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.
