Bianca Hester
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Exhibition
Bianca Hester: Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning
This major new work by influential Melbourne-based conceptual artist, Bianca Hester, used ACCA’s main gallery as a sculptural prop and venue for her experimental, spatial playfulness. Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during...
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Exhibition
ACCA Pop Up Program: Glasgow
...presented within the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, continuing Melbourne’s long-standing cultural relationship with the city.
Artists: Bianca Hester, Marco Fusinato, Laresa Kosloff, David Rosetzky and Joshua Petherick.
Curators: Juliana Engberg and Charlotte Day
Venue...
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Exhibition
A Molecular History of Everything* (*Well not Everything)
...of things were explored in this rumpus room of art.
*well not everything.
Exhibiting Artists: Charles Anderson, Rosa Barba, Marc Bauer, Richard Fauguet, Louise Flaherty, Geophile (Bianca Looney and Lucas Chirnside), Claire Harvey, Bianca Hester, Gavin Hipkins, Nicholas Mangan, Nora Martirosyan...
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Exhibition
Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia
The exhibition sought to illustrate this complex, even chaotic collision of ideology, philosophy and imagination by creating a dynamic space of visual and physical interaction.
Exhibiting Artists: Luisa Barfuduci, Christian Capurro, Nora Ingrid Book and Catrina Heden, Alban Hajdinaj, Bianca Hester, Nora...
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Exhibition
ART#2 ACCA REGIONAL TOUR: Horsham
...from Melbourne’s leading contemporary art space to regional Victoria.Horsham Regional Art GalleryWill host an exhibition of works that respond to the photographic focus of the Horsham collection. Artists Stuart Ringholt, Nicholas Mangan, Bianca Hester, Joshua Petherick, Fiona...
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Exhibition
Who’s Afraid of Public Space?
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Who’s Afraid of Public Space? is a multifaceted project of exhibitions and programs exploring the role of public culture, the contested nature of public space, and the character and composition of public life. The exhibition continues ACCA’s Big Picture series, which explores contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural […]
Press Release
Bianca Hester
...6 August - 26 September 2010
A major new work by Bianca Hester will see this influential Melbourne-based conceptual artist use ACCA’s main gallery as a sculptural prop – and a venue for her experimental, spatial playfulness.
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Product
Bianca Hester: Please leave these windows… catalogue
Bianca Hester...
Text
Rewind: Leave the windows open…
Bianca Hester
Bianca Hester, Please leave these windows open overnight o enable...
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Publication
Bianca Hester: Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning
Bianca Hester...
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Podcast
Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) WRITING & CONCEPTS
Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) – a collaborative art group comprising Bianca Hester, Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell – delivers a WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture reflecting on the relationship between the process of writing and the development of social, political and philosophical questions within contemporary arts and cultural practice.
Thursday 24 August 2017...
Podcast
Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) WRITING & CONCEPTS
Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) – a collaborative art group comprising Bianca Hester, Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell – delivers a WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture reflecting on the relationship between the process of writing and the development of social, political and philosophical questions within contemporary arts and cultural practice.
Thursday 24 August 2017...
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Publication
A Molecular History of Everything* (*Well not Everything)
...the 2004 exhibition contains reproductions of work by: Charles Anderson, Rosa Barba, Marc Bauer, Richard Fauguet, Louise Flaherty, Geophile (Bianca Looney and Lucas Chirnside), Claire Harvey, Bianca Hester, Gavin Hipkins, Nick Mangan, Nora Martirosyan, Dave Muller, Alex Pittendrigh, Stuart Ringholt, Alex Rizkala and Julie Davies, Daniel van Vree, Gabrielle de Vietri, Daniel von Sturmer, Kan Xuan. ...
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Product
A Molecular History of Everything catalogue
...accompanying the 2004 exhibition contains reproductions of work by: Charles Anderson, Rosa Barba, Marc Bauer, Richard Fauguet, Louise Flaherty, Geophile (Bianca Looney and Lucas Chirnside), Claire Harvey, Bianca Hester, Gavin Hipkins, Nick Mangan, Nora Martirosyan, Dave Muller, Alex Pittendrigh, Stuart Ringholt, Alex Rizkala and Julie Davies, Daniel van Vree, Gabrielle de Vietri, Daniel von Sturmer, Kan Xuan. ...
Text
PART 2. Between thing and event
CONTRIBUTIONS
BIANCA HESTER
Bianca Hester has contributed two texts for this program. These texts have been selected in consultation with live participants, Benjamin Woods and Geoff Robinson...
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Publication
Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia
Bianca Hester, Nora Martirosyan, Chad McCail, Martin McIrerney, Callum Morton, Raquel Ormella, Pia Ronicke, Katya Sanders, Tony Schwensen, Dmitry Vilensky, Danielle van Vree, Guan Wei, Kan Xuan, Carey Young. ...
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Product
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia catalogue
Hajdinaj, Bianca Hester, Nora Martirosyan, Chad McCail, Martin McIrerney, Callum Morton, Raquel Ormella, Pia Ronicke, Katya Sanders, Tony Schwensen, Dmitry Vilensky, Danielle van Vree, Guan Wei, Kan Xuan, Carey Young. ...
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Product
ART#2 Horsham catalogue
...highlighting works by all 15 of the ART#2 artists - Fiona Abicare, Benjamin Armstrong, Damiano Bertoli, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Nathan Gray, Matthew Griffin, Bianca Hester, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Nicholas Mangan, TV Moore, Joshua Petherick, Stuart Ringholt, Justene Williams, Gabrielle de Vietri...
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Publication
ART#2 ACCA REGIONAL TOUR: Horsham
...highlighting works by all 15 of the ART#2 artists - Fiona Abicare, Benjamin Armstrong, Damiano Bertoli, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Nathan Gray, Matthew Griffin, Bianca Hester, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Nicholas Mangan, TV Moore, Joshua Petherick, Stuart Ringholt, Justene Williams, Gabrielle de Vietri...
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2012
...included new works by Bianca Hester, Marco Fusinato, Laresa Kosloff, David Rosetzky and Joshua Petherick presented at various sites throughout the city.
ACCA’s artistic director, Juliana Engberg, was announced as the Artistic Director of the 2014 Biennale of Sydney. And ACCA welcomed Steven Smith (Lawyer, Vice President of Melbourne Cricket Club and Director of National Sports Museum) as government appointee to the Board in December 2012.
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Program
WRITING & CONCEPTS Open Spatial Workshop (OSW)
Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) is a collaborative art group comprising Bianca Hester, Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell. Over the past 13 years OSW has produced a broad range of work spanning sculpture, installation, curated events, publications and video production...