Past Residents
Past Resident2020: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation2017: Wolf Inc
Maria Zervos
Maria Zervos’s most recent work revolves around an interdisciplinary approach to video, performance, poetry and drawing in an ongoing negotiation between topos and utopia. She remaps otherworldly landscapes such as the barren stretches of the Atacama Desert, the highest peak of Mount Olympus, gray zones or places off the map, such as refugee camps, in a search for personal geographies. Distinct for its allusions to passage, Zervos’s work often investigates the conflation of nature and culture, aspiring to social criticism.
Maria Zervos is a visual artist and poet from Athens currently living and working between the Netherlands and Greece. In 2020 she was awarded the NEON grant for her solo show at MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art. Zervos is a Fulbright Scholar and in 2012 was invited by Harvard University as a Visiting Fellow to pursue research on her practice. She has taught courses at Harvard University as well as at Emerson College in Boston since 2014. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions worldwide including the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens; Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam; Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam; The Breeder, Athens; Onassis Cultural Centre, New York City; and the Hellenic American Union, Athens, among others. She has published three books, Diagnosis, Hunting, and Peripatetics on her practice and is represented by the Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art. Zervos’s art is part of several collections including the D. Daskalopoulos Collection and the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens.
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (The Rope), 2019, drawing, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (The Lyra), 2019, drawing, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (Olympus), 2019, video installation, solo show 'Olympus' at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.
Maria Zervos, Nomadology (The Desert), 2013, HD video, 8 min, 30 sec.
Maria Zervos, Past and Future (Svetlana Boym), 2020, HD Video, 30 min.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2017: Danish Arts Foundation
Pia Rönicke
In recent years, Pia Rönicke has been investigating different botanical collections. Her interest in herbariums stands in relationship to methods of indexing, including both observation and representation. These plant collections show traces of geopolitical conditions not only within the practices of botany but also map out territorialization. Rönicke attempts to examine the consequences of botanical systemization. She has been researching the perspectives of various female activists, architects, and artists that takes its stance from what she calls the ‘blind spot.’ She is interested in the connection between workspace and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives of letters, notes, images, newspapers, microfilm and online databases, and the theme of collecting is often recurring in her practice. She works with film, prints, sculptures and objects, which together build larger narratives.
Pia Rönicke is an artist based in Copenhagen. Her work has been the subject of numerous international solo exhibitions including; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary art; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; gb agency, Paris; Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Casco, Utrecth; Croy Nielsen, Berlin; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Tate Modern, London; Display Gallery, Prague; Trafo Gallery, Budapest; MAK, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Rönicke’s work has also been featured in many group exhibitions, including Apexart, New York; GIBCA, Göteborg; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Oslo; Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; MAK, Wien; Elizabeth Dee gallery, New York; Wiels, Bruxelles; Gallery TPW, Toronto; CASM, Barcelona; Lisson Gallery, London; Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Artists Space, New York; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; ARGOS, Brussels; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Stadtkunstverein, Berlin; Kunstverein München; ACCA, Melbourne; Utopia Station, Venice biennale; Busan Biennale, Korea; Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Pia Rönicke, The Cloud Document, 2017, HD video, 45 min.
Pia Rönicke, The pages of Day and Night, 2015, film, print, and objects, dimensions variable.
Pia Rönicke, AN-NAHAR 13 Juillet 1979. Melilotus alba., 2015, object, 2213/16 × 1615/16 in. (58.01 × 43 cm).
Pia Rönicke, Notes on MB, 2014, 2 films, a sculpture, 3 screens, and 1 rotating mirror.
Pia Rönicke, Rosa's Letters, 2006, 2 projections, model and slide projection, dimensions variable.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2017: Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
Kristyna and Marek Milde
Kristyna and Marek Milde are Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artists and curators, originally from Prague, Czech Republic, working together as a collaborative tandem since 2011. Their work investigates diverse forms of modern lifestyles and its alienation from nature and the wider environmental context. In their works, Mildes examine themes that include domesticity, food and cultural rituals of daily reality offering the public an active role in various actions and situations allowing to reframe given cultural norms and stereotypes. In their practice, the artists use multidisciplinary forms, which include situationist interventions, workshops, and installations that serve as a platform for an environmental experience.
Kristyna and Marek Milde have exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Queens Museum, EFA Project Space, Wave Hill, Smack Mellon, MoMA Studio, Abrons Art Center, Knockdown Center, Silent Barn, HVCCA, Temple Contemporary, DOX Center for Contemporary Art; Futura; Meet Factory; Karlin Studios. Their work was featured in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Czech National Television, among others. Their work is part of private and public collections such as at Chateau Trebesice, Czech Republic, and Manitoga, Russell Wright Design Center, New York. They have been awarded the SHIFT Residency, Studio in the Park Residency, and LMCC Process Space Residency. In 2007 they received their MFAs from the Queens College, CUNY.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristyna and Marek Milde and Yumiko Ono
September 19, 2017, 6:30–8pm
Kristyna and Marek Milde, Homescape, 2014, aluminum frame, 8 metal wheels, insulation material, soil, moss, grass, ferns and stones, 29 1/2 x 64 x 32 in. and 29 1/2 x 32 x 32 in..
Kristyna and Marek Milde, In-Tree-Net, 2013, tree trunks, branches, and plumbing hardware, 45 × 6 × 10 in. (114.3 × 15.24 × 25.4 cm).
Kristyna and Marek Milde, Home in a Home, 2016, wallpaper, digital print on vinyl, molding, furniture, and project’s survey, 12 × 10 × 9 in. (30.48 × 25.4 × 22.86 cm).
Kristyna and Marek Milde, Exchange Library, 2016, books, garbage bins, shopping cart, household objects, shopping bags, cardboard boxes, tape, library signs and umbrella, 5 × 6 × 9 in. (12.7 × 15.24 × 22.86 cm).
