Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Mondriaan Fund
Maartje Korstanje
Maartje Korstanje creates sculptures that are often based on crises and beauty in nature, and the influence of man on this subject. Korstanje’s work is never too literal or figurative. This provides layered images that appeal to the imagination and provoke multiple interpretations. Characteristic of Korstanje’s sculptures – often made of cardboard and glue – are fascinating and crude shapes. They seem familiar at first glance, but at a closer look turn out to be something indefinable. She reveals unpredictable and sometimes dark shapes, which normally are concealed.
Maartje Korstanje studied at the Academy of Art and Design, St. Joost, Breda and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She participated in residency programs at Kunsthuis SYB, 2007; Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Art, 2008; European Ceramic Workcentre, 2013; CARF India, 2015 and was a winner of the Prix de Rome in 2007 among other awards. Korstanje’s work has been presented in the following institutions Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; De Pont Museum, Tilburg; and the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, New York. She has presented solo shows at Upstream Gallery Amsterdam; De Vleeshal, Middelburg; Museum Jan Cunen; Oss and a two-person show at the Groninger Museum. Korstanje is represented by Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam.
Maartje Korstanje, Untitled, 2014, Cardboard, glue, PU foam, wood, PU coatings, pigments, and cart, 152 × 75 × 102 in. (386.08 × 190.5 × 259.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist and the Groninger Museum.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2016: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Kiichiro Adachi
Kiichiro Adachi’s sculptures look like experimental devices. At first glance, they seem to be functional objects. He attempts to understand the structure and the origin of the world through the devices he creates.
Kiichiro Adachi (born 1979, Osaka, Japan) graduated from Tama Art University. Adachi’s work has been exhibited in the following exhibitions Meets ART-the casket of the forest, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan; Trans-Cool TOKYO: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Singapore Art Museum, 2011; Busan Biennale, 2010; No Man’s Land, Embassy of France, Japan, 2009; When Lives Become Form, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil, 2008; Space For Your Future, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 2007.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2016
April 29–April 30, 2016
Kiichiro Adachi, Cosmic Tree, 2015, Mirror ball, motor, magnet, steel, stainless steel and LED light haze machine, diameter: 40 x 9 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2016: The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund
Daniel Boyd
Through his particular methods and techniques, Boyd pushes the viewer towards unstable perceptual, emotional and intellectual readings of his paintings and moving images. He interleaves the remnants of suppressed histories with the anxiety that we cannot fully comprehend our past, a realization even more poignant in the knowledge of the social inequality of Indigenous peoples and their fragmented existence in Australia. He layers different constructions of history that not only grapple with the process of rooting his personal life in his ancestral culture and heritage, but also to connect his art to questions of deep time and space.
Daniel Boyd (born 1982, Australia) lives and works in Australia. Boyd’s work was recently exhibited in All the World’s Futures, 56th International Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; The TarraWarra Biennale 2014: Whisper in My Mask, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria; A Time for Dreams, IV International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow; and Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain. Boyd’s paintings are in major collections such as the Natural History Museum, London; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; and The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Daniel Boyd, Untitled (zvdg), 2014, Oil and archival glue on linen, 75 × 118 in. (190.5 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
