Kunstraum Niederösterreich

Born in Bludenz,
lives and works in New York with an American and an Austrian passport.


EDUCATION
Master of Philosophy, History (University of Innsbruck)
Master of Fine Arts (Akademie Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik);
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York 2000


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008
Fruit and Flower Deli, New York
DADALENIN, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
motherfahterdaughter, Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto

2007
Rainer Ganahl, The Apprentice in the Sun, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, catalog
Rainer Ganahl, Reading, Riding and other Recent Works, Duncan of Jordanstone Colege of Art and Design, Dandee

2006
RAM, radioartemobile, Rome

2005
Rainer Ganahl, The Politics of Learning, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Museum, New York , catalog
Road To War, Museum of Modern Art, MUMOK, Vienna, catalog


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
New York, States of Mind, Queens Museum, New York

2007
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, 52. Venice Biennial 2007, Venice
Istambul Biennial, Istanbul
Performa 07 (Snorfrid), New York
Moscow Biennial 2007, Left Pop, Moscow
Agitation and Respose,Tanja Bonaktar Gallery, New York
Images War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP show, New York

2006
Bukarest Biennial 2006, Bukarest
Sevilla Biennial 2006, Sevilla

2005
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, The Jewish Museum New York
Poles Apart Poles Together, 51.Venice Biennale, Venice
Christian Boltansky, Michaela Melian, Rainer Ganahl, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

PUBLICATIONS:
- "Please, teach me" - Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning by William Kaizen Published by Wallach Gallery, New York, Frankfurt, 2005,
- MONEY AND DREAMS: COUNTING THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIGMUND FREUD BANKNOTE by Rainer Ganahl Published by Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2005
- Road to War, 2005 by Rainer Ganahl MUMOK, Published by Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
- NEXT TARGET - Versteinerte Politik / Petrified Politics, 2004 by Rainer Ganahl Published by GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen), and Revolver, Frankfurt
- Please, write your opinons of U.S. politics..., by Rainer Ganahl, Published by onestarpress, Paris, 2003 Onestar Press. Paris - lueneburger-heide-sprechen, by Rainer Ganahl Published by Revolver, Frankfurt 2003
- Reading Karl Marx by Rainer Ganahl Published by bookworks, London, 2001
- Educational Complex ed. Sabine Breitwieser Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna 1997
- Ganahl-Dütsch, Ganahl-Dütsch, Gloacal Language, LOCAL Lanugage, Voranglisch … by Rainer Ganahl Published by KUB, Bregenz 1998
- IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar . Rainer Ganahl Published by Semiotext(e), New York 1998
- Rainer Ganahl Published by Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo 1994
- Rainer Ganahl Published by Rainer Ganahl Galerie Roger Pailhas,1992,
- Rainer Ganahl Published by Dallas Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art, 1991