Daryoush Asgar & Elisabeth Gabriel
born 1975 in Teheran & Vienna
studied Art and Philosophy

Upcoming:
"IGNORE THE MESS BUT DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES" Soloshow @ Galerie Hilger (Vienna)
Opening Reception: 21.1. 2025, 19 - 21h; Synne Genzmer will speak at the opening

Selected Exhibitions:
"Queer Art Spaces Vienna 2023" Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AUT) 2023
"Obscure things an the sun" Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2022
"World Made Flesh" ØX Art Project Statements/Parallel Vienna (AUT) 2022
"Almost Done Almost Ready" Bechter Kastowsky Galerie, Schaan (FL) SOLO 2022
"Sport, Spaß und Spiel" Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall (GER) 2022
"Upside Up" Bechter Kastowsky Galerie, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2020
"Queer Art Space Vienna" Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AUT) 2019
"Shut up and Paint" National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AUS) 2017
"A Secret Rancour. Notions of Resentment" IKOB Musée d'Art Contemporain, Eupen (BEL) 2017
"Wasser, Wolken, Wind" Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall (GER) 2016/17
"Deep Sleep Dummy" Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2016
"Cake and Coincidence" Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin (GER) SOLO 2015
"Armed with Fever and Good Health" Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (USA) SOLO 2014
Zone 1/ViennaContemporary Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2014
"A.E.I.O.U." Museum Würth, Künzelsau (GER) 2013/14
"The Colour of Landscape", BrotKunsthalle, Vienna (AUT) 2013
"The Kids Are All Right", Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL) 2012
"We are hungry, in fact very hungry" hilger contemporary, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2012
"The Impossible Heap", Gallery 8, London (GB) 2012
Volta NY Hilger Brotkunsthalle, New York (USA) SOLO 2012
"Under the paving stones, the beach" KunsthallenBrandts, Odense (DK) SOLO 2011
"Auflösung der Ökonomie" Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (GER) SOLO 2011
"The disciplining time stands still, no activity, no automobiles, no angst" Annarumma Gallery, Naples (IT) SOLO 2011
"The Promise of Loss" Arario Gallery, New York (USA) 2010
"Loves of the Plants" hilger contemporary, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2010
"Don't worry, be happy" MAMA Showroom, Rotterdam (NL) 2010
"Bucolica Obscura" Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles (USA) SOLO 2009
"Central Europe Revisited II" Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt (AUT) 2008
"Sweet Safari or How We Desire The Wild" Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery, New York (USA) SOLO 2007
"low clouds, high spirits and the island" hilger contemporary, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2007

Selected Art Fairs:
Art Austria (AUT) 2023, ARCO Madrid (ES) 2008 & 2009, Armory Show New York (USA) 2011, Art Basel (CH) 2006, Art Basel Miami Beach (USA) 2007, Art Bologna (IT) 2006, Art Brussels (BEL) 2012, Art Luxembourg (L) 2023, Art Miami (USA) 2022, Art Cologne (GER) 2010 & 2011 & 2012 & 2013 & 2022, Art Paris (FR) 2012, KIAF Seoul (KOR) 2009, Parallel Vienna (AUT) 2022, Preview Berlin (GER) 2007, Shanghai Art Fair (CN) 2008, SWAB Barcelona (ES) 2007, Volta Basel Miami Beach (USA) 2009, Volta Basel (CH) 2013 & 2015 & 2022

Selected Bibliography:
"Deep Sleep Dummy", Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2016 (texts by Simon Maidment, Lucas Gehrmann)
"Armed With Fever and Good Health", Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles 2014, (text by Claire Breukel)
"We are hungry, in fact very hungry", hilger contemporary, Vienna 2012, (text by Claudia Slanar)
"Under the Paving Stones, the Beach", Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense 2011, (with a foreword by Lene Burkard and Lars Gambrye, an aphorism by Marc Quinn and texts by Margit Zuckriegl, Michael Jeppesen, Synne Genzmer)
"Auflösung der Ökonomie", Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2011, (texts by Martin Stather, Alfred Weidinger, Florian Steininger)

Selected Exhibitions - Daryoush Asgar:
"In between" Gallery 101, Ottawa (CAN) 2004
"ad personam" Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (AUT) 2004
"Kunst muss hängen" Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (AUT) 2003
Galeria Marella arte contemporanea, Milan (IT) SOLO 2002
"Bauholding Kunstpreis" Kunstforum Klagenfurt (AUT) SOLO 2002
Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2001
"Beautyfarm" Pathologisch-Anatomisches Museum, Vienna (AUT) SOLO 2000
"Junge Malerei" Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna (AUT) 2000

1st Prize Bauholding Strabag Kunstpreis 2002

Elisabeth Gabriel alias Flora S. Mahler:
"Julie Leyroux", novel published by Müry Salzmann Verlag 2021
"Die Zeitforscherin", novel published by Müry Salzmann Verlag 2023

© 2025 Asgar / Gabriel