Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Arts Council Korea
Sun Choi
Choi’s work has continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and searches for value beyond materiality. Choi applies invisible materials, such as breath, as well as other unconventional mediums involving the body. In recent years, he has obtained paints from social and environmental disasters.
Choi’s recent exhibitions include Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Yokohama Triennale; and The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2015: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Siggi Hofer
Slogans such as, “To Your Health”, “My Luck is in Hand”, and “My Father is an old Donkey” permeate Siggi Hofer’s practice. They are almost always clumsily written sentences in English that seem familiar, but remain strange. His “dancing words” veer away from pictorial order and abandon all rules of writing. In this way, Hofer as a non-writer defines writing in a new way.
Siggi Hofer (born 1970) graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 1998 and since then lives and works in Vienna. His artistic work was awarded with several grants and prizes including the Schindler Residency, Los Angeles, 2000; the Strabag Kunstforum Art Award for painting, 2006; the Msgr. Otto Mauer Award, 2009; the Paul Flora Award, 2010; and the Award for Art Practice of the City of Innsbruck (category: Sculpture), 2012.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Martin Höfer
Martin Höfer’s work concentrates on artistic strategies and mechanisms of perception in the field of public media space. Höfer’s focus is the development of artistic concepts for mass media systems as art itself. Therefore, he focuses on the relation of art and economics, aspects of art and media theory as well as mass communication, advertisement and marketing.
Martin Höfer (born 1982 in Sondershausen (Thuringia), Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He graduated with distinction at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in Media Art. Höfer’s work has been commissioned for group exhibitions including the Dispute Between Word and Picture, Cairo, Egypt, 2006; Hiwar Fanni, Amman, Jordan, 2007; On (plein) Air, Dresden, Germany, 2009; Youth Cult, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Best buy me, Leipzig, Germany, 2010; Kunst im Tower, Linz, Austria, 2010; Capital unemployed, National Art Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011, Victory on behalf of art (Porsche Carrera Cup, 30 motor races in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2012/13), DLF 1874: Die Biografie der Bilder, Leipzig, Germany, 2012, The Supershow, Leipzig, Germany, 2013; 1st NSK Folk Art Biennale, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.