Biography
1971
Born in Vienna
Lives and works in Vienna
Solo Exhibitions
2024
“Recital”, Dvir Gallery, Paris
“Lithosphere”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2023
“Sequence 9: one work, one week. Florian Pumhösl”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2022
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it.” (with Vincent Fecteau), Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Sequence 8: One Work, One or Two Weeks: Florian Pumhösl: Warped Relief (Lasurrot/mittel), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2021
“Two Warped Reliefs”, Boltenstern.Raum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it.” (with Vincent Fecteau), Schindler House, West Hollywood
2019
“Saltern”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2018
“Paul Bonet: Dessins pour reliures compilés par Florian Pumhösl”, Musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Paul Bonet: Drawings for Bookbindings. Compiled for Florian Pumhösl”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
2017
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“Revealed #2: Florian Pumhösl and Paul Bonet”, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2016
“Formed Speech”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“No One’s Voice”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2015
“Alteration of character”, Parra & Romero, Madrid
“Zeichnungen”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
2014
Florian Pumhösl / Liz Deschenes, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2013
Lisson Gallery, London
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2012
“Räumliche Sequenz”, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
“Three Animated Films”, Lisson Gallery, Milan
2011
“678”, Museum ViennaKunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Galerie Krobath, Vienna
Raven Row (with Mathias Poledna), London
2010
“Diminution”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
2009
Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
2008
Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
Lisson Gallery, London
2007
UAG / Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2005
“Re:Modern1”, film screening curated by Florian Pumhösl, Filmmuseum, Vienna
“Animated Map”, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Kunsthaus Budweis, Budweis
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2004
Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneve
“Wachstum und Entwicklung”, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2003
Kölnischer Kunstverein, CENTRAL-Kunstpreis, Cologne
Filmabend, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Statements”, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Art Basel, Basel
2001
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
2000
“Humanist and Ecological Republic and Lac Mantasoa”, Secession, Vienna
1998
“Covering the Room”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
1996
“On or off earth”, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1993
Bürgerforum, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Graz
Group Exhibitions
2024
“Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur”, exhibition design by Florian Pumhösl and Walter Kräutler, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
“Book Week”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Temporary Disappearance”, Dvir Gallery, Paris
2023
“abcd. Czech Functionalist Typography from the Collection of Karel Císař and Studies for Reliefs by Florian
Pumhösl (2016/2017)”, Galerie UM at The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (exhibition
catalogue)
“Elmgreen & Dragset: Read”, Kunsthalle Praha
“Fenêtre du studio“, Dvir Gallery, Paris
“Jahresgaben 2023”, Kunstverein München
“The New Man, The Announcer, The Constructor. El Lissitzky: Self-Portrait as the Kestner Gesellschaft”, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
„Shake The Dust“, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2022
“Changes”, Mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“Schindler House Los Angeles. Raum als Medium der Kunst”, MAK, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
“Book Works et al.”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Jahresgaben 2022”, Kunstverein München
“Singing in Unison: Artists Need To Create On the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy”, Miguel Abreu, New York
“Espèces D’espaces”, Dvir Gallery, Paris
“I’m only the housekeeper, but I don’t know…”, Plečnik House, Ljubljana
2021
“Jahresgaben 2021”, Kunstverein München
“Enjoy - The mumok Collection in Change”, mumok, Vienna
“The Poet-Engineers”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Avant-garde and the Contemporary. The Belvedere Collection from Lassnig to Knebl”, Belvedere, Vienna
2020
“1. Color 2. Hole and 3. Joke. Selected works on paper”, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“Jahresgaben 2020”, Kunstverein München, Munich
“Backstage: Topology of Contemporary Art”, Kunstverein in Hamburg
“Out of Order: Works from the Haubrok Collection, Part 2”, Neues Museum Nürnberg
2019
“Out of Order. Works from the Haubrok Collection, Part 1”, Neues Museum Nürnberg
“Curated by 2019. Florian Pumhösl”, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“all natural. 100 % Collections”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
2018
“Minimum III”, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
“30 Jahre Generali Foundation. In Dialog mit 1918 1938 1968”, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
“Paperwork: Papierarbeiten aus der Sammlung Haubrok”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
2017
“Space Force Construction”, V-A-C Foundation, Venice
“Grounding Vision: Waclaw Szpakowski”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2016
“Accrochage”, Punta della Dogana, Venice
“Line” (curated by Drawing Room), Lisson Gallery, London
“to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2015
“Textilities… and Roses too”, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
“Shibboleth”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Escape Routes”, Brody ArtYard, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Budapest
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2014
“Ratio of Distance” (with Silke Otto-Knapp), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“The Present of Modernism”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“Epicentre: Conversations and Discussions Between Artists”, Parra & Romera, Ibiza
“New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig”, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
“Pictures in Time - Goetz Collection at Haus der Kunst”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2013
“Obrazy a Predobrazy. Figures and Prefigurations”, City Gallery Prague, Prague
“Textiles: Open Letter. Abstraktionen, Textilien, Kunst”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
“art is: new art - Reflexionen zu Schönberg in der Gegenwartskunst”, Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
“The Content of Form” (curated by Helmut Draxler”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“drunken walks / cliché / corrosion fatigue / ebay”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2012
Jahresgabenausstellung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
“Haubrok Collection at Falckenberg. No Desaster”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
“Reflecting Fashion. ARt and Fashion Since Modernism”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“Parcours” (with Liz Deschenes), curated by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2011
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Abstrakter Raum: Formation der klassischen Moderne”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
“Beziehungsarbeit - Kunst und Institution”, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
“Shapes”, Collection Haubrok, Berlin
“Volume! Works from the Collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA”, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
2010
“Modernologies”, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
“High Ideals & Crazy Dreams”, Galerie Very Munro, Hamburg
2009
“Modernologies”, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
“Wiener Musterzimmer”, curated by Edelbert Köb, Belvedere, Vienna
“Mimoi - Mimes”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Die Moderne als Ruine”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Die Moderne als Ruine”, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
“Memories of the Future”, Galerie Václava Spály, Národni
“The Front Room”, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
“Sozialer Raum. Künstlerinnen und der Wiener Gemeindebau”, Temporary Space, Vienna
“Lisson Presents 5”, Lisson Gallery, London
2008
“The Eternal Flame: On the Promise of Eternity”, Kunsthaus Basel, Basel
“Support The Bauhaus”, Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin
“Neutre Intense”, Carl Freedman Gallery, London
“Neutre Intenense”, Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina / Maison Populaire, Montreuil
2007
“Documenta 12”, Kassel
“Various Small Fires”, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Curación Geométrica”, The Reliance, London
“Imagine Action”, Lisson Gallery, London
“Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism”, UAG / Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine
“Cross-Border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
“For a Special Place: Documents and Works from the Generali Foundation Collection, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2006
27th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
“Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln at Metropictures”, Metropictures Gallery, New York
“Why Pictures Now”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“…und so hat Konzept noch nie Pferd bedeutet”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Extension Turn”, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
2005
“Supersilent”, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
“No Manifesto”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
“Icestorm”, Kunstverein München, Munich
“Miracles of Nature”, Nagoya Art Museum, Nagoya
“Mirage”, Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Occupying Space”, Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich
“Das Neue II”, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
“Model Modernisms”, Artists Space, New York
“We disagree”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2004
“How do we want to be governed? (Figure and Ground)”, Miami Art Central, Miami
“dwellan”, Charlottenborg Exhibition Building, Copenhagen
“How do we want to be governed?” (mit Hannes Böck), Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
“Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute”, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
“Teil 2 ‘Quodlibet'”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Black Friday - Exercises in Hermetics”, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
“Räume”, curated by Martin Beck, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
“Formate”, MNAC / Kalinderu Medialab, Bukarest
2003
“Hey Production (Exhibition Design)”, Cubitt, London
“Form Specific”, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
50th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
“Utopia Stations”, Venice Biennale, Venice (Poster Project)
“Abstraction Now”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
“Game Over”, Grimm+Rosenfeld, Munich
“It happened tomorrow”, 7th Lyon Biennale, Lyon
“Adorno”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
“Foreplay”, Ritter / Zamet, London
2002
“Nachgemacht. Künstliche Natürlichkeit - Simulierte Natur”, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
“Uncommon Denominator”, MassMoCa, Massachusetts
“manifesta 4”, Frankfurt am Main
“Continental Drift”, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
“Designs für die wirkliche Welt”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
“ForwArt 02”, BBL Bruxelles / Museum voor Oude Kunst, Brussels
“Rethinking Photography”, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Graz
“Double Bind”, Irida Gallery, Sofia
“Modesty”, Pavel Haus, Laafeld
“Fundamentalisms of the New Order”, Charlottenborg Exhibition Building, Copenhagen
2001
“Time and space in Megalopolis”, Galerie hlavního mest Prahy, Prague
Objekte, Atelier Augarten, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
“Du bist die Welt”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Yokohama Triennale, Japan
“20/35 Vision”, Schindler House, Los Angeles
2000
Gastatelier Nils Norman, Hamburg
“Delay”, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Graz
“Parallel Realities”, Hay Art, Yerevan
“Lebt und arbeitet in Wien”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1998
“100 Jahre Secession”, Secession, Vienna
“Modelle”, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
“Sharawadgi”, Felsenvilla, Baden
1996
“Complexul muzeal”, Museum Arad, Arad
1995
“Impact”, Generali Foundation, Vienna
1994
“Lokalzeit”, Raum Strohal, Vienna
1993
“Backstage”, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
“KontextKunst”, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
1992
“Ballgasseland” (with Hans Küng, Dorit Margreiter, Mathias Poledna), Galerie Ballgasse, Vienna
Plakate, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1991
“Material, Texte, Interviews” (with Hans Küng, Dorit Margreiter, Mathias Poledna), Jänner Galerie, Vienna
Awards
2004
Wilfried Skreiner-Preis
2003
Hilde Goldschmidt-Preis
2002
CENTRAL-Kunstpreis, Köln
2001
Schindler-Stipendium, Los Angeles
2000
Otto-Mauer Preis