Bernhard Garnicnig
*1983, lives and works in Basel and Bregenz
bernhard@continentcontinent.cc
Bernhard Garnicnig is a research artist, lecturer and Ph.D. candidate. He studied Art, Media and Performative Sculpture in Vienna and Rotterdam. His current work focuses on the digital occupation of institutionality as artistic practice, conceptual narrations of emancipatory institutional and corporate surfaces for structures of aesthetic collaboration, and earnest attempts at making paradoxical things work in time and space to see what happens.
He is the founding co-editor of continentcontinent.cc, a collectively edited journal for thinking through media (est. 2011), founder & former Very Artistic Director of the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a historic site for futuristic art (est. 2014), the co-founder of the Bregenz Biennale, a festival for ephemeral public art in the town he was born (est. 2012) and the co-founder and Director of Supergood, a consulting brand in the ambiguous field between product and performance (est. 2015). He lectures “New Media Art” at the Art & Education Department at the University of Art and Design Linz, is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and research artist for “Institutions as a Way of Life” at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at HGK Basel (SNF 2017–2021) as well as a member of the board of directors at Künstlerhaus Thurn & Taxis, Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstler_innen Vorarlberg (BV:BKV) in Bregenz.
He participated in and convened exhibitions, lectures, workshops and residencies internationally, most recently Supergood – Diálogos com Ernesto de Sousa at MAAT Lisboa, The Unified Field Residency Ayoke, Philippines; Resilience Residency Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil; continent. at Technosphere 1948 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; #vaporfolk at Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz; My Holy Nacho at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Free Better You at One Work Gallery, Vienna and The Open Scenarios for Non-Trivial Pursuits for Coded Cultures Festival Vienna.
Education
2005 – 2011 University for Applied Arts Vienna, Mag.art (MFA equiv.) with Honours in Digital Arts
(Prof. Peter Weibel, Prof. Tom Fürstner, Prof. Ruth Schnell, Nicolaj Kirisits)
2009 – 2010 Visiting Student, networked_media, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam
2008 – 2009 Art and Digital Media, Prof. Constanze Ruhm, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Performative Art and Sculpture, Prof. Monica Bonvicini, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2020
MHYTNIX. Pixel, Bytes & Film ORFIII Artist in Residence.
Visiting Scholar, The New School, New York City
2019
My Holy Nacho at FMR 2019, Linz
Digital Art Festival, Sofia
10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Zürich
Mythos Idylle Maisäß, Vorarlberg Museum
continent. publishing collective at Forms of Life, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
continent. FRIEND / SHIPS, Centre culturel suisse, Paris
SANS ORDINATEUR, Postdigital Research Group, Ecole normale supérieure Paris
2018
sonic objections #2 at Bildraum Bregenz – with Bella Angora, Angélica Castelló, Faxen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Ulrike Königshofer, Albert Mayr, Ulla Rauter, Strotter Inst., Benjamin Tomasi, Mario de Vega und Thomas Wagensommerer. Curated by Alexandra Grausam & Karl Salzmann.
continent. reproducing at L'Automàtica, Barcelona
151 Allmendstrasse, initiated by Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff and Lucie Kolb, Zürich
continent. Body of Us, Swiss Pavillion at London Design Biennale
FAD, Mitgliederausstellung Künstlerhaus Bregenz
Supergood – Diálogos com Ernesto de Sousa at MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia Lisbon – with Melanie Bonajo, Rita Sobral Campos, Vasco Costa, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Jannis Varelas, Supergood com Ernesto de Sousa. Curated by Hugo Canoilas.
2017
continent. publishing collective at Technosphere 1948, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
continent. Radio Brouhaha for the Publishing Sphere conference at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Invited by Lionel Ruffell
Secret Island Archive, Unifiedfield Nomadic Artist-in-Residence, Philippines
“Palais des Beaux Arts: Ideas worth spreading again” Pixel, Bytes & Film. ORFIII, Arte Creative, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In cooperation with Fabian Faltin.
“#vaporfolk” Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz – Lona Gaikis, Peter Moosgaard, Zsófia Keresztes, Angus McCullough, Andreas Ervik
Resilience Residence, Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil.
continent. First Encounters in the Technosphere. Public Making of the Technosphere x Knowledge at Haus der Kulturen der Welt at Freies Theater Innsbruck.
WINDOWS, Computer + Software, Basel. Commissioned Group Exhibition – Aram Bartholl, Benoît Verjat, Bernhard Garnicnig, Ciara Phillips, Constant Dullaart, Evan Roth, Geraldine Juárez, Ishac Bertran, Jamie Allen, Jan Robert Leegte, Moritz Greiner-Petter, Peter Moosgaard, Phillip Stearns, Pussykrew, Rosa Menkman, Sebastian Schmieg, Suzanne Treister, Windows93
WRONG BIENNALE, postinternet.art
2016
Performance: Premierentage Innsbruck, with Supergood & Medien.Kunst.Tirol at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Installation & Publication: continent. at the Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary
Curated Exhibition: Bregenz Biennale 2016 – Jamie Allen, Albert Allgaier, Simone Borghi, Sean J Patrick Carney, Martin Chramosta, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Fabian Faltin, Karin Ferrari, Alec Finlay, Peter Fritzenwallner, Michele Gabriele, Bernhard Garnicnig, Thomas Geiger, Katharina Höglinger, Barbara Anna Husar, Lisa Kainz, Lital Khaikin, Rick Lins, Romain Mader, Maria Maeser, Fernando Mesquita, Marco Rios, Lina Rukevičiūtė & Lina Zaveckytė, Driton Selmani, Lena Sieder-Semlitsch, Benjamin Tomasi, GRUPPE UNO WIEN, Noburo Watanabe, Seth Weiner and Arnaud Wohlhauser declare the sunset on the 14.08.2016 as a work of art
Performance & Exhibition Contribution: Palais des Beaux Arts at L’Exposition Imaginaire, Kunsthalle Wien
Interview & Publication: continent. at the “Technosphere, Now” Campus at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Exhibition & Performance: SECTIONING MY HOLY NACHO – With Jamie Allen, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
2015
Group Exhibition: APPENDIX – With Eva Egermann, Karine Fauchard, Benjamin Grodin, Ludwig Kittinger, Bernd Kräftner, Christoph Meier Martyn Reynolds, Hans Schabus et al. Curated by Phelim McConigly – Atanas Petrov Foundation, Pleven, Bulgaria
Curated Exhibition: #vaporfolk #hollyvoodoo. Sponsored by Amazon Readymades. – With Zsófia Keresztes, Angus McCullough, Alexandra Hackett (A.L.C.H.), Andreas Ervik, Stephanie Syjuco, Michele Gabriele, Pau Sampera, Peter Moosgaard – Lust Gallery, Wien
Group Exhibition: THE FLOATING TRANSPARENT EYEBALL – With Salvatore Viviano, Alfred Lenz, Lukas Heistinger –
Curated by Max Lust, Donaufestival Krems
Performance & Exhibition Contribution: SOCIAL GLITCH – With Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Harun Farocki, Thomas Feuerstein, Ayesha Hameed, Mathias Kessler, Mark Lombardi, Jennifer Mattes, Godofredo Pereira, Axel Stockburger, Technopolitics, UBERMORGEN.COM, et al. – Curated by Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Maximilian Thomann – Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
Group Exhibition: NEUE MITGLIEDER – Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz
Group Exhibition: UNSAFE+SOUNDS – With Karin Ferrari, Hyo Lee, Magda Tothova – Bar du Bois, Wien
Group Exhibition: ONE WORK GALLERY – Vienna Contemporary Artfair
Artwork Commission: Order My Holy Nacho http://myholynacho.net/order/ – With Jamie Allen, Kunsthal Aarhus
Performance & Publication, Media Production: UNBOXING MY HOLY NACHO – Kunsthal Aarhus
Performance & Project Space: SUPERGOOD – Temporary project space focusing on the reflection of health, food and self-optimisation related practices of life with daily interdisciplinary, performance and educational program. With Lukas Heistinger, Wien
2014
Solo Exhibition: RE: FWD: 6 Bagatellen – Science Friction, Copenhagen
Solo Exhibition: METADADA – Lust Gallery, Wien
Group Exhibition: 2 REAL, Parallel Art Fair Vienna
Group Exhibition: 2 REAL, Dimensions Variable, m:oe Wien
Group Exhibition: 2 REAL, Art Review Live presents <dienstag abend>, Expo Chicago
Curated Exhibition: BREGENZ/BIENNALE/2014 – With Maria Anwander, Ruben Aubrecht, Paul Mittler, Swetlana Heger, Philipp Preuss, Hubert Matt, Alexander Fuchs, Tim Hartmann, Kurt Matt, Richard Prinz, Mathias Garnitschnig, Alexander Kramer, Rainer Ganahl, Philipp Leissing, Commendatore Himi Burmeister, Lisi Hämmerle.
Solo Exhibition: 2 REAL, MEMPHIS, Linz
Group Exhibition: Imaginary Apps at REMIXED Media Festival, New York City, 2014
Group Exhibition: ART HACK DAY, Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen Berlin
Curated Exhibition: ANONYMOUS & OTHERS – With TRAUMAWIEN & Mimi Cabell, Jason Huff, Ulrich Nausner, Peter Fritzenwallner, Constant Dullaart, Christopher Richmond, Emilie Gervais. Nomadenetappe, Linz
2013
Group Exhibition: REVIEW 2013. Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz
Group Exhibition: "Wanderer vom Rande des Raumes" Ein Experiment. Mit Beni Bischof (CH), Eugen Fulterer (A), Florian Graf (CH), Anna Hilti (LI), Karin Ospelt (LI). 15.11.2013 - 15.12.2013 Galerie Hollenstein, Lustenau
Group Exhibition: PARALLEL VIENNA, 9.-13.10.2013
Group Exhibition: Imaginary Apps. Organised by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko. “Museum | London” (Ontario, Canada), September 28 – October 20, 2013
Group Exhibition: The Abortion of Tragedy. With Markus Proschek, Angelika Loderer, Peter Fritzenwallner, Kay Walkowiak. Curated by Max Lust. SHOW ROOM, New York City
Group Exhibition: Mediterranea 16 – Ancona, Italy
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: The Intransigent Ticket – The Artist as a Filter, California State University Los Angeles
Solo Exhibition: Goodbye Moyka – With Jamie Allen, Moscow Museum, Russia
Solo Exhibition: Galerie Lisi Hämmerle at Viennafair Booth c15
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Black Hole / White Cube – Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz
2012
Solo Exhibition: Abstraktion/Rekreation – SSZ Sued, Köln
Solo Exhibition: Abstraktion/Rekreation – Hosted in Athens
Solo Exhibition: Das Jagdberg-Südhang Direttissima – 12c Schnifis
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: The Inside Joke (tl;dr haha) – AfG, Wien
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Realities and Togetherness, 0gms Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria
Group Exhibition: MULTIPLE CHOICE III – Hoehe und Breite, Wien
Group Exhibition: Re: Fwd: ANEIGNUNG II – Fotogalerie Wien
Group Exhibition: MULTIMART – Viennafair
Performance: Soundwwwalks – Experimenta Biennale of Media Art, Melbourne
Performance: Soundwwwalks – Code of Contingency, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn NY
Performance & Workshop: Soundwwwalks – NIMK, Amsterdam
Group Exhibition: Current Nets – Berliner Büro der E-Plus Gruppe, Berlin
2011
Solo Exhibition: "K ≠ (S + R + B)^30 x [P^n – A^x]^RIF", Curated by Georg Russegger – Glockengasse 9, Wien
Solo Exhibition: RE: FWD: White Out / GLISZ – Artachment, Basel
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Das Ubiquitous Événement – Projekt LOVE, Wien
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Die Autopoietic Ein-Bæhn – Das Weisse Haus, Wien
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Leise Kriselt der S… – Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Von Robotern die Bilder bauen – Vienna Art Week
Performance: Soundwwwalks at If Not Now – Royal College of Art, London
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Metamart – Vienna Art Week, Künstlerhaus Wien
Group Exhibition: Appeal to Probability – Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
Solo Exhibition: RE: FWD: Ono Mato, Po esis (mit Benjamin Tomasi) – Magazin/Coded Cultures, Wien
Solo Exhibition: RE: FWD: Imitation of Action – Latned Atsär, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: The Essence – MAK, Wien
Group Exhibition: Stimuli, Curated by Max Lust – Stilwerk Shop 21, Nouvel Tower, Wien
Curated Exhibition: Mutual Agreement – Lust Gallery, Wien
Group Exhibition: Diplomausstellung – Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
2010
Solo Exhibition: RE: FWD: "Ast fällt auf Tonspur" – Magazin, Wien
Group Exhibition: Kollateral, Curated by Giulia Tamiazzo – Monat der Fotografie, Wien
Group Exhibition: Unlimited Liability Shop by Michel Chevallier – Hamburg
Group Exhibition: LIVE/LEAVE – Wolfart Project Space, Rotterdam
Group Exhibition: DONE TO A DEAD END and the DEAD OR ALIVE SALE – SD&G, Rotterdam
2009
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Das Problème Escapist – POW, Hamburg
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Der Index Général – c17, Wien
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: an other ex position – c17, Wien
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Das Cologné Concert – Raum 25 C, Köln
Solo Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: Das Mysterieux Project – c17, Wien
Group Exhibition: Seven Positions – Carbon 12 Dubai
Group Exhibition: Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen – Kulturfabrik Hainburg
Group Exhibition: c17/Logement – Antwerpen
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: GIF SHOW – detroit, Stockholm
Group Exhibition: Rundgang – Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
2008
Group Exhibition: Sneak Preview – Carbon 12 Dubai
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: ARTmART – Künstlerhaus, Wien
Group Exhibition: The Trojan Horses, Wien
Group Exhibition: Albért Bernàrd: le marquis de remondiere, T-shArt Fashion Show, Fundación Bilbao Arte
Group Exhibition: Muzeum Ksiazki Artystycznej, Lodz, Poland
Group Exhibition: c17/BBKL Labor, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz
2007
Group Exhibition: (mis)used media – Klasse Digitale Kunst Wien
2006
Group Exhibition: Die Enzyklopädie der wahren Werte – Künstlerhaus, Wien
Extra-disciplinary practice
2016 Bregenz Biennale 2016 (Co-Founder and Curator). With Jamie Allen, Simone Borghi, Sean J Patrick Carney, Martin Chramosta, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Fabian Faltin, Karin Ferrari, Alec Finlay, Peter Fritzenwallner, Michele Gabriele, Thomas Geiger, Katharina Höglinger, Barbara Anna Husar, Lisa Kainz, Lital Khaikin, Rick Lins, Romain Mader, Maria Maeser, Fernando Mesquita, Marco Rios, Lina Rukevičiūtė & Lina Zaveckytė, Driton Selmani, Lena Sieder-Semlitsch, Benjamin Tomasi, Gruppe Uno Wien, Noburo Watanabe, Seth Weiner, Arnaud Wohlhauser.
2016 Open Scenarios for Non-Trivial Pursuits: A three day workshop program at the intersection of Pedagogy and Performance. Curated for continent. and Coded Cultures Festival, The University in Ruins. With Julia Hölzl, Fabian Faltin, Seth Weiner, Karin Ferrari, Peter Moosgaard, Jamie Allen.
2011 – ongoing
Co-founder of continent., a collectively edited journal for thinking through media. We published 20+ issues and convened events and workshops at various partner institutions and sites, like the Technosphere 2015–2018 Project, Publishing Sphere (both Haus der Kulturen der Welt), University of Basel, documenta14 Athens A-Letheia Project, Coded Cultures Festival Wien, Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Index Foundation.
2014 – ongoing
Founder and Very Artistic Director of the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a wireless conceptual art space and digital art commissioning programme. With Joe Hamilton, Museum of Internet, Pussykrew, Jamie Allen, Rosemary Lee, Fabian Faltin, Karin Ferrari, Peter Moosgaard, Seth Weiner. Commissioned writings by Jamie Allen, Maren Mayer-Schwieger, Fabian Faltin, Eva Maria Mandl, Erik Born.
www.palaisdesbeauxarts.at
2014 bregenz/biennale/2014 (Co-Founder and Curator)
with Rainer Ganahl, Philipp Leissing, Maria Anwander, Ruben Aubrecht, Philipp Preuss, Svetlana Heger, Alexander Fuchs, Mathias Garnitschnig, Tim Hartmann. www.bregenzbiennale.com
2014 Making Places – A imaginary map of historic artist run institutions. Commissioned by the Arts Program at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
2014 on_offspaces - a series of exhibitions and a publication mapping an informal history of artist run spaces in Vienna (Archiv für Gegenwart, Wien)
2014 Anonymous & Others - with Constant Dullaart, TRAUMAWIEN, Peter Fritzenwallner and Emilie Gervais (Nomadenetappe, Linz)
2012 bregenzbiennale (Co-Founder and Curator)
with Markus Proschek, Salvatore Viviano, Andrea Lüth, Peter Fritzenwallner, Maria Anwander und Ruben Aubrecht, Philip Hanich, Paul Landa, Albért Bernàrd. Project development grant by Austrian Federal Chancellery and Regional Government. www.bregenzbiennale.com
2009 – 2013 SOUNDWWWALKS
Commissioned artists to create works for this browser based sound performance format. Performances and lectures at Experimenta Int. Biennial of Media Art , Melbourne Australia; Code Of Contingency, 319 Scholes Brooklyn NY; NIMK, Amsterdam; iMAL Brussels; WORM Rotterdam; Laboratoria, Moscow; Science Friction, Copenhagen; ISEA2011 Istanbul – www.soundwwwalk.net
05 2012 One is the loneliest number (Google confirms), Kunstraum Glockengasse 9 Wien
with Albért Bernàrd, Claude Closky, Hennessy Youngman, Jesus Papichulo and Salvatore Viviano
05 2009 Sound/Time/Space – c17, Wien
with Mamoru Ukonu, Valerie Lange / Benjamin Tomasi, Daniel Lercher, Peter Kutin, Nicolaj Kirisits, Michael Fischer, Tim Blechmann und Albért Bernàrd
01 2009 The machine becomes the idea that makes the art – c17, Wien
with Florian Waldner, Marketta Seppälä, Gordan Savicic, UBERMORGEN.com, Peter Moosgaard, Guthrie Lonergan, Franck Lays, Gottfried Haider, Luc Gross, Bernhard Garnicnig, Albért Bernàrd
Grants and Residencies
06 2018 Mythos Idylle Maisäß, Gargellen, Montafon, Austria
08 2017 UNIFIEDFIELD Nomadic Artist in Residence, Davao/Ayoke, Philippines
02 2017 Resilience Artist in Residence, Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil
10 2016 Visiting Artistic Researcher, Critical Media Lab, School for Design and Art Basel
08 2016 IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, IFK_Akademie 2016
09 2015 BilbaoArte Artist in Residence Stipendium, Vorarlberger Landesregierung
05 2015 Acquisition to Collection of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA)
05 2014 Artist in Transit – Research and production of 2 Real, Brasilia, Funded by BKA and Land Vorarlberg
02 2014 Berlin Artist in Residence Stipendium, Vorarlberger Landesregierung
09 2012 Christiania Researcher in Residence, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
08 2012 Triptych Tripping – Lust Gallery New York, Los Angeles, Wien
06 2012 Startstipendium Medienkunst, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK)
05 2012 Acquisition to Collection of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK)
03 2010 Artist in Resident Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Great Britain
Presentations and Education in Media Art Research
06 2013 Net Acoustics Workshop with Jamie Allen – STRELKA Moscow
04 2012 Sound Research Summit, Eyebeam New York City
03 2012 Net Acoustics Workshop with Jamie Allen – STEIM Amsterdam
11 2011 Soundwwwalks at If Not Now – Royal College of Art, London
09 2011 Conference Panel Chair: Soundwwwalks – ISEA2011 Istanbul
06 2011 Net Acoustics Workshop with Jamie Allen – Mullae Art Space, Seoul
10 2010 Public Interfacial Gesture Salon II mit Ubermorgen, Constant Dullaart, Monochrom – MQ Wien
09 2010 Public Interfacial Gesture Salon with Constant Dullaart, Jon Rafman, Artie Vierkant – Berlin
08 2010 “Craving” (mit Gottfried Haider) – ISEA2010 Ruhr
05 2009 “Craving” (mit Gottfried Haider) – Coded Cultures, Wien
05 2008 “Craving” (mit Gottfried Haider) – 5th Mobile Music Workshop, Wien
05 2007 “Craving” (mit Gottfried Haider) – 4th Mobile Music Workshop, STEIM Amsterdam