Leopold Kessler
Lives and works in Vienna

Contact: leopoldkessler(at)gmx.net

Soloshows/projects (Selection)

2022
Nordbahn-Zeh, public space, Vienna
Antagometer (Coronaprotest), public space, Vienna

2021
Antagometer (Donaukanal), public space, Vienna
Ottakringer Hand, public space, Vienna

2020
Ral 9006, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria

2019
food track, Neue Galerie (Tiroler Künstlerschaft), Innsbruck, Austria

2018
Kooperativer Dreh-Gong, public space, Vienna, Austria

2017
Surrogate Citybike Station, Mocak, Krakow, Poland
Exit Goldküste, Miller´s Studio, Zurich, Switzerland

2016
Hand mit Hebel, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria

2015
Repairing the City, Edit Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Kollektive Rüttelplatte, Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna, Austria

2013
Ghost terrace, Skulpturenpark 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Forchetta delle Dolomiti, Projectroom, Museion, Bozen, Italy
When in Holland.., West Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

2012
Collagen und Monument, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria

2011
Leopold Kessler, New Galerie, Paris, France

2010
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Volksshoeshinemachine, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland

2009
Leopold Kessler, Factory, Krems, Austria
Leopold Kessler, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Interventions and Observations, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

2008
Leopold Kessler, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Leopold Kessler, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Deutschland

2007
Red Sea Star, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA
Import Budapest – Vienna, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
Perforation Kal. 10mm, Secession, Vienna, Austria

2006
Graz, Studio Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Interventions 2002–2005, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria

2005
Transportable Works, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA
O, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna, Austria

2003
Synnchronisation, Offspace, Vienna, Austria
Privatisiert, Galerie Corentin Hamel, Paris, France

Groupshows (Selection)

2022
Nehmen sie Platz!,  MUSA, Vienna, Austria
An die Wand muss es nicht, Maerz, Linz, Austria

2021
Videocity, public space, Basel, Switzerland
NonStopScheiner, KiöR, Graz, Austria

2020
Alphabet des anarchistischen Amateurs, rotor, Graz, Austria
Art&Function, Rathausgalerie, Munich, Germany

2019
Sinnesrausch, OK Zentrum, Linz, Austria
Take over, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
Discrete Austrian Secrets, Galaxy Museum of contemporary. Art, Chongqing, China

2018
The Street, MAXXI Museum oft he 21st century, Rome, Italy
Still Water. Politiken des Wassers, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Germany
Minus20degree Biennale, Flachau, Austria

2017
The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, USA
Stadt unter, Unikum , Klagenfurt, Austria
Europamaa, Temnikova&Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2016
Our mind into a Bretzl, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
Aus der Sammlung: Stadt in Bewegung, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria

2015
Panopticon, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
Moving, not moving, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland

2014
Great Expectations, Galerie Soy Capitán, Berlin, Germany
Reines Wasser, Lentos, Linz, Austria
Update/ Post Memory, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany

2013
Economics in Art, Mocak, Krakow, Poland
Desire Lines, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
Shifting Conditions, Galerie Andreas Huber @ New Galerie Paris

2012
Detective, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
Desiring the Real, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbia

2011
I Feel Like I’M Disappearing…, Galerie West, The Hague, Netherlands
Singapore Biennale: Open house, Singapore
Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
Das Meer – Traum & Wirklichkeit, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
The MOCAK Collection, Museum of contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland

2010
A Walk around the Block, Contemporary Art Centre, Noisiel, France
Arrivals and Departures_Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Angst macht grosse Augen, Werkleitz, Halle, Germany
Things only an artist can do, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Linz Triennale 1.0, OK, Linz
, Austria
Street and Studio, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

2009
The Spectacle of the Everyday, 10th Biennale de Lyon, France
Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Variation Time, BBK, Munich, Germany

2008
PhotoCairo4: THE LONG SHORTCUT, CiC, Cairo, Egypt
Better being a virus than catching a cold, Mains d’Œuvres, Paris, France
Biennale Cuvee: World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK, Linz, Austria
Moralische Fantasien, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland

2007
Hard Rock Waltzer – Contemporary Austrian Sculpture,Villa Manin, Italy
No, future, Bloomberg SPACE, London, England
Pensa/Piensa/Think, Santa Mònica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Sharjah Biennial 8: Between The Desert And The Sea, United Arab Emirates

2006
Five Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
On Mobility, de appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005
Lives & Works in Vienna, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
OKAY/O.K., Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Don´t Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College, London, UK

2004
Manifesta 05, San Sebastian
Beuys Don´t Cry, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
Personne n’est Innocent…, Confort Moderne, Poitier, Vienna, Austria

2002
Haunted by Details, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands