born 1980 in Austria
live and work in Berlin

Maria Anwander and Ruben Aubrecht are both working individually as conceptual artists.
On an irregular base they join to work as a collective.

solo exhibitions

2020
Maria Anwander - & Ruben Aubrecht || Ruben Aubrecht - & Maria Anwander, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (AT)

2017
Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht, vienna contemporary - ZONE 1, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Marx Halle, Vienna (AT)
on the record, Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch (AT)

2015
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, Startgalerie im MUSA, Vienna (AT)

group exhibitions

2019
unarchived, kleine Humboldtgalerie, Berlin (DE)
Ortstermin 2019, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)

2018
if I ruled the world, Bar Babette, Berlin (DE)
FAD, Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT)

2017
ba ≠ b+a, 10 Jahre MUSA – Aus der Sammlung der Stadt Wien, MUSA, Vienna (AT)
Protest, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (DE)
hidden::display, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (AT)
Ortstermin 2017, Open Studios Wilsnackerstraße, Berlin (DE)

2016
Umeå Konsthall - pop-up exhibition space, Umeå (SE)

2015
Is the bird still yellow in the dark? Toilet Encounters #5, Paris (FR)

2014
2nd Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz (AT)
Open Studios, 18th Street, Santa Monica (US)

2013
EPISODE 3: cézanne beats pollock, insitu, Berlin (DE)

2012
Do what you can't, 1st Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz (AT)
Open Studios, Oficina de Arte, Mexico City (MX)

2010
Gaming the System, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AT)
Impakt Festival, Utrecht (NL)

2009
The Peephole Approach to Artist Couples, Sezession Wichtelgasse, Vienna (AT)
Ostrale 09, Ostragehege, Dresden (DE)

2008
Kapital - Körper - Konventionen, Forum Schloss Wolkersdorf, Wolkersdorf (AT)
Egoileak / Residentes, Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, Bilbao (ES)
FreiWild, DoppelDe, Dresden (DE)

2006
Faktum Flakturm, Flakleitturm Arenbergpark, Vienna (AT)

art in public space

2019     2nd prize in the competition "art at construction Fernwärme", St. Gallen (CH)
2015     Persecution, Resistance and Struggle for Freedom Memorial, S-Bahnstation Hernals, Vienna (AT)

grants / awards / residencies

2016     Artist in Residence at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts (SE)
2012     Artist in Residence, Oficina de Arte, Mexico City (MX)
2010     Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasioarte, New York (US)
2008     Exchange-grant Bilbao awarded by Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT/ES)