Past Residents
Past Resident2021: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Stefania Strouza
Stefania Strouza’s practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the spatial mobility of such narratives, the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances, and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materializes these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, geography and the body.
Stefania Strouza has exhibited work at The 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia; NEON, Greece; and Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Stefania Strouza and Daphne Dragona
September 28, 2021, 1-2pm
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (Perpetual Silence Prevails in the Empty Space of Capital), 2020, expanded polystyrene foam, plywood, epoxy resin, varnish, 90 ³⁵/₆₄ × 59 ¹/₁₆ × 47 ¹/₄ (230 × 150 × 120 cm)
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (If only I had stayed the animal I was), 2020, metallised cane roots, insulation foam, spray-paint, aluminum foil, pins, 20 ⁵⁵/₆₄ × 13 ²⁵/₆₄ × 15 ²³/₆₄ (53 × 34 × 39 cm)
Stefania Strouza, Pro itu et reditu, 2019, ceramic, bronze, 12 ⁶³/₆₄ × 8 ¹⁷/₆₄ × 4 ²³/₃₂ (33 × 21 × 12 cm)
Stefania Strouza, Fundamentos Líquidos (Liquid Foundations), 2018, bricks, wood, and queen conch shell, 47 ¹/₄ × 78 ⁴⁷/₆₄ × 39 ³/₈ (120 × 200 × 100 cm)
Stefania Strouza, The center will not hold, 2019, plaster, liquid plastic, pewter, and acrylic paint, 106 ¹⁹/₆₄ × 66 ⁵⁹/₆₄ × 3 ¹⁵/₁₆ (270 × 170 × 10 cm)
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
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 Resident2021: International Visegrad Fund, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA
Vojtěch Novák
Vojtěch Novák describes his methodology as ‘always responding’. “Like a flipped coin seeking its third side,” he positions himself between the interpermeating roles of author and viewer. To this end, Novák’s artistic practice consists in layering narratives to form gesamtkunstwerk–total artworks spanning performative colloquies, happenings, curating and theater directing. The latter includes his stage design, his play on environment, and how he stages works of art.
Vojtěch Novák has exhibited work at Manifesta 11, Zürich; documenta 14, Kassel; and OFF-Biennale Budapest, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min
Vojtěch Novák, Forget Fear - Folly Folks, 2019, terrazzo made of shungite, metal, copy of a book with garnets, waxed tv screen, single-channel video, 29:06 min
Vojtěch Novák, Samizdat Contrefaçon, 2018, installation view at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 66 × 95 in. (167.64 × 241.3 cm)
Vojtěch Novák, Flies of Fiume, 2020, installation view at Berlínskej Model, Prague 2020, dimensions variable
Vojtěch Novák, SILK ROAD HYBRIDIZATION, 2016, video, 58 min
Residents from Czech Republic
Ariane Loze
Through a methodical deconstruction of cinematic norms, Ariane Loze strips her video-performances down to their most basic, structural inner workings. Her post-minimalist aesthetic brings together conceptual expression and home-made execution underpinned by an immediately recognizable narrative made up of static shots of a straightforward action or event. Since 2008, Loze produces her videos autonomously: she take on the roles of director, screenwriter, editor, dresser, and sound and lighting technician, as well as plays all characters.
Ariane Loze has exhibited work at Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, among others.
Ariane Loze, Utopia, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 10:27 min
Ariane Loze, Archipelago of Me, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 32:54 min
Ariane Loze, Minimal Art, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 8:25 min
Ariane Loze, Highlands, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 30:18 min
Ariane Loze, Kolumba, 2020, HD video projection with sound, 13:36 min
