Ursula Mayer
www.ursulamayer.com
lebt und arbeitet in London und Wien
1990-1996 Studium an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
1995 Studium am Royal College of Art, London
2004-2005 Studium am Ma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
Preise und Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
2014 Derek Jarman Award
2012 International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York
2011 Produktion award CPH:DOX 2011
2011 FLAMIN Productions Award, London
2009 Artist-in-residence Rome, bm:ukk, Vienna
2009 Outstanding artist award, bm:ukk, Vienna
2007 Otto Mauer Prize
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl):
2020
What Will Survive Of Us (Is Love), traveling show
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2018
MONITOR, Rome
2017
The Soul Paints Itself In Machines, Salzburger Kunstverein,
Der TANK, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, Basel
2015
To What I Might Become, Moderna Museet Malmoe, Sweden
Cinesexual, Tyneside cinema gallery, Newcastle
2014
Not a curse, nor a bargain, but a hymn, Audain Gallery, SFU, Vancouver
Robotic Cells, Krobath, Vienna
2013
But we loved her, 21er Haus, Museum Belvedere, Vienna
Ursula-Blickle Stiftung Kraichtal, Germany
Gonda, Krobath Gallery, Berlin
2012
Gonda, Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
2010
Ancient Sunlight, Monitor, Rome
Films by Ursula Mayer, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
2009
Ellipse in Time, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Lunch in Fur, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
2008
Nought to Sixty, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2007
The Crystals of Time, Lentos Museum, Linz
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
2003
Fallen Imperial, Contemporary Art Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl):
2019
The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
Rewriting the Future, site gallery, Sheffield
Enchanted Interiors, Tyne & Wear Museums, Tynside
Resist: be modern (again), John Hansard Gallery, London
On Flower Power, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Run the World (Girls), or I Love Kant, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Bolzano
2018
Biodatas, Cosmopolis, Centre Pompidou
2017
Be Fragile! Be Brave!, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia
2016
Superimposition, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, SeMA Bienale, Mediacity Seoul
THE NEW HUMAN, Moderna Musseet, Stockholm
THE NEW HUMAN, Moderna Musseet, Malmoe
2015
Object Food Rooms, Tanya Bonakdar gallery, New York
Rare Earth, TBA21, Vienna
MIRROR CITY, Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London
2014
Video Container: Touch Cinema, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Call Me On Sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), Southard Reid, London
2013
Island, Dairy Art Centre, London
Skirt the parlour, and shun the zoo, The Banff Centre, Alberta
The Black Moon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Costume: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow
Superusurpedsupper, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Austrian Photography from the 1930s until today, 21er Haus, Vienna
2012
The Castle in the Air, Zamek Culture Centre, Pozna
Mindaugas Triennial, 11th Baltic Triennial, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2011
Gonda, Performa 11, New York
Side Stories, SculptureCentre, New York
Spectrums of Light, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Sync Sync, 401contemporary, London
Elastic Frames, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2010
Hulahoop, 401contemporary, London
Related Spaces, Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest
100 Years of Performance (Version #3), Garage, Moscow
Architecture and the Body, Krobath, Berlin
Languages and Experimentations, MART – Museo di arte moderna di Trento
Mardin Biennial, Mardin
Art in the Auditorium II, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa/ Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
Long time no see, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
Projections, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
East goes East, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
It’s a Set-up, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Musée d ́art contemporain de Montréal,
Psychoanalysis, Tokio Wonder Site, Tokio and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2009
Contemporary artifices and Baroque difformities, ARCOS –
Sannio Contemporary Art, Benevento
100 Years of Performance (version #2), PS1, New York
100 Years of Performance (version #1), Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
Video!, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
It’s hard to find the beginning, and impossible to fathom the end, Trafo House, Budapest
Art in the Auditorium, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Art in the Auditorium, Arts center of La Boca, Buenos Aires
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana Art Biennale, Tirana
HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens
Travesties & Masquerades, Swiss Institute, New York
EASTinternational, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich
The Blood of a Poet, FRAC des Paysde la Loire, Estuaire Biennale, Nantes
Cabinet Afrique, Cell Project Space, London
Concept Film, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Contested Ground, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2008
Rooms Look Back, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Held together with Water, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Pierotting, Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Modern Ruin, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Cabinet of Imaginations, Network, Aalst
Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell Project Space, London
True Romance, Villa Stuck, Munich / Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
2007
True Romance, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
BostonConsulting & Belvedere Art Award, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
Invisible Mend, Lux, Lounge Gallery, London
Held together with water, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
MUSA, Museum on Demand, Vienna
Frauhaus, Agency Gallery, London
Double A-Side, Stedelijk Museum s’Hertogenbosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2006
Facts and Fictions, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Mise en scène, MAMA: Showroom for Media and Moving Art, Rotterdam
No space is Innocent, steirischer herbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Everybody comes to Holyrood, Atticsalt, Edinburgh
Props & Prostheses, Schloss Kodeljevo, Ljubljana
25 Pieces – Europart, Contemporary Art from Europe, Public Art Projects, Vienna
2005
Faites vos Jeux, Shedhalle, Zurich
Videos Viennoise, Betonsalon, Paris
2004
a room of onés own, 3rd Berlin Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
(with A Room of Ones Own)
Breaking the Visual, steirischer herbst, Laafeld Pavelhaus, Graz
Instruction for Actions, permanent installation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Born to be a star, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Wiener Linien, Wien Museum, Vienna
2003
Mothers of Invention, MUMOK, Vienna (with A Room of Ones Own),
Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2002
Das Experiment 2B: a room of onés own, Secession, Vienna
(with A Room of Ones Own)
Let’s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2001
Das Experiment 2A: a room of onés own, Secession, Vienna
(with A Room of Ones Own)
We are a rock group, Oskar-von-Millerstraße, Frankfurt/Main
