Past Residents
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano work in a collaborative video practice. Their performance works consist of unchoreographed movements that are activated and influenced by handmade sculptural objects while also considering the architecture / space that the body sits within. The relationship between movement and object are usually minimal with the emphasis placed on form, structure and sound components. The performance videos are edited into abstract, rhythmic compositions which relay their interests in movement and how movement can be pushed and revealed through different processes.
Their work was recently shown at More Light, The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2013, and Shifting Lines, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2013. Other selected shows include: All Our Relations,18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012; Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012; Contemporary Art: Women, Gallery of Modern Art , Brisbane, 2012; Identity V111, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2012; 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011; Before and After Science: The 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010; The Trickster, The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2010 and Love, Loss and Intimacy, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010. Selected solo exhibitions include: Shapes for Open Spaces, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Neon, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2010 and Gabriella Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Neon, 2010, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Echo, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Light, 2013, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Sculpture Sequence, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Rewind, 2012, Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Past Resident2014: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Thora Dolven Balke
Thora Dolven Balke’s practice involves both an exploration of image-making and sound and an involvement in the organization of artistic and curatorial platforms that contribute to the development of other artists’ work as well as their connection with other cultural forms, such as music and performance. Her photographs, in the form of polaroids and photographic albums as well as films, suggest a diaristic, subjective approach to image-making that is not clear about the level of fiction the photographs contain.
Thora Dolven Balke (born 1982, Oslo) has exhibited extensively in Norway and internationally. In 2008 she was part of Lights On – norsk samtidskunst, at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Her work was later part of ‘The Collectors’ as part of the 2009 Venice Biennial. She was one of two curators of the Lofoten International Art Festival in 2011 and co-funded and programmed the artist-run space REKORD in Oslo from 2006 to 2010.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Thora Dolven Balke and Jacob Kirkegaard
July 22, 2014
Thora Dolven Balke, Eureka, 2012, Installation view.
Thora Dolven Balke, Dependence, 2012, Framed polaroid photographs, 23 2/3 x 16 1/2 in.
Thora Dolven Balke, Aid, Blue, 2012, Foam, 27 x 24 2/5 x 1 1/3 in.
Thora Dolven Balke, Safety Measures, 2009, Album with polaroid photographs, 19 2/3 x 27 in. Courtesy of 'The Collectors,' Danish Pavilion, Venice Biennial.
Thora Dolven Balke, Surrender, 2010, Framed polaroid photographs, 27 1/2 x 23 2/3 in.
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Henrjeta Mece
Henrjeta Mece’s practice explores issues related to the body, time, place and sense of belonging. Challenged by the world’s state in flux, her artwork references the contemporary experience of travel, mobility, borders, and diasporas. Mece’s artistic process employs reterritorialization as a method to: create images that allude to maps, remap a location outside of geographical systems of organization, and produce a temporary place of belonging. Without using direct biographical material, her multimedia installations focus on materializing trajectories rather than destinations. The artwork itself exists in the process as much as in the object and remains a course in the struggle to be positioned.
Henrjeta Mece is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer and educator. She completed her BFA and MFA at Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto . Mece is the recipient of numerous awards including, Vtape Fellowship, Canada Millennium Excellence Award, and various Ontario Arts Council grants. Mece’s artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in venues including, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, 2011; Banff Centre of the Arts 2009-2010; Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012 and Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin, 2012.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Henrjeta Mece and Saša Tkačenko
October 1, 2013
Henrjeta Mece, Looking Into the Future, 2013, Coffee stains on tissue paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Piled up City Nr. 8, 2010, C-print, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Reterritorializing Belonging, 2009, Video installation, 30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, The Traveler's Blanket, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Henrjeta Mece, Untitled, 2012, Mixed media, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
