Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Verbos Electronics
Owen Armour
Owen Armour works at the tense edge of sound and sculpture. He welds these mediums into an indistinguishable third mode. Armour is interested in subtle acoustics changes in space, both real and imaginary. He also experiments with pressure as he uses his body to mold materials like concrete, ceramics and metal.
Owen Armour (born 1980) is a Swedish-Australian artist who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recently he has exhibited internationally at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen; Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Canada; New Jörg, Vienna; Officin, Copenhagen; ReMap 4, Athens; The Lot, Antechamber, Copenhagen; peinture et sculpture, Copenhagen; and Sejerø Festival, Denmark. His recent residencies include Artspace Sydney, CPH AIR, Copenhagen; and Banff Centre, Canada.
Owen Armour, A Fleeting Reproduction. To Drink or Not to Drink, 2016, Concrete, water, audio tape, and tape player, 72 × 52 × 8 in. (182.88 × 132.08 × 20.32 cm).
Owen Armour, To Reiterate, 2015, Steel, concrete, stone, Dimensions variable.
Owen Armour, Bugle, 2012, Brass, concrete, and tin, 395 × 395 × 5 in. (1003.3 × 1003.3 × 12.7 cm).
Owen Armour, Sound Post, 2011, Wood, steel wire, and oil paint, 10 × 115 × 6 in. (25.4 × 292.1 × 15.24 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2016: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Eeva-Riitta Eerola
Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and the various ways of understanding and experiencing images. Eerola symbolizes different means of representation through her paintings’ surface and texture. She works with a variety of subjects as her starting point, reconstructing them in her pieces, and suggests multiple readings to viewers through the use of juxtaposition.
Eeva-Riitta Eerola (born 1980) received MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2010 and has studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad including Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen. Eerola’s work is part of a number of Finnish art and museum collections, such as EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. She is represented by the gallery Helsinki Contemporary.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Observer, 2016, Oil on canvas, 16 × 11 in. (40.64 × 27.94 cm).
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Fix, 2016, Oil on canvas, 393/8 × 43 in. (100.08 × 109.22 cm).
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Observer (The Sea), 2016, Oil on canvas, 415/16 × 51 in. (104.9 × 129.54 cm).
Past Resident2016: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Thomas Taube
Thomas Taube’s video works are concept-based films. His work Dark Matters (2014) questions obvious and seemingly self-evident circumstances daily life; Sorry That I Asked (2013) takes a close look at television; and Narration (2016) analyzes the principle of memory and storytelling.
Thomas Taube is young German video artist living and working in Leipzig. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) in 2014. Taube worked under Candice Breitz from 2010-2015 and has won several prizes and grants, including the Prize of the 22nd edition of the Leipziger Jahresausstellung. Taube’s first book The Whirr of the Image Machine was published by Spector Books in September 2015. He is currently a postgraduate studying with German video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer.
Thomas Taube, Dark Matters, 2014, Film, 20 min.
Thomas Taube, Sorry That I Asked, 2013, Film, 30 min.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, 7-channel video installation, 7:40 min. loop.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, Film, 45 min.
