Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Thomas Poulsen (FOS)
FOS’ practice investigates how physical space achieves significance through social interaction and how the aesthetics of social space challenge and transform social constructs. Referring to his approach as Social Design, FOS suggests solutions through the investigation of the physicality of social relations. ‘I see the world as constituted of layers – only a small part visible to us – that exists as a reaction of what lies underneath. What we learn and perceive is in our behavior, what isn’t learned is a part of our reactions. Our social construct is a machine in this framework.’
Thomas Poulsen (FOS). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2010: Kurt and Felicitas Viermetz Foundation
Nina Pettinato
Provided with confident intuition in search of one‘s own position appears the artwork of Nina Pettinato, who’s starting to establish an individual, poetical-precise artwork. […] Pettinato creates her art concept as an remarkably homogenous outline, which attends simultanously to the media of painting, drawing and photography.
Whether there is a natural or imaginary nature, fantastic or real landscapes, whether there are deserted lakesides at dawn or squatting figures, which are sitting opposite to each other in front of bleak trees: The painted as well as the photographic images appearing both very intensively and are all marked by an atmospheric quality, which is innate and distinctive.
Because within the artistic techniques which Nina Pettinato selects there aren’t barely hierarchies so far. The strength of the images isn’t defined by the medium or by particular technique. It unfolds out of the intensity of a sight alone, in which exact study and sensitive sensation alone lead to the narration of existential perception of the surrounding world.
Dr. Thomas ELSEN: Schwabens junge Kreative.
In: edition:schwaben (04/2009), S.74.
Nina Pettinato studied Visual Communication / Fine Art at HfG Offenbach, Academy of Art and Design, and was awarded her diploma in 2008. In 2009 she received the Kunstpreis des Bezirks Schwaben one of the most important art awards for young emerging artists in Bavaria, enabling the laureate to go abroad by the means of a travel grant. Nina Pettinato’s work has been exhibited in several shows including the exhibition Expanded Lines at Salzburg’s galerie 5020, 2008 and at Silent Spaces – Räume der Stille at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast Augsburg, 2009. In 2009 her photographic series Inkubation was selected for participation in NEU/NOW, an multidisciplinary on- and offline event curated by ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Nina Pettinato lives and works in Southern Germany near Munich.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print , 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Consejeria de Cultura de la Region de Murcia
Juanli Carrion
Juanli Carrión was born in Yecla, Spain in 1982. His artistic practice arises out of an interest in elements/actions that mankind creates/uses to represent reality or identity, and the social-politic relationships that these elements/actions have with existing operating systems. These concerns emerge out of social and political issues surrounding human behavior, both individually and collectively, and speak to the limits of human existence through questioning strategies of representing reality and reconstructing identity.
His artistic practice is developed through media such as installation, video or sculpture and always has a strong photographic background. A photograph is in many occasions the final result or a starting point, as a way of thinking and a key tool of his creative process. Among most recent projects are Atlas Shrugged, Kei-Seki, On Stage-Monuments of Melancholia. Carrión has a B.A in Fine Arts at The University of Grenade and Saint Dennis Paris VIII and an M.F.A in Visual Arts at Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ok Hyun Ahn (South Korea) and Juanli Carrion (Spain)
July 27, 2010
Juanli Carrion, Intermision - Mysterious Incidente In Lake Desmet, 2010, C-print sobre dibond, 191/2 × 141/2 in. (49.53 × 36.83 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, 2nd Act - Fetterman Massacree, 2010, C-print sobre , 67 × 45 in. (170.18 × 114.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Keisho-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Landscape #13, 2008-09, Duratrans in a golden light box, 22 × 55 × 4 in. (55.88 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Ogon-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
