selected exhibitions | events:
solo
2023__a loop, a line, a limbo | House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
2022__wissen.sapere | exhibition and book presentation | Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma, Italy
2022__wissen.sapere | book presentation | Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2022__Airy Sculptures | puuul.space, Vienna
2021__green line_a loop, a line, a limbo | OÖ Kunstverein, Linz
2018__green line | book presentation | Kunstverein Baden
2017__green line | exhibition and book presentation | Center for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, Cyprus
2017__green line | book presentation | Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Vienna
2016__green line | Photoatelier Setzer-Tschiedel, Vienna | Eyes-On Month of Photography Vienna
2015__Judenburg_schwebend | in state of suspension | Atelier Kaserngasse, Judenburg
2013__Again: Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter | Grosswerk, Vienna
2012__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter - One Day Installation | Austrian Parliament, Vienna
2011__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter | Chamber of Labour of Vienna (catalogue)
2010__The Riches of the Void | Rauminhalt, Vienna | Eyes-On Month of Photography Vienna
2010__Seaside.Überrascht. | die gruene mischung, Vienna
2009__The World at my Feet | die gruene mischung, Vienna
2008__Microvisions | die gruene mischung, Vienna
2005__successful | das geschäft, Vienna
1999__Droppings | Artee, Vienna
1998__Designations | Lang Gallery, Vienna
duo
2023__Reading Stuff, Listening Stuff (with Sabine Maier) | Wolkersdorf Castle, Lower Austria
2020__Arrows of Times (with Judith Neunhäuserer), im basement, Vienna
2019__What the Heat Tells Us (with Sabine Müller-Funk), Galerija Alvona Labin, Croatia
2018__mengenMengen | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2016__Destination:Hoffnung (with Karin Mack), Künstlerhaus Wien @ flat1 | Eyes-On Month of Photography Vienna
2012__Kuonesa_Beyond Seeing (with Waltraud Palme), menzel.Galerie Nordafrika, Vienna | Eyes-On Month of Photography Vienna
2007__...so that you may look and listen... | I want to dance | (with Andrea Freiberger) Denkraum, Vienna | composition by Konrad Rennert | Premiere at the opening
2005__leafing through (with HIL de GARD) | das geschäft, Vienna
2003__TRUST: certainly painting (with Doris Piwonka) | Trust, Vienna
group
2024__Blurred Memory: Sisters @ flat1, Vienna
2024__Atmen @ Künstlerbuch - Bücherperformance | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2024__Bee Brain @ MIRROR...MIRROR | Palais Festetics, Vienna
2024__My Dear @ COMBINED, Potential Project, Athens, Greece
2023__The Gap in Mind | Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz, Upper Austria
2023__Bee Brain @ MIRROR...MIRROR, Ars Carinthia | Kärnten Museum Klagenfurt
2023__Airy Sculptures @ Mother Nature | Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery, Estonia
2023__Blurred Memories: Sisters @ Curating Peace | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2022__irgendwann hört die Nähe auf @ betwixed and between | NÖ Landhaus St. Pölten
2022__Double Alienation @ TOGETHERWEART- Rome Edition, Palazzo Velli, Rome, Italy, en.togetherweart.com/rome-edition-22/cornelia-mittendorfer
2022__WHO @ Ressources Power Respect, Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2022__AMAL @ Pedion, meeting place, Athens
2022__Airy Sculptures @ BACK TO ATHENS 9, Athens, Greece
2022__wissen.sapere @ Bengalische Feuer | exhibition, book presentation, curatorship (with Catherine Ludwig + alien productions) | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2022__embodied spaces @ VIENNA PARALLEL EDITIONS 2 (flat1) | Semperdepot, Vienna
2021__REVUE | 170 years of Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein. Linz, Upper Austria
2021__wissen.sapere: book presentation @ festival ROMA VISIVA 2021, Rome, Italy
2021__irgendwann hört die Nähe auf @ betwixed and between | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria and @ PARALLEL VIENNA Semmelweis-Klinik
2021__embodied spaces @ VIENNA PARALLEL EDITIONS (flat1) | Semperdepot, Vienna
2020__Wir arbeiten weiter @ DomaniInArte, screening | Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy
2020__Dem Wissen Raum geben_Versuchsanordnung @ KUNST_SYS | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2020__A Blazing Ray of Light @ BE Genius | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2019__2015 @ Where Are We Now? | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2019__sound figures en route @ MoldaWIEN | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2019__Roya and Farhad @ "Die Liebe ist ihrem Wesen nach...vermutlich die mächtigste aller antipolitischen Kräfte" Hannah Arendt | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2018__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter, Part 2 @ ega award | ega Vienna
2018__WHAT THEN @ MoldaWIEN | Palatul de Cultura al Feroviarilor, Chisinau, Moldova
2018__Wabi Sabi - Erinnern und Vergessen | Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2018__loose but tight | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2018__green line @ jiffychat | artP Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria
2018__The Book on the Grass @ Bruch Spur Zeichen | NOEDOK St. Pölten, Lower Austria
2018__The Book on the Grass @ Bruch Spur Zeichen I Nestroyhof Vienna
2017__green line @ ...nothing left to lose... | Kunstverein Baden, Lower Austria
2017__Interferences | gradska galerija Labin, Croatia
2017__green line @ jiffychat | Künstlerhaus Vienna
2017__AMAL @ ANIMA_L From the Animals Point of View, Schloss Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2016__abidance | flat1 Vienna | Eyes-On Month of Photography Vienna
2016__Maria Hanl_Siegfried Fruhauf_Cornelia Mittendorfer | Kubin-Haus Zwickledt, Upper Austria
2016__1797_Intertwined Languages @ NA TRAGU LABINA | Labin, Croatia
2016__Destination: Hope @ Buchstaben | Worte | Texte in fotografischen Bildern | Fotoforum Innsbruck
2015__Ein L(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter @ The University. A Battlefield | Jewish Museum of Vienna
2015__Phenomena - a different reality | im basement Vienna
2015__embodied spaces | Schloss Wolkersdorf
2014__Experiment Analogue | Künstlerhaus Wien
2014__Vaults | Künstlerhaus Wien
2014__FLUSS . fünfundzwanzig | twentyfive | Schloss Wolkersdorf
2013__On the Road | FLUSS | DOK NÖ für Moderne Kunst | Stadtmuseum St. Pölten
2013__The Story of the Creative | Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York City, NY
2013__LAPSUS | fsmgallery, Florence, Italy
2012__Selected:::Austrian Photography: 84 Photographs_84 Photographers | @ 33 Temporary(Con)Temporary, Design Tower Vienna
2011__Viennese Blood - Double Foreignness | Gallery Vernisazh, Chernivtsy, Ukraine
2011__Kanimambo - Notes from Mozambique | Kunsthaus Horn, Lower Austria
2011__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter, Introduction | Semper-Depot, Vienna; Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava, Slovakia; Palais Kabelwerk, Vienna
2010__Tapetenwechsel 03, Studio Ingrid Gaier, Vienna
2009__Who was Agnes W.? | Lang Gallery, Vienna
2002__SOHO in Ottakring: fugitive at home | Vienna
2001__SOHO in Ottakring: urban and rural | Vienna
2000__HuntingInstinct | Hollenburg Castle, Lower Austria
publications
2023__green line_a loop, a line, a limbo, catalogue (english/greek)
2022__wissen.sapere, in: ROMA VISIVA, Atti della rassegna sui talenti femminili dell'arte dall'800 ad oggi, p. 73 - 77, Palombi Editori, ISBN 978-88-6060-937-3
2021__wissen.sapere, ed. Rolf Sachsse, book (german/italian/english), VfmK Vienna, ISBN 978-3-903796-87-4
2018__The Book on the Grass, in: BRUCH SPUR ZEICHEN. Die Kraft der Semiose. Sabine Müller-Funk & friends. Ed. Barbara Höller, Maria C. Holter, Wolfgang Müller Funk, Sonderzahl Wien, p. 132-133. ISBN 978-3-855449-497-3
2017__green line_evocative of an archeology of desperation and desire, ed. Rolf Sachsse, book (english/german), VfmK Vienna, ISBN 978-3-903153-57-8
2016__eyes on 2016 | catalogue, p. 36-37
2015__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter, in: Die Universität. Eine Kampfzone. The University. A Battleground. Published by Werner Hanak-Lettner on behalf of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Picus Verlag Vienna, p. 17-19. ISBN 978-3-7117-2031-3
2014__EXPERIMENT ANALOG | Künstlerhaus catalogue, p. 54-57
2014__eyes on 2014 | catalogue, p. 137
2014__FLUSS . fünfundzwanzig | twentyfive, catalogue, p. 78-79
2014__Wiener Zeitung, 1.|2. 3. 2014, p. 40
2013__die schönheit der | Landstrich 29/2013, p. 65-68
2012__Double Alienation | Landstrich 28/2012, p. 10-17
2011__Ein Le(e.h.)rstuhl für Käthe Leichter, catalogue (german/english)
2011__On Disapperance | aargh 2/2011, p. 39-46
2010__Contribution in: TransAct, Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field, Interventionen zur Lage in Österreich, museum in progress; ed. Cathrin Pichler, Roman Berka, Edition Transfer, SpringerWienNewYork 2010, p. 288-289
2009__Wiener Zeitung, 6. 6. 2009, p. 12
2000__Museum in Progress, Der Standard newspaper, 27. 7. 2000, p. 15
bio
Born 1953 in Gmunden, Upper Austria: Lives and works as visual artist and lawyer in Vienna. Seven years resident in Rome. Travelling, especially to Eastern Europe, South-East-Asia and Africa.
grants, nominations, awards
2022__honorary mention_Margaret Cameron Award
2020__project grant (wissen.sapere), Rome (I), Austrian Federal Chancellery - art department
2016__honorary mention at Old Nicosia Revealed Contest, Nicosia, Cyprus
2015__artist in residence at Judenburg, Styria, Austria
2013__honorary mention at Lapsus Art Prize Contest, Florence, Italy
2012__nomination for the Austrian outstanding artist award women's culture
2012__nomination for the Austrian outstanding artist award multidisciplinarity
other activities
2024__Artist talk, Potential Project, Athens, Greece
2023__Bewährungsprobe #43, Artist talk, together with Seth Weiner, depot Wien, Vienna
2022__Artist talk with Gerda Lampalzer at Turn Around And Spin The Truth, im basement, Vienna
2022__Curatorship (together with Catherine Ludwig + alien productions): Bengali Fires, Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria
2021__A Bar at the End of the Universe, video project by Federico Delfrati and Judith Neunhäuserer (participation), Munich, Germany
2019__Wege - ways of...(interview, sound), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna
2018__Symposium Bruch Spur Zeichen (contribution), NOEDOK St. Pölten, Lower Austria
2015__workshop @ Home for Cooperation, Bufferzone, Nicosia, Cyprus
2014__artist lectures @ Cyprus International University, Faculty of Communication, Nicosia TRNC