Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Alban Muja
Alban Muja was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo, in 1980. He currently lives in Prishtina, Kosovo, where he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts. Muja’s artistic practice is mostly influenced by the social and political transformation processes in his home country of Kosovo, but also of the region and beyond. Muja investigates history as well as the socio-political themes and links them to his condition and social position. His work covers a wide range of media including video installation, short films, documentary films, drawings, paintings and performances, and has been extensively exhibited internationally.
Alban Muja, Blue Wall Red Door, 2009, Film, 33 min. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Museum Of Contemporary History, 2004, C-print. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Palestina, 2005, Video. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Windows Seat Drawing Project, 2006, Drawing. Courtesy of the artist
Alban Muja, Tibet, 2009, Video, 5.52 min. Courtesy of the artist
Marinella Senatore
Marinella Senatore is a teacher, film director and director of photography. She also works with drawing, painting and installation. In the last years, Senatore has been working with storytelling as a way to involve the public in the making of an art work. These projects are often collaborative films where the viewer becomes the participant, and the hierarchy between the artist as author and the public as recipient is questioned and renegotiated. As a director of photography, Senatore uses cinema lighting in her film and video installations. She has recently dedicated her time to photography, installation, drawing and painting, investigating the concepts of ‘collective memory’, modalities of narration and the social mechanisms of relationships.
Marinella Senatore teaches Video and Photography at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She attended the National Film School in Rome, Italy; the XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy with visiting professor Alfredo Jaar; the Fine Arts School, Naples, Italy; and currently pursues a PhD in Public Art at University of Castilla-La Mancha. Her work has been exhibited widely in Italy and abroad, incuding Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockolm, Sweden; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Marinella Senatore, System of Measure, 2008, Mixed media on paper, 24 × 15 in. (60.96 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Marinella Senatore, Generation, 2009, Lambda print, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Marinella Senatore, ROUTE #2, 2010, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist
Marinella Senatore, Speak Easy, 2009, Video. Courtesy of the artist
Marinella Senatore, Nui Simu, 2010, HD video. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Italy
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 Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen
Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen (b. 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in 1992.
In his most recent exhibition, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen presents a series of new paintings installed upon black walls, upon which small texts are written. A diary written by a vampire, who is the artist himself, is also a part of the exhibition. Schmidt-Rasmussen presents us with stories from his own neighbourhood in Copenhagen, which represents a classic terrain vague, as well as the rest of Copenhagen and Denmark. The paintings communicate atmospheres in which the everyday and the trivial is illuminated by the poetic presence of color and glitter, but also by a melancholic darkness. In his work he addresses the relationship between the immediate and the distant world.
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Le Sacre du Printemps, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Bubbles, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Teat Tree, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Migrant labor, 2009, Oil on canvas, 781/2 × 67 in. (199.39 × 170.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist
