Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Arts Council Korea
Yongseok Oh
Yongseok Oh is a Korean-born artist who emphasizes the crossing of the past and the present, and of the real and the imagined, by creating a visual collage of stills, moving images and cinemas. He explores the structure of the cinema and daily life and collapses a certain cinematic narrative through collage techniques.
He has been recognized widely and his works have been shown at various international biennales including Seoul Media City Biennale, 2006; Shanghai Biennale, 2006; Seville Biennale, 2008; Biennale of Cuvee, Lintz, 2008 and Moscow Biennale, 2011. Selected group exhibitions include: Thermocline of Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2007; Metamorphosis, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2008; CINEMA SIM, Itau Culture, San Paulo, 2008; Trance POP, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2008; The Imaginary Line, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, 2009; Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, 2009; Sporadic positioning, Arario gallery, Cheonan, 2012 and Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2012. Recently, he collaborated on a project with L`OCCITANE, Paris.
Yongseok Oh, Drama No. 6, 2011, Two channel video. Courtesy of the artist
Yongseok Oh, Classic No. 1978, 2009, Single channel video. Courtesy of the artist
Yongseok Oh, In Absentia, 2013, Mixed media, real-time closed-circuit video, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Yongseok Oh, Memory of the Future, 2009, Single channel video. Courtesy of the artist
Yongseok Oh, Siamese montage-lover letter, 2008, Two channel video, Siamese scope, player, 1:54 min. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Tobias Dostal
Tobias Dostal works to rid the film medium of the classic canvas by restaging the movie in a space with sculptural elements – rebuilt 16 mm projectors and projection screens made of wood or paper constructions, for example. Addressing the roots of the film and similar artistic approaches in the past is crucial to his work. After extensive experiments in a variety of media, formats and techniques and dealing with artistic approaches such as the “Expanded Cinema” and structural film and the history of film, he found his visual language through the use of celluloid film.
Tobias Dostal (born 1982 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany) studied drawing, film and skuplture at the Braunschweig Universitity of Arts. His Film installations have been shown in group exhibitions at the gallery of La Esmeralda, New Mexico; Kunstschaufenster am Hallenbad, Wolfsburg; End in Nation, Kapitelsaal, Bad Hersfeld; Films about being God, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin; Metamorphosen, Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig and the Up and Coming Film Festival, Hannover.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tobias Dostal and Sofie Thorsen
January 7, 2014
Tobias Dostal, The Two Sphinx, 2012, 16mm loop installation. Courtesy of the artist
Tobias Dostal, The Two Sphinx, 2012, 16mm loop installation. Courtesy of the artist
Tobias Dostal, Gedankenkuppel, 2011, 16mm projection, paper, wood, text, and mirror. Courtesy of the artist
Tobias Dostal, Paradise, 2011, 16mm projection, wood, and textile. Courtesy of the artist
Tobias Dostal, Kinora, 2012. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2013: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Anja Kempe
In her site-specific installations, videos and video installations, Anja Kempe deals with the unknown of physical space and the potential of movement. She develops architectural extensions that augment space. Her dynamic images of space act as expansive choreographies for the viewer. Her latest works deal with the body itself. She brings together the individual memory of the body and the collective memory of individual movements.
Anja Kempe (born 1973) was educated at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. She has exhibited internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions including at z33, Hasselt; Ars Electronica Campus, Linz; Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Museum Schloss Moyland; Kunstverein Leipzig; NGBK Berlin; Interfood Vitrine, Aachen; Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin; Art Cologne and Young Artist Project, Daegu. Kempe lives and works in Leipzig where she teaches at the Academy of Visual Arts.
Anja Kempe, Stairway, 2006, Paper, cardboard, wood, acrylic paint. Courtesy of the artist
Anja Kempe, Dissociation, 2002, Four weighing cells, four wide-angle projectors, balance software. Courtesy of the artist
Anja Kempe, Inscription, 2007, Aluminum bar, coaly gum, infrared lamps, nightshot camera, monitor, overlay software. Courtesy of the artist
Anja Kempe
Anja Kempe, Diagonal, 2008, Tape. Courtesy of the artist