born 1980 in Austria
lives and works in Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Grants / Awards / Residencies
Art in Architecture / Art in Public Spaces / Sound Performances
* In collaboration with Maria Anwander
lives and works in Berlin
2001 - 2006
Studied Computer and Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Ruben Aubrecht, Galerie beim Feurle, Feldkirch (AT)
2024
First Performance – Telefax Score No. 1, Künstlerhaus Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2023
Same Same But Different, Theater Kosmos, Bregenz (AT)
2022
Walking a Straight Line, Stadt findet Kunst, BESD II-Programm, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin (DE)
A Ray of Light into the Past, Art in Architecture, Wolfgang Borchert Schule, Berlin (DE)
Depot, Art in Architecture, Raiffeisenbank Hard (AT)
2020
Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (AT)
If I Subtract All the Time I Have Spent Uselessly Surfing the Internet, It Could Still Be 2016, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz (AT)
2019
Ruben Aubrecht - Conceptual Art is Boring, Kunstpunkt, Darmstadt (DE)
2018
CMYK, Druckwerk Lustenau, Lustenau (AT)
2017
40 Years of Saumarkt, Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch (AT)
2016
Ruben Aubrecht, ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg, Dornbirn (AT)
2015
Time Activities, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht, Galerie allerArt, Bludenz (AT)
2014
In Between the Borders of Now, Karlin Studios, Prague (CZ)
2013
using pastel is so uncontemporary, Galerie Stephanie Hollenstein, Lustenau (AT)
2011
Mögliches Resultat einer gemeinsamen Arbeit (Possible Outcome of a Collaboration), Startgalerie im MUSA, Vienna (AT)
2010
Please Be Patient, AC Institue, New York (US)
Group Exhibitions
2025
We’re all in this together, GEH8, Dresden (DE)
Unterm Teppich, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2024
RE:VISION – 20 Years Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (DE)
privat, das Basement, Berlin (DE)
NORTH WEST by SOUTH-EAST – part 2, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo (BA)
Ortstermin 2025, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)
Look, Look....!, Kunsthaus : Kollitsch, Klagenfurt (AT)
2023
Sind Sie noch zu retten?, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
Dual Use, Henry Ford Bau, FU Berlin (DE)
Multiplex, Necessaire, Vienna (AT)
Schau….9, Kunsthaus : Kollitsch, Klagenfurt (AT)
2022
Cookie, Innsbruck International - Biennial of the Arts, Innsbruck (AT)
Les Grasses Matinées, c/o careof, Milano (IT)
Die Obiger Galaxis, Axel Obiger, Berlin (DE)
Alle, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2021
Schau 7, Kunsthaus : Kollitsch, Klagenfurt (AT)
An Vogel, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Global–Lokal / Do the winners take it all? Modul 2, Mixer, Frankfurt (DE)
Parallel Vienna, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Vienna (AT)
Review Corona, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz (AT)
Projekte Kunst-am-Bau, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin (DE)
hier und danach #7, St. Galler Tagblatt (CH)
2020
Ausweitung der Marktzone, Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, Ismaning (DE)
Brauchen, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Online
Ortstermin 2020, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)
Die Kunst des Sammelns, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Ankäufe 2019, allerArt, Bludenz (AT)
2019
Sezession hoch n, Designhaus, Darmstadt (DE)
unarchived, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Umbruch I: State of Art, Atelierhaus Darmstadt (DE)
Ortstermin 2019, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)
2018
Heimspiel, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH)
Te?bihte hata olmaz, Mixer, Istanbul (TR)
if I ruled the world, Bar Babette, Berlin (DE)
The Missing Room (Sperrgebiet 1/2), LAGE EGAL, Berlin (DE)
FAD, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2017
Kapitalströmung, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen (DE)
Lokale Gruppe, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt (DE)
PUSH - Das Leben in Zeiten der Hyperinformation, EMAF - Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück (DE)
ba ? b+a, 10 Years of MUSA — From the Collection of the City of Vienna, MUSA, Vienna (AT)
Let‘s buy it! Kunst und Einkauf, LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen (DE)
Protest, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (DE)
Ortstermin 2017, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)
hidden::display, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (AT)
Capriccio, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (DE)
2016
AWAY, Ehemaliges k.u.k. Post- und Telegraphenamt, Vienna (AT)
»junger westen« 2015, GersonHöger Galerie, Hamburg (DE)
Dialog 1: Zeigen und Verbergen, Quadrat, Dornbirn (AT)
Bilbao - Bregenz, Bildraum, Bregenz (AT)
Von Jäger_innen und Sammler_innen, periscope, Salzburg (AT)
Umeå Konsthall - pop-up exhibition space, Umeå (SE)
2015
Heimspiel, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH)
Kunstpreis »junger westen« 2015, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen (DE)
Autopoiesis, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (DE)
Berlin Art Prize, DISTRICT Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Irony, EMAF - Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück (DE)
Celebration, Museum Centre Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk (RU)
Call for Drawings, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL)
Pop Up Exhibition, Kargart, Istanbul, (TR)
Is the bird still yellow in the dark? Toilet Encounters #5, Paris (FR)
Rewind & Replay, Galerie Hollenstein, Lustenau (AT)
2014
2nd Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz (AT)
Aus Film und Fernsehen, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (DE)
All in One Party Show, Insitu, Berlin (DE)
Open Studios, 18th Street, Santa Monica (US)
Was Sie Lesen, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2013
überbleibsel, konnektor - Forum der Künste, Hannover (DE)
EPISODE 3: cézanne beats pollock, insitu, Berlin (DE)
Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia (ES)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (US)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (LT)
Kauf mich!, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin (DE)
2012
Under the Tinsel Sun, 3rd Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow (RU)
Inconclusive Analysis, 3rd Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RU)
Heimspiel, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH)
Do what you can't, 1st Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz (AT)
Licht, Sezession Darmstadt, Darmstadt (DE)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, The Drawing Center, New York (US)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Nero HQ, Rom (IT)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul (TR)
Nach dem Projekt ist vor dem Projekt ist, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin (DE)
Druck, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Open Studios, Oficina de Arte, Mexico City (MX)
2011
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (IT)
Arbeiten der Bewerber um den Preis der Sezession, Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt (DE)
Iteration I, Space (in der Kubatur des Kabinetts), Fluc, Vienna (AT)
White Noise, mobiler Ausstellungsraum am Mozartplatz, Salzburg (AT)
2010
Not Here, No There, Harlem Studio Fellowship, New York (US)
Gaming the System, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
You Fail, periscope:project:space, Salzburg (AT)
Pure Element, Pure Form, Montrasio Arte, Milano (IT)
Ruben Aubrecht, Michaela Frühwirth, Martin Gabriel und Micha Payer, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Quasi Dasselbe ...? Diskurse mit poetischer Funktion, Kunstpavillon, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck (AT)
Ruben Aubrecht, Michaela Frühwirth, Martin Gabriel und Micha Payer, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT)
Screening, Impakt Festival, Utrecht (NL)
2009
Anonyme Zeichner N°10, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
Labyrint 09 - Writings and Observations, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba (SE)
The Peephole Approach to Artist Couples, Sezession Wichtelgasse, Vienna (AT)
Portrait, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Ostrale `09, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden (DE)
Print Matters, General Store at Chauvel Cinema, Sydney (AU)
Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London (GB)
Video.It 2009 (screening), Artegiovane / Fundazione Merz, Turin (IT)
2008
Am Sprung, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (AT)
Kapital - Körper - Konventionen, Forum Schloss Wolkersdorf, Wolkersdorf (AT)
Freiwild, Doppel De, Dresden (DE)
Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas de Artistas Residentes, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao (ES)
2007
Intervention, Fieldgate Gallery, London (GB)
un_space, MAK Contemporary Art Tower, Vienna (AT)
2006
Faktum Flakturm, Flakleitturm Arenbergpark, Vienna (AT)
Zur Zeit I, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Tag der offenen Tür, Flakleitturm Arenbergpark, Vienna (AT)
2004
Fotografie als Kunst / Kunst als Fotografie, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna (AT)
Der Soziographische Blick / Projektraum Medien.Kunst.Tirol, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (AT)
The Hell Fire Dining Club, Kunsthalle Projektspace Karlsplatz, Vienna (AT)
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2024
AI Fellowship, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Austria
2024
Artist Grant,Land Vorarlberg, Austria
2022
Austrian State Fellowship for Media Art, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Austria
2021
INITIAL Special Fellowship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
2020
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur – Fellowship for Artists with Children under 7 (DE)
2016
Artist in Residence at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (SE)
2014
Studio Fellowship, Istanbul – Cultural Exchange Grant, Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs, Berlin (DE)
2014
Artist in Residence, 18th Street, Santa Monica (US)
2013
Studio Fellowship, Mexico City – Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), Austria
2012
Artist in Residence, Oficina de Arte, Mexico City (MX)
2011
Advancement Award of the Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt (DE)
2010
Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasioarte, New York (US)
2008
Exchange grant, Kunsthaus Bregenz - Bilbao Arte - Center for Contemporary Art (ES)
Art in Architecture / Art in Public Spaces / Sound Performances
2024
First Performance – Telefax Score No. 1, Künstlerhaus Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
2022
Walking a Straight Line, Art in Public Spaces, Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (DE)
2022
Depot, Art in Architecture, Raiffeisenbank Hard (AT)
2022
A Ray of Light into the Past, Art in Architecture, Wolfgang Borchert Schule, Berlin (DE) *
2015
Memorial for Persecution, Resistance, and the Struggle for Freedom, S-Bahnstation Hernals, Vienna (AT)
2012
Further Development, Site-specific Intervention, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (AT)
* In collaboration with Maria Anwander