Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Anne Wodtcke
Through her experimental arrangements of sculpture, Anne Wodtcke creates “active” forms of sculpture – documented by photos or videos. During her residency in New York City, sound became more and more a sculptural element in her practice, so the acoustic level became increasingly important for the composition of her narrative video sculptures and video installations. Apart from field-recordings and atmospheres, she uses sounds, tones and song-lines produced by analog synthesizer modules or with her own voice. She is currently working with the mediums sound and video in the form of sculptural compositions.
Anne Wodtcke (born 1954) lives and works in Munich and Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich. She has travelled extensively to Asia, Central America and Africa, and worked for one year in West Africa as a journalist before dedicating herself fully to her art practice in 2000. Her work has been exhibited internationally in in Vienna, Tokyo, New York, Pittsburgh, Athens, Istanbul, Munich and Berlin.
Anne Wodtcke, 2014, video still
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2014: Hasselblad Foundation
Savas Boyraz
Savas Boyraz focuses on portrait photography, documentary and fiction narratives. His work straddles the gap between nation state and cultural linguistic entities; he tries to shed light on the overlooked and omitted corners of societies and their history. Intertwining performance, photography and moving image in his works, Boyraz blurs the line between art and political activism.
Savas Boyraz (born 1980) lives and works in Sweden. He worked with Mezopotamya Cinema Collective, Istanbul between 1998 and 2006 and graduated from the Photography Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2009. He completed his Master’s Degree at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Paulien Oltheten and Savas Boyraz
December 3, 2013
Savas Boyraz. Courtesy of the artist
Savas Boyraz. Courtesy of the artist
Savas Boyraz. Courtesy of the artist
Savas Boyraz. Courtesy of the artist
Savas Boyraz. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2014: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Andrea Pichl
Andrea Pichl focuses on isolated details of architectural peculiarities and turns them into sculpture. She is inspired by the inconsistencies, contradictions and the way in which interstices are bridged. The inherent paradoxes with this methodology, which reduce the standardized and repetitive architectural components to absurdity, are often present in the titles of her work.
Andrea Pichl (born 1964, Berlin) was educated at Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Espace Beaumont, Luxembourg; Krome Gallery, Berlin; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin; National Gallery, Tashkent; Volksbühne, Berlin; the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Kunstverein Wolfsburg and the Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn.
Andrea Pichl, Zwischen, 2012, Plywood, Dimensions variable, Installation view. Courtesy of Krome Gallery, Berlin
Andrea Pichl, Für immer und immer, 2010, Plywood, 71 × 142 × 51 in. (180.34 × 360.68 × 129.54 cm). Courtesy of Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
Andrea Pichl, Inherent Shortcomings, 2011, Cardboard, photographs, fabric, 59 × 59 × 83 in. (149.86 × 149.86 × 210.82 cm). Courtesy of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Andrea Pichl, Doublebind, 2011-2012, Wood, acrylic, glass, aluminum, paper, video projections, Installation view. Courtesy of Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Architektonika/Architektonika 2
Andrea Pichl, A tut was b will, wenn B tut was A will, 2013, Plaster, mirrors, 16 × 71 × 20 in. (40.64 × 180.34 × 50.8 cm)