Past Residents
Berenice Güttler
Berenice Güttler‘s artworks are studies of identity developed through her activity with textile material. Her drawings function as documentation for this identity. As Seth Siegelaub said, “There is an intimate relationship between textile and society.” This marks it as a medium of particular fascination and endurance. Her work deals with the breadth of influence that textiles have had on art and daily life. Her artworks tell us, unagitatedly, about the emblematic topics of weaving, patterns, and structures in our contemporary world. She treats the agile state of contingency between craft and art easily elegant; dealing with the political history, gender politics and social factors, that are inherent in the material fabric that is both self-referential and universal.
Berenice Güttler (born 1984, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Hannover. She completed a residency in Galata, Istanbul sponsored by the The Braunschweig University of Art in 2010, contributed to several exhibitions in Europe and is now honored with an artist-in-residency in New York, by the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Saxony.
Berenice Güttler, Untitled, 2014, Batiste cotton, 823/4 × 773/4 in. (210.18 × 197.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2016: Alfred Kordelin Foundation2002: Arts Council of Finland
Marja Kanervo
Stripped walls, sanded floors, and drilled holes, along with the debris of such removals have been the staple of Marja Kanervo’s artistic practice since the mid-1990’s. Recently, she has employed photos in her work, by mechanically erasing layers of information in the same way as stripping a wall.
Marja Kanervo (born 1958) lives and works in Finland. She began as a painter and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Kanervo’s installations and environmental art has exhibited in Europe, Japan and the United States. She most recently was included in the exhibition (Dis)appearing, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2013; and held residencies with the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, Keio University, Tokyo, and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, 2003.
Marja Kanervo, Untitled, 2006, Excavation. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2016: LIG Art Space
Youngmin Kang
Youngmin Kang transforms images and objects captured from digital media, architecture or cultural phenomenon into different contexts by expanding the limits of a particular media through changing the format of the information contained within. When modified into a different space, dimension, scale, and media, his provides a moment of clarity about the original medium and references. Specific meaning in each work emerges through the detailed process of manipulation and can be associated with cultural, socio-political, and identity issues.
Youngmin Kang (born 1969 in Seoul, South Korea) studied painting (BFA/MFA) at Seoul National University and studio art (MFA) at the University of Texas at Austin. He has shown his work in solo shows at Gana Contemporary, Space CAN, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Project Space Sarubia, all South Korea and O’Kane Gallery, Houston. Group exhibitions include National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Reverscape, Jeju Museum of Art, Seoul International Photography Festival, and Gyeonggido Museum of Art, all South Korea.
Yongmin Kang, Hobbist Moving Package, 2015, Box, figures, guitar, amp, stomp boxes and souvenirs, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from South Korea
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation