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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 RoadMMKK 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 LEFTOVERSRecycled 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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