Christian Mayer

Group XXXVII, 2013
FINE ARTS

Born 1976 in Sigmaringen, Germany
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

2013
-Belvedere, Vienna

2012
- "Taim Kaepsyul," Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium
- "prezjnt," Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
- "laengwedzh," Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

2011
- "Scenic," Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germay
- "Les Vues d'Amérique du Nord," Apartement 2, Los Angeles, United States
- "Fruits, Flowers, & Clouds," Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

2009
- "Gizmo," Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria

2008
- "Les Vues d'Amérique," FIAC (Galerie Mezzanin), Paris, France
- "Elseworlds," (with Sonia Leimer), public art project, Laa an der Thaya

2007
- "flotsam and jetsam," Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
- "Another city, not my own," Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, Poland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
- "Repertory," Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
- "Let's pluck the bird," Limoncello, London, United Kingdom
- "Unter 10 - Wertvolles en miniature," Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
- "The shape of things to come," Ve.sch, Vienna, Austria
- "The Biography of Images: Parallel Biographies," Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- "Blue Monday," moins un, Paris, France

2012
- "DLF - Die Biografie der Bilder / The Biography of Images", Camera Austria, Graz
- "DLF 1874 - Die Biografie der Bilder. Eine Inventur der Voraussetzungen.", Halle 14, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
- "Sculptured," Strombad Kritzendorf, Austria
- "Predicting Memories," Vienna Art Week, Austria
- "Die illustrierte Ausstellung," Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
- "Galicia–Topographies of Myth," SOKOL, Nowy Sayz, Poland
- "Demnächst," Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria

2011
- "Museum der Wünsche," Mumok, Vienna, Austria
- "Wiener Glut," KIT, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany

2010
- "Invisible Play," Kadirga Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
- "Forschungsbericht," COCO, Vienna, Austria
- "Walls Rooms Illusions," Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- "Bare House Project," Art Museum, Pori, Finland
- "Paradise Lost - Holidays in Hell," Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
- "da bao," Anni Art, Bejing, China
- "Pro Choice in Schattendorf," Kunstverein Schattendorf, Austria

2009
- "Sleepwalking," temporary gallery, Cologne, Germany
- "Weltpanorama," 6th Biennial of Photography, Poznan, Poland
- "Figure/Ground," Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
- "Gastspiel," Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
- "En vue… des manières de voir – la nature mise en images et en vitrine," Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France
- "Bulletin Board Blvd.," pro choice, Vienna, Austria
- "Miete Strom Gas oder Brasilian Wax," freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

2008
- "Principle Hope," Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy
- "Bass Diffusion Model," Fieldgate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- "Manual CC," uqbar, Berlin, Germany
- "Utopia and Perception," Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
- "Zoomandscale," Akademie der Bildenden Künste/Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, Austria
- "Missing Scene," Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
- "Missing Scene," Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2007
- "Images," Into Position, Vienna, Austria
- "This is happening," Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
- "Toposcapes," Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria
- "Groupshow," Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria
- "Logbuch," Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria

Artist Books

2012
- "Gizmo," Passagen Verlag, Vienna, Austria

2008
- "flotsam and jetsam," Schlebrügge. Editor, Vienna, Austria

Selected Catalogs

2012
- "DLF 1874 – Biografie der Bilder," Fotohof Edition, Salzburg, Austria

2011
- "Museum der Wünsche," Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Distanz Verlag, Vienna, Austria
- "Divergencies of PerceptionUniversity Helsinki, Finland
- "Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2011," müry salzmann Verlag, Salzburg, Austria
- "Pori AiR," Aalto University, Pori, Finland
- "da bao," Magazine.ws Publishing, Vienna, Austria
- "Wiener Glut," KIT Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

2010
- "EINE #3," Summer 2010

2009
- "Gastspiel," Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, Germany
- "Democratic Design," Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany

2008
- "Mongolia: Utopia and Perception," Kerava Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland

2007
- "This is happening," Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna, Austria
- "Skizzen des Verschwindens," Revolver, Frankfurt/Main Germany
- "Toposcapes," Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria
- "art catalogue," T-Mobile, Vienna, Austria
- "+10/2007," Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg, Germany

Scholarships & Awards

2012
- Staatsstipendium Bildende Kunst
- Stipendium der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Germany

2011
- Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis, Austria

2008
- Stipendium Cité des Arts, Paris, France

JURY

Sabeth Buchmann
Selva Gürdoğan
Friedemann Malsch
Simon Starling
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Heidrun Holzfeind

Group XXXVII, 2013
FINE ARTS

www.heidrunholzfeind.com

Born 1972 in Lienz, Austria
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Art History, University of Vienna, Austria
Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Art, semester abroad, Cooper Union, New York, United States

Solo Exhibitions

2012
- “Strictly Private,” BAWAG contemporary, Vienna, Austria
- “Tsunami architecture” (with Christoph Draeger), OK Centrum Linz, Austria

2010
- “Za Zelazna Brama,” CCA, Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw, Poland

2009
- “CU / Mexico 68,” De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands

2008
- “CU / Mexico 68,” Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

2007
- “CU / Mexico 68,” Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria

Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2013
- “Portable Nation/Disappearance as work in progress,” Maldives Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
- “Under Pressure,” curated by Katja Mittendorfer-Oppolzer, MdM Salzburg, Austria
- “Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden,” curated by Maria Lind, Tensta Kunsthall, Sweden
- “come and go,” curated by Gabriela Gantenbein, Swiss embassy Vienna, Austria
- “Za Zelazna Brama,” film screening, NGBK Berlin, Germany

2012
- “Taste it!” film screening, Mumok Kino Vienna, Austria
- Istanbul Design Biennale, film program, Istanbul, Turkey
- “Based on a true story,” curated by Yael Rosenblut, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- “Tsunami Architecture,” screening and book launch, Corner College, Zurich, Switzerland
- “Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine,” Parker's Box, New York, United States
- “Sign Relations In Space & Terrestrial Communications,” Galerie M29, Cologne, Germany
- Fotofestiwal Lodz, Poland
- PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland

2011
- “Communitas,” curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Reinhard Braun, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
- Videonale 13, Bonn, Germany; Poznan, Poland
- “DEAR THICK & THIN,” organized by Arfus Greenwood, ME contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
- Documentary Fortnight exhibition, MOMA, New York, United States
- “Living modern,” curated by Laura Barlow, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, United States
- “Architecture and its discontents,” curated by Adam Szymczyk, Kaleidoscope, Milan, Italy
- “Revenge,” Tallinn Art Hall gallery, Estonia
- “2 or 3 things we’ve learned / Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest,” curated by Eva Egermann and Elke Krasny, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
- Diagonale / Festival for Austrian Film, Graz, Austria
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany

2009
- “See this Sound,” (cat.), curated by Cosima Rainer, Lentos Museum Linz, Austria
- “Open: Poland – Architecture, Identity and the Avant-Garde,” curated by Rob Wilson & Grzegorz Piatek, RIBA, London, United Kingdom
- “Changes in the contemporary city,” curated by Jos van der Pol, SIR cinema, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- “Photocairo4,” Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
- “After Architecture,” (cat.), curated by Martí Peran, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
- “A Starting Point: Intrude 366,” curated by Biljana Ciric, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China

2008
- “Exposed,” Documentary Fortnight exhibition, MOMA, New York, United States
- “Manifesta 7, Principle Hope,” (cat.), curated by Adam Budak, Rovereto, Italy
- “PhotoCairo 4,” (cat.), curated by Edit Molnar, Aleya Hamza, Cairo, Egypt
- “Tiefenrausch,” (cat.), OK Centrum, Linz, Austria
- “Rom Report,” Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
- “UNSTERN. SINISTRE. DISASTRO.” ACC Weimar, Germany
- “Cinema on Cinema,” De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “ORTung,” gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria

2007
- “Exits and Dead Ends,” (cat.), Festival der Regionen 2007, Upper Austria
- “After Architects,” curated by Maja Naef & Adam Szymczyk, Architekturmuseum Basel, Switzerland
- “Die Blaue Blume,” curated by Soren Grammel, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
- “The Building Show,” Exit Art, New York, United States
- “European Media Arts Festival,” Osnabrueck, Germany
- Assim Vivemos Festival Brazil, Rio de Janero & Brasília, Brazil

Residencies

2008
- air lab, CCA-Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2007
- Swing Space grant, LMCC, New York, United States
-ORTung, Strobl, Salzburg, Austria

Prizes

2012
- Outstanding artist award for photography, Austrian Arts Council, Austria

2011
- Camera Austria prize for contemporary photography, Austria
- Gerhard and Birgit Gmoser-Prize for Contemporary Art, Secession Vienna, Austria

JURY

Sabeth Buchmann
Selva Gürdoğan
Friedemann Malsch
Simon Starling
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Michael Heislmair

Group XXXVII, 2013
ARCHITECTURE

www.hieslmair.him.at

Born 1974 in Linz, Austria
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Architecture, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Selected Projects & Exhibitions

2013
- Cityworks Festival, Munich, Germany
- Rotor, Vienna, Austria

2012
- Community Project (co-curated with Thomas Wolkinger) for the Wiener Festwochen/ Vienna Festival, Austria
- exhibition, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
- Open Space, Vienna, Austria
- Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria

2011
- Festival of the Regions, Upper Austria

2010
- B1/A40 in framework of Ruhr.2010, Cultural Capital of Europe, Germany

2009
- “Crossing Munich. Orte Bilder und Debatten der Migration,” Munich, Germany
- Open Cities, 4. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Netherlands

2008
- Vienna Museum, Austria
- Regionale 08 (with Theater im Bahnhof, Graz), Austria

2007
- ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany

Grants & Residencies

2013
- Artist in Residence Fellowship KSA:K Chisinau, Moldova

2009
- Artist in Residence Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria

2008
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky grant, Austria

Teaching

2011 – 2012
- lecturer, Institute of Urban and Architectural History, Graz University of Technology, Austria

2010 – 2011
- lecturer, Institute for Design, Innsbruck University, Austria

2009
- lecturer, Institute for Theory in Architecture, Innsbruck University, Austria
- workshop director (with Michaela Schweiger), University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle an der Saale, Germany
- workshop director (with Judith Laister), Summeracademy BELLEVUE the yellow House, Linz, Austria

JURY

Sabeth Buchmann
Selva Gürdoğan
Friedemann Malsch
Simon Starling
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Deniz Sözen

Group XXXVII, 2013
ARCHITECTURE

www.denizsoezen.net

Born 1981 in Vienna, Austria
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Art, Goldsmiths College, London
Art, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

2014
- solo-show, MUSA Start Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2012
- “Uçan Halım” – “my flying carpet”, solo show, die Nische, commissioned by Manser/ Palak/Otzoup, Basel, Switzerland

2010
- “be longing”, solo show feat. Suzan Dennis,Visual Arts Platform, ACF, London, United Kingdom

Group Exhibitions

2013
- Curators' Network Meeting, organized by Andrea Löbel and Jürgen Tabor, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2012
- PANik 8: „Performance as Post-Colonial Strategy!“, organized by Irene Lucas and Ruby Sircar, VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria
- “Ein.Kuechen.Bau”, video installation commissioned by Joonas Lahtinen u.a./ Punatonttu and the Freischwimmer festival/brut Vienna. Shown at: Sophiensaele Berlin, brut Vienna, Gessnerallee Zurich, Switzerland, Mousonturm Frankfurt, FFT Düsseldorf, Kampnagel Hamburg

2010
- “Living Across - Spaces of Migration“, group exhibition (cat.), curated by Christian Kravagna, x:hibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
- “Home Sweet Home Sick Home“, performance event, curated by Sara Hossein, lust gallery, Vienna, Austria

2009
- MFA degree show, Goldsmiths College, London, United Kingdom
- “groupe/grope,” group show, Area 10, Peckham, London, United Kingdom
- “Platform Junge Kunst”, group show, gallery Baeckerstrasse4, Vienna, Austria
- screening at Art Salon Project 2, curated by boyleANDshaw, ARTPROJX SPACE, London, United States

Screenings

2013
- street cinema, Lendwirbel festival, Graz, Austria

2011
- Espacioenter Video Art Festival, Tenerife, Spain
- Waiting For Suicidal Hares – video festival initiated by Jon Moscow & Organhaus, Chongqing, China
- SAMVAAD, curated by Sabrina Shabbu, 1shanthiroad Studio Gallery, Bangalore and the Foundation for Contemporary Indian Art, New Delhi, India

2010
- Underground City 21 (cat.), a co-operation of NOMADtheatre and LABfactory Vienna, Austria together with Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom

2009
- Art Salon Project 2, curated by boyleANDshaw, ARTPROJX SPACE, London, United States

2008
- Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria
- Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, Austria
- Turkish Womens’ Film Festival, Topkino, Vienna, Austria

Awards & Scholarships

2014
- artist residency, Cité des Arts Paris, granted by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

2013
- start-scholarship for video and media arts, granted by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

2010
- artist residency, Paliano, Italy

2007-2009
- scholarship (research preparation masters scheme) by the AHRC, United Kingdom

2007
- “Transfer project Black Sea II," Center for Art and Knowledge Transfer, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- Fohn-stipendium, Vienna, Austria

2006
- Prize for the video-clip “O.T. - Untitled (“China to World")," Mumok’s video- contest, screenings of the clip at movie theatres in Vienna and at the Mumok-hall
- Grant, artistic achievement, Sussmann-foundation

Selected Educational Projects

2011
- “Vom Himmel der Aliens zum Himmel der Derwische: Begegnungen der Anderen Art," realization of a transnational art education project using new media (youtube & skype) between pupils in Turkey and pupils in Switzerland; commissioned by Museum Rietberg Zurich

2007
- Art educator at documenta12, Kassel; in charge of the organization and coordination of an alternative gallery education project/ director of a video-project exploring carpets in Kassel (“Kilim Filim") sponsored by Fonds Soziokultur

Publications

2012
- “Reflexionen über Zwischenräume," Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa) (Ed..) (2012): Kunstvermittlung in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Reflexionen einer Arbeitstagung – 2011. Edition Kultur und Außenpolitik. Online-Publication.
- “From alien galaxies to the dervishes’ skies: encounters of a different kind," InSea Newsletter, Volume 4, No. 1

2009
- “Kilim Filim," “Tour Operator," “Die Gesten der Kunstvermittlung," documenta 12 education I. DVD- supplement; published by the Institute for Art Education (IAE) of the Zurich University of Arts. Berlin: diaphanes
- “Das Tänzerische in der Kunstvermittlung," documenta 12 education II: Between cultural praxis and public service. Results of a research project. Carmen Mörsch and the research team of documenta12 (Ed.) published by the Institute for Art Education (IAE) of the Zurich University of Arts. Berlin: diaphanes
- “Odessa, Odessa", Graue Donau, Schwarzes Meer. Christian Reder and Erich Klein (Ed.), Vienna: Springer

JURY

Sabeth Buchmann
Selva Gürdoğan
Friedemann Malsch
Simon Starling
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

Johannes Zotter

Group XXXVII, 2013
ARCHITECTURE

Born 1980 in Graz, Austria
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Architecture, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Work Experience

2013
- Burtscher - Durig ZT GmbH, Vienna, Austria
- Independent-Design-Research-Residency, Turkey

2011 – 2012
- fiktiv architektur GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

2009 – 2010
- SWAP Architekten ZT GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Projects & Competitions

2011
- “Haus Mondsee”
- “Atelier HMG Küche”
- “Ontogenesis”

2008
- “tennisoase,” Graz, Austria

2007
- “verein für gestaltung form bild text ton”

Exhibitions

2013
- “archdiploma 2013,” Technical University of Vienna, Austria

2008
- “Schöneheitsklinik,” Institute of Building Design, Vienna, Austria

2007
- “fashioncenter,” Institute of Building Design, Vienna, Austria

Publications

2011
- “ontogenesis”, diploma thesis, Johannes Zotter (Hg.), Vienna

2008
- “add on. 20 höhenmeter,” Peter Fattinger, Veronika Orso, Michael Rieper (Hg.), Folio Verlag Vienna-Bozen ISBN 978-3-85256-472-2 Project contribution “Ameisenbaer”

JURY

Sabeth Buchmann
Selva Gürdoğan
Friedemann Malsch
Simon Starling
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein