Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Paul Kuimet
Paul Kuimet works with photographic installations and 16 mm films, the subject matter of which ranges from landscapes and architecture to objects and works of art mainly from the Modernist discourse. Kuimet’s photographs are often displayed as lightboxes in darkened spaces, which heightens the viewers’ relationships to the physical and pictorial space. His films that are constructed as continuous loops are displayed in relation to the existing exhibition space further emphasizing their sculptural qualities rather than a narrative drive.
Paul Kuimet has exhibited work at WNTRP, Berlin; BOZAR- Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Paul Kuimet, Golden Home, 2017, 16 mm film and rear projection, 4:26 min. loop
Paul Kuimet, Untitled Transparencies, 2017, 35 mm slide projection, 30 slides
Paul Kuimet, Exposure, 2016, black and white 16 mm film projection, 7:56 min loop
Paul Kuimet, Grid Study, 2016, photographic installation, gridded partition wall, and four black and white transparencies in light boxes, 44.5 × 44.5 in. each
Paul Kuimet, 2060, 2014, black and white 16 mm film projection on dual-sided screen, continuous loop
Past Resident2018: The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Tomasz Kowalski
Tomasz Kowalski is part of a movement of young Polish artists embracing a form of “new surrealism.” His interest lay in the discrete hauntological aspects of the everyday and a paranoia towards reality. He expresses this discrete sensibility through a mix of parallel narratives and biography, and often collaborates with his family to make objects using various mediums. In Kowalski’s paintings, drawings, installations and sound pieces, the everyday morphs into the tragicomic, lending his imagery an enigmatic and psychedelic quality.
Tomasz Kowalski has exhibited work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; mumok, Vienna, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, among others.
Tomasz Kowalski, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 45 × 65 in. (114.3 × 165.1 cm)
Tomasz Kowalski, Skarbiec (with Alicja Kowalska), 2018, tapestry, 51 × 76 in. (129.54 × 193.04 cm)
Tomasz Kowalski, Untitled, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 47 × 55 in. (119.38 × 139.7 cm)
Tomasz Kowalski, Djinn, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 51 × 63 in. (129.54 × 160.02 cm)
Tomasz Kowalski, exhibition view at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2014
Past Resident2018: Colección Diéresis
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez’s work reflects on political themes found in art, particularly in artworks that appear neutral or decorative. He works with drawing, sculpture and installation, using strategies such as irony, fiction and the appropriation of symbols and images related to social issues and the history of art. Gutiérrez runs an editorial project titled Ediciones Barrio Boy’z, in which he publishes his own work and collaborations with other authors.
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez has exhibited work at Proyectos LA, Los Angeles; Páramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico; and Museo de Arte de Zapopan MAZ, Mexico, among others.
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez, Habitación de oro, 2014, bullet shells and plexiglas, 40 × 60 × 40 in. (101.6 × 152.4 × 101.6 cm)
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez, Base Clandestina Antártica Méxicana, 2013 - present, rebel separatist organization, dimensions variable
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez, Historia de nuestra construcción: Negociación, 2015, pencil on paper, 131/2 × 191/2 in. (34.29 × 49.53 cm)
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez, Testigo, 2016, site specific intervention, dimensions variable
Javier Barrios Gutiérrez, Colección particular de orquídeas de México, 2018, pastel on paper and acrylic on wall, drawings: 19.5 x 13.5 in. each; painting: 55 x 150 in.
