Anna Artaker
* 1976, Austria
born 1976 in Vienna, studied philosophy and art in Paris and Vienna, lives and works in Vienna.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 GESCHICHTE, Secession, Vienna (cat.)
2009 Some of the names of Photoshop, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
48 Köpfe aus dem Merkurov Museum, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2008 Show me yours, I’ll show you mine (with Marlene Haring and GirlsOnHorses),
Mama’s Hostel, Kracow and Kronika Gallery, Bytom/Poland
2003 Did you ever dream of becoming barbarian?, (with Meike Schmidt-Gleim, cat.), Public>, Paris
Selected Group Shows and Screenings
2012 Films from Vienna, Plus Screening, Tokyo/Japan
Talk Show, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
History Lessons, MUMOK, Vienna
Aneignung. Teil I: Bildbefragung, Fotogalerie WUK, Vienna
Galicia, mon amour. Folly, Fantasy and Phantasm, SOKOL Gallery, Nowy Sacz/Poland
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst des Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna
2011 BC21 Art Award, Belvedere Contemporary, Vienna
Making and Art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz/Austria
Kardinal König Art Award, Sankt Virgil, Salzburg
Prohibitions in the Space of Art, Leopold Museum, Vienna
El Principio Potosí, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz/Bolivia
2010 10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju/Korea
El Principio Potosí, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (cat.)
Long time no see, Dum umêní, Brno/Czech Republic
Quasi dasselbe...? Diskurse mit poetischer Funktion, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck/Austria
Images, Festival des arts visuels de Vevey, Vevey/Switzerland
Ohne Titel, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
2009 Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona (cat.) and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2010)
Fortsetzung folgt, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Europe: In Between Document and Fiction, National Centre of Dance, Bucharest/Romania and Montenegrin National Theatre, Podgorica/Montenegro (cat.) and SKC Gallery (Student Cultural Centre), Belgrade/Serbia (2010) and further venues (ongoing travelling exhibition; cat.)
Figure/Ground, Galerie Transit, Mechelen/Belgium
2008 Am Sprung, O.K. (Centrum für Gegenwartskunst), Linz/Austria
Urban Signs, Local Strategies, Fluc, Vienna
Transformation of History or Parallel Histories, 6th International Gyumri Biennial, Gyumri/Armenia
as bring collective, Künstlerhaus, Passagengalerie, Vienna
2007Tension, Sex, Despair, Wow/so what?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (cat.)
!Forradalom?, Műcsarnok, Budapest/Hungary (cat.)
Lange nicht gesehen, Museum on Demand, Vienna (cat.)
2006!Revolution?, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin (cat.)
2005Medialization/Spatialization/(Re)Politicization, Fluc, Vienna (cat.)
Tip 3, Art radonica Lazareti, Dubrovnik/Croatia
2004 Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
2003 Artist’s Books, Etching Cabinet, Vienna
2002 Rirkrit Tiravanija (Schindler Workshop), Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Schmarotzer, Semper Depot, Vienna (cat.)
Cinéma Générique, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers/France
2000 WIDERSTAND: Art et Politique en Autriche, Espace Donguy, Paris
1999 Open Practices, 48th Venice Biennial (with Wochenklausur), Austrian Pavilion, Venice (cat.)
Selected Awards, Stipends and Residencies
2012 Residency at R.A.T. (Residencias Artistícas por Intercambio), Mexico City
2011 Winner EIKON Photography Award
Nominated for BC21 Art Award, Belvedere
Nominated for Kardinal König Art Award
2010 Residency Program BMUKK in Mexico City
2009 Hilde Goldschmidt Award
Start-Stipend for Fine Arts, Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture (BMUKK)
Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Grant
2008 Award of Honour Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Project grants by BMUKK, City of Vienna, Austrian Embassy for South-Caucasia
2007 Human Sciences Grant, City of Vienna
Selected Lectures and Presentations
2012 Conversatorio con Anna Artaker (presentation), Taller Multinacional, Mexico City
2011 Lecture, Schule für Künstlerische Photographie, Vienna
2010 Artist talk, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Exhibition talk with Thomas Macho, Secession Vienna
2009 Presentation, Montenegrin National Theatre, Podgorica/Montenegro
2005 Kunst und Theorie, artist talk (with Nina Stuhldreher), VBKÖ, Vienna
2004 Les Archives des Barbares, lecture performance (with Meike Schmidt-Gleim), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Filmography
48 KÖPFE AUS DEM MERKUROV MUSEUM (nach Kurt Kren), 2012
[48 HEADS FROM THE MERKUROV MUSEUM (after Kurt Kren)］, 2012
digital video, b&w, silent, 4’19 min
48 KÖPFE AUS DEM MERKUROV MUSEUM ［48 HEADS FROM THE MERKUROV MUSEUM］, 2009
16mm, b&w, silent, 8 min
OHNE TITEL (PSYCHO) ［UNTITLED (PSYCHO)］, 2001
Video, color, sound, 5 min
Selected Projects (further professional experience)
2012 to 2015: Artistic Research Project ATLAS OF ARCADIA (with Meike Schmidt-Gleim, supported by FWF – PEEK), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2008 to 2009: Studio assistant to Alfons Schilling, preparation of catalogue and retrospective at
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg.
2007 Author and editor (with Peter Weibel) of a monographic publication on Marc Adrian’s complete works (Ritter Books, Klagenfurt and Neue Galerie Graz)
2005 Collaborator on an extensive monography on Gustav Metzger, Generali Foundation (Gustav Metzger. History History, published with Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit)
Support and organization of the scientific program (symposiums, lectures, filmprogram) at the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna.
2000 Conception and organization of the exhibition WIDERSTAND: Art et Politique en Autriche
(with Éric Alliez and Gerhard Frommel), Espace Donguy, Paris.
1999 Member of the editing board of Die Sendung mit der Moderatorin, a weekly one-hour-long TV show on art and made by artists, broadcasted by the local Viennese TV station T.I.V.
1998 to 1999 Member of the artist group Wochenklausur.
Bibliography
Selected articles
2011 Hofleitner, Johanna „Vorstellung: Anna Artaker“, in: Schaufenster (Die Presse), 24.06.2011
2010 Ammer, Manuela „Anna Artaker in der Secession“, in: Texte zur Kunst, Heft 79, September 2010 Brugner, Philipp „Über den Wirklichkeitsanspruch der Fotografie“ (interview), in: Kulturrisse, 04/2010
Muhle, Maria „Anna Artaker. History and Infamy“, in: Camera Austria, 109/2010, Graz, März 2010
2009 Artaker, Anna „Unbekannte Avantgarde“ (photo spread), in: Bildpunkt, Spring 2009, Vienna 2009
Draxler, Saskia „Critics’ Pick“, in: www.Artforum.com, New York, 02.03.09
Thalmair, Franz „Vexierbilder der Geschichte“, in: Der Standard online, Vienna, 18.05.09
2008 Kernbauer, Eva „48 Köpfe aus dem Merkurov Museum“ (photo spread and cover), in: Springerin,
Band XIV Heft 4, Herbst 2008
Schmutz, Hemma „Anna Artaker“ in: Spike. Art quaterly, Vienna/Berlin, Winter 2008
Thalmair, Franz „Stadtsemiotik mit Ortsbezug“, in: Der Standard online, Vienna, 27.10.08
2007 Heumann, Gesche „Wieviel Blut passt in einen Tampon?“, in: www.artmagazine.cc, 18.05.07
Probst, Ursula Maria „Tension“, in: Kunstforum International, Bd. 186, Juni–Juli 2007
2005 Novine, 07/2005, Dubrovnik 2005 (ed. Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik/Croatia)
2004 Berlin, Ana „Palais de Tokyo: Playlist. The stuff that surrounds us“, in: www.artmagazine.cc, 16.03.04
2003 Delbecq, Marcelline „Anna Artaker, Meike Schmidt-Gleim: Did you Ever Dream of Becoming a Barbarian?“, in: www.paris-art.com, Paris, 01.10.03
Selected books and catalogs
2012 Sylvia Liska (ed.), The Secession Talks. Walther König, Cologne/Vienna 2012
2010 Anna Artaker, ex. cat., Secession Vienna and Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2010
Massimiliano Gioni, Judy Ditner (eds.), 10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Seoul/New York
2009 Breitwieser, Sabine (ed.) Modernologies. Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA exh. cat., Barcelona 2009
Gržinić, Marina; Seidl, Walter (eds.), Europe: In Between Document and Fiction, exh. cat.,
Erste Stiftung, Vienna/Sofia 2009
2008 H.arta, Katharina Morawek (eds.), Are you talking to me?, Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2008
Páldi, Livia (ed.) !Forradalom?, exh. cat. Műcsarnok, Budapest 2008
2007 Boubnova, Iara (ed.) Long time no see, exh. cat., Museum on Demand, Vienna 2007
Masát, András (ed.) !REVOLUTION?, exh. cat., Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin 2007
2006 Bonvicini, Monica; Gržinić, Marina (eds.) Medialization/Labour/Spatialization/(Re)Politicization, Books on demand, Norderstedt 2006
Niederösterr. Landesregierung, Abteilung Kultur und Wissenschaft, Katharina Blaas-Pratscher (eds.) Public Art in Lower Austria, Vol. 8, Springer, Vienna/New York
2002 Badovinac, Zdenka (ed.) Parasites 2002, exh. cat., Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 2002
2001 Zinggl, Wolfgang (ed.) WochenKlausur. Sociopolitical Activism in Art, Springer,
Vienna/New York 2001
1999 Weibel, Peter (ed.) Offene Handlungsfelder /Open Practices. exh. cat., Austrian Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennial, DuMont, Cologne 1999
