born 1976 in Graz
lives and works in Vienna
2023
"Fast Cut" Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse Vienna (with Marie-France Goerens)
2022
"Faking the Real" Kunsthaus Graz
"FREI" Artelier Contemporary Graz (solo)
"Final Projects Group-L" Mackey Apartments Garage Top, MAK Center for Arts and Architecture Los Angeles
"Mackey Apartments Block Party", Los Angeles
2021
Agricola Due Leoni, Castel San Pietro, Sabina (Italy)
"Tandem Tistiller“ Galerie Sophia Vonier, Salzburg, with Bertram Hasenauser
"Niemand blickt auf sein Leben zurück und erinnert sich an die Nächte, in denen er geschlafen habe" a project by Fondation Coco Lafayette, Kunstraum am Schauplatz Vienna
"Hausrat“, Galerie Perpetuell, Frankfurt, with Kerstin Cmelka, Sandra Kranich, Barak, Reiser and Alexander Wolff
2020
"Curated by_Brigitte Huck: Sott Clifford Evans "Murderkino"", Charim Wien
2019
"Video Kabuff" Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse, Vienna
"AUGENLUST. Neue Malerei 2" Galerie Sophia Vonier, Salzburg
"Zu viel ist nicht genug!“ Neue Galerie Graz
"Cannot make out your Flags, come nearer." Festival der Regionen, Strudengau
"Kabuff" Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse, Vienna (solo)
"DAGUERRE’S SOUP" Christian Kosmas Mayer x FOTOGRAFIS, Kunstforum Vienna
2018
"Still Life - Obstinacy of Things", Kunst Haus Vienna
"Dreaming Wild", ALASKA Sydney
Swan Mountain College 1 "Bildhauerei wie gesagt sculpting, as said", clubblumenLodge No. 2, Schwanberg
"CORE" S/S 18, collaboration with AWARENESS&CONSCIOUSNESS @ PellMell - Graz and AfA - Vienna
"Double Lives" mumok Vienna, live performance with "Beauties of the Night", Live camera: Cati Bold
"Piazza" KÖR - Public Art Vienna
"30 Jahre General Foundation" Museum der Moderne Salzburg, live performance with "Beauties of the Night"
2017
"Arta Urbana" Sun Plaza Bucharest
"Artist Statements" Parallel Vienna (solo)
„Manuel Gorkiewicz feat. Kerstin Cmelka, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck (solo)
"Kapriziöse Gesten", Esterhazy Contemporary, Eisenstadt
2016
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, book launch with Stefanie Seufert
"Chicken or Egg – Dilemma (THE ANIMALS)" Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2016
New Jörg, Vienna (solo)
"In der Kubatur des Kabinetts" Fluc, Vienna
"Glas/Hocker/Lampe/Mantel/Stuhl/Teppich/Tisch" Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden (solo)
2015
"ITS ALL UNDERNEATH THE FLOOR ITS ALL BETWEEN THE WALLS" Heistinger Atelier Vienna 2016
"Inside / Outside", Quadrart Dornbirn
"Semperdepot", Near My Desk - Art Space, Vienna, with Christian Mayer
"Specks", Gleisdorfergasse 13 Graz
"Kerstin Cmelka mit Manuel Gorkiewicz, Mario Mentrup, Hanno Millesi und Mandla Reuter", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
"Was die Wange rötet, kann übel nicht seyn" Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna
2014
UrbanGlass, New York City
"Vogelsbergeriana", Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Ve.Sch, Vienna (with Axel Koschier and Robert Müller)
"Arsenale", Sonnenhaus, Vienna
"Hic & Nunc" Stift Klosterneuburg
2013
Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck (solo)
"der schein", kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
"Chat Jet, Painting ‹Beyond› The Medium" Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2012
Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt a.M (solo)
Der Grieche at Flutgraben Berlin
Pro Choice, Vienna (solo)
Immer bunter - Aktuelle Malerei aus Österreich, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Skulpturengarten Strombad Kritzendorf
"Spazi Aperti X", Accademia di Romania, Rome
"Die Sammlung", 21er Haus, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
"this time dressed", Der Grieche, Berlin, (with Marten Frerichs and Kerstin Cmelka)
"BOBOEGGOHOJOKRLEPIPOSTWI", Blattgasse 6, Vienna
"Die illustrierte Ausstellung" Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
2011
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", Wiensofski & Harbord, Berlin
"SLEEP: Performing Statistics", Bar 17, Black Door Istanbul
Cussler, Berlin (solo)
"Entertainer", Parkfair, Vienna
KW69 #4 Kerstin Cmelka: „Stolen from my subconscious“, Kunstwerke Berlin
2010
Georg Eisler Award 2010 (Nominees Exhibition), BA Kunstforum Vienna
Edition, Artelier Contemporary, Graz
"Facade Eisengasse 3" Artelier Collection, Graz, (project)
"*RECENT ARRIVALS* / Updating the Archive", Black Door Istanbul
"Pro Choice in Schattendorf", Kunstraum Shattendorf
"Fahrenheit", Kunstraum Shattendorf
"Multiplex", Sun Gallery, Munich
Austrian Cultural Forum Prague (solo)
2009
"Sleepwalking", Temporary Gallery, Cologne
"Regarding Branches of Shops and Trees", skulpturi DK, Copenhagen (with Antonia Low)
Gallery Mezzanin, Vienna (solo)
Künstlerhaus Wien, Videogalerie
"Bulletinboard Blvd.", pro choice, Vienna
2008
Neue Galerie Graz, Studio (solo)
"Open Sky", regionale08, Ilz
Viennafair, Zone 1, Vienna
Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen
"Freunde und Bekannte", sparwasser hq, Berlin
2007
"Preisaustellung der Diözese Graz-Seckau für bildende Kunst",
Minoriten Galerien Graz
"Pimp my Walls", Apartment Stefan Schuster, Berlin
"Fresh Trips", Kunstraum Innsbruck
"Lange Tage", Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin
Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck (with Alexander Wolff)
"Gegenwartsbild", Futuregarden, Vienna
"Your Latest Trick", Jet, Berlin
Oeen Group Show, Kopenhagen
2006
Galerie Mezzanin (solo)
Förderungspreisaustellung des Landes Steiermark, Neue Galerie, Graz
"Viewing Club 06", Secession Wichtelgasse, Vienna
"Extension Turn 2", Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
"SOCIETE DES NATIONS factice et scindée en elle-même", Circuit, Lausanne
"mehr nicht", Auto, Vienna
"Vista Point.", Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Austrian Cultural Forum Prague
2005
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Stiftung Starke, Berlin
"Qui Vive", National Center for contemporary Art Moskow
"Computerprints of whales / too", imPAVILLON, Wels
"α β γ" Manuel Gorkiewicz, Marlene Haring, Christian Mayer, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
"Entdecken und Besitzen", Mumok, Vienna
Stiftung "Grubisic / Braun", Vienna
"The European Design Show 2005" London Design Museum
Flaca, London ( with Alice Chauchat, Christian Egger, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magta Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff)
Galerie Antik, Berlin (solo)
2004
Musterraum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, ( with Christian Mayer and Anna Jermolaewa )
“Ausstellung”, Dresden ( with Christian Mayer and Mandla Reuter )
“Kunst ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht”, SchlossÖkonomie Gern
“Papierarbeiten 2”, Studio Tilmann Baumgärtel, Berlin
“Papierarbeiten von Männern”,Sudio Olliver Croy, Berlin
„In between spaces“, Art Moscow
”Just what it is... #1“, PROJEKTRAUM/medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck
“See you later curator,or how to draw the fine line between high and low.”,Lassie, Vienna
Kunstraum Johann Widauer, Innsbruck (solo)
2003
“Kontext, Form, Troja”, Secession, Vienna, ( with Chritian Egger, Christian Mayer, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff )
“Cadvre Exquis”, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
“Office for Temporary Information Work“, Medienturm, Graz, ( with Christian Egger and Martin Wimmer )
Artkliazma, Moscow
Galerie „France“, Moscow
Soho in Ottakring, Vienna
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Galerie 422, Gmunden
“Inscribing the Temporal“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, ( with Christian Egger and Yves Mettler )
2002
“Office for Temporary Information Work“, A.T.O.M, Vienna, (with Christian Egger and Yves Mettler )
“Ho-Chi-Mon-Chi-Chi“, Buryzone Gallerie, Bratislava
“Schmarotzer“, Semperdepot, Vienna
“Doubleheart“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
magazine “Chicago“, contribution
2002-2011 co-editor of the magazines:
"Chicago","Times","Plotter", "Helvetica", "DIN", "Techno", "Löhfelm", "RR_02*", "Univers", "Tiffany", "Circuit", "Memphis", "Gringo", "Zeus", "The Mix", "Princess Lulu", "Pigiarniq", "Paper", "Libertine" and "Trixie"
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