Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Creative Australia, Dame Joan Sutherland Fund
Lauren Berkowitz
Lauren Berkowitz is an Australian installation artist who creates mostly ephemeral and site-specific works. She describes her art as one of retrieval, and works with natural and found materials. She seeks inspiration from modernist art of the 1960s and 1970s as well as from connections to her Jewish heritage. Often inspired by the landscape but troubled by its degradation, she recycles materials and themes into environmental narratives as an act of regeneration.
Lauren Berkowitz has exhibited across commercial and institutional spaces within Australia and internationally including National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
Lauren Berkowitz, Bottles, 2017, glass jars and bottles, 983/8 × 983/8 in. (249.94 × 249.94 cm).
Lauren Berkowitz, Subterranean, 2016, rose petals, salt and eggs, dimensions variable.
Lauren Berkowitz, Weeds and Wildflowers, 2014, medicinal and edible plants, 473/16 × 693/16 × 223/8 in. (119.89 × 175.77 × 56.9 cm).
Lauren Berkowitz, Liquid, 2013, plastic bottles, 983/8 × 1511/16 in. (249.94 × 39.88 cm).
Lauren Berkowitz, Visceral Forms, 2012, cricket ball offcuts, dimensions variable.
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Bettina Brunner
Bettina Brunner is a curator, art critic and academic focusing on avantgarde film and contemporary moving image practices.
Bettina Brunner has an MA in Art History and recently completed her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As an independent curator she has organized film screenings and exhibitions at mumok kino, Vienna; das weisse haus, Vienna, and Auto Italia South East, London. She has previously worked at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; British Film Institute, London; and Cubitt Artists, London.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
'Thwarted Representations' by Joyce Wieland and the Filmic Portrait, 2017, film screening at mumok kino. Photo by György Horvath.
'Rock My Religion' by Dan Graham, 2012, film screening at das weisse haus.
'OWT' by Laure Prouvost in 'Getting It Wrong' , 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus.
'The Wanderer (Betty Drunk)' by Laure Prouvost in 'Getting It Wrong', 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus. Photo by Anne Nimmesgern.
'A Weekend in the Countryside' by Stefan Eichhorn in 'Getting It Wrong', 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Andreas Duscha
Andreas Duscha creates work based on images that are often associated with specific places, historical events and political phenomena. He subjectively portrays events that are both banal and of importance to develop new narratives.
Andreas Duscha has exhibited work at 21er Haus, Vienna; Kunsthaus Zürich; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
Andreas Duscha, Brutparasit, 2016, pigment on paper, 19 x 14 in. each.
Andreas Duscha, Telephone I+II, 2016, glass, silver nitrate, steel and paint, 40 × 79 in. (101.6 × 200.66 cm).
Andreas Duscha, ..wir lassen alle Uhren zerschlagen, 2015, photography, 24 x 14 in. each.
Andreas Duscha, Deadline, 2017, photography, 24 x 14 in. each.
Andreas Duscha, Cinder Match, 2017, glass, silver nitrate, and UV print.