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INDEX

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

EXHIBITIONS:

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Rainer Ganahl

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             Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York 

              HAK, Vienna (P. Weibel), Akademie Düsseldorf (N. J. Paik)

                Master of Philosophy and History at the University of Innsbruck

Selected One Person Shows / unique projects

2024

               - KURT FRANKFURTER, How to survive Buchenwalt, Auschwitz and death marches, 1938-45,   Daumenlutscher,                     Berlin 2024               

               - IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT, truth & justice, RECENT PAINTINGS & HAPPENINGS BY RAINER GANAHL,THE OPENING GALLERY, NYC 2024

2023

- HENRY KISSINEGER, 1923 -2023, Daumenlutscher, BERLIN, 2024

- RECENT PAINTINGS: GEO-POLITICAL BLUR, Charmoli Ciarmoli, New York City                
               - Shadows, Trumps first appearance In Criminal Corut, the  Tree House Gallery , China town,  NYC in                       collaboration with  The Schlos, Harlem     

2022

- FISH & BANANA, RECENT WORKS BY RAINER GANAHL, ATP GALLERY, New York, 2022

- insanity claims - kippenberger, animations, fashion show with #070shake , KOOIO, Innsbruck, JUNE - AUGUST 2022

                 - NO NAME, NO GRAVE, NO ATTIRE - Juraplatz, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland 2023  

                - ToxiC, CrazY, Covid, Isolation, INSANITY DRESSES, THE SCHLOSS, Harlem, New York, 2022                                 - A Toxic Variant of Machiavelli - GUNS DRUGS IDEOLOGY - a performance at the COVID (DIY) (fashion                        & photography only), VENICE BIENNIAL, 2022

2019

               Summer night spleen, MX Gallery, New York 2019

Three Exercises to Adorno's, "Aspects of New Right Wing Radicalism, 2019/2020, *performance at Kunstverein Baden

               Marx a Prato, Gucci a Prato, Kunsthalle Vienna 2019 *a one night performance

Comme des Marxists, Fashion Space Gallery, University of the Arts London, Oct 5, 2018 - Jan 2019

2018

Comme des Marxists, Fashion Space Gallery,University of the Arts London, Oct 5, 2018 - Jan 2019

Paul Petro, Toronto, May 2018

               Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Ialian, Fashion Show /performance, Centro Pecci, Prato 2018

Seminars/Lectures, Frieze Art Fair, Kai Matsumiya, New York 2018

2017

Legacy, Kai Matsumiya, New York, March 5th, 2017

The Green Gallery, Milwauke, March 2017

                MANHATTAN MARXISM, EXPLOITATION, WOOL WORkS, Panoroma Boa Vista, Portugal April 2017

2016

  Haunted Houses, Barbara Weiss, Berlin

2015

 Artist - Recent Photographs Kai Matsumiya, New York

WINDOWS #3 "WHY DO WE FAIL," SPIKE,Berlin

2014

El Mundo, Kai Matsumiya, New York

SWISS JARRY, Hacienda, Zurich

De Vleeshal,Middelburg ( opening july 5, 2014)

Dadalenin, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

BCP, Shanghai

2013

Comme des Marxists, White Columns, New York (Nov 2013)

Rainer Ganahl, Irwin, Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels

2012

I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Tresor /Kunstforum, Vienna (catalog)

Perpetual Motion, Kunstverrein Neuhausen

2011

The conditoin of the working class in England, Reading Festival in Bury / Manchester

KOOJO, Innsbruck

2010

Alex Zachary, New York

Hospitalhof, Stuttgart

Elaine Levy Projects, Art Brussels

Tea Party, Werkstatt Graz, Graz

2009

MAK, Vienna, October 2009/2010

Toxic Assets, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder, Login

Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels

2008

Fruit and Flower Deli, New York

DADALENIN, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm

Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto

Les Laboratoires, Aubervilliers, Paris (a theater production, a film)

Kunstverrein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall

G126, Galway, Ireland

                Ce qui roule - That Which Rolls, Early Form's of Rollin' Rock, Les Laboratoire, Aubervilliers, Paris

2007

Rainer Ganahl, The Apprentice in the Sun, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, catalog

Rainer Ganahl, Reading, Riding and other Recent Works, Duncan of Jordanstone Colege of Art and Design, Dandee

2006

From Vatican to Piazza della Repubblica with no return, RAM, radioartemobile, Rome

2005

The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Museum, New York , catalog

Museum of Modern Art, MUMOK, Vienna, catalog

Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris

Roellinduerr, St. Gallen

Artist Commune, Hong Kong

Baumgartner Gallery, New York

2004

le consortium, Dijon

bicycle, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto

2003

Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAG, Bremen, cataog

Kunstbüro, Vienna

Casco, Utrecht

Maisonneuve, Paris

vertretung des landes niedersachsen beim bund , Berlin

Das Zählen der letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote, project wall, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2002

Base, Florence, Italy

Baumgartner Gallery, New York

2001

Baumgartner Gallery, New York

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

                  Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

Artra, Milan

Sint-Lukasstichting, Brussels

Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, cataog

2000

                  enders projects, Frankfurt

Rainer Ganahl: from 10 secondes to 500 hours and more, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna

                  Planet 2000, Geneva

                  Centre de Photographie, Geneva (with Harald F. Muller)

Basic Canadian, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto

1999

Offene Handlungsräume, 48th Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice (together with 5 other artists or artist collectives) cataog

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck

Max Protetch, New York

1998

Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, catalogue

Werkstatt Graz, Graz

1997

The Thing, New York

Massimo De Carlo, Milan

Educational Complex, organized by Rainer Ganahl: Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Ganahl, Candida Höfer, Mike Kelley, Frederick Wiseman,

Generali Foundation, Vienna, catalogue

1996

Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris

In Vitro, Geneva

Depot, Vienna

Villa Arson, Nice

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Thomas Solomon Garage, Los Angeles

1995 

Sandra Gering, (with Matthew McCaslin), New York

Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

Ice Box, Athens

1994

The Thing, BBS, New York, Vienna

Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris

Nordanstad Gallery, New York

1993

Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, cataog ue

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris

Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, catalogue

1992

Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York

Massimo DeCarlo, Milan

Galerie Roger Pailhas, (3 times 3 weeks, with Peter Fend and Silvia Kolbowski, curated by Rainer Ganahl), Paris, catalgue

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, brochure

1991

White Columns (White Room), New York

Randy Alexander (with Matthew Antezzo), New York

1990

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris

Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, catalogue

1989

Virtue in Objects, Installation (with Paul Garrin), Museum Folkwangen, Essen

allerArt, Bludenz

Selected Group Shows

2024

Au fil de l'eau, Poteaux D'angle, Bourges 2024
                  Hospitality in the Universe, Re-create Project Space, Venice, 2024

                 48 HOURS NEUKOELN, Urban Silence, Daumenlutscher Berlin 2024

                 Inflation, Sustainable Calm, Daumenlutscher Berln, 2024
                 EndGame, 5th Presidential Exhibition, Whites Box, New York, 2024             

2023

                 48 HOURS NEUKOELN,Daumenlutscher, Berlin

Group Show, Paul Pedro, Toronto

2022

                   „bike in head“ , Städtische Galerie Bremen, 2022 23.Juli bis 18. September, 2022 

2021

                 filmscreening, Public Program 1, of "basic feeling"  The A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, 2021 

              writing with bicycles, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, 2021

2020

Black Boc, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC , November 2020
Meeting in Language, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, October 2020 - January 2021

Me, Family, MUDAM, Luxembourg, May - Sept, 2020

Magic Circles Theory, West Bund Museum,  Centre Pompidou, Shanghai 2020

                 Kino Süd, Weiss Falk, Basel, 2020

Theater of War, the Gulf wars, 1991-2011, Moma Ps1, Oct/March, New York  2019/20

2019

Theater of War, the Gulf wars, 1991-2011, Moma Ps1, Oct/March 2019/20

Polke and what follows - former studetns of the art academz Dusseldorf, Art Academy Dësseldorf, 2019

Chambre D'Amis, various apartments Teheran, Iran, 2019
The INDEPENDENT New York art fair, Kai Matsumiya, 2019

2018

Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future, Hayward Gallery, London 2018
Gallery Nächst ST. Stephan, Just so Stories, Vienna, 1978 / 2018

Objects like us, Contemporary Att Aldrich Museum, 2018

The route of friendship is running into a wall - MAKE BRUTALISM BEATUFUL AGAIN, Strange teacching, Ladron, Mexico City 2018
No Man's Library / La Biblioteca di Tutti, Ex Biblioteca Universitaria, Sassari, 2018

2017
We need to talk, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2017                
                Eencore mode, curated by Noah Barker, Lodos, Mexico City . 2017              
The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago, 2017

In-Giro, Ruote, cerchi e biciclette d'arte, Zerynthia, ex mercato, Alghero, Italy 2017

2016
Obsession Dada, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 2016

                "Our mind into a Pretzel", Kunstverein Neuhausen, Stuttgart/Neuhausen 2016
                SLooking Back/The 10th White Columns Annual - Selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York 2016
FOREVER, Bubox, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2016
Walk Artisanal, 2716 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, 2016

                Redeux, Kai Matsumiya, New York 2015

2015

                Selling my library, Performa, New York 2015

                Demonstrating Minds, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015

                Alfred Jarry Archipelago, Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Paris
                Dinge bewegen. Sammlungen im Dialog,Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, 2015/2016

                Archive Bound, Center For Book Arts, New York 2015

                Triennale Bruges, Bruges 2015

                Waves upon waves of invaders, Armada, Milan 2015

                Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, A plus A Gallery, Venice May 2015

                übermorgenkünstler, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, 2015

                "Im Inneren der Stadt," Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst und dem Künstlerhaus Bremen

                " BR ZZ " Gluck 50, Milan
                The translater's voice, Forde Sogn of Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway, 2015

                langauge versus language, RISD, Sol Koffler Graduate Gallery, Providence 2015

                lan alfred jarry archipelago: la valse des pantins, La Ferme Du Boisso, Marnela-Valee, Paris 2015

Rob Pruit Flea Market, A plus A Gallery and School for Curatorial Studies Venice, Venice 2015

                THE BANK SHOW, Vive Le Capital, MAB SOCIETY, Shanghai 2015
Occational Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver 2015

                The translater's voice, MARCO, Vigo, Spain, 2015

                Pink Panther, Oracle, Berlin 2015

                Expectations, The Composing Rooms, Berlin 2015
                The translater's voice, Frac Lorraine, Metz, 2015
sTableau, Kai Matsumiya, 2015

2014

                Creativity Exercises, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

                Peace among the animals, Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo

                Soft Nepotism, Bar du Bois, Vienna

Joyride", Marlborough Broom Street, New York

Vexations. A long, long, long night (and day) at the piano, Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis

"Monads with Windows / Strange Teaching", Künstlerhaus Held, Leipzig

.... Stadtwerkstadt Graz, Graz

                "Take Liberty," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

                "Toujours / Présent,"s Outcast/ Incorporated, Paris

"Sound and Vision, The Sceenings" Paris / Photo, Los Angeles

"Kongress der Artikulation," Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin

                "Underground," Schoenenbourg, France

2013

                "Salon of fear / Salon der Angst," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

                "Triennale Esslingen, Crossing Media," Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Stuttgart

                "Athens Biennale 2013", Athens

                "Bike your Dream", Projektraum Wien

                "Der Traum des Königs / The Dream of the King," Kunstverein Neuhausen

                THE CAT SHOW, White Columns, New York

                "Khhhhhhh," Invented and Imaginary languages, Centre Pompidou, Paris

                P&CO, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles

                Culturel Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institute, Brussels

Internation Kund-, Medien- und Foto.Triennale, Villa Merke, Esslingen (summer 2013)

Ikone Marx, Museum Trier (summer 2013)

2012

                 Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokio, Paris

                 Tbilisi Triennale, Europa House, Tbibilisi,Gerogia

                 What is it about the end of the world that makes it so appealing? V-Art Center, Shanghai

                 A SIGN ON THE ROAD SAID: TAKE US TO MADRE!, Madre Helper, Brooklyn, New York

                 Acts of Voicing, Über die Poetiken und Politiken der Stimme, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

                 Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz

Public Abstraction, Private Construction I II III, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg

Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City

Summer Greetings, 601Artspace!, New York

                 Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz

                 Our House, ACF,2012, New York

Forum Expanded, Berlinale 2012. Berlin

The Von Show, Von Pro-jekt', New York

                 Video program Marianne Vitale, UKS, Oslo

Vivere sulla luna / Living on the moon, Galleria Astuni, Bologna

Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Baden-Württemberg, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

10'000 Stunden.Über Handwerk, Meisterschaft und Scheitern in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau

2011

Performa 2011, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, November 12, 2011

Dada Moskau at the 4th Moscow Biennale 2011, Moscow   

COLORIFIC! We Make An Art Rainbow , Postmasters, New York

WallmArt, White Box, New York

This is what democracy looks like, New York University, Gallatin Galleries, New York

No Comment, An Occupy Wallstreet show, 23 Wallstreet, former, JP Morgan Building, New York

THE FORGOTTEN YEARS 2007-2011, Leftover artworks from Galerie im Regierungsviertel Berlin`s Inventory, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / the forgotten bar project, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Specters of the Nineties, Marres Center, Netherlands

                 All Things Equal, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle

Alive She Cried, A Film & Video Exhibition, Galerie Zink, Berlin

Voila, ein Gastspiel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Dislocation in Kontinuum, Juraplatz, Biel

L’Italia alla finestra. Außen- und Innensichten, Kaiserliche Hofburg, Innsbruck

Family Life,Elaine Levy projects, Brussels

The Wolfson Syndrome, The Modern Language Experimen, London

A painting show,  Autocenter, Berlin

Borderland,smartspaces, New York

Born after 1924, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Happy Tech, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna

Happy Tech, Fondazione Golinelli, Milano

2010

Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Public and Counterpublics, Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneno, Sevilla

Bloodflames II, Alex Zachary, New York

Morality X, Witte de White, Rotterdam

performancelectureseries, Johann Koenig, Berlin

Engineers of the Soul, Postmasters Gallery, New York

STUDY AFTER NATURE, A Constructed World, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels

Learning Machines, Figures, NABA, Milan

Regionale 11, the forever ending story #12, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel

The beautiful danse of the terrible masks + minds, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin

Pseudonym Project, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York

Das vertraute Unvertraute. Über die inhärente Poesie des Materials. Neue Positionen Bildender Kunst, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

The Flower of May, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, various outdoor spaces, Berlin

Videorama, Kunstclips aus Österreich, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

City Beats, BankART Studio, Tokyo

2 or 3 Things, we’ve learned, Intersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna

Cooperation, Not Coorporation, ITS, Z1 International Test Site Z1, Ritopek, Belgrade

Leinzell open 2010, Schloss Leinzell, Leinzell, Germany

Destroying Public Harmony,Brukenthal National Museum/Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu, Romania.

Der Augenoptiker auf der Invalidenstrasse Neunzig/An Optical Illusion and The Foretelling of The Oracle News//a show by THE FRUIT & FLOWER DELI, NY at DUVE Berlin

Hints to Workmen, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, GB

1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? Villa Schöningen an der Glienicker Brücke. Ein deutsch-deutsches Museum, Berlin

Artschool UK, Cell Project Space, London

Spasticus Artisticus, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool

Broken Fall (Geometric), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna

Scratch!, ADN Galeria, Barcelona

Ibrido. Genetica delle forme d’arte, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano

Brouillon, Musée de la danse, Le Garage, Rennes, France

Scapegoat Society, Guest Projects, London

DETOX, Pop-up show in dis-used gym, Hoxton Square, London

Be a Star, Play a Model, Cultural Institution, Knokke, Belgium

2009

The Fear Society, Pavillion of Urgency, Venice Biennale 2009

Our literal Speed, Gallery 400 (University of Illinoi, Chicago

Translation Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle, Zurich

Performa 2009, swiss institute, New York

That's all Folks! The endless clash between Reason and Destiny, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium

Broken Tales, Akademie Theatre, Shanghai

1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien

Crossing Landscape, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Museum, Turin

Videorama. Kunstclips aus Österreich, Kunsthalle Wien

Villa Schöningen an der Glienicker Brücke. Ein deutsch-deutsches Museum, Berlin-Potsdam

City Beats, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York

Engagierte New Yorker Kunst in Prenning, Villa Feuerlöscher, Prenning, Austria

Academy of another City, Signs of Respect, IBA, Hamburg

Signature of war, Sektor 1, Katowice

                2012+, The Drop: Urban Art Infill, New York

WALK ON THE LIGHT SIDE, Erhellende Nächte im Mustergarten des EWZ,eggn'spoon, Zurich

2008

Shanghai Biennal, Shanghai

Ephemeral Frindge, Art Brussels, Brussels

The Art World, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin

Institute für Alpine Angelegenheiten, Bozen

City Beats, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Rotations (One Work), Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago

LA PETITE HISTOIRE, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna

ReCollecting, MAK museum, Vienna

GO NYC, Nin Brudermann – Rainer Ganahl – Mathias Kessle, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems

Manual CC. Game instructions for beginners and advanced players, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Poland

Globale/Locale, 7th Bulgarian Biennal of Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria

2007

Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennial 2007, Venice

Istambul Biennial 2007,Istambul

Performa 07 with Snörfrid, Performance Festival, New York

Moscow Biennial 2007, Left Pop, Moscow

New York, States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin

cabaret voltaire-warszawa, lokal_30, Warsaw

Rainer Ganahl, Mario Garcia Torres, Nate Harrison, Hugo Hopping and John Menick have agreed to participate in an exhibition organized by Nu Nguyen at Sandroni Reyey, Sandroni Reyey, Los Angeles

Riss/Lücke/Scharnier A,Galerie Nächste St. Stephan, Vienna

Extraordinary Rendition, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona

Agitation and Respose,Tanja Bonaktar Gallery, New York

2006

Images War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP show, New York

Imagining Common Lands, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia

Unwrapping the Wing, The Invisible Museum, Denver

Photo_Traffic, Centre d'art Contemporain, Genevaa

Four Freedoms, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvenia

Sol Systéme, Center D'Art Passerelle, Brest

Steiler Konter, Kunstverrein Bregenz,

Bukarest Biennial 2006, Bukarest

Sevilla Biennial 2006, Sevilla

Lire Frantz Fanon, La Box, Bourges

3500 cm2, Rome

The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles

Die Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden

Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

Langues Emmêlées. l'Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Périgueux

Demokratie üben, Westfälischer kunstverein, Münster

Opera Austria, Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato

Pixels of Reality: What do you know, what do you see? Public Space with a Roof, Amsterdam

"Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire" Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

2005

Parallel Lives, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt

150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Wer Visionen hat soll zum Arzt gehen, GAK, Bremen

Poles Apart Poles Together, 51.Venice Biennale, Venice

The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, The Jewish Museum, New York

Leaves of Grass, Hallwalls, Buffolo

Fabric of Fear, 555, Detroit

Christian Boltansky, Michaela Melian, Rainer Ganahl, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

Affinités, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon

La Belgique visionnaire, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels (March)

Interessi zero, Galleria Civica di Art Contemporanea di Trento, Trento

Occupying space, Generali Foundation Sammmlung, Haus der Kunst, München

Trade, White Columns, New York

Unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels

Campus, Warwick Arts Centre The University of Warwick Coventry

2004

When Democracy Was Fun, White Box, New York

General Store, The Four Color Pen Show, lucus projects, Miami

The Mythological Machine - Images and Media, Warwick Arts Centre The University of Warwick Coventry

 No return, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York,

Channel Zero, Montevideo/Time Based Arts

phantom limb, Unit B, Chicago)

Visitas, Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires

Siz Feet Under, White Box, New York

Market Value, Cuchifritos, New York

Occupying Space: Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Bojmanns, Witte de With and Fotomuseum, Rotterdam

Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction, Arti et Amicitiea, Amsterdam

this is for real: war and the contemporary, SAC gallery at Stonyt Brook University

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle; The Schick Gaellery, Saratoga Springs, The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orlean

Pulse of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels

alien3, skor foundation, Amsterdam

works on paper, Southfirst Art, Brooklyn

Lecture Notes, MSVU Art Gallery, Hallifax

2003

Contested Space, Spazio Alcatraz, Florence, Italy                 

Without Fear & Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent

Utopia, 2. Biennial Tirana, Tirana, Albania

24/7 Vilus - New York, Fall 03

2. Biennial of Ceramic in contemporay Art, Albisola

Going Public, Modena, Sassuolo

Niemand ist eine Insel, Public Spaces, Bremen

The tale of the thread. Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, MART, Muso di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Rovereto

EMBASSY, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway.

Bombs Away, The Physics Room gallery , New Zealand

Summit of Intervenitionist Art, Forde, Geneva

Private/Public, Häusler Contemporary, Munich

New York, Fuckking City, Sautfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara (traveling show)

In Media Res,Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes

addition, kunstbüro, Vienna

2002

how to do things with words , kunsthalle wien, Vienna

alien2 screening program , swiss institute, New York

Internationales Netzwerk, (40 Jahre Fluxus und die Folgen), Wiesbaden

alien2 screening program, swiss institute, New York

how to do things with words, magazine4, Bregenz

shift, cuchifritos, New York

re: “la chinoise”, Baumgartner Gallery, New York

Import/Export, Villa Arson, Nice (cat.)

Blick und Bild, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (cat.)

2001

Detourism, Renaissance Society, Chicago

217.174.192.66, Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris

Austrian Comtemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Shanghai Art Museum, (cat.)

Berg_Werk_Stadt_Graz, Werkstadt Graz, Graz

Drawing Project 2: Office of Utopic Procedures, West Space Gallery, Melbourne

Milano Europa 2000, Bovisa, PAC, Milan

Kunst aus dem Osten, ACC gallery, Weimar

Beyond Origin, Video Art, Hellenic American Union Gallery, Kolonaki

Vernaculars: Speaking, Deforming, Inventing the Languages of the Web, Centre George Pompidou, (www.centrepompidou.fr/netart), Paris

In/SITE/Out, Apex Curatorial Program, New York

Blondies and Brownies. Blondinchen und Bräunchen, weiß weiß bin auch ich, Aktionsforum Praterinse, Munich

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Spaghetti Western, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt

2000

Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore

Surrender. I wanna give you devotion, Nimm hin es ist mein Geist und

Sinn, Aeroplastics, Brussels

Import/Export, Museum Arnheim

Action/Recollection, West Space Gallery, Melbourne

Oeuvres Collectives, Les abattoires, Toulouse

Import/Export, Kunstverein Salzburg

Groupshow, BQ, Köln

Man muß ganz schön viel lernen bevor man hier funktioniert, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

Illuminations, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Sequences, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles

1999

Kunst-Welten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Radio temporaire, Radio Suisse Romande, Geneva

Einblicke in die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna

Lascaux2, Villa Arson, Nice

DACH, Galerie Krinzinger im Benger Areal, Bregenz

Offene Handlungsräume, 48th Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice

SITuations COMpromettantes, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, (May)

expander 1.0, Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris

Conceptual Art As Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York

GILBERT & GEORGE, 1970 N. Bronson, Hollywood, Los Angeles

1998

Projects, Candy Factory, Tokyo

way.out, kunstraum kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen

In Vitro e Altro, Cabinet des Estamps, Geneva

                  modular composite, Central Fine Arts, New York

Livestyle, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz

May 17, 1998, May Day Productions, New York

1997

Jingle Bells, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

Miroir cassé: résistances, L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans

postproduktion, Generali Foundation, Vienna

'97 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju exhibition hall, Kwangju, catalogue

New York, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

Zonen der Verstörung, Zones of Disturbance, Steirischer Herbst 1997, Graz, catalogue

The Art Exchange Show, Evelmachine, on various sites, New York

Andere Orte. Öffentliche Räume und Kunst, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Ittingen

Marcello Esposito, Rainer Ganahl, Beat Streuli, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Tours, catalogue

OIR es VER - To HEAR is To SEE, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá

Educational Complex, organized by Rainer Ganahl: Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Ganahl, Candida Höfer, Mike Kelley, Frederick Wiseman, Vienna, catalogue

1996

Selections from the MAB Library, AC-Project Room, New York

Tinsel Tower, Clocktower Gallery, New York

Austria im Rosennetz, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, catalogue

Files, Bunker, Berlin

En Route to M-E-X, Art& Idea, Mexico City

Austria im Rosennetz, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, catalogue

Grenzen, public art initiative, Feldkirch

Österreichische Trienale zur Fotografie: Radikale Bilder, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Szombathely, catalogue

Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin, Gilles Melgrani, Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseilles

Nach Weimar, Neue Museum Weimar, Weimar, catalogue

Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City

Österreichische Trienale zur Fotografie: Radikale Bilder, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, cat.

Quicktimes, http://thing.net/thingnyc, Thing, New York

Version 2.2, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, cat.

Departure Lounge, PS1 Museum, Clocktower, New York

Between the Acts, c/o Gerhardsen, Oslo, cat.

Aquarium, Vidéo-Films, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris..

Between the Acts, Ice Box, Athens, cat. ,

Use As Directed, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa

1995

The Invisible Force, Nomadism as Art Practice, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, catalogue

Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago, cat.

Haizuka project, Haizuka, Japan

On peut toujours tout changer, Usine Fromage, Rouen, cat. avail.

Garbage!, Thread Waxing Space, New York

Custom Colors, Here Art, New York, cat. avail.

Blast 4: Bioinformatica, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, brochure

Daniel Buren, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Rainer Ganahl, Haim Steinbach, Joep Van Lieshout, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille

Mapping, A Response to MoMA, American Fine Art, New York

1994

Gone, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

When attitudes become form, The Mont Claire Art Museum, New Jersey

Pain/Pain Online, Here, New York

Mixbild, Schippers & Krome, Colgone

Possibilismo Americano, Studio Oggetto, Milan

What is in your mind, National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, cat.

Artifice 3, Saint Denis, Paris, cat. 

Le saut dans le vide, New Tretjakowskij Gallery, Moscow

Suture - Fantasies of Totality, Kunstverein Salzburg, cat.

Localzeit - Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Forum aktueller Kunst - Raum Stohal, Vienna, cat. 

Art After Collecting, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne.

1993

Viennese Stories, Secession, Vienna, cat.

Utopia Del Possibile, fra America ed Europa, Foyer Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova, cat.

Groupshow, Massimo de Carlo, Milan

In Between, Floating Gallery, Tokyo

More than Zero, Le Magasin, Grenoble, cat.

Before the Sound of the Beep, various sites in Paris, cat.

Par les Yeux du Langage, Musée de Marseille, Marseilles

Binera, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, cat. 

1992

Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, cat.

One plus One, Galerie du Mois, Paris

Brain: Internal Affairs, Beatrixziekenhuis, Gorinchem, cat.

L’Ere Binaire, Musée D’Ixelles, Brussels, cat.

Up Date, White Columns, New York, cat.

Greatest Hits, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

Letter S Road: RE-marks on Site, Omi, New York

The Big Nothing, The New Museum, New York, cat.

Apt. Art Int., Moscow

1991

L’esprit bibliothèque, La Galerie du Mois, Paris

1990

No, ..., Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris, cat.

Passage de l’Image, (touring exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, catalogue

Art Cologne, (Förderkoje), Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, cat.

Act Up Conference, Amsterdam (Time Based Arts Gallery)

1989      

Germination V, Musée d’Art Contemporain St. Pière, Lyon, cat.

Wortlaut, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, catalogue

1988

Stilleben, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, catalogue

Selected Bibliography

not updated.... see books made and avaialbe on amazon   

2019

Dear Kissick, A Series of Chaotic Events at MX Gallery, Cultured Mag, 07.31.2019

2018
Roberta Smith,On the Hunt for Artistic Gems at Frieze The New York Times, Marx 3, 2018
In their own words: ten Frieze New York artists tell us about their works for the Frame section THE ARTNEWSPAPERR. May 2018

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, How a 19th-Century Absurdist Playwright Accidentally Predicted Trump, Ubu Roi

is newly relevant, thanks to our fascist president, Inthetimes.com, culture, April 3rd, 2018

2017
Andrew Russeth , Trump Ubu Alles: Rainer Ganahl Remakes an Alfred Jarry Classic in a Harlem Funeral Home, artnews, 12/12/17 3:05 PM

Sarah Valdez, A Play at a Harlem Funeral Home Confronts the Absurdities of Trump,Vice Magazine, Dec 7, 2017

                Sarah, Cascone, Did Tinder Swipe Left on Political Art in the Hamptons? Accusations Fly After Show at Surf Lodge, artnews, August 3, 2017 

Rainer Ganahl at Panorma Boa Vista, Porto, Contemporary Art Daily, April 28, 2017

Rainer Ganahl at Kai Matsumiya, New York, Contemporary Art Daily, April 21, 2017

Holland Cotter, 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side, The New York Times, April 27, 2017
Rachel Corbett, New York Magazine, 22 Artists, Critics, and Curators on What Makes Protest Art

Successful April 20, 2017

Painting History: Delacroix for the Digital Age, Modern Painters, March/April 2017

Rainer Ganahl at Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Contemporary Art Daily,January 3, 2017

2016

                Paige K. Bradley, Artforum diary, OH, LA LA, Artforum, 02/03/2016

Artforum, instagram

Brainard Carey - Rainer Ganahl, Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX, Yale radio, 2016

2015

Rachel Corbett, Talk of the Town: Art Squatt, Rainer Ganahl's Tough-Love Artist Residency,
New Yorker, January 18, 2016

Sara Roffino, RAINER GANAHL with Sara Roffino, Brooklyn Rail,October 2015

                As It Revamps, the Hirshhorn Adds Work to Its Collection and Members to Its Board, NY Observer, 3/17/2015

2014

Roberta Smith, Roberta Smith"s Top Art Shows of 2014, Gober, Koons and more,

The New York Times,12/14/2014

Rainer Ganahl at DE Vleeshal, CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY,9/12/2014

Martha Schwendener , Rainer Ganahl, El Mundo, The New York Times, May 1, 2014

Elisa Gallant, RAINER GANAHL "EL MUNDO" at Kai Matsumiya, New York Purple diary, Nov 2014

                 Simon Watson, Storfronts, huffingtonpost.com, 04/29/2014 

                 Audrey Rose Smith, Rainer Ganahl, 'El Mundo at Kai Matsumiya,Lower East Side", Out of Order, May 2014

2013

Matthew Higgs, Best Of 2013, Artforum, December 2013

                 David Adler, Art and Economics at the Athens Biennale, The Financial Times, 11/18/13

Tracy Zwick, Comme des Marxists: Rainer Ganahl’s Runway Show, Art in America, November 2013

Elisa Gallant, Purple diary, Nov 2013

                 Andrew Rosseth, There is only one Karl !, NY Gallerist

                 Renata Silberblatt, El Barrio's Haunted Houses, Urban Omnibus, Sept 2013

Fontanaganahl, Zingmagazine, 2013

2012

                 Cathryn Drake, Tri, Tri Again, Artforum Diary, November 2012

Wozu sind Währungen da? Simon Rothöhler, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, TAZ, Berliner Tageszeitung,                   16. Feb. 2012

                 Michael Erard, Babel No More, The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, Free                  Press, New York Toronto, London, Sydney, New Dellhi, 2012

2011

Tom Williams, Engineers of the Souls, Postmasters, New York, Art in America, 2/23/2011

2010

Roberta Smith, Rainer Ganahl: 'Language of Emigration & Pictures of

Emigration' The New York Times, April 23, 2010

Urusla Maria Probst, Rainer Ganahl. Dadalenin, 'Dada fuer alle!' kunstforum Feb. 2010

John Beeson, Sight Mapping, Rainer Ganahl: Art in Context, BOMBLOG, www.bombsite.powweb.com/?p=13142, August 18, 2010

2008

Colby Chamberlain Rainer Ganahl, FRUIT AND FLOWER DELI, Artforum.com April Pick, 2008

Carol Yinghua Lu, 7th Shanghai Biennial, Frieze, November, December 2008

2007

Rainer Ganahl, VOGUE UOMO May, June, 2007

Holland Cotter, ‘AGITATION AND REPOSE’Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, The New York Times, August 10, 2007

Olu Oguibe, An Artist's Biennial, Frieze, October 2007

Martin Herbert, 2nd. Sevilla Biennial, Frieze, October 2007

Pia Jardi, Rainer Ganahl, Communication and power, Lapiz 229, 2007

2006

Craig Martin, Rainer Ganahl, The communication of knowledge and the parameters of educational systems, Frieze, September 2006

Rainer Ganahl, Seminar/Lectures, Metropolis, August/September 2006,

Aaron Moulton, Reriferic 7 and Bucharest Biennial 2, Flash Art International, July - September 2006

Rika, Hiro, Can you swim through the society of motorization without wobbling? in "Around the Globe: from L.A." in Bijutsu Techo, July 2006, p.

Martha Schwendener, Rainer Ganahl at Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, Artforurm, February 2006

Please, teach me, book review, tema celeste, contemporary art, 114, March/Aprill 2006 06

                Eleanor Heartney, Rainer Ganahl, Wallach Galleryh, Columbia University, book review,art press 321, March 2006

                Didier Arnaudet, Langes emmêlées, ,art press 322 April 2006, p. 82-83

                Krystian Woznicki, Please, teach me.. Rainer Ganahl and teh Poliltics of Learning, New York, (Wallach Art Gallery), 2005 , Springerin Band XII, Heft 2 ,                 Frühjar 2006, p. 82-83 ,

                Max Hollein, Rainer Ganahl, Erziehungskomplex, in: Max Hollein, Unternehmen Kunst, Entwicklungen und Verwicklungen, (Lindinger, Schmid Verlag)                 Regensburg 2006
2005

Rainer Ganahl in conversation with Paul Mattick, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2005

Grace Glueck, 'The Jewish Identity Project', American Jewishness in All Its Infinite Variety, The New York Times, October 10, 2005

Bernadette Felber, Rainer Ganahl, Flash Art , July - September 2005

Miaka Pollock, Trade at White Columns, Flash Art , May - June, 2005

Faye Hirsch, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Art in America, May 2005

                Andrew Maerkle, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Zingmagazine, 2005

Rainer Ganahl, When Attitudes Become - Curating, Manifesta Journal, N4, Winter 2004/05

Holland Cotter, Trade, White Columns, The New York Times, February 25, 2005

A Life in Picutres, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, , (S/L Susan Sontag ..., photograph) Artforurm, March 2005

2004

Katy Siegel and Paul Mattick, Money, Thames & Hudson 2004

Holland Cotter, No Return, Momenta Art, The New York Times, October 1, 2004

Manami Fujimori, Rainer Ganahl, BT Vol. 56, No. 847, Arpril 2004

untimely ends, Homi K. Bhabha on Edward Said, (S/L Edward Said ..., photograph) Artforurm, February 2004

Rainer Ganahl, Iraq Dialogs, Zingmagazine, Issue 19, Winter 2004

A History of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Howard Singerman, (2 S/L photographs) Artforum, February 2004

Maria Fusco, Rainer Ganal, The Angry Optimist, afterart news, January 2004

2003

Maria Fusco, angry optimists, art monthly Dec.-Jan.2003-04 n. 272

Edward Said, Imperiale Sichtweisen, (S/L photographs) springerin, Winter 2003

Francesco Manacorda, Homeland Security – l’arte come strumento di riflessione politica, Flash Art Italian Edition, November 2003

Maria Fusco, book review art monthly December - January.2003-04

Martha Schwendener, Rainer Ganahl at Base, Artforum, February 2003

Holland Cotter, New York, Southfirst: Art, New York Times, 2/21/03

2002
Edward Leffingwell, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, Art in America, September 2002

Suzanne Dieter, Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner, zingmagazine, 18, Autumn 2002

Diana Baldon, Rainer Ganahl, Tema Celeste contemporary art, 91, May/June 2002

Francesca Pasini, I rifletti di Marx, Linus, January 2002

2001
Jan Verwoert, Rainer Ganahl, Frieze, November 2001

A. S. Bessa, Rainer Ganahl, Seminars / Lectures, 1995 - , zingmagazine, 15, 2001

Raul Zamudio, Rainer Ganahl, Baumgartner Gallery, zingmagazine, 15, Spring 2001

Gregory Williams, Rainer Ganahl, Baumgartner Gallery, Artforum, Summer 2001

Daniela Gregori, Stimmen aus der Ferne, Rainer Ganahl in der Wiener Galerie

Nächst St. Stephan, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3/10/2001, Nr. 59/ p. 57

2000

                  Rainer Ganahl, Discontent in Austria, Camera Austria International, 72/2000

Roberto Costantino, Broken Language, Flash Art Italiana, nr. 223, Summer 2000

Anselm Wagner, Michymaus lädt nach Auschwitz ein, Die Beiträge des Salzburger Kunstvereins, Der Standard, 7/24/2000

Konstanze Crüwell, Migration und Identität: eine Ausstellung im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 2/30/2000, Nr. 4/p. 25

1999

Rainer Ganahl, George Baker, Letters to the Editor, Artforum, September 1999

Rainer Ganahl, Interface Passages, New Observations 122, Summer 1999

Barry Schwabsky, Rainer Ganahl, ArtByte, II 2, Summer 1999

Nancy Princenthal, Rainer Ganahl at Max Protetch, Art in America, May 1999

Caspar Stracke, Where is Rainer? Thing.net review.

Momoyo Torimitsu, Keep moving away from your mother tongue... Austria Kultur, Vol. 9. No. 3, May/June 1999

George Baker Rainer Ganahl: Max Protetch Gallery, Artforum, April 1999

Robert C. Morgan, Rainer Ganahl: Max Protetch Gallery, artpress, 245, april 1999

Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistics, Purple 3, Summer 1999

Bill Arning, Rainer Ganahl, Max Protetch Gallery, Time Out New York, Issue No. 175, Jan. 28 - Feb. 5, 1999

Matt Freedman, Rainer Ganahl, Max Protetch Gallery, Review, The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, January 15, 1999

Thomas Wulffen, Ortssprache - Local Language, Kunstforum International, Bd. 143, Jan. Feb. 1999

1998

Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistics. Sprachspiel – Language game, Kuva, 5-6, 1998

Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Rainer Ganahl, Imported – A Reading Seminar; Ortssparche - Local Language, Springerin, December 1998, Nr.4

Ricardo Dominguez, Imported: A Reading Seminar edited by Rainer Ganahl, 8/28/1998, www.thing.net, reviews

Martin Tupper, Imported - Rainer Ganahl, Interview, Blocnotes 15, Summer 1998

Gregory Volk, Kwangju Biennale, World Art, April 1998

Barry Schwabsky, “Subject X”, Notes on Performative Art, Part 1, Art/Text, Nr. 60, February, April 1998

Robert Fauser, 1997 Kwangju Biennale, Art/Text, Nr. 60, February, April 1998

1997

Kwangju Biennale 1997, BT, November 1997

Laura Chiesa, Rainer Ganahl, EA-Generali Foundation, Flash Art International, Summer 1997

Barry Schwabsky, Rainer Ganahl, Windows on the Word, in Barry Schwabsky, The Widening Circle, Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997

Thomas Wulffen, Rainer Ganahl, Erziehungskomplex, Generali Foundation, Kunstforum, Bd. 137 Juni - August 1997

Reinhard Braun, Rainer Ganahl: Erziehungskomplex, EA-Generali Foundation, Wien, Camera Austria International, 57/58, 1997

Max Hollein, Rainer Ganahl, Educational Complex, Generali Foundation, zingmagazine 4, summer 1997

Paulo Bianchi, Rainer Ganahl, Please, teach me..., Kunstforum International, Bd. 137, Juni - August 1997

Roberto Costantino, Rainer Ganahl, Assimo De Carlo, Milano, Flash Art, giugno, luglio 1997

Francesca D’Antona, Ri-leggere Pasolini, Exlibris, 7, april 1997

Maria Wutz, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, zingmagazine 3, autumne/winter 1996/97

Tom F. McDonough, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, zingmagazine 3, autumne/winter 1996/97;

Vitus H. Weh, Der Tod des Malerschweins, Falter 8, 1997

Johanna Hofleitner, Dokument und Plüsch, Die Presse, 2/6/1997

Rainer Metzger, Der Olymp der Trenddenker, Ein "Erziehungskomplex": Rainer Ganahl in der Genarali Foundation, Der Standard, 1/30/1997

1996

Jeff Rian, Letters from Paris, www.artnet.com

Yan C., Rainer Ganahl, Lecture, voyage et Internet, Technikart, N.8, Décembre - Janvier 1997

Natacha Carron, Read me frist, Coda 28, Décembre 1996

John Ipolito, Where has all the uncertainty gone, Flash Art International, Summer 1996

Perenosnoe (ne slishkom idealnoe) Iskystbo, [A Portable (Not So Ideal) Art] Interview Rainer Ganahl - Alexej Medwedev, Chudoshestvenny Journal 12, Moscow, July 1996

Jean-Christophe Royoux, Exposition(s) du récit après la littérature, Omnibus Nr.16, April 1996 Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau, Essais de dialectique idiolectiale, à propos d travail de Rainer Ganahl, Omnibus Nr.16, April 1996

Susan Kandel, A Bare-Bones Look at Cyberspace Totems, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1996

1995

Janine Gorden, Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin at Sandra Gering, New York, Flash Art International, Nov. 1995

Kim Levin, Voice Selections: Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin at Sandra Gering T he Village Voice, New York October 1994

Yekaterina Dyogot, Terroristischer Naturalismus, Springer, Heft 4, Sept 1995

Rosanne Altstatt, Knowledge is Power, zingmagazine, Fall 1995

Susan Kandel, Grouped Together to Stand Apart, Los Angeles Times,Jan.12, 1995

The Thing, Manami Fujimori, BT Magazine, Feb. 1995

Olivier Zahm, grec moderne basic, Purple Prose, Winter 1995

1994

News from New York, New Project for The Thing, Flash Art International, Oct 1994

Reba White Williams, News of the Print world: People & Places: The Thing, The Print Collector's Newsletter, Sept.- Oct.1994

Gabriele Rivet, Art after Collecting, BT Magazine, June 1994

Wolfgang Staehle (ed.), Snap to Grid, The Thing, New York, (BBS Interview with different participants), February 1994

Yukiko Shikata, Studio Voice, March 1994

Kim Levin, Voice Selections: Rainer Ganahl, The Village Voice, New York February 1994

Todd Alden, Rainer Ganahl: Mapping the Space of Information, Kunstforum, Jan/Feb. 1994

1993

Nancy Shalala, Rainer Ganahl at Person’s Weekend Museum, Japan Times, Sunday, November 14, 1993

News from Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, Flash Art International, November/December 1993

Robert Fleck, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, Flash Art International,  May/June 1993

Maria Campitelli, Rainer Ganahl, Juliet, June 1993

Barry Schwabsky, À propos de l’art de Rainer Ganahl, The Art of Rainer Ganahl, Artpress, April 1993

Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, Forum International, March 1993

Patricia Brignone, Par les Yeux du Langage, Arte Factum, March 1993

Eleanor Heartney, Rainer Ganahl, Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York, Art in America, March 1993

Rainer Ganahl, Foucault... bourr. text 1, Documents, Paris, Feb. 1993

1992

Olivier Zahm, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, Artforum, Dec.1992

News/Information: Rainer Ganahl at Massimo de Carlo, Flash Art Italiana, March/April 1992

Jerôme Sans, Rainer Ganahl, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Artpress, June 1992

1991      

Olivier Zahm, No, not that one. It’s not a chair, Galerie 1900-2000, Artpress, May 1991

1989

Dieter Daniels, Rainer Ganahl, Paul Garrin at the Museum Folkwang, Kunstforum, Dec. 1989

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BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS, TEXTS AND INTERVIEWS

BOOKS:

- Henry Kissinger, Daumenlutscher Press, Berlin, edited by Peng Xiangheng, 2024

- Recent Paintings by Rainer Ganahl: Geographical Blurr, Charmoli Ciarmoli, New York City, 2024

- In-Justice Reader,

- Manhattan Marxism, Sternberg Press, Berlin, edited by Rachel Corbett, 2019

- credit crunch, Rainer Ganahl

- Ubu Trump, Rainer Ganahl

- Road to War, Rainer Ganahl, Kai Matsumiya publications

- Dadalenin, Rainer Ganahl, Taube Munich, Zurich

- El Mundo, Mousse Pubications, Milan

- Rainer Ganahl, I wanna be Alfred Jarry, edited by Ingred Brugger, Heike Eipeldauer,
Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst, Nuernberg 2012

- Use a bicycle, Rainer Ganahl, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

- "Please, teach me" - Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning
by William Kaizen
Wallach gallery, New York, Revolver, Frankfurt, 2005,

- MONEY AND DREAMS: COUNTING THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIGMUND FREUD BANKNOTE
by Rainer Ganahl
Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2005

- Road to War, 2005
by Rainer Ganahl
MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne

- NEXT TARGET - Versteinerte Politik / Petrified Politics, 2004
by Rainer Ganahl
Published by GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen), and Revolver, Frankfurt

- Please, write your opinons of U.S. politics...,
by Rainer Ganahl, onestarpress, Paris, 2003
Onestar Press. Paris

- lueneburger-heide-sprechen,
by Rainer Ganahl
Revolver, Frankfurt 2003

- Reading Karl Marx
by Rainer Ganahl
bookworks, London, 2001

- Educational Complex
ed. Sabine Breitwieser
Generali Foundation, Vienna 1997

- Ganahl-Dütsch, Ganahl-Dütsch, Gloacal Language, LOCAL Lanugage, Voranglisch …
by Rainer Ganahl
KUB, Bregenz 1998

- IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar
ed. Rainer Ganahl
Semiotext(e), New York 1998

- Rainer Ganahl
By Rainer Ganahl
Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo 1994

- Rainer Ganahl
By Rainer Ganahl
Galerie Roger Pailhas,1992,

- Rainer Ganahl
By Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art, 1991

- Open window
By Rainer Ganahl
Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne 1990

- files and windows
By Rainer Ganahl
Neue Texte, Graz 1990

Published Texts written by Rainer Ganahl (a selection)

Road to War - The burning ofh gone evil onto a pathetic extrenal hard drive, 2005
In: Rainer Ganahl, Road to war, Mumok, 2005
Who wants to know anyway? 2004
In: Rainer Ganahl, Counting the last days of the Sigmund Freud banknote, 2005
Whne attitudes become curating, 2004
In: Manifesta Journal, Journal, N4, Winter 2004/05
Refined Information and petrified politics, 2003
In: Rainer Ganahl, Refined Information and petrified politics, Bremen 2004
Homeland Security, Paranoia, Terrorism, 2003
In: Rainer Ganahl, Please, write your opinons of U.S. politics...,, Paris 2003
Going public, 2003
In: Hannes Brunner (ed.), Ein sieben Jahres Buch, Kiel, 2003
Free Markets: Language, Commodification, and Art, 2001
in "Translation in a Global Market," special issue of Public Culture, guest edited by Emily Apter (vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 2001)
Discontent in Austria, 2000
In: Camera Austria International, 7/2/2000
Educational complex, 1997
In: Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Educational Complex, Vienna1997
Local language - gloacal language, 1997
In: Rainer Ganahl, Ganahl-Dütsch, Gloacal Language, LOCAL Lanugage, Voranglisch …, Bregenz 1998
Lesen, Sprechen, Lernen, Lehren / Reading, speaking, learning, teaching, 1995
In: Rainer Ganahl (ed.), IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar, New York 1998
Museums and public/counter-public space in the global-captialist era of digital convertability, 1997/98
In: Christian Kravagna and KUB (ed.), The Museum as arena, Artists on institutional critique, Buchhandlung Walter Köng, Colgne, 2001
Foucault... bourr. text 1, 1993
In: Documents, Paris, Feb. 1993

Unpublished text (a selection) - available on w ww.ganahl.info

For Christ's sake! 0 Cursing with Deleuze, Laurence and Nietzsche, 2004
Copying newspapers - copying with news, 2003
Hotmail for desperate living, 2002
Public discourse and Private Realm, 1998
Last night, I went to a lecture at MOMA, 1997
Sprache im Zeitalter globaler Vernetzung / Language in the era of global networks, 1998
Arbeit, Ware, Unterhaltung, Wissen, Kritik, Kunst… / work, products, entertainment, knowledge, criticism, art …, 1998
Travellling linguistics, 1995
Computers - networks - artworks, 1995
Borges, Maps, Computers, GPS, Police, Kant, Interfaces & Nostalgia, 1995
Nihong - Jpanese for Everybody (in French only), 1994
Interfaces, 1993

Published interviews (a selection)

Diana Baldon - Rainer Ganahl, 2001
In: Tema Celeste (Magazine). May 2002
Craig Martin, et alter - Rainer Ganahl, Stamina, 2001
In: Rainer Ganahl, Reading Karl Marx, bookworks, London, 2001
Thomas Hirschhorn - Craig Martin, Rainer Ganahl - A conversation, 2001
In: Perché, Nr. 5, Bergamo 2005
Rainer Ganahl - Antonio Negri, Marx and again Marx, 2001
In: William Kaizen, “Please, teach me” - Rainer Ganahl and the politics of learning, New York, Frankfurt 2005
Momoyo Torimitsu - Rainer Ganahl, Keep moving away from your mother tongue, 1999
In: Peter Weibel (ed.) Offene Handlungsräume, Catalog for the Austrian Pavillion of the 48th Venice Biennale, Vienna, 1999 and in: Chain, Translucinacion, Nr. 10, Honolulu, Philadelphia 2003
Rainer Ganahl - Julia Kristeva, Sens and non-sens of revolt, 1996
In: Julia Kristeva, Revolt, She Said, Semiotext(e), MIT Press, 2002
Rainer Ganahl - Benjamin Buchloh, Böse Bemerkungen zwischen Moskau und Los Angeles / Mean remarks between Moscow and Los Anegles, 1997
In: Rainer Ganahl (ed.), IMPORTED - A reading seminar, Semiotext(e), New York 1998

Unpublished interviews (a selection) - - available on w ww.ganahl.info

Stephan Pascher - Rainer Ganahl, Basic Linguistic Services, 1996
Zeigam Azizov - Rainer Ganahl, Linguini, Languages and Cultures, 1996
Maria Wurtz - Rainer Ganahl, importation/exportation (French), 1996
Wolfgang Staehle - Rainer Ganahl, Snap to Grid, 1994
Michael Cohen - Coldness and Fluidity, 1995
Rainer Ganahl - Oscar Negt, 1995

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short biography:

Rainer Ganahl is a New York-based artist who has been shown internationally, including at the Venice Biennial (1999, 2007, 2009) and at the Shanghai, Athens, Sevilla and Gwangju Biennials. He has had solo gallery exhibitions at Kai Matsumiya, New York  (2017, 2016, 2015), Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2017), Alex Zachary, New York (2010), Paul Pettro, Toronto, (2000, 2004, 2008, 2018), Levy Delval, Brussels (2009, 2010, 2013) among others. Earlier solo gallery shows include those at Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Blum and Poe, L.A., Philomene Magers, Cologne, Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York , Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, Max Protetch, New York, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan and others. He has held institutional solo shows at the Dallas Museum of Art, Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, White Columns, New York, Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, New York, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, MAK Vienna, and the Fashion Space Gallery, University of the Arts London.
Ganahl is an alumni of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, and the Art Academy of Dusseldorf, where he studied in the class of Nam June Paik.