtLab, Brussels, Belgium
Space in a Space with the Traces of its own Making, A Performance Affair - The Panopticon Edition, Brussels, Belgium
CONCERNING MATTERS AND TRUTHS, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

2017
Naurutica - Synthetic Future Island and The Tragedy of Outer Space, The Future of Demonstration - Vermögen - Performance festival, REAKTOR, Vienna, Austria
Emotion + The tech(no)body, Translecture, ACF London, London, United Kingdom
Gesture, Trace and Performance, UCA, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, United Kingdom
ba ≠b + a: 10 YEARS MUSA, MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna, Austria
Thinking Matters Other Others. A Translecture, curated by Sibylle Omlin and Christiane Krejs, The performance art festival BONES, Schlachthaus theater, Bern, Switzerland 

2016
ONIONOISE, Theater am Spittelberg, Vienna, Austria
Nassim el Raqs #6, The Map Is (Not ) the Territory- Performance festival, Alexandria, Egypt

2015  
Die Projektemacher*Innen, The Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
Psychoreographies – Research Residency (with Lilia Mestre), MuCEM, Marseille, France
Drawing Matters other others, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Openforum – Translectures, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Are you alive or not?, Art Centre Brakke Ground, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

2014 
No/Things, Scores 9, TQW, Vienna, Austria
Parenthesis Un/Conference, Sarn, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland
Performance Lecture on Body Diagrams, University, Tuebingen, Germany
Translecture on Contingencies, Revolving Stars &  Shaky Grounds, Festpielhaus, Dresden, Germany
Drawing on Drawing, Open Festival, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
Translecture on Transluciferation, Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
The Lures of Speculation, Scores 8, TQW, Vienna, Austria

2013
Die Wette – eine Untersuchung über Zweifel, Kontingenz und Sinn in Ökonomie und Gesellschaft") at the Foreign Affairs Festival, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany

2012
Hearing Cage, Zeit-ton extended, Ö1 Hoerspielstudio, Radiokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis, Lehrerzimmer, Progr, Bern & Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Drawing a Hypothesis - Die Materialität der Diagramme, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

2011
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis, KNAW, Amsterdam, Netherlands; MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Kunsthalle, Project Space, Vienna, Austria
De-Stilling a Still Life, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

2010
Entwurf einer Grammatik des Kontinuums, Medienturm, Graz, Austria
Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2009
Liquid Signs, Fluten 09, Watertower, Vienna, Austria
Who is afraid of the in between, Prisma Forum, Mexico City, Mexico
Drawn to nowHere, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
Translecture, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Translecture, Konturen, Boecklsaal, Technical University, Vienna, Austria

2008
Transacoustic Research, Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
Sirupture, Fullframe Film Festival, Gartenbaukino, Vienna, Austria
88, Porgy&Bess (with Katharina Klement), Vienna, Austria

2007
Asymptotische Versuchsanordnungen, Musikprotokoll Graz, Austria
Cut 'n Splice, Festival for Contemporary Music, Huddersfield
Translecture, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Logos Foundation Ghent; B::C, Brussels; Air, Antwerp, Belgium
Harvesting the Tree of Knowledge, Artis Gallery, DenBosch & Jacobihaus, Düsseldorf

2006
Translecture, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
The Basement Lecture, OpenWeek, JVE, Maastricht, Netherlands
Green Tones, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore

2005
Paradox, Expodium, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Moving Patterns, ACF, New York, USA
Sonar Festival, MOCBA, Barcelona, Spain

2004
Synapsis, Luitpold Lounge, Munich, Germany
88, Cube, Institute for Electronic Music, Graz (with Katharina Klement), Austria
Transakustik A-Z, Festival Wien Modern, Vienna, Austria

2003
New Earports, Dunker Arts Centre, Helsingborg, Sweden
Green Tones, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

2002
Hellgrün, Kulturamt, Düsseldorf, Germany

2001
Outpost, MAK, Vienna / Podewil, Berlin, Germany / Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria / Placard, Paris, France

Prizes, Fellowships, Residencies
2018
Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice, France
TRANSLATIONSCAPES, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Winner of The MAC INTERNATION ART AWARD 2018, The Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast, North Ireland

2017
Laureate in the category "Best Austrian experimental animation film 2017", Austrian Animation Film Festival, Vienna, Autria

2015
Made in... The lateral line organ project, World Expo 2015, Milan, Italy

2015
34° Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria

2015
Artist in Residence, AILab - Innovation Laboratory, Vienna, Austria

2014 - 2016
"Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line", PEEK Artistic Research Project, Austria

2012
Artist in Residence, Bmukk Studio, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Artist in Residence, Timelab, Gand, Belgium

2009
Kulturpreis "Bildende Kunst", Austria

2009
Artist in Residence Nadine / The Ever Mass Land, Brussels, Belgium

2008
Artist in Residence South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Republic of China

2007
Artist in Residence Duende, Rotterdam & Air, Antwerp, Belgium

2006
Honorary Mention for "Digital Music", Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2005 - 2006
Jan van Eyck Academie Fellowship, Netherlands

2004
Art Award of the Ministry for Art Culture and Education, Austria

2003
Air 03, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

2003
States grant for Fine art of the Republic of Austria

2001
Transfer Damascus, Centre for Art and Knowledge Transfer, Vienna & Damascus, Austria-Syria

Ongoing Projects
2014 - 2017
Choreo-graphic Figures Research Project

Since 1998
The Institute for Transacoustic Research

Since 1998
The Vegetable Orchestra

Projects in Public Space / Commissions
2016
AUSTRIAN CULTURAL PAVILION, Otets Paisiy Street, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2016
Choreo-graphic Figures - Summer Lab, AlLab, Vienna, Austria

2016
Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line,Vienna, Austria

2014
Income Dance, Imagetanz Festival, Brut, Vienna, Austria

2012
Libra - Balancing the Invisible, JZ Korneuburg, Austria

2010
Radical Cartography - Mapping the Terminal, CAT/Airport Vienna, Austria

2009
Urban Signs/Local Strategies, Public Space Project, Praterstern, Vienna, Austria

2008
Parallel Circuits, art/science/music, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria

2006
Wechselschattenspeicher, Forum NÖ, St. Pölten, Austria

2001
Fremde Dezibel, Festival der Regionen, Linz, Austria

2001
REC, University of applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

2000
Menschenstromverstärker, Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria