Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1957	born in Vienna, Austria

Lives and works in New York

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023	House of Gaga, El Comercio de Lamentos Finos, Mexico City
2022	Greene Naftali, Ulysses, New York
2021	Galerie Buchholz, The Mephisto Hours, Berlin
2020	Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Spirits and Objects...and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, Dusseldorf
2019	Galerie Francesca Pia, How to be an Angel Painter, Zurich House of Gaga, The Prototype, Los Angeles
2018	Greene Naftali, Tears and New Tears, New York
2017	Künstlerhaus Bremen, Invitation Epiphany, Bremen
2016	Dépendance, Rainyday and hundred of water and everything, Brussels Goton, “THE POSTORS“, Paris Gaga Fine Arts, Loyalties, Mexico City
2015	Secession, A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Vienna
2014	The Renaissance Society, The New World Application for Turtle Island, Chicago Vilma Gold, My Divid’ed House, London
2013	House of Gaga, EDITION REPETITION, COMPETITION AND JEWELRY OF FLOWERS AND OF REDEMPTION, Mexico
2011	Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
2010	Dépendance, The Balalaika Moment, Bruxelles House of Gaga, The Why Does This All Happen To Me Experience, Mexico City Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem (with Martin Guttman), Vienna
2009	Galerie Buchholz, The Oriental Therapies, Berlin Vorschlag zur Erneuerung des Gedenkens an den Tod des Autors und auch zur gleichzeitigen Erweiterung durch die Leselampe der Schreiber, WHITE HEAT, presented by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Iniquities Suspend, Chicago
2008	Greene Naftali, 18Iniqities, New York Mälmo Konsthall, A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS, Sweden
2007	Stedelijk Museum, Voices and Substitutes, Amsterdam Galerie Buchholz, Voices, Cologne Institut im Glaspavillon, The Tabernacle on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Vilma Gold, London Dependance, “Why Doesn’t my Plant Grow Anymore?“ and Other Works of Lament (...), Brussels
2006	Greene Naftali, Don’t Climb the Pyramids, New York c/o Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Ziegelstrasse, Berlin invited by Yilmaz Dziewior
2002	Greene Naftali, Nazis of Suburbia, New York
1998	Galerie Christian Nagel, a, Cologne

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022	Galerie Buchholz, Bells, Cologne Layr Singerstraße, New Space Show, Vienna
2021	Jahn und Jahn, Odd Vows, Jahn und Jahn hosting Galerie Francesca Pia, Munich
2020	Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan Biennale 2020, Busan Greene Naftali / Chantal Crousel, Arrangement in Grey, Paris Galerie Francesca Pia, Arrows, curated by Eva Svennung, Zurich Svetlana Gallery, Mike’s, New York
2019	Bodega, Holly Village, New York Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, « Il est une fois dans l’Ouest », Bordeaux
2018	Galerie Francesca Pia, Lampen, Zurich Ampersand, dog chews shoes, Lisbon Hopkinson Mossman, Role Models, curated by Rob McKenzie, Auckland
2017	Kunsthalle Bern, Section Littéraire, Bern Galerie Francesca Pia, L’image, curated by Vincent Romagny, Zurich Greene Naftali, Infected Foot, New York Austrian Culture Forum, Passage of Neo-Avant-Garde, Warsaw
2016	CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Night Thoughts, New York Kunsthaus Hamburg, „... und eine welt noch“, Hamburg Marian Goodman, Pure Fiction, Paris Lempertz, Quodlibet, Brussels
2015	Mumok, to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990, Vienna Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Welcome You’re in the Right Place, organized and designed by AIRBNB Pavilion, Turin Greene Naftali, Works on Paper, New York
2014	Vilma Gold, House of Gaga presents Single Moms, London KARST, FAX, London Arnolfini, The Promise, Bristol Liverpool Biennial, collaboration with Stefan Tcherepnin Southard Reid, Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), curated by Sarina Basta and Mary Rinebold, London Halle für Kunst, Über das Radikale Nebeneinander, Luneburg
2013	AIR DE PARIS, Pétrone/Pétrole, Paris Soloway Some Redemptions, New York (The show is curated by Josef Strau; including artists: Ei Arakawa, Tomer Aluf, Keren Cyttern, Henrik Olesen, Jose Rojas, Ulla Rossek, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau, Stephane Tcherepnin, Antek Walczak INDEX- Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, COUNTER-PRODUCTION, Stockholm Frieze Projects, London Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas show, Zurich
2012	Centrum Kultury Zamek, The Castle in the Air – Seance of Imagination, Posen, Poland Generali Foundation, Counter-Production, Vienna Belvedere Wien, Keine Zeit, Vienna Zach Feuer, Context Message, New York Galerie Francesca Pia, La demeure joyeuse II, Zurich Essex Street, How do it know?, New York
2011	Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Berlin 1857, Nobody can tell the why of it, curated by Esperanza Rosales, Oslo CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Dystopia, curated by Mark von Schlegell, Bordeaux Sculpture Centre, Time Again, New York Badischer Kunstverein, A Different Person, Karlsruhe Andersen’s Contemporary Copenhagen, True Faith, Copenhagen Air de Paris, Florbelle (after Sade), Paris
2010	MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, Shanghai Camera Austria, The Milk Drop Coronet, Graz Dependance, Novel, Bruxelles Greene Naftali Gallery, The Pursuer, New York David Zwirner, The Evryali Score, New York P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baghdad Batteries, Long Island City, Queens CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York Kantor Gallery, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Los Angeles Pro Choice, Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman, Vienna and Jerusalem Vilma Gold, The Inhabitants, London
2009	Museum of Contemporary Art, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles Galerie Lelong, My Summer Show, Paris The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, evas arche und der feminist (carte blanche), St. Louis Temporäre Kunsthalle, Scorpio’s Garden, Berlin Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, The Space of Words, Luxembourg
2008	Vilma Gold, iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity: R.H.Quaytman + Josef Strau, London Galerie Catherine Bastide and Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium Greene Naftali, Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, New York Trentino, Manifesta 7, Italy Mehringdamm 72, One Season in Hell, Berlin Maison populaire, “Neutre Intense. It’s gonna rain”, curated by Christophe Gallois, Montreuil, France
2007	Neue Alte Brucke, Secret-Flix, Frankfurt Vilma Gold, Years-In-Review-Installation, organized by Joseph Strau Mehringdamm 72, Door Slamming Festival, Berlin, curated by Dominic Eichler Galerie Neu, dependence at Galerie Neu, Berlin Tomio Koyama Gallery, Wonderwall—Constructing the Sublime, curated by Anna Cathatina-Gebbers, Tokyo Wiener Secession, Shandyismus, Vienna, curated by Helmut Draxler Kjubh Kunstverein, New Domestic Landscape, Köln Croy Nielsen, design by accident, Berlin
2006	Portikus, ...:ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA, Frankfurt White Columns, Looking Back, New York Daniel Buchholz, Next to Kin, Cologne Galerie Fortescue Avenue, Minotaur Blood, London Air de Paris, La maman et la putain, Paris Vilma Gold Project Space, Our Marvellous Ambition, Berlin Institute of Contemporary Art, Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Philadelphia; curated by Bennett Simpson (Additional Venues: Power Plant, Toronto; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2007) Kunsthaus Dresden, Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Dresden
2005	Gagosian Gallery Berlin, The Gone Wait, Berlin Paul-Linke-Ufer, Possession, Berlin
2004	Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Mg, Cologne Zeichnungen Werkleitzbiennale, Halle curated by Ariane M Fligen, Arbeitsschutz, Wandbilder, WBD, Berlin Editionen 4 Jahre WBD, Berlin
2003	Greene Naftali Gallery, Photo +, New York Prague Biennale 1, Photo +, Prag
2002	Museum Ludwig, The Nazis of Suburbia, (Ökonomien der Zeit), Cologne Greene Naftali Gallery, Pictures, New York
2000	Colin de Land Fine Art, The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, New York TENT, hey, international competition style, Rotterdam Bethanienhaus, Produktivität und Existenz, organized by Die Beute, Berlin Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow Greene Naftali Gallery, Snowflake Office, organized by C. Kr, New York
1999	The Castle (with Amelie von Wulffen), Galerie Walbr, Snowflake Office, Dorf
1998	Laden Schillerstr. SUUM SUUN AKVY 73, 32, Berlin Kunstb60, Wien with The Nazis of Suburbia
1997	Die krumme Pranke, Video with A. Creischer, A. Siekmann, A. von Wulffen
1993	Friesenwall 120, Cologne, co-curated with Stefan Dillemuth 1990-1993, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne Pat Hearn Gallery, (with S. Dillemuth), New York Parallax View: New York-Cologne, P.S. 1 Four Walls, (with S. Dillemuth), New York
1991	Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne Kunstraum Daxer, M (with S. Dillemuth)
1990	Raum Masse 10, (with C. von Bonin) Hamburg

Performances & Projects organized, curated and co-curated (selection)

2019	Galerie Francesca Pia, End of the Road, Zurich
2010	Laphroaig – Lagavulin – Magarita, Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau, (public reading event), organized by Jay Sanders, Sculpture Center, New York Vienna and Jerusalem, with Clegg/Guttmann, Lucy Indiana Dodd and Sergei Tcherepnin Pro Choice, Vienna
2008	Grand Openings, with Ei Arakawa etc. MUMOK – Museum Modern Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2007	Shandyismus with Sergej Jensen, Wiener Secession, Vienna Riot the Bar, with Sergej Jensen and Stephan Müller, curated by Ei Arakawa, NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2006	„Meerrettich On Ice“, organized by Josef Strau, Volksbühne Sternfoyer am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Kunsthallfestival, with Sergej Jensen, KBH Kunsthall, Copenhagen The Galleries Show, with Jay Sanders Extra-City, Antwerp
2005	Alphabet with Paulina Olowska and Daniel Yamada, Joanna Zielinska, Galerie Merrettich, Berlin

Public Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe