Irene Hanenbergh | Curriculum Vitae
Academic
2007/2010 MFA (by Research) Victorian College of the Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
2000/2004 Victoria University of Technology, Electronic & Interactive Media, Melbourne, Australia.
1995/1997 Athens School of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Program in Printmaking, Athens, Greece.
1992/1995 Athens School of Fine Arts, BA (Hons) Printmaking, Athens, Greece.
1993/1994 Royal College of Art (RCA), Postgraduate Program in Printmaking (PEP), London, UK.
1990/1992 Athens School of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Program in Sculpture & Installation, Athens, Greece.
1984/1988 Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, BA (Hons) Painting/Sculpture, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Solo exhibitions
2010 Lace Monitor (Victoria Everglades), Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland.
2010 Freedom Nature, Margret Lawrence Galleries, VCAM, Melbourne.
2009 Laudanum & De Breeder, Neon Parc, Melbourne.
2009 Elastic Rebound Theory, with Stephan Balleux - courtesy of Think21 Gallery, Brussels, Ryan
Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland.
2009 Resort Nadir, Sydney University Museum & Galleries, Sydney.
2007 Vlad July Egoiste, Neon Parc, Melbourne.
2007 Freedom Holidays in The Rudolphine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2007 Auckland Artfair - Neon Parc at Hilton Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand.
2005 Wolga Banshees, Apartment Gallery, Melbourne.
2003 Presence between Alborz and Hekla, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
2002 Trinity deLuxe Commander, TCB Art. Inc, Melbourne.
1997 This is What I Like So It's How I Do It And That Is What You See, Gallery Georgadeas,
Athens.
1995 New Painting, Gallery Bert Mertens, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
1994 Gloria, it's never too late, Gallery Olga Georgadeas, Athens, Greece.
1991 Windowshow corazon, Groningen, The Netherlands.
1989 Irene Hanenbergh, Gallery Biemoldsbelang, Groningen, The Netherlands.
1989 Irene Hanenbergh, Gallery Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
1988 AIR, Corazon, Groningen, The Netherlands.
1988 Irene Hanenbergh, Gallery Voorheen Schoolholm 33/1, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Group exhibitions
2010 A Tradigital Survey, curated by Gina Kalabishis and Kirsten Rann, Level 17 Artspace, VUT,
Melbourne. Autumn Masterpieces: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, curated by Mark
Feary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
Power To The People, Feature Inc. NYC, New York, USA.
Recorded: The Music Poster Show, curated by Madeleine Preston, Blank Space, Sydney.
2009 Westspace, Fundraiser A4, Melbourne.
FREMANTLE PRINT AWARD 2009, Fremantle, WA.
Dark Liaisons, curated by Ashley Crawford, 24H Art, Darwin, NT.
ART LA 2009, Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA (with Neon
Parc).
Some Recent Painting: The Director's Cut, 2009, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 The Resurrectionists, curated by Ashley Crawford and Sam Leach, Block Gallery, Melbourne.
Neo goth: back in black, curated by Alison Kubler, University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane.
Revolving doors (in memory of Blair Trethowan), Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.
Show Me Your World, curated by Hannah Matthews, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Bal Tashchit, Thou Shalt Not Destroy, curated by Melissa Amore and Ashley Crawford, Jewish
Museum of Australia, Melbourne.
2007 Old Skool (never lose that feeling), curated by Hannah Mathews & Robert Cook, Perth
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth.
Dream Wheels, Mahara Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
2006 one god, no masters, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
ZOO Art Fair 2006 London, Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK.
Someone shows something to someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra.
This is the thing I thought would never come, BUS Gallery, curated by Tony Garifalakis,
Melbourne.
Collection CBK Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, curated by Liesbeth Grotenhuis, The
Netherlands.
Melbourne Reign, New Melbourne Painting, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney.
Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne.
2005 A portable model of (touring), curated by Tristian Koenig, La Trobe Regional Gallery,
Morewell, VIC.
Arts Aporia, curated by BUS & Phatspace (Australia), Osaka, Japan.
Neo Folk, curated by Julian Holcroft, Lithuanian Club, Melbourne.
Drops in the ocean, curated by Ewoud van Rijn, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.
Magic, curated by Andrea Gilbert, Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Salon de Freehands, curated by Rob McHaffie, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
Prog: ME Programma de midia electronica, curated by Carlo Sansolo & Erika Fraenkel,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nature by Proxy, curated by John Nicholson, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney.
Slave, curated by C.Hill, K.Picken, R.McKenzie, N.Selenitsch, The Margaret Lawrence
Galleries, Melbourne.
VII Intl. Art & Film Festival, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba.
A portable model of (touring), curated by Tristian Koenig, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
2004 Addressbook, curated by Tristian Koenig, BUS Gallery, Melbourne.
VideoLoveHateVideo, curated by Tristian Koenig, Phatspace, Sydney.
Instinct, curated by Liza Vasiliou, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Imagens Que Jamais VocÊ Jamais VerÁ Na TV, curated by Carlo Sansolo & Erika Fraenkel,
Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil.
VI Intl. Art & Film Festival, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba.
laisle.com Hole 04-02, screening curated by Sansolo & Fraenkel, Cine Buraco, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Girlpower 3, GAZI Contemporary Artspace, curated by T. Spiliotis, Athens, Greece.
2003 Posted, MOP Projects, curated by Anton Marin, Sydney.
V Intl. Art & Film Festival, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau & Gallery Carmen
Montilla,
Havana, Cuba.
WallCandy, curated by Greg Deftereos, Conical Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2002 Only the Lonely, curated by Clare Firth-Smith (Penthouse & Pavement), BLOCK Gallery,
Sydney.
2001 ABSOLUT: Selected works from the European Collection (touring exhibition), Paris (France),
Warsaw (Poland), Stockholm, Millesgarden, Sweden.
2000 MoNa, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA.
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, curated by G. Sangster, Baltimore, USA.
1999 ABSOLUT Cult, DESTE Contemporary Art, in collaboration with ABSOLUT, Stockholm, Sweden.
2000, Galerie d'Art Contemporain Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France.
ArtZine, curated by Phil Edwards, Spencer St. Gallery, Melbourne.
Gallery Olga Georgadeas (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
Gallery monohoro (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
1998 Westspace Gallery, A4Art, Melbourne.
Gallery Olga Georgadeas (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
1997 Gallery Olga Georgadeas (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
Gallery monohoro (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
sweet egg, O Exerevnitis, Athens, Greece.
1996 Athens School of Fine Arts ASKT (graduation exhibition), National Gallery of Athens, Athens,
Greece.
BasaArt, Gallery monohoro, Athens, Greece.
1995 ABSOLUT Cult 95, curated by Yanni Kolokotroni & Eleni Athanasssiou, Pieridis Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with ABSOLUT, Stockholm, Sweden.
CHAOS, Artspace CHAOS Art & Design, Athens, Greece
1994 Gallery Olga Georgadeas (Groupshow), Athens, Greece.
1993 Het Boudoir van PM, curated by Tanya Von Barnau-Sythoff, AIR Artist International Research,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1992 Greece-The Netherlands: Contemporary Artists. Centre for Contemporary Art.
Organized by the Royal Dutch Embassy, Athens, Greece.
Different Opinion, curated by Miltos Manetas and Maria Papadimitriou, Gallery VIA Farini, Villa Addormentata, Boffalora, Ticino, Milan, Italy.
1990 De Blokkendoos, Zwolle, The Netherlands.
Relics, Gallery Relics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
1989 Noordkunst Artfair & Central Exhibition: Young Talent, curated by Frits Maats, Zuidlaren,
The Netherlands.
Project Dineke Van Huizen, Gallery Arcadia, Finsterwolde The Netherlands.
Salon der Debutanten, Slagharen, The Netherlands.
Summer Art Korenbeurs, Center for Art, Groningen, The Netherlands.
1988 Start 88, Centraal Beheer, Zeist, The Netherlands.
Academy Minerva (graduation exhibition), De Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands.
1987 Spatial Design, Academie Minerva, Gedempte Zuiderdiep building, Groningen, the
Netherlands.
Awards, scholarships, residencies
2010 Printmaking Residency at RMIT, Melbourne.
07/09 APA Award, The University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts and Music (VCAM).
2008 Art Residency New York City, USA (6 mths).
2006 Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant, Melbourne.
2005 Arts Victoria, Export and Touring Grant (with Tony Garifalakis), Melbourne.
2003 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, NAVA, Australia Council, Sydney.
2003 Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Conference & Workshop Travel Grant.
V Intl. Art & Film Festival, Havana, Cuba.
2002 Siggraph Singapore; Shortlisted in International 3D Competition 2002, Singapore.
Experimenta selected Interactive shockwave work The Forest (2001) for online exhibition,
Melbourne.
95/97 IKY Postgraduate Scholarships. Grant for 2 Academic Years Postgraduate studies, Foundation
for Government Artist Scholarships (IKY), Athens, Greece.
1995 ABSOLUT Cult. Commission/Prize by ABSOLUT Vodka, Stockholm, Sweden.
1993 Royal College of Art Sponsorships, Renswoude, Tesselschade and Stoop (private sponsorship foundations) for Postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
1993 European Grants Program PETRA II, Grant for Artists Residency ASKT (Delphi annex),
Greece.
1992 Promotional Grant Voorzienings Fonds voor Kunstenaars (VVK), Production & Publication of
Exhibition Catalogue, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1992 Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Artist Development Grant (1 year),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
90/94 NUFFIC Netherlands University Federation for International Cooperation. Awarded 4
Scholarships within the funding program of the Dutch & Greek Ministry of Culture (European
Cultural Agreement:Exchange & Residency program), The Hague, The Netherlands.
1990 Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Artist Development Grant (1 year),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1990 Rens-Holle Foundation, Grant for Postgraduate studies and artist residency (Athens),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, Artist Material & Development Grant, Groningen, The
Netherlands.
1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, Exhibition Grant, Groningen, The Netherlands.
88/89 Stipend (Startstipendium) awarded by Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam.
Selected collaboration & artistpages
2006 Love Song Book. Artistpage contribution. Artistbook by Lisa Radford & Narelle Desmond,
Melbourne.
2004 Girlpower 3. Art & charitable campaign. Initiated by A. Kollaros and T. Spiliotis in association
with the Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece.
2003 HomeComing. Artistpage contribution ‘SuperWish’. Artistbook by Hilde Aagaard. Oslo,Norway.
ISBN:960-87354-4-0.
RUBIK#14. Artistpage contribution, Melbourne. Issue 14. Curated by Julia Gorman, James
Lynch, Michelle Ussher.
2002 Vanilla Sigaartje, video with Lane Cormick, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2000 The Politics of Everyday Fear. Australian Perspecta Project, Artspace Sydney, with T.
Garifalakis.
1999 R.I.P. Artzine, in collaboration with T. Garifalakis. GLUE NO.6, T. Garifalakis, Melbourne.
Collections
Work is represented in a number of public and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the USA including the Museum of Old and New Art (Australia), Artbank (Australia), ABSOLUT European Collection (Sweden), Center for Contemporary Art (The Netherlands), Collection ASKT (Greece), Rabobank (The Netherlands).