About

About Jari Genser

Jari Genser was born in 1983 in Salzburg, Austria.

He had to finish his degree in Psychology (University of Vienna/Universidad de Granada) to find out that what he really wanted to do was being an artist. After studying Fine Arts (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) he now lives and works as a visual artist in Vienna.

Full CV

PRIZES

2020 | Nominated for Faistauer Prize for painting

2020 | Nominated for Strabag Artaward

2018 | Art.Albina Art Prize

2015 | Nominated for Strabag Artaward

STIPENDS

2022 | auf! auf! Artist Residency in Bad Ischl

2021 | Artist Residency of Stadt Wien/Ville de Paris at Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, FR

2021 | TRAVERS Artist Camp 3 – Confront the Future – at Copenhagen Contemporary, DEN

2020 | Artist Residency at St. Virgil, Salzburg

2018 | Artist Residency of the Land Salzburg at Sewon Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Selected Exhibitions

2022

Auf! Anna O. (Lehártheater, Bad Ischl)

Jari Genser – Lavinia Lanner – Levente Szücs (Galerie 422, Gmunden)

Is it me? Am I the drama? (Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg)

2021

OPAK (Leerstand Gallery, Vienna)

ONExONE (Artist Statement @ Parallel, Vienna)

Kunstlitfaßsäulen (Salzburg/Hallein)

Deviations / Abweichungen (Kunstraum St.Virgil, Salzburg)

20€ Flixbus (GlogauAIR, Berlin)

Kunst in Zeiten der Krise (Grünspan, Feffernitz)

Heady Days (Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg)

2020

Unser liebstes Tier (Galerie 422, Gmunden)

Crumble/Thrive (Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna)

Nach wie vor (Orpheum, Graz)

Common Ground (Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg)

Faistauer Preis (Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg)

Fortress of Salt (Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg)

Ich muss das nicht (Stadtgalerie Mozartplatz, Salzburg)

AVE #6 (Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna)

Raumblenden – Shutters (Galerie Rudolf Leeb, Vienna)

2019

Message Control (Galerie Hochdruck, Vienna)

Junges Wort (Trumer Gärhallen, Obertrum)

Kunstankäufe des Landes Salzburg (Traklhaus, Salzburg)

Hard enough as it is (The Future, Vienna)

Save it for a rainy day (periscope, Salzburg)

2018

Cats, Magic & Umbul-Umbul (Sewon Art Space, Bantul, Indonesia)

A New Sensibilitys (SaRanG Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Sach mal! (Galerie Bodenseekreis, Meersburg, Germany)

Art.Albina (Kulturwerkstatt, Oberalm)

2017

Purity in Imperfection (Künstlerhaus, Salzburg)

Graphic Language (AA Collections, Vienna)

Better Together (E.Gönner, Vienna)

Districta #23 (Creau, Vienna)

Ujhelji / Genser (MUMOK Library, Vienna)

2016

SALÓ (Künstlerhaus, Salzburg)

I Was Here Tomorrow (Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna)

The ESSENCE (Alte Post, Vienna)

Meine Unfähigkeit (Luftbadgasse, Vienna)

Artists As Independent Publishers (Bremen/Bergen/Stockholm/London/Vienna)

FAC ARTEM FORMA FUTURA (BMWFW, Vienna)

2015

STAGEDIVING (Viennacontemporary, Vienna)

The ESSENCE (Künstlerhaus, Vienna)

Doppelspiel (Salzamt, Linz | Sala Terrena, Vienna)

ALLES WIRD BESSER (educult/MQ, Vienna)

ZURETA/ずれた (Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien | Geidai University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan)

2014

77 – The Living Exhibition (mo.ë, Vienna)

kuwabara kuwabara – Touch Wood (Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo, Japan)

The ESSENCE (Künstlerhaus, Vienna)

Wir gehen mit dem Kopf (Skulpturinstitut, Vienna)

2013

Alte Meister – Junge Meister (Galerie Hochdruck, Vienna)