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Foto: Courtesy Tillman Kaiser
Tillman Kaiser
Foto: Courtesy Tillman Kaiser
Foto: Courtesy Tillman Kaiser

Tillman Kaiser

geb. 1972 in Graz, Steiermark
https://www.emanuellayr.com/tillmankaiser

lebt und arbeitet in Wien

1993-98 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Prof. Hundertwasser and Prof. Schmalix)

Solo Exhibitions

2022
Tillman Kaiser, Eduardo Secci, Milan (IT)
Tillman Kaiser – La voix des airs, Layr Coburgbastei, Vienna (AT)

2020
Tillman Kaiser – Harmolodic Substi, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2019
Im Dom, Secession, Vienna (AT)

2018
NON È ANCORA ILLEGALE, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Rome (IT)

2017
Polansky Gallery, Prague (CZ)
Art Cologne, with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (DE)

2016
Screaming Swifts, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York (US)
Tillman Kaiser, Museo Canonica, Villa Borghese, Rome (IT)
Invite The Light, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2014
Arco Madrid, with Honor Fraser Gallery (ES)

2013
Augenphantom & Kugelsucher, Einblicke in die Instrumentensammlung des Josephinums mit einer Intervention von Tillman Kaiser, curated by Simon Weber-Unger & Moritz Stipsicz, Vienna (AT)
Proposal for an Altar, Polansky Gallery, Prague (CZ)
Hermetische Melancholie III, Kunsthalle Krems Factory, Krems (AT)
Hermetische Melancholie II, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2012
Hermetische Melancholie I, LWZ, Vienna (AT)
The Truth and the Abstract Blues, Wilkinson Gallery, London (UK)

2011
Für Kinder und Kenner, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (US)
Marius Engh, Tillman Kaiser, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2010
Christi Geburt, Intervention, Museum Belvedere, Vienna (AT)

2009
Habitación retorcida, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Hallucination Engine, Wilkinson Gallery, London (UK)

2008
Don‘t Worry About The Motion On The Ocean, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
LISTE 08, presented by Layr Wuestenhagen, Basel (CH)

2007
Desert Cooler, Neue Galerie Graz, Projektraum, Graz (AT)
Doppelleben, Layr Wuestenhagen Garage, Vienna (AT)
Open Plan, Solo project with Layr Wuestenhagen, Art Athina (GR)

2006
Tillman Kaiser, Österreichisches Kulturinstitut, Rome (IT)

2005
kubismus, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Artothek Alte Schmiede, Vienna (AT)

2003
contor, Vienna (AT)


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
(INTIMITÄT) Feelings are Facts, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt (AT)

2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
The Drawing Centre Show, Consortium Museum, Dijon (FR)
Here and Now, Vienna Sculpture 2022, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna (AT)
Strange Attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 3: Lost In Space, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia (IT)

2021
Avantgarde und Gegenwart (Die Sammlung Belvedere von Lassnig bis Knebl), Belvedere 21, Vienna (AT)

2019
Sternenpassage, Foto Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna (AT)
Kaleidoscope, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)

2018
Strange Attractors, Kerry Schuss, New York (US)

2017
FOTG, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York (US)
Wild West, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (US)
Specular Windows - Reflections on the Self and the Wider World, 21er Haus, Vienna (AT)
Art Duesseldorf, with Polansky Gallery (DE)

2016
Über die Unmöglichkeit des Seins, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)

2015
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York (US)

2014
The Degeneration Of Painting, Fondazione 107, Turin (IT)
Megarave - Metarave, WallRiss Kunstraum and Kunsthaus Langenthal, Fribourg (CH)
Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly. 1958-2014, cur. by Matthieu Poirier, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (FR)
Franz Graf, Siehe was Dich sieht, 21er Haus, Vienna (AT)

2012
Utopie GESAMTKUNSTWERK, 21er Haus, Vienna (AT)

2011
All That Is Unseen, cur. by Meg O‘Rourke and Caris Reid, Allan Nederpelt, New York (US)

2010
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial „False Recognition“, cur. by Anders Kreuger, Evaldas Stankevičius, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (LT)
Mike, Alec or Rufus? („Tom, Dick or Harry“), Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)

2009
Artists Insight: Tillman Kaiser, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
Until the end of the world, Cur. Max Henry, AMP, Athens (GR)
ConceptIOUS, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (DE)
Paint, The Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)

2008
UNREAL: ALTERED PERSPECTIVES IN PAINTING, The Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
The Object is the Mirror, Part 2, Wilkinson Gallery, London (UK)
Art LA, presented by Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (US)
Jan Koch, Tillman Kaiser, Danielle Tegeder, Klaus-Martin Treder, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (DE)

2007
GRUPS, Hydra School, Hydra (GR)
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (AT)
NADA Art Fair, presented by Layr Wuestenhagen, Miami Beach (US)

2006
Tillman Kaiser, Österreichisches Kulturinstitut, Rome (IT)
Viennafair, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Hur är läget?, cur. Gregor Elder, Vienna (AT)

2005
Fiac Paris, presented by Layr Wuestenhagen, Paris (FR)

2004
Camouflage, Galerie Betonsalon, Paris (FR)
Group exhibition, pool, Vienna (AT)

2003
Artlab siemens, Vienna (AT)
Kunst wien 2003, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)

2002
Scherenschnitte (with Bernhard Resch), Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna (AT)
Kunstverein Supersaat, Vienna (AT)
kunst:architektur, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Ausgewahlt, IG, Bildende Kunst, Vienna (AT)


Publications

2022 Kaiser, Tillman. Invite The Light, published by Layr, concept by Tillman Kaiser, Alexander Nussbaumer, Olivia Thurn-Valsassina, text by Bob Nickas, (Vienna, 2022)
2014 Kaiser, Tillman. The Truth and the Abstract Blues, published by Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger, text by Alexandra Hennig, Astrid Mania, Abraham Orden, Hans-Peter Wipplinger (Nürnberg, 2014)
2013 Kaiser, Tillman. Hermetische Melancholie, (Kunsthalle Krems, 2013)
2008 Kaiser, Tillman. Ready add-ons, (Graz: Neue Galerie Graz, 2008)
2005 Kaiser, Tillman. Kubismus, (Vienna: Layr Wuestenhagen, 2005)

Person TypeKünstler