Past Residents

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Past Resident
2014: Meg-Multiforms, The Gallery Apart

Alice Schivardi

Alice Schivardi is interested in collecting stories and establishing human relationships, leading her toward a pursuit of the other as well as of the self.  She focuses both on the natural and human condition, using technological and manual language. Schivardi’s work explores social phenomena and their logic, with a methodology that treasures the intimate exchange of micro-experiences. The threads of her “embroidery drawings” become a link between the artist and the stories, the artistic process and the finished artwork. Alice Schivardi lives and works in Rome.

Hilde Methi

Hilde Methi’s work investigates the relationship of her own locale to a larger geopolitical setting. Her collaborative inquiries explore what art can be and how art acts in relation to institutional centers and peripheries within global capitalism. Based on her interest in local history, politics and economy, she builds up ongoing projects and art collectives infusing artistic ideas into the local context.

Since leaving The Girls On The Bridge in 2007, Methi conceived the Sámi Art Festival from 2008 to 2010, co-curated russianmarket.info – Taking Inventory, Uqbar, 2011 and Extreme Crafts, Freies Museum, Berlin, 2012. She is involved in the art-collectives Mobile Kultur Byrå (2006-), which looks at the trading climate in particular contexts; LUJA (2005-) which intersects contemporary art, design and indigenous crafts, and Rural Reading Room (2013-) situations highlighting the materiality of the landscape using a tabletop as its format. She is currently developing a project for the Norwegian-Russian border-zone with Sonic Acts.

 

Past Resident
2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Ambie Abaño

Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.

Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).