Tonio Kröner *1984, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin
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Tonio Kröner
Ins Dunkle Schwimmen. Abysses of the Creative Imperative, The University Gallery of the Angewandte, Vienna, 2024, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
Free Won't, 2024-2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
33.5 x 27.4 cm (13 x 11 in) -
Tonio Kröner
I Hate My Village, M1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, 2014, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, 2022, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
Something Stronger Than Me *, WIELS, Brussels, 2017, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
Untitled, 2022-2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
150 x 100 cm (59 x 39 1/2 in) -
Tonio Kröner
Ao descer a escada / Há um degrau p’ra me sentar. / Não há outro degrau / Onde descansar. / Não estou lá em baixo / Nem lá em cima estou. / Estou é na escada / Onde sempre estou. // Ao subir a escada / Não estou em cima, nem em baixo. / Não estou na creche, / Nem mesmo no sopé, acho. / Ideias estranhas começam a girar / Na minha cabeça / Fora do lugar!, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, 2019, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
Unititled, 2025
Dyed and bleached burlap
190 x 260 cm (75 x 102 ½ in) -
Tonio Kröner
Boarding Time, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, 2022, installation view
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Tonio Kröner
// You appear / because you’re lonely // maybe. / You would not say that. // You come to tell me / you’re saving money / by cooking for yourself. // You’ve figured out / what units you’ll need // to exchange for units / if you intend // I know I mustn’t / Interrupt, 2022
Feathers, polyester fabric, cotton fabric and plastic, detail
210 x 95 x 125 cm (83 x 37 3/8 x 49 in)
CV
- TURNING PAGES Künstler*innenbücher der Gegenwart, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna group
- Free Won’t, Edouard Montassut, Paris solo
- Condo London, Corvi-Mora & Greengrassi hosting Edouard Montassut & FANTA-MLN, London group
- Ins Dunkle schwimmen, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna group
- Deux Deviennent Deux (with Nora Kapfer), Cento, Glasgow solo
- How to Move and Respond, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin group
- Boarding Time, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin solo
- Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne group
- Adult Essence, Lore Deutz, Cologne group
- Paradis, Maison R&C, Marseille group
- E–G#–D–A#, Nousmoules, Berlin group
- Ohne Titel, Schleuse, Vienna solo
- Relax it’s all online, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin group
- Halfway Down the Stairs, Lumiar Cité/Associação Maumaus, Lisbon solo
- We need more than one term for theses things, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna group
- Neue Horizonte 2030 , Geist, Berlin group
- Is it language that they’re after? (keine*r antwortete.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna group
- Something Stronger Than Me*, WIELS, Brussels group
- Destination Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna group
- I Hate my Village, M1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt solo
- Vienna Complex, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York group
- Say my Name, Say my Name, Museum Moderner Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt group
- Bubbletearz, WCW-Gallery, Hamburg solo
- Tonio Kröner, Nousmoules, Vienna solo
- IF YOU DON’T LOOK GOOD AND I DON’T LOOK GOOD AND WE DON’T LOOK GOOD, L’Ocean Licker, Vienna solo
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2011
Education
2013 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2013 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
Publications
Deux deviennent deux, with an essay by Alenka Zupančič, Ex. Cat., Westphalie, Wien, 2025
Paradis, Ex. Cat., Claude Balls Int., New York, 2023
Boarding Time, laser-cut pamphlet, Ex. Cat., Westphalie/Lars Friedrich, Vienna/Berlin, 2022
LD/02 TK, Ex. Cat., Lore Deutz/Edition Taube, Cologne/Munich, 2022
Postapocalyptic Self-Reflection, Westphalie, Wien, 2019
Postapocalyptic Realism. It’s After the End of the World. Don’t You Know That Yet?, Ex. Cat., Museum Brandhorst, 2019 (Editor)
Jutta Koether. Tour de Madame, Ex. Cat., Museum Brandhorst, 2019 (Editor)
Rita McBride: Explorer with insert for Something Stronger Than Me*, Ex. Cat., WIELS Contemporary Art Center, 2018
Silhouettes, Ex. Cat., Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, 2017
Painting 2.0. Painting in the Information Age, Ex. Cat., Museum Brandhorst/mumok-Museum Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2015 (Editor)
Vienna Complex, Ex. Cat., Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 2014
Selected Press
António Castanheira, ‘‘Ao descer a escada há um degrau p’ra me sentar.’’, Umbigo Magazine, January 2020
Collections
Graphic Collection, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
