b. 1987, Austria
Berlin based, represented by Carbon 12.
CURRENT ...
2021 Razed in Isolation, Carbon 12, solo, Dubai, UAE. 22 March - 10 May
2021 Nocturnal Correspondence, duo show with Martin Maeller, Lemoyne Project, Zürich, Switzerland. 28.3.-25.4.2021
2021 burned against the rear fender, Lehmann + Silva Gallery, solo, Porto, Portugal. 12 April - 30 May.
... UPCOMING
2021 Horse & Pony Berlin, Groupshow, April
2021 Johanitterkirche, solo, Feldkirch, Austria. august
EDUCATION
2011 Degree Magistra Artium (MA), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
2005 -2011 Fine Arts Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
2010 - 2011 Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, CL
2008- 2009 Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, IL
SELECTION SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Violent delights, Dock 20 - Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau, Austria.
2020 Gallery Stephanie Kelly, solo, Dresden, Germany.
2019 In delirium I wear my body, Studioraum 45cbm, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Germany.
2019 Fantasy electrifies my hand, REITER Galerie, Leipzig, Germany.
2018 What Satisfaction Could You Possibly Have, Carbon12, Dubai, UAE.
2015 Rest, you restless guardians, Cosmos Gallery. Bilbao, ES
SELECTION GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Kunstsalon im Fluc, groupshow, Vienna, Austria.
2020 Incubation highway, online viewing via Cosmos Carl - Platform Parasite.
2020 ...of bread, wine, cars, security and peace, group show, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria.
2020 out of the woods, group show, Carbon 12, Dubai.
2020 not cancelled Dubai, Carbon 12, Dubai.
2020 Dancing at the Edge of the World, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy.
2019 deep storage, work collaboration with Jake Kent, Sox Berlin, Germany.
2019 The Garden Bridge, Brücke Museum Berlin. Germany.
2019 1046°-1205°, Schau-Fenster das Arty, Berlin. Germany.
2019 Double date, Pina project space, Vienna, Austria.
2019 Nightshades, Polansky Gallery, Czech Republic.
2019 Texte sind die wichtigste Nebensache in einer Ausstellung, Schau Fenster, Berlin, DE
2018 Berlin Art Prize Nominees exhibition, The Shelf, Berlin, DE
2018 A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, DE
2018 Haptic House, Horse and Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, DE
2018 Public sculpture, mountain art trail, Muttersberg in Vorarlberg, AT. EU- Leader Project
2018 NGORONGORO II, Group show during Berlin gallery weekend
2018 Inside Töpfern, Municipal Gallery Lichtenberg, Berlin, DE
2017 Auf Einladung, Artist House Villa Claudia, Feldkirch, AT
2016 Visceral Silence, Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
2016 Flight suit, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2014 Revealing the concealed, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2018 State museum Vorarlberg, AT
2014 State museum Vorarlberg, AT
2012 The Federal Artothek, Austrian Government Art Collection, Vienna, AT
2011 The Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2020 5x5GO, Project Grant, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT.
2018 Awardee Berlin Art Prize, 2018, DE
2016 Awardee young artist award, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2016 Funding for Flight Suit at Alfred Gallery in Tel Aviv Funded by the Federal State
Government of Vorarlberg in Austria and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 Studio grant for two years, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2014 Project grant, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2005 Scholarship, International Summer Academy for Fine Arts, Salzburg, AT
RESIDENCIES
2017 SoART artist in residence, Millstätter See in Kärnten, AT
Additional funding by the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2016 Va Independent Space for Contemporary Art in Isfahan, Iran.
Funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin and Tehran, the Federal Chancellery
of Austria and the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg in Austria
2015 Artist Residency, Bilbao Arte Foundation, Bilbao, ES
2013 Artist in Residence Exchange at BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao, ES Funded by the Federal
State Government of Vorarlberg in Austria
ART FAIRS
2020 NADA Miami, Carbon 12, Miami, USA.
2019 NADA Miami, Carbon 12, Miami, USA.
2018 NADA Miami, Carbon 12, Miami, USA.
2017 Vienna Contemporary, Carbon 12, Vienna, AT
2017 NADA New York, Carbon 12, New York, USA
2017 Art Dubai, Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
2016 Vienna Contemporary, Carbon12, Vienna, AT
COLLABORATIONS & TALKS
2020 Et al. Press, Artist edition release
2019 Artist talk mit Su-Ran Sichling, Klasse Honert, HfBK Dresden, Germany.
2017 Open studio & talk with students of Basisklasse of Kunsthochschule Mainz with Prof. Thomas Schmidt in Berlin, Germany.
2016 Public discussion and tour with Kirsten Helfrich (education department KUB)
to Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition at KUB museum in Bregenz, AT.
2015 We know what‘s hot where and when, Set design theatre play. Directed and written by Amit Jacobi.
Ufer-studios for contemporary dance, Berlin, DE
2011 Internship MemScreen research project with Ritesinstitute, Vienna.
SELECTION PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2020 PW-Magazin, Es geht um Speed, Paula Thomaka
2020 Podcast feature, Kunsthalle Vienna
2020 In conversation, .. of bread, wine, cars, security and peace, Kunsthalle Vienna
2020 Q&A, Distorting Modern Life with Monika Grabuschnigg, Artconnect, Veronica Jonsson
2019 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Studioraum 45 cbm, In delirium I wear my body
2019 Feature: In delirium I wear my body, KubaParis, Franziska Linhardt
2019 Hedonismus als Hineinsinken, gallerytalk.net, Anna Meinecke
2019 Bodies of work - Tush MagazineText: Hedi Xandt
2018 Numéro Homme Berlin, Fall - Winter 2018, Artists to Watch (print)
2018 Gewinner des fünften Berlin Art Prize stehen fest - Monopol Magazin
2018 Monika Grabuschnigg Wins Berlin Art Prize - Blouin Artinfo
2018 These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward - Artsy
2018 Shakespeare, Shelley and Cyberspace - Alserkal Avanue review
2018 Interview with Penny Rafferty, Elephant Magazine
BIO Monika Grabuschnigg (b. 1987, Austria) completed her M.A. in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and studied as an exchange student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and in Santiago at the Universidad Católica de Chile.
Grabuschnigg focuses in her artistic practice on the feeling of acceleration in an increasingly augmented, anxiety-inducing and commercialized alienating environment. Her work investigates, fragments, and reassembles cultural phenomenons: (technological) symbols are distorted and reconstructed into new narratives, the evidence of searching for an epistemology in a contemporary world in which our physical desires and guiding beliefs are directed and dictated by malign algorithms.
The primary source of Grabuschnigg’s art practice is clay and she consciously uses the tactility that this material transfers; precisely because her works deal with the dialectics of analog and virtual realities. The materiality of clay as a contradiction to a digital age, which is dedicated to the smooth and perfect.
In 2018 Grabuschnigg was an awardee of the Berlin Art Prize and in 2016 she received the young artist award from the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, Austria. Her works have been collected in the State Museum Vorarlberg, the Federal Artothek in Vienna, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘...of bread, wine, cars, security and peace’, Kunsthalle Wien, 2020; ‘Dancing at the edge of the world’, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, 2020; ‘In delirium I wear my body’, Studioraum 45 cbm, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2019; ‘The garden bridge’, Brücke Museum, Berlin, 2019; ‘Fantasy electrifies my hand’, REITER Galleries, Leipzig, 2019; ‘What satisfaction could you possibly have’, Carbon 12, Dubai, 2018; ‘Haptic House’, Horse and Pony Fine Arts Berlin, 2018.
Grabuschnigg focuses in her artistic practice on the feeling of acceleration in an increasingly augmented, anxiety-inducing and commercialized alienating environment. Her work investigates, fragments, and reassembles cultural phenomenons: (technological) symbols are distorted and reconstructed into new narratives, the evidence of searching for an epistemology in a contemporary world in which our physical desires and guiding beliefs are directed and dictated by malign algorithms.
The primary source of Grabuschnigg’s art practice is clay and she consciously uses the tactility that this material transfers; precisely because her works deal with the dialectics of analog and virtual realities. The materiality of clay as a contradiction to a digital age, which is dedicated to the smooth and perfect.
In 2018 Grabuschnigg was an awardee of the Berlin Art Prize and in 2016 she received the young artist award from the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, Austria. Her works have been collected in the State Museum Vorarlberg, the Federal Artothek in Vienna, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘...of bread, wine, cars, security and peace’, Kunsthalle Wien, 2020; ‘Dancing at the edge of the world’, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, 2020; ‘In delirium I wear my body’, Studioraum 45 cbm, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2019; ‘The garden bridge’, Brücke Museum, Berlin, 2019; ‘Fantasy electrifies my hand’, REITER Galleries, Leipzig, 2019; ‘What satisfaction could you possibly have’, Carbon 12, Dubai, 2018; ‘Haptic House’, Horse and Pony Fine Arts Berlin, 2018.