Past Residents
Past Resident2018: College of Charleston
Susan Klein
Susan Klein’s work plays with the idea of American spirituality. She makes sculpture, paintings, and works on paper that repurpose religious and ritualistic imagery to serve a secular spiritualism that is part of contemporary American culture. Klein uses a specific system of symbols that shifts from funny and playful to commemorative and serious. The work references history, artifact, decoration, architecture, and pop culture.
Susan Klein has exhibited work at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art – College of Charleston; Crossing Collective, New York City; and Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2018 Summer Open House
July 31, 2018, 6–9pm
Susan Klein, Landed, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 18 × 7 in. (35.56 × 45.72 × 17.78 cm)
Susan Klein, Offering, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 84 × 84 × 6 in. (213.36 × 213.36 × 15.24 cm)
Susan Klein, Squiggles and Such, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 13 × 1/2 in. (35.56 × 33.02 × 1.27 cm)
Susan Klein, LA Sunset, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 14 × 17 × 7 in. (35.56 × 43.18 × 17.78 cm)
Susan Klein, Looped, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 9 × 15 × 10 in. (22.86 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm)
Residents from United States
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Ana Hoffner
In her art practice, Ana Hoffner analyzes moments of crisis, war and conflict in recent history and politics. Her performances, videos and photo installations seek to introduce temporalities, relations, and spaces in between established perspectives, memories of iconic images, and highly performative events. Hoffner employs means of appropriation such as restaging photographs, interviews and reports, as well as strategies of desynchronization.
Ana Hoffner completed the PhD-in-Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014. She has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Secession, Vienna; and VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2018 Summer Open House
July 31, 2018, 6–9pm
Ana Hoffner, The Bacha Posh Project, 2016, silvergelatin photography
Ana Hoffner, Transferred Memories - Embodied Documents, 2014, video installation
Ana Hoffner, Transferred Memories - Embodied Documents, 2014, video installation
Ana Hoffner, The Bacha Posh Project, 2016, silvergelatin photography
Ana Hoffner, The Bacha Posh Project, 2016, silvergelatin photography
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2018: Nissan Art Award – Arts Initiative Tokyo
Hikaru Fujii
Hikaru Fujii creates video installations that respond to contemporary social problems. He makes use of extensive research and fieldwork investigating existing systems and structures, based on the idea that art is produced out of the intimate relationship between society and history. Rather than presenting his research into past events just as it is, he has continued to use his work to attempt reinterpretations of the issues from contemporary perspectives.
Hikaru Fujii has exhibited work at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, among others.
Hikaru Fujii, The Primary Fact, 2018, installation
Hikaru Fujii, The Primary Fact, 2018, installation
Hikaru Fujii, The Educational System of an Empire, 2016, installation
Hikaru Fujii, Record of the Bombing, 2016, installation
Hikaru Fujii, Playing Japanese, 2017, installation
