Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Miran Blažek
Miran Blažek builds his work as recorded time of the constant quest for the meaning of the ordinary things we interact with in everyday life in order to build personal, emotional and mental caches of images. In his work there is a series of symbols which constitutes an open story where the words do not meet the needs of visual representation. His works function through traces which indicate that they derived from painting.
Born in 1983 in Osijek, Croatia, Miran Blažek graduated with a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb in 2006 and completed his postgraduate studies in 2012 at Fine Arts Academy, Ljubljana. Since 2011 he has served as an external assistant in drawing classes at the Art Academy in Osijek. His selected soho exhibitions include Monochrome, Waldinger Gallery, Osijek, Whirlpool, CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb and Whirlpool the lost paintings at Kazamat Gallery, Osijek. Selected group exhibitions include T-THTaward@MSU, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagheb; Tu smo 3 (We are here 3) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pula; Radoslav Putar Award, Finals at Galzenica Gallery, Velika Gorica; Osijek-Pecuch/Eszek-Pecs, Nador Gallery, Pecs; Meeting point, Arab; The Essl Art Award, Glyptotheque, Zagreb and FONA, Kortil Gallery Rijeka.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Miran Blažek and Mark Ther
March 26, 2013
Miran Blažek, Still Life, 2012, Raw canvas on wall, 72 × 62 in. (182.88 × 157.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Miran Blažek, Whirlpool (Yugoslavia), 2006, Acrylic on wood, 39 in diameter. Courtesy of the artist.
Miran Blažek, Whirlpool (DDR), 2006, Acrylic on wood, 39 in diameter. Courtesy of artist .
Miran Blažek, Monument, 2012, Oil on canvas, 98 × 59 in. (248.92 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Miran Blažek, At The Right Place at the Right Moment, 2012, Burned carpet, 51 in diameter. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Johannes Rochhausen
Johannes Rochhausen constructs a fictional absence of worldly matters and turns the artist‘s studio, a special case of the classic interior, into the focal point of his work. Little is shown in the paintings, there is no narrative in the classical sense, but there is still a great feeling of suspense. Rochhausen does not toy with any kind of voyeurism, with the notion of gaining a look at hidden spheres. Instead, he composes highly elaborate structures, where colour and light, surface and space, object and atmosphere are the protagonists inhabiting the interior.
Johannes Rochhausen (born 1981, Leipzig) studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig, Germany. His work has recently been presented in group exhibitions at Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca; Museum MARTA Herford; Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City; Kunsthaus Interlaken; Black Door Istanbul; Kunstmuseum Magdeburg; Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig; Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg; Drents Museum, Assen and Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. His solo exhibitions include Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt; Schlechtriem Brothers, Berlin; Galerie Hafen Rand, Hamburg; HGB Galerie, Leipzig and Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt. Rochhausen’s work belongs to the following collections: Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Museum am Dom, Würzburg and Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.
Johannes Rochhausen, Atelier Edgar Leciejewski, 2012, Charcoal, black chalk and ink on paper, 59 × 79 in. (149.86 × 200.66 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Johannes Rochhausen, Abstellraum, 2010, Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 17 × 13 in. (43.18 × 33.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Johannes Rochhausen, Raumstudie (Atelier #11), 2011, Charcoal, black chalk and ink on paper, 75 × 59 in. (190.5 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Johannes Rochhausen, Atelieransicht XI, 2009, Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 79 × 110 in. (200.66 × 279.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Johannes Rochhausen, Atelieransicht XII, 2009, Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 98 × 67 in. (248.92 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Creative Australia
Kellie O’Dempsey
Through performance drawing, Kellie O’Dempsey explores liminal space and movement as narrative. With drawing as her dialogue, O’Dempsey spontaneously translates the immediacy of experience into line, form and gesture with charcoal and ink and more recently an electronic drawing device. Often working in collaboration with musicians, performers and artists, her process investigates the interconnected experience of human engagement. Via improvisation, elements of performance are translated into drawn works as an immediate means of response. Her work is currently focused on the synthesis of analogue and digital drawing.
Kellie O’Dempsey has developed installations in a vast array of spaces including: in the rehearsal studios of a ballet company (Queensland Ballet 2003), rock festivals, in The Barbican Theatre-London (2005) to commuters in subway during rush hour in Melbourne (2007). Performances and residencies include: Soundlabs, Italy, 2005-2006; Festival Internationale de Benicassim, Spain, 2005-2006; M on The Bund, Shanghai, 2009-2010; Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, 2011; Elephant Rock cliff face – BLEACH 2012; Live collaborative performance with Michael Dick, Brian Richie and the Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra at MONA FOMA, Hobart, 2012, The 18th Biennale of Sydney and upcoming at Draw International, France, 2013.
Kellie O’Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O’Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O’Dempsey, Moving Lines, 2011, Live performance paper, ink, tagtool, and digital projector. Courtesy of the artist.
