Monika Morgenstern

Born Germany | Resides Ngarrindjeri Country
Strathalbyn, South Australia

Education

2012 – 2014     Adelaide Central School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours]

2008 – 2011     Adelaide Central School of Art - Associate Degree in Visual Art

1992 – 1993     Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne - Associate Diploma of Arts (Finished Art)   

1988 - 1990      University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf – Germany - Interior Design 

 

Award Exhibitions - Finalist

2024       Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize

2024       SALA - Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Finalist

2023       Tatiara Art Prize

2023       Creative Health Contemporary Art Prize

2023       Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize

2023       Barossa Vintage Festival Art Prize

2022       Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize

2021        Tatiara Art Prize

2020       Heysen Art Prize for Landscape

2019        Heysen Art Prize for Landscape

2019        Tatiara Art Prize

2019        SALA Contemporary Art Prize

2018        Heysen Art Prize for Landscape

2018        Fleurieu Art Prize

2018        Latent Photography Prize - SALA 2018

2015        Whyalla Art Prize

2015        Prospect Portrait Prize

2012        Clifton’s Art Prize, Adelaide (People’s choice award)     

2008       Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill                                           

2008       Stanthorpe Art Prize, Qld                                                     

2005       Whyalla Art Prize, SA

Awards

2023       Eran Svigos award for I Dwell In Possibility

2023       Fringe best Visual Art & Design weekly award winner for I Dwell In Possibility

Solo Exhibitions

2024       Onkaparinga Regional Art Space - The radiant now

2023       Barossa Regional Gallery - Wordless Silence

2023       Murray Bridge Regional Gallery – I Dwell in Possibility

2022       Praxis Artspace – Fear Not

2021        BMG Gallery - Gestures

2021        Teneriba Gallery, SALA - Ostium 

2020       Collective Haunt Gallery - Fenestra

2019        Worth Gallery - The Essence of Nothing

2018        Signal Point Gallery - SALA, Rapture

2017        Hahndorf Academy - Rapture

2016        Murray Bridge Regional Gallery - SALA, Who’s Afraid of the Colour Blue?

2014        ArtPod Adelaide – Powerplay 

Video Installations

2023       Barossa Regional Gallery - Prima Materia

2023       Murray Bridge Regional Gallery - I am the Wind

2022       Sixth Street Makers Market Murray Bridge - Initium

2022       Praxis Artspace - I am the Wind

2022       FELT Space Adelaide - I am the Wind

2018        FELT Space Adelaide - Visitors of the Night

2018        Adelaide Festival Centre - Visitors of the Night 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024       Wonderground | Barossa - Incandescent

2024       Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide Contemporary Art Collection 2010–2024

2024       SALA HUB | Light Room Gallery - Proximity

2023       Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (NSW) - Shifter

2023       Smartart Gallery - A place in time

2022       Worth Gallery - A Mixed blend

2022       Main Gallery – Beyond

2022       Adelaide Town Hall – Art as a Visual Language

2021        WEST Gallery Adelaide – Abstraction 

2019        WEST Gallery Adelaide - Extra Virgin

2019        St. Ignatius Bi-Annual Art Show (Rector's Prize Winner)

2017        Worth Gallery, Kent Town - Dwell

2016        Worth Gallery, Kent Town - Open

2015        Fisher Jeffries Foyer Space - Illumination

2015        The Barn Gallery, Aldgate - On the Wall & Floor

2015        Adelaide Central Gallery (Fringe exhibition) - With a Spring in my Step

2015        Helpmann Graduate Exhibition                                           

2014        Adelaide Central School of Art - Breaking Silence 

2014        SALA Adelaide Town Hall Eight                                       

2014        Port Augusta Cultural Centre - Travelling North

2014        Helpmann Graduate Exhibition

2013        Adelaide Central School of Art - Uncharted Territory 

2012        Adelaide Central Gallery - Cats & Dogs                            

2010        Port Adelaide, New Land Gallery Convers(ly) Curated by Fulvia Mantelli

Grants and Commissions 

2022       Arts SA – Fellowship

2021        Guildhouse - Catapult 

2021        Arts SA – Independent Artist Grant

2020       Country Arts SA – Postcard Commission

2020       Country Arts SA – Covid 19 Artist Grant

2020       Country Arts SA – Quick Response Grant 

2017        Adelaide Central School of Art Support Program Grant

2010        Professional Development Grant. Project Coordinator for Converse[ly] The Artist’s Voice. Country Arts SA 

2009       Regional Arts Fund: Quick Response Grant, Country Arts SA 

 

Further Development & Experience 

2022          Speaker - Art + Place, public art workshop

2021           Mentee to Sasha Grbich - Videographer

2020/21 Mentee to Erni Tinesz - Flat Glass artist

2014           Art Gallery of SA Sketch club tutor Abstracting the Human Form 

2010/11     Exhibition coordinator Kensington Gallery, Adelaide

2010           Mentee to Fulvia Mantelli - Curator

2009          Masterclass with Godwin Bradbeer ’Describing the Body’

Collections

City of Adelaide

City of Marion

Numerous private collection.