Kerstin von Gabain

https://www.kerstinvongabain.com/
lives and works in Vienna

Education

1998 – 2003 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna


Solo and duo-exhibitions

2023
Plastic plastic plastic, MAK Center Los Angeles (duo exhibition with Ellen Schafer)
Imitation, EXILE Vienna

2022
Kerstin von Gabain and Gwenn Thomas, NADA House, New York

2021
Compliments, Wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe (duo-exhibition with Edin Zenun)
Umeå, V.esch, Vienna
I’ll see you when I see you, EXILE Vienna
Dark Euphoria, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (duo-exhibition with Ivan Pérard)

2020
Happiness Machines, Chicane.space, https://chicane.space/

2018
El Centro 2, Galerie Kunstbüro, Vienna (duo-exhibition with Thea Moeller)

2017
Kerstin von Gabain, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna

2016
Kerstin von Gabain and Thea Moeller: El Centro, Martinetz Galerie, Cologne

2015
Kerstin von Gabain and Markus Amm, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
Bad Pringle, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
The Art Gallery of Rogues, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna

2014
Kerstin von Gabain, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw (ACFW), Warsaw
Raver geht ins archäologische Museum, Grafisches Kabinett, Secession, Vienna

2013
City of broken furniture, Der Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
City of broken furniture, MAK Galerie, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna

2012
Out Getting ribs, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna

Group exhibitions (selection)

2024
rotten apple, StiegeHIlls, Blosnegg, Schlanders (IT)
Having (and Being), Callirrhoë, Athens

2023
doomscroll, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt
L'ART QUE J'AIME in memoriam Gabi Senn, Gabriel Senn Galerie Vienna
master of the bamboo garden, U26, Vienna

2022
Hier und Jetzt, Wien Skulptur 2022, Kunsthalle Dornbirn, Dornbirn
Collaborations, Mumok, Vienna
Hier und Jetzt, Wien Skulptur 2022, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Café Heaven, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

2021
Es ist viel passiert, Marienhof, Vienna
Sculpture, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck

2020
Ballast Palast, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf
Während alle fotografieren, Fotohof Salzburg; Salzburg
HAUS Wien 2020, Vienna
Cruel Summer Camp, EXILE, Vienna
Body Lotion, Zeller van Almsick Gallery, Vienna
Where the wild roses grow, Pina, Vienna

2019
Being towads the world, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
21+, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna
Kalt, Vesch, Kaltenleutgeben, Lower Austria

2018
Performance – The body as a continuum in der Kunst, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Group exhibition, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Ein Brunner Lienz – Alto Adige, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna

2017
Carrying Owls to Athens, Wiener Art Foundation, Athens
PRO(s)THESIS, Picture Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

2016
Painting is not the issue, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Die Sprache der Dinge - Materialgeschichten aus der Sammlung, 21-er Haus, Vienna
de Oculis - Die Sammlung Aichmair im Josephinum, Josephinum, Vienna
Normalities, Austrian Culture Forum New York (ACFNY), New York

2015
There Are More Things ... - Kunstverein Baden, Baden
Famed – Privileg der Umstände, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna¬¬
Neues in der Sammlung, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
Objets Trouvés, Hofstätter Projekte, Vienna
Destination Vienna 2015, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Der Blick und das Queren, Markhof 2, Vienna
Schlaflos, 21er-Haus, Vienna
Group show, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna

2014
Getränke 2, Cumberland Stub’n, Vienna
Hocker, Stuhl, Sessel, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg

2013
If sports is the brother of labor ..., CAMP, Athens


Awards, Grants & Residencies

2017 Kardinal König Preis, Salzburg
2015 MAK Schindler Residency Program Los Angeles; Austrian Studio Stipend for Rome (BKA)
2012 Artist in Residence, Changdong Studios, Seoul (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea)
2011 Austrian Studio Stipend for Tokyo (Bmukk)
2010 Austrian State Grant for Fine Art Photography (Bmukk)
2009 Austrian Studio Stipend for Beijing (Bmukk)