Nikolaus Gansterer studied Intermedia art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 2005 till 2006 he completed his post gradual studies at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Since 1998 Gansterer has been occupied with several on-going projects that explore the ëtransacousticí. He initiated the 'Institute for transacoustic Research' and co-founded the 'Vienna Vegetable Orchestra'.

The work of Nikolaus Gansterer locates itself between sound and image, language and drawing, static and dynamic. He works with performance and installations but the grafic part of his work plays an essential role. His visual work deals with mapping processes of invisibility, often also in the context of performative acts. In his installation works Gansterer focuses on the translation of processes emerging out of cultural and scientific networks. By rejecting a strict differentiation of these two areas and through a consequent recombination of methods and settings from both fields he arrives at unique lines of connection and division questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, religion, art and civilization. Not the things themselves, but the correlation between them is the matter of his enquiry. The search for the point of overlap, where both science and contemporary art move into ontology, accompanies his multi-facetted artistic practise.

Recent exhibitions and presentations include 'Hard Rock Walzer', Villa Manin, Udine; 'Wrong time, Wrong Place', Tent, Rotterdam; 'Resonances', Stuk, Leuven; 'Rift/Gap/Hinge', Galerie naechst St. Stephan, Vienna; 'Potential Dialogues', RCM Art Museum, Nanjiing; 'Architecture of Interaction', Chisenhale Gallery, London; 'Living and Working in Vienna II', Kunsthalle, Vienna, and at "Moving Patterns", ACF, New York.



More about Nikolaus Gansterer: http://gansterer.org