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Current Resident: Jul 1, 2022–Jun 30, 2023

Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department, Tony & Sissi Moens

Studio #217

Artist

Felix Kindermann

Felix Kindermann’s work addresses the relationship between humans and their environment, inter-human communication, and the relationship between individuality and collectivity through sculpture, sound art, performance, photography, video, and printmaking. By (de)constructing and (re)assembling objects, architectures and languages, Kindermann examines reciprocity. The artist is interested by the physical, mental, and social dimensions of the human body, which he reflects by assembling self-reflexive entities from fragmented parts.

Felix Kindermann has exhibited work at Museum Ludwig and Simultanhalle, Cologne; KANAL- Centre Pompidou, Brussels; and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, among others.

felixkindermann.com

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

Artists at Work: On Sonic Politics

November 29, 2022, 6–7pm

2022 Fall Open Studios

November 18–November 19, 2022

In staging the choir Ghent Singers as a moving sculpture, Felix Kindermann‘s

Felix Kindermann, Choir Piece, 2019, performance

Felix Kindermann, Pairings, 2021, poly Lactic Acid, 7⁵/₁₆ × 12⁵/₈ × 12¹/₈ in. (18.54 × 32 × 30.73 cm)

Felix Kindermann, Choir Piece (Virtual Edit), 2019, sound installation, dimensions variable

Felix Kindermann, Holding Breath (Green Pool), 2020, bronze, 13¹/₈ × 16¹/₂ × 2¹¹/₁₆ in. (33.27 × 41.91 × 6.86 cm)

Functioning as an acrostic poem, four musical tempi are shifting horizontally, creating the words Fear, Hope, Hate Love in the vertical center line. The series of four silkscreen prints deals with subjectivity of human emotions versus the limitations of language trying to find common ground.

Felix Kindermann, Fear, Hope, Hate, Love , 2016, silkscreen print, 27⁹/₁₆ × 39³/₈ in. (70 × 100.03 cm)

Residents from Germany

Alex Nowak

Germany

DAAD-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst German Academic Exchange Service, North America

Studio #306

Vanina Saracino

Patricia Domínguez, Matrix Vegetal (2022). Installation at the Archenhold Observatory, Berlin. Exhibition: Other Minds (Screen City Biennial). Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza. Courtesy the artist.

Italy, Germany

Artis

Studio #222

Maess Anand

Poland, Germany

Polish Cultural Institute New York, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Krupa Gallery

2023

Austria

Current Resident: Jan 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2023

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Studio #218

Artist

Evelyn Plaschg

Evelyn Plaschg’s works explore the body as it transitions between mediated staging and raw emotion. Her paintings are based on stills from smartphone videos in which the body serves as a platform for psychological as well as social states.

Evelyn Plaschg has exhibited work at Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany; and Gallery Layr, Austria, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

Evelyn Plaschg, Albert Chromed, 2020, pigment on paper, 24 × 39 in. (60.96 × 99.06 cm)

Evelyn Plaschg, Saboteurs, 2022, pigment on paper, 30 × 50 in. (76.2 × 127 cm)

Evelyn Plaschg, In Condensation, 2021, pigment on paper, 39 × 67 in. (99.06 × 170.18 cm)

Evelyn Plaschg, Untitled, 2021, inkjet Prints, dimensions variable

Evelyn Plaschg, Dove Dive, 2022, pigment on paper, 35 × 61 in. (88.9 × 154.94 cm)

Residents from Austria

Veronika Eberhart

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Studio #212

Florian Mayr

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria

2023

Anaïs Horn

Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria

2021

The Netherlands

Current Resident: Feb 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024

Mondriaan Fund

Studio #219

Artist

Coralie Vogelaar

Coralie Vogelaar is a multidisciplinary artist who combines social science with her artistic practice. By viewing the human body from a machine-cognitive perspective, Vogelaar explores the relationship between humans and technology. She creates performances and multimedia installations in collaboration with experts from various disciplines such as data analysis, choreography, and sound design.

Coralie Vogelaar has exhibited work at Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands; HeK (House of electronic Arts), Switzerland; and Photographers’ Gallery London, England, among others.

coralievogelaar.com

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

This interactive installation examines our urge to exert control over our body, the uncontrollable nature of the conditions that influence how we feel, and the data systems that analyze our state of wellbeing. Visitors are invited to take a seat and place a sensor on their earlobe. Their heart rate variability (HRV), the period between heartbeats, will immediately become audible as the sound of ticking metal friction on ceramics, and squeaking polysterene. Changes in HRV directly impact on the sound composition by Sjoerd Leijten and vice versa. The sensors register all the irregularities of the heartbeat, which fluctuates in response to physical and emotional factors. Because of the complexities involved in identifying the cause of individual fluctuations, science often dismisses small variations as irrelevant, and only average readings are used for examinations. Coralie Vogelaar explores the “noise” that is ususally filtered out in this hybrid cross of technological research and fine art - the installation exudes the atmosphere of a test environment, with its aluminium tubing, visible cables, and the inbuilt and pre-programmed conditional rules. Vogelaar demonstrates that our mood states are more complex than would be suggested by an averaged out measurement. She embraces this complexity by combining data-sampling systems with the physical experience of sound, rather than imposing any scientific framework or delimitation

Coralie Vogelaar, Interpersonal Biofeedback Apparatus Encoding Cardiac Fluctuations, 2021, interactive 10-channel audio installation, 200 × 240 × 80 in. (508 × 609.6 × 203.2 cm)

This work explores deconstructed facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System. This system forms the basis of contemporary emotion recognition software. With the help of the tracking mechanism of a mobile phone the performance demonstrates a computational approach to our emotions.

Coralie Vogelaar, Emotions from an Algorithmic Point of View, 2018, live performance, 20 min.

Half human, half machine, the figure of the video installation Infinite Posture Dataset is stuck within the confinements of the screen and either following or giving certain instructions to the rhythm of the machine. She is wearing a tight suit reminiscent of the ones used for motion capture techniques, involving the digital registration of body movement. In the work the performer is talking about the feelings stirred in her body memory while performing the movements and which results in spoken out loud, incoherent emotions. Her limbs also seem to have been detached. All in all, the spectator is left with random pieces of the puzzle. In similar cases we would usually focus on the face, but that too is hidden. While observing the deconstructed and reformulated poses of the performer, could the machine perhaps understand what she is trying to communicate? Vogelaar reveals how the bigger picture continues to be intangible to both human and machine. Neither human, nor machine has all the answers

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset, 2020, 65 in flatscreen, Relax Zone Pro Inversion Table, weight plate and motor, 15 min.

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset (Making off), 2020, still image.

Two photographs of the same event, taken at the same moment and from the same vantage point: one of the photographs has appeared thousands of times on the Internet, the other barely or not at all. Why is one image more successful than the other? In Recognized / Not Recognized, Coralie Vogelaar (NL, °1981) creates a comparative study of popular and unpopular news images. The result is an intriguing video installation.

Coralie Vogelaar, Recognized/Not Recognized, a comparative movement analysis of popular and unpopular news images, 2017, two channel video installation, 9 min.