Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić works with installation, performance and photography and carries a special interest in art in public space. Focusing on the search for abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities and exploring the transformation of these spaces, she rethinks them in terms of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dražić’s production, concept and form are of equal importance in opening the work to multi-layered interpretations, that is, for developing new ways of seeing. Dušica Dražić explores the ambivalent interrelationship between a citizen and a city, their mutual support and protectiveness and at the same time isolation and destruction. Dražić searches for spaces without order, spaces of irregularity, difference, flexibility and intuition. Dušica’s works deal with micro-histories of a locus and are also an act of narration.
Dušica Dražić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2004, and finished an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2006. Since 2006 Dušica Dražić is also a part of the collective “usually4” with K. Freino (PL), S. Hopkins (UK/KEN) and Teresa Luzio (P). In 2010 Dražić received the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Serbia) and the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (Italy) and was granted a DAAD scholarship in 2005/2006.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Dušica Dražić, Dead-End Street, 2009, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by K. Freino.
Dušica Dražić, The Winter Garden, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Prelom - Breach, Break, Breakage, Failure, Fraction, Infraction, Rupture, Split, Layout, 2008, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. photo by G. Micevski.
Dušica Dražić, One Home In Rydygiera 45a, 2006, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Young Serbians, 2006, Video performance. 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, 15 × 24 in. (38.1 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Generation, 2009, Lambda print, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 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: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
