BENJAMIN TOMASI


 1978 in Bozen/ Bolzano, Italy 

 
Education: 

University of Applied Arts Vienna and at Listaháskóli Íslands - Reykjavik, Iceland. 2008 Diploma at University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Solo Shows: 

2016 - Microground Cosmic Backwave, Cubo Garutti, Museion, Bozen, Italy 

2015 - Monastery Neustift, Michaelskapelle, Brixen, Italy


2013 [ ], Gallery Prisma, Bozen, Italy


2010 - RE: FWD: Ast fällt auf Tonspur, Magazinvienna, Vienna, Austria
2010 - Aussicht, Galerie Völs, Völs am Schlern, Italy 

2008 - 800/20, Galerie Amer Abbas, Kunstbüro, Vienna, Austria
2007 Die Dinge verschwinden, Galerie ArtBits, Vienna, Austria


2006 - Skafbylur, SWINGR, Vienna, Austria 2006 Electro, Elektro Gönner, Vienna, Austria 

Selected Group Exhibitions/Collaborations/Performances: 

2018 - little Arizona, Performance with Claudia Tomasi, Alps Move Festival, Völs am Schlern, Italy
2018 - sonic objections #2, Exhibition, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria
2018 - RISING UP-FLOWING DOWN, Exhibition, Wasserturm, Vienna, Austria
2018 - HALL, Live at Reform Act III.I, Aspern Seestadt Fabrik, Vienna, Austria
2018 - HALL, Live at Schauspielhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria

2017 - Drøøm, 4 channel sound Performance, Paraflows Festival, Vienna, Austria

2017 - Trans art, Scheibenscheiden Tosando, Performance, Collaboration with Ingrid Hora and Claudia Tomasi, Schlanders, Italy

2017 - Plasm, Performance with Claudia Tomasi, Alps Move Festival, Bozen, Italy
2017 - is this a bird cage, Gallery Karoyan, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 - HAYP 9.0: Downshift, Yerevan, Armenia 

2016 - Antinomies of Now, Stadtmuseum, Bruneck, Italy
2016 - Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Vienna, Austria 

2015 - Parallel Vienna, Performance with Jakob Lena Knebl, Vienna, Austria
2015 -  I think not, Performance with Claudia Tomasi, Alps Move Festival at Museion, Bozen, Italy
2015 - Asuna, Benjamin Tomasi, Struma + Iodine at mo.ë, Vienna, Austria
2015 - Narrating Transgression: Beyond the Horizon, Czirp Czirp: Experimental Music in Aspern Seestadt, Vienna, Austria 

2014 - Science friction, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014 - ERWARTUNG: 1914 und heute, Proekt Fabrika, Moskow , Russia
2014 - Sound:frame Festival, Mak, Vienna, Austria

2014 - Cose da uomini / Männersache, Galleria civica, Bozen, Italy

2014 - Vampire times, Sound/Music for a short movie from Irene Reiserer, 

2013 - Mediterranea 16, with Gruppe UNO Wien, Ancona, Italy
2013 - Fine sound, Weisses Haus, Vienna, Austria 

2012 - Aneignung II, Fotogalerie, Vienna, Austria

2012 - Panorama 4, Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, Italy

2012 - Wiesenburg, Performance Sommerwerkstatt, Berlin, Germany

2012 - Set Staged Envisoned, 308at156 Project Artspace New York, NYC, USA
2012 - Happily Ever After, Fotoraum, Vienna, Austria 

2011 - CODED CULTURES: CITY AS INTERFACE, Magazinvienna, Vienna, Austria

2011 - Imitation of Action, gallery Latned Atsär, Los Angeles, USA

2011 - ART ENTERTAINMENT & DESIRE, Festival of Independent Art Spaces, Basel, Switzerland
2011 - WALLPAPERISM, MOTEL CAMPO, www.motelcampo.ch, Geneve, Switzerland

2011 - Kontextuelle Assemblagen, Konzert, Lust Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2011 - hamu ha-al, Konzert für 4 Staubsauger, Vienna, Austria

2011 - Mutual Agreement, Lust Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2011 - BangBangBeam Videonight, BYOB, Magazinvienna, Vienna, Austria 

2010 - Destillieren - A night of experimental electronic music, with Klaus Filip, Phillip David Stearns and Clemens Hausch, Vienna, Austria
2010 - Klangmanifeste, Echoraum, Vienna, Austria
2010 Detour Track 2: Contextual Concerts, Vienna, Austria

2010 - Ast faellt auf Tonspur (with Bernhard Garnicnig), Magazin, Vienna,
2010 - Detour Track 2: Contextual Concerts , Vienna, Austria

2010 - Synchronisation, Galerie Hartmann, Vienna, Austria

2010 - Love 4.1, Love_, Vienna, Austria

2010 - off with the heads. plattformquelle, Vienna, Austria

2010 - for against disaster, move machiya, Arakawa Ku, Tokyo, Japan 

2009 - Next Reality, YCC, Yokohama, Japan
2009 Performance II Uebertragung und Uebersetzung, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2009 - Sound/Time/Space, C17, Vienna, Austria

2009 - UnORTnung V, Anker Brotfabrik, Vienna, Austria 

2008 - Trojan Horses, Vienna, Austria

2008 - SCOOP 2008, Galerie Momentum, Vienna, Austria
2008 - THE ESSENCE 08, MAK, Austria

2007 - PRINZGAU/podgorschek - weg mit dem Ziel! Teil 2 INFILTRATION, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria 

2006 - Seemann lass das Träumen, Plattformquelle, Vienna, Austria
2006 - Franz jagt Urselbein, Galerie Licht im Raum, Vienna, Austria
2006 - OPEN 2006, 9. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venezia / Lido, Italy
2006 - P1, P1, Berlin UDK, Germany
2006 - Full Frame Festival, Schikaneder, Vienna, Austria


2005 - Kunstakademie Münster, Germany 

2004 - ESE, Listaháskóli Íslands - Reykjavik, Iceland

2004 - Rien ne va plus, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Facing Photography, Westlicht, Vienna, Austria 

2003 - 48 h, Gallery Christine König, Vienna, Austria 

 

Grants/ Stipends/ Exchange: 

2017 - Grant for the project „little Arizona“ from South Tyrol, Italy

2015 - BKA Project grant: Research und Exhibition, Armenia Artist grant from South Tyrol, Italy


2012 - BKA Project grant: Exhibition in Basel, Swiss


2010 - Artist grant from South Tyrol, Italy
2010 - BKA Project grant Exhibition in Los Angeles, USA


2009 - Ma7 Project grant Exhibition, Vienna, Austria

2009 - Bmukk, Austrian Artist in residency program for Tokyo, Japan 

2005 - Artist grant from South Tyrol, Italy


2003 - Emmanuel and Sophie Fohn stipend, Vienna, Austria 

Publications: 

2014 - Catalog: A matter of / Sound:frame 2014, Wien


2013 - Artist Book: Triggered Sound, Catherine Métayer, Palaver Press, Pp001 

2012 - Catalog: PANORAMA 4. Neue Kunst in Südtirol / Arte nuova in Alto Adige, ISBN 978-88-95523-04-0
2012 - Catalog: Aneignung, Fotobuch Nr. 49, Fotogalerie, Vienna 

2011 - Artist Book: Wallpaperism, Boabooks, ISBN 978-2-940409-43-3 

2009 - Catalog: Performance im Bild und im medialen Übertrag- , Fotogalerie Wien, ISBN 978-3-902725-28-8 

2008 - Book: TRAUM STADT WIR - Möglichkeiten urbaner Wahrnehmung /
SOGNO CITTÁ NOI - Esercizi di percezione: Angelika Burtscher, Manuela Demattio, Roberto Gigliotti with: Lungomare Gallerie/ Studienverlag Innsbruck
ISBN 3-7065-4408-3; 978-3-7065-4408-5 

2007 - Artist Book: weg mit dem Ziel! PRINZGAU/podgorschek 

2006 - Catalog: OPEN 2006, 9.International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venezia, Lido
2006 - Book: UN ERHÖRT. VISIONEN DES JUNGEN SÜDTIROL / PRE VISIONI DEL GIOVANE SUDTIROLO,
Edition Raetia, ISBN 978-88-7283-258-5

2006 - Catalog: Fotografie an der Angewandten, Fotohof Edition 2006, Band 78, ISBN 978-3-901756-78-8


2005 - Catalog: Fine arts, University of Applied Arts, Vienna


2002 - Catalog: The Essence
2002 - University of Applied Arts, Vienna 

 

Collaborations in Art/Music/Sound/Initiatives: 

since 2016 HALL, sound and media Performance duo with Samuel Schaab 

since 2014 Drøøm, sound Performance duo with Clemens Hausch.


since 2012 Artist duo with Claudia Tomasi, Sound art/Performance and contemporary Dance. 

2009 - 2014 Artist duo with Bernhard Garnicnig as Re:Fwd:


2000 - 2011 Co-founder and member of the art and culture initiative Plattformquelle, Vienna 

 

Joint works with 

Christiane Lieungh, Valerie Lange/Ali Zedtwiz (Diptych), Jakob Lena Knebl, Alex Murray Leslie (chicks on speed), Coppe, Albert Allgaier, Peter Fritznwallner