Rainer Ganahl
Rainer Ganahl (born 1961) is an Austrian born artist. His work consists of photographs, videos and performances.
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[edit] Life
From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (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.
[edit] 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.[1] 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.[2]
Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale.[3]
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ Rainer Ganahl: Base - Reviews: Florence. ArtForum, Feb 2003.
- ^ Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 23, 2010
- ^ columbia.edu
