Bernice Donszelmann

Biography

Bernice Donszelmann is a Senior Lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Chelsea and a PhD supervisor. She is a visual artist and writer and a founding member of the collaborative curatorial group Outside Architecture.


Recent projects include:
'Architectures in Air', 2023, curated with Helen Robertson at Brixton Library, London
'Level' at APT Gallery London, 2022, - solo exhibition installation
'Come and go. Halt Extreme Left', 2019 Winchester Gallery - an Outside Architecture Project
'Drift', 201`9, Thames-side Studios Gallery, London - an Outside Architecture Project
'[these roarers]', 2018, with Lucy Gunning and Helen Robertson - a participatory performance for the Whitstable Biennale
'INCANDESCENCE', 2027, with Lucy Gunning and Helen Robertson - a participatory performance at Grande Square, Greenwich


Upcoming
'three tides passed' at Coleman Projects, London, 2024, - solo exhibition installation


She was a recipient of the Shelagh-Cluett Alice Boner Residency in Varanasi, India in 2020/22, a Creator in Residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo in 2013 and was an Abbey Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2004.


Her writing includes the essays 'Touch Screen’, in Beth Harland, Sunil Manghani (eds.), 2016, 'Painting: Critical and Primary Sources',
Bloomsbury, 'Semper’s wall: figuring ground' in in Ed Whittaker, Alex Landrum (eds.), 2012, 'Painting with Architecture in
Mind, Wunderkammer Press'.