Past Residents
Søren Thilo Funder
Søren Thilo Funder’s works are carefully crafted cinematic mash-ups of diverse cultural fields and social histories, integrating aspects of critical theory, literature, cinema, popular culture and counterculture. Through the use of cinematic narratives, mise en scène and video documents the artist aspire to propose new connections between historical, cultural and political matter and generate new potential spaces, third places, for political contemplation and counter-memory.
Søren Thilo Funder lives and works in Denmark. He has participated in international exhibitions at 19th Biennale of Sydney; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; 12th Istanbul Biennial; Turku Art Museum; Critical Distance, Toronto; amongst others.
Søren Thilo Funder, Swerve (You’re Gonna Die Up There), 2016, 3 channel HD video, 10 min
Søren Thilo Funder, First Citizen (House of the Deaf Man), 2013, HD video, 12 min, 30 sec
Søren Thilo Funder, DOWN WITH DOMESTIC TRASH (Rubber Plant), 2016, HD video, 7 min, 45 sec
Søren Thilo Funder, The Vanishing Table, 2014, HD video, 14 min, 13 sec
Søren Thilo Funder, The Adaptation (No-thing me-lanch-oly ’bout us), 2014, 3 channel HD video, 15 min
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2017: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Marte Danielsen Jølbo
Marte Danielsen Jølbo is a curator, writer and editor. Her curatorial practice is concerned with site-specificity and transdisciplinary collaborations. She is interested in self-organisation, the relationship between curator and artist and in developing new tools and methods for curatorial writing.
Marte Danielsen Jølbo is a co-founder of Another Space, a project space for art and architecture, and is also co-founder and editor of the web journal Contemporary Art Stavanger. She is the author and editor of several essays and art publications. She has curated exhibitions at Open Source Gallery, New York City; Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City; insitu, Berlin, among others. Jølbo participated in Curatorial Program for Research, Mexico, 2017, and is the recipient of a Stavanger Curatorial Fellowship.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Marte Danielsen Jølbo, permanent construction at Open Source Gallery, New York. Artists Melodie Mousset, Owen Armour, Anna Daniell, 2016. photo by Guillaume Ziccarelli
Marte Danielsen Jølbo, Vertical Displacement, 2016, at insitu, Berlin, 'Silk Grid' by Akane Moriyama, work in the back room by Luca Vanello
Marte Danielsen Jølbo, Unflatten, 2016, at Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger. Artists Linn Pedersen, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Anne Holtrop & Bas Princen, Stein Rønning
Marte Danielsen Jølbo, Shared Territory, 2015, published by Another Space, publication, 57/16 × 83/16 in. (13.84 × 20.78 cm)
Marte Danielsen Jølbo, Textile Spaces, 2013, published by Another Space, publication, 221/4 × 337/16 in. (56.59 × 84.99 cm)
Past Resident2017: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Anu Vahtra
Anu Vahtra employs an artistic approach to site-specific, space-oriented problematics. Her installations, which often include photography, capture the surrounding spaces of their sites, making them both the subject and the physical form of the artwork.
Anu Vahtra has exhibited her work in Estonia and abroad including at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; and Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne. Vahtra has participated in residency programs in Norway and Lithuania, and is a founder of the independent publishing initiative Lugemik in Tallinn. She is the winner of the Köler Prize, 2015 and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia Annual Award, 2017.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Anu Vahtra, Untitled (Between display and displacement), 2017, archival pigment print, 275/8 × 393/8 in. (70.1 × 100.08 cm)
Anu Vahtra, A fact in space. After exhibitions, 2016, site-specific installation
Anu Vahtra, Illusion, distorted perspective, lack of balance, another dimension I, 2014, installation of welded rectangular steel pipe
Anu Vahtra, Illusion, distorted perspective, lack of balance, another dimension II, 2014, installation
Anu Vahtra, 17.9º, 2012/2014/2016, fluorescent lights and framed archival pigment print installation at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, 415/16 × 275/8 in. (104.9 × 70.1 cm)
