Rainer Ganahl

Rainer Ganahl (born 18 October 1961 in Bludenz) is an Austrian-American artist. His work consists of photographs, videos and performances.

From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Peter Weibel) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Nam June Paik). He was a member of the 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City. He is currently a professor of visual arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Ganahl started his career exploring computer based art, a pioneering field for its time. His first exhibition in this area was demonstrated at Philomene Magers in 1990.

His best known work, S/L (Seminars/Lectures), is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 1995, of well-known cultural critics addressing audiences. The photographs, taken in university class rooms and lecture halls, not only show the lecturer but also the listeners and students in the audience. In a similar way, he documented his own process of learning an “exotic” language (e. g., Basic Japanese) into an art project.

In his Imported-Reading Seminars held from 1995 onward, the group study of theoretical works from specific countries were documented on video. His exhibition "El Mundo" at Kai Matsumiya was recently listed as one of the top exhibitions of 2014 by the New York Times. and the film was subsequently acquired in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirschorn Collection at the Smithsonian.

Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
Rainer Ganahl's Website

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018	Comme des Marxists, Fashion Space Gallery,University of the Arts London, Oct 5, 2018 - Jan 2019
	Seminars/Lectures, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
	Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Ialian, Fashion Show /performance, Centro Pecci, Prato 2018
	Seminars/Lectures, Frieze Art Fair, 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	Kai Matsumiya, New York, (fall 2015)
	Oracle, Berlin (spring 2015)
	El Mundo, Kai Matsumiya, New York
	SWISS JARRY, Hacienda, Zurich
	De Vleeshal Middelburg
	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 (Spring 2012) Kunstverrein Neuhausen (spring)
2011	The condition 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 motherfatherdaughrter, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 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 College 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	bicycle, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2003	GAG, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Kunstbüro, Vienna Das Zählen der letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote, project wall, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Casco, Utrecht Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris
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
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) Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck Max Protetch, New York
1998	Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, catalogue Stadtwerkstatt 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, cat. available 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, cat. avail. 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

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, ÔøΩber die Poetiken und Politiken der Stimme, WÔøΩrttembergischer 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

Selected Group Shows
2018	Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future, Hayward Gallery, London, May Objects like us, Contemporary At 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 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
2014	"Underground," Schoenenbourg, France "Kongress der Artikulation," Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin "Sound and Vision, The Sceenings" Paris / Photo, Los Angeles "Toujours / Présent,"s Outcast/ Incorporated, Paris "Take Liberty," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo .... Stadtwerkstadt Graz, Graz "Monads with Windows / Strange Teaching", Künstlerhaus Held, Leipzig Vexations. A long, long, long night (and day) at the piano, Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis Joyride", Marlborough Broom Street, New York Soft Nepotism, Bar du Bois, Vienna Peace among the animals, Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo Creativity Exercises, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
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 KÔøΩnigs / 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
	Editions Part One, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
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 WalmArt, 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, Buffalo Fabric of Fear, 555, Detroit Christian Boltansky, Michaela Melian, Rainer Ganahl, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt Affinités, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon Beliques Visionaires, 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	Occupying Space: Sammlung Generali Foundation Haus der Kunst, München (july) Rotterdam am 8.7. 2005 (an drei Orten, Museum Bojmanns, Witte de With und Fotomuseum). Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction, 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, (traveling show) 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 or Reproach, Witte Zaal, Ghent\ 2. Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Albisola Utopia, 2. Biennial Tirana, Albania Niemand ist eine Insel, Bremen, going public, modena SoIA - Summit of Interventionist Art, L’espace Forde, Geneva Embassy Galleri F15, Moss, Norway. The tale of the thread. Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, MART, Muso di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Rovereto Bombs Away, The Physics Room Gallery, New Zealand Private/Public, Häusler Contemporary, Munich New York, Fuckking City, Sautfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara In Media Res,Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
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 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 Ö sterreichische 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
1987	Logo-Ausstellung, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, catalogue

Selected Bibliography
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 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 Brainard Carey - Rainer Ganahl, Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX, Yale radio, 2016 Artforum, instagram
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 WÔøΩhrungen da? Simon RothÔøΩhler, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, TAZ, Berliner Tageszeitung,16. Feb. 2012 Michael Erard, Babel No More, The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, FreePress, 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, ÔøΩAGITATION AND REPOSEÔøΩTanya 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	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	Manami Fujimori, Rainer Ganahl, BT Vol. 56, No. 847, Arpril 2004 untimely ends, Homi K. Bhabha on Edward Said, (S/L photograph) Artforum, 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) 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, 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	Base, L’artista va a lezione installazione di Ganahl, La Repubblica, 29 ottobre 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 Base, L’artista va a lezione installazione di Ganahl, La Repubblica, 29 ottobre 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 du 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 The 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

Education
1990/91	Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1986-91	HAK, Vienna (P. Weibel), Akademie Düsseldorf (N. J. Paik) Master of Philosophy and History at the University of Innsbruck