Born in 1983 in Bregenz, Lake Constance, Austria
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Austrian-born and based in Los Angeles where she relocated in 2017, Katherina Olschbaur was emboldened by her move to push the boundaries in the tenuous relationship between representation and abstraction, creating the distinct viewpoint in her painting practice for which she is recognized.
education
2009
- Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting, Animation Film, Stage Design), University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2005
- Erasmus Exchange, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
solo shows
2024
Perrotin, Paris, France [forthcoming]
2023
Sirens, DANGXIA Art Space, Beijing, China
Midnight Spill, Perrotin, Hong Kong, HK SAR
2022
Prayers, Divinations, Galeria Nicodim, New York City, USA
2021
Live Flesh, Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
My Kingdom and a Horse (with Dominique Fung), Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania*
Night Blessings, Union Pacific, London, UK
2020
Tortured Ecstasies, Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
Dirty Elements, curated by Allyson Unzicker, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
2019
The Divine Hermaphrodite, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018
Horses, Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
Deep Cuts, PØST, Los Angeles, USA
WILDE REITER, OOF Books, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Liquid Promises, curated by Mia Laska, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Haunted by Strokes, Galerie Werkstadt Graz, Austria
Von Tangenten und Passanten (with Luisa Kasalicky), LLLLLL Space, Vienna, Austria*
2015
The Opening, Brick 5 Theater, Vienna, Austria
PONG (with Olivia Kaiser), Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria*
2013
Über Malerei, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Dickicht (with Matthias Buch), Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna, Austria*
2011
Wicked Walls, Museum auf Abruf (MUSA) – Museum on Demand, Vienna, Austria
Schatten und Wirbel, Museum Spoerri, Hadersdorf am Kamp, Austria
Into Deeper Lands at Open Sea, Magazin, Vienna, Austria
2008
Unsichere Räume, Kunstraum Praterstraße 15, Vienna, Austria
2007
Yussuf/Cermak (with Lorenz Helfer), Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria*
*Two-artist exhibitions
group shows
2024
Vampire::Mother, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA
2023
October +, Perrotin, Paris, France
2022
Somatic Markings, Kasmin, New York City, USA
The 14th Biennial of Contemporary African Art (Dak’Art), Dakar, Senegal
2021
My Secret Garden, Asia Art Center, Taipei, China
Density Betrays Us, The Hole, New York City, USA
Women in Paris, Eric Hussenot, Paris, France
Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York City, USA
2020
PAPA RAGAZZE!, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles, USA
Quixotic, Ramp Gallery, London, UK
When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
A Peripheral Reverie, Penske Projects, Montecito, USA
We Used to Gather, Library Street Project, Detroit, USA
What’s Up Twenty Twenty, Lawrence Van Hagen, London, UK
New Beginnings..., curated by Katherina Olschbaur, Galeria Nicodim [online]
Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (presented by Jeffrey Deitch, Galeria Nicodim, and AUTRE Magazine), Los Angeles, USA
2019
Kardinal König Prize exhibition, Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
LA on Fire, curated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Goddess in Practice, Kunstraum Retz, Austria
Todas Mis Damas, Mexico City, Mexico
Trans World, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania, and Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
Everlasting Light, Tim Nolas, Vienna, Austria
Our Lady of the Flowers, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
2018
SEED, curated by Yvonne Force Villareal, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, USA
BioPerversity, Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA
Formal Encounters, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
Soft Bodies, Werkartz, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Galerie M, curated by Bernhard Buhmann, Galerie Z, Hard, Austria
Pictures of Nothing, curated by Arie Amaya-Akkermans, PG Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
A Painters Table: Symposium on Painting and Change, curated by Bianca Regl, BLACKBRIDGE OFF, Beijing, China
"moi non-moi" or "carrying owls to Athens," curated by Amer Abbas and Stefan Bidner, Wiener Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2016
Summer in the City, Galerie Christine König, Vienna, Austria
Paper doesn´t blush, Αισχύλου 31, Ψυρρή, curated by Stefan Bidner, Wiener Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2015
Buchstabenfest, Zollamt, Bad Radkersburg, Austria
Colour Value Vienna #1, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna, Austria
The Katharsis Show, Vienna Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Mujeras Alcanzando la Luz, Casa Museo del Banco National, Panama City, Panama
2014
Parallelwelten, Galerie Gerersdorfer, Vienna, Austria
Die große Illusion, Atelier Steinbrener / Dempf & Huber, Vienna, Austria
Hier und Jetzt, Habsburgerwohnung, curated by Renate Quehenberger, Vienna, Austria
Anton Faistauer Prize for Painting exhibition, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2013
Triangel, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
If sport is the brother of labour, then art is the cousin of unemployment, Camp Art Space, Athens, Greece
Wie weit willst Du gehen? Pinacoteca, curated by Ursula Maria Probst, Vienna, Austria
Dada Restaurant, Art Athina, Independent Platform, Athens, Greece
Picture Show, Alabama Sir Raum, Leipzig 21 Posters by 21 Artists, Magazin Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2012
Magic Bus, curated by Tobias Pils, Museum Gironcoli, Vienna, Austria
Abstraktion und Subtraktion, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Predicting Memories, Vienna Art Week, K.K. Telegraphenamt, Vienna, Austria
Up and Down and Up, VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria
Paliano, Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2011
Symbiosis: XI Biennale de la Mediterranée, Thessaloniki, Greece
From erewhon to who knows when…, curated by Christian Egger, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Austria
Before the movies the paintings were like the movies, moe, Vienna, Austria
On Steep Waves, curated by Arie Amaya Akkermans, ReMap 3, Athens, Greece
2010
Sweet Anticipation, curated by Övül Durmusoglu, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Eisler Prize exhibition, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Nachbilder (with Olivia Kaiser, Stefan Wirnsperger), Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna, Austria
Und immer fehlt mir etwas und das quält mich, Kunstgruppe, Cologne, Germany
Neue malerische Positionen, Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna, Austria
MAL X, Kunstraum Goethestraße, Linz, Austria
Unsichere Räume, Kunstraum flat 1, Vienna, Austria
2009
Reden ist Silber Zeigen ist Gold, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Games, Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2006
Bon Appetit, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
Real, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
2003
R4 Zoom, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
public collections
Angerlehner Museum, Thanlheim bei Wels, Austria
Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Miami, USA
Black Rock Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China
Collection of the City of Vienna, Austria
Collection of the Province of Vorarlberg, Austria
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Illwerke Collection, Vorarlberg
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Oskar Kokoschka Centre, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Yageo Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
awards
2019
Nominee, Kardinal König Art Prize, Salzburg, Austria
2018
Painting Prize, Internationale Bodensee Konferenz, Lake Constance, Switzerland
2016
Nominee, Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok) Vienna, Austria
2012
Award of Appreciation, Art and Culture Prize, Province of Vorarlberg, Austria
2011
Start Award, Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Vienna, Austria
2009
Theodor Körner Prize, Vienna, Austria
Scholarship award, Anni und Heinrich Sussmann Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2006-2007
Travel and research grant (for a project on Bruno Schulz), University of Applied Sciences, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
Honor, Tricky Women Award, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCIES
2021
Black Rock Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
2017
Red Gate Residency, Bejing, China
2016
Annexes Bourglingster, Luxembourg
2015
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2013
Arlberg Hospiz Hotel Residency, Tyrol, Austria
2009
Domus Artium, Paliano, Italy
