Rainer Ganahl
1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1986-91 HAK, Vienna (P. Weibel), Akademie Düsseldorf (N. J. Paik)
Master of Philosophy and History at the University of Innsbruck
Selected One Person Shows
2014
El Mundo, Kai Matsumia, New York (april 19th)
SWISS JARRY, Hacienda, Zurich (April, 8th)
De Vleeshal, Middelburg (fall 2014)
Dadalenin, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
BCP, Shanghai
2013
Comme des Marxists, White Columns, New York (Nov 2013)
Rainer Ganahl, Irwin, Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels
2012
I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Tresor /Kunstforum, Vienna (catalog)
Perpetual Motion, Kunstverrein Neuhausen
2011
The conditoin of the working class in England, Reading Festival in Bury / Manchester
KOOJO, Innsbruck
2010
Alex Zachary, New York
Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
Elaine Levy Projects, Art Brussels
Tea Party, Werkstatt Graz, Graz
2009
MAK, Vienna, October 2009/2010
Toxic Assets, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder, Login
Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels
2008
Fruit and Flower Deli, New York
DADALENIN, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto
Les Laboratoires, Aubervilliers, Paris (a theater production, a film)
Kunstverrein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall
G126, Galway, Ireland
Ce qui roule - That Which Rolls, Early Form's of Rollin' Rock, Les Laboratoire, Aubervilliers, Paris
2007
Rainer Ganahl, The Apprentice in the Sun, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, catalog
Rainer Ganahl, Reading, Riding and other Recent Works, Duncan of Jordanstone Colege of Art and Design, Dandee
2006
From Vatican to Piazza della Repubblica with no return, RAM, radioartemobile, Rome
2005
The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Museum, New York , catalog
Museum of Modern Art, MUMOK, Vienna, catalog
Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris
Roellinduerr, St. Gallen
Artist Commune, Hong Kong
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
2004
le consortium, Dijon
bicycle, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2003
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAG, Bremen, cataog
Kunstbüro, Vienna
Casco, Utrecht
Maisonneuve, Paris
vertretung des landes niedersachsen beim bund , Berlin
Das Zählen der letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote, project wall, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2002
Base, Florence, Italy
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
2001
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Artra, Milan
Sint-Lukasstichting, Brussels
Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, cataog
2000
enders projects, Frankfurt
Rainer Ganahl: from 10 secondes to 500 hours and more, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
Planet 2000, Geneva
Centre de Photographie, Geneva (with Harald F. Muller)
Basic Canadian, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1999
Offene Handlungsräume, 48th Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice (together with 5 other artists or artist collectives) catalog
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck
Max Protetch, New York
1998
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, catalogue
Werkstatt Graz, Graz
1997
The Thing, New York
Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Educational Complex, organized by Rainer Ganahl: Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Ganahl, Candida Höfer, Mike Kelley, Frederick Wiseman,
Generali Foundation, Vienna, catalogue
1996
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris
In Vitro, Geneva
Depot, Vienna
Villa Arson, Nice
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Thomas Solomon Garage, Los Angeles
1995
Sandra Gering, (with Matthew McCaslin), New York
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Ice Box, Athens
1994
The Thing, BBS, New York, Vienna
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris
Nordanstad Gallery, New York
1993
Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, cataog ue
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, catalogue
1992
Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York
Massimo DeCarlo, Milan
Galerie Roger Pailhas, (3 times 3 weeks, with Peter Fend and Silvia Kolbowski, curated by Rainer Ganahl), Paris, catalgue
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, brochure
1991
White Columns (White Room), New York
Randy Alexander (with Matthew Antezzo), New York
1990
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris
Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, catalogue
1989
Virtue in Objects, Installation (with Paul Garrin), Museum Folkwangen, Essen
allerArt, Bludenz
Selected Group Shows
2014
"Take Liberty," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
"Underground, " Schoenenbourg, Franc
2013
"Salon of fear / Salon der Angst," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
"Triennale Esslingen, Crossing Media," Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Stuttgart
"Athens Biennale 2013", Athens
"Bike your Dream", Projektraum Wien
"Der Traum des Königs / The Dream of the King," Kunstverein Neuhausen
THE CAT SHOW, White Columns, New York
"Khhhhhhh," Invented and Imaginary languages, Centre Pompidou, Paris
P&CO, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
Culturel Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institute, Brussels
Internation Kund-, Medien- und Foto.Triennale, Villa Merke, Esslingen (summer 2013)
Ikone Marx, Museum Trier (summer 2013)
2012
Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokio, Paris
Tbilisi Triennale, Europa House, Tbibilisi,Gerogia
What is it about the end of the world that makes it so appealing? V-Art Center, Shanghai
A SIGN ON THE ROAD SAID: TAKE US TO MADRE!, Madre Helper, Brooklyn, New York
Acts of Voicing, Über die Poetiken und Politiken der Stimme, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
Public Abstraction, Private Construction I II III, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
Summer Greetings, 601Artspace!, New York
Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
Our House, ACF,2012, New York
Forum Expanded, Berlinale 2012. Berlin
The Von Show, Von Pro-jekt', New York
Video program Marianne Vitale, UKS, Oslo
Vivere sulla luna / Living on the moon, Galleria Astuni, Bologna
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Baden-Württemberg, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
10'000 Stunden.Über Handwerk, Meisterschaft und Scheitern in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau
2011
Performa 2011, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, November 12, 2011
Dada Moskau at the 4th Moscow Biennale 2011, Moscow
COLORIFIC! We Make An Art Rainbow , Postmasters, New York
WallmArt, White Box, New York
This is what democracy looks like, New York University, Gallatin Galleries, New York
No Comment, An Occupy Wallstreet show, 23 Wallstreet, former, JP Morgan Building, New York
THE FORGOTTEN YEARS 2007-2011, Leftover artworks from Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin`s Inventory, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / the forgotten bar project, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Specters of the Nineties, Marres Center, Netherlands
All Things Equal, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle
Alive She Cried, A Film & Video Exhibition, Galerie Zink, Berlin
Voila, ein Gastspiel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Dislocation in Kontinuum, Juraplatz, Biel
L’Italia alla finestra. Außen- und Innensichten, Kaiserliche Hofburg, Innsbruck
Family Life,Elaine Levy projects, Brussels
The Wolfson Syndrome, The Modern Language Experimen, London
A painting show, Autocenter, Berlin
Borderland,smartspaces, New York
Born after 1924, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Happy Tech, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna
Happy Tech, Fondazione Golinelli, Milano
2010
Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Public and Counterpublics, Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneno, Sevilla
Bloodflames II, Alex Zachary, New York
Morality X, Witte de White, Rotterdam
performancelectureseries, Johann Koenig, Berlin
Engineers of the Soul, Postmasters Gallery, New York
STUDY AFTER NATURE, A Constructed World, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
Learning Machines, Figures, NABA, Milan
Regionale 11, the forever ending story #12, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
The beautiful danse of the terrible masks + minds, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
Pseudonym Project, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
Das vertraute Unvertraute. Über die inhärente Poesie des Materials. Neue Positionen Bildender Kunst, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
The Flower of May, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, various outdoor spaces, Berlin
Videorama, Kunstclips aus Österreich, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
City Beats, BankART Studio, Tokyo
2 or 3 Things, we’ve learned, Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
Cooperation, Not Coorporation, ITS, Z1 International Test Site Z1, Ritopek, Belgrade
Leinzell open 2010, Schloss Leinzell, Leinzell, Germany
Destroying Public Harmony,Brukenthal National Museum/Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu, Romania.
Der Augenoptiker auf der Invalidenstrasse Neunzig/An Optical Illusion and The Foretelling of The Oracle News//a show by THE FRUIT & FLOWER DELI, NY at DUVE Berlin
Hints to Workmen, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, GB
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? Villa Schöningen an der Glienicker Brücke. Ein deutsch-deutsches Museum, Berlin
Artschool UK, Cell Project Space, London
Spasticus Artisticus, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
Broken Fall (Geometric), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna
Scratch!, ADN Galeria, Barcelona
Ibrido. Genetica delle forme d’arte, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Brouillon, Musée de la danse, Le Garage, Rennes, France
Scapegoat Society, Guest Projects, London
DETOX, Pop-up show in dis-used gym, Hoxton Square, London
Be a Star, Play a Model, Cultural Institution, Knokke, Belgium
2009
The Fear Society, Pavillion of Urgency, Venice Biennale 2009
Our literal Speed, Gallery 400 (University of Illinoi, Chicago
Translation Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle, Zurich
Performa 2009, swiss institute, New York
That's all Folks! The endless clash between Reason and Destiny, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
Broken Tales, Akademie Theatre, Shanghai
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien
Crossing Landscape, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Museum, Turin
Videorama. Kunstclips aus Österreich, Kunsthalle Wien
Villa Schöningen an der Glienicker Brücke. Ein deutsch-deutsches Museum, Berlin-Potsdam
City Beats, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York
Engagierte New Yorker Kunst in Prenning, Villa Feuerlöscher, Prenning, Austria
Academy of another City, Signs of Respect, IBA, Hamburg
Signature of war, Sektor 1, Katowice
2012+, The Drop: Urban Art Infill, New York
WALK ON THE LIGHT SIDE, Erhellende Nächte im Mustergarten des EWZ,eggn'spoon, Zurich
2008
Shanghai Biennal, Shanghai
Ephemeral Frindge, Art Brussels, Brussels
The Art World, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
Institute für Alpine Angelegenheiten, Bozen
City Beats, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Rotations (One Work), Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago
LA PETITE HISTOIRE, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
ReCollecting, MAK museum, Vienna
GO NYC, Nin Brudermann – Rainer Ganahl – Mathias Kessle, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Manual CC. Game instructions for beginners and advanced players, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Poland
Globale/Locale, 7th Bulgarian Biennal of Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria
2007
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennial 2007, Venice
Istambul Biennial 2007,Istambul
Performa 07 with Snörfrid, Performance Festival, New York
Moscow Biennial 2007, Left Pop, Moscow
New York, States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin
cabaret voltaire-warszawa, lokal_30, Warsaw
Rainer Ganahl, Mario Garcia Torres, Nate Harrison, Hugo Hopping and John Menick have agreed to participate in an exhibition organized by Nu Nguyen at Sandroni Reyey, Sandroni Reyey, Los Angeles
Riss/Lücke/Scharnier A,Galerie Nächste St. Stephan, Vienna
Extraordinary Rendition, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
Agitation and Respose,Tanja Bonaktar Gallery, New York
2006
Images War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP show, New York
Imagining Common Lands, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia
Unwrapping the Wing, The Invisible Museum, Denver
Photo_Traffic, Centre d'art Contemporain, Genevaa
Four Freedoms, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvenia
Sol Systéme, Center D'Art Passerelle, Brest
Steiler Konter, Kunstverrein Bregenz,
Bukarest Biennial 2006, Bukarest
Sevilla Biennial 2006, Sevilla
Lire Frantz Fanon, La Box, Bourges
3500 cm2, Rome
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Die Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Langues Emmêlées. l'Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Périgueux
Demokratie üben, Westfälischer kunstverein, Münster
Opera Austria, Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato
Pixels of Reality: What do you know, what do you see? Public Space with a Roof, Amsterdam
"Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire" Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2005
Parallel Lives, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Wer Visionen hat soll zum Arzt gehen, GAK, Bremen
Poles Apart Poles Together, 51.Venice Biennale, Venice
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, The Jewish Museum, New York
Leaves of Grass, Hallwalls, Buffolo
Fabric of Fear, 555, Detroit
Christian Boltansky, Michaela Melian, Rainer Ganahl, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Affinités, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon
La Belgique visionnaire, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels (March)
Interessi zero, Galleria Civica di Art Contemporanea di Trento, Trento
Occupying space, Generali Foundation Sammmlung, Haus der Kunst, München
Trade, White Columns, New York
Unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels
Campus, Warwick Arts Centre The University of Warwick Coventry
2004
When Democracy Was Fun, White Box, New York
General Store, The Four Color Pen Show, lucus projects, Miami
The Mythological Machine - Images and Media, Warwick Arts Centre The University of Warwick Coventry
No return, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York,
Channel Zero, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
phantom limb, Unit B, Chicago)
Visitas, Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires
Siz Feet Under, White Box, New York
Market Value, Cuchifritos, New York
Occupying Space: Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Bojmanns, Witte de With and Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction, Arti et Amicitiea, Amsterdam
this is for real: war and the contemporary, SAC gallery at Stonyt Brook University
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle; The Schick Gaellery, Saratoga Springs, The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orlean
Pulse of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels
alien3, skor foundation, Amsterdam
works on paper, Southfirst Art, Brooklyn
Lecture Notes, MSVU Art Gallery, Hallifax
2003
Contested Space, Spazio Alcatraz, Florence, Italy
Without Fear & Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent
Utopia, 2. Biennial Tirana, Tirana, Albania
24/7 Vilus - New York, Fall 03
2. Biennial of Ceramic in contemporay Art, Albisola
Going Public, Modena, Sassuolo
Niemand ist eine Insel, Public Spaces, Bremen
The tale of the thread. Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, MART, Muso di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Rovereto
EMBASSY, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway.
Bombs Away, The Physics Room gallery , New Zealand
Summit of Intervenitionist Art, Forde, Geneva
Private/Public, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
New York, Fuckking City, Sautfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara (traveling show)
In Media Res,Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
addition, kunstbüro, Vienna
2002
how to do things with words , kunsthalle wien, Vienna
alien2 screening program , swiss institute, New York
Internationales Netzwerk, (40 Jahre Fluxus und die Folgen), Wiesbaden
alien2 screening program, swiss institute, New York
how to do things with words, magazine4, Bregenz
shift, cuchifritos, New York
re: “la chinoise”, Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Import/Export, Villa Arson, Nice (cat.)
Blick und Bild, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (cat.)
2001
Detourism, Renaissance Society, Chicago
217.174.192.66, Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris
Austrian Comtemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Shanghai Art Museum, (cat.)
Berg_Werk_Stadt_Graz, Werkstadt Graz, Graz
Drawing Project 2: Office of Utopic Procedures, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Milano Europa 2000, Bovisa, PAC, Milan
Kunst aus dem Osten, ACC gallery, Weimar
Beyond Origin, Video Art, Hellenic American Union Gallery, Kolonaki
Vernaculars: Speaking, Deforming, Inventing the Languages of the Web, Centre George Pompidou, (www.centrepompidou.fr/netart), Paris
In/SITE/Out, Apex Curatorial Program, New York
Blondies and Brownies. Blondinchen und Bräunchen, weiß weiß bin auch ich, Aktionsforum Praterinse, Munich
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Spaghetti Western, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
2000
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Surrender. I wanna give you devotion, Nimm hin es ist mein Geist und
Sinn, Aeroplastics, Brussels
Import/Export, Museum Arnheim
Action/Recollection, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Oeuvres Collectives, Les abattoires, Toulouse
Import/Export, Kunstverein Salzburg
Groupshow, BQ, Köln
Man muß ganz schön viel lernen bevor man hier funktioniert, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Illuminations, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Sequences, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles
1999
Kunst-Welten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Radio temporaire, Radio Suisse Romande, Geneva
Einblicke in die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Lascaux2, Villa Arson, Nice
DACH, Galerie Krinzinger im Benger Areal, Bregenz
Offene Handlungsräume, 48th Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice
SITuations COMpromettantes, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, (May)
expander 1.0, Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris
Conceptual Art As Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York
GILBERT & GEORGE, 1970 N. Bronson, Hollywood, Los Angeles
1998
Projects, Candy Factory, Tokyo
way.out, kunstraum kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen
In Vitro e Altro, Cabinet des Estamps, Geneva
modular composite, Central Fine Arts, New York
Livestyle, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
May 17, 1998, May Day Productions, New York
1997
Jingle Bells, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Miroir cassé: résistances, L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans
postproduktion, Generali Foundation, Vienna
'97 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju exhibition hall, Kwangju, catalogue
New York, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
Zonen der Verstörung, Zones of Disturbance, Steirischer Herbst 1997, Graz, catalogue
The Art Exchange Show, Evelmachine, on various sites, New York
Andere Orte. Öffentliche Räume und Kunst, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Ittingen
Marcello Esposito, Rainer Ganahl, Beat Streuli, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Tours, catalogue
OIR es VER - To HEAR is To SEE, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá
Educational Complex, organized by Rainer Ganahl: Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Ganahl, Candida Höfer, Mike Kelley, Frederick Wiseman, Vienna, catalogue
1996
Selections from the MAB Library, AC-Project Room, New York
Tinsel Tower, Clocktower Gallery, New York
Austria im Rosennetz, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, catalogue
Files, Bunker, Berlin
En Route to M-E-X, Art& Idea, Mexico City
Austria im Rosennetz, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, catalogue
Grenzen, public art initiative, Feldkirch
Österreichische Trienale zur Fotografie: Radikale Bilder, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Szombathely, catalogue
Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin, Gilles Melgrani, Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseilles
Nach Weimar, Neue Museum Weimar, Weimar, catalogue
Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City
Österreichische Trienale zur Fotografie: Radikale Bilder, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, cat.
Quicktimes, http://thing.net/thingnyc, Thing, New York
Version 2.2, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, cat.
Departure Lounge, PS1 Museum, Clocktower, New York
Between the Acts, c/o Gerhardsen, Oslo, cat.
Aquarium, Vidéo-Films, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris..
Between the Acts, Ice Box, Athens, cat. ,
Use As Directed, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
1995
The Invisible Force, Nomadism as Art Practice, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, catalogue
Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago, cat.
Haizuka project, Haizuka, Japan
On peut toujours tout changer, Usine Fromage, Rouen, cat. avail.
Garbage!, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Custom Colors, Here Art, New York, cat. avail.
Blast 4: Bioinformatica, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, brochure
Daniel Buren, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Rainer Ganahl, Haim Steinbach, Joep Van Lieshout, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
Mapping, A Response to MoMA, American Fine Art, New York
1994
Gone, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
When attitudes become form, The Mont Claire Art Museum, New Jersey
Pain/Pain Online, Here, New York
Mixbild, Schippers & Krome, Colgone
Possibilismo Americano, Studio Oggetto, Milan
What is in your mind, National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, cat.
Artifice 3, Saint Denis, Paris, cat.
Le saut dans le vide, New Tretjakowskij Gallery, Moscow
Suture - Fantasies of Totality, Kunstverein Salzburg, cat.
Localzeit - Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Forum aktueller Kunst - Raum Stohal, Vienna, cat.
Art After Collecting, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne.
1993
Viennese Stories, Secession, Vienna, cat.
Utopia Del Possibile, fra America ed Europa, Foyer Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova, cat.
Groupshow, Massimo de Carlo, Milan
In Between, Floating Gallery, Tokyo
More than Zero, Le Magasin, Grenoble, cat.
Before the Sound of the Beep, various sites in Paris, cat.
Par les Yeux du Langage, Musée de Marseille, Marseilles
Binera, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, cat.
1992
Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, cat.
One plus One, Galerie du Mois, Paris
Brain: Internal Affairs, Beatrixziekenhuis, Gorinchem, cat.
L’Ere Binaire, Musée D’Ixelles, Brussels, cat.
Up Date, White Columns, New York, cat.
Greatest Hits, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Letter S Road: RE-marks on Site, Omi, New York
The Big Nothing, The New Museum, New York, cat.
Apt. Art Int., Moscow
1991
L’esprit bibliothèque, La Galerie du Mois, Paris
1990
No, ..., Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris, cat.
Passage de l’Image, (touring exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, catalogue
Art Cologne, (Förderkoje), Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, cat.
Act Up Conference, Amsterdam (Time Based Arts Gallery)
1989
Germination V, Musée d’Art Contemporain St. Pière, Lyon, cat.
Wortlaut, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, catalogue
1988
Stilleben, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, catalogue
1987
Logo-Ausstellung, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, catalogue
Selected Bibliography
2013
Matthew Higgs, Best Of 2013, Artforum, December 2013
Tracy Zwick, Comme des Marxists: Rainer Ganahl’s Runway Show, Art in America, November 2013
Elisa Gallant, Purple diary, Nov 2013
Andrew Rosseth, There is only one Karl !, NY Gallerist
Renata Silberblatt, El Barrio's Haunted Houses, Urban Omnibus, Sept 2013
Fontanaganahl, Zingmagazine, 2013
2012
Cathryn Drake, Tri, Tri Again, Artforum Diary, November 2012
Wozu sind Währungen da? Simon Rothöhler, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, TAZ, Berliner Tageszeitung, 16. Feb. 2012
Michael Erard, Babel No More, The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, Free Press, New York Toronto, London, Sydney, New Dellhi, 2012
2011
Tom Williams, Engineers of the Souls, Postmasters, New York, Art in America, 2/23/2011
2010
Roberta Smith, Rainer Ganahl: 'Language of Emigration & Pictures of
Emigration' The New York Times, April 23, 2010
Urusla Maria Probst, Rainer Ganahl. Dadalenin, 'Dada fuer alle!' kunstforum Feb. 2010
John Beeson, Sight Mapping, Rainer Ganahl: Art in Context, BOMBLOG, www.bombsite.powweb.com/?p=13142, August 18, 2010
2008
Colby Chamberlain Rainer Ganahl, FRUIT AND FLOWER DELI, Artforum.com April Pick, 2008
Carol Yinghua Lu, 7th Shanghai Biennial, Frieze, November, December 2008
2007
Rainer Ganahl, VOGUE UOMO May, June, 2007
Holland Cotter, ‘AGITATION AND REPOSE’Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, The New York Times, August 10, 2007
Olu Oguibe, An Artist's Biennial, Frieze, October 2007
Martin Herbert, 2nd. Sevilla Biennial, Frieze, October 2007
Pia Jardi, Rainer Ganahl, Communication and power, Lapiz 229, 2007
2006
Craig Martin, Rainer Ganahl, The communication of knowledge and the parameters of educational systems,Frieze, September 2006
Rainer Ganahl, Seminar/Lectures, Metropolis, August/September 2006,
Aaron Moulton, Reriferic 7 and Bucharest Biennial 2, Flash Art International, July - September 2006
Rika, Hiro, Can you swim through the society of motorization without wobbling? in "Around the Globe: from L.A." in Bijutsu Techo, July 2006, p.
Martha Schwendener, Rainer Ganahl at Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York,Artforurm, February 2006
Please, teach me, book review, tema celeste, contemporary art, 114, March/Aprill 2006 06
Eleanor Heartney, Rainer Ganahl, Wallach Galleryh, Columbia University, book review,art press 321, March 2006
Didier Arnaudet, Langes emmêlées, ,art press 322 April 2006, p. 82-83
Krystian Woznicki, Please, teach me.. Rainer Ganahl and teh Poliltics of Learning, New York, (Wallach Art Gallery), 2005 , Springerin Band XII, Heft 2 , Frühjar 2006, p. 82-83 ,
Max Hollein, Rainer Ganahl, Erziehungskomplex, in: Max Hollein, Unternehmen Kunst, Entwicklungen und Verwicklungen, (Lindinger, Schmid Verlag) Regensburg 2006
2005
Rainer Ganahl in conversation with Paul Mattick, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2005
Grace Glueck, 'The Jewish Identity Project', American Jewishness in All Its Infinite Variety, The New York Times, October 10, 2005
Bernadette Felber, Rainer Ganahl, Flash Art , July - September 2005
Miaka Pollock, Trade at White Columns, Flash Art , May - June, 2005
Faye Hirsch, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Art in America, May 2005
Andrew Maerkle, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Zingmagazine, 2005
Rainer Ganahl, When Attitudes Become - Curating, Manifesta Journal, N4, Winter 2004/05
Holland Cotter, Trade, White Columns, The New York Times, February 25, 2005
A Life in Picutres, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, , (S/L Susan Sontag ..., photograph) Artforurm, March 2005
2004
Katy Siegel and Paul Mattick, Money, Thames & Hudson 2004
Holland Cotter, No Return, Momenta Art, The New York Times, October 1, 2004
Manami Fujimori, Rainer Ganahl, BT Vol. 56, No. 847, Arpril 2004
untimely ends, Homi K. Bhabha on Edward Said, (S/L Edward Said ..., photograph) Artforurm, February 2004
Rainer Ganahl, Iraq Dialogs, Zingmagazine, Issue 19, Winter 2004
A History of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Howard Singerman, (2 S/L photographs) Artforum, February 2004
Maria Fusco, Rainer Ganal, The Angry Optimist, afterart news, January 2004
2003
Maria Fusco, angry optimists, art monthly Dec.-Jan.2003-04 n. 272
Edward Said, Imperiale Sichtweisen, (S/L photographs) springerin, Winter 2003
Francesco Manacorda, Homeland Security – l’arte come strumento di riflessione politica, Flash Art Italian Edition, November 2003
Maria Fusco, book review art monthly December - January.2003-04
Martha Schwendener, Rainer Ganahl at Base, Artforum, February 2003
Holland Cotter, New York, Southfirst: Art, New York Times, 2/21/03
2002
Edward Leffingwell, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Art in America, September 2002
Suzanne Dieter, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, zingmagazine, 18, Autumn 2002
Diana Baldon, Rainer Ganahl, Tema Celeste contemporary art, 91, May/June 2002
Francesca Pasini, I rifletti di Marx, Linus, January 2002
2001
Jan Verwoert, Rainer Ganahl, Frieze, November 2001
A. S. Bessa, Rainer Ganahl, Seminars / Lectures, 1995 - , zingmagazine, 15, 2001
Raul Zamudio, Rainer Ganahl, Baumgartner Gallery, zingmagazine, 15, Spring 2001
Gregory Williams, Rainer Ganahl, Baumgartner Gallery, Artforum, Summer 2001
Daniela Gregori, Stimmen aus der Ferne, Rainer Ganahl in der Wiener Galerie
Nächst St. Stephan, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3/10/2001, Nr. 59/ p. 57
2000
Rainer Ganahl, Discontent in Austria, Camera Austria International, 72/2000
Roberto Costantino, Broken Language, Flash Art Italiana, nr. 223, Summer 2000
Anselm Wagner, Michymaus lädt nach Auschwitz ein, Die Beiträge des Salzburger Kunstvereins, Der Standard, 7/24/2000
Konstanze Crüwell, Migration und Identität: eine Ausstellung im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 2/30/2000, Nr. 4/p. 25
1999
Rainer Ganahl, George Baker, Letters to the Editor, Artforum, September 1999
Rainer Ganahl, Interface Passages, New Observations 122, Summer 1999
Barry Schwabsky, Rainer Ganahl, ArtByte, II 2, Summer 1999
Nancy Princenthal, Rainer Ganahl at Max Protetch, Art in America, May 1999
Caspar Stracke, Where is Rainer? Thing.net review.
Momoyo Torimitsu, Keep moving away from your mother tongue... Austria Kultur, Vol. 9. No. 3, May/June 1999
George Baker Rainer Ganahl: Max Protetch Gallery, Artforum, April 1999
Robert C. Morgan, Rainer Ganahl: Max Protetch Gallery, artpress, 245, april 1999
Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistics, Purple 3, Summer 1999
Bill Arning, Rainer Ganahl, Max Protetch Gallery, Time Out New York, Issue No. 175, Jan. 28 - Feb. 5, 1999
Matt Freedman, Rainer Ganahl, Max Protetch Gallery, Review, The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, January 15, 1999
Thomas Wulffen, Ortssprache - Local Language, Kunstforum International, Bd. 143, Jan. Feb. 1999
1998
Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistics. Sprachspiel – Language game, Kuva, 5-6, 1998
Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Rainer Ganahl, Imported – A Reading Seminar; Ortssparche - Local Language,Springerin, December 1998, Nr.4
Ricardo Dominguez, Imported: A Reading Seminar edited by Rainer Ganahl, 8/28/1998, www.thing.net, reviews
Martin Tupper, Imported - Rainer Ganahl, Interview, Blocnotes 15, Summer 1998
Gregory Volk, Kwangju Biennale, World Art, April 1998
Barry Schwabsky, “Subject X”, Notes on Performative Art, Part 1, Art/Text, Nr. 60, February, April 1998
Robert Fauser, 1997 Kwangju Biennale, Art/Text, Nr. 60, February, April 1998
1997
Kwangju Biennale 1997, BT, November 1997
Laura Chiesa, Rainer Ganahl, EA-Generali Foundation, Flash Art International, Summer 1997
Barry Schwabsky, Rainer Ganahl, Windows on the Word, in Barry Schwabsky, The Widening Circle, Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997
Thomas Wulffen, Rainer Ganahl, Erziehungskomplex, Generali Foundation, Kunstforum, Bd. 137 Juni - August 1997
Reinhard Braun, Rainer Ganahl: Erziehungskomplex, EA-Generali Foundation, Wien, Camera Austria International, 57/58, 1997
Max Hollein, Rainer Ganahl, Educational Complex, Generali Foundation, zingmagazine 4, summer 1997
Paulo Bianchi, Rainer Ganahl, Please, teach me..., Kunstforum International, Bd. 137, Juni - August 1997
Roberto Costantino, Rainer Ganahl, Assimo De Carlo, Milano, Flash Art, giugno, luglio 1997
Francesca D’Antona, Ri-leggere Pasolini, Exlibris, 7, april 1997
Maria Wutz, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, zingmagazine 3, autumne/winter 1996/97
Tom F. McDonough, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, zingmagazine 3, autumne/winter 1996/97;
Vitus H. Weh, Der Tod des Malerschweins, Falter 8, 1997
Johanna Hofleitner, Dokument und Plüsch, Die Presse, 2/6/1997
Rainer Metzger, Der Olymp der Trenddenker, Ein "Erziehungskomplex": Rainer Ganahl in der Genarali Foundation, Der Standard, 1/30/1997
1996
Jeff Rian, Letters from Paris, www.artnet.com
Yan C., Rainer Ganahl, Lecture, voyage et Internet, Technikart, N.8, Décembre - Janvier 1997
Natacha Carron, Read me frist, Coda 28, Décembre 1996
John Ipolito, Where has all the uncertainty gone, Flash Art International, Summer 1996
Perenosnoe (ne slishkom idealnoe) Iskystbo, [A Portable (Not So Ideal) Art] Interview Rainer Ganahl - Alexej Medwedev, Chudoshestvenny Journal 12, Moscow, July 1996
Jean-Christophe Royoux, Exposition(s) du récit après la littérature, Omnibus Nr.16, April 1996 Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau, Essais de dialectique idiolectiale, à propos d travail de Rainer Ganahl, OmnibusNr.16, April 1996
Susan Kandel, A Bare-Bones Look at Cyberspace Totems, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1996
1995
Janine Gorden, Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin at Sandra Gering, New York, Flash Art International, Nov. 1995
Kim Levin, Voice Selections: Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin at Sandra Gering T he Village Voice, New York October 1994
Yekaterina Dyogot, Terroristischer Naturalismus, Springer, Heft 4, Sept 1995
Rosanne Altstatt, Knowledge is Power, zingmagazine, Fall 1995
Susan Kandel, Grouped Together to Stand Apart, Los Angeles Times,Jan.12, 1995
The Thing, Manami Fujimori, BT Magazine, Feb. 1995
Olivier Zahm, grec moderne basic, Purple Prose, Winter 1995
1994
News from New York, New Project for The Thing, Flash Art International, Oct 1994
Reba White Williams, News of the Print world: People & Places: The Thing, The Print Collector's Newsletter, Sept.- Oct.1994
Gabriele Rivet, Art after Collecting, BT Magazine, June 1994
Wolfgang Staehle (ed.), Snap to Grid, The Thing, New York, (BBS Interview with different participants), February 1994
Yukiko Shikata, Studio Voice, March 1994
Kim Levin, Voice Selections: Rainer Ganahl, The Village Voice, New York February 1994
Todd Alden, Rainer Ganahl: Mapping the Space of Information, Kunstforum, Jan/Feb. 1994
1993
Nancy Shalala, Rainer Ganahl at Person’s Weekend Museum, Japan Times, Sunday, November 14, 1993
News from Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, Flash Art International, November/December 1993
Robert Fleck, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, Flash Art International, May/June 1993
Maria Campitelli, Rainer Ganahl, Juliet, June 1993
Barry Schwabsky, À propos de l’art de Rainer Ganahl, The Art of Rainer Ganahl, Artpress, April 1993
Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, Forum International, March 1993
Patricia Brignone, Par les Yeux du Langage, Arte Factum, March 1993
Eleanor Heartney, Rainer Ganahl, Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York, Art in America, March 1993
Rainer Ganahl, Foucault... bourr. text 1, Documents, Paris, Feb. 1993
1992
Olivier Zahm, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, Artforum, Dec.1992
News/Information: Rainer Ganahl at Massimo de Carlo, Flash Art Italiana, March/April 1992
Jerôme Sans, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Artpress, June 1992
1991
Olivier Zahm, No, not that one. It’s not a chair, Galerie 1900-2000, Artpress, May 1991
1989
Dieter Daniels, Rainer Ganahl, Paul Garrin at the Museum Folkwang, Kunstforum, Dec. 1989
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS, TEXTS AND INTERVIEWS
BOOKS:
- "Please, teach me" - Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning
by William Kaizen
Wallach gallery, New York, Revolver, Frankfurt, 2005,
- MONEY AND DREAMS: COUNTING THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIGMUND FREUD BANKNOTE
by Rainer Ganahl
Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2005
- Road to War, 2005
by Rainer Ganahl
MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
- NEXT TARGET - Versteinerte Politik / Petrified Politics, 2004
by Rainer Ganahl
Published by GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen), and Revolver, Frankfurt
- Please, write your opinons of U.S. politics...,
by Rainer Ganahl, onestarpress, Paris, 2003
Onestar Press. Paris
- lueneburger-heide-sprechen,
by Rainer Ganahl
Revolver, Frankfurt 2003
- Reading Karl Marx
by Rainer Ganahl
bookworks, London, 2001
- Educational Complex
ed. Sabine Breitwieser
Generali Foundation, Vienna 1997
- Ganahl-Dütsch, Ganahl-Dütsch, Gloacal Language, LOCAL Lanugage, Voranglisch …
by Rainer Ganahl
KUB, Bregenz 1998
- IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar
ed. Rainer Ganahl
Semiotext(e), New York 1998
- Rainer Ganahl
By Rainer Ganahl
Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo 1994
- Rainer Ganahl
By Rainer Ganahl
Galerie Roger Pailhas,1992,
- Rainer Ganahl
By Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art, 1991
- Open window
By Rainer Ganahl
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne 1990
- files and windows
By Rainer Ganahl
Neue Texte, Graz 1990
Published Texts written by Rainer Ganahl (a selection)
Road to War - The burning ofh gone evil onto a pathetic extrenal hard drive, 2005
In: Rainer Ganahl, Road to war, Mumok, 2005
Who wants to know anyway? 2004
In: Rainer Ganahl, Counting the last days of the Sigmund Freud banknote, 2005
Whne attitudes become curating, 2004
In: Manifesta Journal, Journal, N4, Winter 2004/05
Refined Information and petrified politics, 2003
In: Rainer Ganahl, Refined Information and petrified politics, Bremen 2004
Homeland Security, Paranoia, Terrorism, 2003
In: Rainer Ganahl, Please, write your opinons of U.S. politics...,, Paris 2003
Going public, 2003
In: Hannes Brunner (ed.), Ein sieben Jahres Buch, Kiel, 2003
Free Markets: Language, Commodification, and Art, 2001
in "Translation in a Global Market," special issue of Public Culture, guest edited by Emily Apter (vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 2001)
Discontent in Austria, 2000
In: Camera Austria International, 7/2/2000
Educational complex, 1997
In: Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Educational Complex, Vienna1997
Local language - gloacal language, 1997
In: Rainer Ganahl, Ganahl-Dütsch, Gloacal Language, LOCAL Lanugage, Voranglisch …, Bregenz 1998
Lesen, Sprechen, Lernen, Lehren / Reading, speaking, learning, teaching, 1995
In: Rainer Ganahl (ed.), IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar, New York 1998
Museums and public/counter-public space in the global-captialist era of digital convertability, 1997/98
In: Christian Kravagna and KUB (ed.), The Museum as arena, Artists on institutional critique, Buchhandlung Walter Köng, Colgne, 2001
Foucault... bourr. text 1, 1993
In: Documents, Paris, Feb. 1993
Unpublished text (a selection) - available on w ww.ganahl.info
For Christ's sake! 0 Cursing with Deleuze, Laurence and Nietzsche, 2004
Copying newspapers - copying with news, 2003
Hotmail for desperate living, 2002
Public discourse and Private Realm, 1998
Last night, I went to a lecture at MOMA, 1997
Sprache im Zeitalter globaler Vernetzung / Language in the era of global networks, 1998
Arbeit, Ware, Unterhaltung, Wissen, Kritik, Kunst… / work, products, entertainment, knowledge, criticism, art …, 1998
Travellling linguistics, 1995
Computers - networks - artworks, 1995
Borges, Maps, Computers, GPS, Police, Kant, Interfaces & Nostalgia, 1995
Nihong - Jpanese for Everybody (in French only), 1994
Interfaces, 1993
Published interviews (a selection)
Diana Baldon - Rainer Ganahl, 2001
In: Tema Celeste (Magazine). May 2002
Craig Martin, et alter - Rainer Ganahl, Stamina, 2001
In: Rainer Ganahl, Reading Karl Marx, bookworks, London, 2001
Thomas Hirschhorn - Craig Martin, Rainer Ganahl - A conversation, 2001
In: Perché, Nr. 5, Bergamo 2005
Rainer Ganahl - Antonio Negri, Marx and again Marx, 2001
In: William Kaizen, “Please, teach me” - Rainer Ganahl and the politics of learning, New York, Frankfurt 2005
Momoyo Torimitsu - Rainer Ganahl, Keep moving away from your mother tongue, 1999
In: Peter Weibel (ed.) Offene Handlungsräume, Catalog for the Austrian Pavillion of the 48th Venice Biennale, Vienna, 1999 and in: Chain, Translucinacion, Nr. 10, Honolulu, Philadelphia 2003
Rainer Ganahl - Julia Kristeva, Sens and non-sens of revolt, 1996
In: Julia Kristeva, Revolt, She Said, Semiotext(e), MIT Press, 2002
Rainer Ganahl - Benjamin Buchloh, Böse Bemerkungen zwischen Moskau und Los Angeles / Mean remarks between Moscow and Los Anegles, 1997
In: Rainer Ganahl (ed.), IMPORTED - A reading seminar, Semiotext(e), New York 1998
Unpublished interviews (a selection) - - available on w ww.ganahl.info
Stephan Pascher - Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistic Services, 1996
Zeigam Azizov - Rainer Ganahl, Linguini, Languages and Cultures, 1996
Maria Wurtz - Rainer Ganahl, importation/exportation (French), 1996
Wolfgang Staehle - Rainer Ganahl, Snap to Grid, 1994
Michael Cohen - Coldness and Fluidity, 1995
Rainer Ganahl - Oscar Negt, 1995