Born in Bludenz, lives and works in New York with an American and an Austrian passport.

SELECTED SOLO AND DUO SHOWS

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 Seminars/Lectures,
Frieze Art Fair, New York 2018

2017
Legacy, Kai Matsumiya, New York
The Green Gallery, Milwauke
MANHATTAN MARXISM, EXPLOITATION, WOOL WORkS, Panoroma Boa Vista, Portugal

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, Netherlands
Dadalenin, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich                 
BCP, Shanghai

2013
Comme des Marxists, White Columns, New York
DADA souleve tout, Rainer Ganahl / Irwin, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels

2012
I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Tresor / Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Kunstverein Neuhausen

2011
The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race, KOOJO, Innsbruck
Fruit and Flower Deli, Stockholm

2010
Alex Zachary, New York
Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
Elaine Levy Project, Art Brussels, Brussels
Tea Party, Werkstatt Graz, Graz

2009
I wanna be chinese, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
Toxic Assets, Naechst St. Stephan, login, Vienna
Fear Society, Pavilion of Urgency, Venice Biennial 2009
Broken Tales, Shanghai
Züridütsch - for "Übersetzungsparadoxien und Missverständnisse, part II", Shedhalle, Zürich

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 SchwŠbisch Hall, SchwŠbisch 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
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
Museum of Modern Art, MUMOK, Vienna
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
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

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
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck
Max Protetch, New York

1998
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
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

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
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille

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
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

1991
White Columns (White Room), New York
Randy Alexander (with Matthew Antezzo), New York

1990
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris
Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn

1989
Virtue in Objects, Installation (with Paul Garrin), Museum Folkwangen, Essen
allerArt, Bludenz


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018
Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future, Hayward Gallery, London
Gallery Nächst ST. Stephan, Just so Stories, Vienna, 1978 / 2018
Objects like us, Contemporary Att Aldrich Museum
The route of friendship is running into a wall - MAKE BRUTALISM BEATUFUL AGAIN, Strange teacching, Ladron, Mexico City
No Man's Library / La Biblioteca di Tutti, Ex Biblioteca Universitaria, Sassari,

2017
We need to talk, Petzel Gallery, New York
Eencore mode, curated by Noah Barker, Lodos, Mexico City
The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago
In-Giro, Ruote, cerchi e biciclette d'arte, Zerynthia, ex mercato, Alghero, Italy

2016
Obsession Dada, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
S
Looking Back/The 10th White Columns Annual - Selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York

FOREVER, Bubox, Kortrijk, Belgium,
Walk Artisanal, 2716 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles

Redeux, Kai Matsumiya, New York

2015
Selling my library, Performa, New York
Demonstrating Minds, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art
Strange Teaching, Kai Matsumiya, New York Alfred Jarry Archipelago, Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Paris
Dinge bewegen. Sammlungen im Dialog,Museum of Modern Art Salzburg
Archive Bound, Center For Book Arts, New York
Triennale Bruges, Bruges
Waves upon waves of invaders, Armada, Milan
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, A plus A Gallery, Venice
übermorgenkünstler, Kunsthalle Baden Baden
"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
language versus language, RISD, Sol Koffler Graduate Gallery, Providence
lan alfred jarry archipelago: la valse des pantins, La Ferme Du Boisso, Marnela-Valee, Paris
Rob Pruit Flea Market, A plus A Gallery and School for Curatorial Studies Venice, Venice
THE BANK SHOW, Vive Le Capital, MAB SOCIETY, Shanghai
Occational Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver
The translater's voice, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Pink Panther, Oracle, Berlin
Expectations, The Composing Rooms, Berlin
The translater's voice, Frac Lorraine, Metz

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           
Ikone Marx, Museum Trier

2012
Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Francefami
Acts of Voicing, Über die Poetiken und Politiken der Stimme, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
Public Abstraction, Private Construction I II III, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
Summer Greetings, 601Artspace!, New York, USA
Don't smile, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
Our House, ACF,2012, New York, USA
Forum Expanded, Berlinale 2012. Berlin, Germany
The Von Show, Von Pro-jekt', New York, USA
Video program Marianne Vitale, UKS, Oslo, Norway
Vivere sulla luna / Living on the moon, Galleria Astuni, Bologna, Italy
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Baden-Württemberg, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
10'000 Stunden.Über Handwerk, Meisterschaft und Scheitern in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Switzerland


2011
Performa 2011, Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC, USA
Dada Moskau at the 4th Moscow Biennale 2011, Russia
COLORIFIC! We Make An Art Rainbow, Postmasters, NYC, USA
WallmArt, White Box, NYC, USA
This is what democracy looks like, NYU, Gallatin Galleries, NYC, USA
No Comment, An Occupy Wallstreet show, 23 Wallstreet, former JP Morgan Building, NYC, USA
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 Thins Equal, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, USA
Alive She Cried, A Film & Video Exhibition, Galerie Zink, Berlin
Dislocation in Kontinuum, Juraplatz, Biel
LÕItalia alla finestra. Au§en- und Innensichten, Kaiserliche Hofburg, Innsbruck
Family Life,Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
The Wolfson Syndrome, The Modern Language Experimen, London
A painting show, Autocenter, Berlinstu
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, 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. †ber die inhŠrente Poesie des Materials. Neue Positionen Bildender Kunst, WŸrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
The Flower of May, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, various outdoor spaces, Berlin
Videorama, Kunstclips aus …sterreich, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
City Beats, BankART Studio, Tokyo
2 or 3 Things, weÕve 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 Schšningen 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 dÕarte, Padiglione dÕArte Contemporanea, Milano
Brouillon, Musˇe 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, Pavilion of Emergency, Venice Biennale 2009
Our literal Speed, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
Translation Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle, Zurich
Performa 2009, Swiss Institute, New York
That’s all Fols! 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 …sterreich, Kunsthalle Wien
Villa Schšningen an der Glienicker Brucke. Ein deutsch-deutsches Museum, Berlin-Potsdam
City Beats, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York
Engagierte New Yorker Kunst in Prenning, 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, Mustergarten des EWZ,eggn'spoon, Zurich

2008
Shanghai Biennal, Shanghai
Ephemeral Frindge, Art Brussels, Brussels
The Art World, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
Institute fŸr 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 Ð Rainer Ganahl Ð 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 Snšrfrid, 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 Emmlˇes. l'Espace Culturel Franois Mitterrand, Pˇrigueux
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
Affinitˇs, Le Pavˇ Dans La Mare, Besanon
Beliques Visionaires, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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, 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
Blick und Bild, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau

2001
Detourism, Renaissance Society, Chicago
217.174.192.66, Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris
Austrian Comtemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Shanghai Art Museum
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
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
New York, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
Zonen der Verstörung, Zones of Disturbance, Steirischer Herbst 1997, Graz
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
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

1996
Selections from the MAB Library, AC-Project Room, New York
Tinsel Tower, Clocktower Gallery, New York
Austria im Rosennetz, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
Files, Bunker, Berlin
En Route to M-E-X, Art& Idea, Mexico City
Austria im Rosennetz, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Grenzen, public art initiative, Feldkirch
Österreichische Trienale zur Fotografie: Radikale Bilder, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Szombathely
Rainer Ganahl, Matthew McCaslin, Gilles Melgrani, Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille
Nach Weimar, Neue Museum Weimar, Weimar
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
Departure Lounge, PS1 Museum, Clocktower, New York
Between the Acts, c/o Gerhardsen, Oslo
Aquarium, Vidéo-Films, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris..
Between the Acts, Ice Box, Athens
Use As Directed, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa

1995
The Invisible Force, Nomadism as Art Practice, Polk Museum of Art, Florida
Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago
Haizuka project, Haizuka, Japan
On peut toujours tout changer, Usine Fromage, Rouen
Garbage!, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Custom Colors, Here Art, New York
Blast 4: Bioinformatica, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
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
Artifice 3, Saint Denis, Paris
Le saut dans le vide, New Tretjakowskij Gallery, Moscow
Suture - Fantasies of Totality, Kunstverein Salzburg
Localzeit - Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Forum aktueller Kunst - Raum Stohal, Vienna
Art After Collecting, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne.

1993
Viennese Stories, Secession, Vienna
Utopia Del Possibile, fra America ed Europa, Foyer Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova
Groupshow, Massimo de Carlo, Milan
In Between, Floating Gallery, Tokyo
More than Zero, Le Magasin, Grenoble
Before the Sound of the Beep, various sites in Paris
Par les Yeux du Langage, Musée de Marseille, Marseille
Binera, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

1992
Under Thirty, Galerie Metropol, Vienna
One plus One, Galerie du Mois, Paris
Brain: Internal Affairs, Beatrixziekenhuis, Gorinchem
L’Ere Binaire, Musée D’Ixelles, Brussels
Up Date, White Columns, New York
Greatest Hits, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Letter S Road: RE-marks on Site, Omi, New York
The Big Nothing, The New Museum, New York
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
Art Cologne, (Förderkoje), Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne
Act Up Conference, Amsterdam (Time Based Arts Gallery)

1989 
Germination V, Musée d’Art Contemporain St. Pière, Lyon
Wortlaut, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne

1988
Stilleben, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn

1987
Logo-Ausstellung, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien

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

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