April 1st, 2014 Pre-Opening Press Release Kai Matsumiya For Press inquiries: 153 ½ Stanton Street m. 617 678 4440 New York, New York 10002 w. 646 455 3588 www.kaimatsumiya.com [email protected] Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat: 12-8pm Rainer Ganahl: El Mundo Saturday, April 19th – Saturday, May 24th, 2014 Inaugural Opening Reception: April 19th, from 7-9:30 pm Kai Matsumiya is pleased to announce its inauguration with an exhibition of Rainer Ganahl’s El Mundo. The original project, an ad hoc, classical music performance, staged at the now-defunct El Mundo discount store, encapsulates the history of an East Harlem building as it passes through diverse incarnations that trace economic, demographic, and cultural shifts on both the local and global scene. Reflecting on the event, Ganahl writes: “Many opera pieces bring us back to politics, to emerging working-class cultures in which slaves and exploited people play a role, mirroring the industrialization of Europe in the 19th century with the rather under-privileged context in which El Mundo was built and functioned in Spanish Harlem.” The exhibition reenacts the event through photographs and film and runs from, Saturday, April 19th through May 24th. The space at 153 1⁄2 Stanton Street retains the left-over remains of the former tenant, Rocksmith, which sold merchandise from the Wu-tang clan among the other hip-hop retail items. The back space is graced with a genuine graffiti tag by “Mathematics”, the producer at Wu-Tang, and other remnants. Ganahl’s El Mundo piece at Kai Matsumiya will include a film projection of the live performance, and photographs of El Mundo. Ganahl’s El Mundo was picked as one of the top ten art works of 2013 by Artforum. El Mundo follows previous exhibitions at Nicolaus Schaffhausen's inaugural exhibition at the Vienna Kunsthalle (2013) and the Triennial at Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Stuttgart (2013). A special publication with a vinyl LP by Mousse Publishing was produced for these two prominent presentations in Europe. Rainer Ganahl is a New York based artist who has been shown internationally including the Venice Biennial (1999, 2007, 2009) the Shanghai Biennial (2008) and the Athens Biennial (2013). His most previous solo exhibitions held in New York took place at Alex Zachary (2010 “Language of Emigration”) and White Columns (2013 – Commes Des Marxists). Additionally, Ganahl recently opened a solo exhibition at Hacienda, Zurich, at BCP, Shanghai, and at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich. Ganahl is currently preparing a larger exhibition at the renowned Dutch space De Vleeshal, Middelburg and De Apple, Amsterdam. We thank the many outstanding individuals and institutions involved in the El Mundo work, including but not limited to White Columns, the musicians (Rachel Koblakov, Jeff, Siyi, Ok-Cha Lim, Ken Ikiishi), HDFC of the Lower East Side, EL MUNDO-ALL BRAND NAMES. Images of live performance at El Mundo [email protected] 153 ½ Stanton Street New York, New York 10002 +1 646 455 3588 Tue – Sat 12- 8 pm Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (Opera Singer), 2013 Film still Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Preview of works at Kai Matsumiya [email protected] 153 ½ Stanton Street New York, New York 10002 +1 646 455 3588 Tue – Sat 12- 8 pm Front room – dual projections Front room – dual projections View of back room Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Inkjet on archival 29.5 x 39.3 in ( 75 x 100 cm) Edition 5/6 View of back room Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Inkjet on archival 29.5 x 39.3 in ( 75 x 100 cm) 3//20, Edition 5/6 Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Inkjet on archival 29.5 x 39.3 in ( 75 x 100 cm) 13/20 Edition: 5/6 View of back room View of back room Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Inkjet on archival 29.5 x 39.3 in ( 75 x 100 cm) 14/20 Edition: 5/6 View of back room view of back room view of back room Rainer Ganahl El Mundo (2013) Inkjet on archival 29.5 x 39.3 in ( 75 x 100 cm) 5/20 Edition: 5/6 view of back room Mathematics (Wu Tang Clan) Tag (Circa 2000’s) Not for sale ( 30 x 70 cm) 3/30/2014 rainer ganahl CV INDEX SHORT BIOGRAPHY BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS EXHIBITIONS: Rainer Ganahl click 1990/91 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York 1986-91 HAK, Vienna (P. Weibel), Akademie Düsseldorf (N. J. Paik) Master of Philosophy and History at the University of Innsbruck Selected One Person Shows 2014 El Mundo, Kai Matsumia, New York (april 19th) SWISS JARRY, Hacienda, Zurich (April, 8th) De Vleeshal,Middelburg​ (fall 2014) Dadalenin, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich BCP, Shanghai 2013 Comme des Marxists, White Columns, New York (Nov 2013) Rainer Ganahl, Irwin, Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels 2012 I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Tresor /Kunstforum, Vienna (catalog) Perpetual Motion, Kunstverrein Neuhausen 2011 The conditoin of the working class in England, Reading Festival in Bury / Manchester KOOJO, Innsbruck 2010 Alex Zachary, New York Hospitalhof, Stuttgart Elaine Levy Projects, Art Brussels Tea Party, Werkstatt Graz, Graz 2009 MAK, Vienna, October 2009/2010 Toxic Assets, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder, Login Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels 2008 Fruit and Flower Deli, New York DADALENIN, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto Les Laboratoires, Aubervilliers, Paris (a theater production, a film) Kunstverrein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall G126, Galway, Ireland Ce qui roule - That Which Rolls, Early Form's of Rollin' Rock, Les Laboratoire, Aubervilliers, Paris 2007 Rainer Ganahl, The Apprentice in the Sun, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, catalog Rainer Ganahl, Reading, Riding and other Recent Works, Duncan of Jordanstone Colege of Art and Design, Dandee 2006 From Vatican to Piazza della Repubblica with no return, RAM, radioartemobile, Rome 2005 http://ganahl.info/cv.html 1/12 3/30/2014 rainer ganahl CV 2005 The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Museum, New York , catalog Museum of Modern Art, MUMOK, Vienna, catalog Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris Roellinduerr, St. Gallen Artist Commune, Hong Kong Baumgartner Gallery, New York 2004 le consortium, Dijon bicycle, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto 2003 Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, GAG, Bremen, cataog Kunstbüro, Vienna Casco, Utrecht Maisonneuve, Paris vertretung des landes niedersachsen beim bund , Berlin Das Zählen der letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote, project wall, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2002 Base, Florence, Italy Baumgartner Gallery, New York 2001 Baumgartner Gallery, New York Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan Artra, Milan Sint-Lukasstichting, Brussels Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, cataog 2000 enders projects, Frankfurt Rainer Ganahl: from 10 secondes to 500 hours and more, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna Planet 2000, Geneva Centre de Photographie, Geneva (with Harald F. Muller) Basic Canadian, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto 1999 Offene Handlungsräume, 48th Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice (together with 5 other artists or artist collectives) cataog Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna Landesmuseum Tirol, Innsbruck Max Protetch, New York 1998 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, catalogue Werkstatt Graz, Graz 1997 The Thing, New York Massimo De Carlo, Milan Educational Complex, organized by Rainer Ganahl: Lindsay Anderson, Rainer Ganahl, Candida Höfer, Mike Kelley, Frederick Wiseman, Generali Foundation, Vienna, catalogue 1996 Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris In Vitro, Geneva Depot, Vienna Villa Arson, Nice Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Thomas Solomon Garage, Los Angeles 1995 Sandra Gering, (with Matthew McCaslin), New York Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Center, Moscow Ice Box, Athens 1994 The Thing, BBS, New York, Vienna Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris Nordanstad Gallery, New York 1993 Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, cataog ue Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, catalogue 1992 Nordanstad-Skarstedt, New York Massimo DeCarlo, Milan Galerie Roger Pailhas, (3 times 3 weeks, with Peter Fend and Silvia Kolbowski, curated by Rainer Ganahl), Paris, catalgue Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, brochure http://ganahl.info/cv.html 2/12 3/30/2014 rainer ganahl CV Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, brochure 1991 White Columns (White Room), New York Randy Alexander (with Matthew Antezzo), New York 1990 Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, catalogue 1989 Virtue in Objects, Installation (with Paul Garrin), Museum Folkwangen, Essen allerArt, Bludenz Selected Group Shows 2014 "Take Liberty," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo "Underground, " Schoenenbourg, France 2013 "Salon of fear / Salon der Angst," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna "Triennale Esslingen, Crossing Media," Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Stuttgart "Athens Biennale 2013", Athens "Bike your Dream", Projektraum Wien "Der Traum des Königs / The Dream of the King," Kunstverein Neuhausen THE CAT SHOW, White Columns, New York "Khhhhhhh," Invented and Imaginary languages, Centre Pompidou, Paris P&CO, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles Culturel Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institute, Brussels Internation Kund-, Medien- und Foto.Triennale, Villa Merke, Esslingen (summer 2013) Ikone Marx, Museum Trier (summer 2013) 2012 Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokio, Paris Tbilisi Triennale, Europa House, Tbibilisi,Gerogia What is it about the end of the world that makes it so appealing? V-Art Center, Shanghai A SIGN ON THE ROAD SAID: TAKE US TO MADRE!, Madre Helper, Brooklyn, New York