Simon Wachsmuth

SIMON WACHSMUTH
b. 1964, Hamburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

1986-1995 Study of Visual Media Design, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
1984-1986 Study of Painting, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
1982-1985 Acting and Theatre Directing, Studio Tenger, Vienna, Austria

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 - Dramatization, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 - Some Descriptive Acts, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 - Dokumente. Monumente, 21er Haus, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2014 - Analogon, Musee de Valence & art3, Valence, France
2013 - Signatures, Galerie Cora Hölzel & EY-5, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 - Mnemosyne, Steinle Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2008 - Eight Minutes, Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna, Austria
2008 - Demonstration IV, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 - A Way of Considering Two Things Together, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2006 - the things that I once saw I now can see no more, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
2005 - Demonstration, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
2004 - Of Copying, Galerie Hohenlohe und Kalb, Vienna, Austria
2003 - Earlgrey, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 - Rain, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS

2018 - Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, curated by Ruth Noack, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China
2018 - Vorvorgestern, curator: Franziska Lesàk, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
2018 - Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, curated by Ruth Noack Lítost Gallery, Prague, Czechia
2018 - Warum Kunst, kunsthalle weishaupt & Museum Ulm, Germany
2018 - Statues Also Die / Anche le statue muoiono, Museo Egizio, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Musei Reali, Turin, Italy
2018 - Mobile Worlds, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2017 - Pax Optima Rerum, Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
2017 - A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo Sevilla, Spain
2016 - Body luggage, migration of gestures, Steirischer Herbst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2016 - Suzhou Documents, Suzhou Museum of Art, Suzhou, China
2016 - Steinle Revisited, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
2015 - Trading Places (participation and co-curator), L40 Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxeburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany; MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
2015 - Agora & Gabe, MIET, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013 - Archäologie?! Spurensuche in der Gegenwart, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria
2013 - Andere Ordnungen, Haus für die Kunst, Stiftung Wortelkamp, Haselbach, Germany
2013 - Cumuli – vom Sammenln der Dinge [participation and co-curator], L40, Berlin, Germany
2013 - On ne connaît les chiffres que d’un côté du plan,art3, Valence, France
2013 - Einszehn, Zweizehn, Dreizehn (together with Frances Scholz), Kunstverein
2013 - Friedrichshafen und Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2012 - Lieber Aby Warburg, was tun mit Bildern?, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
2012 - Garden of Learning, Busan-Biennale, Busan, South Korea
2012 - Economy: Picasso, Musee Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
2012 - Atlas, or How to Carry the World on One´s Back, curator: Georges Didi-Huberman, Museo
2012 - Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain;ZKM,
2012 - Karlsruhe, Germany;Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
2010 - To the Arts, Citizens!, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2010 - Seven little Mistakes, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
2010 - Squatting, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2010 - Tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2009 - What Keeps Mankind Alive, 11. Istanbul Biennial , Istanbul, Turkey
2009 - Die Ruhe ist ein spezieller Fall der Bewegung, Kunstmuseum Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2009 - Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria
2007 - DOCUMENTA 12, Documenta, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2006 - Liminal Spaces, GFZK, Leipzig, Germany Soleil Noir, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Vienna
2005 - Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 - The Government, Be what you want but stay where you are, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands 
2004 - The Government: How do we want to be governed, Miami Art Central, Miami, USA
2004 - Handlungen, die Handlungen setzen, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
2003 - Interieur/Exterieur, Remise, Bludenz, Austria
2002 - Organisational Forms, Galeria SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Hochschule für Grafik und Buckunst, Leipzig, Germany
2001 - The Subject and Power, Haus der Künstler, Moscow, Russia
2000 - Emerging Artists, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria

PROFESSORSHIPS

2012: Visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2014 -15: Visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 -17: Interim professor at the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

AWARDS | SCHOLARSHIPS

2016 - Outstanding Artist Award, Price of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
2016 - Marta Prize of the Wemhöner Stiftung, MARTA Museum Herford
2004 - Künstlerhaus Schloß Bleckede, Niedersächsisches Landesstipendium, Germany
2013 - Otto Mauer Prize, Vienna, Austria
1989 Prix Ars-Electronica, award in Computer Animation, Linz, Austria

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Marta Herford, Herford (Germany)
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg (Germany)
Lentos Museum, Linz (Austria)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Stift Admont, (Austria)
MUSA, Art collection of the city of Vienna (Austria)
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna (Austria)
Collection Reydan Weiss, Essen/Düsseldorf (Germany)
Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn (Germany)
Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, Linz (Austria)
Collection UniCredit (former Bank Austria), Wien (Austria)
Art Collection of the Federal Chancellery (Austria)