Michael Graeve
Michael Graeve lives and works in Melbourne. As visual and sound artist he exhibits, performs internationnaly and teaches at the RMIT Unversity (Melbourne, AUS).
Biography
The visual- and sound artist Michae Graeve lives and works in melbourne, Australia. He performs, exhibits internationally and teaches sound, sculpture practice at RMIT Melbourne. His artistic activities include above all painting and sound art – in installations and performances. His compositions and muscial performances enter into a dialogue with his painting, both explicity and implicitly. In doing so, he tries to continously expand the scope of his work and its vibrations to trangress boundaries. The visual aspects of his work are based on non-reprentational and abstract traditions applied to canvas and walls, while the sound is based on turntables, loudspeaker installations and improvisations. The installation room offers a playground for overlapping and juxtaposing, which leads to a tension-laden dialectics between causal and clumsy interrelationships. Since 2007 Michael has been a ember of the Executive Board of Liquid Architecture Sound Inc. and has been President and Chairman since 2011. He was a member of the Executive Board and Program Manager at West Space Inc. (2000-2004) and a founding member of Grey Area Art Space Inc (1996-1999).
His awards and residencies include: Tonspur 19 in Wien 2007, Australia Council Residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York 2005, Samstag International Travelling Scholarship 2004 and Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence 2003. He has participated in over 20 solo exhibitions and his work has been shown in various group exhibitions, including in Dunedin, Wellington, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Bonn, Osnabrück, München, Berlin, Würzburg, Vienna, Kortrijk, Turin, Seoul, Sydney und Melbourne.
He is represented by e/static in Turin, Italy and his works are in public and private collection in Australia, Europe and the USA.
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Solo shows (election)
- 2016-18 WestFarbe: Paint vs. Colour, Paint as Material, Paint as Colour, Painting as Process. Kuratiert von Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810, Bonn. Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen. Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg (alle GER)
- 2017 PROJECT TITLE (18) … Insert TEXT HERE …: Thus one might add (but not that itself), mit Mark Booth. Blindside, Melbourne, (AUS). | Tensioned Structures, mit Christoph Dahlhausen. Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, (AUS)
- 2016 A Scintillation of Particles and Waves, mit Leslie Eastman. West Space, Melbourne, (AUS). | Forms Unseen. Kuratiert von Carlo Fossati für e/static. blank, Turin (IT)
- 2015 Eye Score: The Audible Image. Kuratiert von Kent Wilson. Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne (AUS). | Concrete Post 3. Kuratiert von Andrew Tetzlaff, Christoph Dahlhausen und David Thomas. raum2810, Bonn (GER)
- 2014 Events, Traces and Reverberations. The Engine Room Gallery. Massey University, Wellington (NZ). | 014 around sound festival. Kuratiert von Carlo Fossati (e/static) for soundpocket, Hong Kong (HK). | About Like So: The Influence of Painting. Kuratiert von Terri C. Smith. Franklin Street Works, Stamford Connecticut (CT, USA). | Dahlhausen – Viral. Kuratiert von Christoph Dahlhausen. Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen (GER)
- 2013 Conjunctive and Disjunctive Relations. SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney (AUS). | Disjunctive Relations: Painting, Sound and Space. Place Gallery, Melbourne (AUS).| Melbourne Now. Now Hear This: ‚Place‘ Programm. Kuratiert von Philip Samartzis. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne (AUS)
- 2012/13 Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art. Kuratiert von Caleb Kelly und Aaron Kreisler. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin. City Gallery Wellington, Wellington (alle NZ)
- 2012 non objective project one. Gallery 9, Sydney (AUS). | Fourtrack. Kuratiert von Andrew Tetzlaff. Project Space, Melbourne (AUS). | Future Shock OneTwo. Kuratiert von Matthias Seidel. dr. julius ap, Berlin (GER)
- 2011 Subsequent Moments Simultaneously. Factory 49, Marrickville (AUS). | Sequence and Simultaneity, Front and Side. Place Gallery, Melbourne (AUS) | V.A. Kuratiert von Dylan Martorell. Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (AUS) | (6) THE SPEED OF THE WORD SOUND, THE SOUND OF THE WORD SPEED, mit Mark Booth. Light Projects, Melbourne, (AUS)
- 2010 Sight & Sound: Music and Abstraction in Australian Art. Kuratiert von Steven Tonkin. Arts Centre, Melbourne (AUS).| Spatial Choreography. Kuratiert von Carlo Fossati für e/static. blank, Turin (IT)
- 2009 Extropian. Kollaboration mit Toshiya Tsunoda. Kuratiert von Sam Leach. Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney (AUS). | Dialogue II, mit Christoph Dahlhausen. Place Gallery, Bonn (GER)
- 2008 In Combination. Place Gallery, Melbourne (AUS). | Zyklisch, Flach, Gewölbt. t-u-b-e, München (GER). | Klinkende Stad. Kuratiert von Joost Fonteyne. Happy New Ears Festival. Kortrijk (BE)
- 2007/08 Australien, Ungegenständliche Kunst – Heute. Kuratiert von Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810 Bonn, Museum Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (alle GER) –
- 2007 [Silence]. Kollaborative Arbeit mit Christoph Dahlhausen. Gigantic ArtSpace, New York ( NY, USA). | SFX Sound Effects Seoul‘. Kuratiert von Georg Weckwerth und Baruch Gottlieb. Media + Space Gallery, Yonsei University, Seoul (KR).| odradek – the colour of. Kuratiert von Domenico de Clario. Faculty Gallery, Monash Art & Design, Melbourne (AUS). | P&P. Issue Project Room, Brooklyn (NY, USA). | Psychoanalyse für Schallplattenspieler. Projekt von Georg Weckwerth und Peter Szely für Tonspur für den Öffentlichen Raum. TONSPUR_passage, quartier 21 MQ Wien, Wien (AT)
- 2006 c&s. Enemy, Chicago (IL, USA). | Sonambiente Berlin 2006 – festival für hören und sehen. Laboratorium. Allianzgebäude am Ostbahnhof, Berlin (GER). 2006 dialog I, mit Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810, Bonn (GER)
- 2005 Your Sky. Gigantic ArtSpace. New York (NY, USA).| 2005 Recent Paintings. Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
- 2004 Length, Width and Depth. CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne (AUS). | fan2composition, mit Heike Döscher. Galerie Royal, München (GER)
- 2003 p&s. West Space Inc, Melbourne (AUS). | Recent Works. Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (AUS)
- 2002 Installations. Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (AUS)
- 2001 s4p7(14)fl14. Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne, (AUS)
- 1997 Ear to the Ocean, mit Ricky Swallow. Grey Area Art Space Inc Studios, Melbourne (AUS)
- 1996 Sound and Painting Installation. Grey Area Art Space Inc, Melbourne (AUS).
Cooperations (selection)
- 2017 PROJECT TITLE (18) … Insert TEXT HERE …: Thus one might add (but not that itself), with Mark Booth. Blindside, Melbourne, (AUS). | 2017 Tensioned Structures, with Christoph Dahlhausen. Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, (AUS).
- 2016 A Scintillation of Particles and Waves, with Leslie Eastman. West Space, Melbourne, (AUS).
- 2011 (6) THE SPEED OF THE WORD SOUND, THE SOUND OF THE WORD SPEED, with Mark Booth. Light Projects, Melbourne, (AUS).
- 2009 Dialogue II, with Christoph Dahlhausen. Place Gallery, Bonn (GER).
- 2008 What we Seear, with Olaf Probst. Galerie Royal, Munich (GER).
- 2006 dialog I, with Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810, Bonn (GER). | 2004 fan2composition, with Heike Döscher. Galerie Royal, Munich (GER).
- 1997 Ear to the Ocean, with Ricky Swallow. Grey Area Art Space Inc Studios, Melbourne (AUS).
Group Shows (selection)
- 2016-18 WestFarbe: Paint vs. Colour, Paint as Material, Paint as Colour, Painting as Process. Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810, Bonn. Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg (all GER).
- 2015 Eye Score: The Audible Image. Curated by Kent Wilson. Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne (AUS). | 2015 Concrete Post 3. Curated by Andrew Tetzlaff, Christoph Dahlhausen and David Thomas. raum2810, Bonn (GER).
- 2014 around sound festival. Curated by Carlo Fossati (e/static) for soundpocket, Hong Kong (HK). | 2014 About Like So: The Influence of Painting. Curated by Terri C. Smith. Franklin Street Works, Stamford Connecticut (CT, USA). | 2014 Dahlhausen – Viral. Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen. Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen (GER).
- 2013 Melbourne Now. Now Hear This: ‚Place‘ Programm. Curated by Philip Samartzis. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne (AUS).
- 2012/13 Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art. Curated by Caleb Kelly and Aaron Kreisler. Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin. City Gallery Wellington, Wellington (alle NZ).
- 2012 non objective project one. Gallery 9, Sydney (AUS). | 2012 Fourtrack. Curated by Andrew Tetzlaff. Project Space, Melbourne (AUS). | 2012 Future Shock OneTwo. Curated by Matthias Seidel. dr. julius ap, Berlin (GER).
- 2011 V.A. Curated by Dylan Martorell. Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (AUS).
- 2010 Sight & Sound: Music and Abstraction in Australian Art. Curated by Steven Tonkin. Arts Centre, Melbourne (AUS).
- 2009 Extropian. Kollaboration mit Toshiya Tsunoda. Curated by Sam Leach. Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney (AUS).
- 2008 Klinkende Stad. Curated by Joost Fonteyne. Happy New Ears Festival. Kortrijk (BE).
- 2007/08 Australien, Ungegenständliche Kunst – Heute. Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen. raum2810 Bonn, Museum Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (all GER).
- 2007 [Silence]. Collaboration with Christoph Dahlhausen. Gigantic ArtSpace, New York ( NY, USA). | 2007 ‚SFX Sound Effects Seoul‘. Curated by Georg Weckwerth and Baruch Gottlieb. Media + Space Gallery, Yonsei University, Seoul (KR).
- 2006 Sonambiente Berlin 2006 – festival für hören und sehen. Laboratorium. Allianzgebäude am Ostbahnhof, Berlin (GER).
- 2005 Your Sky. Gigantic ArtSpace. New York (NY, USA)
