Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Staš Kleindienst
Staš Kleindienst’s work addresses issues of origin, representation, and naturalization of authority. Within this context he is shaping a social fiction, drawn through dystopian image of a social reality that stems from the present-day ideological, economic, and political co-ordinates.
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kleindienst has an MA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana. His exhibitions include U3-7th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Spaceship Yugoslavia- The Suspension of Time, nGbK, Berlin; Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the national visual arts award for young visual artists.
Staš Kleindienst, Third decade, 2014, Alkyd on canvas, 47 × 52 in. (119.38 × 132.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dominik Lang
Dominik Lang (born 1980, Prague, Czech Republic) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2008. Lang represented the Czech Republic at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture with his large-scale installation Sleeping City and was awarded the Jindrich Chalupecký Award for Young Artists in 2013. He is currently co-chair of the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design sculpture studio. Recent exhibitions include Expanded Anxiety, Wiener Secession Building, 2013; Wasteland, in collaboration with Eva Kotatkova, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2013; Walking Through the Wall, Ceske Budejovice House of Art, 2013; Sleeping City, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil, 2014. He also has two current solo exhibitions: Jindrich Chalupecky Award: Dominik Lang, Czech Center, New York and a large-scale installation at the Prague National Gallery at the Veletrzni Palace.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Natasa Kokic and Dominik Lang
October 7, 2014
Dominik Lang, The Sleeping City, 2011, Mixed media, 780 × 200 × 300 in. (1981.2 × 508 × 762 cm).
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Gianfranco Foschino
Operating between photography, documentary film and video art, Gianfranco Foschino’s work is currently focused on video installations, which evoke “tableaux vivants”, emulating a sort of live photograph. Shooting long sequences from fixed viewpoints he produces scenes with minimal movements, presented on flat screens, and framed as light boxes. Distanced from urban life, he portrays bucolic scenes that seem to occur in parallel time dimensions. The political value of Foschino’s work lies in exploring the singular anachronism of these spaces, and trying to recognize anonymous stories and lost lifestyles.
Gianfranco Foschino was born in 1983 in Santiago de Chile. He graduated in Cinema Studies from UNIACC University (Santiago). In 2010, he had his first exhibition Almost Romantic curated by Christopher Eamon at I-20 Gallery, New York. In 2011, his work was featured at the Latin American pavilion of 54th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, he participated as guest artist of the Chilean pavilion MONOLITH CONTROVERSIES at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, awarded with the Silver Lion prize. He currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
Gianfranco Foschino, Almost Romantic, 2010, Video Installation. Courtesy of the artist and I-20 Gallery, New York.
Gianfranco Foschino, HOME, 2011, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Latin American Pavilion, 54th La Biennale di Venezia.
Gianfranco Foschino, FLUXUS, 2011, Video sculpture. Courtesy of the artist and National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago.
Gianfranco Foschino, Im Oberlchtraum, 2012, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart.
Gianfranco Foschino, A New Landscape, 2013, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
