Past Residents

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Italy

Past Resident
2017: Farnesina Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Artist

Chiara Fumai

Chiara Fumai’s performative practice belongs to the tradition of female psychics. She freely (mis)interprets and combines the words of different controversial entities into new stories, questioning their symbolic meaning and representation. Her work engages radical feminism, media culture, language and repression. Fumai’s starting point is lecture-performances, which later evolves into installations, videos, collages, sound, embroidery and fictional documentation.

Chiara Fumai lives in Milan. She was the winner of the ninth edition of the Furla Art Award, 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Der Hexenhammer, Museion, Bolzano, Italy, 2015; With Love from $inister, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, 2013; and I Did Not Say or Mean ‘Warning’, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 2013. Recent group exhibitions and performances have been presented at David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2015; CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2015; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2014; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, 2014; Nottingham Contemporary, 2014; Fiorucci Art Trust, London, 2014; MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, 2013; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 2012; Studio Voltaire, London, 2014; Nomas Foundation, Rome, 2011; and MACRO Testaccio, Rome, 2011.

Events & Exhibitions

Micki Pellerano on the Occult in Chiara Fumai’s Work

March 12, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Silvia Federici on Women and Witch-hunting

February 14, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT

February 12–May 17, 2019

Chiara Fumai, The Book of Evil Spirits, 2015, 1-channel video, 26:24 min

Chiara Fumai, Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas, 2013, Video installation (detail), Dimensions variable

Chiara Fumai, Less Light, My Dear, 2016, installation, dimensions variable

Chiara Fumai, Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas, 2013, Video installation, Dimensions variable

Residents from Italy

Chiara Ianeselli

Quel jour sommes-nous, 15-30 June 2022, co-curated with Bakul Patki, at Tokonoma, Kassel. Credit: Rene Graf. quel jour sommes-nous? (what day is it?) is a research project in the form of an exhibition that questions what makes an artwork - investigating the performativity and process of an exhibit, the acts that brought it into existence, and the context of its presentation. Featuring seventeen established and emerging artists, quel jour sommes-nous? explores the differing forms, lifespans, and pathways of artworks – with historicised and timeless, appropriated and reapproriated, unauthored and unauthorised, dismantled and intangible works, all of which sit beside a graduate piece that will be graded in situ, just ahead of the exhibition’s opening. An “unfinished” work will also be included. The concept of a finished work of art – one that is deemed ready to be shared – has been debated throughout art history, particularly in relation to potential different readings once it has been pulled from a definite temporal context. Continuing the contentious conversation around when a piece of art is complete, one work in progress will be taken from an artist’s studio, at a time of the curators’ choosing, and inserted into the exhibition. quel jour sommes-nous? reflects upon the evolution of the creative process – the choices, challenges and breakthroughs that come with making art – asking when, within this process, does something become a work of art, and who gets to decide? On which day is something ready to be sold or exhibited? Is today the day the artist has to surrender a work they might never see again? Extending this reflection on when a work comes into existence, the exhibition also asks whether it is possible for artworks to exist without an audience. How much is the public required for the creative process to be complete, and how preeminent is the artist’s vision in influencing the viewer’s experience of the work? quel jour sommes-nous? does not profess to answer these questions, but hopes to encourage examination and inspire further exploration. It is at once exhibition as research and research as exhibition

Italy

Italian Council - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) at the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities

2024

Valentina Furian

Italy

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York

2024

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Italy, Greece

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

2024

Scotland

Past Resident
2017: Saltire Society

Artist

Claire Paterson

Claire Paterson’s current practice involves working with models and other artists in a collaborative myth-making process. Paterson hosts experimental photo sessions, where models are provided with a collection of various costumes, sculpture, and installation elements. They pick out items that appeal to them most, before starting to generate spontaneous poses. Other artists are invited to contribute elements, installations and objects to the modeling sessions, incorporating their own art into the process.

Claire Paterson is a contemporary painter and graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. After she graduated, she used a British Airways Travel Bursary to fund a trip around California, New Mexico, Mexico, Arizona and Texas, to do research on the iconography of various religious groups in these states. Paterson has also spent time collaborating with other artists at the Cornaro Institute, Cyprus.

Events & Exhibitions

Salon: Olaniyi R. Akindiya and Claire Paterson

January 17, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Fall Open Studios 2016

November 4–November 5, 2016

Claire Paterson, Rain in Kansas City, Mo, 2016, Photograph, with sculptural elements contributed by Genevieve Paterson, 10 × 7¹/₂ in. (25.4 × 19.05 cm)

Claire Paterson, Feather Aviator, 2016, Photograph, with sculptural elements contributed by Genevieve Paterson, 8¹/₂ × 10 in. (21.59 × 25.4 cm)

Claire Paterson, Bolivian Military Macaw, 2016, Photography, 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)

Claire Paterson, Rabbit-Skin Cage, 2016, Photograph, with sculptural elements contributed by Genevieve Paterson, 7¹/₂ × 10 in. (19.05 × 25.4 cm)

Claire Paterson, The Hand of Glory, 2016, Photograph, with sculptural elements contributed by Genevieve Paterson, 10 × 9 in. (25.4 × 22.86 cm)

United States

Past Resident
2017: Jane Farver Memorial Fund

Curator

Howie Chen

Howie Chen is a New York–based curator engaged in collaborative art production and research.

Howie Chen has organized exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2007) and MoMA PS1. He is the founder of Dispatch, a New York City-based curatorial production office and project space that presents national and international exhibitions, projects and special events. In 2003, he formed New Humans in collaboration with artist Mika Tajima. The platform allows for collaborations between musicians, artists and designers; it was presented at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, and South London Gallery. Collaborators include Vito Acconci, Charles Atlas, and Judith Butler, among others. Chen graduated with a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.