Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Republic of Serbia Ministry of Culture and Information
Isidora Ficovic
From drawing, painting, photography, performance and video art to multimedia installations in a kaleidoscope of subjects, Isidora Fićović’s unique participatory works offer alluring spaces for thinking with unexpected connections that explore everyday life in different places, cities, countries, cultures as well as in cartoons, movies, TV news and the newspaper. Her work examines the intersection of diverse subjects and controversies and explores the boundary between the organic/actual and artificial/virtual reality.
Isidora Fićović (born 1977 in Belgrade, Serbia) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She has had solo exhibitions at Black Rabbit, Belgrade and Ratman, Belgrade and has been included in group exhibitions at New Museum, New York; Frieze Art Fair, London, UK; Depo, Istanbul, Turkey and Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Itziar Barrio and Isidora Fićović
January 18, 2011
Isidora Ficovic, My Cousin And Have Heard That Aliens Are Jealous Of Our Planet, 2010, C-prints, 19 × 11 in. (48.26 × 27.94 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isidora Ficovic, Dear Mr. President I Need A Yacht Please Help Me, 2010, Drawing, 19 × 15 in. (48.26 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isidora Ficovic, What s Contemporary?, 2010, Video, 14 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Isidora Ficovic, Colouring, 2010, Performance, 30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Isidora Ficovic, A Strong Is Wrong, 2010, Drawing, 81/4 × 1111/16 in. (21.01 × 29.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
2013
