Born 1965 in Vienna
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2024
HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
2022
Fine Important Post War and Contemporary, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2020
Mathias Poledna, Indifference, Galerie Buchholz, New York
2017
Substance, Galerie Buchholz, New York
2015
Estate, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2014
Renaissance Society, Chicago
Imitation of Life, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2013
Imitation of Life, Austrian Pavillion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
Secession, Vienna
2012
A Village by the Sea, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
A Village by the Sea, Delphi Filmplast, Berlin
2011
Mathias Poledna / Florian Pumhösl, Raven Row, London
2010
Mathias Poledna, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Marike: 1991, curated by Karthik Pandian and Mathias Poledna, Galerie Meyer, Vienna
2009
Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Mathias Poledna / Christopher Williams, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
2007
Crystal Palace, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Crystal Palace, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Songs to Remember, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2006
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2005
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2004
Version, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2003
Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna, Vienna
2002
We’re probably just posers, it’s just that this is our pose, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2001
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
2023
the collection, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
ON STAGE – Kunst als Bühne, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2022
Je Veux, Vienna 1975–2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer Kunst, curated by Brigitte Huck, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna
2021
So Many Stars, The Gallery@, Los Angeles
Made In L.A. 2020, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Los Angeles
2020
No Dandy, No Fun, VI, VII, Oslo
No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Backstage: Topology Of Contemporary Art, Kunstverein in Hamburg
2019
In Production: Art And The Studio System, Yuz Museum, Xuhui, Shanghai
The Half Axel, Richard Telles Fine Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles
2018
Beautiful World, where are you?, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
The Gallery @ Michael’s, Los Angeles, organized by Christopher Schwartz
The Conscientious Objector, MAK Center, Los Angeles
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema And Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Putting Rehearsals to the Test, VOX contemporary image, Montreal
Parlons-en, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
Fluidity, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
2015
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Mumok, Vienna
What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived, Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
2014
19th Sydney Biennale, Sydney
What is to come has already arrived, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
Proudly Presents, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2013
Figures and Prefigurations, City Gallery Prague
art is: new art, Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
2012
Busan Biennale 2012, Busan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2011
The Activity of Sound, curated by Florian Christopher Seedorf, Grieder Contemporary Projects, Berlin
unExhibit, (with Karthik Pandian), Generali Foundation, Vienna, curated by Sabine Folie and Ilse Lafer
La Chanson, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
2010
Modernologías / Modernologies, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona
Round Up, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Quodilibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Memories of the Future, Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Narodni
2009
Modernologías / Modernologies, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona
2008
Trances, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart
Yokohama Triennale 2008, Yokohama
Index: Conceptualism in California from the permanent Collection, organized by Philipp Kaiser und Corrina Peipon, The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles
Planetary Consciousness, curated by Christian Kravagna, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
2007
Archaeologies of the Future, organized by Peio Aguirre, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
How Soon is Now, curated by Pablo Fernandez Fanego, Fundacion Luis Seoane, La Coruna
Perspektive 07: Neuerwerbungen, Schenkungen und Wünsche der Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst im Lenbachhaus, organized by Susanne Gaensheimer, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich
Projecting Time, curated by Anja Casser, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Collection, organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Generali Foundation, Vienna
For a Special Place: Documents and Works form the Generali Foundation Collection, österreichisches Kulturforum, New York
2006
Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne
…und so hat Konzept noch nie Pferd bedeutet, organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Generali Foundation, Vienna
The swan is very peacful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Metro Pictures, New York
Poor Mans’ Expression, organized by Martin Ebner und Florian Zeyfang, Arsenal, Berlin Why Images Now, organized by Matthias Michalka, MUMOK, Vienna
2006 Whitney Biennial. Day for Night, curated by Chrissie Iles und Philippe Vergne, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2005
No competitive offers, organized by David Lieske, artis, Den Bosch
I Really Should …, curated by Stefan Kalmar, Lisson Gallery, London
Occupying Space, curated by Sabine Breitwieser, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Das Neue II, Atelier Augarten, Vienna
Occupying Space, Generali Found. Collection, curated by Sabine Breitwieser, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2004
Liverpool Biennial 2004, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Black Friday. Exercises in Hermetics, curated by Christoph Keller, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Quodlibet, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
20/20 Vision, curated by Leontine Coelewij, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Generative Music, curated by Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
3. Berlin-Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Kunstwerke Berlin
2003
Mixtapes, curated by Matthew Higgis, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
History Lesson Part II, Filmprogramm organized by Mathias Poledna, MUMOK, Vienna
Adorno. The Possibility of the Impossible, curated by Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Streik, curated by Carina Plath, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
2002
Tu m’, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2000
Pop Unlimited?, organized by Christian Höller, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen
1999
Some things to be seen or taking place not necessarily related to each other, MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles
Einblicke in die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Moving Images, Film – Reflexion der Kunst, curated by Jan Winckelmann, Dirk Luckow, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig
1998
The century of artistic freedom, curated by Robert Fleck, Secession, Vienna
The making of, organized by Mathias Poledna, Generali Foundation, Vienna
1997
Zones of disturbance, curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Steirischer Herbst, Marieninstitut, Graz
Postproduktion, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Scan, Screening, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Film Titel Video (w/ Dorit Margreiter, Heimo Zobernig), organized by Matthias Michalka und Hemma Schmutz, Depot, Vienna
1996
Produktion Pop, (w/ Martin Beck), organized by Matthias Michalka und Hemma Schmutz, Depot, Vienna
Complexul Muzeal, curated by Judith Angel, Art Museum Arad, Arad
Manifesta 1, curated by Rosa Martinez, Viktor Misiano, Andrew Renton, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rotterdam
White Cube/Black Box, Generali Foundation, Vienna
1995
Fast Forward Rewind – 15 Jahre 1980, Kunstverein München, Munich
1994
Services: Conditions and Relations of Project Oriented Artistic Practice, organized by Andrea Fraser, Helmut Draxler, Depot, Vienna
Aperto, Forum Stadtpark Prag, Prague
1993
Backstage, curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Kunstverein in Hamburg
On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Antwerp
1992
Kontext Kunst, curated by Peter Weibel, Steirischer Herbst, Neue Galerie, Graz
Unité, (project coordination), curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Unité d’Habitation, Firminy
Reform, Buchpräsentation, organized by Ute Meta Bauer, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Ballgasseland, Galerie Ballgasse, Vienna; Unfair, Cologne
Amerikaner (w/ Heimo Zobernig), Forum Stadtpark Graz
1991
Material, Texte, Interviews, Jänner Galerie, Vienna
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna