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2025


exhibitions

Wheel of Fortune
Rosenblut & Friedmann Gallery, Madrid


2024


exhibitions

Martin Ebner, Klaus Weber: Levity and Gravity
Rosenblut & Friedmann Gallery, Madrid

Ariane Müller, Martin Ebner: Continuous Present
CCA Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi


publications

Starship 20


2023


exhibitions

Gruppenausstellung mit Claudia Schiffer
WAF Galerie, Vienna


2022


Oct-Dec 2022

Cité internationale des arts, Paris


exhibitions

The Weather in Fred Sandback
curated by Ariane Müller, Audrius Pocius and Martin Ebner
Swallow, Vilnius

Der Radwechsel
Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna


2021


exhibitions

How to find meaning in dead time
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

Tokas Project 4, Routes/Roots
TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo

#JapanRevisited202x
Morioka Shoten, Ginza, Tokyo

screenings

21 archives
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin


2020


exhibitions

Palydos
Swallow, Vilnius

Walking in Ice
XC.Hua Gallery, Berlin

New Normal
miacollectiveart.com

Stadt und Knete
After the Butcher, Berlin

screenings / performances

Recycling Plastic Inevitable (RPI)
West Germany, Berlin

publications

Starship Magazine 19
Spring 2020
176 pages, English/German

presentations

Release: Starship Magazine 19
TV, Berlin

Two Rooms – Martin Ebner, Ariane Müller
Galerias Municipais – Boavista 50, Lisbon

Starship books – Dany Wehrmann Müller Kippenberger
Hopscotch, Berlin


2019


exhibitions

Starship. Die nahe Zukunft. The Near Future.
LVX, Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin

Walter Benjamin in Bern
International Walter Benjamin Conference 2019
University of Bern

10 Years of Provence
The Downer, Motto, Berlin

Red Gate Residency, December Open Studio
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

screenings / performances

Recycling Plastic Inevitable (RPI)
ASP5, Opposition to the Commodity, ICA, London

Recycling Plastic Inevitable (RPI)
Finissage Ariane Müller: AN, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin

Recycling Plastic Inevitable (RPI)
Tropez, Berlin

An evening dedicated to Ian White’s Kopietheater 1 (2010)
Cinema Arsenal, Berlin

presentations

Starship 18 release – 20 years issue
VERY, Berlin
Restaurant Beograd, Vienna

The Near Future: An evening with Starship and Guests
Larry Gottheim, Klaus Weber, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne Berlin

Starship Screenings at the Pool
The Time is Now– Heidrun Holzfeind, Tropez, Berlin

Are You… Friends with Books? Public Programmes 2019
Friends with Books, Art Book Fair Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

publications

Starship Magazine 18
Winter 2019
148 pages, English/German


2018


exhibitions

Martin Ebner, Chiara Minchio
Gallery Dalston, Tokyo

C.R. McBerny
Studio Veit Laurent Kurz, Berlin

A Matter Of Printing (for SMC)
Supportico Lopez, Berlin

The Summer Vocation of a Teenage Bee
Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius
(exhibition architecture)

Ist Eros der eben jetzt von mir beobachtete Planet?
Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin
Villa Rosenthal, Jena, Kunstraum Pro Arte, Hallein

presentations

Starship 17 release
MAVRA, Berlin

Cut-Up: Bonnie Camplin – Starship – Eric D. Clark
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

publications

Starship Magazine 17
Winter 2018
140 pages, English/German

screenings

In the Shadow of the Sun
Tropez, Berlin

No Bum Bum
Tropez, Berlin


2017

Tokyo Arts and Space Residency (TOKAS)

exhibitions

Starship
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

Stations
Fundraiser and Hors d’oevre
Studio Thea Djordjadze, Berlin

Open Studio
TOKAS Residency, Tokyo

Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
(with Gruppe Gummi K)

Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017
Kunsthalle Vienna (Starship)

From Without And From Within [The Auroville Project]
Kunstpavillon Innsbruck

Ist Eros der eben jetzt von mir beobachtete Planet?
Goldbergkunst e.V., Goldberg

Ariane Müller, Martin Ebner – Shadow Projector
espace d’art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Fort de France, Martinique

Ariane Müller, Martin Ebner – Swiss Cheese Plant
Kunstverein Göttingen

The Timeshare Project (Starship)
Kunsthal Aarhus

presentations

Starship – A presentation in five seasons
apropos documenta, Goethe-Institute Athens
Radio Athènes

publications

Starship Magazine 16
Spring 2017
128 pages, English/German

book fairs

Pure Fiction International Book Fair
Staedelschule / Frankfurt am Main

Miss Read
The Berlin Art Book Fair 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Friends With Books
Art Book Fair Berlin 2017, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

screenings

1980
Video screening, selected by Martin Ebner
Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Berlin

(Almost) Silent Movies
Video screening, selected by Martin Ebner
Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Berlin

It is not easy, but
Video screening of experimental short films, music videos and performances by Martin Ebner
Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy, Tokyo


2016

exhibitions

Martin Ebner, Kitty Kraus
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

Kalte Gesellschaft #2
curated by Judith Hopf

Galerie der Stadt Schwaz

Fade In: A Tracking Shot
(Starship)
Taylor Macklin@ Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Destiempo
Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile

Essai sur le don
Kunstverein Schwerin

publications

Daylight
Martin Ebner, Kitty Kraus
catalogue, 84 pages, English/Lithuanian
CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

Starship Magazine 15
Fall 2016
128 pages, English/German

Starship Magazine 14
Spring 2016
A Plastic Island of the Mind
144 pages, English/German

presentations:

Starship 15 Release
Between Bridges, Berlin

The painters have finished
SVIT, Prague

Starship 14 – preview
Supportico Lopez Gallery, Berlin

Hallo Starship & pazmaker
magazine release party, Acud, Berlin

Presentation Starship 14
mumok library – Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

Fade In: A Tracking Shot
Taylor Macklin @ Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Living Archive
Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice
Goethe-Institut, London

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art
SFSIA Berlin
Import Projects, Berlin

The Book to Come
CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

screenings

Lunar Rambles
video program, selected by Martin Ebner

Galerie Bernhard, Zürich

Subject and viewer moving independently
video program, selected by Martin Ebner

San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Salita Pontecorvo, Napoli

Daylight
video program, selected by Martin Ebner
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

book fairs

#Riafeniz – Zinefair
KM Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

Miss Read
The Berlin Art Book Fair 2016, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

ASP2 – The Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair
ICA London

Friends With Books
Art Book Fair Berlin 2016, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

 



2015

exhibitions

More Anecdotes
wellwellwell, Vienna

Playing Pool with Eggs
Galerie Bernhard, Zürich

Doing the Impossible Light
Arton Foundation, Warsaw

Carrying Water with a Riddle
Grüner Salon der Volksbühne, Berlin

Starship 13 launch and exhibition
Artists Space Books&Talks, New York

Buchstabenfest
Zollamt, Bad Radkersburg, Austria

Pane Per Poveri
Teatro Marinoni, Lido di Venezia

To the Sound of the Closing Door
Forum Expanded 2015, Exhibition, Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg
Berlinale, 65. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Berlin

publications

Starship Magazine 13
Summer 2015

Geld Alkohol Feminismus Sex
136 pages, English/German

Starship Magazine 12
Spring 2015
128 pages, English/German

presentations

Starship 4D
4 days of readings, concerts, music, books and magazine presentation

Supportico Lopez, Berlin

Starship + Provence
Grand Joint Magazine Release Party
Südblock, Berlin

screenings

Sunstone
video program, selected by Martin Ebner

Galerie Bernhard, Zürich

filmmakers choice: End After 9
35mm film program, selected by Martin Ebner
Cinema Arsenal, Berlin

on architecture
35mm film screening

Berlin Art Film Festival, Moviemento, Berlin

book fairs

MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 26–28 June 2015

ASP Fair
Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair, ICA, London, Sept 12 2015

Friends With Books – Art Book Fair Berlin
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 11–13 December 2015



2014

exhibitions

A Paradise Built in Hell
Kunstverein in Hamburg

Words as Doors – Wörter als Türen, in Sprache, Kunst, Film
Künstlerhaus KM – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz

screenings

Early Films by Ernie Gehr
16mm film program, selected by Martin Ebner
Galerie Bernhard, Zürich



2013


exhibitions

Day of the Engineer
STARSHIP (Ariane Müller, Martin Ebner)
Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul

Herbstsalon
Deborah Schamoni Galerie, Munich

Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts 2013
Kunsthaus Graz, curated by Jaroslaw Suchan

Set For Music (Calling Card)
STARSHIP (Ariane Müller, Martin Ebner)
Tonalá 23, Mexico City

Gelatin–Stop–Anna Ly Sing–Stop
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Some End of Things
Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Kunstmuseum Basel
(with Ariane Müller)
group show, curated by Nikola Dietrich & Scott C. Weaver

Real Estate Opportunities
Cafe Warschau, Berlin
group show, curated by Alexander Wolff

Living Archive
KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
group show, curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Ellen Blumenstein a.o.

Prisma Pavillion
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
group show, curated by Gerry Bibby

screenings

slightly pushing your realities
16 mm film program, assembled by Martin Ebner and Kerstin Cmelka
Elaine MGK, Basel

Joyce Wieland summer special
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Poor Man’s Expression – Entrance to Exit
Robert Breer / Morgan Fisher / Len Lye / Joyce Wieland / Bruce Conner / George Brecht
KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
16mm open-air film screening, curated by Martin Ebner & Florian Zeyfang

Poor Man’s Expression – Martin Ebner / Florian Zeyfang
Experimental Film festival – House of Arts, Brno
video screening, curated by Martin Ebner & Florian Zeyfang

Living Archive: Joseph Cornell, Rudy Burckhardt, Ernie Gehr
Kino Arsenal, Berlin
16mm film screening, curated by Martin Ebner

music performance

STARSHIP presenta: una versión de Zigaretten Rauchen en México
Instalación, luz y sonido de Zigaretten Rauchen, una banda conceptual de artistas en loop,
presentada por STARSHIP e interpretada por grupos y proyectos de Ciudad de México y Berlín
Goethe-Institut, México, D.F., México

publications 2013

STARSHIP (2013):

Inter-Revista STARSHIP 13.1.1. / Berlín-México D.F.

Handbuch für die Reise nach Afrika – Ariane Müller

Luftschlangentexte – Annette Wehrmann

Picture a moon shining in the sky
Conversation with Martin Kippenberger, 3rd edition, english

Stellen Sie sich vor, ein Mond scheint am Himmel
Gespräch mit Martin Kippenberger, 4. Auflage, deutsch

contributions

Living Archive
Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice
280 Seiten, color, german/Englisch
ed: Arsenal – Institut für Film- and Videokunst, bbooks, Berlin, 2013

Wandering Magazine Nº 2, Basel, Jan. 2013

Six Years… (POD Version)
Lisa Holzer and David Jourdan (eds), Westphalie Verlag, Wien/Berlin



2012

exhibitions

STARSHIP – The Near Future
CCA – Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgien
(STARSHIP – with Hans-Christian Dany and Ariane Müller)

Poor Man’s Expression
Artists Space : Books & Talks, New York
exhibition and 2-day 16mm film screening,
curated by Martin Ebner & Florian Zeyfang

Based on a True Story
Salvador Allende Museum of Solidarity, Santiago de Chile
group show, curated by Yael Rosenblut

Millennium Magazines
MoMA Library, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(STARSHIP), curated by David Senior

Chains
Horse, Berlin
(with Ariane Müller), group show, curated by Dani Jakob u.a.

screenings

Martin Ebner: Filmmaker’s choice
Peter Hutton, Larry Gottheim, Ernie Gehr
Kino Arsenal, Berlin
16mm film screening, curated by Martin Ebner

Haunting City
Short films by Die Tödliche Doris, Judith Hopf, Katrin Pesch, Martin Ebner a. o.
Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India

presentations

Martin Ebner: a-clip – a micro intervention in cinema space
Post Studio Tales, district, Berlin

publications

Intermediate issue: Starship No 1. 12. 12.
We will be rich this night
(in georgian language)

Basado en una historia real – based on a true story
ed. Yael Rosenblut, Salvador Allende Museum, Santiago de Chile, 2012 (contribution)

Provence magazine, issue E MADAME, Nizza/Berlin, Dez. 2012 (contribution)



2011

exhibitions

Please go around the construction area
by the lights and over the traffic island
Kunstraum Schattendorf, Austria
group show, curated by Ariane Müller and Martin Ebner

Cold Society
KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
(with Florian Zeyfang), group show, curated by Judith Hopf

Poor Man’s Expression
mumok Kino – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
exhibition with 35mm and 16mm film screenings,
curated by Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang

Poor Man’s Expression
Kino Arsenal, Berlin
exhibition and 3 day film program,
curated by Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang

Poor Man’s Expression
d21 Kunstraum Leipzig
exhibition with 16mm film screenings, curated by Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang

screenings / festivals

The World Will Devour You, So You Better Taste Good, e-flux, New York
screening, curated by Shelly Silver

Im öffentlichen Raum, poolbar / Art Bodensee, Bregenz
screening, curated by Rike Frank

Outside, based in berlin, Berlin / school, Vienna
screening, curated by Melanie Ohnemus

Arab Shorts, screening, Goethe-Institute, Cairo
Molodist International Film festival, Kiew, 35mm film screening

music performance

Zigaretten Rauchen, Hotel Intercontinental, WIen
Augusts Llen, curated by Chiara Minchio and Lisa Holzer
music performance (Martin Ebner, Klaus Weber, Ariane Müller, Ellen Gutovsky)

presentations

Starship presents: Zigaretten Rauchen
record release – based in berlin, Berlin

Poor Man’s Expression
book presentation with 16mm film screenings, (with Florian Zeyfang)
MD 72, Berlin

Martin Ebner
Open House, IASPIS, Stockholm, solo presentation, curated by Diana Baldon

publications

Poor Man’s Expression
Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
edited by Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang

Artists: Stephanie Taylor, Sebestyén Kodolányi, Sebastian Luetgert,
Henrik Olesen, Mathias Poledna, Sean Snyder, Daria Martin,
Kirsten Pieroth, Martin Ebner, Florian Zeyfang

with essays by Sabeth Buchmann, Anselm Franke, Branden W. Joseph,
Ariane Müller, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Ian White, Axel John Wieder

240 pages, English/German, color, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York

STARSHIP Verlag (2011):

intermediate issue: Starship No 1. 11. 11.
Wir werden reich heute Nacht
(german/englisch)

Zigaretten Rauchen: Queen of Sheba
7 inch vinyl record, Starship, 2011

DVD

Zigaretten Rauchen
n.b.k. concert 6, DVD, n.b.k., Berlin, 2011

interview:

Starship Interview: Mousse Magazine 30, summer 2011
(Interview by Gigiotto del Vecchio)

reviews

Poor Man’s Expression – review: Camera Austria, autumn 2011

Poor Man’s Expression – review: CARGO, autumn 2011


2010

exhibitions

The Line Between In and Out
After the Butcher, Berlin
(with Ariane Müller)

Derridas Katze
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, curated by Alice Goudsmit and Barbara Buchmaier
(with Ariane Müller)

UM10
2. UM-festival, Uckermark
(Eyetree, with Klaus Weber)

Expo Valerie
Xinle Road, Shanghai

Fuge – La Cueva de Cristal
Mark Morgan Perez Garage, Buenos Aires
(with Ariane Müller)

festival

60. Filmfestspiele Berlinale, Berlin
Forum Expanded
(Kopietheater 1), curated by Ian White

screenings

What was here before?
UnionDocs, New York
curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Salon des Arts, Studio Maja Vukoje, Vienna
curated by Tanja Widmann and Melanie Ohnemus

music performance

Zigaretten Rauchen – Tone Poems In Slow Rhythm
music performance, n.b.k. Berlin

publications 2010

STARSHIP Verlag (2010):

Picture a moon shining in the sky
Conversation with Martin Kippenberger, 2nd, extended edition, english

Stellen Sie sich vor, ein Mond scheint am Himmel
Gespräch mit Martin Kippenberger, 3. erweiterte Auflage, Deutsch

reviews:

Artforum, Best of 2010
(Eyetree, with Klaus Weber)
review by Gudrun Gut


2009

exhibitions

Berlin 2000
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
(Starship, with Ariane Müller),
group show, curated by Birte Kleemann

Rooms Without Walls
Silberkuppe at Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
group show, curated by Dominic Eichler & Michael Ziegler

Athen Biennale 2009 – Heaven
For the straight way is lost
curated by Diana Baldon

No Soul for Sale
Starship, X-Initiative, New York
group show, curated by Cecilia Alemani

Live Archive
(Starship), New Museum, New York
curated by Brian Sholis

Boundary Signal
Open Space, Vienna
group show, curated by Fatih Aydogdou

Les Pieds dans le Vide
Forgotten Bar, Berlin, curated by Eva Seufert
group show

festival

59. Filmfestspiele Berlinale, Berlin
Forum Expanded
(Out In The Light – with Klaus Weber and Katja Eydel)

screenings

Focus on Potsdamer Platz
35mm film screenings, Cinema Arsenal, Berlin

publications

STARSHIP Verlag (2009):

A.E.I.u.U. – Just what is it that made today’s Berlin so different, so appealing?
Starship, The Early Years, 1998-2001,
120 pages, english
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
published by Starship, Berlin, 2009

modern modern
ed. Pati Hertling, 160 pages, english
published by Starship and Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2009
With contributions by Stefan Kalmar, Ariane Müller, Jan Verwoert


 

2008


exhibitions

Written on Spiders
Starship, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

Nairy Baghramian, Martin Ebner, Henrik Olesen
Silberkuppe, Berlin

Various sketches for leaving the room
Ludlow 38, New York
group show, curated by Starship
further stations:
Silberkuppe, Berlin / Les Complices, Zürich / Rauchsalon, Vienna

HO is no substitute for anything
(with Judith Hopf), Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen, Vienna
group show, curated by Chiara Minchio and Lisa Holzer

screenings

July screenings, Herald St. Gallery, London
(Out In The Light – with Klaus Weber and Katja Eydel)

projects

Excess and Sustainability
Poster project, curated by Starship

publications 2008

STARSHIP Verlag (2008):

Various sketches for leaving the room
Starship Magazine Nr. 11
german / englisch, edited with Henrik Olesen


 

2007

Self Fashion Show
Bernadette Corporation, Martin Ebner, Tibor Hajas, Karen Cytter, Joao Penalva
Extra City, Antwerpen
curated by Anselm Franke

publications 2007

Starship Magazine Nr. 10
120 Seiten, german / englisch