Rate My Professor Michael Kutschbach

Michael Kutschbach is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Adelaide University, serving within the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, School of Art and Design. He holds the position of Program Director for Fine Arts and delivers teaching in the Bachelor of Contemporary Art at the South Australian School of Art. Kutschbach maintains a multi-disciplinary artistic practice that spans drawing, sculpture, installation, painting, video, and sound, characterized by encounters with materials in states of transformation and speculative processes.

Kutschbach earned a BA (Fine Art) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (1993-1996), an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1992), a Master of Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art (2002-2004), and an MA Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art and Design, London (2006). His professional appointments include Lecturer at the University of South Australia (2018-2025), Lecturer at Adelaide Central School of Art (2018-2020 and 1999-2004), and Guest Professor at the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin (2011). He has also contributed as an accreditation team member for BA courses at the University of Art, Design and Music, Freiburg. Kutschbach has garnered significant recognition through awards and residencies such as the Ann & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship (2004), Australia Council Studio Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2009), Australia Council Studio Residency at Viafarini, Milan (2004), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2007), Arts SA Project Assistance Grants (multiple, including 2021 and 2018), and public art commissions including PTP Alliance (2022), City of Holdfast Bay Major Public Art Commission (2020), and City of Marion Morphettville Park Sports Centre (2019). His solo exhibitions encompass 'aeolidida' (Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza commission, 2024), 'benthos borborygmy' (Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, 2022), 'fuliguline' (Adelaide Festival Centre, 2021), 'flovien Ffollies' (Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, 2017), 'mad odor roses' (Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, 2013), and numerous presentations at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, spanning 2001-2007. Group exhibitions include 'Crosscurrents' (Flinders University Museum of Art, 2025), 'A Sense of Belonging' (CityLAB:Berlin, 2025), Rohkunstbau XII (Schloss Gross Leuthen, Germany, 2005), and Art Cologne (2006-2007). Kutschbach's public projects feature responsive sculptures like 'Sesquipedalian Sea Squirt' for Glenelg's Chapel Plaza and a visual transformation of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's performances (2021), underscoring his influence in material-based contemporary art across Australia and Europe.