Vancouver-based artist Sabine Bitter collaborates with Vienna-based artist Helmut Weber on projects addressing cities, architecture, and the politics of representation and of space since 1993. Mainly working in the media of photography and spatial installations, their research-oriented practice engages with specific moments and logics of the global-urban change as they take shape in neighborhoods, architecture, and everyday life. Dealing with architecture as a frame for spatial meaning, their ongoing research includes projects like “Educational Modernism” and “Housing the Social”.
Recent projects and exhibitions include 2016: Fleeting Territories, urbanize!-festival, Vienna; What’s Left?, Museums Quartier Vienna; Trophäen ihrer Excellenz, Schauraum der Angewandten, MQ21, Vienna; Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, Gallery GPLcontemporary, Vienna; How We Want to Live, Façade art project for BUWOG headquarters, Vienna. In 2015, Bitter and Weber were artists in residence from The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria at the Studio Grand Chelsea, New York City.
In 2004, Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber formed the urban research collective, Urban Subjects. Urban Subjects curated the exhibition The Militant Image - Picturing What Is Already Going On with Camera Austria, Graz, participated in Western Front’s Urgent Imagination and in Jayce Salloum’s project ThirstDays. Urban Subjects were artists in residence at the Leuphana Arts Program at the University Lüneburg in 2012 to 2013, and the EXPO Milan, 2015.
From 2009 to 2013, Sabine Bitter was the coordinator of the Audain Visual Artist in Residence program and the curator of the Audain Gallery SFU Woodward's, realizing projects with Marjetica Potrč, Raqs Media Collective, Elke Krasny with the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Ricardo Basbaum, Claire Fontaine, Muntadas, amongst others.
