Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 15 × 54 in. (38.1 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Hasselblad Foundation
Tonje Bøe Birkeland
Tonje Bøe Birkeland constructs characters through photography, text, and objects. Her female figures balance on the border between fiction and reality. The landscapes work as a stage and reflect on the making of photographs: character, creator, camera and their common act of travel. The photographs show gaps and parallels in the friction between past and present, one society and another, a human being and a character from the past.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland (born 1985 Bergen, Norway) received an MA in Fine Art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 2012. The same year, she was also awarded the Hasselblad Foundation’s Victor Fellowship for the work Tuva Tengel (1901-1985) Letters from Mongolia exhibited as part of the exhibition New Nordic Photography at the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg. Birkeland has been a part of many group shows in Sweden. She was selected to exhibit her work Aline Victoria Birkeland – The Unknown Adventurer at the Bergen Museum, 2011. She has also participated in group shows at Horizonte, Zingst, Germany and Goldener Kentaur, Munich.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland. Courtesy of the artist.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland. Courtesy of the artist.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland. Courtesy of the artist.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland. Courtesy of the artist.
Tonje Bøe Birkeland. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chang-Jung Wu
Chang-Jung Wu’s works, created using records of her life, daily imagination, and memories, often reveal her own story. Wu’s work explores a diverse group of issues including the global economy, energy supply, voice making, ecology, and visual sensory imagination giving an imagination with emotional dynamics; she combines spatial projections with other experimental images to express deeply personal ideas.
Chang-Jung Wu (born 1984 Taiwan), received her degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of The Arts, Taiwan in 2012. Her work has been shown recently at the The Taipei Digital Art Center, Manchester Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; The 58th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, the 2011 Venice Biennale, The 7th Busan International Video Festival, Korea, and in the exhibition Ambiguous Being: who is afraid of identity?, Berlin. Chang-Jung was the winner of the 2012 58th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and the recommended new artist of Art Taipei 2010.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary VIII - Night Night Flower, 2011, Video installation, 3 min. 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary I - Pig Five Flower, 2010, Video installation, 3 min 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary XIII - The Kaleidoscopig Farm Cuckoo Clock, 2012, 12 projector synchronization, 3 min 30 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary III - Slot Machine, 2010, Single channel video, 2 min 58 sec.
