Andreas Leikauf

Andreas Leikauf is an established mid-career contemporary artist, who was born in Austria, like other well-known artists such as Paul Albert Leitner, Heinrich Dunst, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Draschan, and Karl Karner. Leikauf was born in 1966.

Andreas was born in 1966 and was primarily influenced creatively by the 1980s. The 80s were an era of developing global capitalism, political upheaval, worldwide mass media, wealth discrepancies and distinctive music and fashion, characterised by hip hop and electronic pop music. This had a heavy impact on the generation of artists growing up during this era. The fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the decade marked the end of the Cold War, yet the era was also marked by the African Famine. During this time prominent art movements included Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and Neo-Expressionism, which took a strong hold in Germany, France and Italy. Artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel were key artists working at this time, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, who developed the street art and graffiti movements, which quickly gained recognition.

Andreas Leikauf is represented by Galerie Ernst Hilger located in Vienna, Austria. Andreas Leikauf most recent exhibition was at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna with the exhibition sometimes we fall, sometimes we float. The exhibition was open from 02 March 2019 until 03 May 2019.

EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Printmaking from Vienna, AKG Berlin, Germany

          comickunst_2, Gallery Maerz, Linz, Austria

          Life stories, rotor, Graz, Austria

2009 Printmaking from Vienna", Ciel Gallery, Utsunomyia, Japan

          JPS, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

          without grace, the absence of art, Berlin, Germany (Cat.)

          Macht, Galerie Schafschetzy, Graz, Austria

          10 years rotor, rotor, Graz, Austria

          get connected, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria (Cat.)

          Jahrhundertturm, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria (Cat.)

2008 Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (Cat.) (solo)

          Gallery Schafschetzy, Graz, Austria (solo)

          Anima Gallerí, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)

          poznan biennial 2008, (Cat.)

          carpet plots!, prodomo, Vienna, Austria

          Everything is printable, Kunstverein Schallstadt, Germany

          Micro-Narratives, Musée d ́Art Moderne, St. Etienne, France (Cat.)

2007 re:place, Bast'art, Bratislava, Slovakia

          Micro-Narratives, Belgrade Cultural Center (Cat.)

          Interior, Galerie Schafschetzy, Graz, Austria

          Workshop for art screen printing Andreas Stalzer, Karmeliterhof St. Pölten, Austria

          Central Europe Revisited 1, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria (Cat.)

          Gallery Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)

2006 Gallery Davide di Maggio, Berlin, Germany (solo)

          Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (solo)

          GAS Gallery, Torino, Italy (Cat.) (solo)

          Palette, Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York, United States of America

          con.text, Gallery Schafschetzy, Graz, Austria

2005 Novosibirsk Graphic Biennial (Cat.)

          Hot Testing, Exit Gallery, Peje / Kosovo (Cat.)

          Fun City, Gas Gallery, Torino, Italy (Cat.)

          Eurostars, galleri s.e. Bergen, Norway

          Section des tableaux, M&M Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

          ars pingendi, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria

          Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain (solo)

          Gallery Bob Gysin, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

2004 Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (Cat.) (solo)

          no risk, no glory, loop, Berlin, Germany

          the first show, fuorizona, Macerata, Italy

          hollaender, kern, leikauf, petz, wanker" Gallery Schafschetzy Graz, Austria

          No Way to Norway, galleri s.e Bergen, Norway

2003 Young Viennese Art, Gallery Storms, Munich, Germany

          Visual everyday culture, Gallery Knoll, Budapest; Hungary

          First View, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

          steirischer herbst, project room Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria

          Life is hard..., Gallery Schafschetzy Graz, Austria

          Art Cuts, Palais Harrach, Vienna, Austria

          Workshop Graz, Gallery of the City of Wels, Austria

          Gallery Binz&Kraemer, Cologne, Germany (solo)

          Webster University, Vienna, Austria (solo)

2002 Hurray! Atelier 96, Vienna, Austria (solo)

          Workshop for art screen printing Andreas Stalzer, Gallery Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria

          Semiotic Landscape, Xawiery Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw, Poland

          From the center, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany

          Central, town house Ulm, Germany

          Central, MAK Galerija, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina (Cat.)

          Semiotic Landscape, artLab, Vienna, Austria (Cat.)

          Doubleheart, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2001 Funding Award of the State of Styria; Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria (Cat.)

          Central, Gallery Binz & Krämer, Cologne, Germany

          Central, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

          Central, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria (Cat.)

          Young Austrian Art, Espace Hilger, Paris, France

          Have a nice day!, artLab, Vienna, Austria (Cat.) (solo)

          My first million, Neue Galerie (Studio), Graz, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)