Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić works with installation, performance and photography and carries a special interest in art in public space. Focusing on the search for abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities and exploring the transformation of these spaces, she rethinks them in terms of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dražić’s production, concept and form are of equal importance in opening the work to multi-layered interpretations, that is, for developing new ways of seeing. Dušica Dražić explores the ambivalent interrelationship between a citizen and a city, their mutual support and protectiveness and at the same time isolation and destruction. Dražić searches for spaces without order, spaces of irregularity, difference, flexibility and intuition. Dušica’s works deal with micro-histories of a locus and are also an act of narration.
Dušica Dražić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2004, and finished an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2006. Since 2006 Dušica Dražić is also a part of the collective “usually4” with K. Freino (PL), S. Hopkins (UK/KEN) and Teresa Luzio (P). In 2010 Dražić received the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Serbia) and the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (Italy) and was granted a DAAD scholarship in 2005/2006.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Dušica Dražić, Dead-End Street, 2009, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by K. Freino.
Dušica Dražić, The Winter Garden, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Prelom - Breach, Break, Breakage, Failure, Fraction, Infraction, Rupture, Split, Layout, 2008, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. photo by G. Micevski.
Dušica Dražić, One Home In Rydygiera 45a, 2006, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Young Serbians, 2006, Video performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Regine Muller-Waldeck
Regine Müller-Waldeck was born 1975 Greifswald, Germany. She studied media arts, and photography at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, and received a Meisterschüler degree in 2008.
A frequently encountered feature of Müller-Waldeck’s object installations is the construction of usually two linked elements in which the structures of relationships and power are reflected, a gamut that ranges from the individual’s relationship to him or herself through interpersonal relationships to the relationship between the State and civil society. Müller-Waldeck sees her works as ‘psycho-social landscape’. Although they transmit images that seem harmless and even playful at first sight, whose fragile construction appear vulnerable and in need of protection, her installations later drag the viewer towards the uncanny, the latent violence of an imminent collapse. (Gregor Hose)
Regine Muller-Waldeck, I think It Has Been Overcome, She Is Showing Interest In Her Surroundings, 2008, Metal, fabric, resin, paraffin wax, and glass, 905/8 × 63 × 1711/16 in. (230.12 × 160.02 × 44.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Regine Muller-Waldeck, Separation, 2007-8, Resin, wood, and fabric, 351/2 × 91/2 × 7811/16 in. (90.17 × 24.13 × 199.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Regine Muller-Waldeck, Wall, 2006, Bricks, paraffin wax, and fabric, 57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Regine Muller-Waldeck, Ribbons, 2006, Paraffin wax and fabric, 391/2 × 913/16 × 1113/16 in. (100.33 × 24.89 × 29.97 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Regine Muller-Waldeck, Fence, 2007, Wood, metal, paraffin wax, and fabric, 861/2 × 861/2 × 55 in. (219.71 × 219.71 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
