Past Residents

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Past Resident
2014: 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 Resident
2014: Danish Arts Foundation

Rolf Nowotny

Rolf Nowotny’s work negotiates the materiality of the world and the language anchored to it by attempting to bridge the gap between concrete and psychic landscapes. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as evolution, material memory, architecture, the Victorian grotesque and the general uncanny, Nowotny explores the possibility that abstract thought reaches formulation through concrete, spatial experience.

Rolf Nowotny lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Hard Words and How Can I Sleep, Christian Andersen, Denmark; Former i tillblivelse, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden and Flat Bed, Joe Sheftel Gallery, U.S. Until recently he ran the exhibition space Fauna with his wife Olga Nowotny.

Past Resident
2014: 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.