Sabine Bitter
Sabine Bitter (* 1960 , in Aigen , Upper Austria) is an Austrian photographer and visual artist.
Live and act
Sabine Bitter studied at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . She received a diploma in 1987 as Magister / Magistra Artium (Master of Fine Arts) in the master class “Visual Design” with Laurids Ortner ( HausRucker co ). From 1987 to 1994 there were national and international exhibitions in the medium of artistic photography . Collaboration with Helmut Weber since 1994. In their research-oriented projects, they work on urban geographies, architectural representations and associated visual politics. In 2004 they founded the research collective Urban Subjects with Jeff Derksen. Sabine Bitter has been Full Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada since 2018 . Sabine Bitter lives and works in Vienna and Vancouver .
Awards, grants, research projects
Her work has been supported by numerous research grants and scholarships abroad, including the 1992 Römerquelle Competition 1st Prize Photography, 1994–1995 PS1 Studio Program, New York City . In 2004 she was awarded the State Culture Prize for Artistic Photography, Province of Upper Austria.
Together with Helmut Weber (selection)
- 1998 Artists Residency, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
- 2003 CARACASCASE, and the culture of the informal city, residency and research project German Federal Cultural Foundation and CaracasThinkTank, Venezuela
- 2004 Studio Grant Chicago, foreign scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, Austria
- 2005 MAK Schindler Scholarship Program in Los Angeles
- 2005 Prize for Artistic Photography ( Austrian Art Prize for Artistic Photography )
- 2015 State Culture Prize Upper Austria for interdisciplinary art forms
- 2015 Foreign scholarship photography, New York , Federal Chancellery Austria
- 2017–2020 Urban Subjects: "Architektur der Ökonomie", cooperation partner in the research project "Curating the Urban", Program for Arts-based Research, PEEK
- 2019 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts
- 2019 “Performing Archives of Learning”, Canada Council Research Creation Grant, Canada
- 2019-2021 “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies” artistic research project, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
- 2019–2021 "Educational Modernism: architectures and spaces of knowledge", research grant from the Federal Chancellery, Austria
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1989 "On the Wall" Gallery New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- 1991 Galerie Fotohof , Salzburg, Austria
- 1991 “no name arch.”, Galerie Faber, Vienna, Austria
- 1992 “An die Wand III”, Forum Stadtpark , Graz, Austria
- 1992 “The Direction to”, Gallery Insam, Vienna, Austria
Bitter / Weber exhibitions (selection)
- 1995 “On Condition”, Clocktower Gallery, New York City
- 2000 “CITYalias / constructing sites”, De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands
- 2005 “Live Like This!“, Camera Austria , Kunsthaus Graz , Austria
- 2009 "Bitter / Weber: Right, to the City" Landesgalerie Linz , Austria
- 2012 “A Sign for the City”, public art project, Vancouver, Canada
- 2013 “Front, Field, Line, Plane - Researching the Militant Image”, art space at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
- 2015 “The Templeton Five Affair, March 1967”, Teck Gallery, SFU Harbor Center, Vancouver, Canada
- 2016 “Trophies of Your Excellence”, SCHAURAUM Applied, quartier21, MuseumsQuartier , Vienna, Austria
- 2018 “Werkschau XXIII, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber“, Photo Gallery Vienna, Austria
- 2019 “Making Ruins”, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- 2021 Bitter / Weber, SAAG, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 1994 Phototriennale, Art Museum Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- 1994–1999 “Art & Construction”, OK, Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
- 1995 “LOTproject: Artistic Field Work”, webproject @art gallery, University Urbana Champaign, Illinois
- 1996 “Radical Pictures”, Neue Galerie Graz , Austria
- 1997 “Biennale Photography & Arts Visuels”, Liege, Belgium
- 1997 “Transversions”, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa
- 1998 “Close Echoes”, Krems Art Gallery, Prague City Gallery
- 2000 “Chile: Austria”, Museo des Belles Artes, Santiago, Chile
- 2001 “ARCHILAB Orleans 2001”, Orleans, France
- 2002 “RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY”, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
- 2003 “CaracasCase”, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
- 2004 “Formats”, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania
- 2005 “SIMULTAN”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
- 2006 “Urbi & Orbi” Biennale de la Photography Sedan, Sedan, France
- 2007 “21 Positions”, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
- 2008 “ISLANDS + GHETTOS”, Heidelberger Kunstverein , Heidelberg, Germany
- 2009 “Common History and Its Private Storie”, MUSA, Museum on Demand , Vienna, Austria
- 2010 “Gazes on Photo and Video Art from Austria, Psychoanalysis”, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
- 2011 “ENVISIONING BUILDINGS, Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography”, MAK, Museum for Applied Arts , Vienna, Austria
- 2011 “the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers”, New Society for Fine Arts | NGBK, Berlin
- 2012 “TIME, PLACE, AND THE CAMERA: PHOTOGRAPHS AT WORK | Gjon Mili ”, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
- 2012 “Our Haus”, Austrian Cultural Forum New York's ten year anniversary exhibition, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
- 2013 “Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden”, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 “Archives, Re-Assemblances and Surveys”, On Austrian Contemporary Photography, Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2015 “New Conjunctions and Intersections”, The United Nations Headquarters, New York
- 2015 “Vienna for Art's Sake”, Belvedere, Winter Palace, Vienna, Austria
- 2016 “What is left?”, Frei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier , Vienna, Austria
- 2017 “THE VIENNA MODEL. Housing for the 21st Century City ”, Museum of Vancouver , Vancouver
- 2018 “Camera Austria International”, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria
- 2018 “Fleeting Territories, Mapping Malta”, Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture, St Elmo Examinations Center, Valletta, Malta
- 2019 “On Spatializing Urban Conditions”, with Urban Subjects, halfway, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 “Contentious Objects / Ashamed Subjects”, with Urban Subjects, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 2021 “Education shock”, HKW, House of World Cultures , Berlin
Publications, work catalogs (selection)
- 1992 Sabine Bitter: An die Wand, Edition Camera Austria , Graz, ISBN 3-900508-09-7 .
- 1992 Sabine Bitter: In Direction, Galerie Grita Insam , Vienna
- 2004 Made in Venezuela, notes on the »Bolivarian Revolution«, Raul Zelik / Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, Association A - Hamburg office ISBN 3-935936-28-1
- 2005 BitterWeber: Live Like This !, Camera Austria , Graz, ISBN 3-900508-58-5 .
- 2005 “Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela”, Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt ISBN 3-86588-146-7
- 2009 Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, Eds. Urban Subjects, Sternberg Press, Berlin & Fillip, Vancouver ISBN 978-1-933128-77-1
- 2009 Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Right, to the city, Edition Fotohof, Salzburg ISBN 978-3-902675-32-3
- 2011 Momentarly: Learning from Mega-events. Edited by Urban Subjects, Alissa-Firth-Eagland, and Bik Van der Pol. Vancouver: Western Front
- 2015 The Militant Image Reader, edited by Urban Subjects and Camera Austria , Graz. Edition Camera Austria, Graz ISBN 978-3-902911-15-5
- 2016 Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Front, Field, Line, Plane. Researching the Militant Image. Adocs, Hamburg ISBN 978-3-943253-10-8
- 2017 Sincerity, edited by Urban Subjects, Camera Austria International, Issue 139. Graz, Austria
- 2018 Work Show XXIII: Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Photo Gallery Vienna ISBN 978-3-902725-45-5
Web links
- Website by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber http://www.lot.at/
- Urban Subjects website (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber) http://www.urbansubjects.org/
- Website from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts http://www.sfu.ca/sca/people/faculty.html#Sabine_Bitter
- Public Art Project, 125 Years Anniversary, Vancouver, Canada https://asignforthecity.ca/
- Literature by Sabine Bitter in the catalog of the German National Library https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&reset=true&referrerPosition=7&referrerResultId=%22bitter%22+and+%22sabine%22%26any&query=999753D11
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austrian Art Prize. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Info. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ Prize of the City of Vienna - Vienna History Wiki. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ BitterWeber: LIVE LIKE THIS! In: Camera Austria. Retrieved on July 6, 2020 (German).
- ^ Basis wien: basis wien - Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber. RIGHT, TO THE CITY. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ Art space at the University of Lüneburg. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ Trophies of your excellence - Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ SABINE BITTER & HELMUT WEBER. Retrieved on July 6, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Making Ruins. In: Republic Gallery. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ RADICAL PICTURES - Exhibition | New Gallery Graz. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Life like a hamster or an amphibian - or like a divorcee - derStandard.at. Accessed July 6, 2020 (Austrian German).
- ↑ basis wien: basis wien - Rethinking Photography. Narration and a new reduction. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ basis wien: basis wien - simultaneously. two collections of austrian photography from the holdings of the federal government and the museum der modern salzburg. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Festival 2006 | urbiorbi.photo. Retrieved on July 6, 2020 (Fri-FR).
- ↑ Islands and Ghettos | Federal Cultural Foundation. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ Basis wien: basis wien - Common History and Its Private Stories. History and stories. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Psychoanalysis: Gazes on Photo and Video Art from Austria opens. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ ENVISIONING BUILDINGS - MAK Museum Vienna. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers (2011) - nGbK archive. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ art agenda. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ Austrian Cultural Forum New York: EXHIBITION | OUR HOUSE. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Tensta konsthall. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ What is left? Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ The Vienna Model. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Camera Austria International Laboratory for Photography and Theory. In: Camera Austria. Retrieved on July 6, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Dal-Bahar Madwarha: Fleeting Territories: Mapping Malta. In: Valletta 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Home. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ^ House of World Cultures: Education shock. June 19, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bitter, Sabine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer and visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aigen , Upper Austria |