Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 15 × 54 in. (38.1 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: The Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation, City of Bern
Quynh Dong
Quynh Dong often performs as herself in her work. She uses elements from her singing and acting experience gained while working at the Zürich Opera House and The Schauspielhaus Zürich to touch on topics such as arrival, longing, paradise, memory, and identity.
Quynh Dong (born 1982, Hai Phong, Vietnam) holds a degree in graphic design from the Design School in Biel/Bienne, a BFA from Bern University of Arts and an MFA from Zurich University of the Arts. In August 2010, Dong won a workshop grant from the BINZ39 Foundation in Zurich where she worked until July 2012. In 2011, she was the recipient of a fellowship at Sommerakademie, Bern. During 2012, Dong’s work was shown at New Jerseyy, Basel; Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne; BINZ39, Zürich; Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern; LISTE17 – The young art fair in Basel; Kunstraum Baden, and Sinopale, Sinop.
Quynh Dong, My Paradise, 2012, Video installation, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Quynh Dong, Drunger and Drueber, 2012, Performance, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Quynh Dong, My Everything, 2012, Performance, 15:30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Quynh Dong, Let Me Hear Your Voice, 2012, Video, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Quynh Dong, Let Me Hear Your Voice, 2012, Performance, 90 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chang-Jung Wu
Chang-Jung Wu’s works, created using records of her life, daily imagination, and memories, often reveal her own story. Wu’s work explores a diverse group of issues including the global economy, energy supply, voice making, ecology, and visual sensory imagination giving an imagination with emotional dynamics; she combines spatial projections with other experimental images to express deeply personal ideas.
Chang-Jung Wu (born 1984 Taiwan), received her degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of The Arts, Taiwan in 2012. Her work has been shown recently at the The Taipei Digital Art Center, Manchester Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; The 58th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, the 2011 Venice Biennale, The 7th Busan International Video Festival, Korea, and in the exhibition Ambiguous Being: who is afraid of identity?, Berlin. Chang-Jung was the winner of the 2012 58th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and the recommended new artist of Art Taipei 2010.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary VIII - Night Night Flower, 2011, Video installation, 3 min. 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary I - Pig Five Flower, 2010, Video installation, 3 min 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary XIII - The Kaleidoscopig Farm Cuckoo Clock, 2012, 12 projector synchronization, 3 min 30 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary III - Slot Machine, 2010, Single channel video, 2 min 58 sec.
