Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1957	born in Vienna, Austria

Lives and works in Vienna

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2024	Diana, It’s a Capriccio, Milan dépendance, your clouds your hair your laketown, Brussels
2023	Emanuel Layr, Hypostasicisms, Vienna House of Gaga, El Comercio de Lamentos Finos, Mexico City
2022	Greene Naftali, Ulysses, New York
2021	Galerie Buchholz, The Mephisto Hours, Berlin
2020	Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Spirits and Objects...and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, Dusseldorf
2019	Galerie Francesca Pia, How to be an Angel Painter, Zurich House of Gaga, The Prototype, Los Angeles
2018	Greene Naftali, Tears and New Tears, New York
2017	Künstlerhaus Bremen, Invitation Epiphany, Bremen
2016	Dépendance, Rainyday and hundred of water and everything, Brussels Goton, “THE POSTORS“, Paris House of Gaga, Loyalties, Mexico City
2015	Secession, A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Vienna
2014	The Renaissance Society, The New World Application for Turtle Island, Chicago Vilma Gold, My Divid’ed House, London
2013	House of Gaga, EDITION REPETITION, COMPETITION AND JEWELRY OF FLOWERS AND OF REDEMPTION, Mexico City
2011	Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
2010	Dépendance, The Balalaika Moment, Bruxelles House of Gaga, The Why Does This All Happen To Me Experience, Mexico City Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem (with Martin Guttman), Vienna
2009	Galerie Buchholz, The Oriental Therapies, Berlin Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Hermes und der Pfau, Vorschlag zur Erneuerung des Gedenkens an den Tod des Autors und auch zur gleichzeitigen Erweiterung durch die Leselampe der Schreiber, WHITE HEAT, Stuttgart Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Iniquities Suspend, Chicago
2008	Greene Naftali, 18Iniqities, New York Mälmo Konsthall, A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS, Mālmo Vilma Gold, iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity: R.H. Quaytman & Josef Strau, London
2007	Stedelijk Museum, Voices and Substitutes, Amsterdam Galerie Buchholz, Voices, Cologne Institut im Glaspavillon, The Tabernacle on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Vilma Gold/ London Dependance, “Why Doesn’t my Plant Grow Anymore?“ and Other Works of Lament (...), Brussels
2006	Greene Naftali, Don’t Climb the Pyramids, New York c/o, Ziegelstrasse, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin
2002	Greene Naftali, Nazis of Suburbia, New York
1998	Galerie Christian Nagel, a, Cologne

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2024	Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Ins Dunkle schwimmen – Abgründe des kreativen Imperativs, Vienna
2023	Galerie Drei, A Crooked World, Cologne
2022	Galerie Buchholz, Bells, Cologne Layr Singerstrasse, New Space Show, Vienna
2021	Jahn und Jahnn hosting Galerie Francesca Pia, Odd Vows, Munich
2020	Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan Biennale 2020, Busan Greene Naftali / Chantal Crousel, Arrangement in Grey, Paris Galerie Francesca Pia, Arrows, curated by Eva Svennung, Zurich Svetlana Gallery, Mike’s, New York
2019	Bodega, Holly Village, New York Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, «Il est une fois dans l’Ouest», Bordeaux
2018	Galerie Francesca Pia, Lampen, Zurich Ampersand, dog chews shoes, Lisbon Hopkinson Mossman, Role Models, curated by Rob McKenzie, Auckland
2017	Kunsthalle Bern, Section Littéraire, Bern Galerie Francesca Pia, L’image, curated by Vincent Romagny, Zurich Greene Naftali, Infected Foot, New York Austrian Culture Forum, Passage of Neo-Avant-Garde, Warsaw
2016	CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Night Thoughts, New York Kunsthaus Hamburg, „... und eine welt noch“, Hamburg Marian Goodman, Pure Fiction, Paris Lempertz, Quodlibet, Brussels
2015	Mumok, to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990, Vienna Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Welcome You’re in the Right Place, organized and designed by AIRBNB Pavilion, Turin Greene Naftali, Works on Paper, New York
2014	Vilma Gold, House of Gaga presents Single Moms, London KARST, FAX, London Arnolfini, The Promise, Bristol Liverpool Biennial, collaboration with Stefan Tcherepnin, Liverpool Southard Reid, Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), curated by Sarina Basta and Mary Rinebold, London Halle für Kunst, Über das Radikale Nebeneinander, Lüneburg
2013	AIR DE PARIS, Pétrone/Pétrole, Paris Soloway, Some Redemptions, curated by Josef Strau, New York INDEX – Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Counter-Production, Stockholm Frieze Projects, London Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas show, Zurich
2012	Centrum Kultury Zamek, The Castle in the Air – Seance of Imagination, Posen Generali Foundation, Counter-Production, Vienna Belvedere Wien, Keine Zeit, Vienna Zach Feuer, Context Message, New York Galerie Francesca Pia, La demeure joyeuse II, Zurich Essex Street, How do it know?, New York
2011	Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Berlin 1857, Nobody can tell the why of it, curated by Esperanza Rosales, Oslo CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Dystopia, curated by Mark von Schlegell, Bordeaux Sculpture Centre, Time Again, New York Badischer Kunstverein, A Different Person, Karlsruhe Andersen’s Contemporary, True Faith, Copenhagen Air de Paris, Florbelle (after Sade), Paris
2010	MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, Shanghai Camera Austria, The Milk Drop Coronet, Graz Dependance, Novel, Bruxelles Greene Naftali, The Pursuer, New York David Zwirner, The Evryali Score, New York PS1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baghdad Batteries, Long Island City CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Annandale-on-Hudson Kantor Gallery, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Los Angeles Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem, Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman, Vienna Vilma Gold, The Inhabitants, London
2009	Museum of Contemporary Art, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles Galerie Lelong, My Summer Show, Paris The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, evas arche und der feminist (carte blanche), St. Louis Temporäre Kunsthalle, Scorpio’s Garden, Berlin Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, The Space of Words, Luxembourg
2008	Galerie Catherine Bastide and dépendance, Brussels Greene Naftali, Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, New York Palazzo Delle Poste, Manifesta 7, Trento Bibliothekswohnung – Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Novel, curated by Matt Williams, Berlin Mehringdamm 72, One Season in Hell, Berlin Maison populaire, Neutre Intense. It’s gonna rain, curated by Christophe Gallois, Montreuil
2007	Neue Alte Brücke, Secret-Flix, Frankfurt Vilma Gold, Years-In-Review-Installation, organized by Joseph Strau, London Mehringdamm 72, The Door Slamming Festival, Berlin, curated by Dominic Eichler, Berlin Galerie Neu, dépendance at Galerie Neu, Berlin Tomio Koyama Gallery, Wonderwall – Constructing the Sublime, curated by Anna Cathatina-Gebbers, Tokyo Flaca, presented by Croy Nielsen, design by accident, London Wiener Secession, Shandyismus, curated by Helmut Draxler, Vienna Kjubh Kunstverein, New Domestic Landscape, Köln Croy Nielsen, design by accident, Berlin
2006	Portikus, ...ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra, Frankfurt White Columns, Looking Back, curated by Matthew Higgs, New York Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Next to Kin, Cologne Galerie Fortescue Avenue, Minotaur Blood, curated by Gionata Bonvicini, London Air de Paris, La maman et la putain, Paris Vilma Gold Project Space, Our Marvellous Ambition, London Institute of Contemporary Art/ Power Plant/ Henry Art Gallery, Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, curated by Bennett Simpson, Philadelphia/ Toronto/ Seattle Kunsthaus Dresden, Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Dresden
2005	Gagosian Gallery Berlin, The Gone Wait, Berlin Paul-Linke-Ufer, Possession, Berlin
2004	Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Quodlibet II, Cologne Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Müllberg I, Cologne Werkleitzbiennale, Zeichnungen, curated by Ariane Müller, Halle WBD, Für völligen Arbeitsschutz, Berlin Editionen 4 Jahre WBD, Berlin
2003	Prague Biennale 1, Photo +, Prague
2002	Museum Ludwig/ Akademie der Künste/ Migros Museum, Ökonomien der Zeit, curated by Hans-Christian Dany und Astrid Wege, Cologne/ Berlin/ Zurich Greene Naftali Gallery, Pictures, New York
2000	Colin de Land Fine Art, The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, New York TENT, hey, international competition style, Rotterdam Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Produktivität und Existenz, organized by Die Beute, Berlin Central House of Artists, Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Moscow Greene Naftali Gallery, Snowflake Office, organized by C. Krümmel, New York
1999	Galerie Walbröl, Snowflake Office, The Castle (with Amelie von Wulffen), Düsseldorf
1998	Laden Schillerstr. 32, SUUM SUUN AKVY ’73, Berlin The Nazis of Suburbia, Kunstb60, Vienna
1997	Halle für Kunst, Videolounge – Die Krumme Pranke, with Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Amelie von Wulffen, Lüneburg
1993	Galerie Christian Nagel, Friesenwall 120, co-curated with Stefan Dillemuth, Cologne Pat Hearn Gallery (with S. Dillemuth), New York PS1, Parallax View: New York-Cologne, New York Four Walls, (with S. Dillemuth), New York
1991	Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne Kunstraum Daxer, M (with S. Dillemuth), Munich
1990	Raum Masse 10 (with C. von Bonin), Hamburg

Performances & Projects organized, curated and co-curated (selection)

2019	Galerie Francesca Pia, End of the Road, Zurich
2010	Sculpture Center, Laphroaig – Lagavulin – Magarita, Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau, (public reading event), organized by Jay Sanders, New York Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem, with Clegg/Guttmann, Lucy Indiana Dodd and Sergei Tcherepnin, Vienna
2008	MUMOK – Museum Modern Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Grand Openings, with Ei Arakawa etc., Vienna
2007	Wiener Secession, Shandyismus with Sergej Jensen, Vienna NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Riot the Bar, with Sergej Jensen and Stephan Müller, curated by Ei Arakawa, Berlin
2006	Volksbühne Sternfoyer am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Meerrettich On Ice, organized by Josef Strau, Berlin KBH Kunsthall, Kunsthallfestival, with Sergej Jensen, Copenhagen Extra-City, The Galleries Show, with Jay Sanders, Antwerp
2005	Galerie Merrettich, Alphabet with Paulina Olowska and Daniel Yamada, Joanna Zielinska, Berlin

Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe