Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Past Resident2011: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Fendry Ekel
Fendry Ekel’s paintings explore the dark side of human ambition. His monumental and layered works are often painted from photographs and depict portraits, architecture or other remnants of historic events. By isolating these images from our collective memory, Ekel critically investigates the use of art, architecture and figuration as propaganda for ideology and creates work ethic and aesthetic values meet. The specific moment when power becomes ignorance is the continuous subject of Ekel’s paintings. His work explores and attempts to fathom the motives underlying this perversion.
Fendry Ekel was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and raised in Europe. He studied at the Rietveld Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he lives and works.