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Solo + Groupshows12 07 2025 — 02 08 2025Group Show: Half Dry, Half Memory, @TROST, Graz (AT) /w Yixuan Hu , Jan Brauer, Maxine Weiss, Jakob Braito, Ömer Kaplan, Ilinca Fechete, Julian Siffert, René Stiegler, Markus Sworcik
24 05 2025Group Show: Hope this finds you IRL @ Area Manca — between the main station and Löwenbräukunst-Areal, Art Intervention in collaboration with Akademie der Bildenden Künste München and Area Manca, Zürich (CH) /w Anja Lekavski, Coco Sahara, Elio Mueller, Ilinca Fechete, Jiwon Song, Julia Speck, Nicola Kötterl, René Stiegler + Markus Sworcik, Salon Overdue — Hanne Kaunicnik & Lara Fritz in collaboration with Maxi Ehrenzeller, Tabitha Nagy, Tatjana Vall, The BERG13 04 2025 — 17 07 2025Group Show: 25 2 @ L201, Graz (AT) /w Angelika Wischermann, Linus Riepler, Martina Menegon
20 02 2024Group Show: A Little Bit of Solidarity Goes a Long Way @ zirka.space, Munich (DE) /w René Stiegler, Adam Varab, Angus Scratch Green, Bokyoung Jeong, Berk Tuncer, Christian Eisenberg, Emma Bombail, Hannah Maria Mutterer, 라현진 Hyunjin La, Jannis Besen, Ju Young Kim, Kurt Fritsche/Joshua Gottmanns, Natalie Cäcilie Brehmer, Anna Milena Wojhan, Heilige Sau, Nikolai Gümbel, Pauline Stroux, Tatjana Vall, Tea Strazicic, Theodor Nymark, Younsik Kim, Maximilian Koppernock, shhhbang, Gent Selmanaj
01 12 2023 — 09 12 2023Group Show: Klasse Bircken/Vogel @ Kunstarkaden Munich, Munich (DE) /w René Stiegler , Dennis Eberl, Pauline Stroux, Julia Dietrich, Lorand Lajos, Luisa Heinz, Jiaqi Sun, Kurt Fritsche / Joshua Gottmanns, Younsik Kim, Nicola Kötterl, Jiangyue Guo, Eunjin Yoo, Gent Selmanaj, Jannis Besen, Tariq Jibrini, Maxine Weiss, Yoojin Kim, Sofiia Kryshchuk
21 09 2023 — 15 10 2023Steirischer Herbst — Humans and Demons @ Steirischerherbst Festival, Graz (AT), /w René Stiegler , Pavel Brăila, Mateja Bučar, Andrea Büttner, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Jasmina Cibic, Alice Creischer, Lucile Desamory, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Vadim Fishkin, Andreas Fogarasi, Hollis Frampton, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Georg Haberler, Adrienn Hód, Hodworks, Anton Kats, Ilyich, Dana Kavelina, Maria Loboda, Madame Nielsen, Eteri Nozadze, Lulu Obermayer, Michael Portnoy, Shimabuku, Michael Stevenson, Meg Stuart, Theater Im Bahnhof, Giacomo Veronesi
13 05 2023Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @ Postgarage Parking Space, Graz (AT), /w René Stiegler , Kay Yoon, Hanna Besenhard, Sophia Gatzkan, Vassilissa Grebenshchikova, Jonas Morgenthaler, Jakob Kolb, Matt Endler
15 02 2023 — 19 02 2023Group Show: Called for Photography 2022 @ Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
03 10 2022 — 02 11 2022Group Show: Call for Photography @The Smallest Gallery, Graz (AT)
05 08 2022 — 24 09 2022Duo Show: A terrible doorstop (Markus Sworcik / René Stiegler), @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
22 10 2021 — 26 11 2021Group Show: HETZ @ Roter Keil, Graz (AT)
29 06 — 29 07 2021Group Show: 100Beuys @ Büro für Pessimismus, Graz (AT)
17 09 — 28 11 2020Group Show: In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT)
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Iris Christine Aue, Deborah Birch / Veza Fernández, Günter Brus / Jörg Schlick, Fedo Ertl, Josef Fürpass, e.d gfrerer, Daniel Hafner, Veronika Hauer, Marlene Hausegger, Matthias Jäger / Bernhard Wolf, Roman Klug, Zita Oberwalder, Clara Oppel, Keyvan Paydar, Erwin Polanc, Wendelin Pressl, David Reumüller, Isa Riedl, Christina Helena Romirer, Karoline Rudolf, Irmgard Schaumberger, Maria Schneider, Markus Sworcik, Lea Titz
27 09 2020Group Show: Context Cocktail @ Lager 2 / Waagner Biro Straße 117 (AT)
Alexandru Cosarca, Marta Navaridas, Schleni Schlivko, Katharina Sieghartsleitner, Friedrich Becke, Lena Prehal
14 09 — 09 10 2020Solo Show: Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
06 06 2019 — 07 06 2019Group Show: Oh Please Do with Karl Karner, Wolfgang Becksteiner, Armin Pichler, Nicole Wogg, Pia Pivec, David Leitner @ Fifteen Seconds Festival, Graz (AT)
05 05 2019Screening: Basically, they are just Separated
(‘旧写真 Old Images’) via the theoneminutes.org, curated by Tao Hui
@ East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
@ 65th International Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
@ Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)
@ Dortmunder U (DE)
@ Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
@ Museum Hilversum (NL)
@ Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
@ De School, Amsterdam (NL)
28 02 — 05 03 2019Group Show: Zeitraum —
@ 9 Tage Kunst & Café, Zeitraum, Graz (AT)
02 02 — 18 04 2019Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy, @ HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Künstlerhaus — Halle für Kunst & Medien), Curated by Sandro Droschl, Artists: Thomas Baumann, Candice Breitz, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Tony Cokes, Petra Cortright, Folkert de Jong, Verena Dengler, Ryan Gander, Yuri Pattison, Signe Pierce, Jim Shaw, Gunther Skreiner, Markus Sworcik, Amalia Ulman, Martha Wilson, Joseph Zehrer, Graz (AT)
08 01 — 11 01 2019Group Show: Residue Posing / Ortwein Stipendium 2018, @ Schaumbad Freies Atelier, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein, @ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
08 03 2018Group Show: Art on Prescription — Art sur Ordonnance, Paris, @ Musée du quai Branly 37, Paris (FR)
09 02 — 11 02 2018Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, @ Volke 4, Graz (AT)
09 10 — 31 10 17Solo Show: RETAW, RETAW Falls, @ Popup Gallery Füll die Lück, Curated by Keyvan Paydar, Graz (AT)
13 05 — 26 11 2017Group Show: Art on Prescription, Offspace Project during the Venice Biennale 2017, @ La Biennale di Venezia 2017 (IT)
05 05 — 07 05 2017Group Show Galerientage Graz, @ Artepari with Constantin Luser, Anna Maria Bogner, Graz (AT)
09 01 — 12 01 2017Group Show, @ Cuntra la Cultra, Graz (AT)
07 12 — 12 12 2016Group Show: MHD, @ Schmiede36, Graz (AT)
02 05 — 07 05 2016Group Show, @ Lendwirbel, Kunsthaus Graz (Innenhof), Graz (AT)
17 06 2015Live-Performance: Group Show, Hail Of Bullets (Roter Keil, The Third War), @ Designhalle Graz (AT)
08 02 2014Performance TTMMM with Hella Comet, @ Volt, Graz (AT)

Curatorial
11 12 2025 — 23 01 2026
Group Show: Doubled presence in a disembodied space, @TROST, Graz (AT)
Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, Sofiia Yesakova

12 07 — 02 08 2025Group Show: Half Dry, Half Memory, @TROST, Graz (AT)
Julian Siffert, Yixuan Hu, Jan Brauer, Maxine Weiss, Jakob Braito, Ömer Faruk Kaplan, Ilinca Fechete, René Stiegler, Markus Sworcik
13 05 2023Group Show: Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection @Postgarage, Graz (AT)
06 07 — 08 07 2018Group Show: Kein Fett in der Ecke with Meisterklassen Ortwein, @ Halle 5, Graz (AT)
09 02 — 11 02 2018Group Show: Something Goes Wrong Wenn ich Schlafe with Hannes Schauer, @ Volke 4, Graz (AT)

PRESS+FEATURES

ARTIST TALKS+INTERVIEWS
15 09 2022 A terrible doorstop /w Rene Stiegler, Jan Hasenauer @ KEIL Gallery, Graz (AT)
16 02 2022 Vorort Künstlerinnen Stammtisch @ QL–Gallery, Afro-Asian Institute Graz (AT)
28 11 2020 In Suspense / Albeit Unintentionally – Rather Acrobatic
@ ROTOR – Association for Comtemporary Art, Graz (AT) – Last day of the exhibition Discuss the exhibition with: Lea Titz, Markus Sworcik und Markus Waitschacher
09 02 2019 Radio Helsinki Interview / Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy, @ Künstlerhaus — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
21 03 2019 Artist Talk with Gunther Skreiner / Group Show: Hate Speech — Aggression and Intimacy, @ Künstlerhaus — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

SCHOLARSHIP, GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS+RESIDENCIES
2025 — 2026 Studio Funding ART SPACE STYRIA Scholarship / KUNSTRAUM STEIERMARK Stipendium
14 09 — 09 10 2020 Residency @ Atelier im Schwimmbad, Wies (AT)
2020Book: "刹那即永恒 — One Minute is Eternal", The One Minutes (NL)
2019Catalogue: Katalück 2016-2019 / Project Documentation: Exhibition Series "Füll die Lück" (Fill the Gap) Pop-up Gallery "Bordsteinschwalbe", Graz (AUT)
2018Ortweinschool of Art and Design Grant