Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Eeva-Riitta Eerola
Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and the various ways of understanding and experiencing images. Eerola symbolizes different means of representation through her paintings’ surface and texture. She works with a variety of subjects as her starting point, reconstructing them in her pieces, and suggests multiple readings to viewers through the use of juxtaposition.
Eeva-Riitta Eerola (born 1980) received MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2010 and has studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad including Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen. Eerola’s work is part of a number of Finnish art and museum collections, such as EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. She is represented by the gallery Helsinki Contemporary.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Observer, 2016, Oil on canvas, 16 × 11 in. (40.64 × 27.94 cm).
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Fix, 2016, Oil on canvas, 393/8 × 43 in. (100.08 × 109.22 cm).
Eeva-Riitta Eerola, Observer (The Sea), 2016, Oil on canvas, 415/16 × 51 in. (104.9 × 129.54 cm).
Past Resident2016: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Thomas Taube
Thomas Taube’s video works are concept-based films. His work Dark Matters (2014) questions obvious and seemingly self-evident circumstances daily life; Sorry That I Asked (2013) takes a close look at television; and Narration (2016) analyzes the principle of memory and storytelling.
Thomas Taube is young German video artist living and working in Leipzig. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) in 2014. Taube worked under Candice Breitz from 2010-2015 and has won several prizes and grants, including the Prize of the 22nd edition of the Leipziger Jahresausstellung. Taube’s first book The Whirr of the Image Machine was published by Spector Books in September 2015. He is currently a postgraduate studying with German video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer.
Thomas Taube, Dark Matters, 2014, Film, 20 min.
Thomas Taube, Sorry That I Asked, 2013, Film, 30 min.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, 7-channel video installation, 7:40 min. loop.
Thomas Taube, Narration, 2016, Film, 45 min.
Past Resident2016: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Max Pinckers
Not believing in the possibility of sheer objectivity or neutrality, Max Pinckers advocates for a manifest subjective approach in his documentary making practice. His approach is made visible through the explicit use of theatrical lighting, stage directions, and/or extras. Pinckers combines extensive research and diligent technical preparation with improvisation to obtain lively, unexpected, critical, and poetic documentary images.
Max Pinckers (born 1988, Belgium) has lived in Indonesia, India, Australia and Singapore. He became acquainted with photography at the age of twelve. In 2006, Pinckers returned to Belgium to study documentary photography at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, where he is currently a doctoral researcher. Since 2011, he has directed several documentary photo-series; each series is a carefully laid out books with interwoven photographs, documents and texts. His work addresses topics including: the position of the photographer in documentary narratives in Lotus, 2011; the influence of fiction on reality in The Fourth Wall, 2012; and the creation of a visual narrative in Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty, 2014. In 2015, Pinckers became a nominee of Magnum Photos.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2016
November 4–November 5, 2016
Max Pinckers, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Jeff Wall and Hokusai), 2015, Inkjet print, 311/2 × 381/2 in. (80.01 × 97.79 cm).
Max Pinckers, The Horse to be Sacrificed must be a Stallion, 2014, Inkjet print, 43 × 525/16 in. (109.22 × 132.84 cm).
Max Pinckers, Milk, 2014, Inkjet print, 161/8 × 1911/16 in. (40.89 × 50.04 cm).
Max Pinckers, An Action Broken in Two is Stretched in Time, 2012, Inkjet print, 421/2 × 513/16 in. (107.95 × 130.05 cm).
Max Pinckers, Tina, 2011, Inkjet print, 353/8 × 435/16 in. (89.92 × 109.98 cm).
