Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Veronika Zajačiková
Veronika Zajačiková’s curatorial practice refers to the possibility of an international dialogue through art. Her research is based in virtual reality and the true world, diverting people from an online reception of art to one related to our human nature. Zajačiková believes that without this expansion of experience people are degraded and impoverished in their humanity.
Zajačiková (born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic) received a BA degree at Faculty of Arts – Theory and History of Art, Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. From September 2010 Zajačiková is an MA student in Curatorial Studies, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is currently preparing an exhibition at Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In 2010 she curated two solo shows of students from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague: Po druhé (For the Second Time), Klubovna 2.patro, Prague, CZ.
Veronika Zajačiková.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: Pola Art Foundation
Kanako Sasaki
Working with lens-based media (photography and video) Kanako Sasaki challenges and deconstructs history, time and memory by exploring and infusing her imagination with the stories of individuals. Her inspiration comes from written texts, oral stories and fragmented narratives that create new dimensions of meaning.
Kanako Sasaki (born 1976 in Sendai, Japan) lives and works in Sendai. She earned an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York and also studied at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Recently, she premiered her video workOkinawa Ark in Tokyo for the Shiseido Art Egg Award, which was shown in Miami, Bolivia and Singapore. Sasaki has exhibited her work in Japan, Europe, and the United States at venues including Gallery 10G in New York and Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami, FL.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Jau-lan Guo and Kanako Sasaki
July 26, 2011
Kanako Sasaki, Departure, 2007, Digital C-Print, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Conversation With Anne Frank 2, 2008, Digital video, 3 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Interlocking World At Colonial De Okinawa, Bolivia, 2009, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Okinawa Ark, 2009, Digital video, 3 channel projection, 13 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Kanako Sasaki, Time escape, 2008, Digital C-Print, 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: CBK-Centrum Beeldende Kunst
David Jablonowski
David Jablonowski questions the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. Jablonowski’s interest in display systems and information transfer has as much to do with the hardware that is used in the staging of knowledge as it has with the knowledge itself. Therepetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in works which question the understanding of sign systems; making us aware of the transience of visual language.
David Jablonowski (born 1982 in Bochum, Germany) moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2007 where he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and participated in De Ateliers studio program until 2009. Recent solo shows include Imposition, Schaufenster of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany; Material Kontingenz at SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Perfection Simple Way at Gallery Luettgenmeijer and 1.33:1, Hard Copy Display Sequences, Multi Channel Projection at Bloombergspace London, UK. Group exhibitions include Monumentalism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The dutch identity?, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Gallery Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany.
David Jablonowski, Tchogha Zanbil And Multiple, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Disposition And Still, 2.39:1, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Multiple, Gestetner, 1, 78:1, 2010, Mixed media, 72 × 72 × 36 in. (182.88 × 182.88 × 91.44 cm).
David Jablonowski, Perfection, Simple Way, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Installation View COMMA 30 At Bloomberg SPACE By Bloomberg LP, London, UK, 2010, Multi channel projection and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
