Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Veronika Zajačiková
Veronika Zajačiková’s curatorial practice refers to the possibility of an international dialogue through art. Her research is based in virtual reality and the true world, diverting people from an online reception of art to one related to our human nature. Zajačiková believes that without this expansion of experience people are degraded and impoverished in their humanity.
Zajačiková (born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic) received a BA degree at Faculty of Arts – Theory and History of Art, Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. From September 2010 Zajačiková is an MA student in Curatorial Studies, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is currently preparing an exhibition at Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In 2010 she curated two solo shows of students from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague: Po druhé (For the Second Time), Klubovna 2.patro, Prague, CZ.
Veronika Zajačiková.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Danai Anesiadou
Greco-Belgian artist Danai Anesiadou has long been active in the adjoining fields of performance, social sculpture and video art. Rumors, mystery, evocations, and the intimacy of secrets are the centrifugal forces out from which Anesiadou’s whole oeuvre radiates. Tapping into a wide variety of sources in the adjoining realms of leftfield popular (‘low’) culture and the canonical forms of ‘high’ culture, the art of Anesiadou is perhaps best appreciated against the referential backdrop of avant-garde cinema. Her body of work is an expansive allegory in action. It keeps growing and acquiring new features, animated by an engine of relational thinking, that keeps connecting a film to an object to a performance, just as it connects stories to signs to people to experiences. Time and again, something is hidden; time and again, something is revealed.
Danai Anesiadou was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Belgium and is currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work and performances have been featured at Muhka, Antwerp, Beligium; 5th Berlin Biennial, Germany; Wiels Contemporary Centre, Brussels; Etablissement d’Enface Projects, Brussels; De Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium; Curated By, Vienna, Austria; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Neue Aachner Kunstverein, Germany. In 2010, Anesiadou was a guest lecturer at the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Danai Anesiadou, We’re Happy to Serve You, 2010, Performance conceived for A Prior Magazine #21.
Danai Anesiadou, Paralipomena – Portrait Of A Woman, 2010, Performance at Witte de With, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, X,Y & M (In Collaboration With Sophie Nys), 2008, Video, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, A Night Of Psicomagia, 2008, Performance at the 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, installation View At Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels, 2011, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels.
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2011: CBK-Centrum Beeldende Kunst
David Jablonowski
David Jablonowski questions the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. Jablonowski’s interest in display systems and information transfer has as much to do with the hardware that is used in the staging of knowledge as it has with the knowledge itself. Therepetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in works which question the understanding of sign systems; making us aware of the transience of visual language.
David Jablonowski (born 1982 in Bochum, Germany) moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2007 where he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and participated in De Ateliers studio program until 2009. Recent solo shows include Imposition, Schaufenster of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany; Material Kontingenz at SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Perfection Simple Way at Gallery Luettgenmeijer and 1.33:1, Hard Copy Display Sequences, Multi Channel Projection at Bloombergspace London, UK. Group exhibitions include Monumentalism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The dutch identity?, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Gallery Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany.
David Jablonowski, Tchogha Zanbil And Multiple, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Disposition And Still, 2.39:1, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Multiple, Gestetner, 1, 78:1, 2010, Mixed media, 72 × 72 × 36 in. (182.88 × 182.88 × 91.44 cm).
David Jablonowski, Perfection, Simple Way, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Installation View COMMA 30 At Bloomberg SPACE By Bloomberg LP, London, UK, 2010, Multi channel projection and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
