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Sabine Bitter

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Sabine Bitter is a Vancouver-based artist and Professor at the School for Contemporary Arts at ԰AV, Vancouver. She collaborates with Vienna-based artist Helmut Weber on projects addressing the politics of representation and space. Engaging with architecture as a frame for spatial meaning, their research-oriented practice resulted in projects like Educational Modernism and Housing the Social. In 2004, Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects whose collaboration led to several exhibitions, including If Time Is Still Alive with Camera Austria, Graz, 2021.

Publications include:
Unsettling Educational Modernism. ԰AV, Vancouver Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Guests & Hosts, adocs publishing, Hamburg 2021
Bildungsmoderne entzaubern. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, adocs publishing, Hamburg 2021
The Militant Image. Reader, Ed. Urban Subjects and Camera Austria, Graz, Austria 2015
Sabine Bitter |Helmut Weber, Front, Field, Line, Plane. Researching The Militant Image, Kunstraum Lüneburg, Leuphana Arts Program at the University Lüneburg. 2016
About Academia (Case Study: ԰AV, Vancouver, BC) Co-editor with Antoni Muntadas, co-published by Line Magazine and The Audain Gallery. 2014
“Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber: Right, to the City”, Fotohof Edition, Salzburg 2009
“Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber: Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade”, Eds. Urban Subjects, Sternberg Press, Berlin & Fillip, Vancouver, 2009

From 2009 – 2013 Sabine Bitter was the coordinator of the Audain Visual Artist in Residence program and the curator of the Audain Gallery ԰AV 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.