MEYER*KAINER

ANITA LEISZ Born 1973 in Leoben, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna. 1991-1995 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021Dispossession, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 2019Anita Leisz – Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2019, mumok, Wien (solo) 2018Class reunion — Works from the Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, mumok, Vienna Harsh Astral. The Radiants II, Halle für Künst Lüneburg, Lünebur Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern Volume Imaginaire, Van Horn, Düsseldorf 201721er Haus, Vienna (solo) Lars Friedrich, Berlin (solo) ich weiß nicht – Growing Relations between Things, MAK, Vienna Ulla Rossek, Anita Leisz, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg in awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna Anita Leisz, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Galeria Norma Mangione, Torino (solo) 2016Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (solo) Franz West. ARTISTCLUB, 21er Haus, Vienna Parallel Vienna 2016, Alte Post, Vienna The Language of Things. Material Hi/Stories from the Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna Stuttgart, Lars Friedrich at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich Anita Leisz, Hans Christian Lotz, Freudenberger at Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria Malaria – Will Benedict / Anita Leisz, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main 2015 Flirting with Strangers, 21er Haus, Vienna green postcard, IBID Projects, London Now, At The Latest, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Lower Austria 2014 HWS Wiese, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (Public Art) / Spitz an der Donau, Lower Austria (solo) Chat jet (part 2) – Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz KUB Sammlungsschaufenster – accessions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz 2013Utopie beginnt im Kleinen, 12th minor arts triennial, Fellbach, Germany Unter 10, Wien Museum, Vienna Malte Lochstedt, Michael Hakimi, Anita Leisz, after the butcher

Galerie Meyer Kainer was founded by Christian Meyer and Renate Kainer in 1998. After exhibiting at Porzellangasse in Vienna until 1999, Meyer Kainer, together with collegues, established the gallery center in Eschenbachgasse. The 200-square-meter venue of Galerie Meyer Kainer was designed and constructed by Kühn Malvezzi Architects. Besides representing well-established artists such as Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Liam Gillick, Yoshitomo Nara, and Raymond Pettibon, Galerie Meyer Kainer sets a high value on promoting the careers of a younger generation of artists such as Gelitin, Sarah Morris, Marcin Maciejowski, Christian Jankowski, and Mathias Poledna—all of them now enjoying international attention and approval. Through special exhibitions and projects at the Felsenvilla in Baden, as well as hosting the first solo exhibitions of now-highly respected Contemporary artists in Austria, the gallery has made itself a name as an institution and as a space for innovative, Contemporary Art. Since 2007, Galerie Meyer Kainer regularly organizes concerts and exhibitions at the Boltenstern. Room, an off-space located above the main exhibition rooms.