Richard Jochum is a Visiting Scholar and Artist in Residence at Columbia University. He works as a media artist since the late 1990s setting up exhibitions and screenings all over the world. Being an Austrian citizen Richard received his MA in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, and his PhD from the University of Vienna dealing with strategies of coping with complexity in contemporary philosophy. He got his MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before he moved first to Berlin and later to New York. Richard’s art practice is accompanied by lectures in the field of contemporary art practice and cultural theory. He has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his most recent public art projects – an oversized prayer necklace as a communal sculpture – is exhibited on the roof top of the American University in Cairo since March 2007. More information can be found at http://richardjochum.net
Filmography (Selection)
My Favorite Saying
Videoblogs. World Wide Web 2008
The Rosary | Sibha as a Communal Sculpture
Documentary. Egypt/New York 2008
Snow II
Short Film. Austria/New York 2008
Home Sweet Home (in collaboration with Aphrodite Désirée Navab)
Short Film. New York 2007
Halt II
Video Performance. New York 2007
Indexfinger #1-3
Video Installation. Vaduz, New York 2007
Snow
Short Film. New York 2007
Sisyphus on Vacation.
Short Film. Austria/New York 2006-2007
Man/Woman
High Definition Movie in collaboration with VOOM HD Lab, New York 2006-2007
To and From
Documentary. New York 2005-2007
Cell Portraits
Short Film. New York 2005-2007
Art is me. Art is you
Documentary. New York 2006
Selfportrait as a Group #5
Short Film. Brooklyn 2005
Clouds
Video Installation. Cairo/New York 2004
dis-positiv
Documentary in collaboration with Wolfgang Neipl. Vienna 2000-2001
Halt I
Video Performance. Vienna 2001
Plaster Room. “All Waltz!”
Documentary. Vienna 1998
Exhibitions (Selections)
Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn&Taxis, Bregenz (forthcoming)
Selected Works, Spring 2010
Gallery Peter Lindner, Vienna (forthcoming)
Solo exhibition, PaperSeries, Fall 2009
Dowd Fine Art Gallery, Cortlandt New York (forthcoming)
Solo exhibition, Jul – Aug, 2009
125 years of Arlberg Railway (forthcoming)
Public art project and group exhibition, Jun 17 – 26, 2009
Bridge Art Fair Basel (forthcoming)
Artist-space, Jun, 10-14, 2009
Flavors of Austria, Athens (forthcoming)
Group exhibition, May 19 – Jun 30, 2009
Alp Gallery New York
IntoTheHead-Outside-In. Closing Exhibition. Group show curated by Karen Peters. Mar 30, 2009
Human Emotion Festival, Australia, Iran, Spain, Greece, Russia, Germany (ongoing)
Installation “Mama”, Screening “Home Sweet Home”, Mar 2009 (ongoing)
Visual AIDS, hosted by Metro Pictures New York
Postcards from the Edge. Atlas, Jan 9 – 10, 2009
ARTmART Exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna
Group exhibition, Nov 18 – 23, 2008
Macy Gallery, Columbia University
“Intersections and Interstices. Selected Works by Richard Jochum”, Nov 3 - Dec 2, 2008
FocFest. Freedom of Choice Festival
Screening in Turkey, Armenia, Poland, Portugal, and USA, November 2008
Streaming Festival, 3rd edition
The Hague, Netherlands, October 23 – 26, 2008
CologneOFF IV at Museum of Contemporary Art (MACZUL) Maracaibo/Venezuela
Special Festival Program “Mother” showcasing “Mama” · Extended Festival Program “Lab” showcasing “The Rosary | Sibha as a Communal Sculpture” · Oct 1-8, 2008 and Dec 2008
Video Dumbo, Dumbo Arts Festival
1800 Frames | Take 4 as a Part of Video Dumbo. Screening, Sep 26-28, 2008
Exit art, New York
“World summit” in collaboration with Aphrodite Désirée Navab as a part of the group show
“It’s not easy”, Jul 24 - August 29, 2008
VIDEOEX. International Experimental Film & Video Festival
Man/Woman. Zurich, May 23 – Jun 1, 2008
Transhift 08, Knoxville Tennessee
Rosary/Prayer Necklace as a Communal Sculpture. Part of Transhift 08, A Time-based New Media Art Festival. May 2 – 3, 2008
Ohio University Gallery
Word of Mouth, “Super East-West Woman goes Video”; artist collaboration with Aphrodite Désirée Navab. Apr 15 – Apr 26, 2008 (and other venues TBA)
City without Walls, Newark, NJ
1800FRAMES|Take4, screening “Halt 2007”. Apr 12 – May 29, 2008 (and other venues TBA)
Annex, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.
Figurine. Exploring the Muslim female experience post 9/11, in collaboration with Aphrodite Désirée Navab. Apr 9 – May 4, 2008
Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles Illinois
Picturing Mary: Contemporary Images of the Madonna. Group show. Mar 22 – May 24, 2008
3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle New York
Pot Shots at Hot Shots, "PopPenis", Mar 8 – Apr 12, 2008
FestArte, Rome
Human and nature space. Snow II, Feb 22, 2008
Current Gallery, Baltimore
Made Home. “Home Sweet Home”, A Short Film, Jan 18 – Feb 8, 2008
Sage Theater, New York
Snow II, Halt II, Re-Emergency within “Island Aid Emergence Relief Benefit”, Jan 27, 2008
21 Grand, Oakland
T-10 Video Festival, “Man/Woman”, Jan 12-13, 2008
UAVM, Virtual Museum Opening
“Scream” (Munch Project), Dec 16 – 31, 2007
Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
11th International Video Festival Videomedeja, “Man/Woman”, Dec 14 – 16, 2007
Visual AIDS, hosted by James Cohan Gallery New York
Postcards from the Edge. PaperSeries, Nov 30 – Dez 2, 2007
M.W. Offit Gallery, Teachers College Columbia University, New York
Visualizing the Invisible. Cell Portraits. Photomicrographs by Jan Schmoranzer. Images and Video by Jan Schmoranzer and Richard Jochum. Oct 22 – Dec 21, 2007
Slowtime 2007. Quicktime as an Artistic Medium
“Snow”, Short Movie at Cinemateque / Le Musee di-visioniste, Sep 07 onwards
ARTmART Exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna
Group exhibition, Apr 25 – Mai 1, 2007
Vaduz Liechtenstein
“What’s Good Must Not Necessarily Be Evil”, group exhibition, Apr 3 – May 20, 2007
SilvrettAtelier, Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch Austria
Group exhibition, “Sisyphus on Vacation” Apr 5 – 29, 2007
://selfportrait, a show for Bethlehem, a show for Peace
Group exhibition, “the place of art – Officyna”, Performance and Intermedia Festival Szczecin-Swinoujscie Poland, Oct 20-22, 2006; MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe / Argentina Dec 10, 2006 – Jan 28, 2007; Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples Italy, opening Dec 16, 2006; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Rosario/Argentina, opening Feb 9, 2007
American University, Cairo
“The Rosary / Sibha as a Communal Sculpture”, Installation on roof top of the university, Mar 8, 2007 – open end
Gallery Blaugelbezwettl
“Lange Nacht des Films”, short film program with two films, Dec 15, 2006
Flag Project
Artists’ flag exhibition accompanying the European Social Forum in Athens, May 4 – 7, 2006, and then traveling to Ravelsbach, Austria, Jun 10 – Aug 13, 2006
Alexandria Biennial, Egypt
“Imagining the Book II”, Apr 15 – Jun 1, 2006
Ain Shams University, Faculty of Specific Education, Cairo
“Globalocal”, solo exhibition, Apr 13 – 18, 2006
Cultural Fair
Austrian Pavillon, Third International Conference, Minia University, Egypt
Group exhibition, April 06
Kinetic Arts and Sciences Center, New York
“To and From”, solo exhibiton, Oct 19 - 26, 2005
El Sawy Center Cairo
“playground”, solo exhibiton, Feb 10 - 19, 2005
Künstlerhaus Vienna
“Update”, group exhibition, Jan 27 – Apr 3, 2005
allerArt Bludenz, Austria
“Kulturnacht”, group exhibition, May 2003
Müczarnok Budapest
“dis-positiv” as a Guest of Anthology of Art, May 8–10, 2003
staatsbankberlin Berlin
“dis-positiv. About the Productivity of Art and Discourse”, April 2–9, 2003
primeline.Insight, Berlin
Group exhibition, Nov 22 – Dec 21, 2002
Kunsttempel Kassel
“Living Archives”, group exhibition and symposium on Artist Books, Oct 25 – Nov 2, 2002
Einsteinforum Potsdam
“Minimal Literature”, solo exhibition, Apr 29 – Jun 15, 2002
Monbijoupark Berlin
“hundert20”, group exhibition, June 2002
University for Applied Arts Vienna
“Over all the peaks there is peace...“ MFA-installation with different media, June 2001
Kunstverein future garden Vienna
“So oke”, group exhibition, May 8–12, 2001
Remise Bludenz, Austria
“Lunacy”, solo exhibition, Jan 11 – Feb 22, 2001
Vorarlberger Kunstverein Magazin4 Bregenz
“dis-positiv. About the Productivity of Art and Discourse”, Nov. 6–12, 2000
Schnitt Austellungsraum Cologne
“Oderda”, in Cooperation with Access Local Paris 19 – 21, 2000
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
”It’s the Beginning of a Really Good Friendship”, LocalLocal at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, June 2000
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
“dis-positiv. About the Productivity of Art and Discourse”, May 2–8, 2000
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
„The rear side of the letters“. Group exhibition, 2000
„art traffic“
Art from the Cigarette Automat. Vienna (www.artphalanx.at), 2000
17. Römerquelle Art Competition, Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt et al
Works on Paper. – May – Nov 1999
Gallery Peter Lindner, Vienna
„Nothing but Books“. solo exhibition, 1998
Passage Gallery, Künstlerhaus Vienna
„Plaster room. All Waltz!“ group exhibition “Even Heinz and Susi”, 1998
Heldenplatz Vienna
“Zukunft Oesterreich”. Performance project, 1996
Bildungshaus Batschuns, Austria
“Angels“. Book Objects. Solo exhibition, 1995
Villa allerArt Bludenz, Austria
Solo exhibition, 1995
Galerie Medien Kunst Tirol, Innsbruck
Solo exhibition, 1995
Literaturhaus Vienna
“Waste of Paper“. Book Objects. Solo exhibition, 1993
University of Innsbruck
„Performance with Recitative“. Book presentation with art performance., 1991
University of Innsbruck
“What’s God’s Address?“ Installations on Religious Chitchat. University of Innsbruck, 1989
