Ute Meta Bauer

lives and works in Stuttgart (D) and Vienna (A)
Co-Curator of Documenta11
Since 1986 freelance curator.
Since 1996 university professor and Head of the Institute of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (A).
Education

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg.
1987 Diploma in Visual Communication/Stage Design.
postgraduate studies in art.
Experience in curating and teaching

Since 2002
director of I+NCA (International and Norwegian Contemporary Art), Oslo (N).
Since 2001
editor of case.
Since 1995
Guest professorships at various European Art Academies (ERSEP Tourcoing(F); Ecole des Beaux Arts Bordeaux (F); ESAV Genève (CH)).
1994 - 96
Guest curator for NowHere at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (DK), 1996 on the occasion of „Copenhagen. Cultural Capital of Europe 1996“ she developed section „?“ in collaboration with the American artist Fareed Armaly.
1992 - 94
Editor of the international art magazine META.
1990 - 94
Artistic Director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D). Concept and realization of exhibitions on contemporary art (e.a. Stephen Craig, Rainer Oldendorf, Absalon, readymades belong to everyone®, Maria Eichhorn, Andreas Gursky, Regina Möller, Douglas Gordon), Symposia and workshops (e.a. Tim Rollins + KOS, Sturtevant, Tania Mouraud, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Group Material, Fareed Armaly), lectures by artists and theorists. Editor of publications.
1982 -1989
Founding member of Stille Helden e.V., association to support young artists and new forms of presentation (since 1986 in collaboration with Susanne Homann).
Since 1986 Freelance curator and mediator for various institutions and cultural boards, exhibitions, presentations on film and video.
She is board member of IKT (International Curators Association) and member of the advisory board for exhibition activities of the Goethe Institutes.
Curatorial Work (Selection)

2001
First Story: Women Building/ New Narratives for the 21st Century, Galeria
do Palácio and Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto 2001, Cultural
Capital of Europe (P) (October – December 2001).
Architectures of Discourse, for Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (ES) (September - October 2001).
2000
block, exhibition and lectures with students of the Institute of Contemporary Art / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as guest curator for the Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York (USA).
1999
Guest curator for the Open Days 1999 at the Jan van Eyck Academy for Design, Fine Arts and Theory (postgraduate), July 1999, Maastricht (NL).
1997
Bridge - (including Group Material, General Idea, Achim Manz, films by Michael Klier, Till Krause, Mica TV, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dan Graham) for Bridge / The Map is not the Territory on invitation by Fleetinsel AG for "Week of Fine Arts Hamburg" (D).
1995
PSite / Journal of a Guest - development of a project for the art and science periodicals of the science publisher Springer-Verlag Wien New York commissioned by the Austrian State Curator Dr. Markus Brüderlin (A).
1992/1994
Informationsdienst - international exhibition tour with lecture series
(15 stations) with dossiers etc. for ca. 100 current positions from female artists (in collaboration with Sandra Hastenteufel and Tine Geissler). First station: Galery Martin Schmitz, Kassel parallel to d9 (D); last stations: Goethe House NYC (USA and Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles (B).
1993
Reading Room II - international artist- and art periodicals of the 70ties
+ artist monographies of the NOVA SCOTIA SERIES, Halifax - Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts, travelling exhibition and lecture series, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D), Kunstverein in München (D), Depot Wien (A), Grazer Kunstverein (A).
1992
Nebenwerke und Ergaenzungen - exhibition project (in collaboration with the artist Andreas Coerper) for Kunsthalle St. Gallen (CH).
1991/1992
Absalon – compartiments - Künstlerhaus / Kasematte 7, opening of the exhibition space of the culture board of the city of Hamburg (D).
1990
Castelli Sonnabend Tapes and Films -early American Videos from 1965 - 75. Video program and lectures, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (CH), Stampa Basel (CH), Grazer Kunstverein (A) e.a.
1988
Kunstkongress '88 – week of Fine Art of the city of Hamburg '87/'88, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Theater in der Kunsthalle, Forum Kunstmesse (with Susanne Homann) (D).
1986
Nur für eine Nacht - video night for Kunstverein in Hamburg (D) with video installations and -tapes (with Ernst Mitzka).
ars longa vita brevis - a new notion of performance (with Ernst Mitzka), exchange Hamburg - Berlin in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien (catalogue) (D).

Conferences and Lectures

Since 1990 Lectures and workshops in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa on contemporary art.

Organization of international conferences on current discourses in art.

2001
Hito Steyerl: Die leere Mitte; Normalität 1-9, part 2 / seminar series at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D) on identity politics.
2000
Isaac Julien/Mark Nash Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask,
part 1 / seminar series at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D) on identity politics.
1996
- Education, Information, Entertainment I-IV, Akademie der bildenden Künste 2000 Wien (A).
1996
Gastarbeiter / local work, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (DK), (concept with Fareed Armaly).
1993
Radical Chic, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D).
1992
 A new spirit in curating?, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D).
1988
Kunstkongress 88. Stille Helden Produktion, Kunstverein Hamburg/Theater in der Kunsthalle (D).

Publications (Selection)

"Ute Meta Bauer and Mark Nash in conversation. In: Hiller, Susan; Martin, Sarah (ed.): The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation (4), B.READ series, Newcastle 2002, page 53-94.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): case 2. First Story – Women Building/New Narratives for the 21st Century. Porto 2002.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): case 1. Architectures of Discourse. Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona 2001.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Education, Information, Entertainment. Current Approaches on Higher Artistic Education. edition selene, Vienna 2001.
Education Information Entertainment. In: Jahrbuch '97 - Walking Through Society, with Fareed Armaly, Institut für Moderne Kunst (ed.), Nürnberg 1997.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Bridge. In: Bridge / The Map Is Not The Territory, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fleetinsel (ed.), Hamburg 1997, page 3-22.
Ute Meta Bauer, Fareed Armaly (ed.): section "?". In: Now Here, exhibition catalogue, Vol. 1 + 2, with Fareed Armaly, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek 1996.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Zines No 1 - 13, "?" office, Stuttgart, Humlebaek 1996.
Regina Möller: regina, Ute Meta Bauer (ed.), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.):
- META 3 – "Atlanten und Archive", Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994.
- META 4 – "Radical Chic", Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994.
- META 2 – "A new spirit in curating?", Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992.
- META 1 – "Die Kunst und ihr Ort", Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Radical Chic Reader, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1993.
Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): ABSALON - Interieurs Corrigés, lim. edition 300 exemplars, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992.