CURRICULUM VITAE
Ursula Mayer, born in Austria, currently lives and works in London
1990-1996 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1995 Royal College of Art, London
2004-2005 Ma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2010
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Monitor, Rome
Films by U. Mayer, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
2009
Frame, with Monitor Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London
Ellipse in Time, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Lunch in Fur, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
2008
Nought to Sixty, ICA, London
2007
The Crystals of Time, Lentos Museum Linz
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Gallery Monitor, Rome
2003
Fallen Imperial, Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Selected Group exhibitions:
2011
Gonda, Performa 11, New York
Short Stories, SculptureCenter, New York
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Spectrumes of Light, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Sync Sync, 401 contemporary, London
Elastic Frames, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2010
Hulahoop, 401 contemporary, London
Related Spaces, Ernst Museum Budapest
100 Years (version #3), Garage, Moscow
Languages and Experimentations, Mart Trento, Rovereto
Mardin Biennial, Mardin
e-flux video rental Fondazione Giuliani, Rom
Art in the Auditorium II - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Art in the Auditorium II - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
Long time no see - The Brno House of Arts - Central Building, Brno
Projections, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
East goes East, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
It’s a Set-up - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Yesterday’s Tomorrows - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Psychoanalysis, Tokio Wonder Site, Tokio
Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2009
Contemporary artifices and Baroque difformities, ARCOS-Sannio Musem, Benevuto
100 Years (version #2, ps1), PS1, New York
100 Years (version #1), Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
Video! - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
It’s hard to find the beginning, and impossible to fathom the end - Trafo House, Budapest
Art in the Auditorium - GAMeC – Modern Gallery, Bergamo
Art in the Auditorium, Contemporary arts center of La Boca, Buenos Aires
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana International Art Biennale, Tirana
HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Bienniale, Athens
Travesties & Masquerades, Swiss Institute, New York
EASTinternational, selected by Art&Language and Raster Gallery,
Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich
The Blood of a Poet, FRAC des pays de la loire, Estuaire Biennale Nantes
Cabinet Afrique, Cell projects, London
Concept Film, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Contested Ground, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
2008
Rooms Look Back, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Pierotting, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Modern Ruin, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Cabinet of Imaginations, Network, Aalst
Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell projects, London
True Romance,Villa Stuck, Munich
True Romance, Kunsthalle Kiel
2007
Venetian, Atmospheric, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
True Romance, Kunsthalle Vienna
Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten, Vienna
Invisible Mend, Lux, Lounge Gallery, London
Held together with water, Mak Museum, Vienna
MUSA, Museum on Demand, Vienna
Frauhaus, Agency Gallery, London
Double A Side, Stedelijk Museum, Hertognebosch and Artis den Bosch
Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2006
Facts and Fictions, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Mise en scène, Mama, showroom for media, Rotterdam
No space is Innocent, steirischer herbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Everybody comes to Hollyrood, Atticsalt, Edinburgh
Props & Prostheses, Schloss Kodeljevo, Ljubljana
EuroPart. 25 peaces - Contemporary art from Europe, Vienna
The Sound of your EyesKünstlerhaus, Vienna
2005
Faites vos Jeux, Shedhalle, Zurich
Videos Viennoise, Betonsalon, Paris
2004
bb3, KunstWerke, Berlin (with a Room of One's Own)
Breaking the Visual, steirischer herbst, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Graz
Instruction for actions, permanent Installation, Kunsthalle Vienna
Born to be a star, k-haus, Vienna
Wiener Linien, Wienmuseum, Vienna
2003
Mothers of Invention, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, (with a Room of One's Own)
Out to Grass, Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle Vienna
21er, 20erhaus, Vienna, (with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher)
2002
Das Experiment 2B: (with a Room of One's Own), Secession, Vienna
Let’s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Earworm, Künstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin (with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher)
2001
Das Experiment 2A:(with a Room of One's Own), Secession, Vienna
We are a rock group, Oskar von Millerstraße, Frankfurth/Main
1999
With the Sound of Music, Susi Schneider and DJ Kahn, Austrian Cultural Institute, N.Y
1996
Momentbild Wien, regardes sur la culture autrichienne Staatstheater Ville de Luxemburg
1995
Positionen, Neue Galerie, Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum
1994
Gallery Würthle, Vienna
Selected Festivals and Screenings:
2011
Choreography for the Camera, Tramway, Glasgow
2010
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, Glasgow
Internationale Image Festival, Toronto
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2009
Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Evolution, Lumen, Leeds
Architectur Film Festival, Rotterdam
Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona
The Angels of Anarchy, Cornerhouse Cinema, Manchester
Cinemaniac 09. Architektur in Film, Luka, Pula
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
2008
Get under my skin, CCS Bard, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Modern Shorts, Museum New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Art Basel Films
Play Forward, Locarno International Film Festival
2007
Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Internationales Filmfestival Rotterdam
Selected Awards:
2011 International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York
2009 Atelier / artist-in-residence Rome, bm:ukk
2009 Sponsorship prize for Fine Arts, bm:ukk, Vienna
2007 Mrsg. Otto Mauer prize for Fine Arts
2006 Atelier / artist-in-residence London, bm:ukk
2003 State Award for Fine Arts
Selected Bibliography:
Verzotti, Giorgio. Ursula Mayer, Artforum International, summer 2010
Amberg, Annette. Brand New, Flash Art, summer 2010
Fite-Wassilak, Chris. East International09, Frieze Magazine, 07/09
Swarle, Adrian. Where there’s smoke, EastInternational 09, The Guardian, 07/09
Barber, Sonya. Ursula Mayer, Whitchapel Gallery, Time Out, London, No. 2018, 2009
McLean-Ferris, Laura. Cabinet Afrique, ArtRewiew, issue 32, 2009
Scharrer, Eva. Rooms look back, Artforum International, 2008
Coline Milliard. Focus London, Flash Art International, No. 262, 2008
J.J. Charlesworth. Voodoo Modern, ArtReview, 2008
Lack, Jessica. Lorna Macintyre & Ursula Mayer, ICA London, The Guardian, 08/08
Probst, Ursula. Sammeln als Identitatspolitik, Kunstforum International, Bd.190, 2008
Probst, Ursula. True Romance, Kunstforum International Bd.190, 2008
Stief, Angela. Crystalline Structures and Temporal Images, 2008, Eikon, international magazine for photography and media art # 61, Vienna 2008
Scheyerer, Nicole. Sprechende Wände, Falter, 46/07, Vienna, 2007
White, Ian. Crystal Gazes, for Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, 2007
Clark, Robert. Frauhaus, The guardian, London, 04/07
Farinati, Lucia. Architectures/Fictions/Re-enactments, MALMOE n.34, Graz, 2006
Seidl,Walter. International emerging artists, Contemporary Magazine, London 2006
Probst, Ursula. Zoom, W-art 007, magazine, 2006
Probst, Ursula. Go Johnny Go! Kunstforum International, Bd.168, 2003
Schedlmayer, Nina. Goldflames out in the Sky, Fieber 2003
Benzer, Christa. Springerin, Let´s twist again, Dec. 2002
Gau, Sönke. Let´s twist again, Flash Art, Nov. 2002
Scheyerer, Nicole. Vienna is burning, Falter, Oct. 2002
Selected Publications:
Sladen, Mark. Birkett, Richard. Leaver-Yap, Isla. Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, 2009
Neuschwander, Simone. Rooms look back, argobooks, Berlin, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008
Trummer, Thomas. Ursula Mayer, Interiors, Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten, Vienna, Agnes Husslein-Arco, 2007
Schafhausen, Nicolaus&Janssen, Renske. Changing Roles, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2007
Seidl, Walter. Held together with water, Art from the Collection Verbund; Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007
Angela, Serino. Ursula Mayer, catalogue Impakt, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2007
Schedlmayer, Nina. Characteristic interrelationship of rooms, Potential Dialogue,
RCM Museum, Nanjing, Kunstraum NOE, 2007
Koether, Jutta. Acoustic Mirror, Pernegger, Karin. Glamour was my first sexy therapy, born to be a star, Schlebrügge, Ursula Probst, k-haus, Vienna, 2006
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Hrsg. Ute Meta Bauer, König Books, Cologne, 2004
Stief, Angela. Love/Hate, Triton Verlag, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2003
Hoffmann, Justin. Go Johnny Go!, Steidl Verlag, Kunsthalle, 2003