RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Awkwardness and EnthusiasmAssume Vivid Astro Focus, Johannes Baargeld, Hugo Ball, Judith Bernstein, Jean-Luc Blanc, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä., Nina Childress, Velimir Chlebnikov, Yun Choi, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Jeremy Deller, Theo van Doesburg, Rosie Dowd-Smyth, Mimosa Echard, Nicole Eisenman, Max Ernst, Hans Finsler, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Georg Anton Gumpp, Ramin Haerizadeh & Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian, Raoul Hausmann, Heinrich Hoerle & Anton Räderscheidt, Marcel Janco, Alfred Jarry, Mike Kelley, Katia Kelm, Martin Kippenberger, Jakob Lena Knebl, Jiří Kovanda, Marko Lulić, Calvin Marcus, Fabian Marti, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Shana Moulton, MRZYK et MORICEAU, Henrike Naumann, Wong Ping, Pierre la Police, Rob Pruitt, Hans Richter, Roee Rosen, Mika Rottenberg, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Jim Shaw, Roman Signer, Cora Spassvogel, Erich Spießbach13.10.2023–25.2.2024
Exhibition
The exhibition will take place at two venues: HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark and Neue Galerie Graz.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.
Further artists at Neue Galerie Graz: Saâdane Afif, Jack Arnold, Dan Attoe, Cosima von Bonin, Ulla von Brandenburg, Robert Breer, Giorgio de Chirico, René Clair, Josef Danhauser, Brice Dellsperger, Josef Dobner, Marcel Duchamp, Lara Favaretto, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Finsler, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Jef Geys, Jacob de Gheyn, Martin Gostner, Nicholas Grafia with Mikołaj Sobczak, George Grosz, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Hannah Höch, Peter Land, Maria Lassnig, Gabriel Lester, Erik van Lieshout, René Magritte, Bjarne Melgaard, Nathaniel Mellors, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Francis Picabia, Katrin Plavčak, Rembrandt van Rijn, Sun Ra, Andreas Schulze, Kurt Schwitters, Sturtevant, Jeffrey Vallance, Jean-Luc Verna, Olav Westphalen, Ming Wong.
The feeling or attitude of enthusiastic embarrassment is undoubtedly associated with a notion of humorous light-heartedness – but just as much with a sense of earnest persistence, against all odds. It is certainly associated with irony – but also with a deeply unironic, rather enthusiastic belief in the necessity and possibility of persevering and continuing with something that has been recognized as unpleasant or embarrassing. One of the most important attitudes or feelings underlying modern and contemporary art is an enthusiastic silliness that does not shy away from the embarrassing, the unreasonably silly. The exhibition, which spans epochs, includes works by around 100 artists from all over the world and spans an arc from earlier centuries of artistic creation to the immediate past.
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The feeling or attitude of enthusiastic embarrassment is undoubtedly associated with a notion of humorous light-heartedness – but just as much with a sense of earnest persistence, against all odds. It is certainly associated with irony – but also with a deeply unironic, rather enthusiastic belief in the necessity and possibility of persevering and continuing with something that has been recognized as unpleasant or embarrassing. One of the most important attitudes or feelings underlying modern and contemporary art is an enthusiastic silliness that does not shy away from the embarrassing, the unreasonably silly. The exhibition, which spans epochs, includes works by around 100 artists from all over the world and spans an arc from earlier centuries of artistic creation to the immediate past.
In modernism since the 19th century in general and the classical avant-gardes of the early 20th century in particular, a very specific dialectic is at work: on the one hand, bold innovations, radical negation, and aesthetic dogmas – but on the other hand, a certain kind of laughter that formed the basis for the creation of this exhibition project. It is a laughter that is fun and at the same time – without wanting to scandalize only – undermines all conservatism, bigotry, morality and not least avant-garde dogmatisms. By opposing the use of culture to intimidate, to secure unearned privileges, this laughter shows how authority loses its grip, how the pompous gesture and the image of the hero are invalidated.
Thematic sections feature works by numerous important artists – from Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Alfred Jarry and Elsa von Freytag-Lohringhoven, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico and Sturtevant, Maria Lassnig and Martin Kippenberger to numerous younger positions of contemporary art like Paul McCarthy, Nicole Eisenman, Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Katrin Plavčak, Kilunji Kia Henda, Ming Wong at all. RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! flirts with the humor of disaster, bad taste, the camp approach, B‑movie culture, science fiction, horror, etc., as well as immaturity, idiocy, intuition and, of course, passion – not to mention enthusiasm.
Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm was previously shown at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn and Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Sammlung Falkenberg. In Graz, the exhibition takes place in cooperation with Neue Galerie at the Universalmuseum Joanneum.
This exhibition project has been initiated and conceived by Jörg Heiser and Cristina Ricupero.
Exhibition design: Adrien Rovero
Artists
Participating artists
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
Solo (a.o.): Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2014), Casa Triangulo, São Paulo (2013), The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York City (2011), MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2010), The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2009), Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo (2007), Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna (2006); Shows (a.o.): Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2013), CA2M, 2th of May Art Center, Madrid (2012), The New Museum, New York (2010), MACROM Museum, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea die Roma (2009), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), 28th São Paolo Biennial (2008)
Johannes Baargeld
Hugo Ball
German author and biographer, one of the founders of the DADA movement and a pioneer of the sound poem
Judith Bernstein
Solo (a.o.): Karma International, Zurich (2022), Kasmin Gallery, NY (2021), The Box, LA (2020), Karma International, Zurich (2019), Kasmin Gallery, NY (2018), The Drawing Center, NY (2017), The Box, LA (2017), Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2016), Mary Boone Gallery, NY (2015), Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2016), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY (2014), Studio Voltaire, London (2014), New Museum, NY (2012), The Box, LA (2011); Shows (a.o.): Kunsthaus Zurich (2021), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2020), The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2019), Migros Museum, Zurich (2019), Bonner Kunstverein (2019), The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2016), Migros Museum, Zurich (2015), ICA, London (2013), Hauser and Wirth, Zurich and London (2011−2012)
Jean-Luc Blanc
Solo: Galerie Art: Concept · Paris, France (2018÷19, 2020/21); Shows (a.o.): Aurel Scheibler, Berlin (2020), MAC VAL | Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine (2022).
Anna & Bernhard Blume
Pieter Bruegel d. Ä.
Nina Childress
Solo (a.o.): Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (2019), Galerie Xippas, Geneva (2015), Galerie Air de Paris (2011, 2000, 1995, 1992), Galerie Xippas, Paris (2007), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (2001), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (1998); Shows (a.o.): Centre Pompidou-Metz (2020), Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles (2018), La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2017), Palais de Tokyo (2014, 2002), Biennale de Rennes (2012), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2005), Centre Pompidou, Paris (1997), Biennale de Lyon (2007, 1991)
Velimir Chlebnikov
Yun Choi
Solo (a.o.): LUX, London (2022), Doosan Gallery New York (2020), Art Sonje Center, Project Space (2017), Inter Art Center, Malmö (2012); Shows (a.o.): Künstlerhaus Dortmund (2023), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2021), Archeological Museum of Atri (2021), Doosan Gallery New York (2017), Seoul Museum of Art (2016), Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul (2015), Inter Art Center, Malmö (2012)
Pauline Curnier Jardin
works across installation, performance, film, and drawing. Her outstanding cinematic installations create unorthodox universes and tell stories, thus proposing alternative narratives. She is the winner of the 2019 German Preis der Nationalgalerie, the 2021 Villa Romana Prize in Firenze, and recipient of the 2019 – 2020 Villa Medici fellowship in Rome. Her work was shown in solo shows over the last years in: Kunsthalle Winterthur, CH (2023), Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL (2023), Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, CH (2023), CRAC Occitanie, Sète (2022); FRAC Corsica (2022); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2022); LIAF, Venice (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021); INDEX – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2021); Fondation Ricard pour l’ArtContemporain, Paris, FR (2019); Presented in the central exhibition at 57th Venice Biennale (2017); and participated in Performa 15, New York (2015).
Jeremy Deller
Solo (a.o.): Musee de Berdaux-Arts Rennes (2023), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Indre (2023), The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2021), Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford (2020), HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2019), Museo Universitario de Art Contemporeaneo, Mexico City (2015), Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C (2014), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2013), Hammer Museum, Westwood (2009), New Museum, New York City (2009), Aspen Art Museum (2008); Shows (a.o.): Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C‑LAB), Taipei (2023), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Illiinois (2023), DeCodova Museum and Skulpture Park, Massachusetts (2022), Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2020), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2018), MoMA PS1, New York (2011)
Theo van Doesburg
Rosie Dowd-Smyth
Solo: Pipe Factory, Glasgow (2021); Shows (a.o.): AIR Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester (2018), Boecho Gallery, Barnes, London (2018), ASA Studios, ASA Open Studios, Messehallen, Hamburg (2017), Galerie der HFBK, Mundsburg, Hamburg (2016), Harts Lane Gallery, New Cross, London (2015).
Mimosa Echard
Solo (a.o.): Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021), Martina Simeti, Milan (2020), Dortmunder Kunstverein (2019), Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris (2017, 2016, 2015), Fire Place, Barcelona (2015), project room, Chez Valentin, Paris (2014), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Sows (a.o.): ACCA, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021), Frac Bordeaux MÉCA, Bordeaux (2020), High Art, Paris (2020), Station 16, IAC, Villeurbanne (2019), galerie Art Concept, Paris (2019), Sarah Benichou Gallery, Paris (2018), Platform L, Seoul (2018), Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv (2017), K11Art Foundation / Palais deTokyo, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai (2015), Anny First Collection, Los Angeles (2013)
Nicole Eisenman
Solo (a.o.): Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2023), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2022), Hauser & Wirth, New York (2022), Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles (2022), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2021), FLAG Art Foundation, New York City (2020), Nasher Sculpture Center, Boston (2019), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2018), Secession, Vienna (2017), New Museum, New York City (2016), The Jewish Museum, New York City (2015), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2014), Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City (2005); Shows (a.o.): Milwaukee Art Museum (2023), Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023), The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2022), Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation’, Washington (2022), La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2017), La Biennale de Montréal (2016)
Max Ernst
Hans Finsler
Peter Fischli und David Weiss
Solo (a.o.): Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City (2016), Guggenheim Museum, New York City (2016), Tate Modern, London (2006), Kunsthaus Zurich (2005), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004), Serpentine Gallery, London (1995), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1994), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston (1993), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1991), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), Kunsthalle Basel (1990), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1989), Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt on the Main (1989), Whitechapel Gallery, London (1986), Kunstverein Hamburg (1984); Shows (u.a.): Aichi Triennale, Nagoya (2019), Shanghai Biennale (2018), Sydney Biennale (2018), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Bienal de La Habana (2015), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2014), Liverpool Biennial (2014), Taipei Biennial (2012), Berlin Biennale (2012), Sharjah Biennial (2009), Biennale di Lyon (2007), Biennale di Whitney, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (2004), Biennale di Istanbul (1995), Biennale di São Paulo (1994), Biennale di Sydney (1990), Skulptur Projekte Münster (1987, 1997, 2007), Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1985), Biennale di Venezia, Venice (1986), documenta 8, Kassel (1987)
Isa Genzken
Solo (a.o.): Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2023), Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2022), K11 Musea, Hong Kong (2021), K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021), Kunstmuseum Basel, New York (2020), Hauser & Wirth, London (2020), Peder Lund, Oslo (2019), Kunsthalle Bern (2019), Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2018), Galerie König, Berlin (2017), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2016), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2014), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2014), MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2012), New Museum, New York (2010), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2009), Malmö Konsthall (2008), La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig (2007), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2006), The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2005), Museum Ludwig, Köln (2002), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (1999), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle/Sint-Martens-Latem (1998), EA-Generali Foundation, Wien (1996), The Renaissance Society, Chicago (1992); Shows (a.o.): Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton (2023), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (2023), Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Prato (2022), Kunst Museum Winterthur (2021), Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2020), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2019), MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017), Guggenheim, Bilbao (2017), documenta, Kassel (2002)
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Solo (a.o.): Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York City (2018), Kunstverein München (2017), MoMA PS1, New York (2015), Kunsthalle Wien (2014), M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp (2013), Kunstmuseum aan Zee (Mu.ZEE), Ostend (2012), Kunsthalle Basel (2010), Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2002); Shows (a.o.): Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2017), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) (2014), La Biennale di Venezia / Arsenale, Venice (2013), Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster (2013)
Georg Anton Gumpp
Ramin Haerizadeh & Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian
Raoul Hausmann
Heinrich Hoerle & Anton Räderscheidt
Marcel Janco
Alfred Jarry
Mike Kelley
Solo (a.o.): Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2017), Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2017), Skarstedt, New York City (2016), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2013), MoMA PS1, New York City (2013), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2013), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2010), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (2009), Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2008), Jablonka Galerie, Berlin (2007), Musée du Louvre, Paris (2006), mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2004), Institut d’art contemporain, Lyon (2003), Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica (2002), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2000), Migros Museum für Gegenwarskunst, Zurich (2000), Metro Pictures, New York City (1999); Shows (a.o.): The Getty Villa, Los Angles (2018), Frye Art Museum, Washington (2017), DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Montréal (2017), Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2016), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (2015), The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014), New Museum, New York City (2013), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2011), MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2007)
Katia Kelm
(a.o.) Galerie Bridget Stern, Hamburg (2018), Kunsthalle Schlieren, CH (2017), Galerie Bridget Stern, Hamburg (2017), Galerie Toolbox, Berlin (2016), Axel Obiger, Berlin (2016), Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athen (2013), Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg (2012), Kunstraum Demmeringstraße, Leipzig (2012), Galerie Ölfrüh, Hamburg (2011), Westwerk, Hamburg (2011), Schwules Museum, Berlin (2011), Galerie Walden, Berlin (2005), Ausstellungsraum Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, Hamburg (2005), Kunsthaus Hamburg (2005)
Martin Kippenberger
Solo (a.o.): Skarstedt Gallery, New York City (2011), MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2009), MOCA, Grand Avenue (2008), Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna (2007); Shows (a.o.): Mamco — musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2010), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2010), Museum Serralves, Porto (2007), Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London (2006), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2002), documenta X, Kassel (1997)
Jakob Lena Knebl
Solo (a.o.): 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023), Phileas, Vienna (2022), MAH Musée d´art et d´histoire, Geneva (2021), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2020), Belmacz, London (2019), Torun (2014), LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz (2020), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2019), mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2018), Secession, Vienna (2017), Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2014), Salzburger Kunstverein (2013); Shows (a.o.): Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2023), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2022), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021), Neuer Kunstverein Wien (2023), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022), Kunsthalle Munich (2020), Künstlerhaus Graz (2019), steirischer herbst ’19, Graz (2019), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017), ACFNY – Austrian Cultural Forum New York City (2016), Kunstverein Hamburg (2014), 308at156 Project Artspace, New York City (2012), Perla Moda + Dienstgebäude, Zurich (2010)
Jiří Kovanda
Marko Lulić
Solo (a.o.): Lentos Linz (2017), Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw, New York City (2017), Fassade des Leopold Museums, Vienna (2014), Gallery PODROOM, Belgrade (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2010), Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2005), Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Vienna (2004); Shows (a.o.): Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021), MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna (2018), Architecture Bienniale, Chicago (2015)
Calvin Marcus
Solo (a.o.): Clearing, Beverly Hills (2020), Clearing, Brussels (2020), David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019), K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong (2019), Clearing, New York City (2018), Karma, Amagansett (2017), The Power Station, Dallas (2017), Clearing, New York City (2016), David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2016), Clearing, Brussels (2016), Clearing, New York City (2015), Peep-Hole, Milan (2015), Chin’s Push, Los Angeles (2014), Public Fiction, Los Angeles (2014); Shows (a.o.): Casa da Cultura, Comporta, Portugal (2022), ADZ Gallery, Lissabon (2022), Anton Kern Gallery, New York City (2021), Clearing, Paris (2021), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2020), Massimo De Carlo, London (2020), Clearing, Brussels (2019), The Power Station, Dallas (2019), Clearing, Brooklyn (2018), Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2017), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), Clearing, New York City (2017), Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016), Clearing, New York City (2016), Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris (2016), Massimo de Carlo, London (2016), 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles (2015), White Cube, London (2015)
Fabian Marti
Solo (a.o.): Wilde, Geneva (2022, 2018, 2014), Sevres Museum, Sevres (2021), Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Geneva (2020), Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (2019), Marti Ceramics, Inglewood (2017), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2016), Galleria Fonti, Naples (2015); Shows (a.o.): Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2021), Galleria Fonti, Naples (2020), Kunsthaus Zurich (2020), Kunstmueum Luzern (2019), Hauser & Wirth, London (2018), Langen Foundation Neuss (2018), Busan Biennale (2018), Swiss Institute, New York City (2015), Kunstmuseum Basel (2013), La Biennale di Venezia (2011), Aargauer Kunthaus (2009)
Paul McCarthy
Solo (a.o.): Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2023), Gagosian, New York City (2023), Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, Monako (2022), The Box, Los Angeles (2021), Hauser & Wirth, New York City (2021), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2020), M Woods Museum, Bejing (2018), Kukje Gallery, Seoul (2017), Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona (2017), Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (2017), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2016), Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2015), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2015), Galleri F15, Moss (2014), Hauser & Wirth, New York (2013), Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2012), KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kunsthalle Wien (2011), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2010), KUMU Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn (2009), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2009), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008), Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg (2007), Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2007), S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2007), ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art, Dänemark (2007), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2006), Whitechapel, London (2005), CAC Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga (2004), The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2003), De Hallen, Haarlem (2002), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City (2001), MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2000), La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (1999), Secession, Vienna (1998); Shows (a.o.): CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (2023), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2023), mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2022), MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (2022), LUMA Arles (2021)
John Miller
Solo (a.o.): Various Small Fires, Seoul (2023), Essex Street Gallery, New York City (2022), Metro Pictures, New York City (2020), Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin (2019), Museum im Bellpark, Kriens (2018), Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2017), Institute of Contempoary Art, Miami (2016), NBK (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Berlin (2015), Campoli Presti, Paris (2014), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011), Kunsthalle Zurich (2009); Shows (a.o.): MAMCO [Musée d’art moderne et contemporain], Geneva (2023), Rubell Museum DC, Washington, DC (2022), Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2022)
Shana Moulton
Solo (a.o.): Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, USA (2021), Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2020), Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin (2019), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018), Art in General, New York City (2016), Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (2015), Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris (2013), Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2012), MoMA PS1, New York City (2011), Gimpel Fils, London (2011), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2010), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009); Shows (a.o.): Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021), The Met Fifth Avenue, New York City (2019), Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2018), Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2017), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (2016), Callicoon Fine Arts, New York City (2015), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014), White Columns, New York City (2013), SculptureCenter, New York City (2012), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2011), New Museum, New York City (2009), Biennale for New Visual Art Performance, New York City (2007), MoMA PS1, New York City (2005)
MRZYK et MORICEAU
Solo (a.o.): Air de Paris (2012, 2008, 2004), Caixa Forum, Barcelona (2008), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2006), Mamco, Geneva (2004), Schnitt Ausstellungsrau, Cologne (2001). Their work has exhibited internationally in many group exhibitions, and they have produced music videos for Air, Sebastian Tellier, and others.
Henrike Naumann
Solo (a.o.): Kunstverein Leipzig (2022), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) (2022), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2021), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2020), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2020), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019), Kunsthaus Dresden (2019), Kunsthalle Rostock (2018), Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2017), Kunstverein Arnsberg (2017), Künstlerhaus Bremen (2016), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (2015), Neues Museum, Nuremberg (2014), Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2013); Shows (a.o.): Berlin Biennale (2022), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2021), Shanghai Biennale (2016), Berlin Biennale (2018), Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2019), Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (2020), Kunstverein Hannover (2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2019), S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2017), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021), Kunsthalle Wien (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018), Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg (2020), Kunsthalle Nuremberg (2019)
Wong Ping
Solo (a.o.): M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong (2023), Kunsthalle Zurich (2022), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Bejing (2021), FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool (2020), Kunstverein Hamburg (2020), Kunsthalle Basel (2019), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019), Para Site, Hong Kong (2018), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2018), Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2018), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen (2017), Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2017), chi K11 art museum, Shanghai (2016), West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong (2016), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016); Shows (a.o.): Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022), Sharjah Biennial (2021), Biennale di Venezia (2019), Taipei Biennial (2018), 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), Art Basel, Hong Kong (2017), Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2016), Yokohama Triennale (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016), Liverpool Biennial (2016), Para Site, Hong Kong (2016), Chinese Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Bejing (2015), K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2014), M+ Museum, Hong Kong (2013)
Pierre la Police
Solo (a.o.): Item Galler, Paris, Stamperia d’Arte Squadro, Bologna, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kamel Mennour, Paris; Shows (a.o.): Galerie de Multiples, Paris, Tokyo Station Gallery, Galerie Susini, Aix-En-Provence, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Agnès B. Galerie du Jour, Hong Kong.
Rob Pruitt
Solo (a.o.): Kunstverein Freiburg (2012), Dallas Contemporary (2011), Public Art Fund, New York City (2011), Gavin Brown’s enterprise & Maccarone, New York City (2010), Tate Modern, London (2009), Guggenheim Museum, New York City (2009), Air de Paris (2006), Gallery Side 2, Tokyo (2004), Franco Noero Gallery, Torino (2001); Shows (a.o.): De La Cruz Collection, Miami (2019), High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014), Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (2014), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City (2013), MAMbo, Bologna (2012), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York City (2012), MoMA PS1, New York City (2006)
Hans Richter
Solo (a.o.): Staatliches Museum, Wiesbaden (1968), Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1967), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (1966), Kunstverein Frankfurt (1966), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1965), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1964), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (1963), Tate Gallery, London (1963), Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (1961), Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (1959), Guggenheim Museum, New York City (1958), Kunsthaus Zurich (1957), Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1941), Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York City (1938), Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (1936), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Mannheim (1926), Société Anonyme, New York City (1921); Shows (a.o.): Encounters, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019), Dada and Surrealism: An Encyclopedia, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2008), Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Hayward Gallery, London (1978), 50 Jahre Moderne Kunst, Kunsthaus Zurich (1965), The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1961), Neue Tendenzen, Galerie Denise René, Paris (1961), documenta 1, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (1955), Abstract and Surrealist American Art, Art Institute of Chicago (1947), Exhibition of the School of New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York City (1941), Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1936), Cubism and Abstract Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (1936), Exposition internationale du surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1938), Konstruktivisten, Kunstverein Jena (1924), Erste russische Kunstausstellung, Galerie van Diemen, Berlin (1922), Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris (1922)
Roee Rosen
Solo (u.a.): Museu de Serralves, Porto (2022), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2021), Petzel Gallery, New York City (2020), Fridericianum, Kassel (2019), Kunstverein Hamburg (2018), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2016), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2015), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014), The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston (2013), MoMA PS1, New York City (2011), Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007); Shows (u.a.): documenta 14, Kassel (2017), Venice Biennale (2015), Berlin Biennale (2014), Taipei Biennial (2012), Istanbul Biennial (2011), Manifesta 7, Rovereto (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2006), Moscow Biennale (2005) Lyon Biennale (2005), Gwangju Biennale (2004), Istanbul Biennial (2003), Sydney Biennale (2002), São Paulo Biennial (2002), Yokohama Triennale (2001), Istanbul Biennial (1999), Venice Biennale (1999), São Paulo Biennial (1998)
Mika Rottenberg
Solo (a.o.): Centre Pompidou, Metz (2022), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (2016−2015, 1994), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2015, 2009 – 2008), Espace Jean Tinguely, Freiburg (2017), Ausstellungshaus Spoerri, Hadersdorf am Kamp (2010), Städtische Galerie Ravensburg (2006), Freitagsgalerie Imhof, Solothurn (2004, 1994, 1979), Garden of the Zodiac Old Market, Omaha (2003), Fondazione Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri, Seggiano (2001), Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris (1998), Kunsthalle Burgdorf (1996), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (1994), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1993, 1968), Galerie Beaubourg, Paris (1991), Galerie Littmann, Basel (1990, 1986, 1985), Galerie des Bastions, Geneva (1986), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (1976), Galerie Alexander Iolas, Paris (1975), Helmhaus Zurich (1974), Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York City (1973), Hannover Gallery, London (1972), Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich (1971), Kammerkunsthalle Bern (1971), Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen (1971), Kunsthalle Nuremberg (1970), Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf (1969), Galerie J, Paris (1965); Shows (a.o.): Aargauer Kunsthaus (2021), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2021−2020), Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (2019), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2014), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2013), Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (2012), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2012, 2011, 2009), Kunstmuseum Bern (2010), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009, 1990), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (2006, 2002, 1998, 1991, 1985), Tate Liverpool (2004), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Helmhaus Zurich (1996), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1995), Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern (1991), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (1991), mumok– Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (1990)
Ashley Hans Scheirl
studied restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (diploma 1980). 2003 she completed postgraduate studies (M.A.) in fine arts (painting / installation) at Central Saint Martins College for Art and Design in London. In 2006 she received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts. From 2006 to 2019 Scheirl was Professor of Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Scheirl’s work could be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna and at the Biennale in Lyon.
Jim Shaw
Solo (a.o.): Simon Lee Gallery, London (2020), Metro Pictures, New York City (2019), Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2019), Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2018), The Broad Art Museum at MSU, Michigan (2018), Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2017), New Museum, New York City (2015), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2011); Shows (a.o.): Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2018), The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2016), La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2013), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2012)
Roman Signer
Solo (a.o.): Malmö Konsthall (2023), La galerie du théâtre de Privas (2023), Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (2020), Château de Montsoreau – Musée d’Art contemporain, Montsoreau (2019), Luxelakes A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (2018), Häusler Contemporary, Zurich (2017), Häusler Contemporary, Munich (2016), Art:Concept, Paris (2015), Cafa Art Museum, Bejing (2014), Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2013), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2012), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS), Mexico City (2011), Swiss Institute, New York City (2010), Kunsthaus Zug, Zug (2009), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri (2008), Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2007), Aargauer Kunsthaus (2006), OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (2005), Häusler Contemporary Munich (2004) Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2003), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (2001) Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2000), 48. Biennale Venezia, Venice (1999), The Swiss Institute, New York City (1997), Europäisches Kulturzentrum in Thüringen, Erfurt (1994), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (1993), Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht (1982), Kunsthaus Zurich (1981), Künstlerhaus Hamburg (1980) ); Shows (a.o.): Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2020, 2021), Häusler Contemporary Zurich (2019), Kunsthaus Zug (2018), Häusler Contemporary Lustenau (2016), Häusler Contemporary Munich (2013), Kunsthalle Mainz (2012), Aoalsalur, Seyoisfjörour (2010), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2006), Busan Metropolitan Art Museum (2004), Sammlung Hauser & Wirth in der Lockremise St.Gallen (2003), Môtiers 95. art en plein air, Val-de-Travers (1995), «International Art Symposium», Plasy (1994), documenta 8, Kassel (1987), Kunsthaus Zurich (1887), 37. Biennale Venezia, Venice (1976), Muséee des Arts decoratifs, Lausanne (1974)
Erich Spießbach
Reviews
- frieze Print, PDF (1 MB)
- Berlin Art Link Online
- Der Standard, "Alles unter einem Hut", Katharina Rustler Print, PDF (1 MB)
- Kleine Zeitung, "Schiefer Blick auf die Kunst", Martin Gasser Print, PDF (1 MB)
- Salzburger Nachrichten, "Hoch lebe die enthusiastische Peinlichkeit", Martin Behr Print, PDF (762 KB)
- Kronen Zeitung, "Schaulauf der enthusiastischen Peinlichkeit", M. Reichart Print, PDF (1 MB)
- Artpress, "Ridiculously Yours?!", Morgan Labar Print, PDF (2 MB)
- Radio FM4 – Im Sumpf, "Albernheit", Thomas Edlinger Online
- Falter, "Harald Falckenberg (1943-2023)" Print, 15.11.2023, PDF (4 MB)
- Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles Online
- ORF Steiermark, Magazin, "Albernheiten in der Kunst" Online
- Die Presse, "Hexen, Je-Je-Je, viele Schuhe: Kunst des Camp", Thomas Kramar Print, 27.11.2023, PDF (3 MB)
- Mousse Magazine, "Highlights" Online, 5.12.2023
- Springerin, "ERNSTHAFT!? Albernheit und Enthusiasmus in der Kunst", Michael Hauffen Print, 19.12.2023, PDF (2 MB)
- Vijenac, "B-produkcija, bad painting itd.", Željko Kipke Print, 1.2.2024, PDF (2 MB)
Press
Downloads & Dates
- Invitation card ERNSTHAFT?! PDF (44 KB)
- Poster JPG (819 KB)
- Presseinformation PDF (132 KB)
- Press information PDF (130 KB)
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