Past Residents
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Patrick Tuttofuoco creates innovative imagined structures, architectural assemblages, films and animations motivated by the urban environment as a site of constant transformation. The use of light and movement characterize Tuttofuoco’s works, which combine immediate sensorial allure with the power to trigger profound theoretical responses. Frequently working in collaboration, Tuttofuoco’s diverse artistic practice seeks to forge new dialogues between public and private, between individuals and the environment they inhabit. Operating on an open, communicative level his works explore architecture as the product of the energy and combined efforts of the people who constructed and live in it, as a human energy that lives through its functionality.
Patrick Tuttofuoco (born 1974, Milan, Italy) lives and works in Berlin and has shown extensively internationally, in both solo and group shows. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Things are queer, MARTa Herford, Germany; Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Palazzo Grassi, Venice; TURN ON: Contemporary Italian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; 10th Havana Biennial: Integration and Resistance in the Global Age; Dandelion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 50th Venice Biennial; Folkestone Triennial,
England; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, France; Shanghai Biennale; and Revolving Landscape, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik & Patrick Tuttofuoco
March 27, 2012
Patrick Tuttofuoco, First Person Plural, 2009
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mirrors and Windows (Christine), 2009, Plastic, wool, resin, wood, cardboard and steel mesh , 40 × 32 × 75 in. (101.6 × 81.28 × 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts (David Copperfield), 2011, Coated MDF, perspex, spray paint, fabric, resin, 32 × 60 × 63 in. (81.28 × 152.4 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Three Wise Monkeys, 2010, Fabric, wool, resin and spray color, 15 × 13 × 118 in. (38.1 × 33.02 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Janus, 2011 , Printed forex, steel tubes, colored water and acrylic paint , 90 × 200 × 210 in. (228.6 × 508 × 533.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Vikenti Komitski
Vikenti Komitski’s work involves the use of ready made principles applied to objects and ideas. Sometimes the content of his work aims to create a critical view over the creation of art work itself, while other times it does not.
Vikenti Komitski (born 1983, Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Sofia. Komitski graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia with a degree in Sculpture, 2006. Since then, he has participated in a number of exhibitions, including Entrepot, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, curated by René Block; Photo I Photo You, Calvert 22, London, curated by Iara Boubnova; and FQ-Test, GMG Gallery, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Moscow. In 2011, Komitski received the BAZA Award for Contemporary Art. Komitski is represented by 0gms Gallery, Sofia and Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tomas Rafa & Vikenti Komitski
February 28, 2012
Vikenti Komitski, Generator, 2011, Computer and clam, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Vikenti Komitski, Together Again, 2009, Collage – paper world map, 63 in. Courtesy of the artist
Vikenti Komitski, My Budget For This Exhibition, 2009, Coins, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Vikenti Komitski, Being Clever Doesn’t Help, 2008, Wood and cardboard, 28 × 28 × 7 in. (71.12 × 71.12 × 17.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Vikenti Komitski, Permanent, 2011, Tattoo on the index finger, 1/8 × 3/16 in. (0.25 × 0.51 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Bulgaria
Past Resident2012: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Adéla Hrušková
Adéla Hrušková’s curatorial practice deals with the mediation of visual art and visual communication in the field of transfer and information processing. She is interested in acts of mediation, the situation of communication between the onlooker and the artwork, and the perception of the viewer. Hrušková’s projects often engage with the communication process, spectator approach and imagination. Her curatorial practice focuses on emerging contemporary art, particularly photography and time-based media.
Hrušková is a curator, cultural manager and gallery educator who lives and works in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She holds a MA in Curatorship Studies from The University of J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem, where she is currently studying for a PhD in Visual Communication. In 2008, she held a residency at the Czech Centre Bucharest. In 2011, she participated in the exhibition The Picture We Live In at the Gallery of Emil Filla, Ústí nad Labem, a presentation of works created by Photography students from Czech and Slovak universities. She has created workshops and educational programs for independent galleries and curated several exhibitions of the work of contemporary young artists.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Adéla Hrušková and Katharina D. Martin
February 7, 2012
Adéla Hrušková, Bayu Widodo - Education Program and Workshop, 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Armaturka Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
