Past Residents

Residents Map

Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler

Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler’s collaborative work is defined by a discursive engagement with form and media. Their work culminates in artistic reflections on our entanglement as individuals in contemporary socioeconomic circumstances. They combine theory and post-disciplinary conversation with digital and physical environments, installations, videos, performances, objects, texts and sound, to explore the derivative condition of contemporary social relations and its financial/economic models, narratives, and processes.

Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler have been collaborating since the mid-2000s. The have had exhibitions and projects at MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, 2016; International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong, 2016; University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015; Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 2015; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, 2013; Kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Vienna, 2012; Austrian Pavilion, EXPO 2010, Shanghai;
4zero Space, Hangzhou, 2010; MKL/Kunsthaus Graz, 2009; Babu Gallery, Shenzhen, 2009; Anni Gallery, Beijing, 2009; Museum Stein, Krems, 2008; Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Austria, 2007; Center for Architecture, Innsbruck, 2006; Medi@terra Festival, Athens, 2006; The University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2005; Beijing Cubic Art Center, 2005. They are currently working on the project The Future of Demonstration. Art in the Post-Digital Era, planned for 2017-2018 in Vienna with Maximilian Thoman.

Past Resident
2016: Verbos Electronics

Owen Armour

Owen Armour works at the tense edge of sound and sculpture. He welds these mediums into an indistinguishable third mode. Armour is interested in subtle acoustics changes in space, both real and imaginary. He also experiments with pressure as he uses his body to mold materials like concrete, ceramics and metal.

Owen Armour (born 1980) is a Swedish-Australian artist who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recently he has exhibited internationally at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen; Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Canada; New Jörg, Vienna; Officin, Copenhagen; ReMap 4, Athens; The Lot, Antechamber, Copenhagen; peinture et sculpture, Copenhagen; and Sejerø Festival, Denmark. His recent residencies include Artspace Sydney, CPH AIR, Copenhagen; and Banff Centre, Canada.

Past Resident
2016: Alfred Kordelin Foundation

Eeva-Riitta Eerola

Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and the various ways of understanding and experiencing images. Eerola symbolizes different means of representation through her paintings’ surface and texture. She works with a variety of subjects as her starting point, reconstructing them in her pieces, and suggests multiple readings to viewers through the use of juxtaposition.

Eeva-Riitta Eerola (born 1980) received MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2010 and has studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad including Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen. Eerola’s work is part of a number of Finnish art and museum collections, such as EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. She is represented by the gallery Helsinki Contemporary.