Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Yoko Ono, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Raul Valverde
Raul Valverde’s artworks are context specific and respond to the temporal and spatial conditions in which they are displayed. Interested in the construction of art environments and viewer participation, Valverde’s work provides a staged experience of perception. His installations, videos, and computer-generated artworks are situated in the intersection of photography, architecture, and sculpture. Focusing on spatial expectations, his Sunlight Entering Museums, 2030 series simulates how the sunlight will enter diverse art museums on the artist’s future 50th birthday. His Cartagena de Indias project Paisaje Adaptado–another illusionist space–is a Mediterranean landscape placed on the Caribbean coast. Similarly, his digital images DRP translate into chromatic charts the natural evolution of Regent’s Park in London, while reflecting on the multiple variables involved in the process of perceiving our surroundings.
Raul Valverde (born Madrid, 1980) received an MA from Central Saint Martins, London, and an MFA from School of Visual Arts, New York. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and an Artist In The Marketplace Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Valverde has exhibited at the #1 Cartagena Biennial, Colombia; Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, New York,; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; Tabacalera, Madrid; Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Instituto Cervantes, Milan; Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid; and Royal College of Art, London, among others. Valverde teaches at the Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York.
Raul Valverde, Floating Columns, 2012, paper, wood and adhesive, 129 x 20 x 20 in. each.
Raul Valverde, Studio Replica, 2017, pigmented inkjet prints, foam board, and tape, 99 × 162 × 19 in. (251.46 × 411.48 × 48.26 cm).
Raul Valverde, Sunlight entering the Bronx Museum on my 50th birthday (2030), 2013, digital animation: HD video (color, no-sound), 2:44 min.
Raul Valverde, Two spheres installed at Day & Night projects, from February 17th through March 12th, 2017, 2017, pigmented inkjet print, Dimensions variable.
Raul Valverde, Paisaje Adaptado, 2014 (Adapted Landscape)
, 2016, site-specific garden facing the Caribbean of Mediterranean flora, Cartagena de Indias Biennial.
Ground Floor Residents
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Past Resident2017: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Elli Kuruş
Elli Kuruş critically examines the development of media and technology, reading the present as material history. Her artistic and curatorial practice converge into installations, videos, drawings, and lecture performances. In her ongoing project History of Political Operating Systems, she examines the relationship between blockchain technology, ideas of utopia, and the organization of political life.
Elli Kuruş is a Leipzig-based collective artist. Her most recent solo exhibition Invisible Hand, The Great Book of … was held at Galerie Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia, 2016. She has shown work in several spaces in Leipzig, Berlin, Basel, and Los Angeles. A chapter of her work on the blockchain will be part of the upcoming book Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain published by Furtherfield and Torque.
Elli Kuruş, White Balance Mechanism (detail), 2016, Serving cart, two-dollar bill, polymer clay, ethernet cables, deflection pulleys, Californian red wine, and video, Dimensions variable.
Elli Kuruş, History of Political Operating Systems 304, 2016, 3 videos on flat screens, headphones, polymer clay sculptures, fully automated coffee machine, labels. plastic cups, carpet, floor screed, media player, and cables, Dimensions variable.
Elli Kuruş, White Balance Mechanism & Prototype, 2016, Serving cart, two-dollar bill, polymer clay, ethernet cables, deflection pulleys, Californian red wine, and video, Dimensions variable.
Elli Kuruş, History of the coloured people (excerpt), 2016, Artist‘s book, nail extensions, plastiform, and hanging file folder frame, 121/2 × 14 × 121/2 in. (31.75 × 35.56 × 31.75 cm).
Past Resident2017: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä
Artist duo Pekka & Teija Isorättyä work together with a variety of media, producing mainly kinetic and electromechanical sculptures. The Isorättyä’s artwork reflects the problematic and close relationship between man and machine. They use found materials, sometimes inspired by the people they meet, such as medical equipment, solar panels, tuna or pig skin, to bring attention to the environment around us. In their work, they investigate how to convey human values and concepts through the machines.
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä (both born 1980, Finland) met in kindergarten. They studied art together at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and completed their MA in 2010. Pekka & Teija Isorättyä started their career in Mexico City with an exhibition at Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual in 2008. They have exhibited in other spaces in Mexico including Anahuacalli Museum, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros and Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. In 2010, the Isorättyä’s founded the art space Invalid Robot Factory in Berlin. From 2013-2015, they travelled to Japan, Mexico, and the Baltic region in a sailboat.
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Meermaid, 2015, Kinetic sculpture with tuna skin.
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Lillyjellynight, 2016, Kinetic installation with infusion tubes.
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Invalid Robot C3 ( bärbel), 2010, Kinetic sculpture with mixed media, 64 × 23 × 43 in. (162.56 × 58.42 × 109.22 cm).
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Oil Age, 2014, Kinetic sculpture with bio oil.
Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Solar Sea Turtle, 2014, Kinetic sculpture with a solar panel and drift wood.
