Lecture: Christian Kosmas Mayer's cross-media exhibitions and projects are the result of extensive artistic research and close collaboration with experts from various fields. They serve a critical reassessment of history and the present by placing the evolutionary and natural in a cultural-historical and scientific frame of reference. Of central importance in Mayer's work is the examination of questions of archiving and conservation as historically conscious action.
Christian Kosmas Mayer works as a visual artist, author and musician in a wide range of disciplines. His works have been shown in solo exhibitions in renowned museums and galleries and have taken part in numerous group exhibitions internationally. He is the author and designer of several books and co-editor of an art magazine. In 2022, Mayer was chosen as the winner of the Falling Walls Breakthroughs in Art and Science. In 2020 he received the Outstanding Artist Award of the Republic of Austria and in 2011 the Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis in Salzburg.
Artist talk, 5.3.2025, 2 pm