Barbara Kapusta works individually and in collaboration on video works and video installations, exhibitions and publications. In 2008 she founded the Saprophyt space in Vienna with the artist Stephan Lugbauer. Since 2010 works as scientific staff member at the Department for Visual Arts and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2003 - 2010 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Peter Kogler / Constanze Ruhm
2006 - 2007 La Esmeralda/ Centro National de las Artes, Mexico City, Sofía Táboas
2004 - 2008 Comparative Literature, University of Vienna
Selected Projects and Exhibitions
2011
Reflecting Reality, Vienna Art Week, Freud Museum Wien
Saprophyt Project Space, Vienna, since 2008 (with Stephan Lugbauer)
Saprophyt Radio, Vienna, since 2010 (with Stephan Lugbauer)
2010
Barbara Kapusta, Desire and what you end up doing, Project Space, RMIT Melbourne
Ausstellungstitel, Final projects 09/10, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
In Passing 11: Künstlerhauspassage, Künstlerhaus Vienna, curated by Ursula Maria Probst
META-METHODS, On Synthesis in Architecture and Urbanism, Lecture series, Generali Foundation Vienna, (with Susan Kraupp)
2009
Chit Chat, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Fluc Vienna
Which life? Between Calling and Career, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna curated by Sabine Breitwieser SLEEPWALKING, Temporary Gallery Cologne, curated by Amer Abbas
2008
Re: 10/01, Ve.Sch, Raum und Form für bildende Kunst, Vienna
Experimental Index, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2007
Zweiter Frühling, Sezession Wichtelgasse, Vienna
Do you know D.F.?, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
2005
Update, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2004
Just what is it # 1, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Residencies
Artist in Residence RMIT University, Melbourne (AiR Krems), 2010
Scholarship Mexico City (bm:bwk), 2006/07
Screenings
Desire and what you end up doing, Naoussa International Film Festival, 2011
Publications and Texts
Projects by Assignments, Ed: Barbara Kapusta & Stephan Lugbauer, Cat.: Projects and Assignments 19.10.2010 - 31.05.2011, Saprophyt, schlebrügge.editor, Vienna 2011
Politics of Vision. On Amy Croft at the Künstlerhaus Vienna, 2011
Aufrollen der Spirale. Über Isa Rosenberger im Grazer Kunstverein, Texte zur Kunst, 2011
Vielleicht küsst uns ja die Muse. Index zum Roman, Ed: Barbara Kapusta, Nathalie Koger, Simona Obholzer, Marlies Pöschl, schlebrügge.editor, Vienna 2010
Wie lässt sich noch Kritik üben? In: Vielleicht küsst uns ja die Muse. Ed: Barbara Kapusta, Nathalie Koger, Simona Obholzer, Marlies Pöschl, schlebrügge.editor, Vienna 2010
Octavian Trauttmansdorff: Ad Acta, Saprophyt, 2009
Johanna Unzueta: Come as you are, Saprophyt, 2009
Jenni Tischer: Alle eure Farben, Saprophyt, 2009
Sonia Leimer: To move in parallel, playing back from earlier, Saprophyt, 2009
Der Palast der schönen Künste, Stephan Lugbauer at Galerie Amer Abbas, Vienna, 2008
Selected Reviews and Interviews
Best of 2011, http://blog.frieze.com/best-of-2011-part-3/
Marko Lulic, Spatial Interruptions, Artycok.com, 2011
Vienna Art Week, Schaufenster/ Presse, Nr.37/11.11.2011
Neil Beloufa, an archived causality, looped, Artycok.com, 2011
Was nicht mehr ist, bleibt. Miriam Kathrein über „Projects and assignments“, Texte zur Kunst, Nr. 82 / 2011
Projects and Assignment. Ivan Svoboda, Artycok.com, 2010
Perspektive Kunst. Anne Katrin Feßler, Der Standard, Vienna, 22.06.2010
Raus aus dem Off: Junge Kunst in Wien. Christa Benzer, Falter/Best of Vienna 1/2010, p.72-75
Material, Objekt, Material ... ein Kreislauf. Anne Katrin Feßler, Der Standard, Vienna, 09.04.2010
What, how, and for whom - says who? diebildende05, Academy of f. A. Vienna (Ed.) 2010
Off-spaces in Wien. Ursula Maria Probst, Umelec 2/2009, p.50-54
Interview by Leung Chi Wo with Stephan Lugbauer, August 25, 2009