MA Phil, independent curator, co-ordination of ART IN PROCESS projects
1974 born in Austria, studied Philosophy, Art History and Theatre at the University of Vienna/A
1992 first solo-exhibition with paintings, drawings and objects, Austria
1993 school-leaving exam, starting to study Art History at the University of Vienna
1995 further studies: Philosophy and Theatre (main emphasis: Aesthetics and the intensive discussion about cross art forms and hybridity)
Summer Academy of Arts, Prague/Czechoslovakia
1995-98 working as Art-Therapist at two Special Schools in Vienna
1995 group exhibition, mixed media installation called Mensch Du Natur (Human being - you are Nature) at Schloss Gloggnitz/A
1999 Dissertation about the museum and its functions in the past, presence and future, with the main emphasis on the development of hybrid art forms, focussing on a better understanding of contemporary art and its public presentation/ education in Museums, called The Idea of the Museum.
2000 Master's degree in Philosophy
From 1998 involved in many cultural projects.
Working as Coordinator and Assistant Curator at the O.K Centre for Contemporary Arts Linz/A: establishing the first public Library for International Contemporary Art in Austria, organisation of an international symposium about art in social places
Assistant of the Artistic Director at the States Theatre Linz/A and working with the artists group Wochenklausur (Vienna, art as intervention - art in social places)
From 2000 starting to work together with Bello Benischauer on different independent art projects as well as starting to curate the artist's work concerning exhibitions, projects, festivals, ... on an international basis.
2001/02art project Maybe It's Only... Imagine! in A/AUS, cross art forms + production of an artDVD with seven film-animations, Presentation of the art-project twice in Austria, including performances and a voice work
2003 Jan 03/AUS registration of the artist's partnership ART IN PROCESS together with Bello Benischauer, Jan/Feb 03 exhibition by ART IN PROCESS at the MOORES Building Contemporary Art Gallery supported by the City of Fremantle called signs of existence (including a performance), May/Jun 03 editing the subtitles to the film animation DIGITAL TRILOGY by bello benischauer
2003/2004 film project and installation together with bello benischauer called Project X six transformations of life, taking part in the International Group-exhibition Women's City, Yerevan/Armenia (video-installation), birth of her son Elias Franz in Subiaco/Perth WA Australia
2005 mona International Film & Video Festival DETROIT/USA; barbès, performance space NEW YORK, GlassEyeSeries; accea Yerewan/ARMENIA Intern. Media Art Festival; Badeschluss, group exhibition, Plank/Austria - object installation; Cinema Paradiso, Screening - artopia Living Artists WA festival, Northbridge/PERTH AUSTRALIA 10/05 and open studio 11/05
2006/2007 curatorial work - City Studio/bello benischauer (artist in residence, Parmelia House, supported by Hawaiian Group PERTH/AUS), ENLIGHTENED - at the UWA Club (University Club of Western Australia) (30.03-27.04.), TechnoArt-exhibition, Lapart WallSpace Brisbane (12-21.05., supported by ArtsWA), 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), Artist in Residence at Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA (01.11.-16.12.2007)
2008 exhibition curator of IMPACT & FUSION, a solo-show by Bello Benischauer, that will start to tour from May 2008 with Art On The Move
Million Puppet project - puppet Leila and installation at the Perth Concert Hall, April 08
artistic work
self-identifications in masks and objects, nature-object installations, video-installations
