Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Arts Council Korea
Sun Choi
Choi’s work has continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and searches for value beyond materiality. Choi applies invisible materials, such as breath, as well as other unconventional mediums involving the body. In recent years, he has obtained paints from social and environmental disasters.
Choi’s recent exhibitions include Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Yokohama Triennale; and The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Sun Choi, Meari, 2015, Ash from burnt dog, cat and human hair, 1,033 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from South Korea
Alasdair McLuckie
Alasdair McLuckie’s practice adopts meticulous process to explore mythology, ritual, and rebirth using drawing and craft with a strong formalist aesthetic sensibility. Each work’s detail translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation, and unifies process, material, image, and concept. A broad folk narrative traditionally underpinned each project, and recent works have also explored materiality and the creative process, while continuing to explore the relationship of tribal arts to modernism and contemporary Western art traditions.
Alasdair McLuckie (born 1984) graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne with a BFA in Painting in 2007. Solo exhibitions include Ten Cubed, Melbourne, 2013; Murray White Room, Melbourne, 2012 and 2010; Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2009. Group exhibitions include Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, 2014; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Heide Museum, Melbourne, and Art Basel, Hong Kong, all 2013.
Alasdair McLuckie, Modern Love, 2014, Archival inkjet print, 16 1/2 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Martin Höfer
Martin Höfer’s work concentrates on artistic strategies and mechanisms of perception in the field of public media space. Höfer’s focus is the development of artistic concepts for mass media systems as art itself. Therefore, he focuses on the relation of art and economics, aspects of art and media theory as well as mass communication, advertisement and marketing.
Martin Höfer (born 1982 in Sondershausen (Thuringia), Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He graduated with distinction at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in Media Art. Höfer’s work has been commissioned for group exhibitions including the Dispute Between Word and Picture, Cairo, Egypt, 2006; Hiwar Fanni, Amman, Jordan, 2007; On (plein) Air, Dresden, Germany, 2009; Youth Cult, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Best buy me, Leipzig, Germany, 2010; Kunst im Tower, Linz, Austria, 2010; Capital unemployed, National Art Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011, Victory on behalf of art (Porsche Carrera Cup, 30 motor races in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2012/13), DLF 1874: Die Biografie der Bilder, Leipzig, Germany, 2012, The Supershow, Leipzig, Germany, 2013; 1st NSK Folk Art Biennale, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.
Martin Höfer, Siegen im Auftrag der Kunst, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
