FRANZ EHMANN
Education
Masterclass with Alison Knowles, New York artist
B.A. Fine Art, N.T. University, Darwin, Northern Territory
( Charles Darwin University )
Biography
1990/91 Exhibition co-ordinator at 24 hour ART, Darwin
1996/97 Director of Whitebox gallery
1997-05 Director of Soapbox gallery
1996 Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin grove campus,
Brisbane
1999 Lecturer in media studies/sculpture, Queensland College of Art,
Brisbane 1996-01 Eyeline - publishing, Board of directors
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Aftermath, Artspace Sydney, artist residency and exhibition, Sydney
Maximum acceleration, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
ARC Biennial, Queensland University Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2005
Questioning the questions of this world, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
Questioning the questions of this world, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Speaking the world into existence, Institude of Modern Art, Brisbane
Speaking the world into existence, Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld
2004
Where is my mind, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Speaking the world into existence, Esa Jaske Gallery Sydney
Speaking the world into existence, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
2003
Through the mouthinto your existence, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Thinkthank, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2002
Love at the end of a days work, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
2001
Eveningmeal with 6 o_clock news, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Open Panoramamilk, honey, wax, theories, politics, assumptiopns + words,
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Almost there ( again... ), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2000
Almost there, Artspace, Sydney
Open Panorama, Greenaway Gallery - Adelaide, Institude of Modern Art
+ Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
1999 / 2000
years of nothingness, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Wishlist, Greenaway Galleries, Adelaide
1998
Worldly pain - Worldly spirit, Soapbox gallery, Volt, Brisbane Festival
Culture of forgetfulness, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane + Linden gallery,
Melbourne
The blue room of humanity. Experimental Art Foundation,Adelaide, PICA
Perth,
24 HR Art, Darwin
1997
The blue room of humanity, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1996
Memos for the next millennium, Michael Burke gallery, Brisbane
Milk table for parliament, Darwin Festival, Northern Territory
A ladder for everyone, Whitebox gallery, Brisbane
1995
Memos for an un-known person, Michael Burke gallery, Brisbane
1994
Loneliness + Wailing Room, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
From the human museum of forgiveness: Eine weisse Geschichte, Randall
Studio, Brisbane
Milk+Poem, From the human museum of laughter, Randall Studio, Brisbane
Emotional Architecture, collaboration with Architect Peter Besley, Gallery
331, Brisbane
1993
Sprachenfuge - Language fugue, Kiss my art, Brisbane
1992
Inside the beehive and a museum for everyone, an installation for everyone
and no-one, 2 movements, M.O.C.A., Space Plentitude, Brisbane
1991
Inside the beehive, everyone’s land, Territory North Theatre,
Darwin
Human Generation, collaboration with Lynnette Voevodin N.T. Centre for
contemporary art – Darwin
Chameleon contemporary art space, Hobart, Arthouse - Launceston
1976
Junge Talente, Gallery Atelier Autodidakt, Bregenz - Austria
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Little white door show, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2006
December group show, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
Artlanguage - every publishable place, The Cross Art Project, Sydney
Painting, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2005
Art Language, Poetry Festival, Nowra, NSW
This is love, Umbrella Studios, Townsville, QLD
Thing, Rocketart, Newcastle, NSW
2004
This is love, Rocketart, Newcastle
This is love, 24HR ART, Darwin
2003
This is love, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Parallax, Umbrella Studios, Townsville
2000
Artlink 2000, Barefoot gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
re-site, curated by Jacki Wurm, 24 HR ART, Darwin
1998
Artrage, video works for television, ABC - TV, Institute of Modern Art,
Artspace, etc.
Constructed in the field of the other, Artspace, Sydney
Corps, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
1997
Art Nineties, University Art Museum, Brisbane
Wax, SOApBOx gallery Brisbane
1996
Asia Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Coronation Motel, Brisbane
Artists_ Books, Brisbane City Gallery
Miss Read in the fortress, Kinesis-Sydney
Perigrination, Metro Arts
CUE, Curated by Donna Confetti, Adelaide Fringe, IMA, Cairns Regional
Gallery
1995
Combust, Q.C.A Art Gallery
Essence, Mail art show, curated by Neil Degney Q.C.A Art Gallery + Toowoomba
Regional Gallery
Mail exchange event with italien artists, Drawing exhibition, Pisa -
Italy
1994
Neglected Erotica, Bartleme Gallery
The graphite crucible, curated by Helen Jones at Ipswich Regional Gallery,
Ipswich
FOI, contributed Inside the beehive, Last space-First space, Noosa Regional
Gallery
1993
Crossings, multicultural collaboration - MetroArts
Dining on the abdomen, First Draft West
Move Over, Umbrella Studio Townsville
1992
Human Rights, Framed gallery Darwin
Edge of Frontier, N.T.C.C.A. Darwin
1989
NORTH OF THE BORDER SOUTH OF THE SEA, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Alice
Springs, Jabiru, Groote Eylandt, Darwin
Is there anybody out there, N.T. University Gallery, Darwin
1979
Künstlerhaus Dornbirn-Austria
1978
Gallery Autodidakt, Bregenz - Austria
Performance Events
2005
100 actions, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
2001
Almost there ( again ... ), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
1999
Wishlist, Nexus multicultural art space, Adelaide
1998
Constructed in the field of the other, (Very Little ... Almost Nothing)
Artspace, Sydney
Worldlypain-Worldlyspirit, Soapbox gallery , Volt, Brisbane Festival
1997 Memos for humanity, Artspace, Sydney
1994
Gesture (Everyone is a Destiny) and Bodymilk, Bartleme Gallery, Brisbane
25 years of performance art in Australia, Sunset ( Sonnenuntergang)
IMA, Brisbane
1993
Erdenschwelle - Earth threshold, IMA, Brisbane
How to explain forgetting to the forgotten and
Thought Pieces - Thought Fugues, Bartleme Gallery, Brisbane
1992
Inside the beehive, Washingplace - Weepingplace, IMA, Brisbane
Published
2005
Speaking the world into existence, published by the IMA, Brisbane
Thing, exhibition catalogue, Rocketart, Newcastle
2002
Heterostrophic, published by the IMA, Brisbane, Ihor Holubizky
2000
Open Panorama, monograph, published by the IMA, Brisbane, Ihor Holubizky
1999
Soapbox - installation practices and artists, published by the IMA,
Brisbane,
Ihor Holubizky and Linda Carroli
Taken!, contemporary photography, essay by Timothy Morrell
1997
The Blue Room of Humanity, published by the IMA, Brisbane
UTOPIA DYSTOPIA, Linda Carroli
1996
das männliche Körperbild
Das Objekt
Diaspora , hand made book 10 copies only, Linda Carroli
Memos for the next millennium, Linda Carroli
1995
Memos for an un-known person, Tracey Smith
1992
Inside the beehive and a museum for everyone.
Curated exhibitions
2005
This is love, Umbrella Studios, Townsville
Thing, Rocketart, Newcastle
Killing time, contemporary photography, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
1999
Taken! , photography, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
3° of separation, diversity as certaintity, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Residue, reinstallations, University of Southern Cross Performing Art
Gallery, Toowoomba
Oration, performances and video work, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Human, exploring the limits of physicality, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Colourfield, abstract paintings at the end of this decade, Soapbox gallery,
Brisbane
1998
Art=Nature, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Gravity, Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
Writing + Voice as Sculpture,Soapbox, Brisbane
3° of separation, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
Pulp, contemporary works on paper, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
1997
SOAP OPERA, BILDERMACHT , WAX , Das Subjekt, Soapbox gallery, Brisbane
UTOPIA DYSTOPIA, Whitebox gallery, Brisbane
1996
Das männliche Körperbild, Whitebox gallery, Brisbane
Diaspora, curated for the department of social and political justice,
Whitebox gallery, Brisbane
Das Object, Whitebox gallery
1995
Garagesaal, curated for the department of social and political desire,
Gallery 331
Publications - catalogues
2004 Temperature - contemporary queensland sculpture, Museum of Brisbane,
Queensland
2001 The hottest gallery in the world, 24 HR ART, Darwin N.T.
Almost there ( again ...), Franz Ehmann, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2000 Almost there, text by Richard Grayson, Artspace, Sydney
1996 Solitary Confinement, Tim Morrell, Brisbane
1995 Essence - International Networking Culture, Neil Degney, Brisbane
1994 The graphite crucible, Helen Jones, Ipswich regional art gallery,
Ipswich
1993 Dining on the abdomen, first Draft, Sydney
Crossings, multicultural aspects, Linda Carroli, Metro Arts, Brisbane
1991 Human Generation, Chris Downie, 24 HR ART, Darwin
Collections
Artbank
Private collections, Australia, Japan, Austria, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy
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