Artist's arttributes:
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Video, Installation |
Most exhibitions in:
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| Austria | 33 |
| Germany | 29 |
| Italy | 11 |
| USA | 8 |
| Switzerland | 8 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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| Institution |
№ |
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Artra, Italy |
5 |
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WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Austria |
4 |
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ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany |
4 |
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Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia |
3 |
Biography: 
1970 Born in Knittelfeld (AT)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 173  from 1.6.
until 7.7.
until 30.6.
until 9.6.
Solo shows 19
2012
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| Oliver Ressler - Artra, Milan |
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| After the crisis before the crisis - Basis Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main |
2010
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| What is Democracy? - Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (Scotland) |
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| What Is Democracy? - Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), Alexandria |
2009
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| Što je demokracija? - Galerija SIZ, Rijeka |
2008
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| For A Completely Different Climate - Artra, Milan |
2007
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| Oliver Ressler - The Fittest Survive - Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar |
2005
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| Globalizing Protest - Artra, Milan |
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| Oliver Ressler - Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies - Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade |
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| An Ideal Society Creates Itself - - Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (closed, 2010) |
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| Alternativne Ekonomije, Alternativna Drustva - MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka |
2004
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| Economía alternativa, sociedades alternativas - Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid /Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid |
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| Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies - Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg |
2003
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| Oliver Ressler: Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies - Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana |
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| This is what democracy looks like! - A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2000
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| Oliver Ressler: Sustainable Propaganda - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
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| The global 500 - TRUCK, Calgary, AB |
1999
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| The global 500 - Galerie Stadtpark, Krems |
1996
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| Oliver Ressler - 100 Jahre Treibhauseffekt - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg |
Group shows 150
2012
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| Urban Territories - 0gms, Sofia |
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| Kopf Oder Zahl - Stadtgalerie im PROGR, Bern |
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| Everything Falls Apart, Part II - Artspace Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| It is the Political Economy, Stupid - Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism - QUAD Gallery, Derby (England) |
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| inter/act: Neue Soziale Skulpturen 0: Archive of Shared Interests - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun |
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| It’s The Political Economy, Stupid - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| It's The Political Economy, Stupid - Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York City, NY |
2011
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| The Workers - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| Pièces de résistance - Stücke des Widerstandes - Motorenhalle - riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden |
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| Sin realidad no hay utopía - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| ...by The Way...twelve Austrian Artist In The Msuv - Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad |
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| The Pilgrim, the Tourist, the Flaneur (and the Worker) Play Van Abbe Part 4 - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
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| Why do you resist? Forms of Resistance in Contemporary - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok |
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| Nach Demokratie - Kunstraum NOE (Niederösterreich), Vienna |
2010
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| IdentitÄt Iii - Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna |
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| Re-designing the East: Political designers - Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk |
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| The right to protest - Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem |
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| The Young Artists’ Biennial - Police the police - The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest |
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| 7. Seafair: The Apparatus Of Life&death - Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje |
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| Danmark 2010 - en vejledning til nationen for verdens lykkeligste folk - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen |
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| A Filosofia do Dinheiro - Museu da Cidade, Lisbon |
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| An Imaginary Archive - Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington |
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| Why do we resist? - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| E-Flux Video Rental - Fondazione Giuliani, Rome |
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| Uneven Geographies - Uneven Geographies - Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (England) |
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| Horror Vacui - Occupare il presente - Isola Art Center, Milan |
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| A8 Richtung Wien - Platform3 - Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich |
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| A History of Irritated Material - Raven Row, London (England) |
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| Individual memory in glocal economy - Artra, Milan |
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| A world where many worlds fit - Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC |
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| talk talk. Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis - galerie5020, Salzburg |
2009
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| Blue-Collar Blues - Tallinna Linnagalerii / Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn |
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| Blue-Collar Blues - Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn |
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| Archive of Shared Interests – Transfer Zone – Temporary Life – Temporary Communities - White Space - Zürich, Zurich |
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| Reciprocidad - CCEBA - Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires |
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| Postalternativ - Kunstraum NOE (Niederösterreich), Vienna |
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| talk talk. Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz |
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| 10e Biennale de Lyon - The Spectacle of the Everyday - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Textbild Mmix - Steirischer Herbst, Graz |
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| Pièces de résistance: Formen von Widerstand in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun |
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| The social critique 1993-2005 - Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar |
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| Conversation Pieces - Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Mejan Labs Art Service - - Mejan Labs, Stockholm (closed, 2010) |
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| Chili con Carne - Eine Gegenausstellung - forum frohner, Krems |
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| ausgewählt: 10 JAHRE < rotor > - Rotor - association for contemporary art, Graz |
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| Disobedience. An ongoing video archive - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
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| Rewind, Fast Forward. Videokunst aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz von 1970 bis heute - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Because it's like that now, it won't stay that way - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok |
2008
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| Se Permuta - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca |
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| Videozone 4 - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv |
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| Revolution, I Love You - International Project Space, Birmingham (England) |
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| asking we walk, voices of resistance - Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
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| 49th October Salon - Oktobarski Salon / October Salon, Belgrade |
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| Taipei Biennial 2008 - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| Revolution, I love you - Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest |
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| Kunscht isch gäng es Risiko - Kunsthalle Luzern, Lucerne |
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| I myself am war! - Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna |
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| Nicht Alles Tun - Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna |
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| Revolution, I love you - Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Du Dialogue Social - Motorenhalle - riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden |
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| Same Democracy - Neon Campobase, Bologna |
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| nothing to declare - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
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| Nothing to declare - 4. Triennale zeitgenössischer Kunst Oberschwaben - Triennale zeitgenössischer Kunst Oberschwaben, Friedrichshafen |
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| Have the cake and eat it, too - Institutionskritik als instituierende Praxis - WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna |
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| Politics - Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund |
2007
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| WHY DO YOU RESIST? - Forms of Resistance in Contemporary Art and Society - Emil Filla Gallery / Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem |
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| Forms of Resistance Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
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| 2. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg - Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen |
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| 2. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Work Fiction - Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
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| 7th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art - transRobota - Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Szczecin |
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| Retracing Territories - Fri Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg |
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| New Economy - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
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| Außen vor - On the Outside - ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar |
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| Tactics of Resistance - Exhibition Centre Constantin Brancusi, Chisinau |
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| Suitcase Illuminated#5 Parallel Economies - P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana |
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| Public Views - Gandy Gallery, Bratislava |
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| Holy Damn It / On The Urgent Need For Radical Answers - Alkatraz gallery, Ljubljana |
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| Mucha vigilancia, mucho movimiento, mucha desconfianza - Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima |
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| After Neurath - Like sailors on the open sea - Stroom Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Free Radicals - The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon |
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| transRobota - Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin, Szczecin |
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| transmediale.07 - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| The Country of the Endangered Body - Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest |
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| Nichts für uns. Alles für alle! - Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna |
2006
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| LA Freewaves: New Videos by Oliver Ressler - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Crime and Punishment - Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn |
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| 2° Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| traurig sicher, im training - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz |
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| The Shadow Cabinet - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| What is positive? Why? - WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna |
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| Self-educations - National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow |
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| working_world.net – Arbeiten und Leben in der Globalisierung - Museum Steyr, Steyr |
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| World Unlimited - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons - Artspeak, Vancouver, BC |
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| It is hard to touch the real - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz |
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| the people´s choice - Isola Art Center, Milan |
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| NOW-TIME VENEZUELA, PART 1: WORKER-CONTROLLED FACTORIES - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Colonialism without Colonies? - Shedhalle, Zurich |
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| Kapital (See veab meid alt) / Capital (It Fails Us Now) - Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn |
2005
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| Global Tour - W139, Amsterdam |
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| From mini-FM to hacktivists: a guide to art and activism - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth |
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| mental images - Medienkunstpreis 2005 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| After the Fact - Berlin Photography Festival 2005 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| police - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Prague Biennale 2 - Prague Biennale, Prague |
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| RE-ACT - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| Off Grid - Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON |
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| Making Things Public - Atmosphären der Demokratie - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| The Need to Document - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
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| RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Double Check - Camera Austria, Graz |
2004
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| There Must Be an Alternative - Forum Stadtpark, Graz |
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| Minority Report - Aarhus Festival of Contemporary Art, Aarhus |
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| Phonorama. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Stimme als Medium. - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Health & Safety - Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk |
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| DETOX STAVANGER - Today's energy today - Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger |
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| DETOX Crossover Jam Culture - Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand |
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| Emoção Art.ficial - Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo |
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| Permanent Produktiv - WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna |
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| Interventionen gegen Rassismen - Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna |
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| The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| European Corrections Corporation c/o Ortstermine 2004: Urban Scans - kunstraum muenchen, Munich |
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| Open House- Kunst und Öffentlichkeit - OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz |
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| Sparwasser HQ at Platform - - Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (closed, 2010) |
2003
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| The Bourgeois Show - Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg |
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| Banquete_metabolism and communication - Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid /Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid |
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| banquete_ - MediaLab Prado, Madrid |
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| Attack! - Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Video Group Show - - Thumm - Dircksenstraße, Berlin (closed, 2009) |
2002
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| images/codes - Medienkunstpreis 2002 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| in der sprache der gäste…line.at - Kunstverein Kärnten / Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt |
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| Exchange and transform - Kunstverein München, Munich |
2001
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| videonale 9 - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Dienstleistung: Fluchthilfe - Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg |
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| Video - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
2000
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| Die neue Künstlergeneration - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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| What, how and for whom - HDLU - Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb |
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| Modell, Modell ... - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen |
1999
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| Sozialmaschine Geld - OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz |
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| 3. Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie - Public Domain - - Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie, Graz (closed, 2003) |
1997
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| Institutionelle Rassismen - WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna |
1996
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| Gelernte Heimat - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
Dealer Directory 1 |
Italy
Collections 3

Austria
| | Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
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| | Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
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Greece
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
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