Curriculum Vitae
NIKOLAUS GANSTERER ___________>>>__Download CV+BIO (pdf)
1974 * Born in Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Education:
2005 – 2006 Post-academic studies, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
, The Netherlands
2000 – 2002 MA Visual arts, Transmedia art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
1997 – 2000 Sculpture Studies, Brigitte Kowanz, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1992 – 1997 Anthropology studies, University of Vienna, Austria
Professional activities / Teaching:
2016-2019: Guest Professor at the Center Research Focus, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Since 2007: Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Since 1998: founding member of the Institute for Transcoustic Research, Vienna, Austria
Prizes / Grants:
2019 PEEK Grant for arts based Research, Austrian Science Fund, Austria
2018 MAC International Art Award, Belfast, Ireland
2017 Best Austrian experimental animation film, Animation film festival, Austria
2015 34th Graphic Art Competition, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2014 PEEK Grant for arts based Research, Austrian Science Fund, Austria
2009 Culture Award for Fine Arts, Lower Austria
2006 Honorary mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2004 Art award, Ministry for Art Culture and Education, Austria
2003 States grant for Fine art of the Republic of Austria
Solo exhibitions: (Selection)
2024 Nikolaus Gansterer, By Hearsay, Galerie Petra Seiser, Schörfing am Attersee
2023 Nikolaus Gansterer, Wor(l)ds Dont Come Easy, Project Space, Wiels Art Centre, Brussels
2023 Nikolaus Gansterer, Strange Wor(l)ds, Galerie Crone, Berlin
2022 Nikolaus Gansterer, Summer solo, Galerie Petra Seiser, Schörfing am Attersee
2021 Nikolaus Gansterer, Figures de Pensées. Denkbewegungen, Les Tanneries, Amilly
2019 Nikolaus Gansterer, tracing (in)tangibles, Galerie Crone, Vienna
2019 Nikolaus Gansterer, Drawing as Thinking in Action, Drawing Lab, Paris
2018 Con-notations, Centre d’art, Villa Arson, Nice
2017 Ephemeral Coherences, Sotheby’s, Palais Wilczek, Vienna
2016 Proxemia II, Gallery Crone, Vienna (with Monika Grzymala)
2015 Proxemia I, Gallery Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome (with Monika Grzymala)
2015 Psychoreographies, Resonances, MUCEM, Marseilles
2014 Gansterer / Davar, KunstWerkKoeln, Cologne (with Katja Davar)
2013 When Thought becomes Matter.., Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2013 Thinking Matters, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome
2011 Traces of Spaces, Vooruit Art Centre, Ghent
2008 Hypnorama Reflex, Wittmann Showroom & MUMOK, Vienna
2007 Global Players, Art stripe, Börse, Vienna
2005 Zero Bending, P74 Galerie, Ljubljana
2005 Theoremkollektor, Transeuropa MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2004 Vom Rand der Dinge Sprache leihen, Auto Gallery, Vienna
2003 Synapsentankstelle, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2001 Emerging Artists, Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg
Group exhibitions & projects: (Selection)
2025
Imagine Climate Dignity, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2024
Shaken Grounds, Shifing Skies, MAXXI Museum & ACF, Rome
Komm Sing Mit ! Come Sing Along, Lentos Museum, Linz
Between Times and Arts, Toskana Villa, Gmunden
2023 Art in a Suitcase, Centre for Complexity Sciences, UNAM, Mexico City
Being Mortal – Sterblich Sein, Dom Museum Vienna
Your Home’s a World Away, MLZ Art Dep, Wiener Art Foundaton, Trieste
Gemischter Satz, Galerie Crone, Vienna
2022
Understanding Art & Research, UM gallery, Prague
Rendezvouz With The Collecton: Art from 1960 to today, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems
Jarema, Ellis, Gansterer, Galerie Crone, Amtssalon, Berlin
Brigite Kowanz Et Cetra, Parallel, Vienna
2021
Triennial, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc
Understanding Art & Research, BAC Art Center, Shanghai
Line as Thought, Lines as Universe, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
40 years, Fotogalerie, Vienna
Deux scénarios pour une collection, FRAC Normandie, Rouen
Repetition Cycle, Depo, Istanbul
2020
Japan revisited, ACF Astrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo
Frage & Aufbruch, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein Linz
Der Angriff der Gegenwart – Aussichten im Postwachstum, Galerie Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
North by Northwest, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2019
58th Venice Biennial, Research Pavilion, Venice
La bonne éducation, FRAC Normandie, Rouen
Modell und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau
14th Sharjah Biennial, Ice Factory, Kalba, UAE
The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
While I kiss the Sky, Galerie Senn, Vienna
Ecocinema, Kunsthalle Tirol Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Made in Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
The stars look so different tonight, Fotogalerie, Vienna
CrossSections, Konstfack, Stockholm & Ex Lab, Helsinki
Boundless Objects, Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Evora
Understanding Art & Research, MAK Museum Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Experimental Diagramming, Architecture Museum, Berlin
Contemporary Code, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2018
Le Bouc Divin, Wiels Art Centre, Brussels
Volatile Dreams, Marta Herford Museum, Herford
MAC International Art Award exhibition, MAC Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast
Cross-Sections, KEX, Vienna
A fist of pure emotion, Crone Side, Berlin
Kunst & Kohle, The Battle of Coal, Glaskasten Museum, Marl
Traces Ecrites, Gallery Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels
2017
Lightness of Matter. Matter of Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Urban Lights Ruhr, Glaskasten Museum, Marl
Wien von Oben, Wien Museum, Vienna
ba ≠ b + a, MUSA Museum, Vienna
Argument Place, Stadtgalerie, Bern
Trajectories: New Drawing Embodiments, Drawing Hub, Berlin
2016
The Minor Gesture, MSK, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Marseille Résonance, MuCEM, Marseilles
Antenna Futura, KEX Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Kristalle im Beton, Skulpturenmuseum, Marl
Drawing Now, Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris
34th Graphic Competition, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bolzano
2015
Plague of Diagrams, ICA, London
12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna
The Bottom Line, SMAK, Ghent
34th Graphic Exhibition, Taxispalais, Innsbruck
A Call for Drawings, BAK – Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht
Contemporary Code, CityU Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
From Inner to Outer Shadow, ACF, Istanbul
Our City!, Jewish Museum, Vienna
Time (less) Signs, ACF, London
Inventing Temperature, KCC, London
Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo
Beyond the Line, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
Movement Matters, Kunstverein Goettingen, Goettingen
Nikolaus Gansterer / Katja Davar, KunstWerk, Cologne
Correlations, AIL, Vienna
The Drawing Room, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2013
My Brain is in my Inkstand, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit
4th Athens Biennale, Athens
Drafts III, The Drawing Center, New York
Artists in Multifunctions, Gallery Lalit Kala Akademi, New Dehli
The Drawing Room, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
2012
Zeit(lose) Zeichen / time(less) signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Schaubilder/Diagrams, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Play together, Wiener Art Foundation, Kunstraum Sellemond
Beziehungsweise, Wittmann Showroom, Vienna
A study on knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, KRNÖ, Vienna
2011
Lonely at the Top, Graphology#4, MUHKA, Antwerp
The Borders of Drawing, Weisses Haus, Vienna
Connected – Listen to the other side, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz
2010
Story behold. Story be told, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Convection, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen
OT, Medienturm, Graz
Object Research Lab, M4, Amsterdam
Kulturpreisausstellung, Noedok, Dokumentationsarchiv moderner Kunst, St.Poelten
2009
Mifan, Anni Art Gallery, Beijing
Bureau of Found Appropriations, Vooruit, Gent
Sound Escapes, Space Gallery, Electra, London
The Stone Road, Argos, Brussels
Structures, Club Transmediale, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin
Quergeblickt, Technisches Museum, Vienna
Konturen, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
2008
Am Sprung, Young Art Scene Austria, OK – Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz
The Stone Road, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Paraflows / Utopia, MAK, Depot of Contemporary art, Vienna
Parcours Interdit, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf
Kaap, Fort Ruigenhoeksedijk, Kl.Biennale, Utrecht
Projektor, Mama Showroom, Rotterdam
2007
Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine
Science Fictions, Gallery Czarna, Warsaw
Down to Earth, K12 Galerie, Bregenz & ACF, Krakow
Fresh Trips, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Wrong time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam
Bioforms, Cheapart Gallery, Athen
Artmart, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna
Kunstambassade, Pictura Drawing Center, Dordrecht
2006
Riss/Lücke/Scharnier, Galerie nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven / Artis, Den Bosch
Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing
Grounded, E:vent Gallery, London
Gezeichnet, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St.Pölten
Profiler, Futura Project/ Karlin Studios, Prague
2005
Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Architecture of Interaction, Veemvloer, Amsterdam
Profiler, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Trichtlinnburg, Salzburger Kunstverein / JVE Maastricht / CCA Tallinn
Spaciously, ACF, Warsaw
Update, Künstlerhaus,Vienna
2004
Breaking the Visual, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Mapping II, Mess Hall, Chicago
Spacemakers, Lothringer13, München
2003
Die Zeichnung als Frage, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Take_off, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Transfer Damaskus, Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna
Transfer Damaskus, Mücsarnok, Budapest
Zugluft, Vienna Special, Art Zürich, Zürich
2002
Grazintern, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Memory Bank, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
You Are Here, Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt/M.
2001
Starproject, Karajan Zentrum, Vienna
2000
ChryslerGreissler, Galerie Engelhorn, Vienna
transpackaging, Kulturzentrum Minoriten, Graz
Performances / Lecture-Performances / Presentations / Screenings: (Selection)
2024
Translecture On Enclosed Spaces, Zwarte Zaal, Bijloke, Ghent
2023
Three Ecologies, Translecture with Arno Böhler, Rote Bar, Volkstheater, & Secession, Vienna
An Atlas of Spatal Figures in the Anthropocene, Translecture with Ignacio Farías, Silke Steets, ICI Berlin
2022
Translecture with and for Thomas Macho, Nestroyhof, Theater Hamakom, Vienna
Contingent Agencies, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne
Translecture, Figures de pensées, Les Tanneries, Amilly
2021
Signs & Lines, Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Muffathalle Munich
Contingent Agencies, APL – Applied Performance Lab, Vienna
2020
Translecture, Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Evora (pp)
2019
Thinking Matters Other Others, Drawing Now – Le Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris
Black market for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Mobile Akademie, Rathaus, Vienna
Drawing between the Lines, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2018
Thinking through Practices, Wiels, Brussels
Autoduett, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Cook’s New Clothes I, National Maritime Museum, London (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Cook’s New Clothes II, The Atlantic, Plymouth (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Space in a Space…, A Performance Affair, Brussels
Concerning Matters and Truths, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Choreo-graphic Figures, HZT, Uferstudios, Berlin
Entwurf einer erweiterten Grammatik des Kontinuums, MUSA Museum, Vienna
Translectures, On great outdoors II, Kaaitheatre, Brussels
2017
The Restitution of Complexity, IKON gallery, Birmingham (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
The Restitution of Complexity, ACF, London (with Khadija von Zinnenburg)
Thinking Matters Other Others, Bone Festival & Kunsthaus, Bern
Choreo-graphic Figures, Siobhan Davies Art Centre, London
Trajectories#1, New Drawing Embodiments, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
On Specificity and On How-ness, Art Academy, Helsinki
Drawing Between the Lines: Towards Embodied Diagrammatics, Nida Art Colony, Vilnius
2016
Parkomania, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Labor der Plötzlichkeit, AILab, Vienna
Choreo-graphic Figures, Body Diagrams, ImPulsTanz Festival, AILab, Vienna
A Translecture on Minor Gestures, (with Erin Manning), MSK – Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
The Map is (not ) the Territory, Nassim el Raq#6, Alexandria, Egypt
Embodied Diagrams, Spring Lab, TQW Studios, Vienna
2015
Psychoreographies, MUCEM, Marseilles
Artist Philosphers, Nietzsche Diagrams (with Dieter Mersch), TanzQuartier, Vienna
Drawing Light Echoes From Inner To Outer Shadows, SMAK, Ghent
The Project Makers, MQ, Vienna
Drawing Matters Other Others, Albertina Museum, Vienna
Finding Problems – Drawing Conclusions. A PingPong (with Karin Harrasser), TQW, Vienna
Translectures, Open Forum, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Reading Nietzsche, Artlab #1, TQW, Vienna
Translecture, Are you alive or not?, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
2014
Thinking Matters Other Others, No/Things, Scores 9, TanzQuartier, Vienna
Choreo-graphic Figures, Un/Conference, Head, Geneva
Translecture on Contingencies, Revolving Stars & Shaky Grounds, Festspielhaus, Dresden
Drawing on Drawing, Open Festival, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Translecture on Transluciferation, Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo
The Lures of Speculation, Scores 8, TanzQuartier, Vienna
2013
Foreign Affairs, The Bet, KunstWerke & Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
Linienscharen, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2012
Hearing Cage, Zeit-Ton extended, Ö1 Hoerspielstudio, ORF Funkhaus, Vienna
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #5 Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #4, Lehrerzimmer, PROGR, Bern
Drawing a Hypothesis – Die Materialität der Diagramme, NGBK, Berlin
2011
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #3, MHKA, Antwerp
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #2, KNAW, Amsterdam
Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis #1, Kunsthalle, Project Space, Vienna
De-Stilling a Still Life, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
2010
Entwurf einer Grammatik des Kontinuums, Medienturm, Graz
Hors Pistes, Centre Pomidou, Paris
2009
Liquid Signs, Fluten festival, Watertower, Vienna
Who is afraid of the in between, Prisma Forum, Mexico City
Drawn to nowHere, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
Translecture, Club Transmediale, Berlin
Translecture, Konturen, Technical University, Vienna
2008
Transacoustic Research, Belluard Festival, Fribourg
Sirupture, Fullframe Film Festival, Gartenbaukino, Vienna
Projekt 88, Porgy&Bess, Vienna
2007
Asymptotische Versuchsanordnungen, Musikprotokoll Graz
Cut ’n Splice, Festival for Contemporary Music, Huddersfield
Transacoustic on Tour, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Logos Foundation Ghent; BainConnective, Brussels; AIR-Antwerp, Antwerp
Harvesting the Tree of Knowledge, Artis Gallery, DenBosch & Jacobihaus, Düsseldorf
2006
Translecture, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna
The Basement Lecture, OpenWeek, JVE, Maastricht
Green Tones, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
2005
Paradox, Expodium, Utrecht
Moving Patterns, ACF, New York
Sonar Festival, MOCBA, Barcelona
2004
Synapsis, Luitpold Lounge, Munich
Projekt 88, Cube, Institute for Electronic Music, Graz
Transakustik A-Z, Festival Wien Modern, Vienna
2003
New Earports, Dunker Arts Centre, Helsingborg
Green Tones, Royal Festival Hall, London
2002
Hellgrün, Kulturamt, Düsseldorf
2001
Outpost, MAK, Vienna / Podewil, Berlin / Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck / Placard, Paris
Projects in Public Space / Commissions: (Selection)
2021 The Properties of a Presence, Kunstsalon Fluc, Vienna
2019 Modell und Ruine, Werkleitz Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau
2018 The Broadcaster, Waddington, Lincoln
2017 Urban Lights Ruhr Festival, Marl
2016 Fluca – Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Sariev Contemporary / Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv
2016 The Map is (Not) the Territory, Nassim elRaq Festival, Alexandria,
2014 Inherent Contingencies, WWTF, Vienna
2014 Income Dance, Imagetanz Festival, Brut, Vienna
2012 Libra – Balancing the Invisible, JZ Korneuburg
2010 Radical Cartography – Mapping the Terminal, CAT/Airport Vienna
2009 Urban Signs/Local Strategies, Public space project, Praterstern, Vienna
2008 Parallel Circuits, art/science/music, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
2006 Wechselschattenspeicher, Forum NÖ, St.Pölten, Austria
2001 Fremde Dezibel, Festival der Regionen, Linz*
2001 REC, University of applied Arts, Vienna
2000 Menschenstromverstärker, Stadtpark, Vienna
Residencies:
2021 Artist in Residence, Dance Nucleus, Singapore
2018 Artist in Residence, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2016 Artist in Residence, Nassim el Raq, Alexandria, Egypt
2015 Artist in Residency, Expo Milano, Italy
2014 Artist in Residence, ImpulsTanzFestival, Vienna, Austria
2012 Artist in Residence, bmukk studio, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Artist in Residence, timelab, Ghent, Belgium
2009 Artist in Residence Nadine, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Artist in Residence bmukk studio, Chengdu, China
2007 Artist in Residence Duende, Rotterdam
2007 Artist in Residence Air, Antwerp, Belgium
2003 Artist in Residence, AIR03, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2001 Artist in Residence, Centre for Art and Knowledge Transfer, Vienna / Damascus, Syria
Publications: Monographs (Selection)
2025 ‘Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres’, Nikolaus Gansterer, Alex Arteaga (eds.), Hatje Cantz, Berlin, ISBN 9783775759038
2025 ‘Atlas of Spatial Figures’, Ignacio Farias, Silke Steets and Nikolaus Gansterer, (eds.), Jovis, Berlin,
ISBN 9783986122201
2022 ‚Playing with Ludwig: Figures of Thought / Jouer avec Ludwig: Figures de pensée‘, Nikolaus Gansterer, Klaus Speidel, Éditions Dilecta, Paris, ISBN 9782373721652
2018 ‚Nikolaus Gansterer, Drawing as Thinking in Action‘, Cat. Exhib., Drawing Lab, Paris, ISBN 9782490024063
2018 Con-notations, N. Gansterer, S. Orlando, K. Stroebel, (eds.), Edition Villa Arson, Nice, 2018. ISBN 9782913689398
2017 ‚Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line‘, Nikolaus Gansterer, Emma Cocker, Mariella Greil (eds.), Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 9783110546606
2017 ‚Drawing a Hypothesis – Figures of Thought‘, Nikolaus Gansterer (ed.), 2nd corrected edition, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 9783110546613
2013 ‚When Thought Becomes Matter and Matter Turns Into Thought‘, Nikolaus Gansterer, Christiane Krejs (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna. ISBN 9783950359929
2011 ‚Drawing a Hypothesis – Figures of Thought‘, Nikolaus Gansterer (Ed.), Springer Verlag, Vienna/ New York. ISBN 9783709108024
Contributions to publications / catalogues: (Selection)
2024 ‚Moments of the Universe, SEFO Triennial 2024‘, Barbora Kundračíková (ed.), Exhib. Cat., Museum of Art, Olomouc. ISBN 9788088621300
2023 ‚Drawing in the Present Tense‘, Roger Malbert, Claire Gilman (eds.), Thames & Hudson, London, ISBN 9780500294932
2022 ‚The Contested Crown‘, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (ed.), University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226802060
2022 ‚Construction and Design Manual. Experimental Diagrams‘, Lidia Gasperoni (ed.), DOM publishers, Berlin. ISBN 9783869226873
2021 ‚Cartographie radicale’, Nepthys Zwer, Philippe Rekacewicz, Editions La Découverte, Paris. ISBN 9782373680539
2021
2021 ‚Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing‘, Phaidon Editors, London. ISBN 9781838661694
2021 ‚Line as Thought, Lines as Universe‘, Exhib.Cat., Seamus Kealy (ed.), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg. ISBN 9783901264733
2020 ‚CrossSections – Processing Artistic and Curatorial Research‘, Basak Senova (ed.), De Gryuter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110716481
2020 ‚Look for Me All Around You‘, C. Tancons (Ed.), Prestel Verlag, SAF, ISBN 9783791358512
2019 ‚Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Research, Art and Education‘, L. Michelkevice, V. Michelkevicius (eds.), Academy of Arts Press, Vilnius. ISBN 9786094473296
2019 ‘Modell und Ruine‘, (Ed.) Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Cat. Exhib., Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle. ISBN 9783963112287
2018 ‘Transmediale Kunst/ Transmedia Art – lightness and matter’, (Eds.) Brigitte Kowanz, Peter Kozek, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 97831106008102018
2018 ‘Gedichte übersetzen’, Triëdere #18, (Eds.) Matthias Schmidt et al, ISBN 9783854495161
2018 ‘Parsing Digital’ (Ed.) Sally Golding, Cat. Exhib., Austrian Cultural Forum, London
2018 ‘AWAY’, (Ed.) Alexandra Grausam, Verlag fuer Modern Kunst, Vienna ISBN 9783903269170
2017 ‚Manufactories of caring space–time‘, Catherine de Zegher et al (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., MSK, Ghent. ISBN 978-90-8270-350-4
2017 ‚SCORES N°6: no/things‘, Gabrielle Cram, Walter Heun, Krassimira Kruschkova, Lejla Mehanovic, Yasamin Nikseresht (Eds.), TanzQuartierWien, Vienna.
2017 ‚Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness‘, Christiane Krejs (Ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna. ISBN 978-3-903153-39-4
2017 ‚Wien von Oben. Die Stadt auf einen Blick‘, Sandór Békési, Elke Doppler (Eds.), Metroverlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783993003036
2017 ‚(Applied) Foreign Affairs‘, Baerbel Mueller (Ed.), Birkhaeuser, ISBN 9783035608786
2016 ‚Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Possible Content for 18 Pages‘, Franz Thalmair (Ed.), Revolver Publishing, Berlin. ISBN 9783957631015
2015 ‚Psychoreographies‘, in: GAGARIN Magazine #31, Wilfried Huet (Ed.), Gaga, Antwerp.
2015 ‚Contemporary Code – Artistic Research‘, Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Romana Schuler (Eds.) Cat. Exhib., University of Applied Arts, Vienna. ISBN 9783950414011
2015 ‚Nikolaus Gansterer‘ and Jan-Philipp Frühsorge, in: Fukt#14 Magazine, Björn Hegardt (Ed.), Berlin.
2015 ‚The Bottom Line‘, M. Germann, P. van Cauteren (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., S.M.A.K., Mercatorfonds, Ghent. ISBN 9789462300965
2015 ‚Drawing Now: 2015‘, Klaus A. Schröder, Elsy Lahner (Eds.), Cat. Exhib., Albertina, Munich. ISBN 9783777424088
2014 ‚Writing Scores‘, Lilia Mestre, Elke Van Campenhout (Eds.), Apass, Brussels.
2014 ‚Fluc – Tanz die Utopie!‘, M. Wagner, U. M. Probst, P. Nachtnebel (Eds.), Falter Verlag, Vienna, 2014. ISBN 9783854395249
2014 ‚Figuren der Gewalt‘, Lars Friedrich, Karin Harrasser, Joseph Vogl (Eds.), diaphanes. ISBN 9783037344378
2013 ‚Schaubilder‘, (Ed.) Thomas Thiel, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Sternberg Press, Berlin. ISBN: 9783943365733
2012 ‚Kartographisches Denken‘, C. Reder (Ed.), Edition Transfer, Springer WienNewYork. ISBN 9783709109946
2011 ‚An envelope for arts, sciences, politics and us‘. V. Deifel, B. Kraeftner, V. Widrich, (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2011. ISBN 3709109892
2011 ‚Content/Form/Im-material‘, Context.net., Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg. ISBN 9783869841878
2010 ‚Rift/Gap/Hinge‘, Dunst & Pamminger (Eds.), Verlag Scheidegger & Speiss, Zurich. ISBN 9783858813015
2011 ‚Taking from.Leaving in.Moving on. Mapping Urban Nomadism‘, Renate Mihatsch (Ed.), Revolver Publishing, Berlin. ISBN 9783868951370
2009 ‚Parole#1, The Body of the Voice‘, Annette Stahmer (Ed.), Salon Verlag, Cologne. ISBN 9783897703209
2009 ‚Öffentliche Kunst. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Band 9 / Public Art Lower Austria, volume 9‘, Katharina Blaas-Pratscher (Ed.), 2009, Springer, Vienna. ISBN 9783211990131
2009 ‚Fresh Trips‘, (Eds.), Stefan Bidner & Roland Maurmair, Folio Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783852565071
2008 ‚Raumzeitpunkte sind Ereignisse / Events are points in Spacetime‘, Gerald Bast, Brigitte Kowanz (Eds.), University of Apllied Arts, Vienna. ISBN 9783852111490
2007 ‚Autumn Leaves‘, Angus Carlye (Ed.), Double Entendre
. ISBN 095480743X
2006 ‚An Architecture of Interaction‘, Yvonne Droge Wendel (Eds.), Amsterdam, 2006. ISBN978-90-9022039-0
2006 ‚Going Aerial‘, Monika Bakke (Ed.), Jan van Eyck Publications, Maastricht. ISBN 9789072076779
2006 ‚Checkpoint‘ Charley, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick (Eds.) BB4, KW Berlin. ISBN 3980426564
2005 ‚Tresholds, Microcosms‘, Mechtild Widrich (Ed.), MIT Press, Chicago.
2004 ‚Sonic‘, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 9783899550405
2003 ‚Transfer Damaskus, Urban Orientation‘, Christian Reder & Simonetta Ferfoglia (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York. ISBN 9783211004609
2003 ‚Transacoustic Research‘, Nikolaus Gansterer, Joerg Piringer (Eds.) Forum Stadtpark. Graz.
ISBN 3901109080
2004 ‚Wien Modern 04,‘ Berno Odo Polzer (Ed.), Pfau Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3897272784
2002 ‚The Essence02‘, Gerald Bast (Ed.) University of Applied Arts,Vienna,. ISBN 9783852110998
2001 ‚Starproject, Neue Wege des Audiovisuellen‘, Karajan Centrum, Vienna.
2001 Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Edition 10, Klosterneuburg.
Academic book chapters / Journal articles: (peer-reviewed)
2025 ‚Uncertain Curiosity: Transforming Understanding — Understanding Transformaton‘, Alexander Damianisch, Lisa Stuckey (eds.), Springer Publishers, Vienna. (fc)
2024 “Choreo-graphic Writng — Towards More-Than-One Means of Inscripton” (N. Gansterer , E. Cocker, M. Greil) in Leena Rouhiainen (eds. et al.) ‚Writng Choreography: Textualites of and beyond Dance, Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032501987
2021 Journal of Visual Art Practice‘, Claire Scanlon (ed.), Volume 20 / 2021. ISSN 1470-2029
2016 ‚How to Collaborate? – Questioning Togetherness in the Performing Arts‘, Silke Bake, Peter Stamer, Christel Weiler (Eds.), Passagen Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 9783709201725
2016 ‚Notion of Notation >< Notation of Notion‘, article/artists‘ pages in collaboration with Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil in: Performance Research, ‚On An/notation‘. ISSN: 1352-8165
2015 ‚Choreo-graphic Figures: Beginnings and Emergences‘ article in collaboration with Emma Cocker and Mariella Greil, in: ‚ruukku, Finnish Journal of Artistic Research‘, On Process. DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1111053
Biography:
Nikolaus Gansterer
Born 1974, living and working in Vienna, Austria.
He studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy at Maastricht in The Netherlands. He is co-founder of the Institute for Transacoustic Research. Since 2007 he is teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
As an artist, performer, and researcher Nikolaus Gansterer is deeply interested in relational field between drawing, thinking and action. In form of installations and performances he traces the translatability of phenomena of perception into an artistic environment. In his transmedial work, he focuses on mapping ephemeral and emergent processes unfolding their immanent structures of interconnectedness, questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy.
Gansterer’s fascination with the complex character of diagrammatic figures has led to his book Drawing a Hypothesis on the ontology of shapes of visualizations and its use in contemporary art and science. From 2014 – 2018 Gansterer was leading the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Lines developing innovative systems of notation between the lines of drawing, writing and choreography. 2019-2023 Gansterer is heading the interdisciplinary research project Contingent Agencies on experimental mapping of atmospheres, situations and environments.
Exhibitons and projects: (selected)
Gansterer’s work has been shown in numerous international exhibitons, including in 2024 Shaken Grounds, Shifing Skies, MAXXI Museum, Rome; Komm Sing Mit, Lentos Museum, Linz; in 2023 Being Mortal, Dom Museum Vienna; in 2021 SEFO Triennial, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc; 2019 the 58th Venice Biennial, Research Pavilion; the 14th Sharjah Biennial; The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; in 2018 Con-notations, Villa Arson, Nice; in 2017 Wien von Oben, Wien Museum, Vienna; Lightness of Matter. Matter of Lightness, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna; Urban Lights Ruhr, Glaskasten Museum, Marl; in 2016 The Minor Gesture, MSK, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium; Marseille Résonance, MuCEM, Marseilles; in 2015 the 12th Havana Biennial; Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna; The Bottom Line, SMAK, Ghent; Artista Como, Pivo Gallery, Sao Paulo; The Plague of Diagrams, ICA, London; in 2013 the 4th Athens Biennale and My Brain is in my Inkstand, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit.
Recent performances: (selected)
Three Ecologies, Translecture, Secession, Vienna; Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene, Translecture, ICI Berlin (2023); Contingent Agencies, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne (2022); Thinking Matters Other Others, Drawing Now, Paris; Cook’s New Clothes, National Maritime Museum, London; Drawing between the Lines of Connotation, Kunsthalle Charlottenburg, Copenhagen (2019); Space in a Space…, APA, Brussels; Entwurf einer erweiterten Grammatik des Kontinuums, MUSA Museum, Vienna (2018); Translectures, On great outdoors II, Kaaitheater, Brussels; Trajectories#1, New Drawing Embodiments, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Choreo-graphic Figures, Siobhan Davies Art Centre, London (2017); Body Diagrams, Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, The Map is (not) the Territory, Nassim el Raq Festival, Alexandria (2016); Radical Scores of Attention, TanzQuartier, Vienna; Translectures, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2015); Revolving Stars & Shaky Grounds, Festspielhaus, Dresden (2014); Foreign Affairs, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (2013).
Gansterer is winner of the City of Vienna Award for Fine Arts (2024); the RC Award of the Society of Artistic Research(2019), and the MAC International Art Award, MAC Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast (2018).