Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Bettina John
Bettina John’s work explores her fascination with the ever-growing importance of the world’s largest cities and what they mean to the individual experience. She looks at how people manifest their identity in their appearance as well as what is behind that surface and investigates the insecurities a global life brings about, as well as displacement, isolation, anonymity and the construction of one’s image.
Bettina John (born 1981) lives and works between London and Halle, Germany. After graduating from Burg Giebichenstein, she expanded her practice into the field of performing arts. During her master studies at Goldsmiths University in 2009 she met two artists whom she continues to collaborate. Together they showed at live – and performance – art events such as the Stockholm Theatre Festival Stoff and the Accidental Festival in London and participated in several group exhibitions across the UK.
Bettina John, City-People-Media, 2007, Photo collage. Courtesy of the artist.
Bettina John, City-People-Media, 2007, Photo collage. Courtesy of the artist.
Bettina John, Shopping in Higienopolis, 2012, Pencil on paper, 111/2 × 81/4 in. (29.21 × 20.95 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Bettina John, Play Fashion, 2010, Photo collage. Courtesy of the artist.
Bettina John, Virtual City, 2012, Aquarelle and pencil on paper, 40 × 28 in. (101.6 × 71.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Meiya Cheng
Meiya Cheng’s research focuses on issues facing cultural production including conditions of exhibitions, the role of existing art institutions and cultural policies that shape the environment surrounding this work. Based on field research in Asia, Cheng initiated the institution Taipei Contemporary Art Center in 2009 with a group of activists, curators and artists to express the necessity of independent, non-profit institutions to serve the art community and to create a base for experimental art practices in Taipei. In addition to this work in the public realm, she also curates and conducts research on art projects in the technological age.
Meiya Cheng is an independent curator and cultural organizer based in Taipei, previously working at MOCA. She has published articles in Artco magazine, Art and Investment and Broadsheet. Recent projects include Taipei Contemporary Art Center, co-founded with a group of activists, artists and curators in 2009; Augmenting the World, a curatorial project for the 6th Taipei Digital Art Festival; and Trading Futures, co-curated with Pauline Yao, TCAC.
Meiya Cheng, Guidebook Cover “Augmenting the World”, 2006.
Meiya Cheng, E-flyer “Trading Futures”, 2012.
Meiya Cheng, No Ghost Just a Shell, 2006.
Past Resident2012: SEAT Pagine Gialle S.p.A.
Simone Martinetto
Simone Martinetto’s practice consists of photography and installations. His work is an investigation on the importance of memory, freedom, coincidences and dreams. Martinetto has created a new form of narrative, using an original photographic language to tell small stories with symbolic meanings. He uses photography as a tool to examine the minds of others. Without Memory is a series of photographs and installations with the artist’s grandmother as the subject matter who lost her memory and subsequently fills her home with reminder notes. The series, Travellers, documents racing pigeons and the images they see during their return trips. Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On is made of “talking photos” where the viewer is able to relive the dreams of other people.
Simone Martinetto (born 1980, Turin, Italy) has a degree in philosophy. He has exhibited in over 40 exhibitions in Italy and around the world, including Claudio Bottello Contemporary Gallery, Torino and Frost Art Museum, Miami. He began to practice photography when his grandfather, shortly before his death, passed on to him the camera he bought on the occasion of his birth. Martinetto works as an artist, cinematic still photographer and teacher.
Simone Martinetto, Travelers (Viaggiatori), 2005-2007, Sequence of C-print photographs, feathers of pigeons, 193/4 × 291/2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Without the Memory (Senza la Memoria), 2004-2005, Sequence of C-print photographs, Objects and a plexiglas box where you enter a memory that you would never forget, 193/4 × 291/2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, The Thread of Time (Il Filo del Tempo), 2008, Sequence of C-print photographs, 6 × 9 in. (15.24 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Martinetto, Such Dtuff as Dreams are Made On – Valeriu’s Dream, 2010-2011, Talking C-prints photograph, 193/4 × 291/2 × 2 in. (50.16 × 74.93 × 5.08 cm). 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
