Past Residents
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 Resident2011: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Eline Mugaas
Eline Mugaas’s work brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private and subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. She has been investigating the distance between the intention of architecture and the reality of living within. This has been an ongoing investigation, a series of findings and experiences. Her latest work consists of interior motifs from the artist’s own home, which has proven to be a good point of departure for investigating the possible coexistence of formal composition and accidental information. Mugaas says about her latest photographs: ‘I wanted to investigate the formal aspects of my work and at the same time not lose the feature I love the most about photography, its place as a (incidental) sloppy document. All the information that sneaks in, that later oozes out and can’t be stopped and that gives you a voyeur’s pleasure by sharing its details. The little things that intrigue and bother the eye.’
Eline Mugaas (born 1969) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from The Cooper Union, New York, New York. In recent years her exhibition activity includes the solo show Some Cities at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. Her first film work Skin Flick was exhibited in Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway. In 2009, Mugaas started the zine Album with Elise Storsveen, wich was launched at the Oslo venue Project 0047. Its three issues to date were also presented at Printed Matter in New York. The same year she curated the exhibition The Camera Show at the Photographers Gallery in Oslo.
Eline Mugaas, Half In Shadow, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, A Flat Depiction Of Life, 2007, C-print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Mountain Reflected, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, Skin Flick, 2008, HD video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Riis, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Trapezoid, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm).
Past Resident2010: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
