Jelena Tomasevic
Artist Name: Jelena Tomasevic Residency Dates: 2013 Born: 1974 Hometown: Montenegro Lives & Works: Montenegro Bio/Statement: Jelena Tomasevic ( (b. 1974) is a painter who lives and works in Montenegro. Her paintings tell of the existential solitude and estrangement of individuals in our highly competitive, consumerist society. Combining emptiness and saturation, realist and dream-like qualities, […]
Juan Betancurth
Artist Name: Juan Betancurth Residency Dates: 2o13 Born: 1972 Hometown: Columbia Lives & Works: New York City, USA Bio/Statement: Juan Betancurth’s stage-like installations have the subdued air of a memorial filled with handmade devices. Drawn from domestic routines and religious rites his site-specific installations offer the viewer a space for experimentation and contemplation. Different meanings […]
Štefan Papčo
Artist Name: Štefan Papčo Residency Dates: Febraury – April 2013 Born: 1983 Hometown: Slovakia URL: www.stefanpapco.com/ Bio/Statement: Štefan Papčo was born in Ruzomberok (Slovakia) in 1983. He graduated at studio “Sculpture and Space” at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. (2001-2007). In 2011 has received the Triangle Arts Association scholarship in New York […]
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik
Artist Name: Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik Residency Dates: 2013 Born: 1967 Hometown: London, UK Lives & Works: New York City, USA URL: www.monoschwarzkogelnik.com/ Bio/Statement: Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik (b. 1967, London),lives and works in New York City. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and Kings College, London, and holds an M.Arch from SCI-Arc and an MFA in fine […]
Vanessa Safavi
Artist Name: Vanessa Safavi Residency Dates: February – June 2013 Hometown: Switzerland Bio/Statement: Vanessa Safavi is a recipient of the 2012 Illy Present/Future Prize. Of Iranian and Swiss descent and born in 1980, Safavi lives and works between Basel and Berlin. An extensive traveler, she uses her journeys to get to know different cultures and […]
Yana Dimitrova
Artist Name: Yana Dimitrova Residency Dates: February – June 2013 Hometown: Bulgaria URL: http://www.yanadimitrova.com/ Bio/Statement: Yana Dimitrova graduated from the School of Fine Arts “Acd. Iliya Petrov” in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2002 and received her BFA (2006) and MFA (2008) from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Her most […]
Walter Steinacher
Artist Name: Walter Steinacher Residency Dates: February – March 2013 Hometown: Austria URL: http://www.typotektonik.net/ Bio/Statement: Walter Steinacher a.k.a. KEVIN KLEIN studied with Gunther Damisch, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Andrej Daniel, National Academy of Fine Arts Sofia (BG), Robert Pfaller and graduated 2003 at the University of Art and Design Linz with Ursula Huebner. As […]
Vladimir Čajkovac
Curator Name: Vladimir Čajkovac Residency Dates: February 2013 Hometown: Zagreb, Croatia Bio/Statement: Vladimir Čajkovac is a curator from Zagreb, Croatia. He is now based in Dresden where he works as a research fellow at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum on the project AIDS as a Global Media Event: An intercultural comparison of posters and their imagery. Previously, […]
Lucas Maddock
Artist Name: Lucas Maddock Residency Dates: February – April 2013 Hometown: Australia Bio/Statement: Lucas Maddock grew up in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne Australia and began his visual art career in the street art movements of the late 90’s and early 00’s. He studied at the Swinburne Institute of Design and developed a career in […]
Todd Shalom
Artist Name: Todd Shalom Residency Dates: January – March 2013 URL: http://www.aiav.jp Bio/Statement: Todd Shalom works with text, sound and image to re-contextualize the body in space using vocabulary of the everyday. He is also the founder and director of Elastic City (www.elastic-city.org/). In this role, Todd leads his own walks, collaborates with artists to […]