Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond work as artists, curators, and artist-researchers and are guest professors at the Artistic Research Center. Since 2025, they have been affiliated members at the CSS Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. Until 2024, they were professors at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, responsible for the PhD in Art Artistic Research program.
Ruth’s and Leonhard’s artistic work has been shown internationally, e.g., at 15th Bienal de la Habana (2025), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009, 2020), Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai (2010), or Tate Modern, London (2008).
They have curated exhibitions, as well as discoursive and screening programmes for institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien (2012), Whitechapel Gallery London (2013), Kunsthaus Graz (2017) and U-jazdowski Castle Warsaw (2018).
They have led two FWF-PEEK projects, Dizziness-A Resource (2015-2017) and Navigating Dizziness Together (2020-24), and initiated the EU-funded projects The Arts of Resistance (2024-2025) and ART WORKS! European Culture of Resistance and Liberation (2019-21) with Museion Bolzano, MSU Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, wannseeFORUM Foundation, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Foundation Between Bridges, HBK Braunschweig and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. ART WORKS! was recognized by the European Commission as best practice project in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The Construction Site of Remembrance (2018-2023) accompanied the remodelling of the Austrian exhibition (Blog 17) at Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum commissioned by the Austrian National Fund.
Researching states of dizziness for the last 15 years, they recently initiated Iliggocene–The Age of Dizziness together with curator Sergio Edelsztein, an arts-based research project in the decentralized form of a network exhibition and discursive series, including screenings and performances; its process and findings will be documented and published in an audio archive. The Iliggocene explores the socio-political and artistic side of dizziness as states of unpredictability and uncertainty. The term Iliggocene (from iliggos – Greek for “dizziness”) refers to states of dizziness as investigated through artistic research by Ruth and Leonhard together with Sergio Edelsztein laid out in their podcast series On Certain Groundlessness (downloaded in more than 40 countries, available on Spotify, Apple Podcast and here: https://www.on-dizziness.com/resources-overview/podcast).
The first Iliggocene exhibition opens at KINDL-Centre for Contemporary Art Berlin in March 2026, funded by KSB, followed by events, performances, lectures, and further exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Kunsthaus Graz, and n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2026-28.
Recent academic publications include ‘Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity out of the “Brackish Waters” of Artistic Research’ in Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. (Eds. Sarah R Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Esther Dessewffy, Bao-Chau Pham, Ariadne Avkıran, & Kathleen Gregory) The Bristol University Press, Bristol (2025), as well as the reader Dizziness—A Resource, (Eds. Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag, Leonhard Grond) Sternberg Press, Berlin (2019).
