Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna curated by Scrum
„The Effects of Crossings & Self-Aggrandization in the Human Kingdom“

Curator(s):

Scrum More

Founded in 2020, Scrum is a curatorial duo specialising in contemporary art and consisting of Séamus Kealy and Tilo Schulz. Séamus Kealy is an international gallery and museum director, curator, artist and writer. Tilo Schulz is a self-taught artist, curator and writer. They first met as artists in 2002 during an artist residency at Museumsquartier, Vienna, and have worked together sporadically ever since. Projects together include I WAS SHOT IN THE BACK, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Tied Up and Down, The Model, Sligo Überschönheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, and Curated by_Vienna, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna. Séamus Kealy is Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein. Previously he was Director of The Model, Sligo, Ireland, which he took through a major redevelopment. Beforehand, he was Curator at the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. His paintings have been exhibited internationally. He studied Fine Arts (BFA) under Jeff Wall among others and later Art History: Curatorial Studies (MA) at the University of British Columbia. Awards include the Curatorial Writing Award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, and „Top Exhibition in Austria in 2014“ (Punctum), by Profil Magazin. He was also a Finalist for both the RBC National Painting Award in Canada (2002) and Lexmark Pan-European Painting Prize (2004). As an artist, Schulz's solo exhibitions include the Kassák Museum in Budapest, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Kunstverein Hannover, the Vienna Secession, the Museum for Contemporary Art in Leipzig, and at the Espace Louis Vuitton during the 56th Venice Biennial. Schulz’s works have been included in Manifesta2 in Luxembourg, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Artist Space in New York, and the Fridericianum in Kassel. Schulz has curated exhibitions at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich; Magazin4 in Bregenz; the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn; the Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin, and e.w.e. – exhibition without exhibition, among others. In addition to curating projects, Scrum offer mentorship to artists, curators and writers, including online workshops.

© Maximilian Geute / Andrew Phelps

Artist(s):

• Mehranah Atashi
• Duncan Campbell
• Mohamed Bourouissa More
  Born 1978, lives and works in France Mohamed Bourouissa was born in 1978 in Blida, Algeria, and currently lives and works in Gennevilliers, France. Each of Mohamed Bourouissa's projects, preceded by a lengthy immersion phase, constructs a new situation of enunciation. Contrary to falsely simplistic media constructions, the artist reintroduces complexity into the representation of the margins of hyper-visibility. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad, at Palais de Tokyo in 2024, the Lam - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut à Villeneuve d’Ascq, the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, basis in Frankfurt, the BAL in Paris, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and the FRAC Franche-Comté in Besançon. He has participated in the Biennials of Sharjah, Havana, Lyon, Venice, Algiers, Liverpool, and Berlin, as well as the Milan Triennial. In 2018, he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. In 2017, he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet photography prize. In 2020, he won the Deutsche Boerse Photography Foundation Prize following the exhibition "Libre échange" presented at Monoprix d'Arles as part of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie. In 2024, he was a finalist for the Mario Merz Prize. His works are held in prominent collections including those of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, LACMA in Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou and the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2022, he won the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize with Loose Joints editions for the book "Périphérique."
• Kristan Horton
• Ella Littwitz
• Lőrinc Borsos
• Kent Monkman
• Locky Morris
• Niamh O’Malley
• Naufus Ramírez Figueroa
• Paloma Varga Weisz
• Christina Zurfluh

Photos

Mehranah Atashi: Lapislazuli playground

Tapestry – wool, silk, linen,

Photo: (c) Grazer Kunstverein