Past Residents
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Michelle-Marie Letelier is interested in exploitation of minerals, working across topographic changes of a landscape, juxtaposed with the speculation of resources within the current economic framework. She spent her early life in Chuquicamata, the biggest open-pit copper mine in the world, in the Atacama Desert. This served as a starting point in her practice, documenting the town’s burial process through video and photography. Since settling in Berlin, Letelier has focused on copper and coal: minerals which have also become objects themselves in her drawings, paintings, objects and installations. Letelier’s work carries heavy socio-political overtones, especially in times of unveiled globalization, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the crisis of the neoliberal model.
Michelle-Marie Letelier (born 1977, Rancagua, Chile) obtained her BFA at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Her recent solo exhibitions include Die Feinfühlige Zone, Die Ecke Gallery, Santiago and Doomed Scape,Perlini Arte Gallery, Padua. Her group exhibitions include Magic Block, Stiftelsen 3.14, Bergen and To Seize Matter and Leave a Landscape, X Video and Media Arts Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago. Her videos have been exhibited in several screenings and festivals across the world. In 2005, Letelier participated in the Mercosur Biennial and in 2012 she was awarded the first edition of ORA International Art Prize. Letelier lives and works in Berlin.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michelle-Marie Letelier and Akansha Rastogi
July 8, 2014
Michelle-Marie Letelier, The Prediction of Tarapacá, 2014, Mixed media, 17 x 157 x 157 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Energeia Series, 2012, Mixed media, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Wo Fass Ich Dich, Unendliche Natur?, 2011, HD video, 5 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Drawing, 83 x 124 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Helge Ax:Son Johnsons Stiftelse
Marianna Garin
Marianna Garin is a curator, writer and researcher based in Sweden and Buenos Aires. Her practice focuses on public art formed by ongoing processes and storytelling, or where the artist suggests the unexpected and sometimes speculative. She is fascinated by the ephemeral, seemingly accidental traces of transient and fleeting thoughts, where small actions (poetic and sensible) in the periphery could have consequences and even create subversive and critical spaces that can be used for restaging the institution. Garin explores strategies for individual agency, such as possibilities of engaging in collective transformation in the organizing of our public spaces, or those that propose such spaces or instances that can shape new possibilities for other narratives and learning processes.
Marianna Garin, (born 1973, Cordoba), graduated from the International Curatorial Program at Konstfack College University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. She holds a BA in Art History and Linguistics from Lund University. Garin is currently a curator at Gävle Art Centre within the Public Art Program in Sweden. She has worked for Lund Konsthall; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; IASPIS International Artists Studio Program (IASPIS), Stockholm and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection among others. She regularly contributes to a number of magazines and journals, artist monographs and catalogue essays. Garin recently curated the exhibition Individual Order for Karst, Plymouth UK, 2013.
Karolina Erlingsson and Graciela Carnevale, Individual Order, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.
Francis Alÿs, Individual Order, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.
Frida Tebus and Diana De Aguinaga Pettersson, In search of the lost self, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Runo Lagomarsino, Maria Hedlund and Miriam Bäckström, Time Space and Disorientation, 2006. Courtesy of the artist.
Maria Hedlund, The Whiteness of the Whale Part LL, 2006, DVD with sound, 37 photographs, 27 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Sweden
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Manor Grunewald
Manor Grunewald is first and foremost as a painter, although he is also active in the fields of sculpture, installation and prints. His work is characterised by the constant analysis of the development of the pictorial in our daily environment. He finds and collects the sources of his images everywhere in daily life: in newspapers, advertising, books, comics, digital media and even illustrations of biological microcosms and macrocosms. His image archive serves as a source of inspiration, and his found pictorial material is often altered, partially on purpose and in some cases arbitrarily, by copying, enlarging or collaging. The artist thus creates new pictorial information, which is largely free of cognitively controlled processes and which reveal the unfamiliar, allowing this to become the content of his painting.
Manor Grunewald’s works have been exhibited across Europe and in the United States. In 2011, he was nominated for the Young Belgian Painters Prize at BOZAR. Recently, he has completed solo projects at Arco Madrid, Volta New York and Volta 9, Basel. Grunewald has presented recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne. He will take part in a group exhibition with Evan Gruzis and Christian Vetter at Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels in April 2014.
Manor Grunewald, Unhelpful Hunt - Ze hat is not mine, I'm only trying it on for size, 2013, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne.
Manor Grunewald, Unhelpful Hunt - Ze hat is not mine, I'm only trying it on for size, 2013, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne.
Manor Grunewald, Life's a beach - grey, 2013, Oil, acrylics, spray paint, lacquer, paper, uv print on wood, 47 × 71 in. (119.38 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Manor Grunewald, Untitled (Organic Mess #2), 2013, Oil, acrylics, spray paint, silkscreen, foil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 27 1/5 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Manor Grunewald, Sloping Attempt (Atom Ant), 2013, Wood, epoxy, plaster, oil, spray paint, metal, foam, 55 1/2 x 50 3/4 x 10 in. Courtesy of the artist.
