Josef Ramaseder

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Josef Ramaseder (2019)

Josef Ramaseder (born February 12, 1956 in Linz ) is an Austrian conceptual artist , painter and curator .

life and work

Josef Ramaseder studied from 1979 to 1983 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Oswald Oberhuber and from 1974 to 1980 medicine at the University of Vienna .

He is a founding member of the weekly newspaper Falter and worked on the magazine from 1976 to 1979. After receiving a Rome scholarship from 1982 to 1983, he moved to New York City in 1983 , where he lived and worked as an artist for the next twelve years.

Josef Ramaseder was represented by the Amy Lipton Gallery (previously Loughelton Gallery) and has participated in numerous exhibitions in the USA, Japan and Europe, which document his roots in the New York art scene of the 80s. Reviews by art critics such as Klaus Ottmann , Dan Cameron , Kim Levin , Barry Schwabsky and Roberta Smith have appeared in art magazines and daily newspapers such as Flash Art International , Art in America , Art News , Art in Asia and the New York Times . He translated “Trusty Sarcophagus Co.”, a volume of poetry by Rene Ricard , which he invited to Vienna in 2013 to show his works as part of the exhibition “NY Again” in the Gesso art space.

In 1982 he worked on the live music of Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca as a performer in a dance choreography by Amanda Lynn. Ramaseder participated in 1990 in the initial phase of " The Thing ". In the mid-1990s he was one of the actors in Ursula Pürrer's film “blueprint” and in Edgar Honetschläger's film “Sequences”.

Continuously opening up new horizons of experience is a characteristic of the life and work of Josef Ramaseder. The different areas of tension became the fund of his expanded artistic practices, which range from painting to video, photo, installations, art in public space, curatorial projects to cooperation projects with other artists. Even after his return to Austria in 1995, the focus was on painting: Ramaseder dealt with the physics and metaphors of light and the circulation of internal and external images. Ramaseder consequently tried to realize his idea of ​​the medium painting with regard to its complexity and various adaptive abilities.

After “ Construction in Process IV ” in 1993 in Łodz , he took part in “ Construction in Process VI ” in Melbourne in 1998 . In 1997 he was responsible for the art project "gray matters, white matters" as part of an interdisciplinary neurosurgical congress in Linz, which, among other things, investigated the ethical and philosophical questions of new tele-surgical operating methods.

In the 2000s in the series “UNtitled I – IV” in the Vienna International Center , interventions in the political arena were implemented. In 2003 the video installation “Aurora popularis”, a threshold light projection, was shown in the black room of the OK Center for Contemporary Art.

Ramaseder lives and works in Linz and Lomnice nad Lužnicí , where he has organized the Lomnitzke Sympozium since 2011.

Ramaseder's works are represented in numerous private and public collections in the United States and Europe.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987 Loughelton Gallery, New York
  • 1989 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
  • 1991 Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich; Wilkey Fine Arts, Seattle
  • 1991 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York; College of St. Rose, Albany
  • 1992 J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago
  • 1992, 1994 Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • 1995, 2002 Gallery Schloss Damtschach, Wernberg
  • 1996 Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna
  • 2000 Gallery in the Stifterhaus, Linz
  • 2004 haaaauch, Klagenfurt
  • 2007 Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo
  • 2007 City Park Krems Gallery
  • 2010 Galerie Zauner (with Elisabeth Plank, Kristiane Petersmann)
  • 2013 dots and letters, SIX Raum für Kunst, Seewalchen
  • 2014 Kunstverein Hans Reh, Vienna
  • 2015 Gallery Schloss Puchheim (with Th. Eisenmann)
  • 2015 Art Association Schwertberg
  • 2015 Art Association Mistelbach, Barockschlössl
  • 2015 Atelier of the Academy of Fine Arts, former Semperdepot, Vienna (catalog)

Participations (selection)

  • 1986 The Open Eye, Vienna
  • 1986 Terza Rassegna Internationale D`Arte, Amalfi;
  • 1986 Barnett Newman, Who is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue ?, daedalus 7, Albert Schweizer Haus, Vienna;
  • 1986 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík;
  • 1987 The Five Corners of Abstraction, curator: Bill Arning, Javits Center, New York
  • 1987 Photo Mannerism, curator: Klaus Ottmann, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
  • 1988 Michele Zalopany, Susan Etkin, Claudia Hart, Holt Quentel, Josef Ramaseder, Pat Steir, Massimo Audiello Gallery
  • 1989 Gallery 1900–2000, Paris
  • 1990 Art against AIDS, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Lydia Dona, Moira Dryer, Frank Holliday, Bill Komoski, Josef Ramaseder, Loughelton Gallery, NY
  • 1991 Telekinesis, curator: Patrick Painter, Mincher / Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1991 Benefit for the New Museum, The New Museum, New York
  • 1992 Edgar Honetschläger, Elisabeth Plank, Josef Ramaseder; Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
  • 1992 White Columns 1992 Benefit, White Columns, New York
  • 1992 Against the grain, curator: Klaus Ottmann u. Josef Ramaseder, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna
  • 1993 CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS IV, "My Home is your Home", Lodz
  • 1994 Parallel of Life and Art 2, curator: Ursula Graf, Pöllau
  • 1994 plans south: Walter Vopava, Josef Ramaseder, Galerie Pfefferle, Munich
  • 1994 Abstractions, 1900/2000 Gallery, Paris
  • 1994 Cell, Theuretzbacher Gallery, Vienna
  • 1994 Don't postpone joy or collecting can be fun, organized by v. Rudi Molacek, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
  • 1994 I could do that, 109 Spring Street, New York, curator: Kenny Schachter
  • 1995 Positions, New Gallery of the City of Linz
  • 1996 The legend of the industrious shelf, Reichenstein castle ruins
  • 1996 BYOP, communications office, Vienna
  • 1996 conpaintorary, Brasilica, Vienna
  • 1996 product, process & beer, curator: Jonathan Quinn: Ballg. 6, Vienna
  • 1997 Block, Apostelhof, Vienna
  • 1997 Gray matters / white matters, art project for CIS97 (neurochirical congress), Design Center Linz
  • 1997 flight 20 + Spin - Off / Austrian Cultural Inst., 23 Murray Street, New York
  • 1998 ***, Werkstadt Graz
  • 1998 KünstlerHouse, Passagengalerie Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 1998 na hradnici, Art Centrum, Prague
  • 1998 CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS VI, “The Bridge”, Melbourne, AUS;
  • 1999 Art from Upper Austria, Gallery Museum on Demand, Vienna
  • 1999 Painting 4020, art form at the town hall, Hallein
  • 1999 Basistage, Linz
  • 1999 Construction test: 100-meter kitchen, Upper Austria Architecture Forum, cooking performance
  • 2000 donor sphere, organized by Karl-Heinz Klopf and Sigrid Kurz, gallery in the donor house
  • 2000 Landschaffen, Baden near Vienna, Pöchlarn
  • 2000 Linz / bilder, Kunsthalle.tmp.Steyr
  • 2001 Subject painting; MAERZ Gallery, Linz
  • 2002 Alferjewo Symposium, RUS
  • 2002 ... throw the first stone, Milestones for Peace, Aachen Cathedral Treasury
  • 2003 cross section; Museum Nordico, Linz
  • 2003 IKG annual meeting, Museum des 25. Mai; Belgrade
  • 2003 Island by numbers; OK Center f. Contemporary art, Linz (catalog)
  • 2006 Hatschek Foundation symposium, Vöcklabruck
  • Formulated in 2009: convergences of text and image; Lentos, Galerie Maerz, Linz (catalog)
  • 2010 time cut, painting by MAERZ, ARTEMONS
  • 2010 METAPOLIS, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BUL, curated by Jakob Racek
  • 2011 The Upper Austrian Landscape, ARTEMONS, Hellmondsödt
  • 2011 Lomnicky Sympozium # 1
  • 2011 Upper Austria Art association joint work with K. Petersmann
  • 2011 time cut, painting by MAERZ, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 2012 Landesgalerie Collection: Selected by Rudi Stanzel; Upper Austrian State Gallery, Gothic Room
  • 2012 'Loughelton Revisited' Winkleman Gallery, New York
  • 2013 supersummativ, artists association MAERZ
  • 2013 Lomnicky Sympozium # 2, Lomnice nad Luznice, CZ
  • 2013 NY AGAIN, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
  • 2014 Lomnitzky Sympozium # 3, Lomnice nad Luznice, CZ
  • 2014 picture writing; Villa Deutsch, Strobl
  • 2014 A stone, a word, activated by; Blickle Raum, Vienna
  • 2014 turn left, turn back, cut across, go straight (Josef Bauer, Marina Faust, Nicolas Jasmin, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Josef Ramaseder, Peter Sommerauer), Malkasten Düsseldorf
  • 2015 United Nations extended; curated by Signe Theill and Peter Winkels, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier Vienna

Curatorial projects, art in public space (selection)

  • Against the grain, curated with Klaus Ottmann, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna, 1992, (catalog)
  • Grand Hotel Orbis-Room 507, CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS IV-My Home is your Home, Lodz, 1993, (brochure)
  • flight 20 + Spin - Off, organized with Heiko Bressnik, Austrian Cultural Inst. and 23 Murray Street, New York, 1997 (catalog)
  • Gray matters / white matters, organization of the art project for CIS97 (neurochirical congress), Design Center Linz, 1997
  • CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS VI-The Bridge, Melbourne 1998 (Catalog)
  • I (as in India), organized with MSUmesh; Shankara Center for Arts, Feb. 1999, Bangalore (brochure)
  • Re: envisioning knowledge, project in collaboration with WERKSTADT GRAZ, for 3rd Media Biennale (Burda Media Academy for the Third Millennium), Feb. 1999, intern. Congress Center Munich
  • nobodyLand Art HYPER2000, project f. Festival of Regions 1999, together with Pepi Maier (catalog)
  • piter.lit.mus.cook.art.com, organized with Heiko Bressnik, Pushkinskaya, June 2000, St. Petersburg, RUS
  • UNtitled, installation on the occasion of the UN Conference on Terrorism, Rotunda, Vienna International Center, 2002
  • UNtitled II, installation on the occasion of the UN Conference on Transnational Crime, Rotunda, Vienna International Center, 2004
  • UNtitled III, Installation, Rotunda, Vienna International Center, 2004
  • UNtitled IV finnisage on the year of thought, Rotunda, Vienna International Center, 2005
  • Ball in the water, installation in Salzach, Mozartsteg, Salzburg, 2005
  • Installation in the city park, Vöcklabruck, Upper Austrian State Garden Show 2007
  • today is tomorrow, together with Elisabeth Plank, artists' association MAERZ, 2010
  • New in the MAERZ, artists' association MAERZ, 2012
  • NY again, curated with Andreas Reiter Raabe, Kunstraum gesso, Vienna, 2013
  • Live Galleries: Wschodnia Gallery, Exchange Gallery, Lodz networks since 1978, artists' association MAERZ, 2013
  • Tomas Eller, Artists Association MAERZ 2014

Literature about Josef Ramaseder

  • Walter Seidl, “Predecessors and Afterimages. To the work of Josef Ramaseder "
  • Johannes on the Lake, "For Example: For Example:"
  • Stella Rollig, “Nine questions to JR”, all in Josef Ramaseder.HOW ARE YOU, Schlebrügge.Editor, 2015, ISBN 978-3-902833-75-4
  • Conversation with Peter Winkels / Josef Ramaseder, 2015, in UN titled I - June 2002, ISBN 978-1-320-92622-5
  • Robert Pfaller, “THE UNWORT: untitled-unheimlich-incredibly”, 2004, in UN titled III - November 2004, ISBN 978-1-320-92600-3
  • Ruth Horak, Josef Ramaseder, 2005, in UN titled IV-December 2005, ISBN 978-1-320-93523-4
  • Ines Gebetsroither, Against the Garden
  • Jürgen Rath, On the positioning of works of art in “public” space, all in “Nine projects for the State Garden Show in Vöcklabruck 2007”, ISBN 978-3-200-01029-1
  • Brigitte Huck, “Aurora popularis”, in Island by Numbers, exhibition catalog OKCentrum f. Contemporary art, Folio Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-85256-263-5
  • Sabine Russ, "Bridge building in Melbourne", new visual art, 3/98, magazine for art and criticism, Berlin 1998
  • Milos Vojtechovsky, View from the Bridge across the River Yarra, atélier 13/1998 - fortnightly journal of contemporary art, Prague 1998
  • Eva Jandl, At the Interface of Science and Art, Neues Volksblatt, August 27, 1997
  • Kim Levin, Construction in Process IV, Asian Art News. Jan / Feb 1994
  • Richard Thomas, My Home is your Home, Rogue Magazine, Frankfurt. March 1994
  • Robert C. Morgan, Room 507 - Grand Hotel Orbis, Lodz, text for brochure, 1993
  • Barry Schwabsky, JR, text f. Catalog, Austrian Cultural Institute, 1992
  • Janet Koplos, JR, at Amy Lipton, Art in America, Oct. 1991
  • Peggy Cyphers, JR, Arts Magazine, May 1991
  • Thomas Lail, Abstracts bridge dark and light, The Times Union, Albany, Feb. 1991
  • Roberta Smith, “Old, New and Traditional Spaces,” New York Times, May 1989
  • Robert Mahoney, JR, Arts Magazine, Sept. 1989
  • Bill van Siclen, Ramaseder turns heat into high-tech technique, Providence Journal Bulletin, Feb 1988
  • Dan Cameron, Opening Salvos, Part Two, Arts Magazine, Feb. 1988
  • Klaus Ottmann, Photo-Mannerisms, Flash Art, Nov. – Dec. 1987

Publications and catalogs

  • The death of the whore Corinna; Gail, Hermann; Ramaseder, Josef, [Illustration] Vienna: David-Presse; 1979
  • The Bridge, Construction in Process VI, exhibition catalog 1998, ISBN 90-5703-542-1
  • Galerie im Stifterhaus, 1992–2000, a documentation, ISBN 3-85252-231-5
  • Museum on Demand, Art from Upper Austria, Exhibition Catalog 1999, ISBN 3-9500063-7-0
  • plantSÜDEN Vol. 9/1999 Guest editor: Josef Ramaseder Tokio-Polling-Chennai
  • Subject painting, exhibition catalog Galerie MAERZ, Linz 2001, ISBN 3-901815-12-0
  • UN titled I, June 2002, documentation brochure; Conversation with Peter Winkels / Josef Ramaseder, 2015, ISBN 978-1-320-92622-5
  • UN titled III, November 2004, documentation brochure; Text: Robert Pfaller, ISBN 978-1-320-92600-3
  • UN titled IV, December 2005, documentation brochure; Text: Ruth Horak, ISBN 978-1-320-93523-4
  • Nine projects for the state horticultural show in Vöcklabruck 2007, editor Josef Ramaseder, ISBN 978-3-200-01029-1
  • Formulated convergences of writing and image / 2007, Gerhard Brandl, Kunstmuseum Lentos Linz, ISBN 978-3-900000-33-2
  • Josef Ramaseder.HOW ARE YOU, Schlebrügge.Editor, 2015, ISBN 978-3-902833-75-4

Web links

Commons : Josef Ramaseder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.liptonarts.com/gallery-history/
  2. ↑ Rene Ricard, Trusty Sarcophagus Co., Inanout Press, 1990, ISBN 0-9625119-3-5 (English with German translation)
  3. ↑ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/the-thing/bilder/5/
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peterstockhausfilm.de
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / komken.net
  6. ^ Construction in Process
  7. ↑ UN titled I, June 2002, documentation brochure; Conversation with Peter Winkels / Josef Ramaseder, 2015, ISBN 978-1-320-92622-5
  8. ↑ UN titled III, November 2004, documentation brochure; Text: Robert Pfaller, ISBN 978-1-320-92600-3
  9. ↑ UN titled IV, December 2005, documentation brochure; Text: Ruth Horak, ISBN 978-1-320-93523-4
  10. ^ Island by Numbers, exhibition catalog OK Centrum f. Contemporary art, Folio Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-85256-263-5
personal data
SURNAME Ramaseder, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conceptual artist, painter and curator
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz