Gerhard Fresacher

Born in 1972 in Lower Austria.
Studied scenography under Erich Wonder at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Since 2000, solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, including:

• no disco behind, Zhytomyr/Ukraine (2018, curated by Roman Grabner)
• Installation as part of the Handball World Championship, Qatar (2015)
• boing! boing! Galerie Bäckerstraße, Vienna (2008)
• superheroes saving russia, XL Gallery, Moscow (2000, curated by Joseph Backstein)

Stage designs and productions for, among others, the Vienna Festival, Volkstheater Vienna, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Münchner Volkstheater, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Das Neumarkt Zürich, and WERK X Vienna.

Since 2009, theater experiments and theater discos, including:

• no disco behind, Zhytomyr/Ukraine (2018)
• dream, nightmare – a nightmare – based on Kafka’s A Country Doctor, Radiokulturhaus Vienna and Werk X Petersplatz, Vienna (2017)
• Lightning on the Tip of the Tongue – Reinventing Surrealism! – based on Josef Winkler, Garage X, Vienna (2013)
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Garage X, Vienna (2011)

Ingeborg-Bachmann-Dome: Concept for the winning project of the 1st call of the Carinthian Cultural Foundation and opening production at Neuer Platz, Klagenfurt (2021), and performance concept and opening production at the second location at Karlsplatz, Vienna (2023).

Collaborations with Karl Welunschek, Georg Staudacher, Oliver Welter, Alexander Kubelka, Georg Timber Trattnig, Hans Neuenfels, Karl Pridun, Josef Winkler, TOMAK, and Bernhard Hammer.

Lives and works in Klagenfurt and Vienna.