Past Residents

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Mathias Pöschl

In his research-based practice, Mathias Pöschl seeks to investigate the relation of visual culture and political agenda, generating ensembles of works by juxtaposing representations of historical incidences and realities in a wide range of media and materials. In an effort to hint at new insights into the basic conditions of what it means for a work of art to be called political, Pöschl tries to exploit the cognitive potential of contradictions and misreadings, employing dialectic approaches to arrive at, or suggest, new narratives.

Mathias Pöschl (born 1981, Vienna, Austria) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2008. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at institutions, galleries and art fairs including Leopold Museum, Vienna; 21er Haus – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna; The Armory Show, New York; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Sotheby’s, Vienna; Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö; Frieze, London; Nya Perspectives, Västerås; Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna; as well as in various self-organized shows in temporary exhibition spaces around Austria.

Past Resident
2017: Mondriaan Fund

Anne de Vries

Anne de Vries is a Dutch artist working on the border of digital photography and other media, such as video and sculpture since 2003. De Vries is interested in how our understanding of reality is influenced by new media. He reconnects paradoxical elements, including different types of materials, to construct his works, often assessing how matter and information are constantly impacting one another.

Anne de Vries has exhibited work at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Cell Project Space, London; The 9th Berlin Biennale; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain, France; Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany; Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Nest, The Hague; Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; Manifesta Foundation, The Netherlands; Centre culturel suisse (CCS), Paris; New Wight Biennial, University of California, Los Angeles; Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt; The Moving Museum, Turkey; Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing; and more. He is currently teaching a master’s level class, “Contemporary Art and Photography,” at L’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Past Resident
2017: Wallace Arts Trust

André Hemer

André Hemer’s practice pursues a new mode of representation in painting, whereby image and form are transacted back and forth between materialised and de-materialised states. In doing so, Hemer’s paintings literally re-present the contemporary experience of digital media through the traditional painting object, revealing the most basic changes to our phenomenological experience of the contemporary world.

André Hemer’s work has been exhibited at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Yavuz Gallery, Singapore; Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London; Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne; Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Münchner Stadtmuseum, Germany. In 2016 he was awarded a New Generation Award by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, and was the winner of the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award. He has been included in major publications such as 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson, London, and Art and the Internet, Black Dog Publishing, London. In 2016 Hemer was invited to edit the publication Painting Regarding the Present, published by Naives and Visionaries, Berlin. He is based in Vienna, Austria.