Past Residents
Francesca Grilli
Francesca Grilli’s experimentation explores the realm of sound in its multiple expressive and perceptive implications. Opting to use the language of performance, she moves from private and personal elements into the spectator’s space of action, drawing them into an ambiguous and unsettling territory. Two central concerns can be traced in her research: sound processing in all its forms and the spectator’s space of action. Her poetics are articulated through video, installations and performance, focusing attention on the complexity of an intimate story. She seeks an action of maximum intensity, supported by the element of sound, which the artist considers the most effective means of communicating directly with the personal and collective unconscious.
Francesca Grilli’s work has been exhibited in the following institutions Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2015-2017; Vice Versa, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2013; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, 2012; Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina, Naples, 2012; Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, 2012; Bologna Museum of Modern Art, 2010; The Serpentine Galleries, London, 2010; and Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, 2008.
Francesca Grilli, Ossido Ferrico, 2013, Installation/performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
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.
