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 Resident2015: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Anna Jermolaewa
Anna Jermolaewa works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and installation. Her main interest is the analysis of functional structures of society and social systems in everyday life. She continually focuses on the basic conditions of human existence and the nature of man, capturing the relationship between the individual and the masses, freedom and restriction, power and powerlessness, (especially around relationships and networks of hegemonic structures). Her photographs and videos provide information about a world of failure, through conscious and unconscious fears, desires, and passions. The result is a reflection on individual and collective historical consciousness in the form of images that remain in the viewers’ mind. Through the visual telling of history and stories, she attempts to create places of remembrance.
Anna Jermolaewa was born in 1970 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and is currently based in Vienna. In 1998 she graduated in Art History at the University of Vienna and in 2002 the New Media class of Peter Kogler at the Vienna Art Academy. She was a Professor for Media Art at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany from 2005-2011. She also had solo exhibtions in the Victoria Art Gallery, Samara (2013); Camera Austria, Graz (2012); Kunsthalle Krems (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (2011); Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (2009); XL Gallery Moscow (2008); and Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau (2004). Her works are part of various collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Vehbi Koc Foundation, Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and Belvedere.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Lotta Törnroth and Anna Jermolaewa
January 28, 2015
Anna Jermolaewa, Gulag, 2012, Multimedia, Installation view.
Anna Jermolaewa, Step Aside, 2008, Two-channel video.
Anna Jermolaewa, Untitled, 2013, Multimedia, Installation.
Anna Jermolaewa, Good times, bad Times, 2007, Digital print.
Anna Jermolaewa, Untitled, 2007/2013, Digital print.
Residents from Austria
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.
