Kiera Brew Kurec

@kierakaterina | www.kierabrewkurec.com

Kiera Brew Kurec is an artist and researcher living and working on Gadigal land (Sydney Australia).

Brew Kurec graduated with a Masters Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015 with first class honours. Her practice led research culminated in the thesis Performance, Ritual and Transformation, locating the history of contemporary performance practice in ancient ritual.

In 2011/2012 she interned at Franklin Furnace, a leading institution in the conservation and archiving of performance practice located in New York. In 2019/2020 she returned to New York undertaking a research funded by Creative Australia to observe current best practice techniques for archiving performance at MoMA archives, NYU Special Collections, Franklin Furnace and the Asian Art Archive in America.

In 2022 Brew Kurec presented Archiving the Temporal, a performance and series of discussions exploring modalities of archiving performance with esteemed Australian and international performance practitioners and academics at Bus Projects, Naarm/Melbourne. The discussions encompassed ritual as a basis for performance making, ethical reinterpretation re-performance, and methodologies in performance archiving.

In 2024, in collaboration with Eva Abbinga, Brew Kurec created the exhibition Collection/ Connection at the Ukrainian Museum of Australia. The exhibition saw both artists respond to the archive with new works, existing works and curating parts of the collection together that have never been exhibited before.

Brew Kurec has exhibited and performed extensively through Australia as well as New York, Oregon, Berlin and Penang, and is the recipient of multiple grants and awards and undertaken residencies in Penang, Berlin, Oregon, New York, and across Australia.

Brew Kurec is the co-creator of the arts podcast Pro Prac.