Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Anna Jermolaewa
Anna Jermolaewa works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and installation. Her main interest is the analysis of functional structures of society and social systems in everyday life. She continually focuses on the basic conditions of human existence and the nature of man, capturing the relationship between the individual and the masses, freedom and restriction, power and powerlessness, (especially around relationships and networks of hegemonic structures). Her photographs and videos provide information about a world of failure, through conscious and unconscious fears, desires, and passions. The result is a reflection on individual and collective historical consciousness in the form of images that remain in the viewers’ mind. Through the visual telling of history and stories, she attempts to create places of remembrance.
Anna Jermolaewa was born in 1970 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and is currently based in Vienna. In 1998 she graduated in Art History at the University of Vienna and in 2002 the New Media class of Peter Kogler at the Vienna Art Academy. She was a Professor for Media Art at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany from 2005-2011. She also had solo exhibtions in the Victoria Art Gallery, Samara (2013); Camera Austria, Graz (2012); Kunsthalle Krems (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (2011); Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (2009); XL Gallery Moscow (2008); and Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau (2004). Her works are part of various collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Vehbi Koc Foundation, Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and Belvedere.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Lotta Törnroth and Anna Jermolaewa
January 28, 2015
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2014: 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.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Alexander Tovborg
Alexander Tovborg is known for his ability to tell a story through his work. Weaving abstract and expressive elements with figurative imagery, Tovborg uses painting, drawing, sculpture and performance to produce compelling works that engage the spectator. At the crux of Tovborg’s artistic practice is the ability to draw on elements from the past to draw attention to who we are as human beings today. Taking inspiration from mythological stories, religion, and natural and social history, Tovborg explores complex metaphysical issues such as female and male archetypes, the division between the real and imaginary worlds, as well as ideas of love and hierarchy. As a result of Tovborg’s intentions towards these issues, there is a spiritual quality that emanates from his work.
Alexander Tovborg (born 1983) studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He is represented by Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York.