Current Resident: Jul 1, 2021–Sep 30, 2021
Johnsons Picture Framing and Gallery
Studio #202
Artist
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical contents and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others.
Past Residencies
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2021–Aug 31, 2021
La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Studio #203
Artist
Ariane Loze
Through a methodical deconstruction of cinematic norms, Ariane Loze strips her video-performances down to their most basic, structural inner workings. Her post-minimalist aesthetic brings together conceptual expression and home-made execution underpinned by an immediately recognizable narrative made up of static shots of a straightforward action or event. Since 2008, Loze produces her videos autonomously: she take on the roles of director, screenwriter, editor, dresser, and sound and lighting technician, as well as plays all characters.
Ariane Loze has exhibited work at Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, among others.
Past Residencies
Ariane Loze, Utopia, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 10:27 min.
Ariane Loze, Archipelago of Me, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 32:54 min.
Ariane Loze, Minimal Art, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 8:25 min.
Ariane Loze, Highlands, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 30:18 min.
Ariane Loze, Kolumba, 2020, HD video projection with sound, 13:36 min.
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2021–Aug 31, 2021
International Visegrad Fund, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA
Studio #205
Artist
Vojtěch Novák
Vojtěch Novák describes his methodology as ‘always responding’. “Like a flipped coin seeking its third side,” he positions himself between the interpermeating roles of author and viewer. To this end, Novák’s artistic practice consists in layering narratives to form gesamtkunstwerk–total artworks spanning performative colloquies, happenings, curating and theater directing. The latter includes his stage design, his play on environment, and how he stages works of art.
Vojtěch Novák has exhibited work at Manifesta 11, Zürich; documenta 14, Kassel; and OFF-Biennale Budapest, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min.
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min.
Vojtěch Novák, Samizdat Contrefaçon, 2018, installation view at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 95 × 66 in. (241.3 × 167.64 cm).
Vojtěch Novák, Flies of Fiume, 2020, installation view at Berlínskej Model, Prague 2020, dimensions variable.
Vojtěch Novák, SILK ROAD HYBRIDIZATION, 2016, video, 58 min.
