Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Thomas Poulsen (FOS)
FOS’ practice investigates how physical space achieves significance through social interaction and how the aesthetics of social space challenge and transform social constructs. Referring to his approach as Social Design, FOS suggests solutions through the investigation of the physicality of social relations. ‘I see the world as constituted of layers – only a small part visible to us – that exists as a reaction of what lies underneath. What we learn and perceive is in our behavior, what isn’t learned is a part of our reactions. Our social construct is a machine in this framework.’
Thomas Poulsen (FOS). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2010: Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation
Felix Burger
‘Felix Burger’s works have their origin in dreams: dreams of remembrances, lost-in- thought daydreams, occasionally nightmares. The subject of his work is a fluent transition from intellect-driven reality to fiction determined by the subconscious. They are not only unwieldy in their visual aesthetic perception but also in the thematic occupation with these transitory states. Subversive shifts in perception permeate Felix Burger’s work. He is instinctively at home, in both the figurative and literal sense, in the art forms of video and sculpture/installation. The fact that Burger does not succumb to biographical navel-gazing but rather succeeds in formulating archetypes of remembrances, a construction of desire, mostly connected to feelings of childhood, namely space oscillating between protection and threat, seems to be decisive to me.’ (Stephan Huber)
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Felix Burger (Germany) and Max Pam (Australia)
July 13, 2010
Felix Burger, Burgers Haunted House (Burgers Geisterbahn), 2009, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Felix Burger, The Story Of My Life (Die Verfilmung Meines Lebens), 2010, Video, 23:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Felix Burger, The Story Of My Life (Die Verfilmung Meines Lebens), 2010, Video, 23:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Felix Burger, Welcome home (Willkommen daheim), 2007, Video, 2:32 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Consejeria de Cultura de la Region de Murcia
Juanli Carrion
Juanli Carrión was born in Yecla, Spain in 1982. His artistic practice arises out of an interest in elements/actions that mankind creates/uses to represent reality or identity, and the social-politic relationships that these elements/actions have with existing operating systems. These concerns emerge out of social and political issues surrounding human behavior, both individually and collectively, and speak to the limits of human existence through questioning strategies of representing reality and reconstructing identity.
His artistic practice is developed through media such as installation, video or sculpture and always has a strong photographic background. A photograph is in many occasions the final result or a starting point, as a way of thinking and a key tool of his creative process. Among most recent projects are Atlas Shrugged, Kei-Seki, On Stage-Monuments of Melancholia. Carrión has a B.A in Fine Arts at The University of Grenade and Saint Dennis Paris VIII and an M.F.A in Visual Arts at Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ok Hyun Ahn (South Korea) and Juanli Carrion (Spain)
July 27, 2010
Juanli Carrion, Intermision - Mysterious Incidente In Lake Desmet, 2010, C-print sobre dibond, 191/2 × 141/2 in. (49.53 × 36.83 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, 2nd Act - Fetterman Massacree, 2010, C-print sobre , 67 × 45 in. (170.18 × 114.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Keisho-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Landscape #13, 2008-09, Duratrans in a golden light box, 22 × 55 × 4 in. (55.88 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Ogon-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
