Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Veronika Zajačiková
Veronika Zajačiková’s curatorial practice refers to the possibility of an international dialogue through art. Her research is based in virtual reality and the true world, diverting people from an online reception of art to one related to our human nature. Zajačiková believes that without this expansion of experience people are degraded and impoverished in their humanity.
Zajačiková (born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic) received a BA degree at Faculty of Arts – Theory and History of Art, Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. From September 2010 Zajačiková is an MA student in Curatorial Studies, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is currently preparing an exhibition at Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In 2010 she curated two solo shows of students from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague: Po druhé (For the Second Time), Klubovna 2.patro, Prague, CZ.
Veronika Zajačiková.
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Michael Kienzer
Although Michael Kienzer works mainly with sculpture using different materials such as aluminum, textiles, rubber and glass, his artistic practice also encompasses drawings and videos. Installations in public space refer to architecture and to the context of society while objects made for exhibitions question the parameters of sculpture. The function and meaning of things and mundane objects are inflated or turned into their opposite. The relationship of things and materials correlate and become the subject of his work.
Michael Kienzer (born 1962 in Steyr, Austria) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Kienzer studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz, Austria with Josef Pillhofer. He is a teaching as a visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Recent solo shows includeNeue Immobilien, Musuem of Applied Art, Vienna; Out side 2, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Solo, Kunsthaus, Graz, and Verstreute Fromen, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. Group exhibitions include Linea, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland; Anti/Form, Kunsthaus Graz; Prozess und Expansion, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Future Systems/Rare Momente, Lentos Museum, Linz; Days of Hope, Frame Program, 2001 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy and As the matter stands, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tang-Wei Hsu and Michael Kienzer
July 12, 2011
Michael Kienzer. Courtesy of the artist.
Michael Kienzer, Trailer, 2009, Truck and lights. Courtesy of the artist.
Michael Kienzer, Skizze, Volume 9, 2008, Aluminum and rubber, 10 × 39 × 8 in. (25.4 × 99.06 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Michael Kienzer, Haltung, Volume 7, 2010, Mixed media, 87 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Michael Kienzer. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2011: CBK-Centrum Beeldende Kunst
David Jablonowski
David Jablonowski questions the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. Jablonowski’s interest in display systems and information transfer has as much to do with the hardware that is used in the staging of knowledge as it has with the knowledge itself. Therepetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in works which question the understanding of sign systems; making us aware of the transience of visual language.
David Jablonowski (born 1982 in Bochum, Germany) moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2007 where he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and participated in De Ateliers studio program until 2009. Recent solo shows include Imposition, Schaufenster of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany; Material Kontingenz at SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Perfection Simple Way at Gallery Luettgenmeijer and 1.33:1, Hard Copy Display Sequences, Multi Channel Projection at Bloombergspace London, UK. Group exhibitions include Monumentalism, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The dutch identity?, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands; After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Gallery Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany.
David Jablonowski, Tchogha Zanbil And Multiple, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Disposition And Still, 2.39:1, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Multiple, Gestetner, 1, 78:1, 2010, Mixed media, 72 × 72 × 36 in. (182.88 × 182.88 × 91.44 cm).
David Jablonowski, Perfection, Simple Way, 2010, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
David Jablonowski, Installation View COMMA 30 At Bloomberg SPACE By Bloomberg LP, London, UK, 2010, Multi channel projection and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
