Past Residents
Tuomas A. Laitinen
Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist whose work fuses moving image, 3D animation, light, sound, installations and spatial interventions. His artworks are loaded with references ranging from ancient tragedies to philosophy to speculative fiction to experimental music to architectural history to contemporary media culture. More recently, Laitinen has conducted in-depth research on the global circulation of raw materials, namely copper, to address the micro and macro processes and concerns that inform contemporary reality. Laitinen’s art exposes the connections and negotiates between private and public, and poetic and political.
Tuomas A. Laitinen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2008. Laitinen has participated in exhibitions and festivals throughout the world including the Bucharest Biennale; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; SADE LA Gallery, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Moving Image New York 2016; Mildura Palimpsest Biennale, Australia, 2015; and the 5th Cairo Video Festival, 2013. His recent major solo exhibition Fundamental Matter was held at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland in 2014-2015. In 2013, Laitinen was awarded the first Fine Arts Academy of Finland’s award for emerging Finnish artists.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Tuomas A. Laitinen, Conductor, 2014, Video, 4 channels, 29 min.
Tuomas A. Laitinen, Azure Dunes (for J.G. Ballard), 2015, Video, 5 min.
Tuomas A. Laitinen, The Powder of Sympathy, 2015, Video, 8:36 min.
Tuomas A. Laitinen, Sensory Adaptation Devices, 2015, Multiple, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of SADE LA Gallery.
Tuomas A. Laitinen, A Room for You, 2015, Light installation, Dimension variable.
Past Resident2016: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Ilko Koestler
Ilko Koestler is concerned with landscapes and their coding. He is particularly interested in energyscapes which results from the new politics of energy production. Through cross-country train travel, Koestler regularly observes the changing green pastures of Germany. On the road, he observes predefined trails and the resulting fixed visual fields. Koestler works with woodcuts, etchings, and lithography to reconstruct and recapture light, speed, and machinery.
Ilko Koestler (born 1978, Halle Saale, Germany) studied landscape architecture in Berlin. His thesis Stonescape explores our understanding of what landscape is and could be by looking at the exploitation of limestone in Franconian Jura in Bavaria. In 2016, he finished his post graduate studies in print graphics with Thomas Rug at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
Ilko Koestler, Night Drive - Kozure Ôkami, 2013, Woodcut, 3011/16 × 235/8 in. (77.98 × 59.94 cm).
Ilko Koestler, West East Passage D-Land II, 2016, Etching, 275/8 × 1913/16 in. (70.1 × 50.29 cm).
Ilko Koestler, Black Track - Cargo I, 2016, Lithography, 153/4 × 113/8 in. (40 × 28.96 cm).
Past Resident2016: Institut Français2016: Performa
Tarik Kiswanson
Tarik Kiswanson’s genre-defying work is informed by identity, dualism and loss. His work reflects on the influences of one culture upon another as well as the active role the viewers play in the creation of the work’s meaning. Through quasi-abstract sculptures, or “reductions” as he calls them, Kiswanson examines notions of nonconformity and subverts the ways in which form is perceived and registered. Almost solely made in polished brass and steel, the viewer’s body appears obliterated, disjointed, or doubled. Razor sharp and infra-thin, his paradoxical objects are also highly responsive to their spatial environment and to their observer’s proximity as they vibrate with the displacement of air generated by the spectators circulation within the space.
Tarik Kiswanson (born 1986, Halmstad, Sweden) graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 2010. In 2011, he moved to Paris where he attended l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and received a MA in 2013. He has exhibited his work internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin; Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan, France; Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres, Paris; Le Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’art Contemporain, Paris; Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France; Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France; Riga Art Space, Latvia; and Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Tarik Kiswanson, 1951 (The weave machines), 2016, Handwoven stainless steel, 53 × 100 × 7 in. (134.62 × 254 × 17.78 cm).
Tarik Kiswanson, Contact Sheet, 2016, Handwoven stainless steel.
Tarik Kiswanson, 1917 (The weave machines), 2016, Handwoven stainless steel, 7 × 53 in. (17.78 × 134.62 cm).
Tarik Kiswanson, Anti (Inverted flagpole bracket), 2015, Steel, 9 × 7 × 4 in. (22.86 × 17.78 × 10.16 cm).
Tarik Kiswanson, Shifter, 2015, Brass welded with recycled silver, 9 × 118 × 9 in. (22.86 × 299.72 × 22.86 cm).
