Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Alban Muja
Alban Muja was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo, in 1980. He currently lives in Prishtina, Kosovo, where he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts. Muja’s artistic practice is mostly influenced by the social and political transformation processes in his home country of Kosovo, but also of the region and beyond. Muja investigates history as well as the socio-political themes and links them to his condition and social position. His work covers a wide range of media including video installation, short films, documentary films, drawings, paintings and performances, and has been extensively exhibited internationally.
Alban Muja, Blue Wall Red Door, 2009, Film, 33 min. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Museum Of Contemporary History, 2004, C-print. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Palestina, 2005, Video. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Windows Seat Drawing Project, 2006, Drawing. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Tibet, 2009, Video, 5.52 min. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2010: Wallace Arts Trust
F4
Born, educated and living in Auckland, New Zealand, Susan Jowsey and Marcus Williams have collaborated as artists for over 15 years.
F4 is a conceptual and structural response to the introduction of children into their partnership; a boy Jesse and his sister, Mercy. The intersubjectivity of collaboration, the mediated nature of socialization in contemporary culture and the implications of power relations in these contexts remain broad themes within this collaborative model. Familial relationships and the investigation of representations of family have become particular. Ideas are developed and have been cultivated overtime with specific attention paid to conceptual and visual potential inherent in the prolific creative gestures generated by both children in their everyday play. These can play out through multiple iterations, which may at one time be championed by, one or other of the adults, but always remain the intellectual property of the collective.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: F4 (New Zealand) and Szabolcs KissPál (Hungary)
October 19, 2010
F4, Entrance, 2009, Video still from animated video. Courtesy of the artist
F4, The Minutes, 2010, 39 × 1571/2 in. (99.06 × 400.05 cm). Courtesy of the artist
F4, Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, 2008, 131/2 × 191/2 in. (34.29 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist
F4, The Unknown; Image #12, 2007, 351/2 × 59 in. (90.17 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist
F4, The Correction, 2009, 59 × 118 in. (149.86 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen
Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen (b. 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in 1992.
In his most recent exhibition, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen presents a series of new paintings installed upon black walls, upon which small texts are written. A diary written by a vampire, who is the artist himself, is also a part of the exhibition. Schmidt-Rasmussen presents us with stories from his own neighbourhood in Copenhagen, which represents a classic terrain vague, as well as the rest of Copenhagen and Denmark. The paintings communicate atmospheres in which the everyday and the trivial is illuminated by the poetic presence of color and glitter, but also by a melancholic darkness. In his work he addresses the relationship between the immediate and the distant world.
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Bubbles, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Teat Tree, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Migrant labor, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
