Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Alban Muja
Alban Muja was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo, in 1980. He currently lives in Prishtina, Kosovo, where he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts. Muja’s artistic practice is mostly influenced by the social and political transformation processes in his home country of Kosovo, but also of the region and beyond. Muja investigates history as well as the socio-political themes and links them to his condition and social position. His work covers a wide range of media including video installation, short films, documentary films, drawings, paintings and performances, and has been extensively exhibited internationally.
Alban Muja, Blue Wall Red Door, 2009, Film, 33 min. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Museum Of Contemporary History, 2004, C-print. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Palestina, 2005, Video. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Windows Seat Drawing Project, 2006, Drawing. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Tibet, 2009, Video, 5.52 min. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2010: Institut Français
Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro was born in France in 1974. She attained degrees in Art History at the École du Louvre, Paris and in Visual Arts at the Fines Arts School of Paris. Her work is transdisciplinary (installations, sculptures and films) and includes the use of cultural objects and images (transposition of classical paintings, casts of kitsch domestic objects), sometimes relating to historical or political contexts. Often Cornaro’s work plays with issues such as systems of representation, commodity fetishism and the creative gesture.
Isabelle Cornaro, Savannah Surrounding Bangui, And The River Utubangui #2, 2003-2007, Jewels on plywood, 231/2 × 161/2 in. (59.69 × 41.91 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Isabelle Cornaro, Songs Of Opposites, 2008, Five 16mm films transferred onto digital support, 7:48 min. Courtesy of the artist and the Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Torcy
Isabelle Cornaro, Sans Souci #2, 2005-2006, Assembled papers, hair, and pencil, 105/8 × 149/16 in. (26.97 × 36.98 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Isabelle Cornaro, Moulage Sur Le Vif (Vide-Poche) / Casts ('Tidy Trays'), 2009, Pigment print on archival paper, 71 × 191/2 in. (180.34 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Isabelle Cornaro, Landscape With Poussin And Eye Witnesses (I), 2009, Plywood, textile, and various objects, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen
Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen (b. 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in 1992.
In his most recent exhibition, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen presents a series of new paintings installed upon black walls, upon which small texts are written. A diary written by a vampire, who is the artist himself, is also a part of the exhibition. Schmidt-Rasmussen presents us with stories from his own neighbourhood in Copenhagen, which represents a classic terrain vague, as well as the rest of Copenhagen and Denmark. The paintings communicate atmospheres in which the everyday and the trivial is illuminated by the poetic presence of color and glitter, but also by a melancholic darkness. In his work he addresses the relationship between the immediate and the distant world.
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Bubbles, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Teat Tree, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Migrant labor, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
