Past Residents
Past Resident2016: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Thomas Taube
Thomas Taube’s video works are concept-based films. His work Dark Matters (2014) questions obvious and seemingly self-evident circumstances daily life; Sorry That I Asked (2013) takes a close look at television; and Narration (2016) analyzes the principle of memory and storytelling.
Thomas Taube is young German video artist living and working in Leipzig. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) in 2014. Taube worked under Candice Breitz from 2010-2015 and has won several prizes and grants, including the Prize of the 22nd edition of the Leipziger Jahresausstellung. Taube’s first book The Whirr of the Image Machine was published by Spector Books in September 2015. He is currently a postgraduate studying with German video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer.
Thomas Taube, Dark Matters, 2014, Film, 20 min.
Thomas Taube, Sorry That I Asked, 2013, Film, 30 min.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, 7-channel video installation, 7:40 min. loop.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, Film, 45 min.
Past Resident2016: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Max Pinckers
Not believing in the possibility of sheer objectivity or neutrality, Max Pinckers advocates for a manifest subjective approach in his documentary making practice. His approach is made visible through the explicit use of theatrical lighting, stage directions, and/or extras. Pinckers combines extensive research and diligent technical preparation with improvisation to obtain lively, unexpected, critical, and poetic documentary images.
Max Pinckers (born 1988, Belgium) has lived in Indonesia, India, Australia and Singapore. He became acquainted with photography at the age of twelve. In 2006, Pinckers returned to Belgium to study documentary photography at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, where he is currently a doctoral researcher. Since 2011, he has directed several documentary photo-series; each series is a carefully laid out books with interwoven photographs, documents and texts. His work addresses topics including: the position of the photographer in documentary narratives in Lotus, 2011; the influence of fiction on reality in The Fourth Wall, 2012; and the creation of a visual narrative in Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty, 2014. In 2015, Pinckers became a nominee of Magnum Photos.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Max Pinckers, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Jeff Wall and Hokusai), 2015, Inkjet print, 311/2 × 381/2 in. (80.01 × 97.79 cm).
Max Pinckers, The Horse to be Sacrificed must be a Stallion, 2014, Inkjet print, 43 × 525/16 in. (109.22 × 132.84 cm).
Max Pinckers, Milk, 2014, Inkjet print, 161/8 × 1911/16 in. (40.89 × 50.04 cm).
Max Pinckers, An Action Broken in Two is Stretched in Time, 2012, Inkjet print, 421/2 × 513/16 in. (107.95 × 130.05 cm).
Max Pinckers, Tina, 2011, Inkjet print, 353/8 × 435/16 in. (89.92 × 109.98 cm).
Residents from Belgium
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.
