Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Marko Markovic
Marko Markovic’s work is interested in the transformation process between the individual and the masses; when an individual becomes a mass or when the mass becomes an individual. In doing so, he animates and includes audiences and/or other participants, working with varying age groups and socio-economic classes. Markovic’s work is socially engaged and directly involved with people and their needs, consciousness and social structure. He sees this as the best method to directly impact his public audience. Markovic’s work reflects current events and questions the structure of politics, economics, status and positions of inferiority and superiority. He uses a variety of media, including video, installation, performance and happenings.
Marko Markovic (born 1983, Osijek, Croatia) lives and works in Zagreb and graduated from the Art Academy in Split, Croatia in 2007. He has participated in exhibitions, workshops and festivals in Croatia, USA, Russia, Mexico, Finland, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Italy, Greece, Serbia and Austria. In 2011, he was awarded the Radoslav Putar Award for best young visual artist in Croatia by the Institute for Contemporary Art and the Young Visual Artists Awards. Markovic also works as the organizer of Days of Open Performance in Split and is the front man in a performative art punk band, Elijah and the Grain.
Marko Markovic, It is not gold everything that shines, 2010, Golden pillar, A state mandate of Croatian government prior to entering the EU, Action in public space, 10 min.
Marko Markovic, The labor saves, 2011, Happening featuring previously employed workers of a bankrupt textile industry "Ideal", featuring Ljiljana Shuchur, Senka Rogich, Vjera Gotovac and Dijana Uvodich, 3 min.
Marko Markovic, Other side of the flag, 2010, Music happening featuring the band, Elijah and the Grain, 15 min.
Marko Markovic, Selfeater - the thirst, 2009, Performance, medical needle, tube system, vane belt in national state colors, blood, 5 min.
Past Resident2013: Mondriaan Fund
Maaike Schoorel
Maaike Schoorel’s work inhabits a position on the edge of legibility. Her figurative paintings appear faded or bleached with brush strokes that suggest outlines and restrained marks. These outlines imply areas of color or shadow that allow the viewer to participate in the paintings. The works demand one’s perception to be slowed down to allow the images to unravel slowly over time. Schoorel uses photographs of family, friends and herself as sources of reference and inspiration for her work. She also depicts other familiar scenes and still lifes that allude to the history of her chosen medium. The various painting genres that she employs help to structure her practice. After selecting and cropping her photographs, Schoorel renders the subject matter almost invisible. Through an unevenly applied process of subtle and minimally painted layers, she wears away the original image to reveal something new. This complex reworking or withholding of her source material intensifies the process of looking, and reminds us that seeing is as much about what cannot be seen as what can.
Maaike Schoorel graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and the Royal College of Art, London, 2001. She has worked and lived in both Amsterdam and London. Schoorel’s work is currently being shown as part of British Art Show 7 and Hayward Touring Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, Nottingham. Her work was also be included in Painting Between the Lines curated by Jens Hoffmann, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, which will tour to Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA in 2013. She will have solo exhibitions in 2012 at The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem and Maureen Paley, London. Her work will be included in the group exhibitions this year at: Invisible Ink, Mendes Wood, Sao Paolo, curated by Carolyn Drake; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; and the Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow. This year her work has been included in the publications: Vitamin P2, Phaidon; Sanctuary, Thames&Hudson; and Painting between the Lines, Art Pub Inc. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2011; Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, 2011; Nudes and Garden, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2009; Nudes, Maureen Paley, London, 2008; and Album, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, 2008.
Maaike Schoorel, British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Hayward Gallery.
Maaike Schoorel, Album, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.
Maaike Schoorel, Emma-Louise on her Bed, 2008, Oil on canvas, 53 × 731/4 in. (134.62 × 186.05 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2012: Mondriaan Fund
Jennifer Tee
Jennifer Tee creates symbolic, synthetic, sculptural installations that the visitor can not only contemplate, but also sometimes enter or engage with ritually. Her work often balances seemingly contradictory factors: great sculptural sophistication with a transparency in production and an interest in evoking spiritual realms with active material experimentation. In recent years, Tee’s often-voluminous installations reveal a special interest in being in an in-between state, or what she calls “the soul in Limbo”, in her performances. She researches intermediate forms of cultures and languages, and various forms of religion. She tries to answer questions about the mythology of contemporary human beings, about cultural identity and soul-searching. In her area of research Tee constructs poetic dispositions between fact and fiction, between present and past. Her latest works hover between sculpture and stage, performance and choreography.
Jennifer Tee (born 1973) is based in Amsterdam. She has exhibited internationally, including at the 26th São Paulo Biennial; Gwangju Biennial, 2006; and The World Expo 2010, Shanghai. She was awarded third place in the Prix de Rome in 1999 and the Uriot-prijs by the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2000 and 2001. Recent group shows include: The Knight’s Tour, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Feminine and Formal, Triangle France, Marseille, France; Double Dutch, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY: De Nederlandse identiteit?, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; and Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010, Tee had a solo show at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, and performed Gridding Sentences at theStedelijk Museum in 2011. Tee is represented by Galerie Fons Welters.
Events & Exhibitions
Jennifer Tee: Ether Plane∼Material Plane
March 6–June 8, 2018
Stichting Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Entwined Bolero, Performance, 18 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Duration Gridding Sentences, Performance, 33 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Torrid Zone, 2004-2011, Metal structure, bamboo beads, fabric decoration, 3 foam mills, 6 foam wings, 6 neons, cacao fruits, porcelain letter tiles, power shells, and palm tree, 185 × 94 × 86 in. (469.9 × 238.76 × 218.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Star-Crossed, 2010, Collection of vessels and coiled stoneware, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jennifer Tee, Complex Interiors, Trance-lucent Concrete, 2009 , 20 porcelain feathers, wooden octagram-construction and natural rope , 55 × 110 × 47 in. (139.7 × 279.4 × 119.38 cm). Courtesy of the artist.