Veronika Hauer (*1981) in Klosterneuburg.
Goldsmiths College, London. 2007/08
University of Applied Arts, Vienna. 1999-2006
Ecole superieure d’Arts graphiques, Paris. 2003/04
ARTIST STATEMENT
In Veronika Hauer’s objects, letters and body parts merge: the cast of a mouth, a hand, a foot, an ear becomes the first letter of the body part depicted (M for Mouth, L for Leg, E for Ear). Or a child’s fist grows out of the stem of a letter, clenched into the symbolic hand gesture of a fig hand. In changing formats, Hauer deals with the communication of language and the connection between language and body in an ironic and critical way. The series “The Animated Alphabet” references and restages historical educational images and combines them into a poetic composition based on individual letters of the alphabet. Each print in the series represents a different letter and combines alliteration/rhymes with graphic elements in which the letter can be found in the outlines of bodies or objects.
SOLOS
Unfathomable (with Katie Lee), project8, Melbourne 2025
sense non sense, QL Galerie, Graz 2025
Veronika Hauer – Maja Babic-Kosir, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill 2024
Enrichment, Akademie Graz 2022
Parallel Vienna 2021, Gallery Statement, Vienna 2021
M is for …, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz 2021
Subliminal, Veronika Hauer & Katie Lee, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna 2019
fig-2 34/50 Veronika Hauer, ICA Studio, London 2015
Fox, MAERZ, Linz 2015
SELECTED GROUPSHOWS
Little Wonders, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, 2024
Like an open door (…), NOS, Bologna 2024
initiative kunstverleih, <rotor>, Graz 2024
Like an open door (…), <rotor>, Graz 2023
initiative kunstverleih, Akademie Graz, 2023
symbols & icons, projektraumviktorbucher, Vienna 2022
A playground guide to getting lost, Neue Galerie, Graz 2021/22
In der Schwebe, < rotor >, Graz 2020
The Flesh of Time, Kunstverein Baden 2020
My Summer is Your Winter, Grazer Kunstverein 2019
Fashion Wow. Mode als Statement, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach 2018
Buchstabenfest, Zollamt Bad Radkersburg 2018
dog-ear/eselsohren 3: Veronika Hauer, Forum Stadtpark, Graz 2018
A Tribute To Gunther & Karl-Heinz, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns 2017
Make something with your body, VBKÖ Vienna 2017
34. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bozen 2016
How can moments go so slow, Galerie Leslie, Berlin 2015
three dots, Galerie Z, Hard 2015
34. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2015
Giorgio Moroder’s Pyramid, DUCTAC, Dubai 2014
Temporary Autonomous Zone / 3, Teatr Studio/Galeria Studio, Warszawa 2014
Baldachini, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow 2014
Hot stones, wet zones, fast melons, VBKÖ, Vienna 2013
S/HE IS THE ONE, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (Performance) 2013
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, fluc, Vienna 2013
Desire creates Distance, Ve.Sch, Vienna 2013
Temporäre Autonome Zone, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna (Performance) 2012
Post, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Steirischer Herbst 2012, Graz 2012
OBSTRUKTIONIST Edition 3, Past Vyner Street, London 2012
Boomerang Hits, Forum Stadtpark Graz 2011
Upon Arrival. Spatial Explorations, Malta Contemporary Art, La Valetta 2010
AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS
Work scholarship of the City of Graz 2022
con-tempus art award 2021
Prize for the Promotion of Art of the City of Graz 2020
34th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, Prize of the Province of Carinthia 2015
STARTScholarship for Visual Art from the BKA 2013
CURATING & TEACHING
Studio seminar on the interrelation of drawing and performance – University of Applied Arts Vienna (Art and Communication Practises). 2016-2019
Studio seminar The whole is but a fragment (Das Ganze – Nichts als ein Fragement)- University of Applied Arts Vienna (Art and Communication Practises). 2015/16
Studio seminar Body Text Performance – University of Applied Arts Vienna (Art and Communication Practises). 2014/15
Curator of the exhibition A BUDDY FOR A TEXT -on the performance of text and speech in visual arts, choreography and dance- at Forum Stadtpark Graz. 2013
Conception of the exhibition project SCULPTURE GARDEN together with artist Magda Tothova at Strombad Kritzendorf. 2012
Founding editor of the online art magazine NOWISWERE (with Fatos Ustek). 2008-2015
PUBLICATIONS
Veronika Hauer, Verlag Forum Stadtpark, Graz 2018.
ISBN: 978-3-901109-52-2
NN (Working Title), Verlag Forum Stadtpark, Graz 2010.
ISBN-13978-3-901109-27-0. (Artist contribution)
Dear Artwork and Spectator, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2008.
ISBN: 978-3-85211-140-7. (Artist contribution)
Unerhört, Visionen des jungen Südtirol. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2006.
ISBN: 88-7283-258-6. (Artist contribution)