Bio
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Sabine Bitter is a Vancouver-based artist and Professor at the School for
Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, 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. Simon Fraser University, 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: Simon Fraser University, 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 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.