Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Mathias Pöschl
In his research-based practice, Mathias Pöschl seeks to investigate the relation of visual culture and political agenda, generating ensembles of works by juxtaposing representations of historical incidences and realities in a wide range of media and materials. In an effort to hint at new insights into the basic conditions of what it means for a work of art to be called political, Pöschl tries to exploit the cognitive potential of contradictions and misreadings, employing dialectic approaches to arrive at, or suggest, new narratives.
Mathias Pöschl (born 1981, Vienna, Austria) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2008. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at institutions, galleries and art fairs including Leopold Museum, Vienna; 21er Haus – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna; The Armory Show, New York; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Sotheby’s, Vienna; Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö; Frieze, London; Nya Perspectives, Västerås; Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna; as well as in various self-organized shows in temporary exhibition spaces around Austria.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(abandoned stage set for a black mass), 2016, installation, dimensions variable.
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(supreme), 2013, inkjet print and paper, 50 × 35 in. (127 × 88.9 cm).
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(huey), 2011, graphite, paper, enamel, glass, and mdf, 24 × 16 in. (60.96 × 40.64 cm).
Mathias Pöschl, i'm every woman, 2014, installation, dimensions variable.
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(the ali in formalism), 2012, black chalk and paper, 20 × 28 in. (50.8 × 71.12 cm).
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2020: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation2017: Wolf Inc
Maria Zervos
Maria Zervos’s most recent work revolves around an interdisciplinary approach to video, performance, poetry and drawing in an ongoing negotiation between topos and utopia. She remaps otherworldly landscapes such as the barren stretches of the Atacama Desert, the highest peak of Mount Olympus, gray zones or places off the map, such as refugee camps, in a search for personal geographies. Distinct for its allusions to passage, Zervos’s work often investigates the conflation of nature and culture, aspiring to social criticism.
Maria Zervos is a visual artist and poet from Athens currently living and working between the Netherlands and Greece. In 2020 she was awarded the NEON grant for her solo show at MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art. Zervos is a Fulbright Scholar and in 2012 was invited by Harvard University as a Visiting Fellow to pursue research on her practice. She has taught courses at Harvard University as well as at Emerson College in Boston since 2014. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions worldwide including the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens; Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam; Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam; The Breeder, Athens; Onassis Cultural Centre, New York City; and the Hellenic American Union, Athens, among others. She has published three books, Diagnosis, Hunting, and Peripatetics on her practice and is represented by the Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art. Zervos’s art is part of several collections including the D. Daskalopoulos Collection and the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens.
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (The Rope), 2019, drawing, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (The Lyra), 2019, drawing, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Maria Zervos, Sky and Earth (Olympus), 2019, video installation, solo show 'Olympus' at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.
Maria Zervos, Nomadology (The Desert), 2013, HD video, 8 min, 30 sec.
Maria Zervos, Past and Future (Svetlana Boym), 2020, HD Video, 30 min.
Residents from Greece
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2017: Danish Arts Foundation
Pia Rönicke
In recent years, Pia Rönicke has been investigating different botanical collections. Her interest in herbariums stands in relationship to methods of indexing, including both observation and representation. These plant collections show traces of geopolitical conditions not only within the practices of botany but also map out territorialization. Rönicke attempts to examine the consequences of botanical systemization. She has been researching the perspectives of various female activists, architects, and artists that takes its stance from what she calls the ‘blind spot.’ She is interested in the connection between workspace and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives of letters, notes, images, newspapers, microfilm and online databases, and the theme of collecting is often recurring in her practice. She works with film, prints, sculptures and objects, which together build larger narratives.
Pia Rönicke is an artist based in Copenhagen. Her work has been the subject of numerous international solo exhibitions including; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary art; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; gb agency, Paris; Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Casco, Utrecth; Croy Nielsen, Berlin; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Tate Modern, London; Display Gallery, Prague; Trafo Gallery, Budapest; MAK, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Rönicke’s work has also been featured in many group exhibitions, including Apexart, New York; GIBCA, Göteborg; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Oslo; Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; MAK, Wien; Elizabeth Dee gallery, New York; Wiels, Bruxelles; Gallery TPW, Toronto; CASM, Barcelona; Lisson Gallery, London; Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Artists Space, New York; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; ARGOS, Brussels; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Stadtkunstverein, Berlin; Kunstverein München; ACCA, Melbourne; Utopia Station, Venice biennale; Busan Biennale, Korea; Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Pia Rönicke, The Cloud Document, 2017, HD video, 45 min.
Pia Rönicke, The pages of Day and Night, 2015, film, print, and objects, dimensions variable.
Pia Rönicke, AN-NAHAR 13 Juillet 1979. Melilotus alba., 2015, object, 2213/16 × 1615/16 in. (58.01 × 43 cm).
Pia Rönicke, Notes on MB, 2014, 2 films, a sculpture, 3 screens, and 1 rotating mirror.
Pia Rönicke, Rosa's Letters, 2006, 2 projections, model and slide projection, dimensions variable.
