Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Nogueras Blanchard
Wendy Navarro
Wendy Navarro is an independent art critic and curator currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Since the mid 1990s, she has been an active curator at the Visual Art Development Center (CDAV) in Havana, Cuba, while working as an editor of the magazine ArteCubano, and lectured about Cuban contemporary art at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and the Faculty of Arts and Literature of Havana University. Her curatorial practice focused on establishing links between the work of artists from different latitudes, such as in Collective Utopia, Casa América Cataluña, Barcelona; “Asalto al Cielo”: Insular Strategies of Cuban Videoart, LOOP Video Art Fair, Barcelona; “Heteronimous: oneself’s others”: Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid and Correspondence, VIII Havana Biennial. She also has collaborated with institutions such as the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community; Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Miami; Gallery TAIK, Berlin-Helsinski; Gallery Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona and The Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), Barcelona.
Wendy Navarro has published extensively in catalogues and magazines such as ArtNexus; SalonKritik; ABC de ARCO; Revista Atlántica de las Artes CAAM and participated in several symposiums related to Latin American art including International Forum of Latin American Art, Arco Art Fair, Madrid; Latin American Dialogues, Patrimonio Cultural y Artístico of the Generalitat Valenciana; Multiculturalims, Institutions and Relationships North- South, 10 Havana Biennial; Workshop of Carlos Garaicoa, Professional School of Fine Arts, Complutense University, Madrid, among others.
Sandra Gamarra, Heteronimous: oneself's others (installation view), 2005. Courtesy of the curator and Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona.
Residents from Cuba
Liset Castillo
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
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