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 Group exhibitions
2009
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana International Art Biennale, Tirana, AL
HEAVEN, Athens Bienniale, Athens, GR
EASTinternational, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich, UK
Le sang d’un poète / The blood of a poet, FRAC des pays de la loire, Estuaire Biennale Nantes, FR
Cabinet Afrique, Cell projects, London, UK
Concept Film, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, AT
Contested Ground, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2008
Rooms look back, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, CH
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, TK
Pierotting, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Modern Ruin, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Cabinet of Imaginations, Network, Aalst, BE
Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell projects, London, UK
True Romance, Villa Stuck, Munich, and Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, DE
2007
Venetian, Atmospheric, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
True Romance, Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle,Vienna, AT
Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT
Invisible Mend, Lux, Lounge Gallery, London, UK
Held together with water, Mak Museum, Vienna, AT
MUSA, Museum on Demand, AT
Frauhaus, Agency Gallery, London, UK
Double A Side, Stedelijk Museum, Hertognebosch and Artis den Bosch, NL
Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2006
Facts and Fictions, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Mise en scène, Mama, showroom for media, Rotterdam, NL
No space is Innocent, steirischer herbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
Everybody comes to Hollyrood, Atticsalt, Edinburgh, UK
Props & Prostheses, Schloss Kodeljevo, Ljubljana, SI
EuroPart. 25 peaces - Contemporary art from Europe, Vienna, AT
2005
Faites vos Jeux, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Videos Viennoise, Betonsalon, Paris, FR
2004
a room of one´s own, 3. Berlin Biennale at Kunstwerke Berlin, DE
Breaking the Visual, steirischer herbst, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Graz, AT
Instruction for actions, permanent Installation, Kunsthalle Vienna, AT
Born to be a star, k-haus, Vienna, AT
Wiener Linien, Wienmuseum, Vienna, AT
2003
Mothers of Invention, with a room of one´s own, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, AT
Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, DE
Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT
21er, with fem text rapid, with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher, 20erhaus, Vienna, AT
2002
Das Experiment 2B: a room of one´s own, Secession, Vienna, AT
Let’s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
Earworm, fem text rapid, with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher, Künstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2001
Das Experiment 2A: a room of one´s own, Secession, Vienna, AT
We are a rock group, Oskar von Millerstraße, Frankfurth/Main, DE
1999 With the Sound of Music, Susi Schneider and DJ Kahn, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, USA
1996 Momentbild Wien, regardes sur la culture autrichienne Staatstheater Ville de Luxemburg, LU
1995 Positionen, Neue Galerie, Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, AT
1994 Gallery Würthle, Vienna, AT
Selected Screenings
2009 International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, with Lux, London
Get under my skin, CCS Bard, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2008 Modern Shorts selected by Terence Gower, New Museum New York, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, USA
Art Basel Films, curated by Marc Gloede, CH
Play Forward, International Film Festival Locarno CH
Selected Awards
2010 Atelier / artist-in-residence Rome, bm:ukk
2009 Sponsorshipprize for Fine Arts, bm:ukk, Vienna, AT
2007 Mrsg. Otto Mauer Preis for Fine Arts, AT
2006 Atelier / artist-in-residence in London, bm:ukk
2003 Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst, AT
Selected Bibliography
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, Interview with Ursula Mayer, MALMOE n.34, Graz, 2006
Seidl,Walter. International emerging artist, Annual 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, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2009
Neuschwander, Simone. Rooms look back, argobooks, Berlin, (Hrsg.) Kunsthalle Basel, 2008
Trummer, Thomas. Ursula Mayer, Interiors, Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary Art Award,
Augarten Contompary, Vienna, (Hrsg.) Agnes Husslein-Arco, 2007
Schafhausen, Nicolaus, and 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, (Hrsg.)
Kunstraum NOE, 2007
Koether, Jutta. Acoustic Mirror, Pernegger, Karin. Glamour was my first sexy therapy, born to be a star,
Verlag SCHLEBRUEGE, (Hrsg.) Ursula Probst, k-haus, Vienna, 2006
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Hrsg. Ute Meta Bauer, Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Köln 2004
Stief, Angela. Love/Hate, Triton Verlag, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2003
Hoffmann, Justin. Go Johnny Go!, Steidl Verlag, (Hrsg.) Kunsthalle, 2003