Past Residents

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Catherine Barnabé

The notion of space is always present in Catherine Barnabé’s writing and exhibition projects. She is interested in the relationships that we build with the space in which we evolved or with appropriated space, and in the movements and the actions of the artist in his or her environment. This interest begun with Barnabé’s thesis where she explored the notion of the “flaneur” as an artist who walks in the city and develops a relation to it through three approaches: the collect, the trace and the mark. She is also interested in exploring the notions of geography, temporality and different types of passage.

Catherine Barnabé is an independent curator and author based in Montreal, Canada. She is the co-founder and the curator of Espace Projet, a non-profit organization that shows the work of artists and designers. She received an MA from Université du Québec à Montréal in studies of arts in 2011. Since then, she has written texts for magazines and art spaces including Esse Arts & Opinions, Spirale, and Art mûr. In addition to exhibitions at Espace Projet, her curatorial projects have been presented in exhibitions spaces in Montreal, Toronto and New York, including Salle Alfred-Pellan, Centre Lethbridge, Gallery 44, and DE:FORMAL. In 2012, Barnabé participated in a curatorial residency at Est Nord-Est, Quebec, and in 2015, she was a curatorial resident at Linea de Costa, Spain.

Past Resident
2016

Esperanza Mayobre

Esperanza Mayobre’s work addresses failed and idealistic utopias of impossible solutions for absurd situations. She invents stories that question problems that have no answers. Through a variety of visual formats, she explores subjects that are generally ignored by creating fictive laboratory spaces, in which Mayobre plays an active role.

Esperanza Mayobre was born during the Venezuelan oil boom and grew up between the cities of Caracas and Golindano. Mayobre is the recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the Air and Space Museum, the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and has taken part in programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas; Bronx Museum; MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.; MARTE Contemporaro, El Salvador; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennial, Korea; and spaces in New York City including Smack Mellon, Postmasters Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Momenta Art. Her work has been featured in publications including Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Arte al Día and Art in America.

Past Resident
2016: Danish Arts Foundation

Mikkel Carl

Mikkel Carl’s artistic practice thematically focuses on the relationship between language and perceptual experience, concept and materiality. His cross-media approach departs from the twentieth century avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements, as well as postmodernism’s strategies of appropriation. By working methodically with repetition, re-contextualization and the radicalization of the material properties of the art object, Carl retroactively traces history.

Mikkel Carl works concurrently as an artist, writer and freelance curator. He has a BA in the History of Ideas and an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Carl has had solo shows at ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm; Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, Denmark; and Caves Art Center, Taipei, among others. Carl has exhibited in several group shows at international art spaces including at Soy Capitán, Berlin; Retrospective, Hudson, New York; David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow; CO2, Turin; New Scenario, Berlin; and Aujourd’hui, Lisbon.