Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 54 × 15 in. (137.16 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2012: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Kaeko Mizukoshi
Kaeko Mizukoshi investigates the function of image, representation, and the structure of historiography. Her works unchain images from conventional or existing roles, emphasizing the indefiniteness and perpetual metamorphosis of the meaning of image. In her recent works, the idea of “documentary” is interrogated and transformed to push its boundary in new directions. Currently Mizukoshi practices on the idea of what she calls “images in the process of being documented,” resulting in the collapse of pre-existing historical imagery and imprinted forms into an altered perceptive space.
Kaeko Mizukoshi (born 1976, Tokyo) studied at The State Academy of Fine Arts – Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main and graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo. Recent shows include The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Shanghai, 2012; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The Korea Foundation Art Gallery, Seoul, 2011; Doosan Gallery and Gallery LOOP, Seoul, 2009. She received a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council and participated in the Location One Residency Program in New York in 2009. She also been awarded grants from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho) and Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Tokyo.
Kaeko Mizukoshi, Untitled, 2012, C-Print. Courtesy of the artist
Kaeko Mizukoshi, Untitled (The Present), 2010, The cover of the encyclopedia “World History Series 23: The Present”, published in 1973. Courtesy of the artist
Kaeko Mizukoshi, Yet Photographed, 2012, Photograph. Courtesy of the artist
Kaeko Mizukoshi, Goethe-Haus, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2012: Danish Arts Foundation
A Kassen
Artist group A Kassen has engaged in a collaborative practice since 2005, including works that take the form of performative installation, architectural intervention, photography, and sculpture. Their work is rooted in the exhibition site and refers to context and the social space, exploring the conditions of perception and interpretation.
A Kassen is Christian Bretton-Meyer, Tommy Petersen, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, and Søren Petersen. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, the group is based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO Projects, Copenhagen; La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, and Window to the World, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood and glass panels, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood, glass panels, and sliding door mechanism, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Minus Roof, 2010, Removed airplane roof, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Encirclement, 2012, C-print and curved glass, 55 × 43 in. (139.7 × 109.22 cm). Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance, 2008, Artist's book. Courtesy of the artist and Space Poetry
