Barbara Kapusta - studio(at)barbarakapusta(dot)net
Video works
Solar, 2022
The Leaking Bodies, 2020
Dangerous Bodies, 2019
Empathic Creatures, 2018
O’s Vocalization, 2016
Soft Rope, 2015
Books
Dangerous Bodies, 2019, published by Gianni Manhattan, Vienna & Motto Books, Lausanne, Berlin
The 8 and the Fist, 2017, published by Gianni Manhattan Vienna
Edition
Futures, T-Shirt, Edition of 50 for Solidarity Art Shirts, all proceeds go to unicef
She makes her body glitch, green acrylic glass, black vinyl, 40 cm x 60 cm
Selected talks and readings
Futures at Kunsthalle Bratislava, Jen Kratochvil
Futures, contributions by Barbara Kapusta, Jen Kratochvil, Sophie Lewis, Legacy Russell, ed. by Denisa Tomková, publication accompanying the exhibition Futures at Kunsthalle Bratislava, May 2022
Wien1100x938-x945, or: How the present loses its future to the past, Barbara Kapusta and Steph Holl Trieu, 2021
The Leaking Bodies, performed at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, May 2021
Reading together, An incomplete reading list on alternative ways of being with and wet comradeliness, with Olivia Aherne, brand-new-life, 2021
The Leaking Bodies, Screening and conversation between Barbara Kapusta and Steph Holl Trieu, 2021
Feminism Against Family, screening and talk by Sophie Lewis, cohosted with Rose-Anne Gush, mumok cinema - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna, 2020
Dangerous Bodies, reading at Kunsthalle Wien, 2019
Reading THE 8 AND THE FIST together, with Cathrin Mayer, brand-new-life, 2018
Selected exhibitions
2023
WORDS DON’T GO THERE, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
2022
Solar, Frieze London
Linguages Liminares, Appleton, Lisbon
Futures, DIDF, Düsseldorf
The Palace of Concrete Poetry, Writers’ House of Georgia, Tbilisi, September 2022
LET YOUR ( ) DO THE TALKING, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, September 2022
Speculative Fiction, Exhibit Galerie, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Futures, Kunsthalle Bratislava
Lo(l) – Embodied Language, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2021
In Between Folds, Sentiment, Zürich
dissolving matter & value, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, opening October 7 2021
Avantgarde and the Contemporary, Belvedere 21, 15 September 2021 - 19 February 2023
The sun is a ghost that haunts the night, Chapter 1: Dilithium, Futura, Prague
Haus Wien, Vienna
Sh e makes he r body glitch, permanent installation, IST Institute of Science and Technology Austria Campus
Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
Getting wet, Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
Enjoy, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna
Europa Antike Zukunft, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz
Konkrete Poesie, Kunsthaus Muerz
Union, JesuitenFoyer, Vienna
2020
The Leaking Bodies Series, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
New views on same olds, xE, Vienna
Haus Wien, Vienna
Hypersurface, ACF London
Now. Collected #9/#10!, Kunstforum Vienna
First Person Plural, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck
2019
Dangerous Bodies, Kunstraum London, London
Prologue I : Tongue On Tongue, Nos Salives Dans Ton Oreille, Cité internationale des arts/ KADIST/ Galerie Allen, Paris
Hysterical Mining, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
As Many Holes and Folds as Can Be, Monday Gelato, Karlsruhe, performance series curated by Benedikt Seerieder
Fauxthenticity, ACF Prague, curated by Significant Other, Prague
Mundane, Eugster Gallery, Belgrade, curated by Natalija Paunić, Belgrade
On the New, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2018
The Giant, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
The Blazing World, mumok cinema - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna
Jane Fonda, Pina, Vienna
We Make the Place by Playing, VIS, Hamburg
Vice Versa: Our Earth is Their Moon, Our Moon is their Earth, M3 festival of art in public space, Prague, curated by Significant Other
SM, Sans Titre, Marseilles
Empathic Creatures, Ashley Berlin, Berlin
Instructions for Happiness, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2017
In Middens, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
The 8 and the Fist, Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
how far to open up, curated by Cathrin Mayer and Florentine Muhry, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Instructions for Happiness, KUP, Athens
2016
The Grasping, Belvedere 21, Vienna
The Language of Things, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Instructions for Happiness, KUP, Athens
The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2015
Dinge und Dialoge, Scriptings Berlin
Language Bent, performed at ICA Studio, London
The o and the Zero, Eikon, Vienna
Literatur/Lesen, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
A Poem for 22 Small Objects, performed at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Poetry, mumok cinema - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna
2014
Performative Screenings #29: The Material Ghost, School, Vienna
Selbstauslöser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Barbara Kapusta & Franz West, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Litauen
The Collection 4, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2013
To Become Whole (The Whole Issue), The Banff Center, Banff, CA
Sie Wir Ihnen / They She We Them, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Photos, Points of view in Austrian Photography, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Selection of reviews and interviews
SZ, 18.11.2021, Ob es das wert ist?, Evelyn Vogel on "dissolving matter & value" at Lothringer13, Munich
Springerin, 03/2021, Can you imagine solidarity?, Christa Benzer on Barbara Kapusta works
Frieze, January 2021, When Water Becomes a Commodity: Barbara Kapusta’s Digital Desert, review of The Leaking Bodies Series by Francesca Gavin
der Standard, 11.01.2021, Katharina Rustler: Fluide Körper gegen die Norm
Falter,10.02.2021, Nicole Scheyerer: Wenn die Leitungen lecken
Die Presse, 08.12.2020, Almuth Spiegler, Barbara Kapusta: Bei ihr beginnt alles gefährlich zu fließen
Die Presse, 24.11.2020, Michael Huber, Körperkontakt im Datenraum
A bedtime interview about monsters, giants and dangerous bodies with Natalija Paunić, NEWS issue 0, 2020
Contemporary Art Society, October 2019, Vassilios Doupas on Dangerous Bodies at Kunstraum London
PW-magazine, 2019, Wir sind alle Technobodies, interview by Paula Thomaka
Kunsthalle Wien, Blog, Vanessa Joan Müller on The Giant, 2019
Flash Art, Nov 2018, Rose-Anne Gush on The Giant at Gianni Manhattan
KubaParis, 2018, You must come closer, and you must try harder!
Vice Versa, Prague 2018, Barbara Kapusta on We make the place by playing
TAZ, 18.1. 2018, Empathische Zeichen, Noemi Molitor on Empathic Creatures at Ashley Berlin
Berlin Art Link, 2018, Jess Harrison on Empathic Creatures at Ashley Berlin
Spike, March 2017, Kimberly Bradely on In Middens at Gianni Manhattan Vienna
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2016, Barbara Kapusta on The Bracket and the O in The Promise of Total Automation
Eikon, 05/2015, Barbara Rüdiger, Von Dingen die uns durchdringen
Frieze, November 2013, Amy Croft on They She We Them at Belvedere 21 Vienna
The Banff Centre Blog, Steph Katowitz on Barbara Kapusta, October 2013
