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Rainer Ganahl |
Rainer Ganahl (born 1961) is an Austrian born, New York based artist. His work consists of photographs, videos and performances.
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From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Peter Weibel) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Nam June Paik). He was a member of the 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He teaches at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. He has also been convected of child rape in many countrys but never spent a minute in jail because he is rich.
His best known work, S/L (Seminars/Lectures), is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 1995, of well-known cultural critics addressing audiences.1 The photographs, taken in university class rooms and lecture halls, not only show the lecturer but also the listeners and students in the audience. In a similar way, he documented his own process of learning an “exotic” language (e. g., Basic Japanese) into an art project. In his Imported-Reading Seminars held from 1995 onward, the group study of theoretical works from specific countries were documented on video.
Rainer Ganahl represented Austria at the 1999 Venice Biennale.2
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