Sonia Leimer

https://www.sonialeimer.net/

lives and works in Vienna

2000-2004 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
founding member of the architecture office and gallery Nullmaschine (2001–2002)
Her monthly radio broadcast “Image and the City” was on Radio Orange from 2005 to 2012.
2012 – 2016 Teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2017 – 2018 teaching „Installation and Architecture“ at the ETH Zürich, department Architecture and Art.
2019 Project Collaboration with Alessandra Cianchetta, Cooper Union – The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, New York City


Solo Exhibitions
2020
Sonia Leimer, Museion Bolzano
The Brick, The Brick Vienna

2019
MoDiMiDoFr, AK Kunstprojekte Vienna
Via San Gennaro, ISCP New York

2018
Somebody is About to Enter with Klára Hosnedlová, Significant Other Vienna
Avenir Next, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich

2017
Encounters, Commonwealth & Council Los Angeles
33 Orchard, NYC with Christian Kosmas Mayer, Verlag für moderne Kunst Vienna
Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
Autoterritorium, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol

2015
Above the Crocodiles, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Vienna
vokuhila with Luisa Kasalicky, Login Galerie nächst St. Stephan Vienna

2014
Lack of a Proper Word, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich
Ypsilon, Galerie Fotografii PF Poznan
Wow! with Alice Könitz, LAMOA Los Angeles Museum of Art

2012
Ende der Sprechprobe, Artothek Cologne
Space Holder, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Vienna
Bend a Bow Sonia Leimer & Stephanie Taylor with Barbara Hammer, MAK Center Los Angeles
Undefiniertes Bauvorhaben, BIG Kunst am Bau Salzburg
Along Those Lines, Museion Bolzano
2030 (2010), Medienfassade Museion Bolzano

2011
uns so weiter, Kunstverein Basis Frankfurt
New Positions, Art Cologne

2010
No Site to Fall in, Salzburger Kunstverein
Neither in Motion nor at Rest, BAWAG Contemporary Vienna

2009
Series of successive instants, Login Galerie nächst St. Stephan Vienna
Bar Restaurant 42, Bolzano
To move in parallel, playing back from earlier, Saprophyt Vienna

2008
Elseworlds with Christian Mayer, Art in Public Space Lower Austria

2007
The Last Museum, Bellstreet Vienna


Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
unlearning categories, Museion Bolzano
Art & Function, Rathausgalerie Munich
Groupshow, Christian Lethert Cologne

2019
YES: Artists in person Philip Cartelli & Mariangela Ciccarello / Sonia Leimer, Microscope Gallery New York
Zero Gravity Apollo 11 and the New Notion of Space, ERES Stiftung Munich
Ticket to the Moon, Kunsthalle Krems
Fly Me to the Moon 50 Jahre Mondlandung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
40000. Ein Museum der Neugier, Fellbach Triennale
30 Jahre Barbara Gross Galerie Teil 2, Barbara Gross Galerie Munich
Migration Weltraumsalat und Space Junk, Halfway Vienna
Fly me to the Moon 50 Jahre Mondlandung, Kunsthaus Zürich

2018
Portfolio Ausstellung der Raiffeisen Kunstsammlung, Stadtgalerie Bozen
Klassentreffen Schürmanns Lichtung, MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig Vienna
Just So Stories 1978 | 2018, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Vienna

2017
Poetiken des Materials, Leopold Museum Vienna
Die Sprache der Dinge Materialgeschichten aus der Sammlung, Belvedere 21er Haus Vienna
Chi é ancora austriaco? Wer ist noch österreichisch?, Kunst Meran Arte Merano
Spring Open Studios, ISCP New York
Body in Action Video dalla Collezione Museion, Spazio Redotto Venezia
Für eine Weile, wer weiß wie lange. Marina Faust – Sonia Leimer, 21er Haus Belvedere Vienna

2016
The painters have finished, SVIT Prague
ROAD REGISTERS Aufzeichnungen mobiler Lebenswelten, xhibit – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Herwig Turk. Landschaft = Labor, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten


Awards and Grants
2018
One of the Winners of the IV edition of the Italian Council, promoted by Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries, Rome

2017
Quivid First Prize, Art in public space, Munich
Residency at International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York

2011
Paul Flora Prize, Südtiroler Landesverwaltung
Audi Award, New Positions, Cologne

2009
State Scholarship for Fine Arts

2007
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Grant

2005
MAK Schindler Scholarship

2004
Carl Appel Prize

2002
Pfann Ohmann Prize Award for outstanding drawing performances, TU Vienna

2001
The Rabin Square Design Competition: First Prize, Künstlerhaus Vienna