Past Residents

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Tamara K.E.

Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)

Dirk Lange

Dirk Lange’s work consists of complex large-scale drawings carried out with lead and color pencil on paper. Figures and scenes arouse from ornamental designs, drawn in several layers. Oversized and intricate,
the images impact the viewer in very different ways when seen from varying distances. Details emerge and appear as autonomous forms, or melt into the composition. Lange strives to offer the possibility of either concentrating on only one layer of the texture, or on all layers at once. These formal considerations anchor a content in Lange’s work that doesn’t communicate exclusively on a metaphorical level.

Dirk Lange (born 1972 in Erbach, Germany) studied painting and printmaking at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He has lived and work in Dresden, Germany since 2002. He is a a former member of Stafeta (Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany) and art space 7. Stock (Dresden, Germany). His work has been shown in Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia; me collector’s room, Berlin, Germany; Zoya Museum Bratislava, Slovakia; National Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan; and Landesmuseum Schleswig, Holstein, Germany.

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2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)

Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.

Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.