Ursula Mayer

born in Austria, currently lives and works in London and Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Royal College of Art, London

Ma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Selected Solo exhibitions

ISCP New York

Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Monitor, Rome
Films by U. Mayer, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome

Frame, curated by Daniel Baumann and Sarah McCrory, Frieze Art Fair, London
Ellipse in Time, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Lunch in Fur/Le Déjeuner en Fourrure, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam

Nought to Sixty, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

The Crystals of Time, Lentos, Museum of Modern Art, Linz
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Gallery Monitor, Rome

Fallen Imperial, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna

Selected Group exhibitions

Architektur und Körper - Katrina Daschner, Maria Hahnenkamp, Šejla Kamerić, Dorit Margreiter, Ursula Mayer, Esther Stocker, Krobath Berlin
Architektur und Körper – 4 fotografische Positionen von österreichischen Künstlerinnen, Austrian Cultural Forum Prague
HULAHOOP, Londonprojects, London
Related Spaces - Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest
100 Years (version #3), Garage, Moscow
Projections, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
East goes East, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
It’s a Set-up - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Yesterday’s Tomorrows - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Psychoanalysis, Tokio Wonder Site, Tokio

100 Years (version #2, ps1), curated by Klaus Biesenbach, RoseLee Goldberg PS1, New York
100 Years (version #1), Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
Contemporary artifices and Baroque difformities, curated by Claudia Gioia, Arcos-Sannio Museum
of Contemporary Art, Benevuto, IT
Video! - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
It’s hard to find the beginning, and impossible to fathom the end - Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Art in the Auditorium - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
Art in the Auditorium, Contemporary arts center of La Boca, Buenos Aires
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana International Art Biennale, Tirana
HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Bienniale, Athens
Travesties&Masquerades, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute, New York
EASTinternational, selected by Art&Language and Raster Gallery, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich
The Blood of a Poet, curated by Adam Budak, FRAC des pays de la loire, Estuaire Biennale Nantes
Cabinet Afrique, Cell projects, London
Concept Film, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Just in the Dark, Archeaological site of the Mercati de Traiano, Rome
Contested Ground, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London

Rooms Look Back, curated by Simone Neuenschwander, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
Held together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Pierotting, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Modern Ruin, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Cabinet of Imaginations, Network, Aalst
Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell projects, London
True Romance, Villa Stuck, Munich and Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel

Venetian, Atmospheric, curated by Francesco Manacorda, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
True Romance, Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Vienna
Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
Invisible Mend, curated by Ian White, Lux, Lounge Gallery, London
Held together with water, Mak Museum, Vienna
MUSA, Museum on Demand, Vienna
Frauhaus, Agency Gallery, London
Double A Side, Stedelijk Museum, Hertognebosch and Artis den Bosch
Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam

Facts and Fictions, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Mise en scène, Mama, showroom for media, Rotterdam
No space is Innocent, steirischer herbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Everybody comes to Hollyrood, Atticsalt, Edinburgh
Props & Prostheses, Schloss Kodeljevo, Ljubljana

Faites vos Jeux, Shedhalle, Zurich
Videos Viennoise, Betonsalon, Paris
EuroPart. 25 peaces - Contemporary art from Europe, Vienna

a room of one´s own, 3. Berlin Biennale at Kunstwerke Berlin
Breaking the Visual, steirischer herbst, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Graz
Instruction for actions, permanent Installation, Kunsthalle Vienna
Born to be a star, k-haus, Vienna
Wiener Linien, Wienmuseum, Vienna

Mothers of Invention, with a room of one´s own, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle Vienna
where is the tree which separated us, offspace, Vienna
21er, with fem text rapid, with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher, 20erhaus, Vienna

Das Experiment 2B: a room of one´s own, Secession, Vienna
Let’s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Earworm, fem text rapid, with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher, Künstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin

Das Experiment 2A: a room of one´s own, Secession, Vienna
We are a rock group, Oskar von Millerstraße, Frankfurt/Main

With the Sound of Music, Susi Schneider and DJ Kahn, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York

Momentbild Wien, regardes sur la culture autrichienne Staatstheater Ville de Luxemburg

Positionen, Neue Galerie, Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum

Gallery Würthle, Vienna

Selected Festivals / Screenings

Prospectif Cinema / Centre Pompidou, Paris

12th Architectural Biennial with Berger&Berger, Venice
Femme Maison, Barbican Center, London
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, Glasgow
Images Festival Toronto, Toronto
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Evolution, Lumen, Leeds
Modernologies, curated by Sabine Breitwieser, MACBA, Barcelona
The Angels of Anarchy, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Cinemaniac 09. Architektur in Film, Luka, Pula
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, with Lux, London
Get under my skin, CCS Bard, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

Get under my skin, CCS Bard, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Modern Shorts selected by Terence Gower, New Museum New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Art Basel Films, curated by Marc Gloede
Play Forward, International Film Festival Locarno

Selected Awards

Atelier / International Studio Program (ISCP), New York

Atelier / artist-in-residence Rome, bm:ukk

Sponsorship prize for Fine Arts, bm:ukk, Vienna

Mrsg. Otto Mauer prize for Fine Arts

Atelier / artist-in-residence London, bm:ukk

State Award for Fine Arts

Selected Bibliography

Verzotti, Giorgio. Ursula Mayer, Artforum International, summer 2010
Amberg, Annette. Brand New, Flash Art, summer 2010
Fite-Wassilak, Chris. East International 09, Frieze Magazine, 07/09
Swarle, Adrian. Where there’s smoke, EastInternational 09, The Guardian, 07/09
Barber, Sonya. Ursula Mayer, Whitchapel Gallery, Time Out, London, No. 2018, 2009
McLean-Ferris, Laura. Cabinet Afrique, ArtRewiew, issue 32, 2009
Scharrer, Eva. Rooms Look Back, Artforum International, 2008
Coline Milliard. Focus London, Flash Art International, No. 262, 2008
J.J. Charlesworth. Voodoo Modern, ArtReview, 2008
Lack, Jessica. Lorna Macintyre & Ursula Mayer, ICA London, The Guardian, 08/08
Probst, Ursula. Sammeln als Identitatspolitik, Kunstforum International, Bd.190, 2008
Probst, Ursula. True Romance, Kunstforum International Bd.190, 2008
Stief, Angela. Crystalline Structures and Temporal Images, 2008, Eikon,
international magazine for photography and media art # 61, Vienna 2008
Scheyerer, Nicole. Sprechende Wände, Falter, 46/07, Vienna, 2007
White, Ian. Crystal Gazes, for Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, 2007
Clark, Robert. Frauhaus, The guardian, London, 04/07
Farinati, Lucia. Architectures/Fictions/Re-enactments, Interview with Ursula Mayer, MALMOE n.34, Graz, 2006
Seidl,Walter. International emerging artists, Annual Contemporary Magazine, London, 2006
Probst, Ursula. Zoom, W-art 007, magazine, 2006
Probst, Ursula. Go Johnny Go! Kunstforum International, Bd.168, 2003
Schedlmayer, Nina. Goldflames out in the Sky, Fieber 2003
Benzer, Christa. Springerin, Let´s twist again, Dec. 2002
Gau, Sönke. Let´s twist again, Flash Art, Nov. 2002
Scheyerer, Nicole. Vienna is burning, Falter, Oct. 2002
Selected Publications:
Sladen, Mark. Birkett, Richard. Leaver-Yap, Isla. Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2009
Neuschwander, Simone. Rooms Look Back, argobooks, Berlin, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008
Trummer, Thomas. Ursula Mayer, Interiors, Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award,
Augarten Contompary, Vienna, 2007
Schafhausen, Nicolaus, and Janssen, Renske. Changing Roles, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2007
Seidl, Walter. Held together with water, Art from the Collection Verbund; Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007
Angela, Serino. Ursula Mayer, catalogue Impakt, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2007
Schedlmayer, Nina. Characteristic interrelationship of rooms, Potential Dialogue, RCM Museum, Nanjing,
Kunstraum NOE, 2007
Koether, Jutta. Acoustic Mirror, Pernegger, Karin. Glamour was my first sexy therapy, born to be a star,
Verlag SCHLEBRUEGE, Ursula Probst, k-haus, Vienna, 2006
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Ute Meta Bauer, Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Köln 2004
Stief, Angela. Love/Hate, Triton Verlag, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2003
Hoffmann, Justin. Go Johnny Go!, Steidl Verlag, Kunsthalle, 2003