Past Residents
Past Resident2021: International Visegrad Fund, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA
Vojtěch Novák
Vojtěch Novák describes his methodology as ‘always responding’. “Like a flipped coin seeking its third side,” he positions himself between the interpermeating roles of author and viewer. To this end, Novák’s artistic practice consists in layering narratives to form gesamtkunstwerk–total artworks spanning performative colloquies, happenings, curating and theater directing. The latter includes his stage design, his play on environment, and how he stages works of art.
Vojtěch Novák has exhibited work at Manifesta 11, Zürich; documenta 14, Kassel; and OFF-Biennale Budapest, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min.
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min.
Vojtěch Novák, Samizdat Contrefaçon, 2018, installation view at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 95 × 66 in. (241.3 × 167.64 cm).
Vojtěch Novák, Flies of Fiume, 2020, installation view at Berlínskej Model, Prague 2020, dimensions variable.
Vojtěch Novák, SILK ROAD HYBRIDIZATION, 2016, video, 58 min.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2021: Artis
Gil Yefman
A trans-disciplinary conceptual artist, Gil Yefman deconstructs and transforms canonized myths from varied beliefs and traditions. By undermining structured definitions and portrayal of the other, Yefman explores and cherishes the intrinsic potential of the extraordinary. Yefman’s collaborative projects fuse memory, trauma and body, with trans-generational multilayered relations where soft materials dissolve hard subject matters. Yefman uses archival materials as points of departure from which the knitting process resembles writing–texts and contexts become textures suggesting alternative interpretations to dogmatic translations.
Gil Yefman has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, France; and Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, among others.
Gil Yefman, TUMTUM, 2013, knitting, Faraday cage, Sound, additional performance. courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. photo by Casey Dorobek.
Gil Yefman, Human Tapestry, 2015, Jacquard weaving, 138 × 110 × 59 in. (350.52 × 279.4 × 149.86 cm).
Gil Yefman, The Valley of Wet Bones, 2015, knitting plastic bags, soil, plants, dimensions variable.
Gil Yefman, Hedgerow, 2018, knitting, wool, felt, wire, embroidery thread, and gas pipe, 276 × 99 × 39 in. (701.04 × 251.46 × 99.06 cm).
Gil Yefman, Field Slave, 2018, crochet knitting, dry and wet felting, additional performance, 79 × 39 × 39 in. (200.66 × 99.06 × 99.06 cm).
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2022: Toby Devan Lewis
Anthony Iacono
Anthony Iacono works primarily in collage from cut-out sections of painted papers. Influenced by the aesthetics of film posters and voyeuristic erotic thrillers, the seemingly mundane scenarios he creates are offset by a suggestive, gradated palette that are wrought with coded language and suspense.
Anthony Iacono has exhibited work at The Approach Gallery, London; P.P.O.W Gallery, New York; and Marinaro, New York, among others.
Anthony Iacono, painted paper collage, 18 × 24 in. (45.72 × 60.96 cm).
Anthony Iacono, Red Delicious, 2020, painted paper collage, 20 × 37 in. (50.8 × 93.98 cm).
Anthony Iacono, Red Hat on York Street, 2021, painted paper collage, 41/2 × 6 in. (11.43 × 15.24 cm).
Anthony Iacono, Rose (study), painted paper collage, 18 × 24 in. (45.72 × 60.96 cm).
Anthony Iacono, Phone, 2018, painted paper collage, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217