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: Borusan Holding
Necmi Sönmez
Necmi Sönmez (born 1968 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Düsseldorf-based independent curator, art critic and writer. He studied Art History in Mainz, Germany; Paris, France; Newcastle, UK and Frankfurt, Germany where he earned a PhD with a thesis on Wolfgang Laib. From 1994 to 1997, Sönmez worked as an independent curator, initiating and organizing numerous exhibition projects, mainly involving young artists in Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands and France. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, where he organized exhibitions and projects with artists including Ayse Erkmen, Renée Levi, Martin Gostner, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Saâdane Hafif. From 2006 to 2008, Sönmez was artisticm director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, where he presented artists such as Gregor Schneider, Myriam Holme, Florian Bach, Martin Dammann and Anja Cuipka . Sönmez is currently a guest curator for the Lepsien Art Foundation in Düsseldorf and the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul.
Events & Exhibitions
In back of the real
May 12–May 15, 2011
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2008, Produced with manipulated digital photograph technique, 1151 × 31 in. (2923.54 × 78.74 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri C.A.M., İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Sewing on textile, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri NON, İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Music (Selimcan Sakar), blue light, fluorescent paint Installation, Founded Materials. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Installation with color tape, 315 inches. Courtesy of the curator and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Pigments. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Residents from Turkey
Civan Özkanoğlu
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, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
2020
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.
