Lecture: Darkroom Architecture – Sabine Bitter (Vancouver, Vienna)

Sabine Bitter, an artist based in Vancouver and Vienna, investigates the visual politics through which cities, architectures, and urban territories are rendered into images. Her photographic, site-specific, and research-oriented works—developed in long-standing collaboration with Vienna-based artist Helmut Weber—engage with the dynamics of urban transformation as they materialize in architecture, neighborhoods, and everyday life.

Focusing on architecture as a material framework for spatial, social, and cultural meaning, her ongoing research includes projects such as Educational Modernism, Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies, and Housing the Social.

Selected exhibitions include: Polygon Gallery, Vancouver (2025); Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2025); Austrian Cultural Forum, Cairo (2024); nGbK, Berlin (2023); ACFNY, New York (2022); HKW, Berlin and SAAG, Lethbridge (2021); Foto Wien, Vienna, and Republic Gallery, Vancouver (2019).

In 2004, she co-founded the research collective Urban Subjects together with Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber. Sabine Bitter is currently a Professor at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.