Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Creative Australia
Claudia Chaseling
Claudia Chaseling’s work comprises wall-size paintings and installations. Chaseling creates upside down landscapes with reversed or distorted perspectives. The imagery of her spatial paintings consists of estranged landscapes, mutated creatures and plants whose deformation is caused by radiation. Her expansive wall/floor paintings interrupt the geometric order and balance of the exhibition space through the use of scale. The experience of the works alternates between the two and three-dimensional. Chaseling addresses the antagonistic relationship between structure and chaos, creating new compositions from a state of disorder. The result is an amorphous system of complex fragments reminiscent of light reflections and objects in form of capsule-like creatures. She creates an atmosphere of alienation searching for the undiscovered Zeitgeist.
Claudia Chaseling was born in Munich, Germany and lives in Berlin and Canberra, Australia. She received Masters degrees in Visual Art from both the Berlin University of the Arts and the Australian National University in Canberra. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin; Collection Krohne, Duisburg and Volta 10, Basel, Switzerland. Major grants and scholarships received include the DAAD; the Samstag Scholarship; the Studio Award of the Karl Hofer Society and the Australia Council for the Arts. She has participated in residencies at Burlington City Arts, the Texas A&M University and Yaddo.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Claudia Chaseling and Yuri Yim
December 9, 2014
Omen, 2014, Egg tempera and aluminum on wall, floor and ceiling, 2755/8 × 1571/2 × 1181/8 in. (700.02 × 400.05 × 299.97 cm).
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Michelle-Marie Letelier is interested in exploitation of minerals, working across topographic changes of a landscape, juxtaposed with the speculation of resources within the current economic framework. She spent her early life in Chuquicamata, the biggest open-pit copper mine in the world, in the Atacama Desert. This served as a starting point in her practice, documenting the town’s burial process through video and photography. Since settling in Berlin, Letelier has focused on copper and coal: minerals which have also become objects themselves in her drawings, paintings, objects and installations. Letelier’s work carries heavy socio-political overtones, especially in times of unveiled globalization, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the crisis of the neoliberal model.
Michelle-Marie Letelier (born 1977, Rancagua, Chile) obtained her BFA at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Her recent solo exhibitions include Die Feinfühlige Zone, Die Ecke Gallery, Santiago and Doomed Scape,Perlini Arte Gallery, Padua. Her group exhibitions include Magic Block, Stiftelsen 3.14, Bergen and To Seize Matter and Leave a Landscape, X Video and Media Arts Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago. Her videos have been exhibited in several screenings and festivals across the world. In 2005, Letelier participated in the Mercosur Biennial and in 2012 she was awarded the first edition of ORA International Art Prize. Letelier lives and works in Berlin.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michelle-Marie Letelier and Akansha Rastogi
July 8, 2014
Michelle-Marie Letelier, The Prediction of Tarapacá, 2014, Mixed media, 17 x 157 x 157 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Energeia Series, 2012, Mixed media, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Wo Fass Ich Dich, Unendliche Natur?, 2011, HD video, 5 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Drawing, 83 x 124 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chun-Chi Wang
Chun-Chi Wang’s work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
Chun-Chi Wang is a Taiwanese artist and curator based in Berlin. Recently, she was the Assistant Curator, Taipei Biennial, 2012 and the Organizer, WEEKEND Project, Berlin, 2010-2011. Other recent exhibitions curated include No One River Flows, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2014; Urban Synesthesia, Taipei, 2013; Immaterial Project, Paris, 2012; Liquidshell, Berlin,2011; Edition N.1-Wonderland, Berlin,2011; Tangible Intangible, Berlin, 2010 and Future Guide to the Web, New York, 2001. She is the Founder and Director of IDOLONSTUDIO, Berlin.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ocean refuses no river, 2013, Photography, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, The Rhyme of Forms, 2014, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Let's do something, 2013, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ah-Q, 2002, Photochemical, mechanical live image projection device technique, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Townhouse - Camp charlie block #1, 2009, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
