Previous Residents

April/May 2010

Peter Friedl
Artist b. 1960 in Oberneukirchen, Austria, lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Peter Friedl is a Berlin-based artist. His artistic practice – consistently heterogeneous in terms of medium, style, and meaning – emphasizes the friction between aesthetic and political awareness in the framework of their respective narratives. His works explore the conditions and genres of representation, employing strategies such as permanent displacement, editing, or over-exposing. Friedl's recent solo exhibitions include Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2010), Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen (2008), 'Working', Kunsthalle Basel (2008), 'OUT OF THE SHADOWS', Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (2004). In 2006, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) organized a comprehensive retrospective exhibition 'Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006,' which was subsequently shown at Miami Art Central/Miami Art Museum (2007) and the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Marseille (2007). Friedl's work has been exhibited worldwide, including at documenta X (1997) and documenta 12, Kassel (2007), the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville (2006), Manifesta 7, Trento (2008), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008), and Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial, Tirana (2009). Since the 1980s, Friedl has published numerous essays and book projects such as Four or Five Roses (2004) and Working at Copan (2007). A selection of his Writings and Interviews 1981–2009 has been released in 2010.

February 2010

Koyo Kouoh
exhibition maker and cultural manager
b. in Cameroon, lives and works in Dakar, Senegal

Koyo Kouoh is an exhibition maker and cultural manager. She is the founder and artistic director of RAW MATERIAL COMPANY, a mobile site for art practice and critical exchange. She was the Coordinator of Cultural Programs at the Gorée Institute from 1998-2002. She collaborated with the Dakar Biennale of Art from 2000-2004 and co-curated the Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako in 2001 and 2003. Specializing in photography and public interventions, she has curated exhibitions in Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the United States and written on contemporary African art. She also served as advisor to the artistic director for documenta 12 and curated Philip Aguirre's project 'Gaal Gui' for the Beaufort Triennale 03. Her latest exhibition 'HYPOCRISY: THE SITE SPECIFICITY OF MORALITY' co-curated with Stina Hoegkvist was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. She is currently working on 'MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME' an exhibition and public program in collaboration with Charlotte Bagger-Brandt for Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. The project will reflect on the notion of hospitality in contemporary art in the context of international migrations.

January 2010

AA Bronson
artist, curator, healer and writer
b. 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, lives and works in New York, NY, USA

AA Bronson is a New York based artist, curator, healer and writer. He is currently Executive Director of Printed Matter and the NY Art Book Fair. In 1969 he founded General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal; they lived and worked together for 25 years, founding FILE Magazine and Art Metropole, and exhibiting internationally. Since 1994 AA has had a solo practice, including solo exhibitions at Vienna Secession; The Power Plant, Toronto; Whitney and Montreal Biennials; MCA Chicago, and The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

December 2009

Stuart Bailey
Graphic designer and editor
b. 1973 in York, UK, lives and works in New York, NY

Stuart Bailey is a graphic designer and co-editor of Dot Dot Dot, a publication concerned with art, design, music, language, literature and architecture, with David Reinfurt (earlier with Peter Bilak). His work circumscribes various aspects of graphic design, writing and editing, most consistently in the form of publications made in close collaboration with artists. Since 2002 he has worked with Will Holder under the compound name Will Stuart on a broader range of projects, including theatre and performance. Since 2006 he has worked together with David Reinfurt as Dexter Sinister, also the name of their basement space on New York City's Lower East Side that operates as a workshop and occasional bookstore.

September 2009

Sheela Gowda
Artist, b. 1957, Bhadravati, India. Lives and works in Bangalore, India

Sheela Gowda trained as a painter during the mid-1980s, at the Royal College of Arts in London and the Cité International des Arts in Paris. These European references, together with an awareness of the Indian socio-cultural situation, resulted in a series of oil paintings dealing with the bodily and emotional immersion of people in their surroundings. At the beginning of the 1990s Gowda started using unconventional and often unusual materials, through which she expressed the angst and melancholy caused by local socio-political tensions. Her labour-intensive installations show an attempt to preserve the integrity of her materials and at the same time the will to contend with their peculiar resistances. In her own words, Gowda seeks a 'specificity within abstraction' that avoids strident statements and instead reveals meaning through suggestion.

Sheela Gowda's work has been included in documenta 12 , Kassel, 2007; 'Fare Mondi//Making Worlds…', the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; 'Indian Highway' at The Serpentine Gallery, London and Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2009; the 2009 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; 'Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture', MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, 2008; and 'HORN PLEASE: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, 2007-08 among others.

Sheela Gowda's Rresidency has been supported by O3–funds as underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field with professional artists in countries designated by the MFA. The purpose of the O3–funds as allocated to OCA is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers, and organisations that are located in designated countries.

August 2009

Trisha Donnelly
Artist, b. 1974, San Francisco, CA. Lives and works in New York City

The work of Trisha Donnelly explores the limits of perception through the use of language, experience and order. Her practice suggests a profound belief in the notion of art as a situational phenomenon, existing in relation to other things in the world and, just as importantly, to its experience. Donnelly uses multiple media, including photography, drawing and performance, and moves regularly between the performative and text. Her performances and demonstrations tend to happen just once and leave no trace behind.

Donnelly's recent solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA (2008), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2007), Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2006) and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2005). She has also participated in group shows such as 'Meet Me Around the Corner: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection', at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2008); 'The Third Mind' at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2007-08); 'Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan', at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2007); the 54th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2004); and 'Utopia Station' at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (2003). She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art.

Roger M. Buergel
Curator and writer, b. 1962 in Berlin, Germany

Roger M. Buergel, curator and writer, Artistic Director of documenta 12 and Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programmes at the Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida. According to Buergel, he attributes his important influences with the following citation: Years ago, as a contribution to an exhibition, the artist Alejandra Riera gave me 12 photographs. It was not evident what the relation between these photographs was, or whether there was any relation at all. Showing this 'piece' helped and still helps me to clarify my own position when it comes to ambiguity, formlessness and the inadequacy of knowledge as a category capable of containing aesthetic experience.

May 2009

Babette Mangolte
Artist/Filmmaker b.1941 in France, lives and works in New York City

The French-born, New York-based experimental filmmaker Babette Mangolte was one of the first women accepted into the cinematography programme at L'École Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinématographie in Paris, founded by Louis Lumiére, in 1964. She discovered cinema with the New Wave and moved to New York City in 1970, where she worked as the cinematographer for Chantal Ackerman and Yvonne Rainer among others. In her work as director from the 1970s, Mangolte focused on performance documentation, working with artists such as Richard Foreman, Robert Whitman, Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs. Her early film work was a self-examination as to what it means to be a spectator, but also an experiment in narrative filmmaking. Among the films directed by Mangolte are What Maisie Knew (1976), The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977), Four Pieces by Morris (1993) and Seven Easy Pieces (2007). Her films are in the collections of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Deutsche Kinematek, Berlin and the Cinéathèque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. The first retrospective dedicated to her work took place in 2000 in three German cities – Berlin, Hamburg and Munich – and was organised by Madeleine Bernstorff and Kleus Volkmer from the Munich Film Archives. Her second retrospective was in New York in September 2004 at the Anthology Film Archives.

February 2009

Philip Tinari
Writer and curator (b.1979, Philadelphia, USA)

Philip Tinari is a writer and curator based in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He is a contributing editor to Artforum, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the magazine's Chinese-language website. In 2007, he opened Office for Discourse Engineering, an editorial studio focused on publishing, research and translation related to contemporary art in China. He has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, Parkett, Art AsiaPacific, McSweeney's, The Wall Street Journal and the Chinese journal Dushu, as well as exhibition catalogues for museums including the Guggenheim, New York City and the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is Asia advisor to Art Basel and editor of U-TURN, a serialised history of Chinese art from 1978 to 2008. Last year he curated 'Delirious Beijing' (PKM Gallery, Beijing) and 'CYLWXZ' (Esther Schipper, Berlin). He holds a masters in East Asian studies from Harvard University and was formerly a Fulbright fellow at Peking University, Peking, People's Republic of China.

This project is supported with 03–funds, a support program underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field in countries in the south.

Luluc Huang
Writer and curator (1980, Nanjing, People's Republic of China)

Luluc Huang's writings on international art, film and fashion are widely syndicated across the Chinese cultural media, and her blog is well known throughout the Chinese art and literary world for its characteristic mix of cultural commentary, criticism and gossip. She has worked as Asia representative for Artforum International (2006-08), curator at the non-profit art space UniversalStudios-Beijing (now Boersli Gallery, 2005-06) and editor of Rear Window (2003-05), at that time China's leading online film discussion forum. She holds a masters in Comparative Literature from Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

This project is supported with 03–funds, a support program underwritten by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for enhancing collaboration in the contemporary art field in countries in the south.

January 2009

Barbara Smith
Artist, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

For three decades, Barbara T. Smith has been at the forefront of feminist, body and performance art in California, USA. Trained as a painter, Smith began her body-oriented work in 1965. As one of the originators of California performance art scene, Smith worked together with artists such as Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Allan Kaprow, Suzanne Lacy and Paul McCarthy. Her work is aligned with 1970s art practice that explores, among other things, the body and the patriarchal structures within the art world. Her work externalises psychic materials, in the form of mythic rituals that deal with issues of gender, spirituality and sexuality. Smith approaches the intimate, personal and participatory, and often the works evolves into extending over several days.

Barbara T. Smith is a founding member of several artist-run galleries and is Chair of the Performance and Video Programming Committee at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. She has worked as a curator and organised many panel discussions, performance events and workshops. Smith has also written about other artists' work in various West Coast publications, gave numerous guest lectures and taught in California universities since 1974.

Barbara T. Smith recently had a solo show 'Barbara T. Smith 1965-1972', at Maccarone, New York City (2008). For the exhibition 'Allan Kaprow – Art As Life', Smith reinvented Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann (1963), MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008). Her work was also part of the exhibitions: 'Art Since the1960s: California Experiments', Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2008), 'WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution', The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Connie Butler (2007), among others.

During the symposium 'Art, the Social and Gender Politics in the 1960s and 1970s', Smith gave the presentation Art, Performance and the Body: Barbara T. Smith and the West Coast scene in the 1960s and 70s, which she discussed her engagement with the West Coast art scene in California, USA during this period, focusing on the new forms of performance art, participation, gender, spirituality and the body.

January 2009

Jonas Mekas
Lithuanian Film Maker, lives and works in New York, USA

Jonas Mekas (b. 1922) is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the 'New American Cinema'. He was editor and chief of Film Culture and wrote Movie Journal, a film column for the Village Voice. He is the co-founder of The Filmmakers' Co-operative (FMC) and the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. Among films made by Jonas Mekas are Guns of the Trees (1961), The Brig (1963), Walden (1969), Lost, Lost, Lost (1975), Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972), Zefiro torna, (1992) and As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001). Jonas Mekas' films have been screened extensively and he received innumerous grants and awards, among them, New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

December 2008

M.M. Serra
Filmmaker, Curator and Director Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York, USA

M.M. Serra is a filmmaker, educator, curator and Director of The Filmmakers' Co-operative. Her film Art Parade premiered in 2007 at the Womanizer Film program at Deitch Projects in Soho, New York, USA. She was featured in Profiles from the Edge in Swoon Magazine in 2007 and her own work, as well as her curated programs, have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of the Moving Image in New York; The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris, France; The London Film Festival, UK; The Sundance Forum, USA and The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany. In December 2007 she curated New York Experimental Cinema for the Kulczyk Foundation and the Warszawa Kinolab in Poland. In August 2008 she programmed 'ART(CORE): The Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body' at The Pleasure Dome in Toronto, Canada. Serra teaches Media Studies at The New School for Social Research, where she lectures on genre and sexuality in the moving image.

Carolee Schneemann
American artist, lives and works in New York City

Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist who has transformed the very definition of art, with work encompassing painting, film, performance and installation. Her works have been shown internationally, at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hirshhorn Museum D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, among others. In 2007, a dual exhibit at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY & MOCCA Toronto featured recent video installations. Electronic Arts Intermix NYC and Anthology Film Archives NYC collaborated on presentations of newly restored and current film & videos November 2007.

November 2008

Sanja Iveković
Artist born in Zagreb, Croatia lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Sanja Iveković (b. 1949) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Her art production has spanned a range of media such as photography, performance, video and installations. She belongs to the artistic generation that emerged after 1968 and was raised in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and whose post-object art was usually referred to with the umbrella term 'New Art Practice'. In the Yugoslav/Croatian art scene she was the first woman artist to adopt a clearly feminist attitude. In 1973 she started to work with video, and her videos were selected for numerous international video festivals (among others in The Hague, San Sebastián, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris and Montreal). She has had solo exhibitions and video presentations in art institutions such as the ICA, London; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; MoMA, New York; and Taxispalais Gallery, Innsbruck. Her work has also been shown at international exhibitions such as documenta 9, Documenta11 and documenta 12 in Kassel, Manifesta 2 (Luxembourg), Body and the East (Ljubljana and New York), After the Wall (Stockholm and Berlin), Double Life (Vienna) or How do We Want to be Governed? (Barcelona, Miami and Rotterdam). Iveković founded in the late 1980s the non-governmental organization Elektra – Centre for Women's Studies, the Women's Art Centre, based in Zagreb. She is also a member of a number of non-governmental organizations in Croatia, including B.a.B.e – The Women's Human Rights Group. From 1999 to 2001 she taught Contemporary Women's Art Practice at The Center for Women's Studies in Zagreb. Iveković has received awards such as the Canada Council Grant for Visiting artists (1979, 1982 and 1994) and the Artslink Grant (US). She is currently working in Berlin as part of a DAAD grant.

September 2008

Saâdane Afif

Artist, born 1970 in Vendôme, France, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Saâdane Afif draws from the fields of both art and music in order to critically explore the notions of interpretation, collaboration and translation. His installations, which include light, sound, pictures, texts and sculptural elements (often in the form of manipulated musical instruments and appliances), are often accompanied by a complex reflection on authorship.

For example, in Black Cords (2007), his contribution to documenta 12, Afif arranged thirteen black guitars with automatons and amplifiers in a darkened room, programming the automatons to play each of the guitars at alternating intervals. The investigation of authorship is also present in Lyrics, a project that begun in 2004 when Afif commissioned writers to produce lyrics based on his artworks. The lyrics became wall texts, and afterwards musicians were commissioned to create music for them. Lyrics was first shown at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France in 2005. For the exhibition Technical Specifications at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Afif reworked for the first time his own sculptures and installations.

Afif's solo exhibition includes Technical specifications at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2008), One, at FRAC Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France, Two…, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France (2008). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as Pop! goes the weasel at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007), Learn to Read at Tate Modern, London, UK (2007) and Airs de Paris at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2007).

Saâdane Afif's residency was made possible with funds from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and by additional support from Culturesfrance.

April–August 2008

Enrico David

Throughout his stay in Norway, Enrico David has resided at the Munch Estate at Ekely working within Edvard Munch's studio. Throughout this time, David prepares for his upcoming solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland, scheduled to open 15 January 2009. London-based artist Enrico David's production and work, explores the creative intellect, sexual identity, cultural inheritence, and the meaning of art objects by integrating mechanisms of irony and dark humour. By employing a conscious strategy of disjuncture, incoherence, and an overall stream of consciousness, David endows thoughts, such as "meaning is welded to understanding, yet understanding has been blown loose from creativity," with sculptural composition. David's recent critically-acclaimed solo exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London was described by OCA's Director Marta Kuzma in Artforum's "Best of 2007": "Reflecting on the tireless efforts of artists of late to merge art with the historical traditions of theater in all too often disharmonious and disingenuous combinations of Beckett, Brecht, and Cage, David's recent exhibition divided into three acts — 'Corrupt and Crooked,' 'Molten Brown Nylon,' and 'Ultra Paste.' Motivated by a kind of unmediated pleasure principle, the artist transposed his obsession with treating 'people as objects' and his abject perversions like 'rubbing himself against the effigy of trustworthiness' into meticulously rendered illustrations, assemblages, and room-size installations."

April–May 2008

Pablo Lafuente

Managing Editor of Afterall, Writer, Curator and Research Fellow
Born 1976, Santurce, Vizcaya, Spain. Lives and works in London, UK

Pablo Lafuente is the Managing Editor of Afterall, a journal of contemporary art co-published by Central St. Martins College of Art, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Afterall is published twice a year, and focuses on contemporary art practice in relation to artistic, theoretical, social and political contexts. He is currently developing a series of books for Afterall Books analysing the history of curatorial practice. He has curated several exhibitions, including Watch out ... it's real! at Greengrassi, London, UK (2006) and Unit Structures at Lisboa 20, Lisbon, Portugal (2006). In 2005 he edited the book Display: recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues Rachmaninoff's, London, UK.

His writing has been published in several art and culture magazines, including Flash Art, Art Monthly, Frieze and The Wire, and in the volume Continuous Project no.8, edited by Bettina Funcke (2006, Les presses du réel, Paris, France). He is currently working on a PhD at Middlesex University, UK on Jacques Rancière and the relation between aesthetics and politics.

March–April 2008

Raqs Media Collective (Established 1991)

Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula (born 1969), Jeebesh Bagchi (born 1965), Shuddhabrata Sengupta (born 1968)) has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them squarely along the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters. They live and work in Delhi, based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000. They are members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series.

www.raqsmediacollective.net

February 2008

Polly Staple

Polly Staple is an independent curator and writer based in London. An Editor at Large of Frieze Staple was formerly Director of Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme realized annually at Frieze Art Fair, London. She also was previous Curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and co-Editor of Untitled magazine. Over the past ten years she has contributed to numerous publications and been a regular visiting tutor at a number of London art colleges. She is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of Studio Voltaire and a Trustee of The Elephant Trust and she was a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions & Advisory Committee. Staple recently co-curated a major British Council produced, touring survey show of contemporary film and video from the UK which opened at MADRE, Naples in May 2007. She is currently developing a long-term research project 'Switzerland: art, commerce and the desiring subject', to be realized as a group essay-show and publication in 2008/09.

October–December 2007

Pierre Bismuth

Born 1963, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Pierre Bismuth tackles the challenges of contemporary art by addressing the representation and the reception of a work of art; by playing on the modalities and power of language and image; and by reappropriating art history and modern cultural references, from fashion to cinema. In doing so, he incorporates all artistic mediums available, from origami and collage to screenwriting and art installations. Bismuth has exhibited his works extensively throughout Europe, and North America. He earned an Academy Award in 2005 for co-authoring the screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Dessislava Dimova

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Her work focuses on the possibility of the social existence and recognition of the artist without offering any art production as such. Dessislava Dimova is a PhD fellow at the Institute of Art Studies in Sofia with a thesis on Bulgarian art after 1989. She has published numerous essays on contemporary art and culture, including The Cultural Learnings of Ivan Moudov, catalogue of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, 2007; Supernaturalism in Postcommunist Bulgaria, The Weird but True Book, 2005. She is currently curating The Spam Show, an email project that risks to be never seen, discarded by spam filters.

August–December 2007

Claire Fontaine

Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today.

But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box — as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes — there is always the possibility of what she calls the "human strike". Only two years old, Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.

Recent shows include, How to?, Kunsthalle Zürich; Grey Flags, The Sculpture Center, New York; Group Therapy, Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano; Incipit, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris and The Look of Law, University of California, Irvine. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York.

November&December 2007

Mark Leckey

born 1964, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

According to Roberta Smith of the New York Times, Mark Leckey is best known for manipulating pop images and music into dreamy, druggy, disjointed variants on music videos. Sometimes his work has a rough-edged energy, as in his 1999 club-life classic, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. Londonatella (2002) and Parade (2003) are nocturnal fantasies of beautiful people and consumer culture related to the 1980's photo based work of Richard Prince. He is also known for working with his band Jack2Jack in music video combinations as in The March of the Big White Barbarians — a sarcastic tour of public sculpture in London using only still images, and Shade of Destruction, a dark and baroque narrative based on a Graham Greene story about the destruction of a house in post-blitz London.

Mark Leckey (1964) is currently Professor of Film Studies at the Staelschule in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He is together with Ed Liq, Bonnie Camplin, and Enrico David, the founder of the band donAtelier. In 2008 he had a solo exhibition, Industrial Light and Magic, at Le Consortium in Dijon, with previous projects at Portikus in Frankfurt, Migros Museum in Zürich, Tate Britain, London and within group exhibitions at P.S.1/MoMA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, BALTIC, Manifesta 5, Salzburger Kunstverein, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art among others. He is represented by Cabinet in London, Buchholz Galerie in Cologne, and Gavin Brown in NYC.

Rosalind Nashashibi

Rosalind Nashashibi uses her 16mm camera as a catalyst, an accelerator of the real. Her films investigate the divide between reality and its extra-dimension – which could be fiction, the world of archetypes or spiritual realms, combining an interest in epic narrative with close observation of details. Throughout her work, she has observed small communities (Hreash House, 2004 and Midwest, 2002); investigated the unconsciously symbolic function of objects (Park Ambassador, 2004; Proximity Machines, 2007; Ambassador, 2004, in collaboration with Lucy Skaer); she has found mythological figures in the urban fabric of New York (Eyeballing, 2006) and attempted to reanimate encased objects in a museum (Flash in the Metropolitan, 2006, in collaboration with Lucy Skaer).

Rosalind Nashashibi's recent production is part of a series of films that focus on the notion of bachelor machines. Bachelor Machines: Part 1 combines the observation of a closed community — a cargo ship crew — with the attribution of an anthropomorphic character to the ship as a machine in itself. Conversely, Bachelor Machines: Part 2 revolves around Thomas Bayrle (an OCA ISP Resident in winter 2007) and his meditation on the invention of the machine, in particular the diesel engine, as man's materialisation of the desires once conveyed abstractly through the repetition of the rosary. Nashashibi conceives her practice more as a tool offered to the viewer to interrogate the world with her, than a report on our current state of affairs.

Winner of the Decibel Award in 2006 and Beck's Futures in 2003, Nashashibi (b.1973) was an OCA ISP resident in winter 2007. She has had solo exhibitions at the Chisenhale, London, Berkeley Art Musuem, Kunsthalle Basel, and CCA Glasgow. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including at the ICA, London, Kunstverein Frankfurt, and upcoming at MACBA in Barcelona. In 2006, she participated in Momentum in Moss, Norway. Nashashibi was included in the Scottish representation at the 52^nd Venice Biennale.

Corey McCorkle

Artist
Born 1969, La Cross, Wisconsin
Lives and works in New York

Corey McCorkle (b.1969) is interested in the Utopian ideas of nature and transcendence, which he pursues in many of his installations. McCorkle's work has been included in the surveys Make It Now at Sculpture Center (2005) and Greater New York 2005 at PS1, and was featured in a solo exhibition in 2006 at Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland. McCorkle's work has also been included in The Plain of Heaven by Creative Time in NYC (2005) and in Monopolis at Witte de With in Rotterdam (2005). Most recently, his work was included in Just Kick It Till It Breaks at The Kitchen in NYC (2007). McCorkle will have upcoming exhibitions at Pompidou Center, Paris and SMAK in Gent. He is featured in the November 2007 issue of Frieze.

This residency is made possibly with 03 Funding: specifically designated funds made available by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for exchange with countries of the South in the field of contemporary art, discourse and production.

June–September 2007

Helen Mirra

Artist
Born 1970, Rochester, New York, lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Helen Mirra's work occurs in varied scrap media, and engages structural and conceptual logics. It is often referred to as poetic, and indeed Mirra engages quite directly in relation to poetry, but her interest is as much in the metrical as in the lyrical. This metricality, even percussiveness, inflects her work which is informed by anxieties related to the conflicting ecologies of the modern world. Within the various forms in which she operates, there is always a source material upon which decisions are made. Recent projects include the large-scale public project Instance the Determination, which indexes works by John Dewey and Jane Addams, at the University of Chicago through 2009, and the book Cloud, the, 3, published by JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions in March 2007, as well as solo shows at Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe; Peter Freeman, New York; Galerie Nelson, Paris; Dallas Art Museum; Berkeley Art Museum and the Whitney Museum, New York. Mirra completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, and has received awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue. Mirra was a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2005–06, and teaches at Harvard University.

During her stay in Norway, Helen Mirra has visited Tromsø, Trondheim, Modum and Kongsvoll.

June 2007

Gabriel Kuri

Artist
Born 1970, Mexico, based in Brussels and Mexico

Gabriel Kuri is an artist whose sculptural practice addresses issues of coding experience, temporality and space. His work encompasses an array of media grounded on the grammar of everyday lexicon and exchange. His vocabulary of forms places emphasis on process and the open and unstable nature of meaning. He studied at ENAP UNAM Mexico (88–92) and Goldsmiths College London (93–95). Recent solo shows include 2006 Govett Brewster National Art Gallery New Zealand, 2004 and 2006 Galleria Franco Noero Torino, 2004 MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, 2003 and 2007 Galeria Kurimanzutto Mexico. Recent Group shows include 2006 Brighton Photo Bienale, 2004 State of Play Serpentine Gallery London, 2003 Interludes L Venice Bienale.

May 2007

Chin-tao Wu

Author and Academic
Born 1961, Taiwan

Chin-tao Wu is an author and academic who specializes in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed to New Left Review and New Statesman. Her latest book, Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s, published by Verso in 2002, is being translated into Chinese. The Turkish edition was published in 2005, the Portuguese edition in October 2006, and its Spanish edition was published in February 2007. She is currently Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Pablo Lafuente

Writer, Curator and Research Fellow
Born 1976, Santurce, Vizcaya, Spain. Lives and works in London, UK

Pablo Lafuente is the managing editor of Afterall, a journal of contemporary art co-published by Central St Martins College of Art, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Afterall is published twice a year, and focuses on contemporary art practice in relation to artistic, theoretical, social and political contexts. He is currently developing a series of books for Afterall Books analysing the history of curatorial practice. He has curated several exhibitions, including Watch out ... it's real! at Greengrassi, London (2006) and Unit Structures at Lisboa 20, Lisbon (2006). In 2005 he edited the book Display: recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues (London: Rachmaninoff's).

His writing has been published in several art and culture magazines, including Flash Art, Art Monthly, Frieze and The Wire, and in the volume Continuous Project no.8, edited by Bettina Funcke (Paris: Les presses du réel, 2006). He is currently working on a PhD at Middlesex University on Jacques Rancière and the relation between aesthetics and politics.

February 2007

Marko Lulic

Artist
Born 1972 in Vienna, Austria

Marko Lulic paints New-York-School-replicants, sculpts Titoist Yugoslavian Modernism, circulates posters and invitation cards from the Kippenbergian tradition of proactive embarrassment, shoots Reichian-internationalist propaganda videos, photographs series of trash design facades and researches the life of Nikola Tesla (Serbian rival of Edison in the battle between AC and AC/DC). His system knows no boundaries. But it's not about nostalgia.

Lulic appropriated Yugoslavian partisan monuments for the project Modernity in YU (2001/02), which ran over the course of several exhibitions and Mies van der Rohe's memorial for Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg (which the Nazis destroyed in 1935) for the different versions of Entertainment Center Mies (2003/2004), but he did so with a full awareness of the fact that there is something profoundly "inappropriate" in transferring a public memorial as a "private" sculpture into the gallery space. The inappropriate however is precisely the leverage that allows Lulic to shake fragments of Modernism out of their historic and heroic paralysis in order to examine their potential for being reactivated for the questions of the present.

Biography taken from Jörg Heiser, Funky Lessons, Revolver Books, Frankfurt, 2005.

Marko Lulic exhibits at Bastard from 16–25 February. Opening 16 February, 19:00.

January–February 2007

Thomas Bayrle

Artist
Born 1937 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany

Thomas Bayrle is an artist who was trained as a weaver and currently works with drawings, collages, film and computer graphics. Bayrle focuses on ideas around the masses in his drawings, photocopy collages and film animation sequences dating from the 1960s, and further into ideas around generating superstructures through geometric patterns of images with a variety of techniques and materials. In doing so, his work reveals contradictions within the forms of organization upon society rests.

Bayrle characterises his work as "a view of society as flat — horizontal — (electric) field/fabric/network. The vertical elements are plucked from the surface, like hay grass in the meadow." Bayrle taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stadelschule in Frankfurt from 1975 to 2002. He has received several awards and prizes including the Prix Arts Electronica, Linz (1995) and the Cologne Art Prize (2000). Bayrle's work has been shown in over thirty solo exhibitions internationally including in Documenta III and VI.

During his stay in Oslo Thomas Bayrle visited Bergen.

Rosalind Nashashibi

Artist
Born 1973, Croydon, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Rosalind Nashashibi uses her 16mm camera as a catalyst, an accelerator of the real. In some of her works, this is achieved by filming collective rituals that solidify the social routine of closed communities, for instance the Mexican neighborhood of a Midwestern town, a Palestinian family during Ramadan, or the students in a Glasgow library.

In recent work however, the transference of meaning between everyday reality and the realm of the possible is scrutinized through the exploration of archetypal figures or objects that can act as a go-between. Park Ambassador (2004), depicts a totemic object in a Glasgow park; while her last film Eyeballing (2005), depicts a series of faces found in building façades in New York juxtaposed with shots of NYPD officers loitering around their precinct.
Born in Croydon, educated at Sheffield Hallam University and Glasgow School of Art, Rosalind Nashashibi is now living in London. Winner of Beck's Futures in 2003, she had solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel and CCA Glasgow in 2004. In 2005 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council residency in New York. In 2007 she will present a solo show at Chisenhale in London. She participated in Momentum, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Norway, 2006.

Francesco Manacorda

Curator
Born 1974 in Turin, Italy, lives and works in London, UK

Francesco Manacorda is tutor in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London, and a writer and a freelance curator based in London. In 2004 he curated the exhibition The Mythological Machine at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University, on the impact of mass-media images, and in 2005 A Certain Tendency in Representation - Cineclub at Thomas Dane, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and he organised the symposium Ecology and Artistic Practice for the programme Arts&Ecology at the Royal Society of Arts, London. The same year he also was curatorial correspondent for the Turin Triennial The Pantagruel Syndrome. In 2006 he curated Subcontingent — The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Satellites at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. He just published a monograph on Maurizio Cattelan (2006, Electa), and regularly contributes to Flash Art, Metropolis M and Domus.

November–December 2006

Sean Snyder

Artist
Born 1972, Virginia Beach, USA
Lives and works in Berlin, Kyiv and Tokyo

In his photography, video and text projects, Sean Snyder dissects the role of representation and ideology through examples of architecture, urban and media space. Using both self-produced and reprocessed material, densely grouped systems of reference are configured as tactical counterpoints to the interpretation of dominant knowledge. Sean Snyder has recently participated in the 9^th Istanbul Biennale, 6^th Gwangju Biennale and 5^th Busan Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Portikus, Frankfurt; Secession, Vienna and forthcoming at the Stedelijk Musuem CS, Amsterdam, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao and the Lisson Gallery, London.

October 2006

Laura Horelli

Artist
Born 1976, Helsinki, Finland.
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

Laura Horelli's photo, text and video installations focus on communicative forms of relations in public, media and psychological spaces. The artist often links documentary material with her own pictures and information. Laura Horelli studied in Helsinki as well as at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt. Recent exhibitions include 6^th Gwangju Biennale (2006), South Korea, Periferic 7, Iasi, Romania (2006), In 2052 Malmö Will No Longer Be Swedish, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (2005), Laura Horelli, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (2004) and Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain (2004).

Mike Bouchet

Artist
Born 1970, Castro Valley, California, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA and Frankfurt, Germany

Bouchet's performative, sculptural artistic projects often physically traverse the globe. These deadpan works — serious art, which hinges on not-so-serious issues or impossible situations — demonstrate his illogical and even absurd approach to the world itself. As he says, they constitute "an attempt at something".

Pooja Sood

Curator and director of KHOJ Residency
Lives and works in New Delhi, India

Pooja Sood is the chairperson and coordinator of KHOJ International Artists' Association, an autonomous, artist-led registered society aimed at promoting intercultural understanding through exchange. Sood has coordinated the KHOJ International Artists' Workshop in Delhi from 1998-2001, facilitated the workshop in Bangalore 2002-2003 and is currently developing a international residency programme at KHOJ. As coordinator of KHOJ, she has developed core competencies in fundraising, strategic planning and capacity building. Sood is also the regional coordinator of the international artists' network, facilitated by the Triangle Arts Trust, UK. She works with artists' communities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, facilitating exchange through workshops and residencies in the region. Over the past 4 years, she has actively facilitated the development of the South Asian Network by building capacity and facilitating fundraising, communication and networking strategies. She is working towards the inclusion of South East Asian artists groups. Sood is also the Director of the corporate sponsored Apeejay Media Gallery, the first new media gallery in India since 2002. She has curated/programmed several large Indian and international video art exhibitions over the past 3 years. As independent curator, she co-curated the exhibition Have we met? with curators from Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand for the Japan Foundation. She was invited to curate a video art exhibition for the Musee D'Ethnographie in Geneva and is a guest curator for the Freewaves Media Festival in Los Angeles, USA. The exhibition From Goddess to Pinup: Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Art, which she co-curated with anthropologist Dr Patricia Uberoi, has toured Fukuoka, Amsterdam, Vienna, Vancouver, and New York. She was the Indian commissioned researcher for the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2002-2003 and curator in residence at the museum from Dec 1999-Jan 2000. She has participated in various forums on Indian contemporary art, art management and South Asian art in India and abroad. Amongst others, she has made presentations at the Asia Pacific Triennale in Brisbane; at the Winternachten Festival in The Hague and at the ArtSouthAsia seminar in Manchester, UK. She has written on art for the magazine Art India and is the editor of several catalogues including the first publication of Indian video art, Video Art in India, 2003.

August–September 2006

Lars Bang Larsen

Critic and curator
Born in Denmark
Lives and works in Frankfurt

Lars Bang Larsen is a free-lance critic and curator, based in Frankfurt and Copenhagen. He writes regularly for Frieze and Artforum, and has co-curated the Momentum biennial in 1998 and the group shows Pyramids of Mars (2000), Fundamentalisms of the New Order (2002), The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds (2005) and Populism (2005). He has written about the art and culture of the 1960s, for example in 'Sture Johannesson' (2002), about Johannesson's psychedelic posters and digital graphics. At the moment Lars teaches at Konsthögskolan in Stockholm and at the academies in Copenhagen and Århus, and is doing research for a book about the history of psychedelic art in a global context.

Claire Bishop

Lecturer in the History of Art department at the University of Warwick
Born 1979, Wales
Lives and works in London

Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic based in London. She is currently Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art. In October she will take up a new job in the History of Art Department at Warwick University. She has also taught at Essex University (where she completed her PhD) and Tate Modern. She is the author of Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate, 2005), Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (October no.110, 2004) and contributes regularly to Artforum, Flash Art, Untitled, and Tate Etc.

Her latest publication is Participation, an edited anthology of key texts on participation in art from the late 1950s to the present day, and will be published in September by Whitechapel Art Gallery & MIT Press. She recently presented the paper Live Installations and Constructed Situations: The Use of "Real People" in Art, at OCA's Verksted seminar on the Art of Welfare, which is published, along with the other participants' contributions, as a book September 2006.

Her current research interests concern post-medium-specific art, the history of exhibition display, and the politics of spectatorship in socially-engaged and relational art.

Chus Martinez

Director of the Kunstverein Frankfurt
Born in Galicia, Spain
Lives and works in Frankfurt

Chus Martinez is the Director of the Kunstverein Frankfurt where she has been since January this year. At the moment she is curating "Ist das Leben nicht schön?"; a group exhibition in four chapters with Esra Ersen, Wilhelm Sasnal, Arturas Raila and Tommy Støckel. Prior to that she had been the Director of Exhibitions at Sala Rekalde, a center for contemporary art based in Bilbao where she developed a series of exhibitions, workshops, and publications dealing with the new conditions in contemporary art production. Martinez is a regular contributor to Afterall and correspondent to Flash Art International. She holds a M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.

Seth Siegelaub and Marja Bloem

Seth Siegelaub

Exhibition organizer, author, researcher
Born 1941, New York City, USA
Lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Seth Siegelaub was born in the Bronx, New York in 1941 and grew up in New York City. He has been active as a plumber; art dealer, publisher and independent exhibition organizer, including 35 art-related projects and the "Artist's Rights Agreement" from 1964 - 1971; a researcher and publisher of left books on communication and culture; a bibliographer of the history of textiles; and currently a researcher studying the theory of time and causality. He has lived in Europe since the early 1970s, currently in Amsterdam.

Marja Bloem

Independent curator
Born 1944, Didam, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Marja Bloom is an independent curator, frequently writing on contemporary art. From 1971 to 2005 she worked at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as Curator for Exhibitions where she was responsible for organizing innumerable important group and solo exhibitions including by Agnes Martin, Kazimir Malevich, Lawrence Weiner, JCJ Vanderheyden, Berend Strik, Rini Hurkmans, Richard Tuttle, Marina Abramovic, Gerhard Richter, Imi Knoebel, Georg Herold, Lucio Fontana and Colin McCahon. During that period she was also head of the music program at the museum where she organized weekly concerts by avant-garde musicians, music workshops and exhibitions of musical installations. During the past few years she has organized the first international retrospective exhibition of the major Australasian painter Colin McCahon in New Zealand and Australia. Bloem holds a PhD in art history from Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. She is a board member of several Dutch music foundations, and has also served on a number of art foundations, committees and juries.

June–September 2006

Michael Sailstorfer

Artist
Born 1979, Vilsbiburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

Michael Sailstorfer takes interest in everyday objects; materials that surround us and the associations they trigger. In inflicting transformations, contextual adjustments and spatial appropriation, Sailstorfer deforms the meaning and function of the original object - leading to a renewed configuration. His work explores the unstable relationship between form and content, emphasizing that the function of an object and its material manifestations are subject to change based on historical dynamic.

Solo exhibitions include Attitudes Geneva, 2004; Welttour Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, 2003; D-IBRB, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgia, 2003; Und sie bewegt sich doch!Stadt. Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2003; and heimatlied Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, 2002. Group exhibitions include Bewegte Teile Kunsthaus Graz, Austria and Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2004; the Liverpool Biennial, 2004; Degree Show 2004, MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London; Sydney Biennial 2004; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, 2004; Wings of Art Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, 2003; Fuori Uso Ferrotel, Pescara, 2003; At least begin to make an end W 139, Amsterdam, 2003; Bewegt Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Germany, 2002; Acht mal anders Centro de arte joven, Madrid, 2001; and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany, 2001.

OCA Launches Experimental Off-Site Residency

OCA has launched an experimental off-site residency in collaboration with the Nordic biennial, Momentum. The participating artist Phil Collins (UK) will be traveling to Kenya for research associated with his project to be realized at the event in September. The project is realized both as part of OCA Open Studios on 31 August and in the exhibition platform of Momentum.

Phil Collins

Artist
Born 1970, UK

Phil Collins is referred to as a neo-conceptualist artist whose photographs and videos share in Nan Goldin's intimacy. His recent series The World Won't Listen is video work focused on desire and innocence and the ability of popular music to provide wisdom and solace around the globe. Its title is drawn from a 1986 album by the British band the Smiths re-performed in karaoke by Turkish youths. Another work, The Return of the Real involves the artist inviting a dozen people who had been on reality and talk shows to discuss the effects of these appearances on their lives in a panel and in individual interviews resulting in intimate autobiographies and therapy sessions. Collins has exhibited widely in venues such as Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Espacio la Rebeca, Bogotá; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Modern Art, Oxford; Tate Britain, London; Barbican Centre, London; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; The Wrong Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. He recently participated in the ninth Istanbul Biennale.

May–June 2006

Olav Westphalen

Artist
Born 1963, Hamburg

Olav Westphalen breaks with the standards of art by setting up an insidious competition between high-minded autonomy and lowly pleasure, where highbrow art is undermined by vicious jokes and burlesque actions. But although there is a parodying element to his art, it never produces parody. Rather, his objects and performances shake up art's logic by over-fulfilling all the standards employed by critics and the public to gauge and exploit the work of art.

Westphalen had his first solo show in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 1995. Since then, he has been exhibiting internationally in exhibitions and venues such as Monuments for America Wattis Gallery, Oakland, USA (2005); Global Players Bankart, Yakohama, Japan (2005); Milliken Art Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, (2005); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (2004). In 2006 he will have a solo exhibition in Michael Neff Gallery in Frankfurt (May); Galerie Georges-Philip and Natalie Vallois in Paris, France; and at Kunstverein Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany.

May 2006

Serhiy Bratkov

Artist
Born 1960, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Serhiy Bratkov is a photographer active in The Fast Reaction Group, an urban interventionist collective prominent in Ukraine during the mid-1990s (together with Boris Mikhailov, Serhiy Solonsky and Victoria Mikhailova). His work arrives out of a consciousness of his own time gauged against the political, social and economic contingencies of the "just past". Bratkov's subjects are seemingly listless within a liminal space inscribed by the temporal gap between Ukraine's Soviet period and its subsequent reincarnation as an evolving market economy and political anomaly. In recent work, Bratkov remixes images that approach the child as a subject beyond common juvenile clichés approaching a generation of children that hold a residual consciousness of what transgressed while prematurely entering adolescence located in an antithetical elsewhere. These kids, forever, parentless and invulnerable, are consumed by an alienating experience of youth that is often reduced to exchange value by the international demand for adoption and abundant sex trafficking.

April–May 2006

Tue Greenfort

Artist
Born 1973, Holbäk, Denmark

Greenfort discovers the details of city life, which are largely unknown or go unseen due to their normalcy. In his work, Greenfort deals with these kinds of situations in space and in everyday life and reveals the structures behind urbanity through small changes or mechanisms. With the help of artistic intervention, occurrences become visible and their existence questioned.

April 2006

Naveen Kishore

Curator, The Seagull Foundation, India

February

Corey McCorkle

Artist
Born 1969, La Cross, Wisconsin
Lives and works in New York

Corey McCorkle is interested in the utopian ideas of nature and transcendence which he pursues in many of his installations. McCorkle's work has been included in the surveys Make It Now at Sculpture Center and Greater New York 2005 at PS1, and was featured in solo exhibitions in 2006 at Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland and at the Marres In Maastricht, Netherlands. McCorkle's work has also been included in The Plain of Heaven by Creative Time in NYC and in Monopolis at Witte de With in Rotterdam. Most recently, his work was included in Just Kick It Till It Breaks at The Kitchen in NYC. Concurrently he has solo exhibitions at Maccarone, New York and Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp.

Carol Bove

Artist
Born 1971, Geneva
Lives and works in New York

Carol Bove's work reflects on social, political, and artistic movements of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Bove has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2004); Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (2003); Team Gallery, New York (2003); Art Basel|33, Basel, Switzerland (2002); and Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York (2000).

Bove has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Joy of Sex: Carol Bove and Charles Raymond at Cubitt, London (2004); Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude at the List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (2003); Reproduction II at Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria (2003); and Transformer at La Panaderia, Mexico City (2001).

Dan Graham

Artist
Born 1942
Lives and works in New York

Since the mid-1960s, Dan Graham has produced an important body of art and theory that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video and television are among the focuses of his investigations, which are translated into essays, performances, installations, videotapes and architectural/sculptural designs.

Graham began using film and video in the 1970s, creating installation and performance works that actively engage the viewer in an inquiry into public and private, audience and performer, objectivity and subjectivity. In installations focusing on the social implications of television, as articulated in private and public viewing spaces, Graham refers to video's semiotic function in architecture in relation to both window and mirror. Graham has also published numerous critical and theoretical essays that investigate the cultural ideology of such contemporary social phenomena as punk music, suburbia and public architecture. Graham has published numerous critical essays, and is the author of Video-Architecture-Television (1980). His work is in the collections of major institutions in USA and Europe, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and The Tate Gallery, London. He has had retrospective exhibitions at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland; and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and has been represented internationally in group exhibitions/institutions such as Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; P.S.1, New York; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other festivals and institutions.

Lawrence Weiner

Artist
Born 1942, Bronx, New York
Lives and Works in New York and Amsterdam

The late fifties and early sixties Weiner spent travelling throughout North America (USA, Mexico, and Canada). The first presentation of his work was Mill Valley California in 1960. Lawrence Weiner divides his time between his studio in New York City and his boat in Amsterdam. He participates in public and private projects and exhibitions, in both the new and old world, maintaining that Art is the empirical fact of the relationships of objects to objects in relations to human beings, and not dependant upon historical precedent for either use or legitimacy.

January 2006

Kristina Leko

Artist
Born 1966, Croatia

Kristina Leko is an artist working in the medium of video, photography, text, and social interaction. Her work includes a collection of found objects, actions in public space, and communication and documentary projects in collaboration with different social groups.

Projects: Sarajevo International, a video-communication project in collaboration with twelve Sarajevo immigrants, 2001; On Milk and People, an exhibition in collaboration with Croatian and Hungarian farmers, 2002/03; Cheese and Cream, various actions and artifacts dedicated to protection of the milkmaids of Zagreb, since 2002; Verfassungs-korrekturbuerro, an action in progress improving the American Constitution, 2004.