Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Danish Arts Foundation
A Kassen
Artist group A Kassen has engaged in a collaborative practice since 2005, including works that take the form of performative installation, architectural intervention, photography, and sculpture. Their work is rooted in the exhibition site and refers to context and the social space, exploring the conditions of perception and interpretation.
A Kassen is Christian Bretton-Meyer, Tommy Petersen, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, and Søren Petersen. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, the group is based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO Projects, Copenhagen; La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, and Window to the World, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood and glass panels, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood, glass panels, and sliding door mechanism, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Minus Roof, 2010, Removed airplane roof, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Encirclement, 2012, C-print and curved glass, 43 × 55 in. (109.22 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
A Kassen, Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance, 2008, Artist's book. Courtesy of the artist and Space Poetry.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2012: Canada Council for the Arts
Samina Mansuri
In her recent work, Samina Mansuri uses as a starting point media depictions of war-torn places such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the twin towers or places like New Orleans that have been ravaged by natural disasters. Frequently the architecture of these locations, captured from an aerial view, is reduced to ash or rubble. These views tend to provide a detached sense of actual place. Through a transformed language of aerial cartography Mansuri creates subjective mappings of an ambiguous location of trauma. Through this she aims to bring attention to viewers about mediated representations of misery and its impact on individual and public memory.
Samina Mansuri (born Karachi) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute, New York and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Mansuri has exhibited her work internationally for over two decades. Recent exhibitions include Qualia or the pulse of Steel, Hamilton, Canada 2012; Out of Rubble, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2011; Leaning Towards Collapse, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2011; Empire of Dreams Phenomenology of the Built Environment, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada; Double Consciousness, Mattress Factory Museum, USA, 2007 and Post-Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Canada, 2007. Her works are represented in public and private collections and have been extensively featured and reviewed in catalogs, books, newspapers and journals.
Samina Mansuri, Ash 9 Tararatiie, 2008, Giclee print, 44 × 5213/16 in. (111.76 × 134.11 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Samina Mansuri, After Images: Cedibidaee Reconstruction Site 9, 2010, Multimedia installation with video projection, 228 × 180 × 24 in. (579.12 × 457.2 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Samina Mansuri, Ash 5 Olaraaee, 2008, Giclee print, 34 × 34 in. (86.36 × 86.36 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Samina Mansuri, Mukiirati, 2008, Giclee print, 34 × 34 in. (86.36 × 86.36 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Samina Mansuri, After Images: Cedibidaee Reconstruction Site 10, 2009 - 2011, Multimedia installation with video projection, 240 × 228 × 24 in. (609.6 × 579.12 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2012: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Mario Pfeifer
Mario Pfeifer’s work explores representational structures and conventions in the medium of film, in locations ranging from Mumbai to California to the Western Sahara. Conceiving each project out of a specific cultural situation, he researches social-political backgrounds and weaves further cross-cultural art historical, filmic and political references into a richly layered practice, ranging from film and video installations to photographs and text installations. Often, Pfeifer collaborates on publications that reconsider these projects, offering research materials and critical investigations by writers and thinkers of related fields, concerning issues suggested in his projects for a wider social-political discussion.
Mario Pfeifer (born 1981, Dresden) studied in Leipzig (HGB), Berlin (UDK) and graduated from Willem de Rooij’s class at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Pfeifer was a Fulbright fellow at the California Institute of the Arts from 2008 – 2009. Further grants from Goethe-Institut and DAAD lead him to Bangkok, Mumbai and New York. Awards include the Video Art Award, Bremen and the Salon Video Art Prize, London. A first monograph was published by Sternberg Press in 2011 followed by publications with Fotohof edition / KOW and Spector Books in 2012. Pfeifer’s works have been exhibited at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Cultural Centre, Brugge; KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Circa Projects, Sunderland, UK; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen and Landesgalerie Linz, Austria. His films have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York; London International Documentary Film Festival; World Film Festival, Bangkok; Images Festival, Toronto; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Moca Detroit; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Arsenal, Berlin and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Mario Pfeifer is represented by KOW BERLIN.
Mario Pfeifer, Code Unknown [Re_Sync], 2010, Wall prints, inkjet prints, and video projection.
Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film in Nine Episodesm Prologogue & Epilogue, 2010, 35mm film in HD projection, 52 min.
Mario Pfeifer, Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, 2009, Synchronized dual 16mm film installation with sound.
Mario Pfeifer, Yet Untitled ("Pieces of Nature"), 2008, S16mm transferred to HD, 11 min. 30 sec.
Mario Pfeifer, Untitled (Two Guys), 2008, HD video installation, 7 min. 30 sec.
