MA Phil, independent curator, coordinator of ART IN PROCESS projects, artist, mother

Exhibitions with mixed and new media installations, performances, social art interventions and conference participations since 1992 on an international scale. 2002 she moved to Australia and formed the partnership ART IN PROCESS with artist colleague Bello Benischauer. After giving birth to son elias 2004 she concentrated her work on projects with and through ART IN PROCESS. Some of this work is part of the Education program by Contemporary Arts Media, Melbourne. Elisabeth currently curates a touring solo-exhibition by Bello, managed by Art On The Move.

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, focussing on the development of hybrid art forms for 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 at the O.K Centre for Contemporary Arts Linz/A: establishing the first public Library for International Contemporary Art in Austria, organising the 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, intervention projects)
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
2001/02 art 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; 2002 moving to Australia
2003 registration of the artist's partnership ART IN PROCESS together with Bello Benischauer, exhibition signs of existence at the MOORES Building Contemporary Art Gallery supported by the City of Fremantle (including a performance), working on the video installation 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), community art project Fremantle/WA, 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 Yerevan/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's Residency at Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany/WA + group-exhibition (01.11.-16.12.2007)
2008 exhibition curator of IMPACT & FUSION, a solo-show by Bello Benischauer, managed by Art On The Move (2008-2011), group-exhibition Million Puppet project, Perth Concert Hall (March), Media Art Festival/Screening Vienna/Austria (May), ISEA 2008 Singapore (Jul/Aug), ARTECH08 University of Porto/Portugal (Nov)

artistic work self-identifications in masks and objects, nature-object installations, video-installations