Rainer Ganahl

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004	bicycle, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2003	GAG, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Kunstbüro, Vienna Das Zählen der letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote, project wall, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Casco, Utrecht Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris
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
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) Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck Max Protetch, New York
1998	Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, catalogue Stadtwerkstatt 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, cat. available 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, cat. avail. 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
2004	Occupying Space: Sammlung Generali Foundation Haus der Kunst, München (july) Rotterdam am 8.7. 2005 (an drei Orten, Museum Bojmanns, Witte de With und Fotomuseum). Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction, 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, (traveling show) 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 or Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent\ 2. Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Albisola Utopia, 2. Biennial Tirana, Albania Niemand ist eine Insel, Bremen, going public, modena SoIA - Summit of Interventionist Art, L’espace Forde, Geneva Embassy Galleri F15, Moss, Norway. The tale of the thread. Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, MART, Muso di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Rovereto Bombs Away, The Physics Room Gallery, New Zealand Private/Public, Häusler Contemporary, Munich New York, Fuckking City, Sautfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara In Media Res,Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
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 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 Ö sterreichische 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
2004	Manami Fujimori, Rainer Ganahl, BT Vol. 56, No. 847, Arpril 2004 untimely ends, Homi K. Bhabha on Edward Said, (S/L photograph) Artforum, 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) 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, 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	Base, L’artista va a lezione installazione di Ganahl, La Repubblica, 29 ottobre 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 Base, L’artista va a lezione installazione di Ganahl, La Repubblica, 29 ottobre 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 du travail de Rainer Ganahl, Omnibus Nr.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 The 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

Education
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