Past Residents
Past Resident2016: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Anne Szefer Karlsen
Anne Szefer Karlsen is a curator, writer and editor. She is interested in artistic and curatorial collaborations, and in developing the language that surrounds contemporary art production. Szefer Karlsen teaches in both formal and informal educational settings.
Anne Szefer Karlsen is currently an Associate Professor in the MA Curatorial Practice program at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2015-2021) and was the Director of Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway from 2008 to 2014. She has curated several exhibitions including The Norwegian Sculpture Biennale, Art Belongs to Those Who See It, 2015 and Lofoten International Art Festival, Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?, 2013. Szefer Karlsen was also Associate Curator for Research and Encounters for Biennale Bénin, Inventer le monde: l’artiste citoyen, 2012. Her writings have appeared in Afterall, Billedkunst, and kunstkritikk.no, and in anthologies such as Condition Report, 2013, and Making Biennials in Contemporary Times, 2015. Szefer Karlsen is series editor for Dublett, a book series featuring artists’ works through anthologies and artists’ books, 2012-2016. She was also co-editor of Self-Organised, 2013, and Localisert/Localised, 2009.
Anne Szefer Karlsen, Dublett - Toril Johannessen, 2013-2016, Printed matter.
Anne Szefer Karlsen, Dublett - Pedro Gómez-Egaña, 2013-2016, Printed matter.
Anne Szefer Karlsen, Dublett - Book series, 2013-2016, Printed matter.
Anne Szefer Karlsen, Dublett - Elsebeth Jørgensen, 2013-2016, Printed matter.
Past Resident2016: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Jeff Weber
Jeff Weber’s practice revolves around what he refers to as his attempt to develop a personal epistemology. In 2014, he established the Kunsthalle-Leipzig, a project in the form of a gallery space, which functions as an extension of his photographic practice and as a conceptual frame to invite others to actively participate. Here, the collaborative dimensions of Weber’s practice explore the significance of these encounters with alterity and the social dimension of photography as an epistemological principle. Rather than an isolated object, the photographic image is enmeshed within a matrix of social relations that are interpersonal, artistic, and material.
Jeff Weber graduated from the LaCambre Art School in Brussels in 2010. In 2012, he was a resident at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. His work has been exhibited internationally at De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; Casino – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; Interfood-Vitrine, Aachen, Germany, amongst others. In 2014, he contributed a selection of photographs to Snejanka Mihaylova’s intervention at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and to her commission for If I Can’t Dance, which culminated in the publication of the book Acoustic Thought in 2015.
Jeff Weber, Absorption (Ina, Helmut and Marc, "Trapping The Gaze"), 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Kritik-im-Gefrierbeutel, 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Romanesco (An approximation of a fractal lying on my kitchen counter), 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Stanley Brouwn’s Card File, 1 Step 1:1, 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Past Resident2016: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Karen Kraven
Karen Kraven’s work sets up unexpected encounters and juxtapositions between sculptures and images. She explores common themes that appear in sports, card games and hunting. Kraven is particularly interested in motifs of illusion and attraction.
Karen Kraven holds an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Recent solo exhibitions include 37 Fouettés, 8-11, Toronto; Flip Flop, Front Punch at Mercer Union, Toronto; Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, Darling Foundry, Montreal; A Mucker and a Grinder, Parisian Laundry, Montreal; and As Above, So Below, Centre CLARK, Montreal. Her work has also been shown at La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; and Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Kraven has participated in artist residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada, and Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro.
Karen Kraven, A Mucker and a Grinder, 2014, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Flip Flop, Punch Front, 2015, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Jasper, Elizabeth, Wilfred, Zeiss & William, 2014, Digital prints, 25 x 20 in. each.
Karen Kraven, Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, 2015, Mixed media.
