SHORT OVERVIEW
Bello Benischauer - dual-citizenship of Austria and Australia, living in Fremantle/Western Australia, digital media artist. He has exhibited regularly since the late 90s in Museums and Centres for Contemporary Art in Australia, Europe, the United States and Asia.
Multiple visits of various countries result today in a deep connection to world-cultures and mankind in general, expressed in his work. His projects explore the relationship between humanity, technology and the natural environment. His DVDs are part of Contemporary Arts Media, one of the leading consultants and suppliers of films and books for Arts Education.
artist's website - www.artinprocess.com
2009
solo-retrospective at ACCEA, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia/South-west Asia: 05.-19.06.09
2008
ARTECH08 07/08.11.08 - 4th International Conference on Digital Arts, invited installation work, Portuguese Catholic University of Porto/PORTUGAL
Teacher workshop/Curriculum Council - 22.09.08 - Edith Cowan University Perth/WA
Artist-in-residence workshop - Mt Lawley SHS/WA - 01.-06.09.08
ISEA2008 (the International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008 academic conference) - artist presenter from 25.-31.07.08, Singapore (supported by DCA, Artflight Grant)
Part of the Pool Project, a media-sharing project developed by ABC Radio National
SOHO Art Festival Vienna/A - mobile cinema - 17-31.05.08
Artist talk at the Curriculum Council WA, 28.04.08, WACA Perth
VAC Mentorship Program 2008-2009
May 2008 - June 2010 IMPACT & FUSION solo-exhibition tours with Art On the Move (supported by DCA WA and Australia Council for the Arts)
2010: tour planned to go to University of Western Sydney Art Collection, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, QL and other interstate venues
touring dates:
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery/WA: April-May 2010
Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame, Kalgoorlie/WA: 03.10.2009 - 05.01.2010
Geraldton Art Gallery/WA: 24.07.-20.09.2009
Moora Fine Art Gallery/WA: 28.03.-13.04.2009
Art Gallery Katanning/WA: 02.-16.03.2009
Mandurah Art Gallery/WA: 05.12.08-12.01.2009
Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery and Information Centre, Denham/WA: 18.09.-26.10.2008
The Cannery Arts Centre, Esperance/WA: 01.08.-07.09.2008
Town Hall, Ravensthorpe/WA: 20.06.-04.07.2008
Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany/WA: 09.05.-11.06.2008
2007
Holmes à Court Grant, Dec 2007 for IMPACT & FUSION catalogue-production
Artist in Residence at Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA (01.11.-16.12.2007)
BEAP by CAM (Contemporary Arts Media Inc) (15.-18.09) - Presentation of artist's DVDs at perthDAC 2007, the 7th International Digital Art and Culture Conference
September - ART ON THE MOVE Funding for touring project IMPACT & FUSION May 2008 to June 2010
Group-exhibition Virtual Residency, Metz/FRANCE (as part of the international media art project, the Virtual Residency- A call for a virtual migration to the "house Europe", Luxembourg and Greater Region European Capital of Culture 2007 project at Faux Mouvement - Centre d'Art Contemporain, 21.06. to 22.09.2007)
TechnoArt-exhibition, Lapart WallSpace Brisbane (12-21.05.), including a workshop about Art&Technology (supported by DCA, Artflight Grant)
Gallery Watch (CTV Perth) about the artist (06.04.)
ENLIGHTENED - an exhibition at the UWA Club (University Club of Western Australia) (30.03-27.04.)
mona International Film & Video Festival, Detroit/USA (9-20 March)
The Harlequin Project in collaboration with the Biscuit Factory Arts Centre (Fremantle WA Australia)
DVDs are part of Contemporary Arts Media Program 2007, one of the leading consultants and suppliers of films and books for Arts Education
2006
Video installation at the Bakery, Perth/AUS
artist in residence, Hawaiian/Parmelia House, St Georges Terrace, Perth/AUS
exhibition Collection at the Kings Hotel, Perth/AUS
2005
open studio in connection with the artopia Living Artists WA festival, Fremantle/AUS
Cinema Paradiso, Screening - artopia Living Artists WA festival, Northbridge/Perth/AUS
Badeschluss, group-exhibition, Plank/Austria
ACCEA, International Media Art Festival, Yerevan/Armenia
barbès, performance space GlassEyeSeries, New York/USA
mona International Film & Video Festival, Detroit/USA
Caught Short, tapgallery, Sydney/AUS
2004
directing community art projects, Fremantle WA/AUS
Digital Showcase, AMODA Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin/USA
Skylounge, National Museum of Australia, Canberra/AUS
2003
publication of the online-book Perfekt (text in German and photos)
participation in the San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium, SF/USA
exhibition signs of existence at the MOORES Building Contemporary Art Gallery Fremantle WA/AUS
Before 2003
Various self-published art books and publication of texts in Magazines
Scholarship - International Art Symposium of Literature and Fine Arts Strechau/A 2001
participation in diverse Video- and New Media Festivals
exhibitions (with paintings, objects, installations), performances and screenings
