ARTIST NAME Benjamin Hirte
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XXXVI, Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
DISCIPLINE Art
WEBSITE www.benjaminhirte.de
BIO Born 1980 in Aschaffenburg, Germany
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (class of Heimo Zobernig), Vienna, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

2014
- Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013
- Frieze Art Fair London, Galerie Emanuel Layr, London, UK
- "noDs Ts, Benjamin Hirte & Marie Lund," works sited, Los Angeles, USA
- Performance with Signe Ross, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

2012
- "the classic mob ballet," MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
- "A to K," Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
- "Liste 17," presented by Gallery Emanuel Layr, Basel, Switzerland

2011
- "the hello and, one night exhibition," Am Bauernmarkt, Vienna, Austria

2010
- "vom Zweifel und der Prahlerei / on doubt and bragging," Artist lecture series, Ventilazione, Vienna, Austria
- "cucuh," Kunstraum Ve.sch, Vienna, Austria
- "der Faden / the thread, Speak an Spell," with Rita Vitorelli, Vienna Art Week, Coco-Bar, Vienna, Austria
- "despite straight lines," with Ute Mueller, Schloss Hollenburg, Krems, Austria
- "das lange ich," Kornhaeuschen, Cologne, Germany

2009
- Demonstrationsraum, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, with Sara Deraedt
- "head back level, eyes front - pause," Galerie Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany

2008
- Teuscher Fenger, bell street project space, Vienna, Austria

2007
"Luegen," with Christoph Meier, Vienna, Austria

Group Exhibitions

2013
- "Benjamin Hirte, Marie Lund, Rolf Nowotny," Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, USA

- "Post-Body Projections. Dora & Maja, Benjamin Hirte, Signe Ross," 0gms Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2012
- "Die Sammlung #2," 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
- "100 Best Posters #11," MAK, Vienna, Austria
- "A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

- Groupshow curated by Benjamin Hirte and Liudvikas Buklys, Raum DREI, Cologne, Germany

2011
- "No day without a temperament," curated by Benjamin Hirte, Gallery Layr, Vienna, Austria
- "der lange Loeffel on Fruits," Flowers and Clouds, a magazine edited by Benjamin Hirte and Rita Vitorelli
- "Wallpaperism," Motel Campo, Geneva, Italy
- "Ruhmlose Tage," COCO (Contemporary Concerns) Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria
- Contribution to Hate Magazine, Berlin, Germany

2010
- "Jabberwocky," Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
- "Wuff," Spike Art Magazine and Kunstverein Coco, Kurische Nehrung, Lithuania

2009
- "Trial," Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague, Czechia
- "trick of the light," curated by Marita Fraser, MOP-Gallery, Sidney
- "Michael Phelps," exhibition project with Lone Haugaard Madsen / Niklas Lichti / Till Megerle, Kunstraum Ve.sch, Vienna, Austria

2008
- "Mittwochsbar," Svenja Deininger / Benjamin Hirte / Nick Oberthaler, Vienna, Austria

2007
- "Bye, Bye, Acapulco, Acapulco," Duesseldorf, Germany
PORTRAIT
Benjamin  Hirte portrait
© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
FINAL PROJECT
Lite Tropical Combo
Lite Tropical Combo image
© MAK Center / Mark Escribano

Project Details...
JURY
Jennifer Allen
Markus Miessen
Joanna Mytkowska
Heimo Zobernig
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein