Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, International Visegrad Fund
Valentýna Janů
Valentýna Janů’s suggestive installations often combine video work and immersive environments made from fabrics and other objects. They playfully address contemporary existential questions around technology, patriarchal systems and climate change. She is interested in exploring the relationships between the individuals’ daily struggle and the condition of a globalized world.
Valentýna Janů has exhibited work at National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic; Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic; and EXILE Gallery, Wien, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Valentýna Janů, NEWS, 2020, HD video, 6:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Valentýna Janů, I'm Sry, 2018, installation view at the National Gallery Prague. Courtesy of the artist.
Valentýna Janů, Is Your Blue the Same as Mine?, 2018, HD video, 12:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Valentýna Janů, Hair Flip, 2021, 4K video, 12:00min. Courtesy of the artist.
Valentýna Janů, Who Looks Out of the Window, 2021, installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2021: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Mia Raadik
Mia Raadik is a conceptual feminist artist whose work challenges social norms and highlights their underlying causes.
Mia Raadik has exhibited work at The Naked Island Project Space, Tallinn; Tallinn Art Hall; Kogo Gallery, Tartu, all Estonia, among others.
Mia Raadik, I Share Myself With Pleasure, 2021, video installation, dimensions variable.
Mia Raadik, I Share Myself With Pleasure, 2021, installation, dimensions variable.
Mia Raadik, The Best You Can Ever Be, 2020, installation.
Mia Raadik, Menopause Club NB! Exclusive, 2019, installation , dimensions variable.
Mia Raadik, Sailin On The Red Sea, 2019, installation, dimensions variable.
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ multimedia work focuses on language as an inhabitable space–a veritable structure and place where forms reside. Her practice is rooted within conversation, collaboration, and translation, underscoring the transformative place of language within the formal dialect of architecture.
Marie-Michelle Deschamps has exhibited work at Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM), Luxembourg City; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, among others.
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Failed Ink, 2021, enameled steel, copper scraps, glass tubes, enamel powder, dimensions variable.
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Oasis, 2021, enameled Steel, porcelain enamel on copper, copper, glass tube, dimensions variable.
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Parasols #1 et #2, 2021, porcelain enamel and fine silver on copper, 9 × 12 in. (22.86 × 30.48 cm).
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Swan #5, 2019, oxidized porcelain enamel on hammered copper, 25 × 34 × 14 in. (63.5 × 86.36 × 35.56 cm).
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Stanza, 2018, steel, porcelain enamel on copper, glass bottle, 85 × 74 × 68 in. (215.9 × 187.96 × 172.72 cm).
Residents from Canada
Keli Safia Maksud
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
