NikolausGansterer lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
He studied transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his post-academic studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy at Maastricht in the Netherlands. He is cofounder of the Institute for Transacoustic Research and currently lecturer at the Institute for Transmedia Art in the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is internationally active in performances, exhibitions and lectures.
As an artist, NikolausGansterer is deeply interested in the links between drawing, thinking and action. In his visual work, he focuses on mapping processes emerging out of cultural and scientific networks, unfolding their immanent structures of interconnectedness.
NikolausGansterer’s fascination with the complex character of diagrammatic figures has led to his book Drawing a Hypothesis (Springer Vienna/New York, 2011) on the ontology of shapes of visualisations and on the development of the diagrammatic view and its use in contemporary art, science and theory.

Some recent exhibitions and presentations of his work include Living and Working in Vienna II, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Moving Patterns, ACF, New York; Architecture of Interaction, Chisenhale Gallery, London; Hard Rock Walzer, Villa Manin, Udine; Potential Dialogues, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing; Wrong time, Wrong place, Tent, Rotterdam; Structures, Transmediale, Bethanien, Berlin; Sound Escapes, Space Gallery, London; Mifan, AnniArt Gallery, Beijing and Story behold. Story be told at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.