Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Staš Kleindienst
Staš Kleindienst’s work addresses issues of origin, representation, and naturalization of authority. Within this context he is shaping a social fiction, drawn through dystopian image of a social reality that stems from the present-day ideological, economic, and political co-ordinates.
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kleindienst has an MA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana. His exhibitions include U3-7th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Spaceship Yugoslavia- The Suspension of Time, nGbK, Berlin; Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the national visual arts award for young visual artists.
Staš Kleindienst, Third decade, 2014, Alkyd on canvas, 47 × 52 in. (119.38 × 132.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Tang Kwok Hin
Tang Kwok Hin’s artworks use erasure to emphasize what remains in a new light. His acts of disfigurement usually result in more figurative meanings than they rub off. In his symbolic collages Tang is particularly concerned about combinations of daily things and the meanings they produce. He is interested in questioning that which is a result of human development, interrogating the existence, rational and usage of such ordinary items as the table and chair.
Tang Kwok Hin (born 1983, Hong Kong) is a mixed media artist, independent curator and writer. He received his MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. He exhibited at 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland; Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009; Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, Switzerland; Esplanade, Singapore; Singapore Art Museum; Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Manila; Busan Cinema Center, South Korea; Kuandu Museum f Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. He was awarded the first prize at Hong Kong Biennale 2009; selected by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2010 and 2011; awarded a Award for Young Artist by Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2010; and a grant by Asian Cultural Council in 2013. His work is in collections in both Europe and Asia.
Tang Kwok Hin, The Weak are Meat II, 2014, Acrylic cabinets and re-packed food packages, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Hong Kong
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Gianfranco Foschino
Operating between photography, documentary film and video art, Gianfranco Foschino’s work is currently focused on video installations, which evoke “tableaux vivants”, emulating a sort of live photograph. Shooting long sequences from fixed viewpoints he produces scenes with minimal movements, presented on flat screens, and framed as light boxes. Distanced from urban life, he portrays bucolic scenes that seem to occur in parallel time dimensions. The political value of Foschino’s work lies in exploring the singular anachronism of these spaces, and trying to recognize anonymous stories and lost lifestyles.
Gianfranco Foschino was born in 1983 in Santiago de Chile. He graduated in Cinema Studies from UNIACC University (Santiago). In 2010, he had his first exhibition Almost Romantic curated by Christopher Eamon at I-20 Gallery, New York. In 2011, his work was featured at the Latin American pavilion of 54th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, he participated as guest artist of the Chilean pavilion MONOLITH CONTROVERSIES at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, awarded with the Silver Lion prize. He currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
Gianfranco Foschino, Almost Romantic, 2010, Video Installation. Courtesy of the artist and I-20 Gallery, New York.
Gianfranco Foschino, HOME, 2011, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Latin American Pavilion, 54th La Biennale di Venezia.
Gianfranco Foschino, FLUXUS, 2011, Video sculpture. Courtesy of the artist and National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago.
Gianfranco Foschino, Im Oberlchtraum, 2012, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart.
Gianfranco Foschino, A New Landscape, 2013, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
