Curriculum Vitae

NIKOLAUS GANSTERER     ___________>>>__Download CV+BIO (pdf)

 

1974 * Born in Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

 


 

Education:
2005 – 2006  Post-academic studies, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
, The Netherlands

2000 – 2002  MA Visual arts, Transmedia art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

1997 – 2000  Sculpture Studies, Brigitte Kowanz, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria


1992 – 1997  Anthropology studies, University of Vienna, Austria

 


 

Professional activities / Teaching:
2016-2019: Guest Professor at the Center Research Focus, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

Since 2007: Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Since 1998: founding member of the Institute for Transcoustic Research, Vienna, Austria.

 


 



Prizes / Grants:

2019    PEEK Grant for arts based Research, Austrian Science Fund, Austria
2018    MAC International Art Award, Belfast, Ireland   
2017    Best Austrian experimental animation film, Animation film festival, Austria
2015    34th Graphic Art Competition, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2014    PEEK Grant for arts based Research, Austrian Science Fund, Austria
2009    Culture Award for Fine Arts, Lower Austria
2006    Honorary mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2004     Art award, Ministry for Art Culture and Education, Austria
2003     States grant for Fine art of the Republic of Austria


 



Solo exhibitions: (Selection)
2023    Nikolaus Gansterer, Wor(l)ds Don't Come Easy, Project Space, Wiels Art Centre, Brussels (fc)

2023    Nikolaus Gansterer, Strange Wor(l)ds, Galerie Crone, Berlin
2021    Nikolaus Gansterer, Figures de Pensées. Denkbewegungen, Les Tanneries, Amilly
2019    Nikolaus Gansterer, tracing (in)tangibles, Galerie Crone, Vienna
2019    Nikolaus Gansterer, Drawing as Thinking in Action, Drawing Lab, Paris
2018    Con-notations, Centre d'art, Villa Arson, Nice
2017    Ephemeral Coherences, Sotheby's, Palais Wilczek, Vienna
2016    Proxemia II, Gallery Crone, Vienna (with Monika Grzymala)
2015    Proxemia I, Gallery Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome (with Monika Grzymala)
2015     Psychoreographies, Resonances, MUCEM, Marseilles
2014    Gansterer / Davar, KunstWerkKoeln, Cologne (with Katja Davar)
2013     When Thought becomes Matter.., Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2013    Thinking Matters, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2011    Traces of Spaces, Vooruit Art Centre, Ghent
2008    Hypnorama Reflex, Wittmann Showroom & MUMOK, Vienna
2007    Global Players, Art stripe, Börse, Vienna
2005     Zero Bending, P74 Galerie, Ljubljana
2005    Theoremkollektor, Transeuropa MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2004    Vom Rand der Dinge Sprache leihen, Auto Gallery, Vienna
2003    Synapsentankstelle, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2001    Emerging Artists, Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg



Group exhibitions & projects: (Selection)


2023    

Art in a Suitcase, Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3), UNAM, Mexico City


2022    

Understanding Art & Research, UM gallery, Prague
Rendezvouz With The Collection: Art from 1960 to today, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems
    

Jarema, Ellis, Gansterer, Galerie Crone, Amtssalon, Berlin
Brigitte Kowanz Etc, Parallel, Vienna


2021

Triennial, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc
Understanding Art & Research, BAC Art Center, Shanghai

Line as Thought, Lines as Universe, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
40 years, Fotogalerie, Vienna
Deux scénarios pour une collection, FRAC Normandie, Rouen
Repetition Cycle, Depo, Istanbul

2020

Japan revisited 202x, Online, ACF, Tokyo
Frage & Aufbruch, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein Linz
Der Angriff der Gegenwart - Aussichten im Postwachstum, Galerie Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
North by Northwest, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin


2019
58th Venice Biennial, Research Pavilion, Venice
La bonne éducation, FRAC Normandie, Rouen
Modell und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau
14th Sharjah Biennial, Ice Factory, Kalba, UAE
The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
While I kiss the Sky, Galerie Senn, Vienna
Ecocinema, Kunsthalle Tirol Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Made in Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
The stars look so different tonight, Fotogalerie, Vienna
CrossSections, Konstfack, Stockholm & Ex Lab, Helsinki
Boundless Objects, Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Evora
Understanding Art & Research, MAK Museum Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Experimental Diagramming, Architecture Museum, Berlin
Contemporary Code, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

2018

Le Bouc Divin, Wiels Art Centre, Brussels
Volatile Dreams, Marta Herford Museum, Herford
MAC International Art Award exhibition, MAC Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast
Cross-Sections, KEX, Vienna
A fist of pure emotion, Crone Side, Berlin
Kunst & Kohle, The Battle of Coal, Glaskasten Museum, Marl
Traces Ecrites, Gallery Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels


2017
Lightness of Matter. Matter of Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Urban Lights Ruhr, Glaskasten Museum, Marl
Wien von Oben, Wien Museum, Vienna
ba ≠ b + a, MUSA Museum, Vienna
Argument Place, Stadtgalerie, Bern
Trajectories: New Drawing Embodiments, Drawing Hub, Berlin


2016
The Minor Gesture, MSK, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Marseille Résonance, MuCEM, Marseilles
Antenna Futura, KEX Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Kristalle im Beton, Skulpturenmuseum, Marl
Drawing Now, Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris
34th Graphic Competition, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bolzano


2015

Plague of Diagrams, ICA, London
12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna
The Bottom Line, SMAK, Ghent
34th Graphic Exhibition, Taxispalais, Innsbruck
A Call for Drawings, BAK - Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht
Contemporary Code, CityU Gallery, Hong Kong

 

2014

From Inner to Outer Shadow, ACF, Istanbul
Our City!, Jewish Museum, Vienna
Time (less) Signs, ACF, London
Inventing Temperature, KCC, London
Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo
Beyond the Line, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
Movement Matters, Kunstverein Goettingen, Goettingen

Nikolaus Gansterer / Katja Davar, KunstWerkKoeln, Cologne

Correlations, AIL, Vienna
The Drawing Room, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck

2013
My Brain is in my Inkstand, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit
4th Athens Biennale, Athens
Drafts III, The Drawing Center, New York


Artists in Multifunctions, Gallery Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli

The Drawing Room, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal

 
2012

Zeit(lose) Zeichen / time(less) signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Schaubilder/Diagrams, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Play together, Wiener Art Foundation, Kunstraum Sellemond
Beziehungsweise, Wittmann Showroom, Vienna
A study on knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, KRNÖ, Vienna

 



2011


Lonely at the Top, Graphology#4, MUHKA, Antwerp


The Borders of Drawing, Weisses Haus, Vienna

Connected – Listen to the other side, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz



 

2010


Story behold. Story be told, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Convection, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen
OT, Medienturm, Graz
Object Research Lab, M4, Amsterdam
Kulturpreisausstellung, Noedok, Dokumentationsarchiv moderner Kunst, St.Poelten

 

2009


Mifan, Anni Art Gallery, Beijing

Bureau of Found Appropriations, Vooruit, Gent
Sound Escapes, Space Gallery, Electra, London

The Stone Road, Argos, Brussels


Structures, Club Transmediale, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin

Quergeblickt, Technisches Museum, Vienna


Konturen, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna

 

2008


Am Sprung/Young Art Scene Austria, OK - Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz


The Stone Road, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna


Paraflows / Utopia, MAK, Depot of Contemporary art, Vienna


Parcours Interdit, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf



Kaap, Fort Ruigenhoeksedijk, Kl.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



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

Gezeichnet, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St.Pölten


Profiler, Futura Project/ Karlin Studios, Prague


2005


Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London

Architecture of Interaction, Veemvloer, Amsterdam
Profiler, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein / JVE Maastricht / CCA Tallinn
Spaciously, ACF, Warsaw

Update, Künstlerhaus,Vienna

 

2004
Breaking the Visual, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Mapping II, Mess Hall, Chicago
Spacemakers, Lothringer13, München



2003
Die Zeichnung als Frage, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Take_off, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Transfer Damaskus, Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna

Transfer Damaskus, Mücsarnok, Budapest
Zugluft, Vienna Special, Art Zürich, Zürich



2002
Grazintern, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Memory Bank, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
You Are Here, Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt/M.
 
2001
Starproject, Karajan Zentrum, Vienna



2000
ChryslerGreissler, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
transpackaging, Kulturzentrum Minoriten, Graz

 




Performances / Lecture-Performances / Presentations / Screenings: (Selection)

2023    

Translecture with Arno Böhler on Three Ecologies, Rote Bar, Volkstheater, Vienna

2022    

Translecture with/for Thomas Macho, Nestroyhof, Theater Hamakom, Vienna
Contingent Agencies, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne
Translecture, Figures de pensées, Les Tanneries, Amilly 

2021    

Signs & Lines, Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Muffathalle Munich
Contingent Agencies, APL - Applied Performance Lab, Vienna

2020    

(in)tangible lines & (un)graspable gestures, Presence#5, APL, Vienna  (pp)
Translecture, Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Evora (pp)

 

2019
Thinking Matters Other Others, Drawing Now - Le Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris
Black market for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Mobile Akademie, Rathaus, Vienna
Drawing between the Lines, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen


2018

Thinking through Practices, Wiels, Brussels


Autoduett, Künstlerhaus, Vienna

Cook’s New Clothes I, National Maritime Museum, London (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Cook’s New Clothes II, The Atlantic, Plymouth (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Space in a Space..., A Performance Affair, Brussels
Concerning Matters and Truths, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Choreo-graphic Figures, HZT, Uferstudios, Berlin
Entwurf einer erweiterten Grammatik des Kontinuums, MUSA Museum, Vienna


Translectures, On great outdoors II, Kaaitheatre, Brussels

 

2017

The Restitution of Complexity, IKON gallery, Birmingham (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)

The Restitution of Complexity, ACF, London (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Thinking Matters Other Others, Bone Festival & Kunsthaus, Bern
Choreo-graphic Figures, Siobhan Davies Art Centre, London

Trajectories#1, New Drawing Embodiments, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
On Specificity and On How-ness, Art Academy, Helsinki
Drawing Between the Lines: Towards Embodied Diagrammatics, Nida Art Colony, Vilnius


2016
Parkomania, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Labor der Plötzlichkeit, AILab, Vienna

Choreo-graphic Figures, Body Diagrams, ImPulsTanz Festival, AILab, Vienna

A Translecture on Minor Gestures, (with Erin Manning), MSK - Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
The Map is (not ) the Territory, Nassim el Raq#6, Alexandria, Egypt
Embodied Diagrams, Spring Lab, TQW Studios, Vienna


2015
Psychoreographies, MUCEM, Marseilles

Artist Philosphers, Nietzsche Diagrams (with Dieter Mersch), TanzQuartier, Vienna

Drawing Light Echoes From Inner To Outer Shadows, SMAK, Ghent

The Project Makers, MQ, Vienna

Drawing Matters Other Others, Albertina Museum, Vienna

Finding Problems - Drawing Conclusions. A PingPong (with Karin Harrasser), TQW, Vienna
Translectures, Open Forum, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Reading Nietzsche, Artlab #1, TQW, Vienna
Translecture, Are you alive or not?, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
 
2014
Thinking Matters Other Others, No/Things, Scores 9, TanzQuartier, Vienna
Choreo-graphic Figures, Un/Conference, Head, Geneva
Translecture on Contingencies, Revolving Stars & Shaky Grounds, Festspielhaus, Dresden
Drawing on Drawing, Open Festival, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Translecture on Transluciferation, Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo
The Lures of Speculation, Scores 8, TanzQuartier, Vienna
 
2013

Foreign Affairs, The Bet, KunstWerke & Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
Linienscharen, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

 

2012
Hearing Cage, Zeit-Ton extended, Ö1 Hoerspielstudio, ORF Funkhaus, Vienna
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #5 Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #4, Lehrerzimmer, PROGR, Bern
Drawing a Hypothesis - Die Materialität der Diagramme, NGBK, Berlin

2011
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #3, MHKA, Antwerp
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #2, KNAW, Amsterdam
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #1, Kunsthalle, Project Space, Vienna
De-Stilling a Still Life, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

2010


Entwurf einer Grammatik des Kontinuums, Medienturm, Graz


Hors Pistes, Centre Pomidou, Paris

 



2009

Liquid Signs, Fluten festival, Watertower, Vienna


Who is afraid of the in between, Prisma Forum, Mexico City

Drawn to nowHere, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels


Translecture, Club Transmediale, Berlin


Translecture, Konturen, Technical University, Vienna



 

2008

Transacoustic Research, Belluard Festival, Fribourg


Sirupture, Fullframe Film Festival, Gartenbaukino, Vienna


Projekt 88, Porgy&Bess, Vienna

 



2007

Asymptotische Versuchsanordnungen, Musikprotokoll Graz


Cut 'n Splice, Festival for Contemporary Music, Huddersfield


Transacoustic on Tour, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Logos Foundation Ghent; BainConnective, Brussels; Air-Antwerp, Antwerp.

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


Moving Patterns, ACF, New York


Sonar Festival, MOCBA, Barcelona

 



2004


Synapsis, Luitpold Lounge, Munich


Projekt 88, Cube, Institute for Electronic Music, Graz

Transakustik A-Z, Festival Wien Modern, Vienna



 

2003


New Earports, Dunker Arts Centre, Helsingborg


Green Tones, Royal Festival Hall, London

 



2002

Hellgrün, Kulturamt, Düsseldorf



 

2001


Outpost, MAK, Vienna / Podewil, Berlin / Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck / Placard, Paris
 



Projects in Public Space / Commissions: (Selection)

2021    The Properties of a Presence, Kunstsalon Fluc, Vienna
2019     Modell und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau

2018    The Broadcaster, Waddington, Lincoln

2017    Urban Lights Ruhr Festival, Marl

2016    Fluca - Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Sariev Contemporary / Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv
2016    The Map is (Not) the Territory, Nassim elRaq Festival, Alexandria,
2014    Inherent Contingencies, WWTF, Vienna
2014    Income Dance, Imagetanz Festival, Brut, Vienna


2012    Libra - Balancing the Invisible, JZ Korneuburg

2010    Radical Cartography - Mapping the Terminal, CAT/Airport Vienna


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



 


 

Residencies:
2021    Artist in Residence, Dance Nucleus, Singapore

2018    Artist in Residence, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
2017    Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2016    Artist in Residence, Nassim el Raq, Alexandria, Egypt
2015    Artist in Residency, Expo Milano, Italy
2014    Artist in Residence, ImpulsTanzFestival, Vienna, Austria
2012    Artist in Residence, bmukk studio, Tokyo, Japan
2010    Artist in Residence, timelab, Ghent, Belgium
2009    Artist in Residence Nadine, Brussels, Belgium
2008    Artist in Residence bmukk studio, Chengdu, China
2007    Artist in Residence Duende, Rotterdam
2007    Artist in Residence Air, Antwerp, Belgium
2003    Artist in Residence, AIR03, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2001    Artist in Residence, Centre for Art and Knowledge Transfer, Vienna / Damascus, Syria

 



Publications: Monographs (Selection)

2022   'Playing with Ludwig: Figures of Thought / Jouer avec Ludwig: Figures de pensée', Nikolaus Gansterer, Klaus Speidel, Éditions Dilecta, Paris, ISBN 9782373721652

2018   'Nikolaus Gansterer, Drawing as Thinking in Action', Cat. Exhib., Drawing Lab, Paris, ISBN 9782490024063

2018   Con-notations, N. Gansterer, S. Orlando, K. Stroebel, (eds.), Edition Villa Arson, Nice, 2018. ISBN 9782913689398

2017   'Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line', Nikolaus Gansterer, Emma Cocker, Mariella Greil (eds.), Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 9783110546606
  

2017   'Drawing a Hypothesis – Figures of Thought', Nikolaus Gansterer (ed.), 2nd corrected edition, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 9783110546613

2013   'When Thought Becomes Matter and Matter Turns Into Thought', Nikolaus Gansterer, Christiane Krejs (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna. ISBN 9783950359929
2011   'Drawing a Hypothesis – Figures of Thought', Nikolaus Gansterer (Ed.), Springer Verlag, Vienna/ New York. ISBN 9783709108024

 

Contributions to publications / catalogues: (Selection)

2023   'Drawing in the Present Tense', Roger Malbert, Claire Gilman (eds.), Thames & Hudson, London, ISBN  9780500294932

2022   'The Contested Crown', Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (ed.), University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226802060

2022   'Construction and Design Manual. Experimental Diagrams', Lidia Gasperoni (ed.), DOM publishers, Berlin. ISBN 9783869226873

2021    'Cartographie radicale’, Nepthys Zwer, Philippe Rekacewicz, Editions La Découverte, Paris. ISBN 9782373680539
2021
2021   'Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing', Phaidon Editors, London. ISBN 9781838661694
2021   'Line as Thought, Lines as Universe', Exhib.Cat., Seamus Kealy (ed.), Salzburger Kunstverein,     Salzburg. ISBN 9783901264733

2020   'CrossSections - Processing Artistic and Curatorial Research', Basak Senova (ed.), De Gryuter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110716481
2020
   'Look for Me All Around You', C. Tancons (Ed.), Prestel Verlag, SAF, ISBN 9783791358512
2019  
'Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Research, Art and Education', L. Michelkevice, V. Michelkevicius (eds.), Academy of Arts Press, Vilnius. ISBN 9786094473296

2019   ‘Modell und Ruine‘, (Ed.) Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Cat. Exhib., Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle. ISBN 9783963112287
2018   ‘Transmediale Kunst/ Transmedia Art - lightness and matter’, (Eds.) Brigitte Kowanz, Peter Kozek, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 97831106008102018
2018   ‘Gedichte übersetzen’, Triëdere #18, (Eds.) Matthias Schmidt et al, ISBN 9783854495161
2018   ‘Parsing Digital’ (Ed.) Sally Golding, Cat. Exhib., Austrian Cultural Forum, London
2018   ‘AWAY’, (Ed.) Alexandra Grausam, Verlag fuer Modern Kunst, Vienna ISBN 9783903269170

2017   'Manufactories of caring space–time', Catherine de Zegher et al (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., MSK, Ghent. ISBN 978-90-8270-350-4
2017   'SCORES N°6: no/things', Gabrielle Cram, Walter Heun, Krassimira Kruschkova, Lejla Mehanovic, Yasamin Nikseresht (Eds.), TanzQuartierWien, Vienna.

2017   'Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness', Christiane Krejs (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna. ISBN 978-3-903153-39-4

2017   'Wien von Oben. Die Stadt auf einen Blick', Sandór Békési, Elke Doppler (Eds.), Metroverlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783993003036

2017    '(Applied) Foreign Affairs', Baerbel Mueller (Ed.), Birkhaeuser, ISBN 9783035608786

2016   'Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Possible Content for 18 Pages', Franz Thalmair (Ed.), Revolver Publishing, Berlin. ISBN 9783957631015
2015   'Psychoreographies', in: GAGARIN Magazine #31, Wilfried Huet (Ed.), Gaga, Antwerp.

2015   'Contemporary Code – Artistic Research', Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Romana Schuler (Eds.) Cat. Exhib., University of Applied Arts, Vienna. ISBN 9783950414011
2015   'Nikolaus Gansterer' and Jan-Philipp Frühsorge, in: Fukt#14 Magazine, Björn Hegardt (Ed.), Berlin.
2015   'The Bottom Line', M. Germann, P. van Cauteren (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., S.M.A.K., Mercatorfonds, Ghent. ISBN 9789462300965
2015   'Drawing Now: 2015', Klaus A. Schröder, Elsy Lahner (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., Albertina, Munich. ISBN 9783777424088
2014   'Writing Scores', Lilia Mestre, Elke Van Campenhout (Eds.), Apass, Brussels.

2014   'Fluc - Tanz die Utopie!', M. Wagner, U. M. Probst, P. Nachtnebel (Eds.), Falter Verlag, Vienna, 2014. ISBN 9783854395249
2014   'Figuren der Gewalt', Lars Friedrich, Karin Harrasser, Joseph Vogl (Eds.), diaphanes. ISBN 9783037344378

2013   'Schaubilder', (Ed.) Thomas Thiel, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Sternberg Press, Berlin. ISBN: 9783943365733
2012   'Kartographisches Denken', C. Reder (Ed.), Edition Transfer, Springer WienNewYork. ISBN 9783709109946
2011   'An envelope for arts, sciences, politics and us'. V. Deifel, B. Kraeftner, V. Widrich, (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2011. ISBN 3709109892
2011   'Content/Form/Im-material', Context.net., Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg. ISBN 9783869841878
2010   'Rift/Gap/Hinge', Dunst & Pamminger (Eds.), Verlag Scheidegger & Speiss, Zurich. ISBN 9783858813015

2011   'Taking from.Leaving in.Moving on. Mapping Urban Nomadism', Renate Mihatsch (Ed.), Revolver Publishing, Berlin. ISBN 9783868951370
2009   'Parole#1, The Body of the Voice', Annette Stahmer (Ed.), Salon Verlag, Cologne. ISBN 9783897703209

2009   'Öffentliche Kunst. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Band 9 / Public Art Lower Austria, volume 9', Katharina Blaas-Pratscher (Ed.), 2009, Springer, Vienna. ISBN 9783211990131

2009   'Fresh Trips', (Eds.), Stefan Bidner & Roland Maurmair, Folio Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783852565071

2008   'Raumzeitpunkte sind Ereignisse / Events are points in Spacetime', Gerald Bast, Brigitte Kowanz (Eds.), University of Apllied Arts, Vienna. ISBN 9783852111490

2007   'Autumn Leaves', Angus Carlye (Ed.), Double Entendre
. ISBN 095480743X
2006   'An Architecture of Interaction', Yvonne Droge Wendel (Eds.), Amsterdam, 2006. ISBN978-90-9022039-0
2006   'Going Aerial', Monika Bakke (Ed.), Jan van Eyck Publications, Maastricht. ISBN 9789072076779

2006   'Checkpoint' Charley, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick (Eds.) BB4, KW Berlin.  ISBN 3980426564

2005   'Tresholds, Microcosms', Mechtild Widrich (Ed.), MIT Press, Chicago.

2004   'Sonic', Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 9783899550405

2003   'Transfer Damaskus, Urban Orientation', Christian Reder & Simonetta Ferfoglia (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York. ISBN 9783211004609

2003   'Transacoustic Research', Nikolaus Gansterer, Joerg Piringer (Eds.) Forum Stadtpark. Graz. ISBN 3−901109−08−0

2004   'Wien Modern 04,' Berno Odo Polzer (Ed.), Pfau Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3897272784

2002   'The Essence02', Gerald Bast (Ed.) University of Applied Arts,Vienna,. ISBN 9783852110998

2001   'Starproject, Neue Wege des Audiovisuellen', Karajan Centrum, Vienna.

2001   Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Edition 10, Klosterneuburg.

Academic book chapters / Journal articles: (peer-reviewed)

2021   Journal of Visual Art Practice', Claire Scanlon (ed.), Volume 20 / 2021. ISSN:1470-2029
2016   'How to Collaborate? - Questioning Togetherness in the Performing Arts', Silke Bake, Peter Stamer, Christel Weiler (Eds.), Passagen Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783709201725
2016   'Notion of Notation >< Notation of Notion', article/artists' pages in collaboration with Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil in: Performance Research, 'On An/notation'. ISSN: 1352-8165
2015   'Choreo-graphic Figures: Beginnings and Emergences' article in collaboration with Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil, in: 'ruukku, Finnish Journal of Artistic Research', On Process. DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1111053

 






Biography:


Born 1974, living and working in Vienna, Austria.

He studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy at Maastricht in The Netherlands. He is co-founder of the Institute for Transacoustic Research. Since 2007 he is teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

As an artist, performer, and researcher Nikolaus Gansterer is deeply interested in relational field  between drawing, thinking and action. In form of installations and performances he traces the translatability of phenomena of perception into an artistic environment. In his transmedial work, he focuses on mapping ephemeral and emergent processes unfolding their immanent structures of interconnectedness, questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy.

Gansterer’s fascination with the complex character of diagrammatic figures has led to his book Drawing a Hypothesis on the ontology of shapes of visualizations and its use in contemporary art and science. From 2014 - 2018 Gansterer was leading the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Lines developing innovative systems of notation between the lines of drawing, writing and choreography. 2019-2023 Gansterer is heading the interdisciplinary research project Contingent Agencies on experimental mapping of atmospheres, situations and environments.

Exhibitons and projects: (selected)
Gansterer’s work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including in 2020 Figures de pensées, Les Tanneries, Amilly; 2019 the 58th Venice Biennial, Research Pavilion; the 14th Sharjah Biennial; The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; in 2018 Con-notations, Villa Arson, Nice; in 2017 Wien von Oben, Wien Museum, Vienna; Lightness of Matter. Matter of Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna; Urban Lights Ruhr, Glaskasten Museum, Marl; in 2016 The Minor Gesture, MSK, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium; Marseille Résonance, MuCEM, Marseilles; in 2015 the 12th Havana Biennial; Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna; The Bottom Line, SMAK, Ghent; Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo; The Plague of Diagrams, ICA, London; in 2013 the 4th Athens Biennale and My Brain is in my Inkstand, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit.

Recent performances: (selected)
Thinking Matters Other Others, Drawing Now, Paris; Cook’s New Clothes, National Maritime Museum, London (with Khadija von Zinnenburg);  Drawing between the Lines of Connotation, Kunsthalle Charlottenburg, Copenhagen (2019); Space in a Space..., APA, Brussels; Entwurf einer erweiterten Grammatik des Kontinuums, MUSA Museum, Vienna (2018); Translectures, On great outdoors II, Kaaitheater, Brussels; Trajectories#1, New Drawing Embodiments, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Choreo-graphic Figures, Siobhan Davies Art Centre, London (2017); Body Diagrams, Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, The Map is (not) the Territory, Nassim el Raq Festival, Alexandria (2016); Radical Scores of Attention, TanzQuartier, Vienna; Translectures, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2015); Revolving Stars & Shaky Grounds, Festspielhaus, Dresden (2014); Foreign Affairs, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (2013).

Gansterer is winner of the MAC International Art Award, MAC Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast (2018)

 

www.gansterer.org

 




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