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GROUP,  SOLO SHOWS AND SCREENINGS

20 02 2024
Group Show: A Little Bit of Solidarity Goes a Long Way @ zirka.space, Munich (DE) /w René Stiegler, Adam Varab, Angus Scratch Green, Bokyoung Jeong, Berk Tuncer, Christian Eisenberg, Emma Bombail, Hannah Maria Mutterer, 라현진 Hyunjin La, Jannis Besen, Ju Young Kim, Kurt Fritsche/Joshua Gottmanns, Natalie Cäcilie Brehmer, Anna Milena Wojhan, Heilige Sau, Nikolai Gümbel, Pauline Stroux, Tatjana Vall, Tea Strazicic, Theodor Nymark, Younsik Kim, Maximilian Koppernock, shhhbang, Gent Selmanaj
01 12 2023 — 09 12 2023
Group Show: Klasse Bircken/Vogel @ Kunstarkaden Munich, Munich (DE) /w René Stiegler
, Dennis Eberl, Pauline Stroux, Julia Dietrich, Lorand Lajos, Luisa Heinz, Jiaqi Sun, Kurt Fritsche / Joshua Gottmanns, René Stiegler, Younsik Kim, Nicola Kötterl, Jiangyue Guo, Eunjin Yoo, Gent Selmanaj, Jannis Besen, Tariq Jibrini, Maxine Weiss, Yoojin Kim, Sofiia Kryshchuk
21 09 2023 — 15 10 2023
Steirischer Herbst — Humans and Demons @ Steirischerherbst Festival, Graz (AT), Pavel Brăila, Mateja Bučar, Andrea Büttner, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Jasmina Cibic, Alice Creischer, Lucile Desamory, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Vadim Fishkin, Andreas Fogarasi, Hollis Frampton, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Georg Haberler, Adrienn Hód, Hodworks, Anton Kats, Ilyich, Dana Kavelina, Maria Loboda, Madame Nielsen, Eteri Nozadze, Lulu Obermayer, Michael Portnoy, Shimabuku, Michael Stevenson, Meg Stuart, Theater Im Bahnhof, Giacomo Veronesi
13 05 2023
Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @ Postgarage Parking Space, Graz (AT), Kay Yoon, Hanna Besenhard, Sophia Gatzkan, Vassilissa Grebenshchikova, Jonas Morgenthaler, Jakob Kolb, Matt Endler,
René Stiegler
15 02 2023 — 19 02 2023
Group Show: Called for Photography 2022 @ Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
03 10 2022 — 02 11 2022
Group Show: Call for Photography @The Smallest Gallery, Graz (AT)
05 08 2022 — 24 09 2022
Duo Show: A terrible doorstop (Markus Sworcik / René Stiegler), @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
22 10 2021 — 26 11 2021
Group Show: HETZ @ Roter Keil, Graz (AT)
29 06 — 29 07 2021
Group Show: 100Beuys @ Büro für Pessimismus, Graz (AT)
17 09 — 28 11 2020
Group Show: In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT)
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Iris Christine Aue, Deborah Birch / Veza Fernández, Günter Brus / Jörg Schlick, Fedo Ertl, Josef Fürpass, e.d gfrerer, Daniel Hafner, Veronika Hauer, Marlene Hausegger, Matthias Jäger / Bernhard Wolf, Roman Klug, Zita Oberwalder, Clara Oppel, Keyvan Paydar, Erwin Polanc, Wendelin Pressl, David Reumüller, Isa Riedl, Christina Helena Romirer, Karoline Rudolf, Irmgard Schaumberger, Maria Schneider, Markus Sworcik, Lea Titz
27 09 2020
Group Show: Context Cocktail @ Lager 2 / Waagner Biro Straße 117 (AT)
Alexandru Cosarca, Marta Navaridas, Schleni Schlivko, Katharina Sieghartsleitner,
Friedrich Becke, Lena Prehal
14 09 — 09 10 2020
Solo Show: Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
06 06 2019 — 07 06 2019
Group Show: Oh Please Do with Karl Karner, Wolfgang Becksteiner, Armin Pichler, Nicole Wogg, Pia Pivec, David Leitner @ Fifteen Seconds Festival, Graz (AT)
05 05 2019
Screening: Basically, they are just Separated
(‘旧写真 Old Images’) via the theoneminutes.org, curated by Tao Hui 
@ East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
@ 65th International Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
@ Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)
@ Dortmunder U (DE)
@ Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
@ Museum Hilversum (NL)
@ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
@ De School, Amsterdam (NL)
28 02 — 05 03 2019
Group Show: Zeitraum —
@ 9 Tage Kunst & Café, Zeitraum, Graz (AT)
02 02 — 18 04 2019
Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy, @ HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Künstlerhaus  — Halle für Kunst & Medien), Curated by Sandro Droschl, Artists: Thomas Baumann, Candice Breitz, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Tony Cokes, Petra Cortright, Folkert de Jong, Verena Dengler, Ryan Gander, Yuri Pattison, Signe Pierce, Jim Shaw, Gunther Skreiner, Markus Sworcik, Amalia Ulman, Martha Wilson, Joseph Zehrer, Graz (AT)
08 01 — 11 01 2019
Group Show: Residue Posing / Ortwein Stipendium 2018, @ Schaumbad Freies Atelier, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018
Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein,
@ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
08 03 2018
Group Show: Art on Prescription — Art sur Ordonnance, Paris,
@ Musée du quai Branly 37, Paris (FR)
09 02 — 11 02 2018
Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, 
@ Volke 4, Graz (AT)
09 10 — 31 10 17
Solo Show: RETAW, RETAW Falls,
@ Popup Gallery Füll die Lück, Curated by Keyvan Paydar, Graz (AT)
13 05 — 26 11 2017
Group Show: Art on Prescription, Offspace Project during the Venice Biennale 2017,
@ La Biennale di Venezia 2017 (IT)
05 05 — 07 05 2017
Group Show Galerientage Graz,
@ Artepari with Constantin Luser, Anna Maria Bogner, Graz (AT)
09 01 — 12 01 2017
Group Show,
@ Cuntra la Cultra, Graz (AT)
07 12 — 12 12 2016
Group Show: MHD,
@ Schmiede36, Graz (AT)
02 05 — 07 05 2016
Group Show, @ Lendwirbel, Kunsthaus Graz (Innenhof), Graz (AT)
17 06 2015
Live-Performance: Group Show
Hail Of Bullets (Roter Keil, The Third War),
@ Designhalle Graz (AT)
08 02 2014
Performance TTMMM with Hella Comet,
@ Volt, Graz (AT)
12 05 2007
Sound Performance Sonntags Abstrakt with Wouter Jaspers (NL), @ Postgarage, Graz (AT)
2008
Sound Performance (Group / Choir) Musikprotokoll (Robert Lepenik ), @ Steirischer Herbst Graz, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz (AT)
2005
Sound Performance Artists in Residence,
@ Forum Stadtpark Graz, Fluc Wanne Vienna, Graz (AT)

GROUP,  SOLO SHOWS AND SCREENINGS

01 12 2023 — 09 12 2023
Group Show: Klasse Vogel/Bircken @Kunstarkaden Munich, Munich (DE) /w René Stiegler
21 09 2023 — 15 10 2023
Steirischer Herbst — Humans and Demons, Graz (AT), Pavel Brăila, Mateja Bučar, Andrea Büttner, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Jasmina Cibic, Alice Creischer, Lucile Desamory, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Vadim Fishkin, Andreas Fogarasi, Hollis Frampton, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Pedro Gómez-egaña, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Georg Haberler, Adrienn Hód, Hodworks, Anton Kats, Ilyich, Dana Kavelina, Maria Loboda, Madame Nielsen, Eteri Nozadze, Lulu Obermayer, Michael Portnoy, Shimabuku, Michael Stevenson, Meg Stuart, Theater Im Bahnhof, Giacomo Veronesi
13 05 2023
Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @Postgarage, Graz (AT), Kay Yoon, Hanna Besenhard, Sophia Gatzkan, Vassilissa Grebenshchikova, Jonas Morgenthaler, Jakob Kolb, Matt Endler,
René Stiegler
15 02 2023 — 19 02 2023
Group Show: Called for Photography 2022 @Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
03 10 2022 — 02 11 2022
Group Show: Call for Photography @ The Smallest Gallery, Graz (AT)
05 08 2022 — 24 09 2022
Duo Show: A terrible doorstop (Markus Sworcik / René Stiegler), @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
22 10 2021 — 26 11 2021
Group Show: HETZ @ Roter Keil, Graz (AT)
29 06 — 29 07 2021
Group Show: 100Beuys @ Büro für Pessimismus, Graz (AT)
17 09 — 28 11 2020
Group Show: In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT)
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Iris Christine Aue, Deborah Birch / Veza Fernández, Günter Brus / Jörg Schlick, Fedo Ertl, Josef Fürpass, e.d gfrerer, Daniel Hafner, Veronika Hauer, Marlene Hausegger, Matthias Jäger / Bernhard Wolf, Roman Klug, Zita Oberwalder, Clara Oppel, Keyvan Paydar, Erwin Polanc, Wendelin Pressl, David Reumüller, Isa Riedl, Christina Helena Romirer, Karoline Rudolf, Irmgard Schaumberger, Maria Schneider, Markus Sworcik, Lea Titz
27 09 2020
Group Show: Context Cocktail @ Lager 2 / Waagner Biro Straße 117 (AT)
Alexandru Cosarca, Marta Navaridas, Schleni Schlivko, Katharina Sieghartsleitner,
Friedrich Becke, Lena Prehal
14 09 — 09 10 2020
Solo Show: Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
06 06 2019 — 07 06 2019
Group Show: Oh Please Do with Karl Karner, Wolfgang Becksteiner, Armin Pichler, Nicole Wogg, Pia Pivec, David Leitner @ Fifteen Seconds Festival, Graz (AT)
05 05 2019
Screening: Basically, they are just Separated
(‘旧写真 Old Images’) via the theoneminutes.org, curated by Tao Hui 
@ East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
@ 65th International Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
@ Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)
@ Dortmunder U (DE)
@ Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
@ Museum Hilversum (NL)
@ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
@ De School, Amsterdam (NL)
28 02 — 05 03 2019
Group Show: Zeitraum —
@ 9 Tage Kunst & Café, Zeitraum, Graz (AT)
02 02 — 18 04 2019
Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy, @  HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Künstlerhaus  — Halle für Kunst & Medien), Curated by Sandro Droschl, Artists: Thomas Baumann, Candice Breitz, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Tony Cokes, Petra Cortright, Folkert de Jong, Verena Dengler, Ryan Gander, Yuri Pattison, Signe Pierce, Jim Shaw, Gunther Skreiner, Markus Sworcik, Amalia Ulman, Martha Wilson, Joseph Zehrer, Graz (AT)
08 01 — 11 01 2019
Group Show: Residue Posing / Ortwein Stipendium 2018, @ Schaumbad Freies Atelier, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018
Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein,
@ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
08 03 2018
Group Show: Art on Prescription — Art sur Ordonnance, Paris,
@ Musée du quai Branly 37, Paris (FR)
09 02 — 11 02 2018
Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, 
@ Volke 4, Graz (AT)
09 10 — 31 10 17
Solo Show: RETAW, RETAW Falls,
@ Popup Gallery Füll die Lück, Curated by Keyvan Paydar, Graz (AT)
13 05 — 26 11 2017
Group Show: Art on Prescription, Offspace Project during the Venice Biennale 2017,
@ La Biennale di Venezia 2017 (IT)
05 05 — 07 05 2017
Group Show Galerientage Graz,
@ Artepari with Constantin Luser, Anna Maria Bogner, Graz (AT)
09 01 — 12 01 2017
Group Show,
@ Cuntra la Cultra, Graz (AT)
07 12 — 12 12 2016
Group Show: MHD,
@ Schmiede36, Graz (AT)
02 05 — 07 05 2016
Group Show, @ Lendwirbel, Kunsthaus Graz (Innenhof), Graz (AT)
17 06 2015
Live-Performance: Group Show
Hail Of Bullets (Roter Keil, The Third War),
@ Designhalle Graz (AT)
08 02 2014
Performance TTMMM with Hella Comet,
@ Volt, Graz (AT)
12 05 2007
Sound Performance Sonntags Abstrakt with Wouter Jaspers (NL), @ Postgarage, Graz (AT)
2008
Sound Performance (Group / Choir) Musikprotokoll (Robert Lepenik ), @ Steirischer Herbst Graz, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz (AT)
2005
Sound Performance Artists in Residence,
@ Forum Stadtpark Graz, Fluc Wanne Vienna, Graz (AT)

CURATORIAL

13 05 2023
Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @Postgarage, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018
Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein, @ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
09 02 — 11 02 2018
Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, @ Volke 4, Graz (AT)

PRESS + FEATURES

Kuba Paris → A terrible doorstop
tzvetnik.online → A terrible doorstop
saliva.live → Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection
ofluxo.com → Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection
saliva.live → Steirischer Herbst / Humans and Demons, Gedunkelfloxx Obsidian
Kuba Paris → Steirischer Herbst / Humans and Demons, Gedunkelfloxx Obsidian
80 Kulturzeitung → Steirischer Herbst 2023 / Humans and Demons

ARTIST TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

15 09 2022
A terrible doorstop /w Rene Stiegler, Jan Hasenauer @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
16 02 2022
Vorort Künstlerinnen Stammtisch @ QL – Gallery, Afro-Asian Institute Graz (AT)
28 11 2020

In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT) – Last day of the exhibition
Discuss the exhibition with: Lea Titz, Markus Sworcik und Markus Waitschacher
09 02 2019
Radio Helsinki Interview / Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy,
@ Künstlerhaus — Halle für Kunst & Medien
21 03 2019 
Artist Talk with Gunther Skreiner /
Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy,
@ Künstlerhaus — Halle für Kunst & Medien
 
GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS AND RESIDENCIES

2018 Ortwein Stipendium des Landes Steiermark
14 09 — 09 10 2020
Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
28 01 2020 The One Minutes / Julia van Mourik, "刹那即永恒 — One Minute is Eternal" Book: East China Normal University / The One Minutes (NL), 
2019 Katalück 2016-2019 (Catalogue) / Project Documentation: Exhibition Series "Füll die Lück" (Fill the Gap) Pop-up Gallery "Bordsteinschwalbe", Graz (AUT)

EDUCATION

2016 – 2018 Diploma — Masterclass in Sculpture (Markus Wilfling)
@ Ortweinschool of Art and Design / Graz, Austria
2001 Musicology @ Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria
1996 Apprenticeship Diploma in Printing and Print Reproduction Technology

CURATORIAL

13 05 2023
Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @Postgarage, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018
Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein, @ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
09 02 — 11 02 2018
Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, @ Volke 4, Graz (AT)

PRESS + FEATURES

Kuba Paris → A terrible doorstop
tzvetnik.online → A terrible doorstop
saliva.live → Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection
ofluxo.com → Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection
saliva.live → Steirischer Herbst / Humans and Demons, Gedunkelfloxx Obsidian
Kuba Paris → Steirischer Herbst / Humans and Demons, Gedunkelfloxx Obsidian
80 Kulturzeitung → Steirischer Herbst 2023 / Humans and Demons

ARTIST TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

15 09 2022
A terrible doorstop /w Rene Stiegler, Jan Hasenauer @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
16 02 2022
Vorort Künstlerinnen Stammtisch @ QL – Gallery, Afro-Asian Institute Graz (AT)
28 11 2020

In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT) – Last day of the exhibition
Discuss the exhibition with: Lea Titz, Markus Sworcik und Markus Waitschacher
09 02 2019
Radio Helsinki Interview / Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy,
@ Künstlerhaus — Halle für Kunst & Medien
21 03 2019 
Artist Talk with Gunther Skreiner /
Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy,
@ Künstlerhaus — Halle für Kunst & Medien
 
GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS AND RESIDENCIES

2018 Ortwein Stipendium des Landes Steiermark
14 09 — 09 10 2020
Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
28 01 2020 The One Minutes / Julia van Mourik, "刹那即永恒 — One Minute is Eternal" Book: East China Normal University / The One Minutes (NL), 
2019 Katalück 2016-2019 (Catalogue) / Project Documentation: Exhibition Series "Füll die Lück" (Fill the Gap) Pop-up Gallery "Bordsteinschwalbe", Graz (AUT)

EDUCATION

2016 – 2018 Diploma — Masterclass in Sculpture (Markus Wilfling)
@ Ortweinschool of Art and Design / Graz, Austria
2001 Musicology @ Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria
1996 Apprenticeship Diploma in Printing and Print Reproduction Technology