Past Residents
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano work in a collaborative video practice. Their performance works consist of unchoreographed movements that are activated and influenced by handmade sculptural objects while also considering the architecture / space that the body sits within. The relationship between movement and object are usually minimal with the emphasis placed on form, structure and sound components. The performance videos are edited into abstract, rhythmic compositions which relay their interests in movement and how movement can be pushed and revealed through different processes.
Their work was recently shown at More Light, The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2013, and Shifting Lines, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2013. Other selected shows include: All Our Relations,18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012; Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012; Contemporary Art: Women, Gallery of Modern Art , Brisbane, 2012; Identity V111, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2012; 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011; Before and After Science: The 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010; The Trickster, The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2010 and Love, Loss and Intimacy, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010. Selected solo exhibitions include: Shapes for Open Spaces, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Neon, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2010 and Gabriella Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Neon, 2010, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Echo, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Light, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Sculpture Sequence, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Rewind, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Anouk Kruithof
Anouk Kruithof considers photography as a starting point of infinite possibilities. Her method is interdisciplinary and mostly idea based. Through social interactions like encounters with strangers, she analyzes, shapes and imagines work and informs her practice. Research in the form of interviews, temporary installations and performative interactions with unknown people and space form the basis of her photographs. She then uses these photographs as material, which she transfers across different surfaces and spaces into minimal installations and tactile artist-books.
Anouk Kruithof is a Dutch artist born in 1981 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. In 2011, she moved from Berlin to New York City. She has presented solo exhibitions at Boetzelaer I Nispen, London; Galerie Adler, Frankfurt; Museum het Domein, Sittard and FOAM, Amsterdam. Her work also includes the group exhibitions The Feverish Library, Capitain-Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Super Positions / The New Wight Biennal, University of California – Los Angeles;The Daegu Photo Biennal, Daegu; Crossroads, Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf; Quickscan #01 at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam and has shown at Australian Center for Photography, Sydney; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege; Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai and Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna. In 2011 she won the Grand Prix Jury as well as the Photoglobal Prize at THE Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, Hyères, and In 2012 she was honored with an ICP Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York. Kruithof writes for 1000 Words magazine, Wanderingbears, PhotoEye and Photoq and has lectured at TATE Modern, London; Leeds College of Art; Hartford Art School; Officine Fotografische, Rome; Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Events & Exhibitions
2016 ISCP Benefit Auction
September 21–October 5, 2016
Anouk Kruithof, Sweaty Sculpture (spectrum), 2013, Polystyrene blocks, photo stickers, cellophane foil, plexiglass, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Anouk Kruithof, Intercollapsing, 2010, Photo installation. Courtesy of the artist and Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.
Anouk Kruithof, Ruhe, 2012, Performance. Courtesy of the artist and Autocenter, Berlin. Photo courtesy of Benten Clay.
Anouk Kruithof, Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Color Invisibility, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien.
Anouk Kruithof, Brick (powersponge), 2013, 1000 BlinQ powersponges, projection, wood, glue. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Henrjeta Mece
Henrjeta Mece’s practice explores issues related to the body, time, place and sense of belonging. Challenged by the world’s state in flux, her artwork references the contemporary experience of travel, mobility, borders, and diasporas. Mece’s artistic process employs reterritorialization as a method to: create images that allude to maps, remap a location outside of geographical systems of organization, and produce a temporary place of belonging. Without using direct biographical material, her multimedia installations focus on materializing trajectories rather than destinations. The artwork itself exists in the process as much as in the object and remains a course in the struggle to be positioned.
Henrjeta Mece is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer and educator. She completed her BFA and MFA at Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto . Mece is the recipient of numerous awards including, Vtape Fellowship, Canada Millennium Excellence Award, and various Ontario Arts Council grants. Mece’s artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in venues including, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, 2011; Banff Centre of the Arts 2009-2010; Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012 and Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin, 2012.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Henrjeta Mece and Saša Tkačenko
October 1, 2013
Henrjeta Mece, Looking Into the Future, 2013, Coffee stains on tissue paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Piled up City Nr. 8, 2010, C-print, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Reterritorializing Belonging, 2009, Video installation, 30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, The Traveler's Blanket, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Untitled, 2012, Mixed media, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
