Rainer Ganahl
Encyclopedia
Rainer Ganahl is an Austria
n born artist. His work consists of photographs, videos
and performances
.
(Peter Weibel
) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
(Nam June Paik
). He was a member of the 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York
.
Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n born artist. His work consists of photographs, videos
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
and performances
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
.
Life
From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts ViennaUniversity of Applied Arts Vienna
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university status since 1970.-History:...
(Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel is an artist, curator and theoretician.Raised in Upper Austria he started to study French and cinematography in Paris...
) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...
(Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
). He was a member of the 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
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Work
His best known work, S/L (Seminars/Lectures), is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 1995, of well-known cultural critics addressing audiences. The photographs, taken in university class rooms and lecture halls, not only show the lecturer but also the listeners and students in the audience. In a similar way, he documented his own process of learning an “exotic” language (e. g., Basic Japanese) into an art project. In his Imported-Reading Seminars held from 1995 onward, the group study of theoretical works from specific countries were documented on video. His latest exhibition studied the linguistic diaspora of Jewish immigrants.Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
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Works by and on Rainer Ganahl
- Rainer Ganahl: Use a bicycle, Rainer Ganahl, Der Lehrling in der Sonne. The Apprentice in the Sun, L'apprenti dans le soleil, 2007. Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. ISBN 978-3-86588-386-5
- Rainer Ganahl: MONEY AND DREAMS: COUNTING THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIGMUND FREUD BANKNOTE. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2005. ISBN 0-88214-565-7
- Rainer Ganahl, Road to War, 2005 - 240 pages. Published by MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Vienna), and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne. ISBN 3-88375-959-7
- William Kaizen, "Please, teach me" - Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning, 2005
- Rainer Ganahl, NEXT TARGET - Versteinerte Politik / Petrified Politics, 2004. Published by GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen), and Revolver, Frankfurt. ISBN 3-86588-039-8
- Rainer Ganahl, lueneburger-heide-sprechen, revolver, Frankfurt 2003. ISBN 3-934823-56-4
- Rainer Ganahl, Reading Karl Marx, Book Works, London, 2001. ISBN 1-87069957-2
- Rainer Ganahl (ed), IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar, Semiotext(e), New York 1998. ISBN 1-57027-076-7