Barbara Kapusta

http://www.barbarakapusta.net/

lives and works in Vienna

EDUCATION
2004 - 2010 Academy of fine Arts Vienna, Dept. for Art and Media
2006/07 Centro National de las Artes in Mexico City, Dept. for Sculpture


EXHIBITIONS
2021
Enjoy – die mumok Sammlung im Wandel, mumok Vienna
Europa. Antike Zukunft, Kunsthalle Steiermark
Union, Jesuitenforum, Vienna

2020
The Leaking Bodies Series, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna
Hypersurface, ACF London, UK
Now!, Kunstforum Wien
FIRST PERSON PLURAL, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck

2019
Tongue on Tongue, curated by Prologue Collective, Kadist Foundation / Cité internationale des arts / Galerie Allen, Paris
Dangerous Bodies, Kunstraum London, London
Hysterical Mining, Kunsthalle Wien
MAK DESIGN LABOR, MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, permanent collection
Monday Gelato, Karlsruhe, performance series curated by Benedikt Seerieder, 25.5.2019
Fauxthenticity, ACF Praha, curated by Significant Other
Mundane, Eugster Gallery Belgrade
On the New, Belvedere 21, Vienna

2018
Jane Fonda, Pina, Vienna
The Blazing World, mumok cinema, Vienna
The Giant, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
We Make the Place by Playing , VIS Hamburg
Vice Versa: Our Earth is Their Moon, Our Moon is their Earth, Kunsthalle Prague and public space Prague, curated by Significant Other
Empathic Creatures, Ashley Berlin

2017
Empathic Creatures Companion Forms, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo
Empathic Creatures, Edition for Berlin Art Week Opening Party
Instructions for Happiness, 21er Haus/ Belvedere Vienna, July-Nov 2017
The 8 and the Fist, Bob’s Pogo Bar, KW Berlin
how far to open up?, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
In Middens, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna

2016
Instructions for Happiness, KUP, Athens
Das Begreifen, 21er Haus/Belvedere, Vienna
Die Gebrochenheit, Barbara Kapusta & Christina Nemec, 21er Haus/Belvedere, Vienna
The Language of Things, 21er Haus/Belvedere, Vienna
< dienstag abend > No. 84 - Wroclaw, European Cultural Capital, Poland
Sprache, gebogen, reading The whole is but a fragment, Forum Stadtpark
The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien

2015
Mouth As Is A Haunted House, Beautiful Gallery, Chicago
Ein Gedicht für 5 kleine Objekte, performative reading, Scriptings Berlin
Dinge und Dialoge, Scriptings Berlin
Mission W, project for public space KÖR Vienna
Language Bent, Spoken Word Performance, Fig-2, ICA Studio London
Poetry/____speaking, mumok cinema, Vienna
The o and the Zero, Eikon Schaufenster, Vienna
Self-timer Stories, MUSAC, León, Spain
Ein Gedicht für 22 kleine Objekte, performative reading, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Ein Gedicht für 22 kleine Objekte, performative reading, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
Lesen/Literatur, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

2014
Selbstauslöser, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
The Material Ghost, Performative Screening#29, School, Vienna
Barbara Kapusta & Franz West, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Collection#4, 21er Haus/Belvedere, Vienna


AWARDS/GRANTS
2020 Otto Mauer Prize
2017 Studio Tokio (bka)
2016 artist-in-residence, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2013/14 Studio Chicago/US (bmukk)
2013 artist-in-residence, BANFF Centre, Canada (Banff/bmukk)
2010 artist-in-residence, RMIT University, Melbourne (AiR Krems)
2006/07 artist grant Mexico City (bm:bwk)


COLLECTIONS
MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna Stiftung Ludwig
Landessammlung Niederösterreich
Fotosammlung des Bundes, Wien
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Gesellschaft der Freunde der Bildenden Künste, Wien