Magda Tóthová
1979 born in Bratislava/Slovakia, lives and works in Vienna, Austria
1999 – 2000 School for artistic Photography, Wien (F. Kubelka)
2000 – 2005 MA - University of applied Art(G. Rothemann)
2003/04 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2007 Artist in residence, London
2008 Artist in residence, Copenhagen
since 2004 editorial member of the art fanzine: Chicago/Times/Plotter/Helvetica/DIN/
Techno/Löhfelm/RR_02/Univers/Tiffany/Circuit/Memphis/Gringo/Zeus/The Mix/Princess Lulu/Pigiarniq
Exhibitions (selection)
2013
BUILDING UTOPIA AND ABSTRACTION at Federico Bianchi Gallery
DIE CHIC BOUTIQUE - KUNST MIT FUNKTION
group show at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Everything comes into focus – solo show at Federico Bianchi Gallery
Clueless. Inconcludenze quotidiane -A cura di Branka Bencic e Lorena Tadorni - HDLU Zagreb
2012
THE WORD FOR THIS PLACE IS NOT UTOPIA, solo show at Kronika, Bytom
Volta 8, Basel
FROM HERE TO THERE - SUBJECT-STAGINGS BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION, Austrian Cultural Forum London
Strombad Kritzendorf, Klosterneuburg ( www.sculptured.org)
IN PASSING 16, ANDERE BLICKE, ANDERE RÄUME, Künstlerhaus, k/haus Passagegalerie
KRONIKATIOPIA Kronika, Bytom, Poland
2011
FESTE.KÄMPFE. 100 JAHRE FRAUENTAG. Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna
2010
The Invisible Play, Istanbul
Mobilnale 2, curated by Helidon Gjergji, Lydia Pribisova and Viviana Checchia, Prag
the golden egg`s even more glittering revenge fantasy , Federico Bianchi contemporary art, Milano (solo)
Clueless, Manifattura Tabacchi, Torino
Wunderwelt, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
Politically Incorrect II, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Lecco
Politically Incorrect I, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Lecco
Wunderwelt - WUK - Fotogalerie Wien
Magda Tothova, Galerie Christinger De Mayo, Zurich (solo)
2009
The Paper Bar, Künstlerhauspassage, Vienna
The Center of Attention. Kunst als Soziotopie, Vienna Art Week
The decisssssion, The Heder gallery, Tel Aviv (solo)
1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Video Art Comments on a Paradigm Shift, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York
Common History and Its Private Stories, MUSA, Vienna
Welcome to the black cube, Christinger Contemporary, Zürich (solo)
Espansione (mobile). Inno alla mobilità del video, NEON gallery, Bologna,
curated by Marta Casati
Hell is forever, habres partner, Vienna (solo)
Princess Lulu presents the Grusical, les complices, Zürich
2008
Als der Zufall zu zweifeln begann, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Lecco/Milan (solo)
fugitiveprojects, screening at opening of „There’s No Place Like Utopia“ at Fivemyles, New York
Fightforms, Videotank, Zürich (solo)
Risque d'Attente, Galerjia Karas, Zagreb
Artist as publisher, The center for book arts, New York
Bass Diffusion Model, The Mix, Fieldgate Gallery, London
fugitiveprojects, IMAFI, Cairo
Zeus Presentation, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen
Matrix, Geschlechter/Verhältnisse/Revisionen – MUSA, Vienna
An den Grenzen der Begriffe - Arbeiten mit der Filmkamera, kontrast2008 - Bayreuther Filmfest, curated by Günther Puller
2007
Im Auge des Zyklons, Docks Art Fair, Eröffnung der 9. Biennale von Lyon, Lyon (solo)
fugitiveprojects,Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH), Power House in Memphis (USA),
The State of Mantua Project in Ireland, Nashville, Tennessee (USA)
Long time No see, MUSA, Vienna
Reduzierte Aussagen, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürz
La Preda/The prey, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Milan (solo)
Vladka Horvat / Magda Tóthová, 127 Gallery, New York
2006
A global player long before Christ, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Video Dia Loghi 2006, Il magazzino di Darko, Torino
Videoabend, ausgewählt von Michael Höpfner, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
06 Wiener, Visual Drugs, Zürich
No place: Artists explore Utopia, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville/Tennessee
crazy curators, Biennale Bratislava
one size youth, Galerie Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Barbies im Schoß der Boxer am Fuß der Paradeiserstadt, habres partner, Wien (solo)
société des nations factice et scindeé en elle-même, Circuit, Lausanne
visum et repertum, Stella Art Gallery, Moskau
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, The Kitchen, NY
urban maze, habres partner, Vienna
Lenin Lovers, the great unsigned @ CuratorSpace, London
please, please be mine, Galerie Artothek, Vienna (solo)
2005
Ways in/Ways out, Kunstverein Horn/NÖ
A summer event at Flaca, London
COMPUTERPRINTS OF WHALES 2, Galerie der Stadt Wels/OÖ
CHANGES OF MIND, Haunch of Venison, London
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, North Dakota Museum of Art
UPDATE, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
guF – garage for photographie, Maribor, Slovenien (solo)
2004
Standard Museum, Museum in Progress, Vienna
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Die Grenzen meiner Sprache ..., Ausstellungshalle des vai, Dornbirn
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, Tate Modern, London
Transferproject Sahara, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna
Ich, Kunst.Vorarlberg, Forum for current art, Bregenz
Just what is it...#1, Kunstraum, Innsbruck
See you later curator..., projectspace Lassie, Vienna
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of Eastern European Video, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
2003
Screening at Art Kliazma 03 Summer Festival, Moscow
Same old sun everywhere, Gallery France, Moscow
Auftrag Lüneburg – Auftrag Wien, Kunsthalle Projectspace, Vienna
Stadt in Sicht, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
I hear the voice, Basis Vienna
Emerging artist, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/NÖ(solo)
Bibliography
Michael Strasser, „Exotic Strings a Compilation“,Austria, 2010
Arrivals and Departures_Europe, Silvana Editoriale, Milano, 2009
Younger than Jesus, New Museum and Phaidon Press, 2009
La Preda/The Pray, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art Publication, Milano, 2007