Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Danish Arts Foundation
Tove Storch
Tove Storch’s practice is informed by questions around how a sculpture exists and how it comes into being. Her work often takes the shape of physical and sculptural manifestations, exploring structural forms and geometric notions. The contrast of materials – such as silk intersecting metal – is often at the core of her practice, constituting a vibrant tension balancing on the edge of collapse. She is interested in examining materiality and creating a language for the non-verbal.
Tove Storch (born 1981) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Storch studied at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Recent exhibition venues include Anita Schwartz Galeria de Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark; S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art – Ghent. Recent group shows and performances include Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, The 4th Auckland Triennial. Storch is represented by Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tove Storch, Untitled, 2013, Rusted metal, dyed silk, wire. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2016: Danish Arts Foundation
Ragnhild May
Ragnhild May explores the field between visual arts and music. She works with performance, installation and sculpture. She is primarily focused on performance work and overall installation structures. Her pieces synthesize complex combinations of media and materials. A basic field of investigation for May is sound, which is conceived of and conceptualized in a deep historical perspective, including figures such as Leonardo da Vinci and Athanasius Kircher. In her work, May addresses what may immediately appear to be an idiosyncratic poetic sphere, which by closer examination turns out to be the product of careful and stringent reflection. Indeed, one may be tempted to characterize her work in general as conceptualism camouflaged as uncompromising primitivism.
Ragnhild May (born 1988, Odense, Denmark) studied studio art at The Jutland Art Academy, Denmark and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. May has exhibited and performed at various venues around Europe, including The National Gallery of Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Arts in Roskilde and Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 2014, she co-curated REVISIT at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art.
Ragnhild May, Composition for Glissandi, Cirkular, 2014, Sound installation, 393/8 × 235/8 in. (100.08 × 59.94 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2016: The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund
Claire Lambe
Claire Lambe’s installation and sculptural practice focuses on compiling memory fragments as a platform to communicate a broader or more complex set of ideas. This rich body of personal, cultural and socio-political references initiates research that underpins and informs her physical and conceptual process. Recently, she has become interested in humor as aggressive communication and has been looking less broadly at gender and class, but more specifically towards the role gender and age play in manipulation.
Claire Lambe lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Lambe completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London and a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne from 2014-16. Recent exhibitions include Neverwhere, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, 2015; Lurid Beauty, The National Gallery of Victoria, 2015; Miss Universal (with Atlanta Eke), Gertrude Contemporary and Chunky Move, Melbourne, 2015. She is represented by Sarah Scout Presents.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Elaine Byrne and Claire Lambe
February 16, 2016
Claire Lambe, Shhhh Men at Work 1, 2013, Bronze, foam, acrylic textile, 22 4/5 × 67 2/5 × 311/2 in. (22 4/5 × 67 2/5 × 80.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
