Galerie Mezzanin

Christian Kosmas Mayer

*1976 in Sigmaringen, Germany, lives and works in New York and Vienna

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2022

Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva

 

2020

MI (with Andreas Fogarasi)

Vintage Galéria, Budapest

 

2019

Aeviternity, curated by Rainer Fuchs

mumok, Vienna, Austria

Les Vues d'Amérique du Nord, Café Else, Vienna

 

2018

Survival

Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan

Cycles Galore!

Public art work
Donaulände, Klein-Pöchlarn, Austria

 

2017

Independent New York
Solo Booth with Mezzanin Gallery

Solo show
Kunstverein Hechingen, Germany

Solo show
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan

 

2016
Seeing is Believing
Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Austria
Fluca
Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
from here to eternity
V. Biennale Gherdëina, Italy
The Peacock
Grazer Kunstverein, Austria
Subjektive Wien
contemporallye, Augsburg, Germany

2015

L’heure entre chien et loup
Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva
Semperdepot (with Manuel Gorkiewicz)
Near My Desk, Semperdepot, Vienna
Now, At The Latest
Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Flirting with Strangers
21er Haus, Belvedere, Austria
Days of Future Just Past
Charim Galerie, Vienna
24/7: the human condition
MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles
Künstlerhaus KM - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Forgetting the Future – Entropy in the Reflective Age
Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
Animal Photographers
Acud Projektraum, Berlin
Drawings / Fridges
Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Palm Capsule
MAK Center, Los Angeles
Der Raum nach dem Raum
Kunsthaus Mürz, Austria
Destination Wien

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Mainzer Ansichten
Kunsthalle Mainz
Disputed Landscape
Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Repeat/Persona
Porous Space, Vienna

2014

paelis
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
Threshold and Inertia
Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan
& Cie (with Alexander Wolff)
Kunstforum Montafon
2D23D
Ostlicht., Vienna
Archives, Re-Assemblances and Surveys
Galeria Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb
Bayrle, Domenig, Mayer, Reuter
Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva
Wörter als Türen in Sprache, Kunst, Film
Künstlerhaus KM - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
jaywalk
MAK Center, Los Angeles
Presents
Commonwealth & Council,  Los Angeles
Notes from Underground
Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria
A Stone, A Word, Activated By
Blickle Raum, Vienna

 

2013

musis et mulis

Prunkstall, Belvedere, Vienna

 

2012

Taim Kaepsyul

Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp

prezjnt

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

laengwedzh

Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

 

2011

Scenic

Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin

Fruits, Flowers, & Clouds

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

Les Vues d'Amérique du Nord

Apartement 2, Los Angeles

 

2009

Gizmo

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

 

2008

Les Vues d'Amérique du Nord

FIAC, Galerie Mezzanin, Paris

 

2007

flotsam and jetsam

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

Another city, not my own

Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw

 

2006

Serious Immobility

Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna

Untitled

Space Invasion, Vienna

 

2005

New Talents

Galerie Mezzanin, Art Cologne

Exhibition for an art lover

(solo/with Alexander Wolff)
project room, Glasgow

 

2003

Vorführung der Ausstellungspraxis

Café am Park, Vienna

Venedig in Wien in Venedig

Castello 3271, Venice

Christian Mayer kommt aus Wien und bringt was mit aus Berlin

Atelier Just, Düsseldorf

Christian Mayer

Kastanienallee 82, Berlin

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

 

2023

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden

 

2022

A&I

Altana Galerie, Dresden

25 Jahre Kunstforum Montafon

Kunstforum Montafon

 

2021

Solar Habitat

Symposion Lindabrunn
Noa and Snow

Volkskundemuseum Vienna

 

2020

Grandfather's Axe

Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
Angriff der Gegenwart

Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna
Ein Museum auf Probe

Villa Merkel, Esslingen


2019

Neptune

Zahorian & Van Espen, Bratislava

Curating of the Fotografis Collection
Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna, Austria

2018

The Life Story of Cornelius Johnson's Olympic Oak and Matters of Survival

Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan

Doppelleben

mumok, Vienna

Re-Appropriating History

In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, FLUC, Vienna

The Way Things Run; Part 2: Cargo

PS 120, Berlin

Dreamin’ Wild
ALASKA Projects, Sydney, Australia

 

2017

Natural Histories - Traces of the Political, curated by Rainer Fuchs
MUMOK, Wien

Rezonanzen

ZKM, Karlsruhe

Sonia Leimer and Christian Kosmas Mayer

Hosted by Verlag für moderne Kunst

33 Orchard, New York

Welt kompakt?
Curated by Ursula Maria Probst
Freiraum - Museumsquartier Wien

Paradise: Reinterpreting the exotic image through modernism and beyond
curated by Dieter Buchhart and Mathias Kessler
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

 

2016

Mit anderen Augen – Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie
Curated by Barbara Hofmann Johnson
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany

Poetiken des Materials
Curated by Stephanie Damianitsch
Leopold Museum, Wien

Works and Lives in
Curated by Aurelia Nowak and Vanja Zanko
Szona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, Poland

Mit anderen Augen - Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Subjektive Wien

Contemporallye, Augsburg

 

2015

Now, At The Latest

Kunsthalle Krems

Flirting with Strangers

21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna

Days of Future Just Past

Charim Galerie, Vienna

24/7: the human condition. 1st Vienna Biennale

MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles

Künstlerhaus KM – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz

Forgetting the Future – Entropy in the Reflective Age

Torrance Art Museum, Torrance.

Animal Photographers

Acud Projektraum, Berlin
Drawings / Fridges

Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Palm Capsule

MAK Center, Los Angeles
Der Raum nach dem Raum

Kunsthaus März

Destination Wien 2015

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Mainzer Ansichten
Kunsthalle Mainz

Disputed Landscape: The Visual Paradigm

Kunsthaus Graz/Camera Austria, Graz

Repeat/Persona

Porous Space, Vienna

 

2014

2D23D

Ostlicht Galerie für Fotografie, Vienna

Archives, Re-Assemblances, and Surveys

Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb

Thomas Bayrle, Gerald Domenig, Christian Mayer, Mandla Reuter
Galerie Mezzanin Geneva

Wörter als Türen in Sprache, Kunst, Film / Words as Doors in Language, Art, Film

Künstlerhaus KM – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

jaywalk

MAK Center, Los Angeles

Presents

Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles

Notes from Underground

 

2013

Die Sammlung #4

21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna

One Torino–Repertory

Palazzo Cavour, Turin

Skulptur

Camera Austria, Graz

Unter 10 - Wertvolles en miniature

Wien Museum, Vienna

The shape of things to come

Ve.sch, Vienna

The Biography of Images: Parallel Biographies

Audain Gallery, Vancouver

Blue Monday

moins un, Paris

Some Woolly Buzz

Publication Studio Vancouver
Gegenklänge

Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen

 

2012

DLF - Die Biografie der Bilder / The Biography of Images

Camera Austria, Graz

DLF 1874 - Die Biografie der Bilder. Eine Inventur der Voraussetzungen.

Halle 14, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

Sculptured

Strombad Kritzendorf

Predicting Memories

Vienna Art Week

Die illustrierte Ausstellung

Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt

Galicia–Topographies of Myth

SOKOL, Nowy Sayz

Demnächst

Galerie 5020, Salzburg

 

2011

Museum der Wünsche

Mumok, Wien

Wiener Glut

KIT, Kunstverein Düsseldorf

Bayrle, Hakimi, Mayer

Galerie Mezzanin, Art Basel Miami Beach

 

2010

Invisible Play

Kadirga Art Center, Istanbul

Forschungsbericht

COCO, Vienna

Walls Rooms Illusions

Temporary Gallery, Cologne

Bare House Project

Pori Art Museum, Pori

Paradise Lost - Holidays in Hell (cur. by Saskia Draxler & Christian Nagel)

Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca

da bao

Anni Art, Beijing

Pro Choice in Schattendorf

Kunstverein Schattendorf

 

2009

Sleepwalking

temporary gallery, Cologne

Weltpanorama

6th Biennial of Photography, Poznan, Poland

Figure/Ground

Galerie Transit, Mechelen

Gastspiel

Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf

En vue… des manières de voir – la nature mise en images et en vitrine

Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest

Bulletin Board Blvd.

pro choice, Vienna

Miete Strom Gas oder Brasilian Wax

freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna

 

2008

Elseworlds

public art project, Laa an der Thaya

Liste 08

Galerie Mezzanin, Basel

Principle Hope

Manifesta 7, Trentino-South Tyrol

Bass Diffusion Model

Fieldgate Gallery, London

Manual CC

uqbar, Berlin

Utopia and Perception

Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki

Zoomandscale

Akademie der Bildenden Künste/Kunsthalle project space, Vienna

Missing Scene

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Missing Scene

Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

 

2007

Images

Into Position, Vienna

This is happening

Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

Toposcapes

Pavelhaus, Laafeld

Groupshow

Tanzquartier, Vienna

Logbuch

Galerie 5020, Salzburg

 

2006

for example F, N, G, L, B, C

Shedhalle, Zurich

Klartext Berlin

Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

Mongolia: Perception and Utopia

Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaator

Pigment Piano Marble

Maipu 327, Buenos Aires

Société des nations, factice et scindée en elle-même

Circuit, Lausanne

Describing the booth

ViennaFair 2006, Vienna

Artsessions

Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Vienna

mehr nicht

AUTO, Vienna

Zur Zeit

Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz

for example TEU: 8 feet x 20 feet

Shedhalle Zurich

 

2005

Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien?

Shedhalle Zurich, Zurich

α β γ

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

Computerprints of whales/too

Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels

PERFORMANCE

Flaca, London

Best European Design 2005

Design Museum, London

Videoscreening

Galerie Antik, Berlin

Lassie in Frankfurt

Projektraum, Frankfurt

The Thomas Ender Expedition-Reconsidered

Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

 

2004

Offspace, Ass Peep and Champagne

Musterraum München, Munich

The Thomas Ender Expedition-Reconsidered

Sao Paulo Biennial 2004, Sao Paulo

living room

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

10th International Festival of Computer Arts

Gallery Media Nox, Maribor

ConstructA

Galerie 5020, Salzburg

 

2003

Vorführung der Ausstellungspraxis

Café am Park, Vienna

21er

20er Haus Wien, Vienna

ABCity

Trafó Galléria, Budapest

Kontext, Form, Troja

Secession, Vienna

Videoscreening

Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz

Total motiviert (invited by Michael Beutler)

Kunstverein München, Munich

 

2002

Double Heart

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Jahresausstellung

Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

 

2001

Kohorte

Städtische Galerie, Albstadt

Ausflug

Robert-Stolz-Platz, Vienna

I`ve never seen an exhibition like you before

Art A.T.O.M., Vienna

Videoscreening

Galleria zeroartecontemporanea, Piacenza

Real Presence

Museum of 25th may, Belgrade

Offspace

Offspace, Vienna

 

2000

Mayer/Pfrommer/Reuter/Yang

Galerie Goldankauf, Kunstraum München, Munich

Schraegspur

Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf

 

Curatorial Practice


2019

Daguerre's Soup. Christian Kosmas Mayer x FOTOGRAFIS
Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna

 

2015

Palm Capsule
MAK Center, Los Angeles
with works and texts by Kathryn Andrews, James Benning, Kaucyila Brooke, York Chang, Young Chung, Zoe Crosher, Victoria Dailey, Morgan Fisher, Andreas Fogarasi, Andrea Fraser, Mariah Garnett, Lenz Haring, Marcus Herse, Donald R. Hodel, Darcy Huebler, Alice Könitz, Sonia Leimer, Christian Mayer, Herbert Mayer, Devon McDonald-Hyman, Kimberli Meyer, Davida Nemeroff, Luciano Perna, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Six & Petritsch, Mandla Reuter, Stephanie Taylor, Geoff Tuck, Erin Olivia Weber, Alexis Hyman Wolff, Alexander Wolff, Heimo Zobernig

 

2014

One Shots and Imagines

Downtown Photoroom, Los Angeles
with

works by Kaucyila Brooke, Clegg & Guttmann, Markus Krottendorfer, Sonia Leimer,

Sharon Lockhart, Josephine Pryde, Mandla Reuter, Stephanie Taylor


2013

Conlang

mumok kino, Museum Moderner Kunst Wien

with films by Mark Briggs, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Susan Hiller, Alice Könitz and Stephanie Taylor, BS Johnson, Christian Mayer

2006

Société des nations, factice et scindée en elle-même (with Christian Egger, Manuel

Gorkiewicz, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander  Wolff)

Circuit, Lausanne

 

2005

PERFORMANCE (with Alice Chauchat, Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Yves Mettler,

Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff)

Flaca gallery, London

 

2004

living room (with Yves Mettler)

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

 

Scholarships/Grants

 

2020

Outstanding Artist Award, Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Austria

 

2013

MAK Schindler Residency, Los Angeles

 

2012

Grant Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

Staatsstipendium of Austria

 

2011

Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis, Austria

 

2008

Scholarship at Cités des Arts, Paris

 

2006

Prize of the City of Vienna

Scholarship of the State of Austria

 

2005

Honory Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

goart Prize Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Education / Projects

 

1997

Academy of Fine Arts Saarbrücken

2000

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2004

Glasgow School of Art

2005

Diploma Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

 

Since 2002 Co-Editor of the art magazine that changes its title with each issue, depending on the font that is used. Released issues by now:

Chicago, Times, Plotter, Helvetica, DIN, Techno, Löhfelm, RR_02, Univers, Tiffany, Circuit, Memphis, Gringo, Zeus, The Mix, Princess Lulu, Pigiarniq, Paper, Libertine, Trixie, Déjà Vu, Auto, Rediviva, Acid, Wanda, Loraine (www.ztscrpt.net)

 

Artist Books

 

The Book of Record of the Palm Capsule

Mark Pezinger Books, 2020
Aeviternity

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln, 2019
Threshold and Inertia

Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, 2015
elseworlds

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, 2014
Christian

Blackpages (#51), 2014
Quest for fire: Language

Publication Studio Vancouver, 2013
Musis et Mulis (brochure)

Belvedere, Wien, 2013
Gizmo

Passagen Verlag, 2012
Ted

Scriptings #19, Berlin, 2012
flotsam and jetsam

Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna, 2008

 

Publications (Selection)

 

Playbook Klimakultur

Bundesministerium Europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, 2021
Still Here

Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2021
Missing Words for Considering Stones, Rocks, Pebbles and Mountains: A Vocabulary of Proximity

StoneStatements Editions, 2021
Dr. Johann Gruber-Annäherung und Anstoß

Wagner Verlag, Linz, 2020
Grandfather's Axe

Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, 2020
Resonanzen

Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019
Dreamin' Wild

Distracted Editions, 2019
Landmarks

Verlag für Moderne Kunst Wien, 2019
Real Presence

nKA / Ica - Independent Cultural Association, 2019
Naturgeschichten–Spuren des Politischen

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln, 2017
Constructing Paradise

Verlag Anton Pustet, 2017

Poetiken des Materials

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln, 2016
Mensch macht Natur

De Gryter, 2016
from here to eternity, Biennale Gherdeina 5, 2016
Seeing is Believing

Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2016
Words as Doors in Language, Art, Film

Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2016
Mit anderen Augen–Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie

Snoeck, 2016
Flirting with Strangers

Belvedere Wien, 2015
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles

Künstlerhaus KM, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, 2015
Vienna Biennale, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien, 2015
Landschaft

Kunsthaus Graz, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 2015
Destination Wien

Kunsthalle Wien, 2015

2D23D

Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2014
Archives, Re-Assemblances and Surveys

Edition Camera Austria, 2014
One Torino

Artissima, 2013
DLF 1874 – Biografie der Bilder

Fotohof Edition, 2012
Galicja, Mon Amour. Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm

Centrum Kultury Sokol, 2012
Museum der Wünsche

Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna, Distanz Verlag, 2011
Divergencies of Perception

University Helsinki, 2011
Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2011

müry salzmann Verlag, 2011
Pori AiR

Aalto University, Pori, 2011
da bao

Magazine.ws Publishing, Vienna, 2011
Wiener Glut

KIT Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2011
EINE #3

Summer 2010
Gastspiel

Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, 2009
Democratic Design

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2009
Mongolia: Utopia and Perception

Kerava Taidemuseo, Helsinki, 2008
This is happening

Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna, 2007
Skizzen des Verschwindens

Revolver, Frankfurt/Main, 2007
Toposcapes

Pavelhaus, Laafeld, 2007
art catalogue

T-Mobile, Vienna, 2007
+10/2007

Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg, 2007
Last Minute

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, 2006
pigment piano marble

Revolver, Frankfurt/Main, 2006
Diplomarbeiten

Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, 2005
Scandinavian Sparks

Sauna, Stockholm, 2004
Helvetica

Secession, Vienna, 2003
Mediasplit

HBK Saar, Saarbrücken, 2000