Helmut Weber
With Sabine Bitter
“Our residency strengthened collaborations with Los Angeles artists and curator and also allowed us to establish new relationships; at the same time, aspects and moments of our research form that time has informed our current works on the infrastructural texture of cities.”
Vancouver and Vienna based artists Helmut Weber and Sabine Bitter collaborate on projects addressing the politics of how cities, architecture and urban territories are made into images. 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. Focusing architecture as a material frame for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, their ongoing research includes projects such as “Mapping as Shifting Perspectives”, “Educational Modernism,” “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies”, and “Housing the Social.”
Exhibitions include: Künstlerhaus Wien, (2025); Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, (2024); nGbK Berlin (2023); ACFNY, New York (2022); HKW Berlin, SAAG, Lethbridge (2021); Fotogalerie Wien; Republic Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Gallery Structura, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt; (2018)
Publications include: “Encounter Educational Modernism”, “Unsettling Educational Modernism”, “Bildungsmoderne entzaubern”, “Making Ruins”, “Werkschau XXIII, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber”; “Front, Field, Line, Plane”, “The Militant Image Reader”, “Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade”, “BitterWeber: Live like this!”, “Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela”.
In 2004, they formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects with Canadian writer Jeff Derksen.
EDUCATION
1987
University of Arts Linz
Linz, Austria
JURY
Eric Alliez
Harald Falckenberg
Greg Lynn
Eva Schlegel
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
