Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Danish Arts Foundation
A Kassen
Artist group A Kassen has engaged in a collaborative practice since 2005, including works that take the form of performative installation, architectural intervention, photography, and sculpture. Their work is rooted in the exhibition site and refers to context and the social space, exploring the conditions of perception and interpretation.
A Kassen is Christian Bretton-Meyer, Tommy Petersen, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, and Søren Petersen. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, the group is based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO Projects, Copenhagen; La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, and Window to the World, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood and glass panels, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood, glass panels, and sliding door mechanism, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Minus Roof, 2010, Removed airplane roof, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Encirclement, 2012, C-print and curved glass, 43 × 55 in. (109.22 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance, 2008, Artist's book. Courtesy of the artist and Space Poetry.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2012: Artadia
Leslie Shows
Leslie Shows’ materially and associatively complex works reflect an interest in expanded representations of landscape and “wilderness”, scale, deep time, and both Eastern and Western philosophies of matter- in particular our perceptual, psychological and economic relationship to inorganic matter. Focusing on the disorienting dimensions of objecthood, her most recent body of work includes spectral, reflective images of scanned pyrite rocks reconstructed in engraved aluminum, sand, ink, crushed glass and plexiglass; a floor sculpture cast in sulfur; and a video incorporating Kafka’s short story The Cares of a Family Man. Using mixed media but concerned with the materiality of painting, Shows plays the textural, sensorial properties of materials like aluminum, sulfur, or reflected light against their illusionistic, signifying and representational capacities.
Leslie Shows’ work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the 2011 Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has been the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship, an SFMOMA SECA Award, an Artadia Award, and the Tournesol Award from Headlands Center for the Arts. Shows has had recent solo exhibitions at Haines Gallery in San Francisco, Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha. Her work has been written about in Artforum, Modern Painters and The New Yorker, and she has published two artist books, Heap of Elements, through Headlands Center, and Black Icebergs, through Hassla.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Leslie Shows and Allison Smith
August 14, 2012
Leslie Shows, Face K, 2011, Acrylic, ink, solar film, acetate, sand and engraving on aluminum, 48 × 82 in. (121.92 × 208.28 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leslie Shows, Face P, 2011, Acrylic, ink, plexiglass, solar film, crushed glass, sand, canvas and engraving on aluminum, 55 × 48 in. (139.7 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leslie Shows, Face R & Face Q, 2011, Acrylic, ink, solar film, mica, brass, paper, canvas, plexiglass and engraving on aluminum, 48 × 82 in. (121.92 × 208.28 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leslie Shows, Face E, 2011, Acrylic, ink, solar film, plexiglass, metal filings and engraving on aluminum, 48 × 41 in. (121.92 × 104.14 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leslie Shows, FES2 TO S, 2011, Sulfur, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2012: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Mario Pfeifer
Mario Pfeifer’s work explores representational structures and conventions in the medium of film, in locations ranging from Mumbai to California to the Western Sahara. Conceiving each project out of a specific cultural situation, he researches social-political backgrounds and weaves further cross-cultural art historical, filmic and political references into a richly layered practice, ranging from film and video installations to photographs and text installations. Often, Pfeifer collaborates on publications that reconsider these projects, offering research materials and critical investigations by writers and thinkers of related fields, concerning issues suggested in his projects for a wider social-political discussion.
Mario Pfeifer (born 1981, Dresden) studied in Leipzig (HGB), Berlin (UDK) and graduated from Willem de Rooij’s class at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Pfeifer was a Fulbright fellow at the California Institute of the Arts from 2008 – 2009. Further grants from Goethe-Institut and DAAD lead him to Bangkok, Mumbai and New York. Awards include the Video Art Award, Bremen and the Salon Video Art Prize, London. A first monograph was published by Sternberg Press in 2011 followed by publications with Fotohof edition / KOW and Spector Books in 2012. Pfeifer’s works have been exhibited at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Cultural Centre, Brugge; KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Circa Projects, Sunderland, UK; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen and Landesgalerie Linz, Austria. His films have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York; London International Documentary Film Festival; World Film Festival, Bangkok; Images Festival, Toronto; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Moca Detroit; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Arsenal, Berlin and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Mario Pfeifer is represented by KOW BERLIN.
Mario Pfeifer, Code Unknown [Re_Sync], 2010, Wall prints, inkjet prints, and video projection.
Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film in Nine Episodesm Prologogue & Epilogue, 2010, 35mm film in HD projection, 52 min.
Mario Pfeifer, Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, 2009, Synchronized dual 16mm film installation with sound.
Mario Pfeifer, Yet Untitled ("Pieces of Nature"), 2008, S16mm transferred to HD, 11 min. 30 sec.
Mario Pfeifer, Untitled (Two Guys), 2008, HD video installation, 7 min. 30 sec.
