NIKOLAUS GANSTERER ___________>>>__Download CV
1974 Born in Klosterneuburg, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.
Education:
2005 – 2006 Postacademic studies, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2000 - 2002 MA Visual arts, Transmedia art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
1997 - 2000 Sculpture class, B. Kowanz, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
1992 - 1997 Anthropology studies, University of Vienna
Professional Activities:
Since 2007 Guest Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Prizes / Fellowships / Residencies:
2009 Kulturpreis "Bildende Kunst", Land Niederösterreich
2009 Artist in Residence Nadine/The ever mass land, Brussels
2008 Artist in Residence Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
2007 Artist in Residence Duende, Rotterdam & Air, Antwerp
2006 Honorary mention for ”Digital Music”, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
2005/2006 Jan van Eyck Academie Fellowship, Netherlands
2004 Förderpreis des Bundeskanzleramts Sektion Kunst
2003 Forum Stadtpark Air03 Graz
2003 States grant for Fine art of the Austrian Republic
2001 Transfer Damascus, Center for Art and Knowledge Transfer, Vienna/Damascus
Ongoing Projects:
Since 1998 The Institute for Transacoustic Research
Since 1998 The Vegetable Orchestra
Exhibitions (Selection):
2009
Bureau of Found Appropriations, Vooruit, Gent (S)*
Mifan, Anni Art Gallery, Beijing*
Sound Escapes, Space Gallery, Electra, London*
The Stone Road, Argos, Brussels*
Structures, Club Transmediale, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin*
Quergeblickt, Technisches Museum, Vienna*
Konturen, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna*
2008
Am Sprung/Young Art Scene Austria, OK - Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
The Stone Road, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Paraflows/Utopia, MAK, Depot of Contemporary art, Vienna
Parcours Interdit, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf
Hypnorama Reflex, Wittmann Showroom, Vienna (S)
Kaap, Fort Ruigenhoeksedijk, Biennale, Utrecht
Projektor, Mama Showroom, Rotterdam
2007
Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Udine*
Science Fictions, Gallery Czarna, Warsaw
Down to Earth, K12 Galerie, Bregenz & ACF, Krakow
Global Players, Art stripe, Börse, Vienna (S)
Fresh Trips, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck*
Wrong time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam
Bioforms, Cheapart Gallery, Athen*
Artmart, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna
Kunstambassade, Pictura Drawing Center, Dordrecht
2006
Riss/Lücke/Scharnier, Galerie nächst St. Stephan/ Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven/ Artis, Den Bosch
Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing*
Grounded, E:vent Gallery, London
Stained Perception, X.perimenta 06, Prater Planetarium, Vienna*
Gezeichnet, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten*
Profiler, Futura Project/ Karlin Studios, Prague
2005
Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London/ Veemvloer, Amsterdam
Zero Bending, P74 Galerie, Ljubljana (S)
Profiler, Kunstraum Noe, Vienna
Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna*
Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein / JVE Maastricht / CCA Tallinn*
Spaciously, ACF, Warsaw*
Update, Künstlerhaus,Vienna
Theoremkollektor, Transeuropa MQ, Wien (S)
2004
Breaking the Visual, Steirischer Herbst, Graz*
Mapping II, Mess Hall, Chicago
Spacemakers, Lothringer13, München*
Vom Rand der Dinge Sprache leihen, Auto, Vienna (S)
2003
Synapsentankstelle, Galerie 5020, Salzburg (S)
Die Zeichnung als Frage, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Take_off, Forum Stadtpark, Graz*
Transfer Damaskus, Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna / Mücsarnok, Budapest*
Zugluft, Vienna Special, Art Zürich
2002
grazintern, Forum Stadtpark/ Graz
Memory Bank, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
You Are Here, Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt/M.*
2001
Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg*(S)
Starproject, Karajan Zentrum, Vienna * 2000
ChryslerGreissler, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
transpackaging, Kulturzentrum Minoriten, Graz
(S)... Solo show *...... Publication
Performances (Selection):
2009
Liquid Signs, Fluten 09, Watertower, Vienna
Who is afraid of the in between, Prisma Forum, Mexico City, Mexico
Drawn to nowHere, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
Translecture, Club Transmediale, Berlin
Translecture, Konturen, Boecklsaal, Technical University, Vienna
2008
Transacoustic Research, Belluard Festival, Fribourg
Sirupture, Fullframe Film Festival, Gartenbaukino, Vienna
88, Porgy&Bess, Vienna (with Katharina Klement)
2007
Asymptotische Versuchsanordnungen, Musikprotokoll Graz
Cut 'n Splice, Festival for Contemporary Music, Huddersfield
Translecture, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Logos Foundation Ghent; B::C, Brussels,...
Harvesting the Tree of Knowledge, Artis Gallery, DenBosch & Jacobihaus, Düsseldorf
2006
Translecture, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna
The Basement Lecture, OpenWeek, JVE, Maastricht
Green Tones, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
2005
Paradox, Expodium, Utrecht (with Falke Pisano)
Moving Patterns, ACF, New York
Sonar Festival, MOCBA, Barcelona
2004
Synapsis, Luitpold Lounge, Munich
88, Cube, Institute for Electronic Music, Graz (with Katharina Klement)
Transakustik A-Z, Festival Wien Modern, Vienna
2003
New Earports, Dunker Arts Centre, Helsinborg
Green Tones, Royal Festival Hall, London
2002
Hellgrün, Kulturamt, Düsseldorf
2001
Outpost, MAK, Vienna / Podewil, Berlin / Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck / Placard, Paris
Projects in Public Space/ Commissons:
2009 Urban Signs/Local Strategies, Public space project, Praterstern, Vienna
2008 Parallel Circuits, art/science/music, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
2006 Wechselschattenspeicher, Forum NÖ, St.Pölten, Austria
2001 Fremde Dezibel, Festival der Regionen, Linz*
2001 REC, University of applied Arts, Vienna
2000 Menschenstromverstärker, Stadtpark, Vienna
Contributions for Publications/Catalogues: (Selection)
Drawing a Hypothesis, Nikolaus Gansterer (Ed.), Springer Verlag, 2010
Parole#1, The Body of the Voice, Annette Stahmer (Ed.), Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2009
Autumn Leaves, Angus Carlye (Ed.), Double Entendre, 2007
An Architecture of Interaction, Yvonne Droge Wendel (Ed.), Amsterdam, 2006
Going Aerial, Monika Bakke (Ed.), Jan van Eyck Publications, Maastricht, 2006
Tresholds, Microcosms, Mechtild Widrich (Ed.), MIT Press, 2005
Wien Modern 04, Berno Odo Polzer (Ed.), Pfau Verlag, Vienna, 2004
Sonic, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2004
Tansfer Damaskus, Urban Orientation, Christian Reder & Simonetta Ferfoglia (Ed.),Springer Verlag, 2003
Transacoustic Research, Nikolaus Ganterer, Joerg Piringer (Ed.) ForumStadtpark/Graz03, 2003
The Essence02, Gerald Bast (Ed.) University of Applied Arts, 2002
Starproject, Neue Wege des Audiovisuellen, Karajan Centrum, 2001
Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Edition 10, 2001
Biography:
Nikolaus Gansterer studied Intermedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 1998 Gansterer has been occupied with several on-going projects that explore the ‘transacoustic’. He founded the Institute for Transacoustic Research and co-founded the Vegetable Orchestra.
His visual work deals with mapping processes of invisibility, often also in the context of performative acts. In his installation works Gansterer focuses on the translation of processes emerging out of cultural and scientific networks. By rejecting a strict differentiation of these two areas and through a consequent recombination of methods and settings from both fields he arrives at unique lines of connection and division questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, religion, art and civilization.
Some recent exhibitions and presentations of his work include Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Sonar Festival, CCCB, Barcelona; Moving Patterns, ACF, New York; Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein/ JVE Maastricht/ CCA Tallinn; Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London; Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin, Udine; Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing; Wrong time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam; The Stone Road, KHEX, Vienna and at Argos, Brussels; Structures, Transmediale, Bethanien, Berlin; Sound Escpaes, Space Gallery, London; Mifan, AnniArt Gallery, Beijing.