Past Residents
Past Resident2018: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Lise Duclaux
Lise Duclaux intervenes into humanity’s ways of being, looking and understanding. Self-determination is her raw material, she cultivates and looks at life in all its complexities while capturing its poetic and precarious dynamisms. She is particularly interested in making invisible and underground lives apparent. She works in drawing, writing, gardening, typographic composition, performance and photography. Duclaux’s works are constantly evolving, from one project to the next as she reuses and adapts her strategies.
Lise Duclaux lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), Villeneuve-d’Ascq Lille Métropôle; and MAC Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, amongst others.
Lise Duclaux, L'observatoire des Simples et des Fous, 2015, site-specific installation and performance.
Lise Duclaux, Patience Sauvage, 2017, drawing, 115/8 × 511/16 in. (29.46 × 14.48 cm).
Lise Duclaux, Plantes de Bruxelles, 2004-16, performance, installation and plants.
Lise Duclaux, Idea of a Scale of Natural Beings, 2017, chalk on black wall, site-specific drawing.
Lise Duclaux, There is no mole in my garden, but I have one in the head n°14, 2014, silkscreen, 28 × 20 in. (71.12 × 50.8 cm).
Past Resident2018: Director's Circle, Artis
David Adika
David Adika’s photographs are a by-product of the reality of his life. His works deal with his personal biography, the collective memory of the society in which he lives, and connects political reality to social reality. Through his work, Adika aims to show the presence of beauty using strategies of seduction.
David Adika has exhibited works at The Open Museum for Photography, Tel-Hai; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, among others. He was awarded the Jack Naylor Award for Cinematography in a Feature Film in 2011.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Maria Lalou and David Adika
February 27, 2018, 6:30–8pm
David Adika, African Israeliana, 2017, photography, 125 x 90 in. each.
David Adika, As In Water Face Reflects Face, 2013-14, photography, installation view.
David Adika, Book Case, 2016, mixed media, installation view.
David Adika, Golden Hands, 2016, mixed media, installation view.
David Adika, Stable Brown, 2015-17, mixed media, installation view.
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2018: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Falk Messerschmidt
Falk Messerschmidt works with photography and creates mixed media artworks. His works are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and by referencing documentaries and science. He often introduces narratives and speculative elements based on obscure biographies and marginal historical events.
Falk Messerschmidt has exhibited at several institutions both in Germany and abroad, including maerzgalerie, Berlin; Meštrović Pavilion, Zagreb; Oktogon, Dresden; and Fotogalerie, Wien Vienna, amongst others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
Falk Messerschmidt, Phainesthai, 2015, photography and sound, dimensions variable.
Falk Messerschmidt, MHCF, ongoing, photography and text, 233/8 × 161/2 in. (59.44 × 41.91 cm).
Falk Messerschmidt, Russian Night, 2009, photography, 11 × 11 in. (27.94 × 27.94 cm).
Falk Messerschmidt, She took it with a pinch of salt, 2011, photography and text, 94 × 94 in. (238.76 × 238.76 cm).
Falk Messerschmidt, Weltbild, 2017, photography, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm).
