Past exhibitions -- 2004

Incident in the Museum: Stephen Bram

26 May - 3 July 2004
Opening: Saturday 29 May, 3 - 5pm
Monash University Museum of Art

The Monash University Museum of Art has introduced a new series - Incident in the Museum, an occasional program of newly-commissioned exhibitions, projects and events by contemporary artists.

Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Incident in the Museum 1: Stephen Bram, the inaugural exhibition in the series, will open on 26 May and feature a new, architecturally-scaled installation by Stephen Bram who, alongside his practice as a leading abstract painter, has achieved recognition in Australia and Europe for distinguished art projects developed in relation to architecture.

The spatial dynamics projected in Bram's paintings will be realised at MUMA in a dynamic, all-encompassing wall painting, created in-situ, that will subject the viewer to altered perspectives and spatial perception.

Bram's site-specific, mural-scale wall painting for the Monash University Museum of Art will use simple geometric shapes to inscribe a potential architecture and produce an illusionistic or perceptual space in the Museum. In doing this, Bram's work will produce a new experience of the existing Museum architecture, alternately real and illusory, construction and representation.

Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Stephen Bram is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, where his most recent individual exhibition was presented in April 2004. Recent individual exhibitions include projects in Basel and Amsterdam, 2002, Melbourne and Munich, 2001, and Apeldorm, Zagreb and Amsterdam, 2000. A monograph on the artist's work Oberföhringer Strasse 156, 2001, Stephen Bram, edited by Christopher Kramatschek, was published by FOE 156, Munich, 2003