ARTIST NAME Barbara Holub
TEAM NAME Transparadiso
GROUP Group XVIII, Apr 04 - Sept 04
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE www.transparadiso.com
BIO Born1959 in Stuttgart, Germany
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Member of the editorial board of dérive_magazine for urban rsearch, Vienna
Member of the advisory board of Art & the Public Sphere Journal (UK)
Member of the advisory board of WCPUN, New York

2006-2007
President of the Secession Vienna

Education

Architecture, Technical University, Stuttgart, Germany

Exhibitions and Projects

In 1999 Paul Rajakovics and Barbara Holub founded "transparadiso"

2013
- Design of the Gerhard-Seidl-Square, Leobersdorf; Public Art Lower Austria (Architectural Project)

2012
- Paradise Enterprise, a project for direct urbanism, Judenburg, Austria (funded by departure, Vienna, until 2014)
- Realization of Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (Architectural Project)
- „Habitat Wilderness“, Lavatergasse, Vienna (Permanent Installation)
- „On Screen“, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (Group Exhibition)

2011
- "Commons Come to Liezen, Public Art Styria," Liezen, Austria (Permanent Installation)
- Stadtwerk Lehen: realization of an urban quarter with 150 apartments and an urban publc zone, Salzburg (Architectural Project)
- „64th UN NGO/ DPI conference“, Bonn (Group Exhibition)
- „Pixxelpoint New Media Art Festival“, Gorizia/ Nova Gorica (Group Exhibition)
- „Big Art Award“, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (Group Exhibition)
- „The Blue Frog Society – A Habitat Without Territory“, Windows on Madison, Czech Center, New York (Group Exhibition)
2011, „Zorlu Collection“, Zorlu Center, Istanbul (Group Exhibition)

2010
- “The Future of the Future”, DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague (Group Exhibition)
- "Platz Da,” European Urban Public Space, Az W Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Urban Miracles," Remise Bludenz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "On Urban Periphery," Walks and Billboards, Kunstradio Ö1/ artradio program, Vienna-Aspern, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
- "The Blue Frog Society Walks to the Moon," with Bruno Pisek, Kunstradio Ö1 (CD)
- "Runner Up," City Center, Traun, Austria (Urban Design Competition)
- “Planning Unplanned_Towards a New Positioning of Art in the Context of Urban Development“ at the Institute of Art and Design 1, Vienna University of Technology (Research Project, ongoing)

2009
- "Attitude," Film Festival, Bitola, Macedonia
- HTL Hallstatt, Highschool for Technology (Architectural Competition)
- "Urgent Urban Ambulance UUUUUAAAH!," Projektraum des deutschen Künstlerbundes, Berlin, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Rencontres Internationales," Film Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou/ La Vilette, Paris, France (Group Exhibition)
- "Uitzicht Op!," Blue House, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Urban Intervention)
- "Cities Of Desire," Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China (Group Exhibition)
- "So Nah So Fern," Installation at the facade of BUWOG, Vienna, Austria

2008
- "More Opportunities," London Festival of Architecture, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK (Solo Exhibition)
- "This Is A Gallery And A Gallery Is Many Things," Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (Group Exhibition)
- "100 Models," KEK Architecture Center, Budapest, Hungary
- "Orientierungen," Regionale 08, Feldbach, Austria

2007
- "More Opportunities," Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (Solo Exhibition)
- "Waypoints Like Sharon’s Stone," Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Architektur 24/7 – eine alltägliche Begegnung," HDA, Graz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Young Blood. I'm a Young 'Austerian' Architect!," Az West, Vienna, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Slow," Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, Great Britain (Group Exhibition)

2006
- "Transparadiso. A Little Too Far Ahead of Its Time - Avantgarde Versus Retrofiktion," Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
- "Young Blood. I'm a Young "Austerian" Architect.," CCEA/ Centre for Central European Architecture, Praha, Czechoslovakia (Group Exhibition)

2005
- "Geschlossene Gesellschaft," MAK NITE, MAK, Vienna, Austria (Solo Exhibition)

2004
- "One in a Million," Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, New York (Solo Exhibition)
- "Das Indikatormobil - Urbane Intervention," MAK, Vienna, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
- "Paula’s Home," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (Solo Exhibition)

2003
- "Wonderland," Zumtobel Lichtforum and Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria (Group Exhibition)

Awards

2011
- nominated for the Art Award of the Region of Salzburg

2007
- Otto-Wagner-Award for Urban Design

Selected Publications

- Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics. Direkter Urbanismus/ Direct Urbanism, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013
- Barbara Holub „found, set, appropriated,“ Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010 (personal catalog)
- dérive 39_editor of the focus on „The Role of Art in the Context of Urban Development“
- „Parallelstrategien," Interview with Jens Emil Sennewald in: spike, 11/2007, p.30-31, Vienna
- „Auswege im Pionierraum – über die Künstlerin als Generator und Korporation im Übergangszustand“, in: kunstbulletin, p.68-70
- „On Direct Urbanism and the Art of Parallel Strategies“, in: Open, S.137-144, NAI Publishers, SKOR, 2007/ No.12,
-„Les Olympiades," in: Uropean Urbanity, p.120-125, Springer Verlag, 2006
PORTRAIT
Barbara Holub portrait
© transparadiso
FINAL PROJECT
"Plastique Bertrand," Performance, 2004
"Plastique Bertrand," Performance, 2004 image
© MAK Center / Joshua White

Project Details...
JURY
Francesco Bonami
Farshid Moussavi
Peter Noever
Heinrich Pichler
Martin Prinzhorn