Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Veronika Zajačiková
Veronika Zajačiková’s curatorial practice refers to the possibility of an international dialogue through art. Her research is based in virtual reality and the true world, diverting people from an online reception of art to one related to our human nature. Zajačiková believes that without this expansion of experience people are degraded and impoverished in their humanity.
Zajačiková (born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic) received a BA degree at Faculty of Arts – Theory and History of Art, Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. From September 2010 Zajačiková is an MA student in Curatorial Studies, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is currently preparing an exhibition at Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In 2010 she curated two solo shows of students from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague: Po druhé (For the Second Time), Klubovna 2.patro, Prague, CZ.
Veronika Zajačiková.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Firoz Mahmud
Firoz Mahmud works with several media including installation, Layapa Art (a Bangladeshi stencil technique), Urgency of Proximate Drawing (NinKI: UoPD), text, video and photographs which are based on Bangladeshi socio-political culture, myth, tradition and pop culture. Mahmud’s large-scale project ‘sucker’wfp21, a 26 foot fighter aircraft considers the interplay of militarism and war produced through public tax and revenue.
Firoz Mahmud (born Khulna, Bangladesh) graduated from received a BFA from Dhaka University, an MFA from Tama Art University and a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. He attended Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He has shown his work in group exhibitions including the Aichi Triennal, Aichi, Japan; Sharjah Biennale, Dubai, UAE; Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal, Echigo-Tsumar, Japan; Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka; Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany; Rochester Contemporary, New York; Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Rijksakademie VBK, Amsterdam and Metropolitan-Gallery Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Upcoming exhibitions include Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; Yokohama Triennale 2011, Japan and Bengal Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon at Olive Street Garden: Elmar Hermann and Firoz Mahmud
June 7, 2011
Firoz Mahmud, Sucker'wfp21, 2009-2010, Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP), metal, bond, and beans, 106 × 240 × 315 in. (269.24 × 609.6 × 800.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya.
Firoz Mahmud, Sucker'wfp21, 2009-2010, Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP), metal, bond, and beans, 106 × 240 × 315 in. (269.24 × 609.6 × 800.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Firoz Mahmud, Halcyon Tarp, 2008-2009, Wood, FRP, oil 'Layapa' painting, video, drawing, glass and paper, 208 × 137 × 102 in. (528.32 × 347.98 × 259.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah.
Firoz Mahmud, The Start Of The End Of The Reign [Two Lies In Battle At Plassey], 2011, Oil Layapa Painting on shaped canvas, 63 × 79 × 1 in. (160.02 × 200.66 × 2.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Firoz Mahmud, Traitor Of Faith [Plot 2 #Shiraj & Mir], 2010, Oil Layapa Painting on shaped canvas, 90 × 118 × 1 in. (228.6 × 299.72 × 2.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: CBK-Centrum Beeldende Kunst
David Jablonowski
David Jablonowski questions the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. Jablonowski’s interest in display systems and information transfer has as much to do with the hardware that is used in the staging of knowledge as it has with the knowledge itself. Therepetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in works which question the understanding of sign systems; making us aware of the transience of visual language.
David Jablonowski (born 1982 in Bochum, Germany) moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2007 where he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and participated in De Ateliers studio program until 2009. Recent solo shows include Imposition, Schaufenster of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany; Material Kontingenz at SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Perfection Simple Way at Gallery Luettgenmeijer and 1.33:1, Hard Copy Display Sequences, Multi Channel Projection at Bloombergspace London, UK. Group exhibitions include Monumentalism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The dutch identity?, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Gallery Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany.
David Jablonowski, Tchogha Zanbil And Multiple, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Disposition And Still, 2.39:1, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Multiple, Gestetner, 1, 78:1, 2010, Mixed media, 72 × 72 × 36 in. (182.88 × 182.88 × 91.44 cm).
David Jablonowski, Perfection, Simple Way, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Installation View COMMA 30 At Bloomberg SPACE By Bloomberg LP, London, UK, 2010, Multi channel projection and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
