Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Past Resident2011: Danish Arts Foundation
Kasper Akhøj
Kasper Akhøj (born 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark) studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Kasper Akhøj completed the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include Welcome (TO THE TEKNIVAL) at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. His work has also been shown at Ludlow 38/Goethe Institute, New York; Art in General, New York; 28th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. In 2010, he was an artist-in-residence at the 29th São Paulo Biennial, as well as Platform Garanti in Istanbul, Turkey. His solo exhibition After The Fair is currently on view at Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium, and his first book Abstracta is forthcoming (Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier).
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kasper Akhøj and Davor Sanvincenti
April 5, 2011