Past Residents
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Sungyeon Park
Sungyeon Park graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK with a MA in Fine Art in 2007 and a MFA at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001. Park’s subjects come from small voices within ordinary lives and are concerned with social issues related to visual language and individual experience. Park has received several grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2006. She had a solo show in 2009 titled still lives; small voices by Arts Council Korea and GyeongGi Cultural Foundation. Park participated in the Art Omi International Artist Residency in New York.
Sungyeon Park, Whispering Wall, 2009, Sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, On Her Own Birthday, 22 October 1941, 2008, Video, 3:48 min. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, Her Grey Hair, 2007, Handmade wooden brush and video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, still lives; small voices, 2010, Video installation, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist an Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Sungyeon Park, The Girl I left Behind Me, 2009, Bricks and sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić works with installation, performance and photography and carries a special interest in art in public space. Focusing on the search for abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities and exploring the transformation of these spaces, she rethinks them in terms of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dražić’s production, concept and form are of equal importance in opening the work to multi-layered interpretations, that is, for developing new ways of seeing. Dušica Dražić explores the ambivalent interrelationship between a citizen and a city, their mutual support and protectiveness and at the same time isolation and destruction. Dražić searches for spaces without order, spaces of irregularity, difference, flexibility and intuition. Dušica’s works deal with micro-histories of a locus and are also an act of narration.
Dušica Dražić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2004, and finished an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2006. Since 2006 Dušica Dražić is also a part of the collective “usually4” with K. Freino (PL), S. Hopkins (UK/KEN) and Teresa Luzio (P). In 2010 Dražić received the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Serbia) and the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (Italy) and was granted a DAAD scholarship in 2005/2006.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Dušica Dražić, Dead-End Street, 2009, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by K. Freino
Dušica Dražić, The Winter Garden, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic
Dušica Dražić, Prelom - Breach, Break, Breakage, Failure, Fraction, Infraction, Rupture, Split, Layout, 2008, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. photo by G. Micevski
Dušica Dražić, One Home In Rydygiera 45a, 2006, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic
Dušica Dražić, Young Serbians, 2006, Video performance. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Aihua Hsia
Aihua Hsia’s work challenges the notions of boundaries and containment within the human psyche. She explores the collective unconscious by revealing the presence of a shared human essence. Through the employment of the ancient Buddhist sculpture technique, “Datsukanshitu,” Hsia incorporates her Chinese roots, the natural world, and the traditional past into her work. Hsia’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited at Gifu Municipal Culture Center, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; and 2 x 13 Gallery, New York. Aihua Hsia was born in Taipei Taiwan in 1973, and received a BFA in Sculpture at National Taiwan University of Arts and an MFA in Sculpture at Okinawa Prefecture University of Arts.
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 36 × 2 in. (299.72 × 91.44 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Warabi Hime, 2004, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 59 × 114 × 271/2 in. (149.86 × 289.56 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark – Fairy, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 271/2 × 75 × 171/2 in. (69.85 × 190.5 × 44.45 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Meiden and Asura, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 391/2 × 981/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 250.19 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, From Forest, 2007, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 821/2 × 231/2 in. (299.72 × 209.55 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist
