Welcome:
Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Laudation: Karola Kraus, Director of MUMOK
Awarding:
Reinhold Mitterlehner,Vice-Chancellor of Austria and Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy
Andrea
Fraser is an artist whose work has been identified with feminism, performance, context art, services, and institutional critique.
Retrospectives of her work have been presented by the Kunstverein in Hamburg (2003), the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013), the
Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015) and are upcoming at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and MUAC UNAM in Mexico City
(2016). Her books includes Andrea Fraser: Works 1984-2003 (Dumont, 2003); Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser
(MIT Press, 2005); and Texts, Scripts, Transcripts (Museum Ludwig Köln/Walter König 2013) and Andrea Fraser (Museum der Modern
Salzburg/Hatje Cantz, 2015). She is Professor of New Genres at the University of California Los Angeles and Visiting Faculty
at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Andrea Frasers work has been identified with
performance, feminism, context art and institutional critique. Major projects include projects for the Berkeley Art Museum
(1992); the Kunstverein Munich (1993); the Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavilion, 1993); the Whitney Biennial (1993); the Generali
Foundation, Vienna (1995); the Kunsthalle Bern (1998); the Sprengel Museum Hannover (1998); the Bienal de Sao Paulo (1998);
Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2010). She has created performances for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1986); the
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1989); the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (1991); inSITE, San Diego/Tijuana (1997); the MICA Foundation,
New York (2001); Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles (2012) and Prospect 3, New Orleans. She has also performed at the Centre
Pompidou, Paris, Whitechapel, London; the Dia Art Foundation, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other venues. Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance
group, The V-Girls (1986-1996); the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998); and the cooperative art gallery
Orchard (2005-2008). She was also co-organizer (with Helmut Draxler) of Services, a working-group exhibition that toured to
seven venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001. Her essays and performance scripts have appeared in Art
in America, Afterimage, October, Texte zur Kunst, Social Text, Critical Quarterly, Documents, Artforum and Grey Room and other
publications. Her books include A Society of Taste, Kunstverein München, 1993; Report, EA-Generali Foundation, 1995; Andrea
Fraser: Works 1985-2003, DuMont, 2003; Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, MIT Press, 2005; and Texts, Scripts,
Transcripts, Museum Ludwig Köln/ Walter König, 2013 and Andrea Fraser, Museum der Modern Salzburg/Hatje Cantz, 2015. She is
the recipient of the 2013 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, in conjunction with which the Museum Ludwig Köln presented a survey of her
work. A retrospective of her work was presented at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in 2015 and is upcoming at Museum of Contemporary
Art Barcelona and MUAC UNAM in Mexico City in 2016. She is Professor of New Genres in the Department of Art at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
