Barbara Holub
Born in Stuttgart (D) in 1959
1987 Diploma in Architecture, TU Stuttgart (D)
1997 Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, School of Art and Design (USA);
1999 founded "transparadiso" together with Paul
Rajakovics - a platform for projects on the crossroads between
urbanism, art and architecture (since 11/2005, Bernd Vlay
is the third member).
2004 Schindler Scholarship, MAK Center for Art and Architecture,
Los Angeles (USA).
Since 2004 member of the board of Kunst-im-öffentlichen
Raum, Lower Austria. Since 2006 President of the Vienna Secession,
Vienna (A).
The artist develops projects for situations
inside and outside the context of art institutions where
she often involves "agents" in
especially conceived "sets". In these projects
she discreetly questions the borderlines of different forms
of role behavior between collective images und individual
spaces of action in private situations of everyday life,
in the urban space and in corporate life.
Projects / Exhibitions (selection):
2006 "the system: pret-à-porter", Künstlerhauspassage.
Vienna (A); "young blood", center for central european
architecture, Prague (CZ).
2005 "Simultan", Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (A); "Indikatormobil”,
MAK Vienna
2004 "One in a Million", Austrian Cultural Forum,
New York (USA); "Reserve der Form", Künstlerhaus,
Vienna (A); "mandatory", MAK Center, Los Angeles
(USA);
2003 "kollektion 03/04 _ in einer wohnlandschaft herrscht
kein bilderverbot", Hohenlohe & Kalb Gallery, Vienna
(A);
2000 "Gouvernementalität”, Alte Kestner Gesellschaft,
Hannover (D)
1999 "mit vorgehaltener Hand”, Vienna Secession,
Vienna(A);
1997 Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna (A);
1996 "image transfer", public spaces in N.Y. (organized
by the Austrian Cultural Institute and Grita Insam; USA)
