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Sabine Bitter and Jeff Derksenwith respondents Roxanne Panchasi and Althea Thauberger
present and discuss“Encounter Educational Modernism"
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
02
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Huda Lutficontribute to the exhibition “Imagine Climate Dignity”
presenting “Shifting Perspectives”
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz 5,
A – 1010 Vienna
Opening: February 28, 2025
7 PM
March 1 – June 9, 2024
2024 – 11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Huda Lutfipanel discussion as part of the exhibition “Cairo: Fabric of the Everyday”
with artists Agnes Michalczyk, Nourhan Maayouf, and Maha Maamoun.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
7 PM
“Dear City, what do you want?” panel with sociologist Gerda Heck and urbanist Ahmed Zaazaa.
Monday, November 25, 2024
7 PM
“The Fabric of the Everyday” finissage and artists’ talk with artists Mena El Shazly and Lara Baladi.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
7 PM
Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo
1103 Corniche El-Nile
Garden City, Cairo
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Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Huda Lutficurate the group exhibition “Cairo: Fabric of the Everyday" with works by Nourhan Maayouf, Maha Maamoun, Agnes Michalczyk, Mena El Shazly and Lara Baladi.
Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo
1103 Corniche El-Nile
Garden City, Cairo
November 18 - November 28, 2024
Opening:
Sunday, November 17, 2024
7 PM
10
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Jeff Derksenpresent their recent publication “Encounter Educational Modernism” at
Vienna Secession
Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Vienna
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
7 PM
10
Huda Lutfi and Sabine Bitter & Helmut Webertalk about the “Fabric of the Image”
at ARD Art Institution
2 El Saraya Al Kobra, Garden City,
Cairo, Egypt
Thursday, October 10, 2024
7 PM
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Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Huda Lutfiare participating in the project “IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY: Artistic Collaborations”
An initiative by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Wien (Austrian Artists‘ Association, Vienna),
and the Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo.
2023 – 2025
2023 – 12
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:“46.500 oder Was heißt zurückgeben im 21. Jahrhundert?”
in cooperation with AFRIEUROTEXT
FLUCC Praterstern
1020 Wien
December 20, 2023 – January 18, 2024
Opening: Tuesday, December 19, 2023
7 PM
11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber in conversation with Elke Krasny“Secession Podcast Members”
Wiener Secession
Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Vienna
November 2, 2023
09
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:“Darkroom of Educational Modernism: On Form & Function”
station urbaner kulturen / nGbK Hellersdorf
Auerbacher Ring 41
12619 Berlin
Entrance on Kastanienboulevard
September 15, 2023 - January 20, 2024
Opening: Thursday, September 14, 2023
7 PM
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Urban Subjects participate in“Place Internationale Hellersdorf”
station urbaner kulturen /
nGbK Hellersdorf im Kultursommer 2023
Maxie-Wander-Straße / Ecke Carola-Neher-Straße
12619 Berlin
August 27, 2023
Noon – 10 PM
08
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber with Secretariat for Ghosts, Archival Politics and Gaps (Nina Höchtl & Julia Wieger) and the band He Was a She (Elke Bitter, Judith Wiesbauer-Klieber, and Martin Wiesbauer) contribute to“Tuesday@Secession series”
Wiener Secession
Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Vienna
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
8 PM
06
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: the video “Z_orb” is part of the program“Utopie Heute – Kippmomente der Gegenwart”
including works by Anna Jermolaewa, Nicolas Jasmin,
nagl∼wintersberger, Kay Walkowiak and Marko Zink.
Curated by Walter Seidl for “videocity.bs”
REX Box
Kino REX
Schwanengasse 9
3011 Bern
June 1 – June 28, 2023
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber contribute to the project“School of the Future”
station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf
Auerbacher Ring 41
12619 Berlin Hellersdorf
March – May, 2023
2022 – 11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber in dialog with Ricarda Denzer and Jo Schmeiser“book presentation”
Bildungsmoderne entzaubern. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt,
Unsettling Educational Modernism. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Wiener Secession
Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Vienna
November 29, 2022
7 PM
11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: contributing to “IG Editionen Hängung #03”IG Bildende Kunst
Gumpendorfer Straße 10-12,
1060 Vienna, Austria
November 24, 2022 – February 24, 2023
Opening: November 24, 2022
6 PM
07
Guests & Hosts: “MODERNISM”A contribution to The Capilano Review Summer 2022: 50th Anniversary Issue 2/3
July, 2022
06
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: essay on “Architecture and its educational turn” (1 – 08)is published in CARTHA magazine Learning Architecture I
June, 2022
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Architekturen der Bildungsmoderne –Asynchrone Räume des Wissens”
is published in:
Barboza, Amalia und Dauss, Markus (Hrsg.): “Konzept Campus: Transformationen
des universitären Feldes,”
Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net
May 30, 2022
05
Sabine Bitter and Jeff Derksen join the panel discussion“Spaces of No Control”
with Francis Ruyter (artist), Walter Seidl (curator), and Kay Walkowiak (artist)
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street,
New York, NY 10022
7 PM
May 3, 2022
04
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:screening of “Living Megastructures”
at “Stealing the Stolen”
Krems – Donaufestival 2022
“Short Film Programme”
Kino im Kesselhaus
Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Donau-Universität Krems)
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
3500 Krems an der Donau
Austria
01 30 PM
April 30, 2022
04
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:contributing to “too much light is blinding”
Curated by Claudette Lauzon
SFU Woodward’s
149 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada
April 10 – May 8, 2022
04
Workshop:“Whose Land are You on? #2”
Organized by June Scudeler, with Treena Chambers and with Sabine Bitter
Part of the project “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”
Simon Fraser University Burnaby Campus
Convocation Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Friday, April 8, 2022; 1 – 5 PM
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:“A Monument Beyond Itself”
Curated by Denise Oleksijczuk
The Cabinet: 4th floor – SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver
Canada
March 11 – April 7, 2022
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Guests & Hostscontributing to “Bildungsschock | Lernen, Politik und Architektur in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren”
vai Vorarlberger Architektur Institut
Marktstraße 33,
6850 Dornbirn
Austria
March 5 – Juni 25, 2022
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Guests & Hosts“Unsettling EDUCATIONAL MODERNISM”
Book presentation and conversation between June Scudeler, Treena Chambers, Toni-Leah Yake, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber
Co-presented by SCA and SFU Galleries
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre –
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts & ZOOM
149 West Hastings St.
Vancouver
Canada
March 4, 2022
2021 – 11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber join the celebration and exhibition:“40 YEARS OF FOTOGALERIE WIEN”
Fotogalerie Wien
Währinger Strasse 59/WUK
1090 Vienna
Austria
November 23, 2021 – January 15, 2022
10
Ruth Sonderegger, Michael Klein, and Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber discuss “Wo seid ihr Kommunard*innen?” – their contribution to the magazine dérive, Issue 84 (July – September 2021): “Place Internationale – Urbane Kämpfe von der Pariser Commune bis heute”and present Peter Watkins` film “La Commune” at WIFAR – Wiener Filmarchiv der Arbeiterbewegung.
A contribution to the festival urbanize! 2021.
1020 Vienna – Nordwestbahnhof
Austria
October 6 – 10, 2021
09
Urban Subjects participate in the Forum Freies Theater (FFT) city laboratory project:“Place Internationale, The 73 Days of the Commune” at Planwerkstatt 378
and various locations throughout the city of Düsseldorf.
Funded by “Kulturstiftung des Bundes”
FFT Düsseldorf
Germany
September 03 – October 02, 2021
09
Sabine Bitter: Talk and exhibition tour: "Performing Educational Modernism "SAAG Southern Alberta Art Gallery
honoured to receive in 2020 the Blackfoot name "Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin"
601 3 Avenue S
Lethbridge, AB
T1J 0H4
Canada
Thursday, September 02, 2021; 6:00 PM
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Michael Klein, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: contribution to the magazine dérive "Place Internationale - Urbane Kämpfe von der Pariser Commune bis heute "dérive, Issue 84 (July - September 2021)
Mayergasse 5/12
1020 Vienna
Austria
07
Urban Subjects in conversation with Max Fields: "Creative Conversations"Held in conjunction with the exhibition "Public Life: Recording the Blur."
FotoFest
2000 Edwards Street Building C, Suite 2
Houston, Texas 77007
USA
July 31, 2021
07
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: soloexhibition "Performing Educational Modernism "SAAG Southern Alberta Art Gallery
honoured to receive in 2020 the Blackfoot name "Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin"
601 3 Avenue S
Lethbridge, AB
T1J 0H4
Canada
July 3 - September 12, 2021
07
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: "Z_orb, 1998/2000" is part of the exhibition " "Die Körper und der Raum"aut. architektur und tirol
im Adambräu/Südbahnstraße
Lois-Welzenbacher-Platz 1
6020 Innsbruck
July 2 - September 18, 2021
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue "Die Körper und der Raum"
Thursday, September 16, 2021; 7:00 PM
06
Talk: “Educational Institutions” with Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber/Klaus Ronneberger, Eva Hertzsch/Adam Page, Tom Holert.ngbk, station urbaner kulturen,
Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin – Hellersdorf
June 26, 2021
06
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Handling Histories” contributes to the publication“KILOBASE BUCHAREST A-Z”
edited by Sandra Demetrescu & Dragoș Olea
published by PUNCH
Bucharest
June, 2021
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and Guests & Hosts participate in the exhibition“Education Shock - Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s”
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
May 27 – July 11, 2021
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: "Image_source_vie, 2001" contributes to the SFU BFA Project 2021 "Images that Take, Images that Give."With further works by Heba Y. Amin, Debbie Chan, Sena Cleave, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti), Aakansha Ghosh, Sofia Grace, Shinaaz K. Johal, Ritz Li, Daniel Lin, Quinn Lumsden, Sahar Rahmanian, Oliver Ressler, Ravneet Kaur Sidhu, Paige Smith, Xiaotong Sun (Shiny), Lil Waldegger, and Yunze Xie (David).
This exhibition takes place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Audain Gallery
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W Hastings St,
Vancouver, CA
March 18 – 27, 2021
03
Urban Subjects: “If Time Is Still Alive”exhibition curated for “Die Stadt und das Gute Leben”
a project by Camera Austria for Graz Kulturjahr 2020.
With contributions by Amanda Strong and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Black Quantum Futurism Collective (Camae Ayewa und Rasheedah Phillips), Ultra-red, School of Temporalities (Maja Bekan, Annette Krauss, Julia Wieger), and Eva Egermann.
Camera Austria
Lendkai 1, Graz, Austria
March 12 – May 23, 2021
02
“Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber/ Guests and Hosts: Unsettling Educational Modernism”published within the ongoing artistic research project
“Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”.
With essays by Treena Chambers, June Scudeler, Sabine Bitter, and Helmut Weber.
adocs publishing, Hamburg, in cooperation with Edition Camera Austria, Graz
February 2021
01
“Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Bildungsmoderne entzaubern”published within the framework of their ongoing artistic research in
“Bildungsmoderne – Architekturen und Räume des Wissens”.
With essays by Ruth Horak, Klaus Ronneberger, and Bitter & Weber.
adocs publishing, Hamburg, in cooperation with Edition Camera Austria, Graz
January 2021
Recommended by Sophie Jung in BauNetz, Berlin.
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Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Performing Publicness”is published in the catalogue for the exhibition “Spaces of No Control”
edited by Walter Seidl for ACFNY.
With essays by Jeff Derksen, Francesca Gavin, Michael Haider, Simon Rees, and Walter Seidl.
Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna
January 2021
2020 – 12
Urban Subjects in conversation with Am Johal: “Below the Radar, Episode 95”Below the Radar, A Knowledge Democracy Podcast
produced by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Vancouver
December 7, 2020
10
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Park Avenue Plaza – Performing Publicness”part of the exhibition “Spaces of No Control”
with Tony Cokes, VALIE EXPORT, Hans Haacke, Francis Ruyter, Taryn Simon, Kay Walkowiak
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, New York,
NY 10022, USA
October 1, 2020 – February 19, 2021
10
Urban Subjects: “The Stars Above Us”contribution to the public art project “Kleine Post”
realised by
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich
October 2020
02
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: artist talk“Making Ruins”
Republic Gallery
732 Richards Street, Third Floor
Vancouver, Canada
February 01, 2020
2019 – 12
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:Prize of the City of Vienna for the Fine Arts 2019
“Preise der Stadt Wien”
December 05, 2019
12
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: lecture “Educational Modernism: Performing Archives of Learning”, at the conference“Education Shock”Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
November 30 —December 01, 2019
11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: exhibition“Making Ruins”at Republic Gallery
732 Richards Street, Third Floor Vancouver, Canada
Opening Reception: Friday November 15, 2019 I 6-8pm
November 15, 2019—January 18, 2020
11
Urban Subjects: contributing to the collaborative project “Die Stadt & Das gute Leben”at Camera Austria, Graz
within the framework of
“Graz Kulturjahr 2020”
November 2019—February 2021
09
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: lecture “The Handling of Histories”within the Art NOW series at the University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
September 23, 2019
07
Urban Subjects: “It’s Never Too Late to Speculate” exhibition curated for “IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETTS”With contributions by: Edgar Arceneaux (US), Zanny Begg (AU) and Oliver Ressler (AT), Jamie Hilder (CA), Vanessa Kwan with Diyan Achjadi (CA), Kathy Slade (CA), The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne) (US), Urban Subjects (CA/AT).
fluc
Praterstern 5, Vienna, Austria
billboards outside 24/7, videos inside 8pm – 4am
July 2019
06
Urban Subjects: “We Hope this Does Not Make Us Sad: Architecture and Design in the Plutocratic Age,” a research exhibition/contribution to“Economy of Architecture / Architecture of Economy for halfway“
halfway
Halbgasse 3-5
1070 Vienna, Austria
June 2019
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “On Formation”part of the exhibition “Urbane Zonen / Zones Urbaines”
with Mohamed Bourouissa, Claudia Larcher, Lise Sarfati, Aglaia Konrad
FOTO WIEN 2019
Österreichische Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Vienna, Austria
March 20, 2019 – April 6, 2019
01
Urban Subjects: contributing to the exhibition“Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects”Galleria del Progetto
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
January 18, 2019 – February 6, 2019
01
Urban Subjects: contributing to “Spatialization 1 at halfway”halfway
Halbgasse 3-5
1070 Vienna, Austria
January 8, 2019 – January 19, 2019
2018 – 11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Super_Citizens”contributing to the exhibition“Camera Austria International.
Laboratory for Photography and Theory”
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Moenchsberg 32
5020 Salzburg, Austria
November 23, 2018 – March 3, 2019
10
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “The Handling of Histories”contributing to the exhibition“Structures of Thought”
with VALIE EXPORT, Sonja Gangl, Maria Hahnenkamp, Christoph Weber, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig
curated by Walter Seidl, in collaboration with Maria Vassileva
Struktura Gallery
9, Kuzman Shapkarev Str.
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
October 25 – December 8, 2018
10
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber:“Werkschau XXIII”
Works from 1994 to 2018
Fotogalerie Wien
Währinger Strasse 59/WUK,
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
October 16 – November 17, 2018
06
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Un_formal Housing”contributing to the exhibition“CITY FABRICS”
with Oliver Ressler, Francis Ruyter, and Kamen Stoyanov
ARCC.at
Kaiserstrasse 76
A – 1070 Vienna, Austria
June 20 – July 27, 2018
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: participate in“Baukultur-Stammtisch #5 in der kulturtankstelle”
with Social Design Studio | University Applied Arts Vienna,
and filmmakers Elisabeth Guggenberger and Helmut Voitl.
Organized by afo – Architecture Forum Upper Austria
kulturtankstelle Dametzstraße 14 4020 Linz, Austria
May 02, 2018
03
“FLEETING TERRITORIES – MAPPING MALTA”A project by Klaus Schafler (AT), Jonatan Habib Engqvist (SE),
Sabine Bitter (AT/CA) with students from Simon Fraser University`s
School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, and Helmut Weber (AT).
In collaboration with Joseph Schiro, Malta Map Society (MA),
and writer and researcher Greta Muscat Azzopardi (MA).
Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture
On view in public spaces and in the exhibition “Dal-Bahar Madwarha”
St Elmo Examinations Center, Valletta, Malta
March 10 – July 1, 2018
02
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: “Making Ruins” in“IN DIE STADT”
Carinthian Museum of Modern Art Burggasse 8/Domgasse A – 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Opening: February 07, 7PM February 08 – May 20, 2018
Exhibition catalogue “In die Stadt”Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna
2017 – 09
Grammar of Urgencies in collaborationwith Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber participate in
“Fleeting Territories”
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Herrengasse 13 A-1014 Vienna, Austria
September 28 – December 9, 2017
TALK with Klaus Schafler, RESANITA, Michael Hofstätter, and Bitter & Weber:
SA October 07, 7PM (Long Nights of Museums)
09
Out now!Sincerity, Camera Austria 139 – 2017 Guest edited by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber)
07
“Viele Punkte ergeben noch keine Linie”with Monika Mokre, Barbara Zehnpfennig, Jochen Becker, and Alice Dittmar, Pia Lanzinger, Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, Michael Hauffen, Echo Ho, Zora Kreuzer, Jürgen Kufner, Mohamed Mouaz, and PRINZpod.
Curated by Ingeborg Habereder and Alice Dittmar
Schmugglerzentrale, Innstrasse 3, 4783, Wernstein/Inn, Austria
July 22, 23 – September 10, 2017
07
“STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES” – A PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE by Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, and Nicole Six / Paul Petritsch Curated by Walter SeidlFLUCA: AUSTRIAN CULTURAL PAVILION 38, Otets Paisiy Str., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
July 15 – August 31, 2017
05
“The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City” brought to Vancouver on the initiative ofSabine Bitter and Jeff Derksen (Urban Subjects)
“The Vienna Model in Vancouver”
MOV, Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3J9, Canada
May 17 – July 16, 2017
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber with Edgar ArceneauxAs a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive Mackey Garage Top
1137 S Cochran Ave Los Angeles, CA 90019
May 11- July 30, 2017
04
Phantastischer Kapitalismuswith Halil Altindere, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Laura Horelli, Sven Johne, Johanna & Helmut Kandl, Pia Lanzinger, Ralo Mayer, Karina Nimmerfall, Oliver Ressler, Isa Rosenberger, Christoph Schäfer, Kamen Stoyanov, Moira Zoitl, Cinéma Copains, Etcétera
GPL-contemporary Sonnenfelsgasse 6 1010 Vienna, Austria
April 28 – June 02, 2017
03
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: contribute to“einfach alltäglich”
aut, architektur und tirol
Lois-Welzenbacher-Platz 1
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
March 03 – June 03, 2017
2016 – 11
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: participate in the exhibit“AWAY” a project around residencies
Former k. und k. Post- und Telegraph Office Zollergasse 31
1070 Vienna, Austria
November 10 – Dezember 10, 2016
09
“What is left?” group exhibition curated by Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidlfrei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna Artists: Halil Altindere (TR), Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber (A/CAN), Jan De Cock (B), Petra Gerschner (D), Mona Hatoum (PS/GB), Khaled Ramadan* (LB), Sener Özmen (TR), Dimitar Solakov (BG), Nasan Tur (D/TR)
September 23 – November 20, 2016
07
As You Live HereNo. 06 thirstDays: love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context July 28, 2016 at VIVO, Vancouver
Curated by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter + Jeff Derksen + Helmut Weber) Works from/selected by Lisa Arrastia, Ricardo Basbaum, Raymond Boisjoly, Alice Dittmar, Phinder Dulai, Henry Hills, Souhei Imamura + students of Chiba Institute of Technology, Pia Lanzinger, Suzana Milevska + Sašo Stanojkoviќ, Cecily Nicholson, Anahita Jamali Rad, Fiona Whitty + Jude Anogwih, Cansu Yapici + Mücella Yapici
ThirstDays is a monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events. Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum
07
Internationale Konferenz: Wissensräume. Der Campus und seine ArchitekturKunstgeschichtliches Institut Frankfurt am Main 22. und 23. Juli 2016, Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität
Konferenz der Studiengruppe „Architektonischer Affekt und gebaute Imagination“ des FZHG Frankfurt und des „Atelier de Recherche“ an der Fachrichtung Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität des Saarlandes
07
Architektur.Philosophie.Politik Gründe haben.Festwochen Gmunden Schwerpunkt Architektur 16. und 17. Juli 2016
Reflexionen, Gespräche und Begegnungen: Der Themenschwerpunkt versteht sich als Plattform geistiger Auseinandersetzung im Themenfeld der Architektur: Aus den Blickwinkeln unterschiedlicher Disziplinen werden Fragestellungen zum Thema behandelt. Mit Peter Riepl, Dietmar Eberle, Michael Ludwig, Franz Schuh, Bettina Götz, Rudolf Kohoutek, Kristina Schinegger, Lorenz Potocnik, Heinz Plöderl, Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber und Knut Boeser. Moderation: Günter Kaindlstorfer
06
THE VIENNA MODELHousing for the 21st Century City
Aedes Architecture Forum
The Vienna Model @ AEDES, 12/06/2016
Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Opening: Sunday June 12th, 11 AM
Exhibition: June 13 – August 11, 2016
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut WeberTrophäen ihrer Exzellenz Ausstellung im SCHAURAUM Angewandte
quartier21 im MQ, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien
26.Mai - 3.Jul 2016, tgl. daily 10-22:00
Eröffnung: 25. Mai 19 Uhr
Zur Ausstellung spricht Ruth Horak, Kunsthistorikerin, Wien.
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut WeberHabitat, oder “Wie wir wohnen wollen”
BUWOG-Zentrale mit Fassaden-Kunstprojekt
1130 Wien, Hietzinger Kai 131
Mai – Sommer 2016
05
Sabine Bitter & Helmut WeberInstabile Repräsentationen
Vortrag im Labor für Kunst und Forschung am Instituts für Kunst und Kunsttheorie / Intermedia der Universität zu Köln
Freitag, 06.05.2016
19:00
04
Sabine Bitter & Helmut WeberHenri Lefebvre in New Belgrade
solo exhibition at GPLcontemporary Space IV
1040 Vienna, Pressgasse 30
opening April 13, 7 PM
14. April – 28. Mai 2016
Do – Fr 15 – 18 Uhr
Sa 11 – 16 Uhr
04
“Architekturen der Bildungsmoderne: asynchrone Räume des Wissens”Part of a panel at the symposium
“Un_University”
Heiligenkreuzer Hof
Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Wien April 12, 6pm – 9:30pm
04
Viennese GalleryGPLcontemporary
announces the new direction of its program: on the occasion of its 55th year anniversary GPLcontemporary will work with new artists who raise crucial social and political questions: Linda Bilda, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Oliver Ressler and Isa Rosenberger.
1010 Vienna, Sonnenfelsgasse 6
01
Artist Talk: Bitter & Weber“Die Disziplin der Auflösung”
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Department of Digital Arts
Expositur Sterngasse 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria,
January 21, 2015; 2 PM
2015 – 12
Bitter & Weber together with Maren Richterjoin the eighth salon of
“theatercombinat – let’s talk about work, honey!”
LesSOUTERRAINs!, Vienna, Austria,
December 1, 2015
11
Bitter & Weber: 2015 Landeskulturpreis Interdisziplinaere Kunstformendes Landes Oberoesterreich.
Participation in the exhibition“Preise und Talente”
OOe Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria,
November 18, 2015 – January 16, 2016
10
Urban Subjects, editors:“The Militant Image Reader”
Edition Camera Austria, Graz
October 23, 2015
10
Urban Subjects contributes to the projectand conference:“Urgent Imagination”
The Western Front, Vancouver, CA
October 2 – 3, 2015
06
Bitter & Weber contribute to “one man- one note” re/calling Siachilabaat Deutschvilla Strobl, Austria
June 12 – July 19, 2015
06
Urban Subjects joins with “The Militant Image Workshop”the “Workers Writers Summer School” on Governor´s Island, NYC
June 13 – 14, 2015
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Bitter & Weber “The Templeton Five Affair, March 1967” at Teck Gallery, Harbour Centre, Vancouver June 3, 2015 – April 30, 2016Part of “Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015”
SFU Galleries, Vancouver
Urban Subjects contribute to a multi-part poster project in addition to
the “Through a Window” exhibitions.
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Group exhibition “New Conjunctions and Intersections” at The United Nations Headquarters in New York June 1 – 15, 201505
Contributing to SOS Mitmensch “Benefizauktion zeitgenössischer Kunst 2015” Großer Kassensaal der Bawag P.S.K. / Österreichischen Postsparkasse Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien May 5, 201504
Screening of “NEW, Novi Beograd 1948 – 1986 – 2006” within the film program of the conference “WENDEN in den Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften” Universität zu Köln April 17 – April 18, 201504
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber are at a 3-month artists’ residency from The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria at the Studio Grand Chelsea, New York City April 2 – June 30, 201504
Group exhibition “Informal Paths” A project by SMU-research and the French writer Philippe Vasset. At Gallery 2bisMAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts Via Guido Reni, 4 A, 00196 Roma April 2 – May 3, 2015
ROUND TABLE -Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 7.00 pm
Hanru Hou | SMU-research: J. Becker, C. Cellamare, C. Hannusek, A. Lanzetta, A. Perin, S.Perin | Philippe Vasset | Alison Crawshaw | Helmut Weber | Hartmut Burggrabe
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Talk by Reinhard Braun – Camera Austria and Urban Subjects“Picturing What Is Already Going On, Or The Poetics of the Militant Image” within the framework of Artistic Research Practices l’ARP-ALBA Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, ALBA Beirut, Lebanon Thursday March 19, 2015
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Group exhibition “Vienna for Art’s Sake!” Belvedere, Winter Palace Himmelpfortgasse 8, 1010 Vienna, Austria February 27 – May 31, 20152014 – 10
Group exhibition “Self Made Urbanism Rome”part of S.M.U.R, Informal Common Grounds 2014 A project by: S.M.U.R. in collaboration with Teatro Valle Occupato and Metropoliz. At Goethe-Institut Rom, Via Savoia 15, and Metropoliz, Via Prenestina 913, Rome October 22 – October 26, 2014
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Researching the Militant Image – Workshop by Urban Subjects (CA/AT),part of steirische herbst Academy 2014 Guests:Reinhard Braun (A), Marina Gržinić (SI), Jaleh Mansoor (CA), Stefan Römer (DE), Sandra Schäfer (DE) in collaboration with Camera Austria 1st Floor, Festivalzentrum, Paulustorgasse 8 8010 Graz, Austria October 9 & October 10, 2014
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Urban Subjects curate “The Militant Image” in collaboration with Camera Austria Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria September 28 – November 11, 201409
Group exhibition “Parallel Borders 1 – Monuments & Shrines to Capitalism” Forum Stadtpark Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz, Austria September 27 – October 18, 201409
Group exhibition “Archives, Re-Assemblances, and Surveys “ Galerija Klovićevi dvori Jesuit Square 4, Zagreb, Croatia September 10 – November 2, 2014Museum of Fine Arts
European Avenue 9, Osijek, Croatia
November 7 – November 16, 2014
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Group exhibition “Punctum Reflections on Photography” Salzburger Kunstverein Hellbrunner Straße 3, Salzburg, Austria July 26 – September 21, 201403
Urban Subjects at “Visual Activism symposium” presented by the International Association for Visual Culturein collaboration with SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Friday, March 14, 2014, 9am–7pm Saturday, March 15, 2014, 9am–6pm
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Group exhibition “I and the others, Collection on Display VI” Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg 32, Salzburg, Austria February 1 – May 18, 201402
Urban Subjects contribute to the series of talks “Spaces of Contestation” “What is Already Going On” SFU Woodwards, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver,Canada February 5, 2014, 7pm2013 – 11
Symposium “Memory acts: Trans-disciplinary Strategies Towards a New Memory Praxis” Valand School of Fine Arts Vasagatan 50, Glass house, Gothenburg, Sweden November 7 – 8, 201311
Group exhibition “In The Future Art Will Be A Lower Class Phenomenon” Aa collections Burggasse 68 4-a, 1070 Vienna November 8 – 16, 2013 Opening November 7, 7pm10
Group exhibition “Tensta Museum: Reports from new Sweden” Tensta konsthall Taxingegrand 10, 163 04 Spanga, Sweden October 26, 2013 – May 18, 201410
Roundtable: “Pasolini & Autogestione” with Klaus Ronneberger and Helmut Weber S.M.U.R. Informal Common Grounds of a Metropolitan Area at NGBK Berlin, Oranienstr.25, 10999 Berlin October 19, 2013; 8pm09
Group exhibition “Self Made Urbanism Rome” S.M.U.R. Informal Common Grounds of a Metropolitan Area at NGBK Berlin, Oranienstr.25, 10999 Berlin September 14 – November 3, 201307
An expanded German version of the essay on “The Spaces and Temporalities of Dual Power and Autogestion in Gramoven, Caracas” by Urban Subjects has been published in “Caracas, sozialisierende Stadt”, edited by Dario Azzelini, Stephan Lanz, Kathrin Wildner (Berlin: b_books, 2013).06
Lecture: Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber “Occupy Modernity” within the series of lectures “Potentialitaeten des Urbanen” UdN – Universität der Nachbarschaften Rotenhäuser Damm 30 21107 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg / Reiherstiegviertel June 13, 201306
Solo exhibition: Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber “Front, Field, Line, Plane. Researching the Militant Image “ Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg Scharnhorststr.1, D – 21332 Lüneburg June 7 – July 7, 2013Based on the research project
“Filling the Weak Points”
by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter / Jeff Derksen / Helmut Weber) with students of Leuphana University of Lüneburg in cooperation with Leuphana Arts Program and Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
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Group exhibition “The Vienna Model” Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 East 52 Street April 17 – September 2, 2013 Paneldiscussion: “The Role of Arts in Housing Developments” April 17, 12pm03
Group exhibition “The First Ten Years of Lentos” LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria03
Group exhibition “The Territorial Complex” Art Lab / Open Systems2012 – 10
“Filling the Weak Points” – On ‘autogestion’ and ‘horizontalidad’ by Urban Subjects in cooperation with Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Leuphana Arts Program. Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber) are artists in residence at the Leuphana Arts Program in 2012/201310
Group exhibition “EYES ON THE CITY” stadtmuseum graz Sackstrasse 18, Graz, Austria October 13, 2012 – March 31, 201310
Group exhibition “An Era of Discontent: Art as Occupation” Kamloops Art Gallery 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada October 12 – December 31, 201209
Group exhibition “Urban Territories” 0gms Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria September 28 – November 24, 201209
Group exhibition “TIME, PLACE, AND THE CAMERA: PHOTOGRAPHS AT WORK “ Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo September 7 – October 7, 201208
Out Now: “Faith Is The Place” metroZones (Ed.): b_books, Berlin.05
Group exhibition “Our Haus” Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Opening:May 16, 7 – 9 PM May 17 – August 26, 201205
“SOS Mitmensch kunst:Auktion 2012” Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7 PM Großer Kassensaal der Österreichischen Postsparkasse Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien04
Group exhibition “Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces” UTAC, University of Toronto art centre April 28 – June 30, 201204
“Super Students #1” Billboard-project for Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2012:Public at The Power Plant’s south façade Harbourfront centre, 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto April 28 – June 30, 201203
Group exhibition “Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade” Artists project for “Dissenting Histories: 25 Years of The Power Plant” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Harbourfront centre, 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto March 24 – June 18, 201203
Group exhibition “Common History and Its Private Stories. Geschichte und Geschichten” Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia March 14 – April 15, 201202
“A SIGN FOR THE CITY” - Calendar online02
“Global Prayers – Redemption and Liberation in the City”Get the detailed program guide
Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foste-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin February 23 – 26, 2012
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Group exhibition “On Screen” FOTOHOF Gallery Inge-Morath-Platz 1-3, SalzburgFebruary 24 – April 7, 2012
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Group exhibition “The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers” Camera Austria Lendkai 1, GrazOpening: January 27, 7 pm
January 28 – April 01, 2012
2011 – 12
Group exhibition “ENVISIONING BUILDINGS, Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography” MAK, Applied Arts/Contemporary Arts Stubenring 5, A-1010 ViennaOpening: December 6, 7 pm
December 7, 2011 – April 22, 2012
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Group exhibition “The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers” Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst | NGBK Oranienstr. 25 | D-10999 BerlinOpening: November 11, 7 pm
November 12, 2011 – January 8, 2012
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Group exhibition “Barocco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art”Museum London,
Ontario, CA
October 8, 2011 – Janurary 1, 2012
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Teaching at the Salzburg International Summer Academy: Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber Urban Wish – ProductionJuly 18 – August 6, 2011
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Participating in the Research Project Global Prayers – Redemption and Liberation in the City:Workshop BEIRUT
June 2011
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Participating in globalPrayers.Saloon #2 Künstlerische Aufnahmen. Urban Prayers erforschen.With Gilles Aubry (Berlin), Katja Eydel (Berlin), and Helmut Draxler (Kunsthistoriker, Berlin).
NGBK Berlin
May 27, 2011
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Softlaunch: Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber present A SIGN FOR THE CITYThe Calendar – Notebook
at the Audain Gallery
149 West Hastings Street, SFU Woodward’s, Vancouver
4pm – 6pm
Saturday May 21, 2011
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A SIGN FOR THE CITYMay 2011 – April 2012
The a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber is launched on the occasion of Vancouver’s 125th anniversary. Presented by The Vancouver Public Art Program.
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The publication Momentarily: Learning from Vancouver. is now available online at The Western Front: Media Arts04
TALK: Neil Smith The Revolutionary Imperative BOOKLAUNCH Momentarily: Learning from Vancouver “602,000: works on housing” Urban Subjects residency and emergent exhibition at VIVO Media Arts Centre1965 Main St. Vancouver
Sunday April 17, 7pm
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Group exhibition “Communitas. The Unrepresentable Community” Camera Austria, Graz, Austria04
NOWISWERE Issue #9 Contemporary Art Magazine04
Launch of “globalPrayers.Saloon #1: Urban Cultures ausstellen.” We are invited to join this transdidisciplinary, transregionally comparative research and cultural project “Global Prayers-Redemption and Liberation in the City.” It is initiated by metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs e.V and executed jointly by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Europa-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, GermanyMarch 7, 2011
HKW Berlin
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“602,000: works on housing” Urban Subjects residency and emergent exhibition at VIVO Media Arts Centre 1965 Main St. Vancouver February 25– April 29 2011 Opening: Feb 25 2011, 7-10pm02
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber: “Recall: Architecture and its Publicness.” Large scale wallpaper for the group exhibition: “WE: VANCOUVER”Bitter & Weber and Urban Subjects with Neil Smith are contributing to
“WE: VANCOUVER. 12 MANIFESTOS FOR THE CITY”
at Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
February 12 – May 1, 2011
2010 – 11
Group exhibition "Critical Complicity" at Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien, Vienna November 11 – December 18, 201010
Contributing to derive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung urbanize! Internationales Festival für urbane Erkundungen October 1- October 10, 2010, Vienna "Die Stadt ins Werk setzen" with Elke Krasny, Klaus Ronneberger, and Bitter/Weber Presentation of "Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade" and screening of "NEW Novi Beograd 1948 – 1986 – 2006" by Bitter/Weber09
Group exhibition "Work With, Visual Art Faculty Exhibition" at Audain Gallery SFU Woodward’s, Vancouver, Canada September 7 – September 26, 2010 Opening Reception September 24, 5 – 8 pm09
Group exhibition "PSYCHOANALYSIS, Gazes on Photo and Video Art from Austria" Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan September 18 – November 28, 201009
Group exhibition "2 OR 3 THINGS, WE´VE LEARNEDIntersections of Art, Pedagogy and Protest" at Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria September 15 – October 29, 2010 (extended to November 5 !)
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Group exhibition "PSYCHOANALYSIS" at Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya May 29 -August 1, 2010 Opening May 29, 11 am – 7 pm05
Group exhibition Urban Subjects is contributing to "Dorm" The Model, Sligo, Ireland May 2 – July 4, 201004
Guest Creator Project Program at Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama on "Studies in Metabolism" April – May 201004
Co- presentation with Klaus Ronneberger "Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade" at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart April 8, 2010, 7 pm03
Solo exhibition Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber "The University Paradox" at Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna March 18 – April 24, 201003
Group exhibition "Process Wall, Part 1" at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart March 26 – December 31, 201002
Group exhibition "Upon Arrival. Spatial Explorations" at Malta Contemporary Art, Valetta, Malta February 11 – March 14, 201001
Group exhibition "…in a most dangerous manner" at SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio, USA January 29 – March 26, 201001
Group exhibition "Learning from Vancouver". Bik Van der Pol and Urban Subjects at The Western Front, Vancouver, CA January 30 – March 6, 201001
Co-presentation and panel discussion on "Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade" at Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna January 13, 2010, 7 pm01
Co-Presentation "Micropolitics_Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade" at galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb January 11, 2010, 7 pm2009 – 11
Book Launch: "Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade" and "Right, to the City" at READ Books, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver November 24, 2009, 7 pm11
Contributing to the magazine "Time Festival 09, TIME IS A BOOK" Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 21, 9000 Gent, Belgium November 13 – November 28, 200910
Curating the annual students exhibition "BestOff 09" at the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz, A October 29 – November 15, 200910
Group exhibition "The Fragility of Being" at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum, A October 24, 2009 – January 10, 201010
Contributing to "metroZones.SALOON 3, Lefebvre in Neu-Belgrad, Autogestion/Selbstverwaltung & das Recht auf Stadt" organized by metroZones, at Pro qm bookshop, Berlin October16, 200909
Group exhibition "Strange Places, Sub/Urban Photography as Alternative Urbanism"at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK September 30 – November 21, 2009
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Group exhibition T.I.C.A.B – Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual, Episode 2, Cities log curated by STEALTH.unlimited September 25 – October 22, 200909
Group exhibition "The Matrix, An Unstable Reality" at Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana; within the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts September 04 – October 25, 200907
Soloexhibition"Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber
RIGHT, TO THE CITY" with a comment by Jochen Becker at Landesgalerie Linz Opening: Wed July 08, 2009 7 pm July 09 – September 13, 2009
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Group exhibition "Common History and Its Private Stories. Geschichte und Geschichten" at MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna Opening: Thu June 25, 2009 7 pm June 26 – October 03, 200906
Contributing to "Global prayers to go;Salvation and Liberation in the Megacities of the World" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin researchproject by metroZones June 02 -June 03, 2009
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Group exhibition "KREUZUNGSPUNKT LINZ.Junge Kunst und Meisterwerke" at Lentos, Art Museu, Linz May 30 – August 09, 2009
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Group exhibition "talk talk – Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis" at HGB Leipzig May 27 – June 27, 200905
Group exhibition "Fragility of Being. Works from the Collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg" at MNAC, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest May 12 -August 16, 200905
Group exhibition "ISLANDS+GHETTOS"at stadtmuseumgraz, Graz May 08 -October 04, 2009