Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Creative Australia
Claudia Chaseling
Claudia Chaseling’s work comprises wall-size paintings and installations. Chaseling creates upside down landscapes with reversed or distorted perspectives. The imagery of her spatial paintings consists of estranged landscapes, mutated creatures and plants whose deformation is caused by radiation. Her expansive wall/floor paintings interrupt the geometric order and balance of the exhibition space through the use of scale. The experience of the works alternates between the two and three-dimensional. Chaseling addresses the antagonistic relationship between structure and chaos, creating new compositions from a state of disorder. The result is an amorphous system of complex fragments reminiscent of light reflections and objects in form of capsule-like creatures. She creates an atmosphere of alienation searching for the undiscovered Zeitgeist.
Claudia Chaseling was born in Munich, Germany and lives in Berlin and Canberra, Australia. She received Masters degrees in Visual Art from both the Berlin University of the Arts and the Australian National University in Canberra. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin; Collection Krohne, Duisburg and Volta 10, Basel, Switzerland. Major grants and scholarships received include the DAAD; the Samstag Scholarship; the Studio Award of the Karl Hofer Society and the Australia Council for the Arts. She has participated in residencies at Burlington City Arts, the Texas A&M University and Yaddo.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Claudia Chaseling and Yuri Yim
December 9, 2014
Omen, 2014, Egg tempera and aluminum on wall, floor and ceiling, 2755/8 × 1571/2 × 1181/8 in. (700.02 × 400.05 × 299.97 cm).
Past Resident2014: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Foundland
Foundland Collective (Ghalia Elsrakbi and Lauren Alexander) is a design, research and art practice, based between Cairo, Egypt and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The collective’s work draws on graphic design, art, writing and research in order to formulate small and large scale projects, self-initiated and commissioned. Since inception in 2009, the collective have focused on critical analysis of topics related to political and place branding, manifesting their speculations and ideas through visual and written manifestations like exhibitions and publications. Since 2011, Foundland’s focus shifted to the Middle East with special interest in Ghalia’s homeland, Syria. They gather observations from media, activist groups and social media trends of political expression, and grow an expanding database of visuals and information; history in the making. By drawing unexpected relations and connections, they create alternative narratives to media reporting through innovative image making and personal interpretation.
Ghalia Elsrakbi (born 1978, Damascus) completed a BA Graphic Design at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunst, Arnhem, followed by a Masters in Design at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. In 2009, she followed a research postgraduate at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Since 2011, she has been involved with various activist groups promoting creative dissidence in Syria and since 2013 is based in Cairo, Egypt.
Lauren Alexander (born 1983, Cape Town) completed a BA Graphic Design at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, followed by a Masters in Design at the Sandberg Institute. In 2009 she pursued an MFA at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. She is member of the tutoring staff at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague.
Foundland has presented exhibitions and festivals at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2012; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, 2011 and 2012; BAK, Utrecht, 2012; and Damascus Visual Arts Festival @ DEP, Istanbul, 2013.
Events & Exhibitions
Foundland: Escape Routes and Waiting Rooms
July 30–September 26, 2014
Foundland, Escape Routes and Freedom Mirages, 2013, Installation. Courtesy of the artists.
Foundland, Journey to Ard al amal (Journey to the land of hope), 2012, Video installation. Courtesy of the artists.
Foundland, Simba, the last prince of Ba'ath country, 2012, Publication. Courtesy of the artists.
Foundland, Escape Routes and Freedom Mirages, 2013, Video installation. Courtesy of the artists.
Foundland, Dis-orientation poster series, 2012, Printed posters. Courtesy of the artists.
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chun-Chi Wang
Chun-Chi Wang’s work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
Chun-Chi Wang is a Taiwanese artist and curator based in Berlin. Recently, she was the Assistant Curator, Taipei Biennial, 2012 and the Organizer, WEEKEND Project, Berlin, 2010-2011. Other recent exhibitions curated include No One River Flows, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2014; Urban Synesthesia, Taipei, 2013; Immaterial Project, Paris, 2012; Liquidshell, Berlin,2011; Edition N.1-Wonderland, Berlin,2011; Tangible Intangible, Berlin, 2010 and Future Guide to the Web, New York, 2001. She is the Founder and Director of IDOLONSTUDIO, Berlin.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ocean refuses no river, 2013, Photography, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, The Rhyme of Forms, 2014, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Let's do something, 2013, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ah-Q, 2002, Photochemical, mechanical live image projection device technique, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Townhouse - Camp charlie block #1, 2009, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
