Current Resident: Sep 1, 2020–Dec 31, 2021
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215
Artist
Conny Karlsson Lundgren
Conny Karlsson Lundgren is a visual artist based in Stockholm and Hoby Mosse. He works with film, text, image, and archival documents, to explores themes around social, political, and individual identities. In his practice, the artist employs interdisciplinary methods to present alternative realities and social agreements reimagined through experiences, contrapositions, desires, and secret codes. Karlsson Lundgren is interested in the archive as both carrier of information and a mechanism of control. He holds an MFA from Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden, and participated in the Studio Research Program at Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 2014–15.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren has exhibited work at Moderna Museet Malmö; Gothenburg Art Museum; and Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, among others. He was recently awarded the 2020 Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Research Fellowship.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, The Teenage Runner (Ali), 2018/2019, performance and installation, 20 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, (Dissident) Dance Actions, 2017, HD-video and installation, 17:10 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Residues (Kanazawa), 2000/2018, performance documentation, installation with slides, diary notes and two slide projectors.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, The Spheres, 2015, HD-video and installation, 6:50 min.
Conny Karlsson Lundgren, Koncert Në Vitin 2014 (Lepurushja), 2014, HD-video and installation, 5:10 min.
Residents from Sweden
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2020–Dec 31, 2021
Mondriaan Fund
Studio #216
Artist
James Beckett
James Beckett’s work in diverse media examines subjects of a historical nature, from the development (and subsequent demise) of European industry, to the more metaphysical aspects of dowsing and voodoo. His constructions favor an obscure and rambling logic, often within a strict formalism reflecting the mechanisms of display. A sometimes-dubious approach to his subject matter entertains the historic as suspended in a state of constant re-interpretation, a portrayal of a world where anomaly and change are fundamentals.
James Beckett has exhibited work at Belgian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; MAAT, Lisbon; MCAD Manila – Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, among others.
James Beckett, The Skeptical Structures of Max, 2019, installation, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Negative Space: A Scenario Generator for Clandestine Building in Africa, 2015, robotics istallation, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Palace Ruin, 2018, installation for public space, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, Pairings, 2018, installation, dimensions variable.
James Beckett, The Guinness Curse, 2017, installation, dimensions variable.
Residents from The Netherlands
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2021–Jun 30, 2021
The Kettering Family Foundation
Studio #217
Artist
Rashaun Rucker
Rashaun Rucker’s practice examines social and cultural issues in the United States, with a particular focus on human rights, mental illness, the Black experience, and the impacts of inequality. The artist brings a journalistic narrative to his practice from his 20 years of training and experience as a photojournalist.
Rashaun Rucker has exhibited work at the Wallach Art Gallery, New York; N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami; and Red Bull Arts Detroit, Michigan, among others.
rashaunrucker.comEvents & Exhibitions
2021 Spring Open Studios
April 27–April 28, 2021
Rashaun Rucker, Troubled Rest, 2020, graphite, 38 × 50 in. (96.52 × 127 cm).
Rashaun Rucker, They Tried To Clip My Wings, 2021, graphite, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm).
Rashaun Rucker, Overbooked, 2020, graphite, 38 × 50 in. (96.52 × 127 cm).
Rashaun Rucker, Load Factor, 2019, graphite, 38 × 50 in. (96.52 × 127 cm).
Rashaun Rucker, Finally Free, 2020, graphite, 38 × 50 in. (96.52 × 127 cm).
