Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts
Ufuk Gueray
Ufuk Gueray is interested in how cultural and political context can shape the understanding of art. Although primarily a painter, his current work uses sound, installation and relational processes in a project dealing with memories of his late uncle’s mirror shop in Izmir, Turkey.
Ufuk Gueray (born in Herrenberg, Germany), is an artist of Turkish background who has lived and worked in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. His work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
Ufuk Gueray, Atilla's Mirror Shop, 2018, mirrors, photographs, soccer flag, leather jacket, and various other objects, installation view at ISCP
Ufuk Gueray, Untitled, 2018, giclée print, mounted on dibond, 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm). In collaboration with Erica Mendritzki
Ufuk Gueray, Untitled, 2018, giclée print, mounted on dibond, 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Ufuk Gueray, Research Image: Kapilar neighborhood of Izmir, late 1980s, digitized image
Ufuk Gueray, Atilla's Mirror Shop, 2018, mirror and Turkish tea kettle, installation view at ISCP
Residents from Canada
Taloi Havini
Taloi Havini utilizes a wide variety of media to explore issues about maintaining inherited knowledge systems across time and space, including ceramics, sculpture, installation, photography and film. Her practice centers on deconstructing the politics of location.
Taloi Havini was born in Bougainville, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. She currently lives and works between Sydney and Bougainville. Havini received a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University where she majored in ceramics, photomedia, and art and politics. She engages with collections and archives and often responds to these experiences with experimental installations and exhibitions at institutions including the Sharjah Biennial 13; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Taloi Havini, Beroana (shell money), 2017, porcelain, earthenware, and steel, dimensions variable
Taloi Havini, Blood Generation: Jedi and the Mona, 2009, C-print, 473/16 × 313/8 in. (119.89 × 79.76 cm)
Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2017, 3 channel HD 5.1 surround sound video installation , 51113/16 × 1181/8 in. (1299.97 × 299.97 cm)
Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2016, single channel HD sound video installation , 1181/8 × 7811/16 in. (299.97 × 199.9 cm)
Taloi Havini, KapKaps from the mysterious isles of Melanesia, 2015, stoneware, copper, and gold lustre, 271/2 × 395/16 in. (69.85 × 99.82 cm)
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Bettina Brunner
Bettina Brunner is a curator, art critic and academic focusing on avantgarde film and contemporary moving image practices.
Bettina Brunner has an MA in Art History and recently completed her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As an independent curator she has organized film screenings and exhibitions at mumok kino, Vienna; das weisse haus, Vienna, and Auto Italia South East, London. She has previously worked at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; British Film Institute, London; and Cubitt Artists, London.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2018
April 27–April 28, 2018
'Thwarted Representations' by Joyce Wieland and the Filmic Portrait, 2017, film screening at mumok kino. Photo by György Horvath
'Rock My Religion' by Dan Graham, 2012, film screening at das weisse haus
'OWT' by Laure Prouvost in 'Getting It Wrong' , 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus
'The Wanderer (Betty Drunk)' by Laure Prouvost in 'Getting It Wrong', 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus. Photo by Anne Nimmesgern
'A Weekend in the Countryside' by Stefan Eichhorn in 'Getting It Wrong', 2012, group exhibition at das weisse haus
