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Artist: Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen   
Exhibition: silence
Date: January 31 2007 - February 24 2007
Curator: Galen Joseph-Hunter and Dylan J. Gauthier
Bio:
Michael Graeve is an Australian artist living in Chicago. He has exhibited, performed and published extensively. He works across painting and sound disciplines through easel painting, painting and sound installation, sound performance and composition. Awards and residencies include Tonspur 19 in Vienna 2007, Australia Council residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York 2005, Samstag International Travelling Scholarship 2004, Arts Victoria New Work 2004 and Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence 2003. He has held 15 solo exhibitions at venues in Australia and Chicago. Group exhibitions include Sonambiente Berlin 2006, Your Sky (Gigantic Art Space New York), 2004 Australian Culture Now (Ian Potter Center: National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne) and Primavera (Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney). His work has been reviewed by Branden W. Joseph (Artforum International, March 2005), Nicholas Chambers (Eyeline No 50, 2002), Ros Bandt (Sound Sculpture – Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian Artworks, 2001) and Stephen O'Connell (Art/Text No 59, 1997). He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught at various colleges and universities in Australia between 1998 and 2004.

The German artist Christoph Dahlhausen, born in 1960, lives in Bonn. He studied violon,cello, medicine, psychotherapy and Fine Art. After several years in the field of monochromatic painting, Dahlhausen moved to experimental and concrete photography and began to use glass and mirror, his favorite materials. His work draws on minimal and conceptual art practices. Dahlhausen has received a number of awards and grants, and exhibits worldwide in museums and galleries. He currently works as a curator, is founding director of 1280raum gallery in Bonn and is a guest lecturer at RMIT University of Melbourne.

 

 

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