Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond
Born in 1976 + 1977 in Graz, Austria. Since 1999, Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond work as an artist duo in the fields of photography, experimental film and installation.
(s) solo
Their book, Notes on a Coast, including an eponymous photo series and the first anthology of contemporary Hebrew lyric poetry ever translated to German, was published in 2007 in collaboration with Giora Rosen, Nili Shahaf, Anne Birkenhauer and Klaus Zeyringer.
Since January 2012 the artists are curating the monthly screening series Hasenherz at Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten Graz and at Kunsthalle Vienna. This series is inspired by Arnold Schönberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances. In 1918, Arnold Schönberg evolved the idea of a Society for Private Musical Performances in Mödling, Austria. The chairman of this society was Schönberg himself; a council consisting of friends and pupils was to advise. The works performed were discussed and then repeated to give the audience a better understanding of the work. Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond use this method for a better understanding of experimental films and videos.
They also have had numerous exhibitions and screenings in Austria and abroad, including Rohbau der Zukunft TM with Anna Kim, KÖR Vienna; Construction Site As Far As The Eye Can See (s) Institut für Kunst im öffentlichem Raum Steiermark and Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz; Camera Solaris (s) CCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Shattered Horizon (s) Himalayas Art Museum (formerly Zendai MoMA) Shanghai; Crises des films Centre Pompidou, Paris; L'horizon brisé (s) Galerie Widmer+Theodoridis Zürich; Film Centre Pompidou, Paris; D'un genre à l'autre Espace Magnan in Co-operation with Villa Arson, Nice; Camera Solaris (s) Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Paradise Now – French Essential Avantgarde Cinema Tate Modern, London; Notizen zu einer Küste (s) Jüdisches Museum Vienna; Skumring … with A Btffn, Hå Gamle Prestegard Art Center, Narbø; This Means You (s) Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz; Visit Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Relative Strength (s) Worlds of Work, museum in progress, Vienna; Human Flight Experiments (s) photo- and video wall, Kunsthalle Vienna; Notes on a Coast Herzliya Museum of ContemporaryArt; Nuit blanche Espace Les Voutes, Paris; Signes des nuits Cinéma du Pantheon, Paris; On verra bien. (s) Centre Culturel La Cléf, Paris; Quelques pépites du cinéma expérimental 30 anniversaries of Paris Films Coop and Cinédoc, Forum des Image Paris; Zugluft – Contemporary Art from Vienna Art Fair Zürich; Present Hope/Do you think sex is spooky? (s) Galerie kunstbuero, Wien; Classics, Pearls and Novelties Forum des Images Paris; Rest. steirischer herbst.
(s) solo
Their book, Notes on a Coast, including an eponymous photo series and the first anthology of contemporary Hebrew lyric poetry ever translated to German, was published in 2007 in collaboration with Giora Rosen, Nili Shahaf, Anne Birkenhauer and Klaus Zeyringer.
