Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Xenia Fink
Xenia Fink’s recent work consists of drawings layered in boxes resembling traditional dioramas of the 19th century. In addition, she creates installations and objects such as marquees, shower cubicles, and fabric wallpapers, with which she imbues inherent connotations of a product or artifact to juxtapose with her drawings. She draws and silkscreens prints with content ranging from strong narrative to more conceptual and ornamental material approaches.
Xenia Fink (born 1979 in Sao Paulo, Brazil) was raised in Brazil and Mexico before moving back to Germany to study Illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Galerie Schuster, Berlin and Miami; and solo shows at the Galerie Volkspark and Halle and Galerie Schuster, Berlin.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Xenia Fink and Louise Manifold
March 22, 2011
Xenia Fink, L’Education Sentimentale (Installation View), 2010, Drawings, ink on paper and cardboard, linen book cloth, MDF boxes, and glass, 24 x 17 x 8 in., 29 x 21 x 8 in. and 32 x 21 x 8 in. Courtesy of the artist
Xenia Fink, Above All One Thing, My Child I, 2010, Drawing, cobalt oxide on time, 59 × 83 in. (149.86 × 210.82 cm)
Xenia Fink, Mirror, 2010, Drawing, ink on paper and cardboard, linen book cloth, MDF boxes, and glass, 16 × 24 × 8 in. (40.64 × 60.96 × 20.32 cm)
Xenia Fink, People Have Crises, 2010, Glaze on ceramic tiles, mounted on plywood or on wall, and faucet, 2 panels, 75 × 33 in. (190.5 × 83.82 cm)
Xenia Fink, Picnic, 2009, Ink on stretched canvas and MDF, 6 panels; silkscreen print on cotton, lined and quilted; and ceramics 11 pieces, Dimensions variable
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2011: Canada Council for the Arts
Jinny Yu
Jinny Yu is a painter whose work considers the complexities of visual spatiality and materiality; her paintings oscillate between the physical and material space of the world and the pictorial and more subtly material ‘space’ of the painted surface. Yu’s interest in this problematic leads her to explore the tensions between representation and abstraction, and her paintings frequently involve both. She paints with oil on aluminum, employing conventional brushes as well as other materials and devices. She is fascinated by aluminum because its reflective yet opaque surface concretizes the aesthetic and representational issues which form the current focus of her practice.
Born in Seoul and based in Canada, Jinny Yu received her MFA from York University, Toronto, Canada and BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. Yu is an Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Sotheby’s, London, UK; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; Taehwa Eco Art Festival, Ulsan City, Republic of Korea; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada, and McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ana Santos and Jinny Yu
February 15, 2011
Jinny Yu, Ceiling Painting (A Tigress’ Wedding Day), 2008, Oil on canvas and fluorescent light fixtures, 240 × 120 in. (609.6 × 304.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Jinny Yu, Story Of A Global Nomad, 2008, Oil and graphite on aluminum, Various dimensions. Courtesy of the artist
Jinny Yu, Sequence, 2009, Oil on aluminum and latex paint, 448 × 204 in. (1137.92 × 518.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Jinny Yu, Wedge, 2009, Metallic tape and welded steel rods, 600 × 144 × 2 in. (1524 × 365.76 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist and TEAF09, Ulsan City
Jinny Yu, Notes, 2010, Oil on aluminum, 19 × 24 in. (48.26 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Adela Jusic
Adela Jusic works primarly with video. Socially engaged and rooted in personal experiences, her artistic practice revolve around the subject of the war in Bosnia, the position of women in war, and the religion and tradition in which she grew up. Jusic recently started a collaboration with Sarajevo-based artist Lana Cmajcanin tackling the question of self-presentation and in the art market.
Adela Jusic (born 1982 in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina) lives and works in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and from the University of Sarajevo. Adela Jusic is a cofounder of the Association for Art and Culture Crvena. She has exhibited in many international exhibitions including Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain; Videonale Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Decolonial Aesthetics, El Parqueadero, Bogota, Colombia; Transitland in Trieste, Institute for the Documentation and Dissemination of Art, Trieste, Italy; Projected Visions, Espace Appolonia, Strasbourg, France; South East European Film Festival, Goethe Institute Los Angeles, CA; Transitland, Los Angeles, CA and Global South in Festival City of Women, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Adela Jusic, Who needs DRNC?, 2008, Video, 5:40 min. Courtesy of the artist
Adela Jusic, The Sniper, 2007, Color video with stereo sound, 4:09 min. Courtesy of the artist
