Nikolaus Gansterer

He studied art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and completed his studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy at Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is co-founder of the Institute for Transacoustic Research. He has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2007, where he was the professor for the artistic research doctoral program, and is currently a senior lecturer and member of the Applied Performance Lab.
As an artist, performer and researcher Gansterer is deeply interested in the relational field between drawing, thinking and action. Across forms of installation and performance, he focuses on diagramming emergent processes to unfold their immanent structures of entanglement, questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy.
Gansterer published the book Drawing a Hypothesis (Springer, 2011) on the ontology of diagrammatic forms of visualization as well as Playing with Ludwig, (Éditions Dilecta, 2023) together with Klaus Speidel on artistic forms of translating Ludwig Wittgenstein. From 2014 - 2018 Gansterer was leading the artistic research PEEK-project Choreo-graphic Figures (published by de Gruyter, 2017) developing innovative systems of notation between drawing, writing and choreography. Till 2024 Gansterer is heading Contingent Agencies a cross-disciplinary research on diagramming fragile atmospheres funded by the Austrian Science Fund.
Gansterer’s work has been presented ao. at the Research Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennial; the 14th Sharjah Biennial; the 12th Havana Biennial; the 4th Athens Biennial; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Kaaitheater, Brussels; Villa Arson, Nice; Drawing Lab, Paris; Siobhan Davies Studios, London; TanzQuartier, Vienna; ICA, London; Berliner Festspiele; Cranbrook Museum, Detroit.

www.gansterer.org