ARTICULATIONS | SABINE BITTER | IN-PERSON
September 2 | 6 - 7 PM | FREE WITH ADMISSION
Articulations Art Lecture Series offers presentations from contemporary practicing artists and arts professionals. Local and international artists, curators, critics, art historians, theorists, and filmmakers share their practice and engage with the audience in open, critical discussion.
The SAAG is pleased to host an in-person talk and tour with exhibiting artist Sabine Bitter. Bitter will talk about her collaboration with Helmut Weber and their current exhibition, Performing Educational Modernism, on view at the SAAG from July 3 until September 12, 2021.
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Since 1993, Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have worked on projects addressing cities, architecture, and the politics of representation and of space. Mainly working in the media of photography and video their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighbourhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Since 2004, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have been members of the cultural collective Urban Subjects, with Jeff Derksen.
Bitter & Weber’s recent projects and exhibitions include the following; 2021: Education Shock, HKW Berlin; Spaces of No Control, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York. 2019: Making Ruins, Republic Gallery, Vancouver; 2018: Camera Austria International, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Werkschau XXIII, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna; Structures of Thought, Gallery Structura, Sofia; The Island is What the Sea Surrounds, Valetta, Malta. 2017: STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES, FLUCA: Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Phantastischer Kapitalismus, Gallery GPLcontemporary, Vienna; As a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive, Mackey Garage Top, MAK Center Los Angeles; The Vienna Model. Housing for the 21st Century City, Museum of Vancouver; Here & Elsewhere – Nothing to be done, Sarajevo. 2016: What is left?, frei_raum Q21, MuseumsQuartier Vienna. 2015: New Conjunctions and Intersections, United Nations Headquarters, New York; Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015, Teck Gallery, Vancouver; Informal Paths, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. 2014: Punctum, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Archives, Re-Assemblances and Surveys, Klovicevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. 2013: Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Front, Field, Line, Plane – Researching the Militant Image, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg; Self Made Urbanism Rome, NGBK Berlin; The Vienna Model, Austrian Cultural Forum New York. 2012: TIME, PLACE, AND THE CAMERA: PHOTOGRAPHS AT WORK | Gjon Mili, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo; Our Haus, Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Global Prayers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Envisioning Buildings, MAK, Vienna; The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, Camera Austria, Graz; NGBK, Berlin. 2011: We: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery; Communitas, The Unrepresentable Community, Camera Austria, Graz.