Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Arts Council Korea
Sun Choi
Choi’s work has continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and searches for value beyond materiality. Choi applies invisible materials, such as breath, as well as other unconventional mediums involving the body. In recent years, he has obtained paints from social and environmental disasters.
Choi’s recent exhibitions include Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Yokohama Triennale; and The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Sun Choi, Meari, 2015, Ash from burnt dog, cat and human hair, 1,033 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from South Korea
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2015: Foundation for a Civil Society
Igor Ruf
Igor Ruf explores the relations between object and non-object as a starting point for a work of art. For him memory is the cognitive ability to reconstruct past experiences, whether autobiographical or experienced through media such as film and music. Ruf’s research ranges from unrecorded narratives spread by oral tradition to phantasmal images from childhood. His recent works address the somewhat absurd connection between his own personal fascinations and everyday objects or events. Also, he often deals with humorous self-positioning within society in general.
Igor Ruf (born 1984 in Virovitica, Croatia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb where he now works as an Assistant Lecturer. Recent solo shows include House of Tartzans Mom, Academia Moderna, Zagreb, Croatia; Exhibition of Hills, Furniture and Walking Spaces, MKC Split, Croatia; North, South, East, Jam and Boom, Plevnik-Kronkowska Gallery, Celje, Slovenia; and Bure Baruta, (with Vlatka Škoro and Ana Petrović), Kazamat Gallery, Osijek. His awards received include the Radoslav Putar Award, 2014; 31st Youth Salon Award, 2012; and Grand Prize at the XI Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, 2012.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Zoran Georgiev and Igor Ruf
April 14, 2015
Igor Ruf, The Factory is Following Me, 2013, Mixed media, 74 3/4 x 33 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Martin Höfer
Martin Höfer’s work concentrates on artistic strategies and mechanisms of perception in the field of public media space. Höfer’s focus is the development of artistic concepts for mass media systems as art itself. Therefore, he focuses on the relation of art and economics, aspects of art and media theory as well as mass communication, advertisement and marketing.
Martin Höfer (born 1982 in Sondershausen (Thuringia), Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He graduated with distinction at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in Media Art. Höfer’s work has been commissioned for group exhibitions including the Dispute Between Word and Picture, Cairo, Egypt, 2006; Hiwar Fanni, Amman, Jordan, 2007; On (plein) Air, Dresden, Germany, 2009; Youth Cult, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Best buy me, Leipzig, Germany, 2010; Kunst im Tower, Linz, Austria, 2010; Capital unemployed, National Art Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011, Victory on behalf of art (Porsche Carrera Cup, 30 motor races in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2012/13), DLF 1874: Die Biografie der Bilder, Leipzig, Germany, 2012, The Supershow, Leipzig, Germany, 2013; 1st NSK Folk Art Biennale, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.
Martin Höfer, Siegen im Auftrag der Kunst, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
