Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Jeff Weber
Jeff Weber’s practice revolves around what he refers to as his attempt to develop a personal epistemology. In 2014, he established the Kunsthalle-Leipzig, a project in the form of a gallery space, which functions as an extension of his photographic practice and as a conceptual frame to invite others to actively participate. Here, the collaborative dimensions of Weber’s practice explore the significance of these encounters with alterity and the social dimension of photography as an epistemological principle. Rather than an isolated object, the photographic image is enmeshed within a matrix of social relations that are interpersonal, artistic, and material.
Jeff Weber graduated from the LaCambre Art School in Brussels in 2010. In 2012, he was a resident at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. His work has been exhibited internationally at De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; Casino – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; Interfood-Vitrine, Aachen, Germany, amongst others. In 2014, he contributed a selection of photographs to Snejanka Mihaylova’s intervention at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and to her commission for If I Can’t Dance, which culminated in the publication of the book Acoustic Thought in 2015.
Jeff Weber, Absorption (Ina, Helmut and Marc, "Trapping The Gaze"), 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Kritik-im-Gefrierbeutel, 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Romanesco (An approximation of a fractal lying on my kitchen counter), 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Jeff Weber, Stanley Brouwn’s Card File, 1 Step 1:1, 2014, FB Print, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Past Resident2016: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Karen Kraven
Karen Kraven’s work sets up unexpected encounters and juxtapositions between sculptures and images. She explores common themes that appear in sports, card games and hunting. Kraven is particularly interested in motifs of illusion and attraction.
Karen Kraven holds an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Recent solo exhibitions include 37 Fouettés, 8-11, Toronto; Flip Flop, Front Punch at Mercer Union, Toronto; Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, Darling Foundry, Montreal; A Mucker and a Grinder, Parisian Laundry, Montreal; and As Above, So Below, Centre CLARK, Montreal. Her work has also been shown at La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; and Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Kraven has participated in artist residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada, and Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro.
Karen Kraven, A Mucker and a Grinder, 2014, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Flip Flop, Punch Front, 2015, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Jasper, Elizabeth, Wilfred, Zeiss & William, 2014, Digital prints, 25 x 20 in. each.
Karen Kraven, Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, 2015, Mixed media.
Residents from Canada
Jonas Nobel
Jonas Nobel is an artist and the co-founder of the artist/design/architect group Uglycute. Nobel works with sculpture and drawing based on historic texts and/or events. With texts as a starting point, he creates representations of historical events influenced by his ideas, personal associations, and reflections. Nobel’s body of work stems from an interest in material culture, both contemporary and historic.
Jonas Nobel graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden. Uglycute works toward expanding the concept of design by integrating professionals from other fields in the various undertaken projects. Uglycute has been featured in numerous international shows including 50th Venice Biennial, 2003, and Emscherkunst, Germany, 2013. Nobel has exhibited and created public commissions mainly in Scandinavia. He is represented by Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Jonas Nobel, Health and Care, 2014, Mixed media.
Jonas Nobel, Geological Gistory of Haninge Municipality, 2016, Photo wrapped furniture.
Jonas Nobel, Display of Loss This Play We Lost, 2010, Mixed media.
