Boris Ondreička born 1969, Zlate Moravce, SK, lives in , SK, works in , AT.

STUDY

1984-1988 Secondary School of Applied Arts, Bratislava, SK

1988-1994 Academy of Fine Arts (MFA 1994), Bratislava, SK

WORKING EXPERIENCE

1993 Speaker / DJ at Radio Ragtime, Bratislava, SK

1996-1999 Project coordinator of Soros centre for contemporary arts, Bratislava, SK

2000 Director of Creative Dept. at Soria & Grey (leading advert-agency in SK in that time), Bratislava, SK

2002-2011 Director of art-initiative tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK since 2012 Guest-curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, AT

(CO/) CURATED

Ephemeropteræ (2012-2013, feat. John Giorno, Lydia Lunch, Karl Holmqvist, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Blixa Bargeld, Kenneth Goldsmith, Charles Bernstein, Tris Vonna Michell, Erick Beltran, Hassan Khan, Rasha Salti, Vaginal Davies, Carl Michael von Hausswollf, Nicole Blackmann, Wanda Coleman, Japanther, La Stampa, Fennesz, Superflex, Simon Starling, Ines Doujak, Ruth Noack, Guillaume Désanges with Frédéric Cherboeuf, Ragnar Kjartansson, Gelitin, Susan Stenger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Gidal, Chicks on Speed, David Adjaye, Anna Artaker...) at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Augarten, Vienna, AT and

Tomorrow Morning Line, (2012, feat. Auxpan, J. G. Thirlwell, Carl Michael von Hausswollf, Kollektiv Rauschen, Asfast, Jana Winderen, Benzo...) at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, AT, and

Discusiones & Demostraciones, (2013, feat. Johanna Calle, Antonio Caro, Tupac Cruz, Oscar Munoz, Miguel Angel Rojas, Beatriz Gonzales, Feliza Bursztyn, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Juan Suarez Londono, Las Ruinas Telepaticas, Rosenberg Sandoval, Gabriel Sierra, Jose Roca, Maria Teresa Hincapie, Nicolas Paris, Icaro Zorbar, Bernardo Ortiz, Wilson Diaz, Helena Producciones...) at Hay, Cartagena, LIA, Bogota, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, (all) COLOMBIA, for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, AT in coop. with Outset, London, UK and

Manifesta 8, Murcia & Cartagena, ES, (2010-2011, feat. Emily Roysdon, Heman Chong, Loulou Cherinet, Pedro G. Romero / Archivo F.X., Sung Hwan Kim, Tanja Widmann, The Otolith Group, Tris Vonna-Michell, Pedro G. Romero / Archivo F.X., Karl Holmqvist, Adela Jušic, Alexandra Galkina, Babi Badalov, Banu Cennetoglu / Shiri Zinn, Basma Al Sharif, Boris Charmatz, Bouchra Ouizguen, Carla Filipe, Catarina Simao, Cristina David, Darius Miksys, Erick Beltrán, Igor & Ivan Buharov, Kajsa Dahlberg, Martin Vongrej, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc / Sarah Maldoror, Neil Beloufa, Ruti Sela, Stephan Dillemuth, Tomáš Vanek...) and

Being The Future, Palast der Republik, Berlin, DE, (2000, feat. Vladimir Chebotaryov, Stano Filko, Jef Geys, Jiri Kovanda, Chris Marker, Lois & Franziska Weinberger and Alva Noto, Pomassl, Alexei Borisov...) and

Symposion at The Event, Birmingham, UK, (2011, feat. Clementine Deliss, Karl Holmqvist, Maria Lindberg, Christian Rätsch, Emily Roysdon, Rasha Salti, Ruti Sela, Jan Verwoert...) and Auditorium, Stage, Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE, and (2006, feat. Béla Balázs Studio film- program, Egon Bondy, Josef Dabernig, Guillaume Désanges with Frédéric Cherboeuf, Orshi Drozdik, Róza El- Hassan, Miklós Erdély, Stano Filko, Free School for Art Theory and Practice, Jef Geys, Tibor Hajas, Josef Hiršal, Hamlet Hovsepian, Sanja Iveković, Lilla Khoor – Will Potter, Július Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Pawel Kwiek, Denisa Lehocká, Little Warsaw, Ján Mančuška, Dorit Margreiter, Work Method, Monument of Transformation fragment #1, Zbyněk Baladrán, Pavel Humhal, Roman Ondák, Lia Perjovschi, Reinhard Priessnitz , Józef Robakowski, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Jiří Skála, János Sugár, Tamás Szentjóby, Kateřina Šedá, Raša Todosijević, Tomáš Vaněk, Heimo Zobernig...) and

Küba: Journey against the Current (2006, feat. Kutluğ Ataman, Matei Bejenaru, Lászlo Csáki and Szábolcs Pálfi, Emanuel Danesch & David Rych, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová, Renata Poljak, Nedko Solakov, Želimir Žilnik) tranzit, Bratislava, SK, TBA21, Vienna, AT...

Minimax (2005, feat. Franz Pomassl, Benzo, Carl Michael von Hausswollf, Alexei Borisov, Zavoloka, Alois Huber, Rupert Huber, Philipp Quehenberger...) tranzit, Bratislava, SK, and individual projects of Lois & Franziska Weinberger, Stano Filko, Andreas Neumeister, Julius Koller, Denisa Lehocka, Zbynek Baladran... (2004-2011, tranzit, Bratislava, SK) and lecture-series with Catherine David, Maria Hlavajova, Kathrin Rhomberg, Igor Zabel, Robert Fleck, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rene Block, Clementine Deliss, Christian Rätsch... (2002-2011, tranzit, Bratislava, SK).

INITIATED projects with Anarchitektur, Aristide Antonas, Lara Armarcequi, Yael Bartana, Maria Bartuszova, Cyril Blazo, Milan Adamciak, Anri Sala, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Jeremy Deller, Luca Frei, Florian Hecker, Scott King, Michaela Melian, Ciprian Muresan, Publish and be Damned, Anna Sanders Films, Sean Snyder, Artur Zmijevski, Slavoj Zizek... (2004-2011, tranzit, Bratislava, SK).

CO-FOUNDED the Julius Koller Society (2010, inheritance of Julius Koller, Bratislava, SK).

Expert consultacy (mainly in the art-context of CE and post-soviet territories) for Documenta 12, Kassel, DE, Moma, NYC, USA, ICI, NYC, USA, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F, Tate Modern, London, UK, Generali and Kontakt, Vienna, AT, Former West, Utrecht, NL...

Lecturing at Vienna-, Bratislava-, Prague art academies; Royal College of Arts, London, UK, Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, NL, HKAC, Hong Kong, HK, Kiasma, , FI, Kunstverein München, DE, Sharjah Art Foundation, ACAF, Alexandria, EG...

Contributed to Flash Art, Art-Review, Lichtungen, Spike, Frieze and Art Spaces Directory at New Museum, NYC, USA, Artists Write!, Bak Utrecht, Monument to Transformation, Prague, CZ, Faenza of Miguel Angel Rojas, Paralelos, COLOMBIA, Dreams, Fondazione Sandretto re Regaudengo, Turin, IT, 95-05, Evn Sammlung, AT, Küba of Kutlug Ataman of TBA21, The next director of Documenta should be an artist, e-flux, NYC, USA, Lecture Performance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, DE, Zipp, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin, DE...

Communication solutions and designs for Projekt Relations of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, ´Hazard` of Philipp Quehenberger (music album / laton rec.), catalogues of Denisa Lehocka, Danica Dakic, There is nothing like a bad coincidence, (feat. Pawel Althamer, Franz Pomassl...) SCCA, Bratislava, SK, printed matter of Ephemeropterae 2013 of TBA21...

Exhibited his works at Manifesta 2, Luxembourg, L, Venice-, Prague-, Gyumri-, Torino-, Anzengruber-, Tai-Pei , Athens- biennales; PS1 NYC, USA, BAK Utrecht, NL, W139 and De Appel, , NL, Smak, Gent, BE, Le Plateau, Paris, F, Frankfurter-, Kölnischer-, Badischer-, Münchener-, Stuttgarter Kunstvereins, DE, Kiasma, Helsinki, FI, Former West at HKW, Berlin, DE, Slovak and Czech national galleries, Secession, Mumok, Künstlerhaus, Kunsthalle, Belvedere (all) Vienna, AT, Donaufestival, Krems, AT, Magazin 4, Bregenz, AT...

His HI! lo. was published at JRP Ringier, Zurich, CH.

Since 1987 singer and lyrics writer of the lo-fi band Kosa z nosa, Bratislava, SK.