CONTACT
studio[at]melanieender.com
instagram: @melaineender
Melanie Ender, born in Vienna, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna
where she received her diploma with distinction in 2013. Her works were shown in museums such as Belvedere21,
MAK Vienna and at international art fairs in Rotterdam, Düsseldorf, and at Artissima in Turin.
She has participated in residency programs in Istanbul, Turin, Rome and Mexico City.
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2023 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien
2022 Staatsstipendium– Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts
2022 Residency at casa lu, Mexico City
2019 Nomination for the Kardinal König Kunstpreis
2017 Residency at CRIPTA747, Turin (supported by BMKÖS art and culture)
2016 Studio fellowship in Rome (BMKÖS art and culture)
2014-2015 Residence & Studioprogram “das weisse haus”, Vienna
2011 Residency at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Sammlung Universalmuseum Joanneum / Neue Galerie Graz
Landessammlung Niederösterreich
Sammlung Wien Museum
Sammlung Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie
Sammlung Artothek des Bundes
Foto:©Christoph Liebentritt
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLOSHOWS
2024
– two limerick oysters, (SOLO), Bildraum 07, Wien
– a suitcase project, picture gallery New York
– never exhausted semiotics, (SOLO), Kunstraum Super, Wien
– Irregular News, (Sofie Thorsen, Jenni Tischer, Melanie Ender) Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf
– Material.Leidenschaft, Wienmuseum MUSA, Wien
2023
– Od Œuvre de Pampelmuse, Galaxie Neuer Künste, Halle an der Saale
2022
– MEGA, casalu, Ausstellung und Residency Aufenthalt, Mexico City
2021
– mittig unter oben links, (SOLO) Neue Galerie Graz, Studio, Universalmuseum Joanneum
– artissima 2021, (artfair Torino) (SOLO)
– smooth, so surface! oh yeah…, (SOLO), MUSA Startgalerie, Vienna
– ippst, ippst (siehe ipst, ipt) (Melanie Ender / Sebastian Koch), Dock20, Lustenau
– Sprachbilder I Bildsprache, Galerie untitled projects, Vienna
– Performative reading at Kunsthaus Mürz, Austria
2020
-PFERD – openstage, Pferd. Forum Wien
2019
-Sculpture Garden, Galerie Kandlhofer, Klosterneuburg
-On the New, Young Scenes in Vienna, Belvedere21, Vienna
-PARALLEL VIENNA (art fair)
-Art Düsseldorf (artfair)
-Kardinal König Kunstpreis 2019, group show of the nominated artists, St.Virgil Salzburg
2018
-to open closed forms, (SOLO), unttld contemporary, Vienna
-viennacontemporary 2018, (artfair) unttld contemporary / BOOTH B16
2017
-curated by Vienna / TYPE, PLEASE, curated by Sabine Folie, Galerie Raum mit Licht
-SPACIAL CONCEPTS, (Performance: parting the square) Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
-aus der Vogelperspektive (screening), Belvedere 21, Vienna
2016
-Dienstag Abend -> No. 84, Wejherowska 34, Wrocław, Poland -TOPIA, Pferd.Forum Wien
-shaping thoughts of stones, (SOLO), kaeshmaesh, Vienna
2015
-SUPER EDITION #4, Kunstraum SUPER, Wien / EKKISENS Art Space, Reykjavik
-#4 Reports from species of spaces, curated by Sabine Folie, wellwellwell, Vienna
-to space to place, Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna
2014
-LUDO, (SOLO), Galerie artunited, Vienna
-on behalf in the midst of the group, Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna
2013
-The Essence, Künstlerhaus Vienna
-B=H+M=K+S=K=Ex=, Friday Exit at Studios Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna
-Räumlicher Rekonstruktivismus, (Diplom SOLO), Offspace Spenglerei, Vienna
2012
-Exkursion: Kino, (screening), MUMOK Kino. Vienna
2011
-The Essence, MAK Vienna
-no more luggage, Cistern Galleries, Tophane-I Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul
2010
-Oskar Peters Neue Positionen, Gebietsbetreuung 1100 Wien, Vienna
-Les Nuits Blanches, das weisse haus, Vienna
-unORTnung VI, ehemaliges kartografisches Institut Wien/Vienna
2009
-A Piece of Water, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
-Zwischenspiel II, Vertikale Galerie Verbund, Vienna
PUBLICATIONS
Melanie Ender – Monografie, Verlag für moderne Kunst, ed. Melanie Ender, year of publication: 2024
actions to enter to open closed forms, ed. Melanie Ender, year of publication: 2017