A.D.M.D.M.G.A.G.S.H.D.K.S.K.R.M.D.P.A.S.A.W.
Stipendiat:innen der Stiftung Kunstfonds (t.b.c.)
Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, 1 April - 18 May 2025
Symptoms of a joy imbalance
Artist Book, Release 2025
With texts by Annalisa Giacinti, Sam McBean, Emily McDermott, Martin Jackson and Lauren Oyler.
ART DUBAI 2025 - Carbon 12 Gallery
16 - 17 April Preview, 18 - 20 April Public
Nominee Arno Lehmann Prize for Ceramics of the State of Salzburg 2025
Traklhaus Salzburg: May 15 – July 5, 2025
K-Hof Museum Gmunden: July 18 – August 17, 2025
BIO
Monika Grabuschnigg lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic practice explores themes such as longing, grief, and melancholy. By transforming domesticated and commodified objects—such as clothing, home appliances, and plants—into sculptures and installations, she investigates the beliefs and desires that shape our fundamental understanding of being.
Grabuschnigg was recently nominated for the Arno Lehmann Prize for Ceramics of the State of Salzburg 2025, with an upcoming awardee exhibition at Traklhaus Salzburg, Austria.
Her work has been commissioned for an outdoor sculpture at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp (2024) and has been exhibited internationally, including at: KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna (2024); Mouches Volantes, Cologne (2023); Carbon 12, Dubai (2023); Anton Janizewski Galerie, Berlin (2022); Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2022); Dock 20, Lustenau (2020–2021); Kunsthalle Wien (2020); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Studioraum 45cbm (2019); and the Brücke Museum, Berlin (2019). Forthcoming exhibitions include Kunstraum Remise, Bludenz (2026).
In 2024, 2022, and 2020, Grabuschnigg was awarded grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. In 2018, she received the Berlin Art Prize. Her work is held in international private collections as well as public institutions, including the NBK Artothek Berlin, the State Museum Vorarlberg and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Grabuschnigg was recently nominated for the Arno Lehmann Prize for Ceramics of the State of Salzburg 2025, with an upcoming awardee exhibition at Traklhaus Salzburg, Austria.
Her work has been commissioned for an outdoor sculpture at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp (2024) and has been exhibited internationally, including at: KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna (2024); Mouches Volantes, Cologne (2023); Carbon 12, Dubai (2023); Anton Janizewski Galerie, Berlin (2022); Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2022); Dock 20, Lustenau (2020–2021); Kunsthalle Wien (2020); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Studioraum 45cbm (2019); and the Brücke Museum, Berlin (2019). Forthcoming exhibitions include Kunstraum Remise, Bludenz (2026).
In 2024, 2022, and 2020, Grabuschnigg was awarded grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. In 2018, she received the Berlin Art Prize. Her work is held in international private collections as well as public institutions, including the NBK Artothek Berlin, the State Museum Vorarlberg and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
CV
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
2024 SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF, KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna, AT
2023 60bpm, Mouches Volantes, Cologne, DE
2021 burned against the rear fender, Lehmann + Silva Gallery, Porto, PT
2021 Razed in Isolation, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2020 Violent delights, Dock 20 - Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau, AT
2020 Gallery Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, DE
2019 In delirium I wear my body, Curated by Benedikt Seerieder, Studioraum 45cbm, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE
2019 Fantasy electrifies my hand, REITER Galerie, Leipzig, DE
2018 What Satisfaction Could You Possibly Have, Carbon12, Dubai, AE
2015 Rest, you restless guardians, Cosmos Gallery, Bilbao, ES
SELECTION GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 COME CLOSER - Encounters in Sculpture and Performance, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, BE
2023 four am, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2023 Present Perfect Progressive, Curated by Anex PTG, Hermetika, Berlin, DE
2023 Ashes to Lashes, Dust to Lust, Grove Berlin, DE
2022 In My Mold, Curated by Miriam Bettin, Anton Janizewski Gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 Scary Good, Curated by Anna Meinecke and Anton Janizewski, Berlinskej Model, Part of SUMO 2022, Prague, CZ
2022 Remote_01, Curated by Hannah Weidner, Tim Vormbäumen and Pedro Moraes, Berfriedstrasse 19, Berlin, DE
2022 Anything goes when in love, Curated by Michal Stolárik, White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2022 LIMINAL SPACE RECORDS, Curated by Frederike Sperling, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT
2022 OMNIBUS - 10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, DE
2022 Staying With The Trouble, Curated by Marianne Dobner, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, AE
2021 STAMPEDE, Horse and Pony Berlin, DE
2021 A Practice of Love, Stems Gallery, BE
2021 Hell, yes!, Horse and Pony Berlin, DE
2021 Nocturnal Correspondence, duo show with Martin Maeller, Lemoyne Project, Zürich, CH
2020 Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna, AT
2020 Incubation highway, online viewing via Cosmos Carl - Platform Parasite
2020 ...of bread, wine, cars, security and peace, curated by WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović), Kunsthalle Wien, AT
2020 out of the woods, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2020 not cancelled Dubai, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2020 Dancing at the Edge of the World, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, IT
2019 deep storage, collaboration, Sox Berlin, DE
2019 The Garden Bridge, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, DE
2019 1046°-1205°, Schau-Fenster das Arty, Berlin, DE
2019 Double date, Pina project space, Vienna, AT
2019 Nightshades, Curated by Christina Gigliotti, Polansky Gallery, CZ
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, Berlin, DE
2018 NGORONGORO II, Berlin, DE
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
2024 State museum Vorarlberg, AT
2021 Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation, AT
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
2024 Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2024 5x5 GO, Research Grant, Federal State Governmnet of Vorarlberg, AT
2022 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2021 Shortlist cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin – NEW YORK
2021 Shortlist cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin – TOKYO
2020 Shortlist cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin – NEW YORK
2019 Shortlist cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin – NEW YORK
2020 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2020 5x5GO, Project Grant, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2018 Awardee Berlin Art Prize, DE
2016 Awardee young artist award, Federal State Government of Vorarlberg, AT
2016 Flight Suit at Alfred Gallery in Tel Aviv, Exhibition funded by the Federal State
Government of Vorarlberg in Austria and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tel Aviv, IL
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
2022 Dr. Éva Kahán Foundation, Tuscany, Italy, May 2022
2017 SoART, Millstätter See, 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 Bilbao Arte Foundation, Bilbao, ES
2013 BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao, ES
Funded by the Federal State Government of Vorarlberg in Austria
COLLABORATIONS & TALKS
2023 Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Lecture and Studio Critic, Kiel, Class Isa Melsheimer, Germany.
2021 Art Academy Düsseldorf, SPARTA Lecture Program, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2020 Et al. Press, Artist edition release
2019 Dresden University of Fine Arts, Artist Talk with Su-Ran Sichling and Studio Critic, Class Honert, Dresden, Germany.
2017 Academy of Fine Arts Mainz, Studio Visit and Lecture, Class Thomas Schmidt.
2016 Public discussion and tour with Kirsten Helfrich, education department KUB, to Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT
2015 We know what‘s hot where and when, Set design, directed by Amit Jacobi, Ufer-studios for contemporary dance, Berlin, DE
2011 Internship MemScreen research project with Ritesinstitute, Vienna
SELECTION PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Kuba Paris feature, Symptomatic Relief, Koenig2 by Robby Greif, Vienna
2023 Berlin Art Link studio visit with Annalisa Giacinti