Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Arts Council Korea
Sun Choi
Choi’s work has continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and searches for value beyond materiality. Choi applies invisible materials, such as breath, as well as other unconventional mediums involving the body. In recent years, he has obtained paints from social and environmental disasters.
Choi’s recent exhibitions include Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Yokohama Triennale; and The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Sun Choi, Meari, 2015, Ash from burnt dog, cat and human hair, 1,033 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2015: Canada Council for the Arts
Elizabeth McIntosh
Elizabeth McIntosh continually re-envisions her work through shifts in her painterly approaches- shifts that pose new questions about the history of abstraction. In doing so, McIntosh unapologetically refuses to let herself, or her viewer, be fully at ease with her canvases. Enacting a kind of call-and-response, McIntosh’s paintings sit anachronistically between history and the present. Her work acknowledges specific structural inclinations in the history of painting. In reiterating and modulating found forms, McIntosh utilizes devices that render them strange and allow for reconsideration. Using loose structures as starting points for her investigations, she questions how improvisation can move the field of painting beyond the cliché of the tasteful resolution of compositions. McIntosh sets out, not so much to establish an iconic vocabulary, but to bring awareness to the complex processes and decisions involved in painting through formal invention. Ultimately, the results are aesthetically varied, generated by the elaboration of form.
Elizabeth McIntosh’s recent exhibitions include Szalon, University of Chicago, 2014; Fairy Bread, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, 2014; Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse, Equinox, 2014; and Two Women at Model, Vancouver, 2014. She is the recipient the VIVA Award, Vancouver, 2013. Her works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. McIntosh is currently based in Vancouver, where she is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University.
Elizabeth McIntosh, The Leaves, 2014, Oil on canvas, 75 × 85 in. (190.5 × 215.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Martin Höfer
Martin Höfer’s work concentrates on artistic strategies and mechanisms of perception in the field of public media space. Höfer’s focus is the development of artistic concepts for mass media systems as art itself. Therefore, he focuses on the relation of art and economics, aspects of art and media theory as well as mass communication, advertisement and marketing.
Martin Höfer (born 1982 in Sondershausen (Thuringia), Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He graduated with distinction at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in Media Art. Höfer’s work has been commissioned for group exhibitions including the Dispute Between Word and Picture, Cairo, Egypt, 2006; Hiwar Fanni, Amman, Jordan, 2007; On (plein) Air, Dresden, Germany, 2009; Youth Cult, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Best buy me, Leipzig, Germany, 2010; Kunst im Tower, Linz, Austria, 2010; Capital unemployed, National Art Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011, Victory on behalf of art (Porsche Carrera Cup, 30 motor races in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2012/13), DLF 1874: Die Biografie der Bilder, Leipzig, Germany, 2012, The Supershow, Leipzig, Germany, 2013; 1st NSK Folk Art Biennale, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.
Martin Höfer, Siegen im Auftrag der Kunst, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
