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Foto: Courtesy the artist, Layr Vienna
Philipp Timischl
Foto: Courtesy the artist, Layr Vienna
Foto: Courtesy the artist, Layr Vienna

Philipp Timischl

geb. 1989 in Graz, Steiermark
https://emanuellayr.com/philipp-timischl/

lives and works in Paris

his practice spans various media such as video, sculpture, painting and photography, usually combined with text and culminating in site-specific installations. A reoccuring theme in his work are power dynamics – often in relation to social classes, queerness, heritage and the art world.

EDUCATION
2007-2012 Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (AT)
2010-2011 Städelschule, Frankfurt (DE)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Pray more, worry less, Lundgren Gallery, Palma (SP)
Ich mag mein Gehirn und denken und immer Gedanken haben, MGKWalls, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen (DE)
Evelyn Plaschg & Philipp Timischl (Duo), Layr, Vienna (AT) (upcoming)

2022
Reality is the worst case scenario, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE)

2021
Connaisseur du conflit / Connoisseur of conflict, LAYR, Vienna (AT)
Public Sculpture, MQ, Vienna (AT)

2020
“A table for 50“ (w. Gina Folly) - PCP Gallery, Paris
“:O :P :(“ - Gabi+, Vienna

2019
Too blessed to be stressed, too broke to be bothered., Galerie Emanuel Layr, Rome (IT)

2018
Secession, Vienna (AT)
Artbasel Hongkong, Discoveries, with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Hongkong (HK)

2017
Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2016
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)
Vilma Gold, London (UK)

2015
good from afar/ far from good, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Meditation United, with Sarah Ortmeyer, Tank.tv, London (UK)
Independent New York, Neue Alte Bruecke, New York (US)
Good From Afar/ Far From Good

2014
KM-K Künstlerhaus, Graz (AT)
Frieze Art Fair London, Focus Section, w. Lisa Holzer, Galerie Emanuel Layr, London (UK)
LISTE, Basel, Neue Alte Brücke, Basel (CH)
Yet, The Alternatives on Offer, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Two Parks (w. Anne Speier), Vilma Gold Gallery, London (UK)

2013
12346, not 5, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (DE)
Philipp, I have..., 21er Raum @ 21er Haus, Vienna (AT)
These Days (w. Min Yoon), Studio Lenikus, Vienna (AT)
The Blair Bitch Project, Perfect Present, Copenhagen (DK)

2012
Full Motion, Zeigeraum, Vienna (AT)

2011
It's so slippery, really slippery, Fondation Herz, Vienna (AT)
Nice videowall my friend, evening @ L'otion Licker, Vienna (AT)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Care Package, Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich (CH)
Molinier rose saumon (nous sommes tous des menteurs), Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux (FR)
NGV Triennial 2023, Melbourne (AUS)

2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
LOOK, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
Manifesto of Fragility, Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon (FR)
Something is Burning, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava (SK)
OPEN, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
Schindler House Los Angeles, Space as a Medium of Art, MAK, Vienna (AT)

2021
Myco TV (online screening), Cinema 3, ICA, London (UK)
Avant-Garde and the Contemporary: The Belvedere Collection from Lassnig to Knebl, Belvedere21, Vienna (AT)
ORCA - Organic Redundant Catastrophe Aversion (Duo Show), Fondation Fiminco, Paris (FR)
Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco, Paris (FR)

2020
Stay brief, and leave (with Gina Folly), Fondation d‘enterprise Pernod Ricard, Paris (FR)
Fuck You Be Nice, Air de Paris, Paris (FR)
Friends and Neighbours, High Art, Paris (FR)
Paranoia strikes deep, Osnova Gallery, Moscow (RUS)
Molly House, Exile, Vienna (AT)
The Digital Effect, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (AT)
Diaries: Era of good feelings (online), 47Canal, New York City (US)

2019
Letzte Lockerung, Kunsthalle Bern (CH)
In-visible Realness: 50 Jahre nach Stonewall, PS120, Berlin (DE)
Fauxthenticity, Austrian Cultural Forum Prague (CZ)
Artists use Photography, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles (US)
Display, Dortmunder Kunstverein (DE)
Queer Art Space Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)
Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna (AT)
Cruising Pavilion, New York, Ludlow 38, New York (US)
The Santee Alley, MAK Center, Los Angeles (US)

2018
Der Wert der Freiheit, Belvedere 21, Vienna (AT)
(In)Constancy of Space III, Galerija Prsten, Zagreb & MLU, Osijek (CR)

2017
The Locker Room Show, Plymouth Rock, Zurich (CH)
Wholesome Environment, Lundgren Gallery, Palma (ES)
“moi non-moi” or “carrying owls to athens”, Büro Weltausstellung, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna (AT)
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year, Weekends, Paris (FR)
How far to open up?, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
Cinéma!, Samuel le Paire, Paris (FR)

2016
Don't say I didn't say it, Spike Place, Berlin (DE)
You never actually own anything, Galerie Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf (DE)
Reconstructive Memory, Gallery Valentin, Paris (FR)
Belong Anywhere, Garret Grimoire, Vienne (AT)
Overseas BF, Glovebox, Auckland (NZ)
Qidian, Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, Shanghai (C)
Humble Habits Domestic Monuments 2, HHDM, New York (US)
FIAC, Paris, with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Secret Surface, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)

2015
Barriera, Turin (IT)
Filter Bubble, Luma Foundation, Zürich (CH)
20 Jahre Halle für Kunst, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg (DE)
Welcome, You're in the Right Place, organised by AIRBNB Pavilion, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT)
After Babel, Moderne Museet, Stockholm (SE)
Mon horizontalité, untilthen, Paris (FR)
A modest proposal for radical bourgeoisie, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem (NL)
A Form is a social Gatherer, Plymouth Rock, Zurich (CH)
Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)

2014
The History of Technology, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (US)
Screen Play, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow (UK)
Über das radikale Nebeneinander, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)

2013
Serpentine 89+ Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)
Draft for a particular vision of the future, Babette's, Berlin (DE)
HelloGoodbye, Annual Exhibition Collection Lenikus, Vienna (AT)
No Brow, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Über unheimliche Zustände und Körper, Lakeside Kunstraum, Klagenfurt (AT) Grundfrage, (Graphic Contribution), CRAC Alsace (FR)

2012
neinteenneinteennein, ONO Gallery, Oslo (NO)
Der Würfel / Le dé, COCO, Vienna (AT)

2011
Modeling Agency, 68 squaremeters, Copenhagen (DK)
Boys in town - The Berlin Project, Galerie fiebach minninger, Berlin (DE) BYOB, Magazin, Vienna (AT)

2010
Fomo, Farbenfabrik, Frankfurt (DE)
Pro Choice @ Schattendorf, curated by Will Benedict & Lucie Stahl, Kunstraum Schattendorf, Burgenland (AT)
Fuzzy Sets, after the butcher, Berlin (DE)
Gruppenausstellung mit H. Phettberg, Schaukästen Praterstern, Vienna (AT)

2009
Welches Leben?, curated by Sabine Breitwieser Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
… und der Fiaker räumt die Scheiße nachher weg., Flat1, Vienna (AT) Viennafair09, ve.sch, Messe, Vienna (AT)


PROJECTS
Founder of HHDM - Hinter Haus des Meeres (AT) | www.hhdm.eu Project Space run by Daphne Ahlers, Philipp Timischl and Roland X. Roland 2012


RESIDENCIES
2020 Fondation Fiminco, Paris (FR)
2018 MAK Centre, Los Angeles (USA)
2016 Auslandsatelierstipendium Paris (FR)
2014 Google plus Residency, Paris (FR)
2012 Förderprogramm der Sammlung Lenikus (AT)


PUBLICATIONS

‚yes i'm an academic how could you tell‘, supported by Bundeskanzleramt, 2023
‚Artworks for all Age Groups‘, Didier Eribon and Paul Clinton, Revolver Publishing, Secession 2018, Vienna
‚Problems‘ Helle für Kunst Lüneburg, self-published, 2016
'They were treating me like an object. As if I were some sextoy or shit. I don't wanna see them again.', saxpublishers, Vienna, 2015
ISBN: 978-3-200-03930-8
Person TypeKünstler