Curriculum vitae

Margit Brünner
Born in Graz, Austria
currently lives and works in Adelaide,

  • 2012
    • Doctor of Philosophy
    • Visual Arts [Major Studio Project]: Becoming Joy: experimental construction of atmospheres
    • University of South Australia, School of Art, Architecture, and Design
  • 1990 -1999
    • Magistra architecturae, Mag. Arch, project thesis University of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
    • Master Class o. Prof. Hans Hollein
  • 1992 – 1994
    • Academy of Music, Modern Dance, Vienna

Competitions, Awards & Grants

  • 2018 
    • Invited Competition, Europas Zukunft – Artprize. GFZK Leipzig
  • 2012
    • SA Arts Grant, Adelaide
  • 2012
    • City Council Grant
  • 2008
    • UniSA Travel Award
  • 2007
    • MF & MH Joyner Scholarships in Fine Arts
  • 2006
    • Research Award, Austrian Federal Chancellery
  • 2004
    • Research Award, Austrian Federal Chancellery
  • 2003
    • Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Projektstipendium,
    • Grant of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
  • 2001
    • Tischestipendium, Grant of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
  • 1999
    • Grant of the University of Applied Arts
    • & the Austrian Federal Ministry of Research and Technology

Selected Group Exhibition

  • 2023
    • Bilge. Adelaide Fringe Festival, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide
  • 2022
    • attuning trails, Postcode 5730, Photographic exhibition, Blinman
  • 2021
    • plateau episodes, Postcode 5730, Photographic exhibition, Blinman
  • 2020
    • Love in the time of Covid19, GAGPROJECTS, Paul Greenaway, Adelaide, Berlin
  • 2018
    • BRIDGE, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide
  • 2017
    • GRAIN, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide
    • It’s Now for Now, Onkaparinga Sauerbier House Arts & Culture Exchange.
  • 2016
    • GRIT, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide
  • 2015 
    • Hallett Cove One Million Years , video and sound installation, commission for Cove Civic Centre, with Whittington Stephen
    • Last Chance Salon, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
  • 2014 
    • Co-drafts – cartographies of encounter, Palmer Biennale, curator Greg Johns.
    • Sonic trees, Heysen Biennale, South Australia
    • The Written Room, Esther Gallery, Beachport
  • 2013
    • Az Zabán-1 Mádári: Sepás Gozáram, Doostat Dáram (From the Mother tounge: Thank you, I love you) curator Siamak Fallah.
  • 2012
    • Paradise in Spinoza’s cabinet, public art project – pop up gallery at 188 Grenfell Street, Adelaide
    • Augmenting a Spinozist’s leisure – drawing performance in cooperation with Meredith Lane
    • for John Cage’s Musicirus , Elder Conservatorium of Music and the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide
  •  2011
    • To the islands – the architecture of isolation, curators by Jennifer Harvey & Sean Pickersgill
    • South Australian School of Art Gallery
    • Carry tiger to mountain, PhD graduate exhibition, Liverpool-street Studios, Adelaide
  • 2010
    • Alpine potential, Heartlines, University of South Australian Gallery, curator by Mary Knights
  • 2009
    • Gone in no time, Residency at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, curator Domenico de Clario
    • 7 Himmel, Felt Space, solo show Adelaide
  • 2008
    • Strange Attractors, Liverpool-street Studios, Adelaide
  • 2007
    • Ordinary duties, University of South Australia, Adelaide
    • Verwebung, Kunstverein Baden, Vienna
  • 2005
    • Schwebung, medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck
    • Surveying the Void, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
    • Wet river dry lake – visual art and contemporary music, Gallery ANU Canberra
  • 2003
    • Mothers of Invention – where is performance coming from,
    • Museum of Contemporary Art, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
    • Let’s twist again – performance in Wien seit 1960, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
  • 2003
    • Informing bodies – Videodance Media Art Extended Architecture, i camp – Munich
  • 2001
    • Moving out-ausgewählte Diplomarbeiten der letzten drei Jahre–die Angewandte’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna,
  • 1994
    • House of the Future, Prater Messegelände, Vienna 
  • 1991
    • Ort und Platz, 5th Architectural Biennale Venice, M.Class o.Prof. H.Hollein

Affiliations

Board member of Atmospheric spaces, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, since 2015 

Collections

Nevada Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Centre for Art & Environment

Commissions

  • 2015
    • ‘Hallett Cove – One million years’, public installation work at the Cove Civic Centre in Hallett Cove, commissioned by the City of Marion, South Australia and the Arts SA Public Design and Art, in collaboration with Stephen Whittington, Sebastian Tomczak, Dan Thorpe, Iran Sanadzadeh
  • 2012
    • Paradise In Spinoza’s Cabinet, temporal public installation, SA Arts, Public Design and Art.

Conferences, Symposia, Lectures, Workshops

  • 2020
    • HEA[R]T[H], workshop for IKA, University for Fine Arts, Vienna (ESC) Prof. Hannes Stiefel and Luciano Parodi; with Prof. Gini Lee, Prof. Stephen Muecke, Adnyamathana elder Auntie Enice Marsh, Oratunga SA 
  • 2018
    • Joy she said, conference paper, Creating Utopia, Imagining and Making Futures, Art, Architecture and Sustainability, Deakin University, key note Mona Doctor-Pingel, Lorne
  • 2016
    • die amüsierte Baugruppe, appointment lecture, Hafen City University, Hamburg
  • 2013
    • Constructing atmospheres – a Spinozist’s drift, conference paper, Moved: on Atmospheres and Affects, Interstices Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, key note Prof. Gernot Böhme
  • 2009
    • Joy-a threefold practical problem, conference paper
    • Expanded spatial practices, Symposium and workshop with Dr. Jane Rendell, University of South Australia
  • 2008
    • My experiences as Spinozist constructor, refereed conference paper.
    • Curtin University of Technology; Sun Yat Sen University Guangzhou
  • 2008
    • Into the folds, Sense lab, Erin Manning & Brain Massumi, Montreal Concordia University

Authored Publications 

  • 2015
    • ‘Constructing atmospheres – test sites for an Aesthetic of Joy’,  AADR Art Architecture Design Research, Germany
  • 2012
    • ‘The joy of atmospheric manoeuvring’ in ‘Exposure: design practice based research landscape architecture’,
    • Marieluise Jonas, Prof. Rosalea Monacella, RMIT University, 2013
  • 2010
    • ‘the exhibition makes, unmakes & remakes itself’, James Curry, realtime, Arts Magazine, Issue 95
  • 2009
    • ‘My experiences as Spinozist constructor’ Subjectivity, Creativity and the Institution, ed. Christopher Crouch, Brown Walker
  • 2008
    • ‘Note from Margit’, Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images, Firoza Elavia, Pleasure Dome

Bibliography

  • 2018
    • in Creative Ecologies : Theorizing the Practice of Architecture, Hélène Frichot Bloomsbury
  • 2016
    • in How to  make yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool, Hélène Frichot, AADR, ARt Architecture Design Research, Spurbuch, Germany
  • 2013
    • in Five lessons in a Ficto – Critical Approach to Design Research by Hélène Frichot, Plenitude and Emptiness, Symposium on Architectural Research by Design, the University of Edinburgh  
  • 2010
    • ‘the exhibition makes, unmakes & remakes itself’, James Curry, realtime, Arts Magazine, Issue 95
  • 2008
    • ‘Abrashing The Ungiven, And Givenness Abrashed (14lines)’ Linda M. Walker, Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images, Firoza Elavia, Pleasure Dome,
  • 2006
    • Let’s twist again. Was man nicht denken kann das soll man tanzen,
    • Performance in Wien von 1960 bis heute, Carola Dertnig, Stefanie Seibold
  • 2006
    • Prinz Eisenbeton 13, featured artist, Institute of Architecture University of Applied Arts
  • 2002
    • moving-out: University of applied Arts Vienna, exhibition catalogue
  • 2000
    • Project series – architecture at school, Austrian Architectural Foundation
  • 1997
    • Architektur und Bauforum, österr. Fachzeitschrift für Baukultur,
    • Nr.190 Sept./Oct. 1997, experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur
  • 1994
    • architektur aktuell, Springer Wien Nr.166, März 1994
  • 1991
    • Biennale di Venezia, Corderia di Arsenale, students exhibition catalogue
  • 1991
    • Ort und Platz, städtebauliche Analysen – Meisterklasse o.Prof. H.Hollein,
    • University for Applied Arts, Vienna

Research Projects

  • 2012
    • paradise #1, research into interdisciplinary sustainable spatial practice, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2007
    • 12 Becoming joy: experimental construction of atmospheres, Oratunga, Flinders Ranges, Australia
  • 2006
    • Strategies for a wild state: provisional paradise, Vienna, Austria
  • 2005
    • the Lizard’s travel – approach to nomadic space, Australia,
  • 2003
    • Strategies to survey atmosphere, Vienna, Austria
  • 2002
    • CosmetHic refinements, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2001
    • M.oving s.pace s.urprises, Vienna, Austria

Academic Experience

  • 2020
    • Academy of Fine Arts, IKA Institute for Art and Architecture, Vienna, Guest Professor
  • 2016
    • RMIT University, School of Architecture and Design, casual employment, studio leader
  • 2012
    • University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, and Built Environment, Visiting Research Fellow
  • 2011
    • ongoing University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, and Built Environment, casual teacher
  • 2006
    • University of Technology, Department of Design, Graz, casual teacher, studio leader
  • 1994 – 2004
    • work for architects, including
    • the Next enterprise, architects, Vienna,
    • Architect. Mag. Arch. Susanne Zottl, Vienna,  [fulltime, project designer: Facilities for penguins and seals, Schönbrunn Zoo],
    • sputnik, architects, Vienna, competition design,
    • Eichinger oder Knechtl, architects, Vienna, fulltime, exhibition design,