Tranquility, 2020
hand-tufted wool carpet, archival pigment print mounted on dibond
200 x 300 cm
Rosa Rendl
Rosa Rendl (*1983) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna. Her practice focuses on photography, music and fashion. She has been part of the experimental pop duo LONELY BOYS for more than ten years and moves between music and visual art as a singer, producer, and classically trained pianist. Her debut solo single "Okay Now" and her solo album “Opportunity Lover” were recently released, in which a unique form of immediacy is created through fragility and reduction. As a designer, she is the founder of RENDL Swimwear.
In her photographs, Rendl negotiates the modes of production and emotional states that are at odds with each other when she makes herself, the artist, the subject. Her photographic works often show personal situations mobilized with a romantic conceptualism. They provide an insight into the artist's personalized order and at the same time allude to a private sphere that no longer exists. Rendl's collages and photographic installations are subtle, analytical, poetic, and political at the same time.
She has exhibited in public and private spaces, such as Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art (Vienna), Neuer Essener Kunstverein (Essen), Georg Kargl Fine Arts (Vienna), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (Lüneburg), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), and Bodega (New York) amongst others.
Biography
born 1983 in Baden, lives and works in Vienna
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023
UNWORD/REJECTION (with Ketty La Rocca), MLZ Art Dept, Triest
2022
Colour Charts, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2019
Rejection, Kunstraum Weikendorf, Weikendorf Kartell, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2018
Opportunity Lover, Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Bob´s Pogo Bar, Berlin
Vilgefortis, Lonely Boys and Battle-Ax, Cordova, Barcelona
2017
Playing, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin Concerts of Coreality, Lonely Boys, Sandy Brown, Berlin
2016
Holy and Repulsive, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
2015
What You Desire, Belvedere21, Vienna
2014
How Alive Are You, Bar Du Bois, Vienna
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Wien
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2022
Tipsy Tina, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2021
Posters by artist bands, Fluc, Vienna
GEORG KARGL EDITIONS, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Stay Brief, and Leave, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris
2020
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Soft View / Privatissime, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The Shop, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
2019
On the New - Young Scenes in Vienna, Belvedere21, Vienna
On the New, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Performance by Appointment, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Lonely Boys performance, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg
Sketch I, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg
DAMA Project, Lonely Boys Performance, Torino
2018
Lonely Boys performance at Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin
Culture Wear, Space31, Berlin
Sunglasses, Sundogs, Paris
2017
Aaahhh!!!, Lonely Boys performance, Paris International, Paris
Selfie Mania, Gebert Stiftung, Rapperswil
Ritual, Lambdalambdalambda, Prishtina
A night for lonely boys, Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
In Awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Floating Self, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Der Verdienst, 2014-2017, The Oracle, Berlin
How far to open up?, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
2016
The Language of things, Belvedere21, Vienna
Dreaming Dictionary, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna
Boil the Ocean, Bodega, New York
Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, HHDM, New York
2015
White SLR, New Bretagne Belle Air, Essen
BOYS, Lonely Boys performance, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
NEW NEEDS, Haus Wittmann by Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp
Time to Fill up the Glass, Galerie Crone, Berlin
Lonely Boys performance, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
2014
Let’s Mingle, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
Pcnc_Bay XII, Ve.sch, Vienna
Curatorial
2020
The Shop, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
2016
F-Holes, Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, co-organized with HHDM, New York
2015
New Needs, co-curated with Isabella Ritter, Haus Wittmann by Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp
Grants / Residencies
2022
State Scholarship for artistic photography, Austria
2016
Recognition Award for Fine Arts, City of Baden
2016
Artist Residency, New York
2012
Artist Residency, Cité des Arts, Paris
2010
Unit-F Editorial Award
Start Scholarship for artistic photography, Austria
Projects
since 2010 LONELY BOYS - performance duo with Daphne Ahlers
since 2013 RENDL – swimwear label
Gallery Exhibitions
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