Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Staš Kleindienst
Staš Kleindienst’s work addresses issues of origin, representation, and naturalization of authority. Within this context he is shaping a social fiction, drawn through dystopian image of a social reality that stems from the present-day ideological, economic, and political co-ordinates.
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kleindienst has an MA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana. His exhibitions include U3-7th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Spaceship Yugoslavia- The Suspension of Time, nGbK, Berlin; Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the national visual arts award for young visual artists.
Staš Kleindienst, Third decade, 2014, Alkyd on canvas, 47 × 52 in. (119.38 × 132.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Polish Cultural Institute New York
Marzena Nowak
Marzena Nowak’s work is created from memory and imagination, residing in the tension between autobiographical references and poetically immersed dream worlds. Her sensitivity to everyday occurrences and the relationship to her own physicality often represent the thematic departure points for Nowak’s artistic practice. Nowak attempts to defy perception using unexpected materials to symbolically change everyday objects.
Marzena Nowak’s work has been exhibited at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok), Vienna; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;”>Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun; Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin; Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. She has participated in international exhibitions including There as been no future, there will be no past, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York; Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Languages & Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection, Mart Rovereto, Italy; Drawing is Coming Back in a Big Way, Arsenal Centre of Contemporary Art, Bialystok, Poland; Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Poland and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Events & Exhibitions
There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past
October 1–October 24, 2010
Marzena Nowak, Untitled (Bread with polish soil), 2014, Bread baked with polish soil, 15 × 4 × 6 in. (38.1 × 10.16 × 15.24 cm).
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Gianfranco Foschino
Operating between photography, documentary film and video art, Gianfranco Foschino’s work is currently focused on video installations, which evoke “tableaux vivants”, emulating a sort of live photograph. Shooting long sequences from fixed viewpoints he produces scenes with minimal movements, presented on flat screens, and framed as light boxes. Distanced from urban life, he portrays bucolic scenes that seem to occur in parallel time dimensions. The political value of Foschino’s work lies in exploring the singular anachronism of these spaces, and trying to recognize anonymous stories and lost lifestyles.
Gianfranco Foschino was born in 1983 in Santiago de Chile. He graduated in Cinema Studies from UNIACC University (Santiago). In 2010, he had his first exhibition Almost Romantic curated by Christopher Eamon at I-20 Gallery, New York. In 2011, his work was featured at the Latin American pavilion of 54th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, he participated as guest artist of the Chilean pavilion MONOLITH CONTROVERSIES at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, awarded with the Silver Lion prize. He currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
Gianfranco Foschino, Almost Romantic, 2010, Video Installation. Courtesy of the artist and I-20 Gallery, New York.
Gianfranco Foschino, HOME, 2011, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Latin American Pavilion, 54th La Biennale di Venezia.
Gianfranco Foschino, FLUXUS, 2011, Video sculpture. Courtesy of the artist and National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago.
Gianfranco Foschino, Im Oberlchtraum, 2012, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart.
Gianfranco Foschino, A New Landscape, 2013, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
