BIOGRAPHY
Roland Hagenberg
Photographer and writer, grew up in Vienna, Austria. He currently lives in Tokyo. 
2008
Publication INDONESIAN INVASION - encounters with 14 Indonesian contemporary artists; interviews and photos by Roland;
published by Sin Sin Fine Art, Hong Kong; 124 pages, hard cover, linen bound
Documentary on volcanoes in Japan for BMW Magazine
Garden City Publishers releases Roland's new book "20 Japanese Architects”
Publication ARTISTS IN NEW YORK - 40 studio visits in the 80s; text and photos by Roland; 132 pages; hard cover
Riverside Music releases Roland's new CD album “LET ME IN”
2007
Exhibition BEAUTIFUL - with Roland's portraits of 33 outstanding women. Le Meridien Grand Pacific, Tokyo.
Publication WORDS + VISUALS, Hong Kong. Roland collaborates with architect Kengo Kuma, designer Sin Sin, explorer Wong How Man and photographer Matthieu Ricard.
Roland writes song-lyrics for Japanese TV station Wowow.
Roland visits the Amazon for a film documentary on Flavio Varani.
Roland visits art studios in Jogjakarta, Indonesia for his upcoming book project Indonesian Invasion.
2006
Exhibition SOBYO - With architectural photos and a video by Roland as well as drawings by Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Kengo Kuma, Jun Aoki and Terunobu Fujimori; Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Exhibition 40+/40- at Sin Sin Fine Arts, Hong Kong - with photos by Roland.
Since 2006- Producer and editor of videos BMW Homepage videos.
2005
Exhibition LIGHTYEARS at Artium, Fukuoka, Japan. With architectural photos, portraits and a video documentary by Roland on Japanese architects Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, Terunobu Fujimori and Jun Aoki.
Exhibition KYOTO at the Gallery of the Austrian Embassy, Tokyo. With photos and a video by Roland.
2004
CD release GALAXY - with 16 songs written and composed by Roland.
Publication 14 JAPANESE ARCHITECTS with photos and interviews by Roland. Published by Kashiwa Shobo, Tokyo.
Exhibition C'EST SI BON! at Orbient, Tokyo. With Roland’s photos and a video collage from Paris.
2003 
Roland conceives, writes and films documentary on Land Art projects. Travels with photographer Sheila Metzner through the American Southwest.
Exhibition "22 Photographs by Roland Hagenberg" at Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo.
Exhibition “Planes to catch, and things to see! - Photographs by Roland Hagenberg at the Gallery of the Austrian Embassy, Tokyo.
DVD realease of Roland’s documentary “SurFACE - 14 Contemporary Japanese Architects” (Uplink, Tokyo).
Movie theater film screenings of Roland’s documentary “SurFACE” in Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi.
2002  
Roland conceives ongoing internet project “SHELTER: Modern Architecture and the Meaning of Security in our Times”. For this project Roland collects video statements from international architects. T/N Probe Gallery, Tokyo.
2001  
Exhibition “sur/FACE: 14 Contemporary Japanese Architects” at BMW Square in Tokyo. With photographs by Roland and models by architects such as Tadao Ando, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Kenzo Tange, Jun Aoki, Kengo Kuma and others.
Roland writes, conceives and directs video documentary “SurFACE - 14 Contemporary Japanese Architects” (co-director Karl Neubert).
Photo documentary on Issey Miyake in Berlin for Soen-Magazine, Tokyo.
1999  
Exhibition “New York Artists” - Photos by Roland at Gallery 360°, Tokyo (with portraits of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and 30 other artists.
1998  
Founder and editor of the monthly culture supplement “PLANT” in Tokyo Journal.
Contributor to “Mondän”, German TV ZDF.
Group exhibition “Tokyo Rooms”, Kawasaki.
1995  
Film and script for two music videos on Hitomi Mieno.
Exhibition “Jean-Michel Basquiat - photos by Roland Hagenberg” at Moca-Foundation, Tokyo.
1993  
Together with Bernd Zimmer co-founder and editor of the German art magazine plantSÜDEN.
1991  
Publication of The Complete Sculptures of Karel Appel; Edition Lafayette, New York, 408 pages.
1990  
Publication of Happy Happy, part II; for UNICEF, Edition Lafayette, New York.
Roland’s book Untitled is part of the “Media-Image” exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Publication exhibition catalogue Alfred Grunwald, Austrian Cultural Institute in New York (Curator Henry Grunwald, former editor-in -chief of TIME magazine).
Publication Alexander Rutsch - 40 years of sculptures and paintings. A book on the Austrian artist who was a contemporary of Andre Malreaux and Salvadore Dali.
1989  
Publication Dupe of Being, Edition Lafayette, New York, 608 pages on Dutch painter Karel Appel and Japanese performer Min Tanaka.
Translating the poetry of Friederike Mayröcker (German/English).
1988 
Co-founder and editor of the magazine Art of Russia and the West, Apollon Foundation, NewYork Milano (with Michael Chemiakin).
1987  
Publication of The Graphic Work of Walter Konigstein, Egret Publications, New York - Vienna.
1986 
Initiator and organizer of “Happy Happy” - a children's coloring book. Among the 60 internationally renowned artists are Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Eric Fischl, Tom Wesselmann, Christo and others).
Founder of Artfinder Magazine, New York.
1985  
Exhibition Psycho Pueblo , Fernando Vijande Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
Publication of Eastvillage Part II, Egret Publications, New York.
Exhibition Eastvillage Funktional, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.
Publication Upheaval, the first book on Mark Kostabi (New York).
1984  
Publication of Untitled '84, a photo-book on the art world of the 80s; Pelham Press; New York.
Curator for the exhibition 5 Painters from Berlin, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (with Rainer Fetting, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach, K.H. Hodicke,and Peter Chevalier).
Publication Eastvillage; Egret Publications, New York. The first documentary on new arts activities in downtown Manhattan.
Exhibition Photos by Roland Roland; Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.
1983 
Publication of Painters in Berlin (featuring 30 interviews and photographs of artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, Rainer Fetting, Bernd Zimmer and others.
Publication “…UND”, documenting the art world in Berlin.
Contributing writer for STERN Magazin, Berliner Kunstblatt und Zitty Magazin (Germany).
1981  
Publication Vom Jugendstil zum Freistiel, the first book on artist Martin Kippenberger (Berlin).
Publication Thomas Wachweger/Ina Barfuss (Berlin).
1980  
Publication Wiener in Berlin, a documentary on the Viennese art community (Berlin).
1976 
Co-founder of the literary magazine Die Klinge (with Franz Krahberger, Friederike Mayrocker and Elfriede Czurda, Thomas Kueffel, Gerhard Jaschke and others).