Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić works with installation, performance and photography and carries a special interest in art in public space. Focusing on the search for abandoned, forgotten spaces in the urban structure of modern cities and exploring the transformation of these spaces, she rethinks them in terms of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. In Dražić’s production, concept and form are of equal importance in opening the work to multi-layered interpretations, that is, for developing new ways of seeing. Dušica Dražić explores the ambivalent interrelationship between a citizen and a city, their mutual support and protectiveness and at the same time isolation and destruction. Dražić searches for spaces without order, spaces of irregularity, difference, flexibility and intuition. Dušica’s works deal with micro-histories of a locus and are also an act of narration.
Dušica Dražić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2004, and finished an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2006. Since 2006 Dušica Dražić is also a part of the collective “usually4” with K. Freino (PL), S. Hopkins (UK/KEN) and Teresa Luzio (P). In 2010 Dražić received the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Serbia) and the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (Italy) and was granted a DAAD scholarship in 2005/2006.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Dušica Dražić, Dead-End Street, 2009, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by K. Freino.
Dušica Dražić, The Winter Garden, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Prelom - Breach, Break, Breakage, Failure, Fraction, Infraction, Rupture, Split, Layout, 2008, Installation, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. photo by G. Micevski.
Dušica Dražić, One Home In Rydygiera 45a, 2006, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by D. Dražic.
Dušica Dražić, Young Serbians, 2006, Video performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: Museum Ludwig, ACAX - Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
Szabolcs KissPál
‘What is reality? What can it be, and to what extent can we trust sensations influenced and steered by multimedia? In search of answers, KissPál playfully arranges experimental models which are impressive in their perfection and both cool and poetic. They combine attractively low and high technology with objects or actions, which are cautiously and subtly emotional and at first look like technical games. KissPál often refers through his works to technology or the history of culture.’ (Petra Stegmann)
Szabolcs KissPál works in various media from photography to video, from installation to objects and conceptual interventions. However, the medium he utilizes the most is the video. His main field of interest is the intersection of visual arts and new media, developing a critical approach towards both fields and combined to an interest in their social aspect.
Szabolcs KissPál was born 1967 in Romania. After graduating with an MA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Cluj, Romania, KissPál moved to Hungary where he obtained a DLA (PhD) in 2007 from the University of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he currently teaches (Intermedia Department). His work has been widely exhibited including at the following: Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary; apexart, New York; Venice Biennial, Italy; Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam; International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea. His installations and videos can be found in the collections of the Ludwig Contemporary Museum Budapest, Hungary; the National Musem for Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania and the Kaddist Art Foundation Paris, France.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: F4 (New Zealand) and Szabolcs KissPál (Hungary)
October 19, 2010
Szabolcs KissPál, The Other Crowd, 2009, Police cordon and mirror, 106 × 59 × 80 in. (269.24 × 149.86 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
2010, Short Stories, Lambda print, 28 × 40 in. (71.12 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Szabolcs KissPál, Utopia Battery, 2008, Monitors, object, engine, and sensor, 120 × 120 × 40 in. (304.8 × 304.8 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Szabolcs KissPál, Shards of Glass, 2003, Video, 4:30 min. Courtesy of the artists.
Szabolcs KissPál, Edging, 2003, Video, 3:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
