Rainer Ganahl
Rainer Ganahl (* 1961 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian-American artists.
Life
Ganahl attended a commercial college and studied from 1986 to 1991 at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna with Peter Weibel and at the Dusseldorf Art Academy in Nam June Paik. 1990/91 he took part in the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since 2006 Ganahl is a professor of sculpture - material and spatial concepts also include new media - at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
Work
Important issues of the post- conceptual work Rainer Ganahl are language, the education system, the media and politics. For example, shows his photo series S / L ( Seminar / Lectures ) Lectures and presentations at universities. They show not only the speaker but also the listener and students in the audience. Similarly, he documented his own study of "exotic " languages (eg Japanese) in the form of an art project. In 1995 organized " Imported- Reading Seminar" common study of important theoretical works from different countries will be documented on video.
Rainer Ganahl's work has been shown repeatedly in the context of the Biennale di Venezia: 1999 in the Austrian Pavilion, and most recently in 2007 His presence in the exhibition "New York - States of Mind" underlines Ganahl's roots in the New York art scene..
Publications
- Use a bicycle, Rainer Ganahl, The apprentice in the sun. The Apprentice in the Sun, Apprentice dans le soleil. Frankfurt: Revolver Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-386-5.
- MONEY AND DREAMS: COUNTING THE LAST DAYS OF THE SIGMUND FREUD BANKNOTE, Putnam, CT: Spring Publications, 2005, ISBN 0-88214-565-7.
- Road to War, King, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-959-7.
- With Gabriele Mackert: Next target? Petrified policy. Frankfurt: Revolver Verlag, ISBN 3-86588-039-8, 2004. .
- Reading Karl Marx. London: Book Works, 2001 ISBN 1-87069957-2. .
- IMPORTED - A Reading Seminar. New York: Semiotext ( e ), 1998 ISBN 1-57027-076-7. .