Recent + Forthcoming Events
03.05.25 Performance project w/ Conduction curator Debris Facility + Sleepless Footscray Festival
12.04.25 ‘We Called it New Music’ panel discussion w/ David Chesworth, Warren Burt, Judy Annear, Clinton Green, Helen Grogan in an artistic program w/ Essendon Airport, Mia Alexander, Ernie Althoff, Judy Annear, Jessica Aszodi, Arsam Samadi Bahrami, Ros Bandt, Bodies of Infinite Divine and Eternal Spirit, Warren Burt, Who Cares?, David Chesworth, Carolyn Connors, →↑→, Les Gilbert, Clinton Green, Helen Grogan, Kassie Junkeer, Joy Lee, Levi Liauw, Rainer Linz, Sachin de Silva Silzedrek, Ron Nagorcka, James Rushford, Bridget Small, Paul Fletcher, Jayne Stevenson.
04.04.25 ‘Inside Studio / Actual Ghosts’ screening, Alexander Powers’ Miscelania performance program w/ Mara Galagher, Alexander Powers, Andrea Illes, Ari Angkasa, Jo Lloyd and Shelley Lasica, Gateway Experience, Stacey Collee, Zoe Bastin, Hazardous Lace, Jasper Salomonsz, Chung Nguyen, lyds, Callan BH, Helen Grogan.
About
Helen Grogan (born 1979, Australia) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, exhibition, and documentation practices for over two decades. She foregrounds working processes as a critical strategy, integrating choreographic methods and concepts within her professional roles as artist, curator, and collaborative advisor for time-based practice and its legacies. Helen’s art practice was awarded a 2025 Samstag International Visual Art scholarship, supporting research on the processual dimensions of performative contemporary artistic and curatorial works, and their institutional documentation.
Helen’s artistic practice has been presented by institutions in Oceania and Europe, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Knulp, Biennale of Sydney and Serial Space (Eora/Sydney); Ian Potter Museum of Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Center for Contemporary Photography, Sutton Gallery, and Liquid Architecture (Naarm/Melbourne); Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Festival (Tarntanya/Adelaide); Rijksakademie (Amsterdam); Netherlands Institute of Architecture (Rotterdam); HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Kontex Festival (Berlin); Galerie Stadtpark (Krems); and Tbilisi Triennial (Rustavi).
Helen is Associate Curator, Archive, at Liquid Architecture and Vice Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and leads IASA’s first conference accessibility initiative. In 2023 she presented research around preserving Liquid Architecture’s legacy of sound art at Istanbul University for the 2023 IASA Conference.
Grogan holds qualifications in philosophy, choreography, dance, and visual art as an alumna of the University of Melbourne, Amsterdam University of the Arts, City University of New York, and Deakin University. In 2019 her practice-led research was awarded the Jennifer Bowskill Photography Award from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She was the 2017 recipient of RMIT’s International Artist in Residency, Austria, which led to the solo exhibition and publication ‘Up to and Including’ with Galerie Stadtpark. She is a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist alumna (2015-2017). While at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam (2002-2006), she received the Hanny Velkmap Scholarship.
Since 2023, Helen has investigated practice-focused approaches to intangible contemporary art heritage, engaging with significant international precedents at De Appel Archive (Amsterdam) and The Kitchen Archive (New York City). This ongoing research examines such archives as stewardship systems that evolve through praxical curatorial methods and artist-driven ontologies. It considers how the (processual) politics of these artist-led organisations are situated within and transmitted through these processes. Together with The Kitchen Archivist, Alex Waterman, Grogan devised and developed the initiative: The Kitchen Archive Fellowship, which continues to support technical and conceptual developments in The Kitchen Archive. This project drew on Grogan’s time at The Kitchen decades earlier (2001-2002), when she acted as assistant to Kristina Yang, The Kitchen’s first New Media Arts Curator and worked on description, digitisation, and collection engagement in The Kitchen Archive. More recently, Helen’s experience in contemporary art documentation and stewardship includes projects with Naarm/Melbourne-based arts organisations such as Liquid Architecture, Performance Review, Gertrude Contemporary, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, West Space, BalletLab and Dance Massive. She has collaborated on related projects with curators Hannah Mathews, Jared Davis, and Joanna Kitto, and choreographers Shelley Lasica, Phillip Adams, Andrea Ines, and (research with) Jo Lloyd.
In 2022, Helen set up OPEN PRACTICE STUDIO, as a framework for working with other artists, curators and arts organisations in an advisory, consulting or research capacity, collaboratively. Helen’s OPS practice draws on her attention to and capacity for complex and nuanced problems of practice, across diverse professional contexts. This includes working directly with artists on studio processes and conceptual frameworks, documentation strategies for independent arts organisations, and dramaturgy for exhibitions and symposia. Currently, projects support performance exhibitions and installations, dance writing, sonic arts, social practice, and public discussion programs.
Contact
helen@openpracticestudio.org
IG Message @helen_grogan
Signal Message: +61 (0) 431690832
03.05.25 Performance project w/ Conduction curator Debris Facility + Sleepless Footscray Festival
12.04.25 ‘We Called it New Music’ panel discussion w/ David Chesworth, Warren Burt, Judy Annear, Clinton Green, Helen Grogan in an artistic program w/ Essendon Airport, Mia Alexander, Ernie Althoff, Judy Annear, Jessica Aszodi, Arsam Samadi Bahrami, Ros Bandt, Bodies of Infinite Divine and Eternal Spirit, Warren Burt, Who Cares?, David Chesworth, Carolyn Connors, →↑→, Les Gilbert, Clinton Green, Helen Grogan, Kassie Junkeer, Joy Lee, Levi Liauw, Rainer Linz, Sachin de Silva Silzedrek, Ron Nagorcka, James Rushford, Bridget Small, Paul Fletcher, Jayne Stevenson.
04.04.25 ‘Inside Studio / Actual Ghosts’ screening, Alexander Powers’ Miscelania performance program w/ Mara Galagher, Alexander Powers, Andrea Illes, Ari Angkasa, Jo Lloyd and Shelley Lasica, Gateway Experience, Stacey Collee, Zoe Bastin, Hazardous Lace, Jasper Salomonsz, Chung Nguyen, lyds, Callan BH, Helen Grogan.
About
Helen Grogan (born 1979, Australia) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, exhibition, and documentation practices for over two decades. She foregrounds working processes as a critical strategy, integrating choreographic methods and concepts within her professional roles as artist, curator, and collaborative advisor for time-based practice and its legacies. Helen’s art practice was awarded a 2025 Samstag International Visual Art scholarship, supporting research on the processual dimensions of performative contemporary artistic and curatorial works, and their institutional documentation.
Helen’s artistic practice has been presented by institutions in Oceania and Europe, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Knulp, Biennale of Sydney and Serial Space (Eora/Sydney); Ian Potter Museum of Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Center for Contemporary Photography, Sutton Gallery, and Liquid Architecture (Naarm/Melbourne); Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Festival (Tarntanya/Adelaide); Rijksakademie (Amsterdam); Netherlands Institute of Architecture (Rotterdam); HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Kontex Festival (Berlin); Galerie Stadtpark (Krems); and Tbilisi Triennial (Rustavi).
Helen is Associate Curator, Archive, at Liquid Architecture and Vice Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and leads IASA’s first conference accessibility initiative. In 2023 she presented research around preserving Liquid Architecture’s legacy of sound art at Istanbul University for the 2023 IASA Conference.
Grogan holds qualifications in philosophy, choreography, dance, and visual art as an alumna of the University of Melbourne, Amsterdam University of the Arts, City University of New York, and Deakin University. In 2019 her practice-led research was awarded the Jennifer Bowskill Photography Award from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She was the 2017 recipient of RMIT’s International Artist in Residency, Austria, which led to the solo exhibition and publication ‘Up to and Including’ with Galerie Stadtpark. She is a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist alumna (2015-2017). While at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam (2002-2006), she received the Hanny Velkmap Scholarship.
Since 2023, Helen has investigated practice-focused approaches to intangible contemporary art heritage, engaging with significant international precedents at De Appel Archive (Amsterdam) and The Kitchen Archive (New York City). This ongoing research examines such archives as stewardship systems that evolve through praxical curatorial methods and artist-driven ontologies. It considers how the (processual) politics of these artist-led organisations are situated within and transmitted through these processes. Together with The Kitchen Archivist, Alex Waterman, Grogan devised and developed the initiative: The Kitchen Archive Fellowship, which continues to support technical and conceptual developments in The Kitchen Archive. This project drew on Grogan’s time at The Kitchen decades earlier (2001-2002), when she acted as assistant to Kristina Yang, The Kitchen’s first New Media Arts Curator and worked on description, digitisation, and collection engagement in The Kitchen Archive. More recently, Helen’s experience in contemporary art documentation and stewardship includes projects with Naarm/Melbourne-based arts organisations such as Liquid Architecture, Performance Review, Gertrude Contemporary, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, West Space, BalletLab and Dance Massive. She has collaborated on related projects with curators Hannah Mathews, Jared Davis, and Joanna Kitto, and choreographers Shelley Lasica, Phillip Adams, Andrea Ines, and (research with) Jo Lloyd.
In 2022, Helen set up OPEN PRACTICE STUDIO, as a framework for working with other artists, curators and arts organisations in an advisory, consulting or research capacity, collaboratively. Helen’s OPS practice draws on her attention to and capacity for complex and nuanced problems of practice, across diverse professional contexts. This includes working directly with artists on studio processes and conceptual frameworks, documentation strategies for independent arts organisations, and dramaturgy for exhibitions and symposia. Currently, projects support performance exhibitions and installations, dance writing, sonic arts, social practice, and public discussion programs.
Contact
helen@openpracticestudio.org
IG Message @helen_grogan
Signal Message: +61 (0) 431690832