Past Residents
Past Resident2018: The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Tomasz Kowalski
Tomasz Kowalski is part of a movement of young Polish artists embracing a form of “new surrealism.” His interest lay in the discrete hauntological aspects of the everyday and a paranoia towards reality. He expresses this discrete sensibility through a mix of parallel narratives and biography, and often collaborates with his family to make objects using various mediums. In Kowalski’s paintings, drawings, installations and sound pieces, the everyday morphs into the tragicomic, lending his imagery an enigmatic and psychedelic quality.
Tomasz Kowalski has exhibited work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; mumok, Vienna, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, among others.
Tomasz Kowalski, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 65 × 45 in. (165.1 × 114.3 cm).
Tomasz Kowalski, Skarbiec (with Alicja Kowalska), 2018, tapestry, 76 × 51 in. (193.04 × 129.54 cm).
Tomasz Kowalski, Untitled, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 55 × 47 in. (139.7 × 119.38 cm).
Tomasz Kowalski, Djinn, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 63 × 51 in. (160.02 × 129.54 cm).
Tomasz Kowalski, exhibition view at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2014.
Past Resident2018: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Loup Sarion
Loup Sarion’s practice lies between painting and sculpture, where color is subsumed by material. The works’ overlapping textures relate to the slippery nature of language, specifically to the tongue—the organ of language. Sarion pays particular consideration to color, surface and texture, often echoing the phenomena of condensation, skin perspiration, and bodily fluids in his work.
Loup Sarion has exhibited work at C L E A R I N G, New York City; Berthold Pott, Cologne; and Formato Cómodo, Madrid, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Loup Sarion, The Insomniac, 2018, fiberglass, linen, pigment, and acrylic, 44 × 44 × 14 in. (111.76 × 111.76 × 35.56 cm).
Loup Sarion, The Wet Dreamer & the Deep Breather, 2018, installation view of 'chapo' at C L E A R I N G, New York City.
Loup Sarion, The Anxious (Vicious), 2016, Belgian linen, dye, ink, fiberglass, epoxy, and coated steel, 78 × 31 × 18 in. (198.12 × 78.74 × 45.72 cm).
Loup Sarion, Nude (Dusty Rose), 2018, resin, fiberglass, and pigment, 26 × 14 × 12 in. (66.04 × 35.56 × 30.48 cm).
Loup Sarion, Smooth Like an Alibi, 2018, installation.
Johannes Heldén
Johannes Heldén’s interdisciplinary works deals with artificial intelligence, ecology, poetry, science fiction, sentience, nature and interactive narrative structures. He is the author of sixteen books, the most recent being New New Hampshire & Clouds, 2017, and Astroecology, 2016. Astroecology was published simultaneously in three languages, made into an interdisciplinary performance at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and into a digital artwork published by Bonniers Konsthall. He has published four music albums and seven interactive online works of poetry and visual art.
Johannes Heldén has exhibited work at the Riga Biennial; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others. He is the recipient of the inaugural N. Katherine Hayles Award.
Johannes Heldén, Encyclopedia, 2015-18, AI-generated extinct species, each one unique, dimensions variable.
Johannes Heldén, Astroecology, 2016-17, poetry book, performance, animation, sound, photographs, and watercolor, dimensions variable.
Johannes Heldén, Evolution, 2013-15, AI, www.textevolution.net.
Johannes Heldén, Jackdaw (Mutations 2015-2047), 2015, 3D-printed sculpture, 4.7 x 2 x 6 in. each.
Johannes Heldén, First Contact, 2011, mixed media, 12 × 7 × 2 in. (30.48 × 17.78 × 5.08 cm).
