Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Creative Australia
Claudia Chaseling
Claudia Chaseling’s work comprises wall-size paintings and installations. Chaseling creates upside down landscapes with reversed or distorted perspectives. The imagery of her spatial paintings consists of estranged landscapes, mutated creatures and plants whose deformation is caused by radiation. Her expansive wall/floor paintings interrupt the geometric order and balance of the exhibition space through the use of scale. The experience of the works alternates between the two and three-dimensional. Chaseling addresses the antagonistic relationship between structure and chaos, creating new compositions from a state of disorder. The result is an amorphous system of complex fragments reminiscent of light reflections and objects in form of capsule-like creatures. She creates an atmosphere of alienation searching for the undiscovered Zeitgeist.
Claudia Chaseling was born in Munich, Germany and lives in Berlin and Canberra, Australia. She received Masters degrees in Visual Art from both the Berlin University of the Arts and the Australian National University in Canberra. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin; Collection Krohne, Duisburg and Volta 10, Basel, Switzerland. Major grants and scholarships received include the DAAD; the Samstag Scholarship; the Studio Award of the Karl Hofer Society and the Australia Council for the Arts. She has participated in residencies at Burlington City Arts, the Texas A&M University and Yaddo.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Claudia Chaseling and Yuri Yim
December 9, 2014
Omen, 2014, Egg tempera and aluminum on wall, floor and ceiling, 2755/8 × 1571/2 × 1181/8 in. (700.02 × 400.05 × 299.97 cm).
Past Resident2014: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Saara Ekström
Saara Ekström works primarily with photography, video and film, but also uses drawing, sculpture and other techniques, which she frequently combines into complex site-specific installations to form multi-layered and suggestive experiences. The nature, feel and behavior of material is one of the foundations for Ekström’s work. Through both natural and artificial materials, Ekström creates worlds in which the counterpoints of ugly and the beautiful, cold and the hot, visible and the invisible, the uncontrolled and the controlled and solid and liquid revolve in an endless cycle. Birth and death, growth and withering, beauty and unpleasantness challenge one another. Ekström’s ‘aesthetics of unpleasant’ question the culturally bound hierarchies of value attached to the materials.
Saara Ekström (born 1965) has shown her work in both solo and group exhibitions in Finland and internationally in the United States, Japan, Brazil, Holland, Belgium, and Austria among others. In 2011 – 2012, Ekström had solo exhibitions at Kiasma, Helsinki and at the Kuntsi Museum, Vaasa. In 2012, she collaborated with composer Francesca Verunelli in a video-opera shown at the 56th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Venice and her work was shown at the Festival Voies Off, Arles. She is currently preparing for a touring mid-career exhibition in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Ekström has received nominations and awards from foundations such as Ars Fennica, Carnegie, Stina Krook and the Wihuri Sibelius Prize. She currently lives and works in Turku, Finland.
Saara Ekström, A great loss, 2014, C-print, 35 x 43 1/3 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Saara Ekström, Man before a mirror, 2012, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
Saara Ekström, Breeding, 2011, C-print, 35 x 43 1/3 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Saara Ekström, Rosario, 2011, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
Saara Ekström, Limbus, 2011, C-print, 59 x 59 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chun-Chi Wang
Chun-Chi Wang’s work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
Chun-Chi Wang is a Taiwanese artist and curator based in Berlin. Recently, she was the Assistant Curator, Taipei Biennial, 2012 and the Organizer, WEEKEND Project, Berlin, 2010-2011. Other recent exhibitions curated include No One River Flows, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2014; Urban Synesthesia, Taipei, 2013; Immaterial Project, Paris, 2012; Liquidshell, Berlin,2011; Edition N.1-Wonderland, Berlin,2011; Tangible Intangible, Berlin, 2010 and Future Guide to the Web, New York, 2001. She is the Founder and Director of IDOLONSTUDIO, Berlin.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ocean refuses no river, 2013, Photography, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, The Rhyme of Forms, 2014, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Let's do something, 2013, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ah-Q, 2002, Photochemical, mechanical live image projection device technique, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Townhouse - Camp charlie block #1, 2009, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
