Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Marko Markovic
Marko Markovic’s work is interested in the transformation process between the individual and the masses; when an individual becomes a mass or when the mass becomes an individual. In doing so, he animates and includes audiences and/or other participants, working with varying age groups and socio-economic classes. Markovic’s work is socially engaged and directly involved with people and their needs, consciousness and social structure. He sees this as the best method to directly impact his public audience. Markovic’s work reflects current events and questions the structure of politics, economics, status and positions of inferiority and superiority. He uses a variety of media, including video, installation, performance and happenings.
Marko Markovic (born 1983, Osijek, Croatia) lives and works in Zagreb and graduated from the Art Academy in Split, Croatia in 2007. He has participated in exhibitions, workshops and festivals in Croatia, USA, Russia, Mexico, Finland, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Italy, Greece, Serbia and Austria. In 2011, he was awarded the Radoslav Putar Award for best young visual artist in Croatia by the Institute for Contemporary Art and the Young Visual Artists Awards. Markovic also works as the organizer of Days of Open Performance in Split and is the front man in a performative art punk band, Elijah and the Grain.
Marko Markovic, It is not gold everything that shines, 2010, Golden pillar, A state mandate of Croatian government prior to entering the EU, Action in public space, 10 min.
Marko Markovic, The labor saves, 2011, Happening featuring previously employed workers of a bankrupt textile industry "Ideal", featuring Ljiljana Shuchur, Senka Rogich, Vjera Gotovac and Dijana Uvodich, 3 min.
Marko Markovic, Other side of the flag, 2010, Music happening featuring the band, Elijah and the Grain, 15 min.
Marko Markovic, Selfeater - the thirst, 2009, Performance, medical needle, tube system, vane belt in national state colors, blood, 5 min.
Past Resident2012: Creative New Zealand
Kate Newby
Kate Newby’s work is guided by a desire to address the world around her as directly as possible. Newby’s actions engage with conditions of actual space, taking place in varied environments such as galleries and museums, parking lots and footpaths, and through hand-written signs and artist books. Newby typically uses elements of her immediate environment that give evidence to the everyday use of a place or space as an inhabited or occupied site, but that can also be used to interrupt, reconsider, or challenge an environment’s norms. Newby’s spatial adjustments and interventions range from large-scale sculptural directives, such as concrete or brick walls, floor-to-ceiling screens, curtains, and adjustable panel structures, to barely visible marks, stains, and small temporal murals.
Kate Newby’s (born 1979, Auckland, New Zealand) recent solo exhibitions include Do more with your feeling, SUNDAY art fair, London (Hopkinson Cundy booth), 2011; I’m just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2011; I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland, 2011; and Crawl out your window, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, 2010. Selected group exhibitions include Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2011; Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara, 2011; The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2009; and Show me, don’t tell me, Witte de With, Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels, 2008. In recent years Newby has participated in residency programs such as: Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work This is not a Play, with Geoffrey Farmer, Banff Centre, Banff, 2010; Künstlerhäuser, Worpswede, 2010; SOMA, Mexico City, 2010. Newby regularly publishes and contributes to artist publications.
Kate Newby, You're in This Somewhere, 2010, Site work. Courtesy of the artist and Artspace. Photo courtesy of Alex North.
Kate Newby, All Parts. All the Time., 2011, Rocks and acrylic paint, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Kate Newby, Crawl out Your Window, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst GAK. Photo courtesy of Peter Podkowik.
Kate Newby, Do More with Your Feeling, 2011, Rocks, rope, and cement, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Kate Newby, Walks with Men, 2011, Mortar, glazed ceramic rock, bronze, and silver pebbles, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, New Zealand Art Now and City Gallery, Wellington. Photo courtesy of Kate Whitley.
Residents from New Zealand
Past Resident2012: Mondriaan Fund
Jennifer Tee
Jennifer Tee creates symbolic, synthetic, sculptural installations that the visitor can not only contemplate, but also sometimes enter or engage with ritually. Her work often balances seemingly contradictory factors: great sculptural sophistication with a transparency in production and an interest in evoking spiritual realms with active material experimentation. In recent years, Tee’s often-voluminous installations reveal a special interest in being in an in-between state, or what she calls “the soul in Limbo”, in her performances. She researches intermediate forms of cultures and languages, and various forms of religion. She tries to answer questions about the mythology of contemporary human beings, about cultural identity and soul-searching. In her area of research Tee constructs poetic dispositions between fact and fiction, between present and past. Her latest works hover between sculpture and stage, performance and choreography.
Jennifer Tee (born 1973) is based in Amsterdam. She has exhibited internationally, including at the 26th São Paulo Biennial; Gwangju Biennial, 2006; and The World Expo 2010, Shanghai. She was awarded third place in the Prix de Rome in 1999 and the Uriot-prijs by the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2000 and 2001. Recent group shows include: The Knight’s Tour, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Feminine and Formal, Triangle France, Marseille, France; Double Dutch, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY: De Nederlandse identiteit?, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; and Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010, Tee had a solo show at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, and performed Gridding Sentences at theStedelijk Museum in 2011. Tee is represented by Galerie Fons Welters.
Events & Exhibitions
Jennifer Tee: Ether Plane∼Material Plane
March 6–June 8, 2018
Stichting Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Entwined Bolero, Performance, 18 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Duration Gridding Sentences, Performance, 33 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Torrid Zone, 2004-2011, Metal structure, bamboo beads, fabric decoration, 3 foam mills, 6 foam wings, 6 neons, cacao fruits, porcelain letter tiles, power shells, and palm tree, 185 × 94 × 86 in. (469.9 × 238.76 × 218.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Star-Crossed, 2010, Collection of vessels and coiled stoneware, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Complex Interiors, Trance-lucent Concrete, 2009 , 20 porcelain feathers, wooden octagram-construction and natural rope , 55 × 110 × 47 in. (139.7 × 279.4 × 119.38 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
