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.
Magnus Thierfelder
In his work Magnus Thierfelder uses various methods such as drawing, installation, sculpture, photo and lets components primarily taken from the cityscape become metaphors in a narrative rebus where lamp posts, pipes, cables, paving-stones etc., constitute elements in a symbolic realm that talks about enigmatic regularities, order and disorder, resistance, and creativity.
“Drainpipes, bricks, cables and lamp posts. With these simple construction elements from without, Magnus Thierfelder creates his personal order within. The starting point seems to be the limited intentions, the details, and the interplay of every day occurrences, and the paradoxical realisation that these have the power to overcome us, by confronting us with the results of actions that carry their own underlying structure. Thierfelder’s restrained, formal language and subtle sense of humour, become what is often barely distinguishable disruptions on social norms and everyday experiences. By simply displacing these tangible objects, he obstructs “normality”, and reveals things that could have gone wrong.” Extract from Underneath Everyday Normality; The Work of Magnus Thierfelder by Marianna Garin.
Magnus Thierfelder lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. He received his MFA from Malmö Art Academy. He has exhibited nationally and internationally both separately and in group exhibitions at Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Araba, Spain; Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden; Ar/Ge KUNST, Bolzano, Italy; Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Malmö Art Museum, Sweden; Coleman Projects, London, UK; Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; The Breeder, Athens, Greece; Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1a Space, Hong Kong, China; Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy and Kumo Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, among others. He is one of the founding members of the non-profit art space Signal in Malmö and was on the Board member between 1998 and 2002. He is represented by the galleries Elastic in Malmö and von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland.
Magnus Thierfelder, Disintegration, 2008, Painted MDF, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and von Bartha Garage, Basel.
Magnus Thierfelder, Visionary, 2006, Plastic pipes, epoxy mold variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Magnus Thierfelder, Resistance, 2008, Pipes and rubber, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and von Bartha Garage, Basel.
Magnus Thierfelder, Still Life, 2009, Brick stones and lamp post. Courtesy of the artist and Perspectives - Art in Urban Spaces, Malmö, Sweden.
Magnus Thierfelder, Fountain, 2004, Installation with water. Courtesy of the artist and Coleman Project Space, London.
Residents from Sweden
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.
