Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Danish Arts Foundation
A Kassen
Artist group A Kassen has engaged in a collaborative practice since 2005, including works that take the form of performative installation, architectural intervention, photography, and sculpture. Their work is rooted in the exhibition site and refers to context and the social space, exploring the conditions of perception and interpretation.
A Kassen is Christian Bretton-Meyer, Tommy Petersen, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, and Søren Petersen. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, the group is based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO Projects, Copenhagen; La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, and Window to the World, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood and glass panels, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood, glass panels, and sliding door mechanism, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Minus Roof, 2010, Removed airplane roof, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Encirclement, 2012, C-print and curved glass, 43 × 55 in. (109.22 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance, 2008, Artist's book. Courtesy of the artist and Space Poetry.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2012: Anonymous
Davide Zucco
Davide Zucco’s work is primarily drawing and painting but often incorporates other media such as sculpture or installation. Zucco considers a reality still dominated by the laws of nature, in opposition to the exasperated anthropocentrism of modernity. Zucco works on the definition of a sort of cosmology which embodies the dialectic of opposites, their fatal coexistence, and reciprocal dependence, in the name of a deterministic monism which opposes dualist conflict.
Davide Zucco (born 1981, Belluno, Italy) currently lives and works in New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain; ARCOS Museum of Contemporary Art, Sannio, Italy; Fondazione Bevilacqua, La Masa, Italy; GC.AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; State Institute of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico and JAUS, Los Angeles.
Davide Zucco, Liar, 2009, Oil on wood, 47 × 47 in. (119.38 × 119.38 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davide Zucco, Burning Colors Trying to Turn my Blood Black, 2011, Burned wood, wood hash, pencil color and oil on paper, 118 × 106 × 157 in. (299.72 × 269.24 × 398.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davide Zucco, Untitled, 2010, Ink pen, pencil color and oil on paper, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davide Zucco, Circle, 2010, Wood ash, pencil color and oil on paper, 55 × 55 in. (139.7 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Davide Zucco, Time machine, 2011, Ink pen and oil on paper, 50 × 38 in. (127 × 96.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
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
Past Resident2012: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Mario Pfeifer
Mario Pfeifer’s work explores representational structures and conventions in the medium of film, in locations ranging from Mumbai to California to the Western Sahara. Conceiving each project out of a specific cultural situation, he researches social-political backgrounds and weaves further cross-cultural art historical, filmic and political references into a richly layered practice, ranging from film and video installations to photographs and text installations. Often, Pfeifer collaborates on publications that reconsider these projects, offering research materials and critical investigations by writers and thinkers of related fields, concerning issues suggested in his projects for a wider social-political discussion.
Mario Pfeifer (born 1981, Dresden) studied in Leipzig (HGB), Berlin (UDK) and graduated from Willem de Rooij’s class at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Pfeifer was a Fulbright fellow at the California Institute of the Arts from 2008 – 2009. Further grants from Goethe-Institut and DAAD lead him to Bangkok, Mumbai and New York. Awards include the Video Art Award, Bremen and the Salon Video Art Prize, London. A first monograph was published by Sternberg Press in 2011 followed by publications with Fotohof edition / KOW and Spector Books in 2012. Pfeifer’s works have been exhibited at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Cultural Centre, Brugge; KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Circa Projects, Sunderland, UK; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen and Landesgalerie Linz, Austria. His films have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York; London International Documentary Film Festival; World Film Festival, Bangkok; Images Festival, Toronto; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Moca Detroit; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Arsenal, Berlin and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Mario Pfeifer is represented by KOW BERLIN.
Mario Pfeifer, Code Unknown [Re_Sync], 2010, Wall prints, inkjet prints, and video projection.
Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film in Nine Episodesm Prologogue & Epilogue, 2010, 35mm film in HD projection, 52 min.
Mario Pfeifer, Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, 2009, Synchronized dual 16mm film installation with sound.
Mario Pfeifer, Yet Untitled ("Pieces of Nature"), 2008, S16mm transferred to HD, 11 min. 30 sec.
Mario Pfeifer, Untitled (Two Guys), 2008, HD video installation, 7 min. 30 sec.
