Biography
Born 1980 in Austria. Works and lives in Vienna.
Christoph Meier (*1980, in Vienna) studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology as well as sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Glasgow School of Art. In addition to numerous international exhibitions, including at the Museum of Applied Art Vienna, the Wiener Festwochen, Portland Institute of Art, Etablissement d'en face Brussels and the Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul, Meier has held solo exhibitions at the Casino Luxembourg, Kiosk Gent, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Graz and the Vienna Secession. Together with Ute Müller and Nick Oberthaler, he has published the artist fanzine BLACK PAGES since 2009. In 2016, together with the artists Hugo Canoilas and Nicola Pecoraro, he founded the independent exhibition space Guimarães in Vienna, which he still runs today. In 2019/20, Meier held a professorship at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology, where he currently heads the research unit of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making.
Education:
1999 – 2005 architecture, Vienna University of Technology
2003 – 2009 fine arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2008 sculpture and environmental art, Glasgow School of Art
Since 2009 Black Pages (with Ute Müller and Nick Oberthaler), artist-fanzine editions, Vienna
since 2016 Guimarães (with Hugo Canoilas and Nicola Pecoraro), artist-run space, Vienna
2019 – 2020 professorship at the research unit Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making,
Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology
Since 2020 senior artist, research unit Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making,
Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology
solo- and duo exhibitions:
2022 The Far Side, Komagome SOKO(with Ute Müller), Tokyo
Nosbaum Reding, Brussels
2020 PERFORMANCE PASSAGE, Q21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Ve.sch Kunstverein, Vienna (publ.)
2019 White Paper Museum, Vienna (a projekt by Caroline Heider)
Unfinished Culture, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania
2018 Österreichisches Kulturforum Tokyo (with Ute Müller), Tokyo
CCOOOO, Casino Luxembourg (publ.)
2017 Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
C O CO, KIOSK, Gent (publ.)
French Pavilion (with Dino Zrnec), Zagreb
MMMMMM, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna
2016 Belvedere Christmas Tree 2016 (with Salvatore Viviano), Sala Terrena, Oberes Belvedere, Vienna
HDLU Osijek / Galerija Kazamat (with Dino Zrnec), Osijek
C & O, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (publ.)
One Work Gallery, Vienna
Die andere Seite, Sammlung Sandra & Avram Berkson, Vienna (publ.)
2015 Lost Form (with Nicola Pecoraro), Ermes-Ermes at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan
C (with Heinrich Dunst), Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
soft architecture (with Nicola Pecoraro), Charim Galerie Events, Vienna
soft architecture (with Marcus Geiger), HBK Galerie, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig
2014 Artist Lecture Series, New Jörg, Vienna (publ.)
M (with Ute Müller), Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv
2013 Artissima, Present Future, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Turin
Freie Sammlung #7, Ve.sch, Vienna
Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2012 Office, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
greenpisellivideosculpture, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
2011 abc, Nosbaum Reding, Berlin
Tripode, Galerie de l‘espace Diderot, Rezé - Nantes
Secession, Vienna (publ.)
2010 La part des choses #2 / Christoph Meier, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (publ.)
Bananasplit (with Søren Engsted), Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Christoph Meier – The Painting Room, Startgalerie - MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna
2009 Proposal for a Discotheque, KIOSK, Gent
2008 Art Forum Berlin, Freestyle, Nosbaum Reding, Berlin
Before the facts #1, Galerie Amer Abbas, Vienna
mittwochsbar, bell street project space, Vienna
Demoraum, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (publ.)
Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2007 Lügen (with Benjamin Hirte), Gumpendorferstraße 119, Vienna
2005 Desaster in X. (with Jakob Poppinger), Die Halle, Vienna
group exhibitions:
2022 Hier und Jetzt, Wien Skulptur 2022, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Nothing Is Permanent, Ariston, Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, Esch-sur-Alzette
RELAX, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2021 Jahresgaben 2021/22 – Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Act 1, a Piece of Furniture, Berlin
&zines, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
Chambre d'Ami·xes (Room of Friends), Laurenz Space, Vienna
Etablissement d'en face, WAF Galerie, Vienna
Von Fliegenfallen und Wiener Freiheit, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten
im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
0 : 1 palla al centro, Collica & Partners, Catania
2020 Why do birds suddenly appear?, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Proposal for a show, Wschód Gallery, Warsaw
Art Au Centre #2, Rue Gérardrie, 23, Liège
2019 Cäcilia Brown, Christoph Meier, Liesl Raff, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel
Fallen empires and refound desires, HORST Arts & Music, Vilvoorde (publ.)
Cherry Pickers, 36 Rue de Curé, Podium, Luxembourg
LAX BAR, Schallplatten Brigitte, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
2018 On connaît le début on connaît la fin, Exo Exo, New Galerie, Paris
speculative brutalism N4, Am Flutgraben 3, Berlin
Münster sculpture project 2017, Kanuma Park, Sagamihara
Ciao2, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
Vice Versa: Our Earth is Their Moon, Our Moon is Their Earth, M3 Festival, Prague
Raymond Controfigura, Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Castelbuono
Luoghi dove la poesia è possibile, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania
Raymond, Grand Hotel et des Palmes, collateral event of Manifesta 12, Palermo
Wiener Raum, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
Les jours de pleine lune #10, Espace d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand
It's a trap, Significant Other, Vienna
Moon Contemporary, Castello di Carini, Carini
2017 Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Vienna
ba ≠ a + b | 10 JAHRE MUSA. Aus der Sammlung der Stadt Wien,
MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna
Strookoffer, Établissement d'en face, Brussels
moi non-moi or Carrying Owls to Athens, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna
moi non-moi or Carrying Owls to Athens, Wiener Art Foundation, Athens
Group Show, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2016 Transitioning Spaces, Art+Text, Budapest
A Thousand Friends (part 2), Exo Exo, New Jörg, Vienna
schneidig#1. Passformen im Abseits, TAKE Festival, Alte Post, Vienna
The Lasting Concept, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland
»subjektive« Vienna, Contemporallye, Augsburg
2015 There are more things!, Kunstverein Baden
Now, at the latest. Videos und andere Sehenswürdigkeiten aus der EVN Sammlung,
Kunsthalle Krems (publ.)
Vanità/Vanitas, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin (publ.)
Dérive Derivée, CAB Art Center, Brussels
Libidinal Economies: Art in the Age of Bull Markets, University Art Galleries,
UCI Claire Trevor School of Arts, Irvine
Appendix, City Hospital Georgi Stranski, Pleven
2 works, 3 artists, one projection, RIB, Rotterdam
Flirting with Strangers – Begegnungen mit Werken aus der Sammlung, 21er Haus, Vienna (publ.)
Los Bar, Mackey Apartments / MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Display of the Centuries. Friedrich Kiesler and Contemporary Art,
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (publ.)
Hour of the Wolf – Phase 3: Deep Sleep, La Box, Bourges
Le regole del gioco/The Rules of the Game, Fondazione Achille Castiglioni /
Triennale di Milano, Milan (publ.)
Freie Sammlung Vienna - Part2, Ve.sch, Vienna
2014 Ciao!, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
Rudi, Schloss Hollenburg, Hollenburg-Krems
la materia di un sogno, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania
Notes from Underground, Baba Vasa's Cellar, Shabla
La stanza della seta, Museo Palazzo Milio, Ficarra
Dear Darling, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Wildwuchs – in den Straßen und an den Körpern, Kunshaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
syllabus #1 talking about art and life, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania
Hier und jetzt / hic et nunc, Stift Klosterneuburg (publ.)
Ein Volcks‘ Lied für alle – Hadyn explosiv, Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt
2013 Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2013, Kunstraum St.Virgil, Salzburg (publ.)
Parallel, Galerie Kunstbuero, Altes Telegraphenamt, Vienna
Sleep Disorders #6, Manzoni Schäper Projekt, Berlin
Sleep Disorders #6, Atelier C3, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
BC21 BostonConsulting & BelvedereContemporary Art Award 2013, 21er-Haus, Vienna (publ.)
Öffnung, Schauplatz Kornberg, Kornberg bei Riegersburg
Das Christoph Projekt, Kunstforum Pro Arte, Hallein
La Révolte et l'Ennui, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
The Volume of Air, Serra dei Giardini, Venice
Video_Dumbo, Eyebeam, New York
2012 Drawing Quote!, Pigna Project Space, Rome
Kann es Liebe sein?, Passage Galerie, Künstlerhaus / Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
Kann es Liebe sein?, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
Orlando, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania
Kann es Liebe sein?, Grimmuseum, Berlin
Black Beauty, Apartment Draschan, Vienna
sleepwalking, Freies Museum Berlin
At the End of the Rainbow, What the Shop, Vienna
2011 Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2012, Kunstraum St.Virgil, Salzburg (publ.)
Sleep Disorders, Centre d'Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange
The Second Act, Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Future Garden, Kunstbunker – Forum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Nürnberg
edition release,, Ve.sch, Vienna
Brünn Art Open, The Brünn House of Arts, Brno (publ.)
Antidepressiva, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
mit Beiträgen (Video),, Ve.sch, Vienna
Wallpaperism, Motel Campo, Geneva (publ.)
Die Fotografie in Referenz, Fotohof, Salzburg
polis - pollis - politics, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
Dancing to the Rhyme, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
2010 Originalfunktional, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna
In den Straßen
Started 10, Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, Klatovy
Triennale Linz 1.0, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz (publ.)
Sonntag des Lebens, COCO, Vienna
Export, Blaugelbe Zwettl - Kunstverein Zwettl
Through Apparatus - Sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects, NICC, Antwerp
in passing 10 / Christoph Meier, Ute Müller, Nick Oberthaler,
Passage Galerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
La part des choses / Get the balance right, Galerie RDV, Nantes (publ.)
The Merger - by following this 1 easy rule..., 1366 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Wir wohnen, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (publ.)
2009 Fiac 2009 (booth design with Hugo Canoilas), Nosbaum Reding, Paris
On Escape Salzburg, Koje 38, Salzburg
Start Point 2009, Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, Klatovy
Abschlussarbeiten 08/09, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Physical Reabilitation - Moholy, Rua da Boavista 86, Lissabon
It's no Swiss Picnic for me, either, Salon des Arts III
in der Ausstellung Pawel Althammer und Andere, Secession, Vienna
Anzengruber Biennale 2009, Café Anzengruber, Vienna
EXPosition of mythology - ELectronic technology, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
Miete Strom Gas oder Brasilien Wax?, Institut [for contemporary art],
Q21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
The First Annual Detroit .Gif Show, Detroit, Stockholm
2008 Konfusion, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
ConArtFair08, Kunstraum Auto, neocon, Vienna
2007 Work in Progress, Forum+, Groeningen Museum, Brügge
acapulco, Düsseldorf
Viewing Club 10, London
UND#2, bell street project space, Karlsruhe
Formalismus, SWINGR, Vienna
New Prints 2007/Spring, IPCNY, New York
2006 Titel in Arbeit, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Zur Zeit II, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz
CMYK, Viennabiennale06, bell street project space, Vienna
Crosskick, Studiogalerie, Kunstverein Braunschweig (publ.)
mehr nicht, Kunstraum Auto, Vienna
Sprich zu mir - Mluv ke me, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
UDAR-P, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2005 archdiploma 2005, Kunsthalle Projectspace Karlsplatz, Vienna
Real Presence, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrad
Romantische Parasiten, Buhl Areal - Halle 5, Gars am Kamp
A good job is hard to find, Bétonsalon, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2004 Falten - K.O. Zobernig, Kunstraum Auto, Vienna
screenings, performances:
2020 540 (with Marino Fomenti), Ve.sch Kunstverein, Vienna
2018 Raum D: Digitale Projekte, Christoph Meier, Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2017 The Museum Reader, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lissabon
2016 Libidinal Economies, Mumok Kino, Vienna
2014 Index - Guadalajara Art Book Fair, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara
2010 It is easy to pity, but much harder to understand (Attention flottante), Tripode, Rezé - Nantes
Rencontres Internationales 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Rencontres Internationales 2010, Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid
my own private cinema, Kunsthaus Graz
2009 Rencontres Internationales 2009, Centre Pompidou - Reflet Médicis, Paris
ten out of ten, Optica Festival 2009, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto of Gijón