Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić works with installation, performance and photography and carries a special interest in art in public space. Focusing on the search for abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities and exploring the transformation of these spaces, she rethinks them in terms of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dražić’s production, concept and form are of equal importance in opening the work to multi-layered interpretations, that is, for developing new ways of seeing. Dušica Dražić explores the ambivalent interrelationship between a citizen and a city, their mutual support and protectiveness and at the same time isolation and destruction. Dražić searches for spaces without order, spaces of irregularity, difference, flexibility and intuition. Dušica’s works deal with micro-histories of a locus and are also an act of narration.
Dušica Dražić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2004, and finished an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2006. Since 2006 Dušica Dražić is also a part of the collective “usually4” with K. Freino (PL), S. Hopkins (UK/KEN) and Teresa Luzio (P). In 2010 Dražić received the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Serbia) and the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (Italy) and was granted a DAAD scholarship in 2005/2006.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Dušica Dražić, Dead-End Street, 2009, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by K. Freino.
Dušica Dražić, The Winter Garden, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Prelom - Breach, Break, Breakage, Failure, Fraction, Infraction, Rupture, Split, Layout, 2008, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. photo by G. Micevski.
Dušica Dražić, One Home In Rydygiera 45a, 2006, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Young Serbians, 2006, Video performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: ATI - The Arts and Theatre Institute
Jakub Hosek
Jakub Hosek draws upon a wide range of influences to construct his paintings. Made using acrylic paint applied meticulously onto the canvas though hand-cut masking tape stencils, Hosek’s paintings have been described as being illustrative, appearing to describe a complex narrative in a single comic-strip-like frame. It is precisely this spirit of post-teenage Pop which defines Hosek’s strong colors. The texts incorporated within his paintings are drawn predominantly from the contemporary post and punk-rock music that he listens to.
Born 1979 in Prague, Jakub Hosek lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.
Jakub Hosek, You Fool, Your House Is On A Frozen Lake, 2008, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 56 × 55 × 8 in. (142.24 × 139.7 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, A Cancer In The Smallest Bones, 2008, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 49 × 45 × 8 in. (124.46 × 114.3 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, Untitled, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 31 × 30 × 8 in. (78.74 × 76.2 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, Wig Master, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 38 × 38 in. (96.52 × 96.52 cm).
Jakub Hosek, Buzz Saw, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 79 × 77 × 3 in. (200.66 × 195.58 × 7.62 cm).
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2010: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
