Past Residents
Maria Lalou
Maria Lalou explores the topic of ‘viewing’ throughout her large-scale installations, performances, and publications. Focusing on the topic of viewing, she incorporates cinematic apparatus and surveillance as part of her tools, with central references to ‘the political of the viewer’. Each of her works formulates a precise frame often in the form of a distilled, almost lab-like setting. In her native Greek language, she states: as spectator, one becomes ‘theoros’ in the sense that one observes, participates and interprets the performative process from a certain perspective while this is part of the performance’s ontology.
Maria Lalou’s works have been presented internationally at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Onomatopee, Eindhoven; Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland; Contemporary Art Museum of Thessaloniki; and Industrial Gas Museum, Athens, amongst others. She has been a guest lecturer at Rijksakademie Studios, Amsterdam; Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; and Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, amongst others. She has contributed to the peer review journal activate, Roehampton University, London, as well at Leonardo, MIT Press Journals. Lalou has an ongoing collaboration with Danish architect Skafte Aymo-Boot working on the archival work [UN]FINISHED. The work is about concrete skeletons of Athens that engages the viewer in a process of looking into social, political and personal parts of the history of the city. Since 2004, Lalou shares her time between Amsterdam and Athens.
Maria Lalou, a spect, 2015, sculpture, installation, and video.
Maria Lalou, The Operational Model, 2015, installation, video, and performance.
Maria Lalou, The Operational Model, 2015, installation, video, and performance.
Maria Lalou, OPERATED, 2015, performance installation.
Maria Lalou, Archetype, 2015-2016, diagrammatic drawing, 23.6.
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2017: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Anu Vahtra
Anu Vahtra employs an artistic approach to site-specific, space-oriented problematics. Her installations, which often include photography, capture the surrounding spaces of their sites, making them both the subject and the physical form of the artwork.
Anu Vahtra has exhibited her work in Estonia and abroad including at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; and Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne. Vahtra has participated in residency programs in Norway and Lithuania, and is a founder of the independent publishing initiative Lugemik in Tallinn. She is the winner of the Köler Prize, 2015 and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia Annual Award, 2017.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Anu Vahtra, Untitled (Between display and displacement), 2017, archival pigment print, 393/8 × 275/8 in. (100.08 × 70.1 cm).
Anu Vahtra, A fact in space. After exhibitions, 2016, site-specific installation.
Anu Vahtra, Illusion, distorted perspective, lack of balance, another dimension I, 2014, installation of welded rectangular steel pipe.
Anu Vahtra, Illusion, distorted perspective, lack of balance, another dimension II, 2014, installation.
Anu Vahtra, 17.9º, 2012/2014/2016, fluorescent lights and framed archival pigment print installation at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, 275/8 × 415/16 in. (70.1 × 104.9 cm).
Past Resident2018: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Knut Åsdam
Knut Åsdam is a filmmaker, installation artist, sculptor, photographer, and writer. His work explores contemporary society and its psychological and material effects. He is also interested in the toll of everyday life, including how individuals construct and negotiate their identities in reaction to the rules and organizations of contemporary society. Åsdam is engaged in a deep reworking of narrative film from within a contemporary art context and also works in the public realm.
Knut Åsdam has had exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Bern; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, among others.
Knut Åsdam, Mobile Egress, 2013-2016, traveling lorry with film installation, 43 min.
Knut Åsdam, Mobile Egress, 2013-2016, traveling lorry with film installation, 43 min.
Knut Åsdam, DS4, 2015, fences and concrete, 40 x 13 x 17 ft.
Knut Åsdam, Abyss, 2010, 35mm film, 43 min.
Knut Åsdam, Tripoli, 2010, digital film, 23 min.
