23.11.-8.12.2024
The Falling Sky – group show at Monade Contemporary, Kyoto
23.11.2024
performing the The Public Address System for Spells and Spelling Out (PASSS-O) with Oliver Gemballa as part of Carbon Busters, Aderklaa, Austria
6.11.2024
opening of the group show WICKED FUTURES & the Board of Imagination at Motherboard, Vienna
14.-18.10.2024
presenting at the 75th International Astronautical Congress in Milano, Italy
July – September 2024
artist in residency, Haghirian Foundation, Kyoto
18.05.2024
artist talk as part of IN-SITU. Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species, < rotor >, Graz
17.4.2024
artist talk on Paul Kammerer and the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, seminar “Die Akademie und die Völkerschauen im Prater”, Maren Grimm & Jakob Krameritsch, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
11.04.2023
SERPENTINE. A TOUCH OF HEAVEN (AND HELL). Presentation of the catalog at Secession, Vienna
22.03. – 18.05.2024
IN-SITU. Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species, < rotor >, Graz
13. – 25.3.2024
Art residency with the Ansible Institute, Cafe Tissardmine, Moroccan Sahara
1.2. – 12.3.2024
Atmospheres. Art, Climate- and Space Research, ACT Cube, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1.2. – 3.3.2024
EX-SITU. Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species. Group show curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
23.11.2023
Lecture performance at Materialer, Fællesskaber & Fremtider, 51Cth, Rosklide, Denmark
14.11.2023 – 7.1.2024
Atmospheres. Art, Climate- and Space Research, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
26.9.2023
Space Acts (Un·Earthing exercise), performance as part of the exhibition Close/d, Kunst Haus Wien / Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna
5.8. – 15.8.2023
ERNTE 23, group show with Anita Fuchs, Ralo Mayer, Anna Paul, Rita Süveges, Kunsthalle Burgenland, Alte Ölmühle, Neumarkt an der Raab
11.7.2023
Un·Earthing a Space Miner’s Dream and the Ruins of Xenoarchaeology, with [M] Dudeck, Alice Gorman, Ralo Mayer, Joseph Popper, Tuesday@Secession, Secession, Vienna
27.6. – 31.10.2023
Participating in the group show Close/d at Kunst Haus Wien
12.5 – 25.6.2023
EXTR-Activism. Decolonising Space Mining, Indecis Artist Run Space, Timisoara
29.4. – 5.11.2023
Atmospheres. Art, climate and space research, Mobile Pavilion, Steiermark Schau, Tierwelt Herberstein, Styria
21. – 26.3.2023
Cinematic premiere of Un·Earthing (pharmakon) at Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz
22.3. – 3.4.2023
Contributing my new short film Titularium eines weit entfernten Himmelskörpers at Atmospheres. Art, climate and space research, Mobile Pavilion, Steiermarkschau, at Heldenplatz, Vienna
25.-27.11.2022
presentation of Un·Earthing (pharmakon) at INFRASTRUCTURAL DREAMS / INFRASTRUCTURES OF DREAMING, Timisoara
11. – 14.10.2022
Space Un·Settlements, artistic research PhD presentation and defense, University of Applied Arts Vienna
28.9.2022
The World is [still] in You, workshop / exercise at Medical Museion, Copenhagen
23.09.2022 – 8.1.2023
GROW - The Tree in Art, curated by Miroslav Haľák, Belvedere, Vienna
Summer 2022
The Artist Residence Herzliya, artist residency Austrian Ministry for Culture and Arts, Israel
16.05. – 28.05.2022
Self-Sabotage Impro-Lab, organized by Krõõt Juurak & Lily Wittenburg, Tanzquartier Wien
2.4. – 12.4.2022
Kunst hilft – in der Ukraine und anderen Kriegsgebieten, charity auction in favor of Doctors without Borders with works by the Association of Artists Vienna Secession, Dorotheum Vienna
9.2.2022 – 12.3.2022
EXTR-Activism. Decolonising Space Mining, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
6.12.2021
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies screened as the closing film of the 16th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, BiH
30.9. 2021 – 16.1.2022
THE WORLD IS IN YOU, exhibition by Medical Museion Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
10.8.2021
screening of Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies at dotdotdot Open Air Short Film Festival, Vienna
13.7. & 23.7.2021
screening of Food Speculations as part of the program HIDDEN TREASURES AND LEFTOVERS / Recycled Cinema, by sixpackfilm / Filmmuseum / Viennale, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien
25.6.2021
opening #2 of Serpentine – Between Heaven and Hell, public art & temporary interventions along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria
11.6. – 29.8.2021
SERPENTINE. A Touch of Heaven (and Hell) – group exhibition based on the ongoing eponymous public art project at the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
8.6.-13.6.201
screening of my film “Food Speculations” at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, Graz
7.4. – 9.4.2021
Presenting “An Index of Un·Earthing” at the SAR 12the International Conference on Artistic Research, Vienna / online
26.11.2020
postponed FOOD SPECULATIONS screened as part of the program HIDDEN TREASURES AND LEFTOVERS / Recycled Cinema by sixpackfilm / Filmmuseum / Viennale, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien
28.10.2020
As part of this year’s virtual film festival edition “Out of This World”, EFFA – Environmental Film Festival Australia has paired an online screening of Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies with Radically EFF’d – Through the Extraterrestrial Lens, a panel of mini-lectures by Tyson Yunkaporta and PLUGINHuman and Ralo Mayer
13.10.2020
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies screened as part of the program An Object(ive) World – three Sixpack shorts, Tuškanac Cinema, Zagreb
11.10.2020
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies screened as part of the program An Object(ive) World – three Sixpack shorts, Siva Zona, Korčula
29.8.2020
performative talk at the Møn Biennalen 2020 – STOFSKIFTE / METABOLISM, Møn / Denmark
August 2020 – 2022
showing a series of works at Serpentine – Between Heaven and Hell, art in public space & temporary interventions along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria
9.1.2020
The Tower, the Expo, the Echo, the Cell – performative setting and presentation at Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
23.11.2019
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies screened at UNDOX 2019 – Dubious Documentaries, Blickle Kino, Belvedere, Vienna
28.10.2019
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies screened at Environmental Film Festival Australia, Melbourne
28.9.2019
Showing a collage for my “Proposal for a Monument at Lagrange 5″ at Elena Knox’ Volcana Brainstorm / Koganecho Bazaar, Tokyo
21.9. – 21.12.2019
The Anarchistic Amateur’s Alphabet, showing my collection of closed ecosystems 2008-2019 at this group show at < rotor > center for contemporary art / steirischer herbst, Graz
21.9. – 25.10.2019
Dancing on the Ruins, presenting two videos at this groups show curated by Lenka Kukurová, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava
14.9. – 8.12.2019
cinkos / kompliz*in - double presentation with Sári Ember, curated by Barbara Horvath, at Kunstverein Eisenstadt
14.7. – 3.11. 2019
contributing three works for Ticket to the Moon, group exhibition at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
6.7. – 14.7.
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies at Revelation – Perth International Film Festival, Australia
4.7. 2019
A new commissioned work on Food and Science Fiction for the re-opening of the Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm
18.6. 2019
Presentation at “Convocation”, Research Pavilion #3: Research Ecologies, Venice
5.6.- 30.6.2019
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies featured in “The Science of Cinema”, the June issue of Labocine
28.5.2019
Presentation of “Space Un·Settlements” at the Public Colloquium, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
18.5.2019
„The Tower, the Expo, the Bureau, the Echo“ - lecture performance at Parallax Trading, das weisse haus, Vienna
8.5. – 28.8.2019
“Starting with a camel (On Serendipity)” at Research Pavilion #3: Research Ecologies / “Through Phenomena Themselves”, Venice
2.5. – 12.5. 2019
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies at IndieLisboa
10.4.2019 – 18.5.2019
Parallax Trading, das weisse haus, Vienna – group show curated by Miwa Negoro; with Eva Engelbert, Yuki Higashino, Yukari Inoue, Nathalie Koger, mamoru, Michikazu Matsune, Ralo Mayer, Fuyuka Shindo, Kanako Tada, Anna Witt
4.4.2o19
Screening of Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies at the 16. dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
10.12.2018
Screening of my film “Limes: bioborder/park/spektakel” (2001) as part of sixpackfilm’s Living Collection, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna
4.12.2018
Artist talk at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo
20.11.2018
Artist talk at BioClub Shibuya, Tokyo
25.-30.10.2018
International premiere of Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies at the 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, in the competition section “Between the Seas”
Sept.-Dec. 2018
Artist in Residency in Tokyo, federal Austrian residency program
9.9.2018
My short doc-essay “Noordung in Vienna” is aired on Austrian TV ORF 3
2.7.-2.9.2018
showing my video “frnknst9n Invocation” at WeltTraumStadt. Space For Kids at Kunsthalle Wien
May 2018
My essay film Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies (Retroflectors: the astronaut, the robot, the alien) is now being distributed through sixpackfilm – including a great new text by Drehli Robnik
26.5.2018
“Nature and Outer Space” – Conversation with curator Jacob Lillemose & presentation at the Bloom Festival, Copenhagen
25.5.2018
Space Un·Settlements – lecture & discussion at the Institute for Art, Writing and Research, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
11. – 13.4.2018
presenting my work on “Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies” at “Artistic Research Will Eat Itself“, 9th SAR – International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth
14. & 16.3.2018
My video essay “Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies” is screened at the Festival of Austrian Film Diagonale, Graz
8.3.-5.5.2018
Portal, group show with works by Greg Dunn, Rafael Trelles, Rithika Merchant, Pablo Amaringo, Chewang Dorje Lama and Ralo Mayer at October Gallery, London
10.11.2017
cozzzmonautica – 9th edition: Shipwreck Cosmologies, Timisoara
29.9.2017 – 14.1.2018
STARS – Cosmic Art from 1900 up to the Present, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
13.9.2017 – 18.2.2018
“Visions of Nature“, group show at Kunst Haus Wien / Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna
9.7.-29.10.2017
“Lebensraum Erde”, group show with Ilkka Halso, Ralo Mayer / Oliver Gemballa, Claire Pentecost, and Herman de Vries at Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm
24.5.2017
Opening of “Return to Spaceship Earth”, double show at Salonul de proiecte together with Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, curated by Alexandra Croitoru and Ștefan Tiron, Bucharest
18.5.2017
Presenting “E.T.E – Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies” at Outside the Pale Blue Dot (Beyond the Planet Earth – public presentation & discussion with Ștefan Tiron and Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest
6.5.-17.6.2017
Group show N 48° 11′ 47.038″ O 16° 21′ 59.259″ as part of Payer Gabriel’s solo show at Christine König Galerie, Vienna
4./5.5.2017
Public Colloquium of the Artistic Research PhD Programme, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AIL, Vienna
29.4.-2.6.2017
“Phantastischer Kapitalismus”, group show at GPL Contemporary, Vienna
17.3.2017
Presenting “E.T.E – Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies” at Trafó in Budapest, as part of the program Thought Sculpture, curated by Borbála Szalai
22.10.2016
Opening of group show PSST … THERE IS STILL SPACE IN OUTER SPACE!, Pavelhaus, Laafeld
21.10.2016
Presenting “E.T.E – Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies, the Undergrowth” at the symposium “Propulsion: On Changing Futures”, which I co-organized with Claudia Slanar at the Department of Site-Specific Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna -> see blog entry
Sept. 2016
My paper Beyond the Blue Marble: Artistic Research on Space and Ecology has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Astronautica -> see blog entry
15.9.2016-29.10.2016
Antenna Futura – Futurological Exercises for the Unknown, group show at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien -> see blog entry
29.6.2016
“E.T. war Ökologin“, lecture at Academy of Media Arts Cologne
10.6.2016-22.1.2017
The Language of Things – Material Histories from the Collection, 21er Haus, Wien
20.2.-27.2.2016
Group exhibition “contemporallye ´subjektive`“, Augsburg, curated by Roland Rauschmeier & Christoph Bruckner
28.1.2016
“Onboard Stations of Human Exploration”: Talk by Kathelin Gray at my exhibition at X and Beyond, Copenhagen
9.12.2015
Opening of my exhibition “Shared etymological futures of revolution and disaster / SPACE POST COLONIALISM”
at X and Beyond, Copenhagen (see blog entry)
12.-16.10.2015
Participating at the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, presenting “Ecologies of Space” at the panel “Contemporary Arts Practice and Outer Space”
3.10-31.10.2015
Participating at “Mission W“, a project of art in public space in the Vienna Forest (see blog entry)
August 2015
Artist / researcher in residence at the program “Lateral Line Organ” at World EXPO Milano 2015
24.4.2015
Opening of the “Project Biennial of Contemporary Art” at Tito’s old Bunker in Konjic, Bosnia
16.4.2015
Opening of the exhibition “Destination Wien” at Kunsthalle Wien (17.4. – 31.5.2015)
19.2.2015
“It’s the ecology, stupid” presentation at Shedhalle, Zürich
1.1.-28.2.2015
Breaking the News at the wall behind glass of margin, Denmark
13.11.2014
Opening of the exhibition “The End of Nature” at Shedhalle, Zürich (14.11.2014 – 1.3.2015) -> blog entry with pix
24./25.7.2014
Presentation at the Cosmographies Conference. Textual and Visual Cultures of Outer Space, Falmouth University, UK -> blog entry with pix
4.7. – 24.8.2014
Refuse the Shadows of the Past: Five Years of Austrian Art Made in China, University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong
27.6.2014
Presentation with Jon McKenzie and Bartek Frackowiak at the conference Theater, Performance, Philosophy. Crossings and Transfers in Contemporary Anglo-American Thought, University of Paris-Sorbonne
23.6.2014
Lecture at BIOSPHERE n+1, Models and Realities: Versions of Sustainability, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
13.6. – 23.7.2014 (opening 12.6.2014)
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
13.6. – 22.6.2014 (opening 12.6.2014)
Jahresgaben Ausstellung, das weisse haus, Wien
15.3. – 24.5.2014 (opening 14.3.2014)
MEASURES OF SAVING THE WORLD _ PART 5, < rotor >, Graz -> blog entry with pix
4.2.-21.3.2014 (opening 3.2., 19h)
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, initiiert von Julia Lazarus und Moira Zoitl, IG Bildende Kunst, Wien
3.12.-20.12.2013
HEISSE STEINE, NASSE ZONEN, SCHNELLE MELONEN, VBKÖ, Vienna
21.11.2013-spring 2014
The Collection #4, 21er Haus, Vienna
5.9.-10.11.2013
BC21 Art Award nomination exhibition, 21er Haus, Vienna -> blog entry with pix | catalog contribution
28.6.2013
performance / lecture on “Disastronautics: How to Do Things With Worlds” with Jon McKenzie at PSi19, Stanford University
13./14.6.2013
Piazza Funghi, with Oliver Gemballa, Philipp Haupt & Markus Nowak, Live Art Festival, Kampnagel, Hamburg -> blog
23.4.2013
Opening of my exhibition at das weisse haus, Vienna
31.1.2013
Opening of the exhibition “Überholte Geschichte”, curated by Dorottya Csécsei and Nathalie Koger, at Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest
25.1.2013
Opening of the exhibition “Osmosis”, curated by Lorenzo Sandoval and Gabriela Acha, at Altes Finanzamt, Berlin
29.11.2012
Opening of the exhibition “In short, space is the name for the fact that things fail to be in direct contact without being outside all contact entirely.”(Aber da meint Graham Harman eigentlich nicht den Weltraum) at Jesuiten-Foyer, Bäckerstraße 18, 1010 Wien (in connection with the Otto-Mauer-Preis)
8.11.2012
I was awarded this year’s Otto-Mauer-Preis. Yippie!
7.3.2012
Talk between Christoph Brunner and Ralo Mayer at Kunsthaus Baselland, in connection with the exhibition Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE (Woran glauben die Motten, wenn sie zu den Lichtern streben), 6.30pm
2.3.2012
Artist talk with Seb Patane, Ralo Mayer and curator Bettina Steinbrügge - Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk – 21er Haus, Wien, 5pm
28.1.-18.3.2012
Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE (Woran glauben die Motten, wenn sie zu den Lichtern streben)
– solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
20.1.-20.5.2012
Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk – group show at 21er Haus, Wien
11.11.-18.12.2011
Die Zukunft hatte begonnen – with Margret Hoppe, Ralo Mayer, Heide Nord, Fabian Reimann
group show at Kunstverein Leipzig
3.9.2011
giving a guided tour though my exhibition at Lentos, Linz (in connection with the ongoing Ars Electronica)
3pm, Lentos
after months of down-time:
SITE IS UP AGAIN!
12. 11.-21. 11. 2010
participating at Hard to Sell, Good to Have at Palais Sturany, Vienna – see more info here
1.10-11.10 2010
participating at DIS PLAY PRATER STERN, curated by Ursula Maria Probst and Martin Wagner
16.7.2010
my installation at Linz Triennale has been awarded the “Preis der Triennale”
1.7.2010
performing with Krõõt Juurak “A text is a list of effects…” at performIC-Festival in Innsbruck
8.6.2010
Video presentation and talk at Basekamp, Philadelphia – part of their Plausible Artworlds project
3.6.-26.9.2010
Triennale Linz – showing an installation at OK – Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
22. 5. 2010 – 4. 7. 2010
Dongxi – Things – group show at Kunstverein Baden
26.3.-8.5.2010
Quasi dasselbe…? Diskurse mit poetischer Funktion – group show at Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, curated by Birgit Rinagl & Franz Thalmair, CONT3XT.NET
19./20.3.2010
Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Art, Post-Fordism and Eco-Critique – Speaking at International Symposium at CEU, Budapest
12.2.2010-23.2.2010
The Merger – by following this 1 easy rule…, Chicago
30.1.-27.3.2010
“…travelling through Biosphere 2, or: Anastylosis of Follies“, Argos Arts, Brussels
16.12.2009-16.1.2010
“mifan” – at Babu Art, Shenzhen
8.11.-13.12.2009
research trip to the southwestern US: Biosphere 2 and private space flight
7.11.-21.11.2009
“mifan” – works by artists from Austria, Anni Art, Beijing
16.10.-11.11.2009
postalternativ, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
5.-20.9.2009
31. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
19.7.2009
presentation at Camp Exodus / Skulpturenpark Berlin – see blog
12./14./16.5.2009
A text is a list of effects of being exposed to the vacuum of outer space und eine Parataxe ist eine in sich selbst faltende Falle, performance, brut Wien, see blog
2.4.-9.5.2009
Kommentar als selber was, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien
organized by Galerie C&V
31.3.-25.4.2009
Preparatory Ways, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Karen Cunningham, Yuen Fong Ling, Sophie Mackfall, Ralo Mayer
21.12.-26.12.2008
I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THIS PLACE BUT I’M GOING TO PROMOTE IT
Banner intervention in public space, Chengdu
Oct.-Dec. 2008
The translator is on a residency in Chengdu, China. Ni Hao.
19.9.-9.11.2008
Secession, Vienna
Das Muster der Schatten des Spaceframe der Biosphere 2, das die Sonne am 26. September 2041 auf den Boden der Savanne projiziert, ähnelt zwischen 10:24 und 14:02 auffällig einer Penrose Parkettierung; und während ich diese Zeitrafferaufnahme der Ruine mehrmals betrachte, spiegelt sich im Monitor der Blick aus dem Fenster nach draussen.
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17.7.-23.8.2008
Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck
Ein Blick durch Millionen Tropfen, die sich durch Kondensation an der Innenseite des Glashauses sammeln; Erinnerungen an vergangene Zukünfte; die Liste möglicher Bibliografien zu “Biosphere 2: Projections of N-Dimensional Architecture”, S. 152 ff; Inventur der Anagramme von WHAT IS LIFE, z.B. I FELT A WISH.
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