Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Staš Kleindienst
Staš Kleindienst’s work addresses issues of origin, representation, and naturalization of authority. Within this context he is shaping a social fiction, drawn through dystopian image of a social reality that stems from the present-day ideological, economic, and political co-ordinates.
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kleindienst has an MA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana. His exhibitions include U3-7th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Spaceship Yugoslavia- The Suspension of Time, nGbK, Berlin; Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the national visual arts award for young visual artists.
Past Resident2014: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Randi Grov Berger
Randi Grov Berger is founding director and curator at Entrée, a non-profit exhibition space in Bergen, Norway. Since 2009 she has worked with numerous international artists in developing solo and group exhibitions, presenting projects in public space and collaborating with other arts institutions and curators. Grov Berger coordinated the Norwegian Pavilion ‘Without Walls’ for Performa 13 where she served as a curatorial fellow in 2013. She presented her project Flag New York City, an ongoing public art project involving sixty (and counting) international artists who each created flags for public flagpoles. In addition, she has presented Object To Be Destroyed, a performance with artist Pedro Gómez-Egaña at the Abrons Art Center. This fall at ISCP she brings Entrée (New York), a satellite with highlights from her programming for next year.
Randi Grov Berger (born 1982, Stord, Norway) is curator and founding director of Entrée. She currently also works for Printed Matter Inc. on the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Her education includes Curatorial Studies from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and Art in Public Realm from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Gianfranco Foschino
Operating between photography, documentary film and video art, Gianfranco Foschino’s work is currently focused on video installations, which evoke “tableaux vivants”, emulating a sort of live photograph. Shooting long sequences from fixed viewpoints he produces scenes with minimal movements, presented on flat screens, and framed as light boxes. Distanced from urban life, he portrays bucolic scenes that seem to occur in parallel time dimensions. The political value of Foschino’s work lies in exploring the singular anachronism of these spaces, and trying to recognize anonymous stories and lost lifestyles.
Gianfranco Foschino was born in 1983 in Santiago de Chile. He graduated in Cinema Studies from UNIACC University (Santiago). In 2010, he had his first exhibition Almost Romantic curated by Christopher Eamon at I-20 Gallery, New York. In 2011, his work was featured at the Latin American pavilion of 54th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, he participated as guest artist of the Chilean pavilion MONOLITH CONTROVERSIES at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, awarded with the Silver Lion prize. He currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile.