YOU YOU/REJECTION (with Ketty La Rocca)
exhibition view MLZ Art Dept, Triest, 2023

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
YOU YOU/REJECTION (with Ketty La Rocca), MLZ Art Dept, Triest

2022
Colour Charts, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna

2019
Rejection, Kunstraum Weikendorf, Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, 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 and Performances

2025
Being a Girl*!? From Panel Painting to Social Media, Lentos, Linz

2024
Beau Travail, Zirkusgasse, Vienna
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
Bringing Owls from Athens, Georg Kargl BOX x Callirrhoë, Athens, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
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
Lonely Boys performance, DAMA Project, Torino

2018
Lonely Boys performance, Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin
Culture Wear, Space31, Berlin
Sunglasses, Sundogs, Paris

2017
Aaahhh!!!, Lonely Boys performance, Paris Internationale, Paris
Selfie Mania, Alte Farbik, 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

2025
Artist Residency, London

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

Publications

2021
The logic of Intuition, edited by Attilia Fattori Franchini, published by von Georg Kargl Fine Arts
Opportunity Lover, Solo Album, released at Seayou Records