Exhibition Date
Exhibition Opening
Thursday 2 April 2026, 6 > 8PM
Visual
Rating 75%
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A scenario tensions the speed of reflections as they occur, and the repose of reflecting itself.
How can the actual movement of light and colour across space be located beyond our perception, yet we can see an image resting here, knowing it comes from there?
And when we observe such links, how might they then compare?
What do encounters of sight, colour and sound add up to, when separated and sequenced across time?
Maybe, in narrating across such sensed memories, each translation we trust inserts nothing but a sped-up millisecond, while each
allusion we doubt seeks to entirely slow such a flow.
Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn Germany) and Michael Graeve (Castlemaine) have collaborated since 2006, developing a series
of nuanced dialogues. Their collaborations have been presented internationally at raum2810 (Bonn, 2006), Gigantic Artspace (New York,
2007), Place Gallery (Richmond, 2009), The Arts Centre (Melbourne, 2010), youngcollectors (Swisstal-Miel, 2016), Incinerator Gallery
(Mooney Ponds, 2017), Five Walls (Footscray, 2020), and they were awarded joint prize winner of the Beethoven Reloaded Prize at
Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Siegburg, 2020) for their collaboration.
Christoph Dahlhausen is an international artist, author and curator, based in Bonn, Germany. He works across
painting, sculpture, installation and light-based artistic forms. His artistic work is often architecture-related and site-specific,
including major public art commissions. He exhibits and curates extensively in both institutional and commercial spaces across Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, USA and Mexico.
Christoph has held over 110 solo exhibitions and has curated more than 30 projects. Major works are held by collections including
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Deutscher Bundestag (Berlin), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin), Heide Museum of Modern Art
(Melbourne), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), and The Chartwell Collection (Auckland). Dahlhausen has received numerous
scholarships and awards, including the Art Award of the City of Bonn (2003), and was short listed for the first International Light Art
Award (2014), as well as the European Robert Schuman Art Prize (2025), a scholarship by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (2021) and a
project grant by the Kunstfonds Deutschland (2022).
Before becoming an artist, he studied Violoncello and Philosophy, and received a full degree as a medical doctor and anaesthetist. Christoph
is a Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University in the School of Art, where he previously held a role as Adjunct Professor.
Michael Graeve is a visual and sound artist. He works across painting, installation, performance, composition,
curation, text and teaching. In his work he performs audio-visual and spatio-temporal transcriptions between media and senses, creating
oscillating experiences of conjunctive and disjunctive relations. He lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Castlemaine.
He has held over 30 solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in curated exhibitions surveying practices of sound art and
non-objective and abstract painting in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the USA. Awards and residencies include Tonspur 19 (Vienna,
2007), Australia Council residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP, New York, 2005), Samstag International Travelling
Scholar (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004).
He has contributed to artist-run culture as a board member at Liquid Architecture Sound (2007-2021), West Space (2000-2004) and Grey Area
Art Space (1996-1999).
He is an Associate Professor in the School of Art, RMIT University, where he is the Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching.