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