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  • Patrick Blenkarn & Montserrat Videla Samper

    Patrick Blenkarn & Montserrat Videla Samper

    Patrick Blenkarn & Montserrat Videla Samper is GlogauAIR resident from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Canada, Colombia, and Mexico

    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    Patrick Blenkarn (Ottawa, 1991) is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the co-creator of the arts economy trading card game, culturecapital, and a member of the archival project, videocan. His work currently explores language, labour, and the art economy, often using participation and games in performance to create alternative contexts for discourse and thought.

    Montserrat Videla Samper (Mexico City, 1997) is a Colombian-Mexican artist currently based in Canada. She trained in acting and performance creation at the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Her current interests revolve around the aesthetics of mothering, wounding, and crisis in theater and performance and how these aesthetics are enacted and experienced by performers and spectators.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    This residency brings together our personal practices: as directors and actors, as media artists and movers, as two interdisciplinary individuals who take turns leading and following.

    During our residency, we will be working on multiple projects across sound and video works, video games, and live performance, exploring the politics and representations of donkeys, dogs, and mothers (among others). Our experiments while in residence will orbit and intersect with questions concerning labour, philosophies of the animal, and affect in order to try to destabilize our definitions and etiquettes of being human.

    CV Summary

    PATRICK BLENKARN (OTTAWA, 1991)

    EDUCATION

    • 2018, Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver
    • 2013, BA Combined Honours in Contemporary Studies + Theatre Studies, with a Minor in Film Studies, University of King’s College, Halifax

    SELECTED PERFORMANCES & LIVE ART

    • on-going, asses.masses, Risk/Reward Festival, Portland; Digital Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts
    • on-going, culturecapital, Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Vancouver; Chinook Series, Edmonton
    • 2019, 1991, Guilty by Association, Feminist Fuck It Fest, Toronto; RISER Project, Toronto
    • 2018, Donkeyskin [prototype: China], Interplay 2018, Vancouver
    • 2018, Books, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
    • 2017, A Zoo for Ideas, Spaces for Art: A Critical Conversation, SFU, Vancouver
    • 2016, That which doesn’t go away, Interplay 2016, Vancouver
    • 2016, Soliloquy in English, SummerWorks, Toronto; rEvolver Theatre Festival, Vancouver
    • 2015, Embracing Canada: A Guerrilla Audio Guide to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
    • 2015, Play, xosecret, Halifax
    • 2015, Practice: Shanghai, Shanghai
    • 2015, Skype Piece, Demostage/Stages Theatre Festival, Halifax
    • 2015, Les mères, The Prince George Hotel, Halifax
    • 2014, Rendezvous, DaPoPo’s The Live-In Festival, Halifax [staged reading]
    • 2014, Accompaniment: Prelude and Intermezzo, Online

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    • 2018, Digital Carnival, Cinevolution, Richmond
    • 2018, Intensity at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður
    • 2017, Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver
    • 2017, Flotilla, Charlottetown
    • 2017, Binding, Breathing, Incorporating, Audain Gallery, Vancouver
    • 2017, Digital Carnival, Cinevolution, Richmond
    • 2017, Hot Dog, Parking Spot Projects, Vancouver
    • 2017, In Circulation: Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver
    • 2017, 49 at 74: New Works by Canadian Artists on Paper, Marbury Studio, New York, NY

    SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS

    • 2016, Philosophical Investigations, Digital Video. 5:47min // Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara (2017)
    • 2016, Heart & Soul: S12 E10 [w. Lily Ross-Millard], Digital Video. 9:09min // Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton/Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton (2017); Cineworks Film & Media Showcase (2017); Martinique International Film Festival (2017); Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (2016) *Best Experimental Film Award*; Experimental Forum 2016, Los Angeles (2016); Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, (2016); Festival of Recorded Movement, Vancouver (2016)

    SELECTED RESIDENCIES

    • 2020, Explorations, The Theatre Centre, Toronto
    • 2019, Fonderie Darling, Montreal
    • 2018, Studio Residency, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby
    • 2018, Micro-Performance Residency, Boca del Lupo, Vancouver
    • 2018, Scholarship Residency, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
    • 2018, Printing Matter Residency, Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts, Seyðisfjörður

    SELECTED AWARDS

    • 2020, Digital Strategy Fund, Canada Council for the Arts (videocan – Multidisciplinary)
    • 2020, Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts (Visual Arts)
    • 2020, Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts (Interarts)
    • 2019, Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (Theatre)
    • 2019, Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (Interarts)
    • 2019, Professional Development for Artists, Canada Council for the Arts (Lighting Design)
    • 2018, Arts Abroad: Residency Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
    • 2016, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival Best Experimental Film Award
    • 2015, Canada Graduate Scholarship— Masters, Social Sciences Humanities Research Centre (SSHRC)

    MONTSERRAT VIDELA SAMPER (MEXICO CITY, 1997)

    EDUCATION & TRAINING

    • 2020, BFA Theatre Performance, Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver
    • 2019, Dramaturgy and Communications Intern, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver
    • Acting: Ker Wells, Steven Hill, Cole Lewis, Fay Simpson. Grotowski: Raina Von Waldenburg, Ker Wells. Commedia Del’Arte/Mask: Steven Hill. Clown: Steven Hill. Shakespeare: Cole Lewis, Sara Holdren. Voice: Tanya Elchuck, Lee Su-Feh. Fitzmaurice Technique: Lee Su-Feh. Contemporary Dance: Henry Daniel, Rob Kitsos. Viewpoints: Rob Kitsos. Labán Technique: Lavinia Hollands. Devising: Henry Daniel, James Long, Cole Lewis, Steven Hill, Ker Wells, Rob Kitsos, Nicola Gunn Stage Combat: Jacquie Loewen

    SELECTED THEATRE PERFORMANCE & CREATION

    • 2020, Blue Borders, Performer, Eric Rose+Laura Anzola [Ghost River Theatre, AZMA]
    • 2020, New Societies, Facilitator/Creator, Brian Postalian [Re:Current Theatre 2019; eVolver, Kick&Push]
    • 2020, culturecapital, Tournament Program Officer, Milton Lim+Patrick Blenkarn [Expanse Fest/Chinook Series]
    • 2019, 1991, Performer, Cole Lewis [Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project, In the Soil, GbA]
    • 2019, Corazón del Espantapájaros, Performer/Creator, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa [PuSh Festival]
    • 2019, Bombogenesis: A Musical, Liesl Von Trapp, Steven Hill [SFU Theatre Mainstage]
    • 2019, WROL*, Maureen, Amy Lynn Strilchuck [Touchstone Theatre]
    • 2019, A La Commedia, Louise, Steven Hill [Burnaby Arts Council Summer Theatre]
    • 2018, The Wolves**, #14, Jamie King [Pacific Theatre, With A Spoon, Rumble Theatre]
    • 2017, Romeo + Juliet, Juliet, Cole Lewis [SFU Theatre Mainstage]
    • 2017, these violent delights, Nurse, Cole Lewis [Summerworks Festival, GbA]
    • 2017, nómadas, Performer/Collaborator, Henry Daniel [SFU Dance Mainstage]
    • * Staged reading
    • ** Jessie Richardson Award nomination for Best Production (Small Theatre)

    SELECTED FILM

    • 2020, Sam at the Base […], Supporting, Yousuf Liepert [NextFest]
    • 2018, Abracadavers*, Supporting, Morgan Ermter [Numera Films]
    • 2018, Virgo Rising**, Supporting, Emily Bayrock [SFU Film]
    • 2017, Your Story, Lead, Commercial; Simon Fraser University
    • *13 wins and 32 nominations, including Best Web Series-Fiction from Alberta Film & Television Awards.
    • **3 wins and 2 nominations, including Best Student Short Film from Festigious International Film Festival

    SELECTED VOICE WORK

    • 2020, Messenger, Madam, Yousuf Liepert [MMM Collective/Wildfire Series Podcast]
    • 2019, In the middle[…], Narrator, Henry Daniel [Black Canadian Scholars Ass./UBC Theatre]
    • 2019, Bl’eau Beauty, Narrator, Commercial; Canadian Glacial Clay Cosmetics Corporation
    • 2018, nómadas, Narrator/Writer,Henry Daniel [Cambridge Music Society, Woodward’s Cultural Unit, Mediating Performance Experiences/UofO, Body of Knowledge/Deakin University, Society for Artistic Research/Zürich University of the Arts, Interactive Art Science Technology/UofL]

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    • 2018, FCAT Undergraduate Conference [Simon Fraser University]
    • 2017, 4×4 [The Playground Gallery]
    • 2017, Back Alley Artist Night [CBC Studio 700]

    ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

    • 2020, Fall Volcano Conservatory, Volcano Theatre, Toronto
    • 2020, Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford, Stratford, CT
    • 2020, Emerging Creatives Program, Vines Art Festival, Vancouver
    • 2018, Youth Academy, PuSh Festival, Vancouver
    • 2016, beautifulyoungstudents, One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary

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  • Sergio Femar

    Sergio Femar

    Sergio Femar is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Spain

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Influenced by the nature of the street art style, his work is very aware of the matter that composes it as well as its origins. Sergio does not have a fixed idea in his mind before starting to work. It is the material that comes and connects with him. The artist observes the suggestions and lets the work flow itself. As a result, spontaneity becomes a key element when understanding the process, the features of the physical support, the colour bound to the shape or the three-dimensionality.

    His project needs to be connected to current times, the outside: the painting tries to represent the present moment, daily images that cross each other, objects he finds and transforms. Sergio believes in second opportunities when it comes to work with materials. We live in a society that consumes “things” at a fast speed pace where the existing and available resources are very exploitable. This is where Sergio’s work molds to the environment and it is complemented with it as a manner to connect to the ever-changing world we live in.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    The main purpose for which I’m applying for this scholarship is because I’m interested in materializing painting in space, and that is to take the leap to installation and move from fabric and board to three dimensions.

    I believe that on the Berlin art scene, numerous transverse investigation proceedings which have resulted in the confluence of painting, sound, video and architecture have been developed in a unique and unparalleled way.

    The main theme I want to address during my stay at GlogauAIR is the installation as a pictorial project of the space. I really believe that the possibilities offered by the city of Berlin, along with an environment of young creators, will bring me closer to the reality of other materials and supports.

    The development of painting in Germany in recent years has been very significant and has been reflected in the work of artists such as Blinky Palermo, Albert Oehlen or Richter, who are a source of inspiration for my own work. That is the reason why being surrounded by their language and creativity is a determining factor in my professional development.

    During this quarantine, I have been reflecting and working on several concepts of expanded painting, partly thanks to considerations such as “the installation transforms the empty, neutral, public space into an individual artwork – and it invites the visitor to experience this space as the holistic, totalizing space of an artwork” of Boris Groys in his book Going Public.

    Staying at the GlogauAIR artists’ residence is undoubtly an opportunity for personal and professional growth that fits in with my current purpose of transferring the idea of composition from canvas to space.

    CV Summary

    Degree in Fine Arts, painting speciality with honors for the University of Salamanca (Spain). Promotion 2008 – 2013

    Solo Shows

    • “Jux·ta·po·si·ti·on” at Galerie Biesenbach (Duo) (Colongne, Germany). 2020
    • “La Mirada Compartida” at Gärna Art Gallery (Duo) (Madrid, Spain). 2020
    • “Arquitopía” at Invernadero The Sibarist at Art U Ready. Sponsored by Acciona (Madrid, Spain). 2019
    • “La bicicleta” at EspacioBRUT (Madrid, Spain). 2018
    • “Vogavoga” at EspacioBRUT (Madrid, Spain). 2016

    Group shows

    • “Quarantine Exhibition” at Space52 (Athens, Greece). 2020
    • “Carte Blanche” at Galerie Biesenbach. (Cologne Germany). 2020
    • “30+5 Exposición Aniversario” at Aurora Vigil-Escalera Galería de Arte (Gijón, Spain). 2020
    • “Generación Y” at Club Matador (Madrid, Spain). 2019 – 2020
    • “Small World” at Galerie Biesenbach (Cologne, Germany). 2019
    • “Snow Monkey” at Galerie Biesenbach (Cologne, Germany). 2019
    • “Wall Sculptures” at Freud Monk Gallery (USA). 2019
    • “Exposición 57” at Viloria Blanco Galería (Maracaibo, Venezuela). 2018 – 2019
    • “Lenguajes en Papel 8” at Galería Fernando Pradilla (Madrid, Spain). 2017 – 2018
    • “Arte 17 pequeño formato” at Viloria Blanco Galería (Maracaibo, Venezuela). 2017 – 2018

    Art Fairs

    • Soon “JustLX” with Aurora Vigil-Escalera Galería de Arte (Lisbon, Portugal). 2021
    • Soon “JustMAD” with Aurora Vigil-Escalera Galería de Arte (Madrid, Spain). 2021
    • “Art und Antik Messe” with Galerie Biesenbach (Münster, Germany). 2020
    • “Art Marbella” with USC Miami (Marbella, Spain). 2019

    Art Residencies

    • GlogauAIR Berlin (Berlin, Germany). 2020
    • “X Encontro de Artistas Novos” #EAN10 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). 2020

    Galleries

    • Galerie Biesenbach (Cologne, Germany)
    • Aurora Vigil-Escalera Galería de Arte (Gijón and Madrid, Spain)

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  • Rita Palma

    Rita Palma

    Rita Palma is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Portugal

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    My work has been evolving around the idea of perception of our own identity and its fragility. It often seems possible to trace the thoughts and actions of an individual and connect them to external sources like their culture, the way society has made them and their genetics and instincts. While representing the human figures (through oil painting or through photography) I exclude any context in an attempt to express the uncomfortable moment of confrontation with the emptiness of the self. But although I see myself as corrupted by society, I also came to realize I’m also corrupted by my own animal desires. Underlying my artistic work, there’s a process of research that goes back and forth between the sphere of values and context (from external sources) and the sphere of desires and instincts (from genetics). I am society and society is myself. Each individual bounces between the polarity of victim and aggressor of society. Individually humans are fragile. Without the others we are nobody. Even our own definition of “I” presupposes the existence of “others”. If the human being is the result of its context and instincts, all its actions can be justified and predicted. The human is an inoffensive animal. It’s almost comical how fragile it becomes.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    In the GlogauAiR residency I intend to continue and develop the project I’m currently working on. “ANIMALS” is about the displacement of people as individuals in society. These days human beings are used to the constant change. Their biggest strength is adaptation, so we, humans, adapted to this pace. In fact, we crave change. Our curiosity is inherent to our species. Paradoxically, humans also need a sense of belonging and integration. Change is happening faster than ever before. Too fast for people to ground themselves. Displacement became normality. And normality is the acceptance of the majority. Berlin is the culmination of displacement. Being one of the most multicultural cities in Europe, this stage of contemporary people is the best scenario for a further evolution of my project.

    I intend to present this idea through a series of portraits where the individual beings are displaced out of their context. Free of conceptions they appear in an uncomfortable emptiness. Then, I want to take my artistic process further and take the portraits themselves out of the environment of the studio. Out of context, the paintings are ungrounded, like those who they represent. Through this contrast I intend to express the overlapping values we all share and the struggle of integration.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • September 2014 – June 2018: Bachelor degree in Painting – Fine Arts University of Lisbon

    Collective Exhibitions

    • 3.27 June 2017, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
    • 12×12 December 2016, Atelier da Travessa, Lisbon, Portugal
    • O meu lugar December 2015, Associação de Moradores da Portela, Loures, Portugal

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  • Laure Winants

    Laure Winants

    Laure Winants is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Belgium

    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    The whirlwind of stardust. The tide of the sea. The irruption of a volcano. These childlike fascinations bring to the fore the continuous going back and forth between science and the mystery of nature. They are at the core of my photographic work as I’ve been dialoguing, since 2010, with scientists who explore and document natural phenomenon. Nature has a will of its own. It always finds its way outside of the humankind culture and its influence. A volcano for instance is still something non-negotiable. We attend to measure the world around us through our physical presence, how we engage with our surrounds, and how we perceive color, time, motion and scale. The aim of my work is to tackle the environmental issues through different prisms, to confront both the scientific and the artistic point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions and to discover new forms of data.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    Throughout my work and travels, I have been fascinated by natural phenomena such as craters, swamps, volcanos and comets. In these contexts, since a few years now, I have started a dialogue with scientists working on and documenting these phenomena. The story begins with an encounter and evolves in crossing the scientific and photographic approaches, confronting point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions. The aim to tackle the environment issue through different prisms and discover new forms of data. My practice takes place in a research within the space, the experience and the encounter. It is therefore in this will of encounter that I head towards GlogauAIR. I’m always looking for workshop where I could learn and enhance my technique. I have the strong will to experiment new types of alternative process. In the context of this program, I wish to develop this line of work more in details, both artistically and theoretically. I also find this program as a great opportunity to share interests in analogue methods of processing, to confront points of view, to cross practices and give a hand to others within their research. It is a beautiful place favorable to create and share. Important for ideas’ irruption, and bringing forward new perspectives.

    CV Summary

    • Laure Winants is a Brussels based visual artist (b.1991).
    • BA in Visual Communication and a MA at IHECS Academy, Brussels, Belgium, in the year 2016, during which she also completed a fine arts specialization at the Belas Artes of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
    • Specialized in photography at KASK, Gent (2017-2018).
    • The aim of her work is to tackle the environmental issues through different prisms, to confront both the scientific and the artistic point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions and to discover new forms of data.
    • Recent screenings and exhibitions of her work include: Short Film festival at Namur (Terra Nullius, 2016), collective exhibition 60/60 (The Comet is coming, mars 2019), Museum of Photography in Charleroi (2019), Belgium, R.A.V.I (Artist residency 2020), Kunstcentrum Hasselt (2021).

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  • MiCKi CHOMiCKi

    MiCKi CHOMiCKi

    MiCKi CHOMiCKi is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    France

    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    I am often referred to as the Hairtist, because I have a predilection for using synthetic hair in my work. Hair Brut is a closer definition as my creations could be Art Brut using hair exclusively. Creating strong symbolic evocations and infinite creative power, I joyfully manipulate it in all its forms for installations, or crafted objects. Tamed or savage and in unending combinations of color blends, hair constantly challenges me. Handling these strange threads requires a constant defiance of control and patience. Freed from the confining shapes of human heads and ‘hairstyling’ and taken as a crude, ruthless material, it offers an amazing world of possibilities. The challenge to push the boundaries ever further, to deconstruct and reinvent the use of this primitive material inspires me to continue exploring the art of Hair Brut.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    « Hey Babe your Hair’s Alright »

    is a conceptual project, inspired by the « rebirth « that David Bowie experienced in Berlin. It is meant to become a paper object, which assumes its planned obsolescence. Polaroïd portraits will be combined in a physical photo album, to be hopefully sold to a collector. The afterlife of this album remains unknown. It might pass from hand to hand as decades pass and be found in an antique book store on a future flea market.

    « Hey Babe » is a mystery.

    The album won’t provide any explanations on why all these different people are wearing the same orange mullet hairstyle. It will only mention their first names, and the place where the photo was shot. David Bowie himself won’t be referred to either. This object is conceived with more of a glimpse to its afterlife than its present day impression. Created for those who will discover it in the distant future and find intrigue and curiosity. Instigating the viewer to figure out the reference of place, person and ‘why’ this curious hairstyle?

    « Hey Babe » is about loss of memory.

    As papers fade, generational souvenirs fade with them. Who will still remember David Bowie next century ? Even decades after the belle epoque of Glam and Bowie most of the youth of today would not know the reference to the lyrics of « Rebel Rebel » or to the hairstyle.

    « Hey Babe » is a secret hommage.

    When turning the pages of the album, it will be obvious that this strange hair style fits none of the models, young or old, male, female, children, maybe even dogs. David Bowie: and if there will be nobody like him again?

    CV Summary

    Born in Nice in 1966, Wig master since 20 years

    Contemporary visual artist since 2014:

    • 2014: “Cabinet de Pilosités” (personal exhibition- Espace Carpeaux in Courbevoie / France)
    • 2016: “The Bowigs” (personal exhibition- La Galerie Partagée Paris / France)
    • 2016: “The Rattan Project/1” ( participation -Maison et Objet _Craft Paris/ France )
    • 2017: “The Rattan Project/2” ( participation -Maison et Objet _Craft Paris/ France )
    • 2018: “Tiré par les cheveux” (group exhibition – Viroflay / France)
    • 2018: “The Rattan Project/3” ( participation -Maison et Objet _Craft Paris/ France )
    • 2019: “Rattan at Dmitrovic” (personal exhibition- L’atelier Confidentiel- Marseille / France)
    • in progress: 2020 : “The Rattan Project/4 (Derelict)” ( personal exhibition -La Mâle d’Effene Paris Design Week Paris/ France )

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  • Miguel Ángel Montoya

    Miguel Ángel Montoya

    Miguel Ángel Montoya is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Colombia

    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    During the years I have been using different techniques and I have come to learn the importance of the basics for any artwork, drawing and writing are becoming my priority regardless of the techniques used on the final piece. I try not to limit myself by a specific material but rather find the concept and the idea that I want to work with and from there build up using the material that best suit the purpose. Since a couple of years I been influenced also by aesthetics of mysticism, the designs of the Tarot of Marseilles, the designs of oracle cards and the sculptures of Santa Muerte among others, this is a language that I like to embrace and one that I feel comfortable with. Other aesthetic influences are great comic artist like Moebius and Ashley wood. But also the traditional Japanese woodcut illustrations, botanical illustration and contemporary Japanese pop artist and manga artist. When it comes to literature I feel very inspired by cyberpunk and science fiction writers like William Gibson, Isaacs Asimov and Philip K. Dick. But also by the latin American “boom” Novels by writers like Garcia Marquez and Julio Cortazar. My aim is to keep constructing my own aesthetics as I learn form this influences wile enjoying the diversity of different mediums.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    I enjoy creating art that can be used and touched, art work that is not off limits for the people that encounter them, it is in this context that I choose materials and techniques that make this possible, as coffee mugs or T-shirts.

    Continuing with my work with fabric and clothes, I want to create a piece of wearable art, a dress.

    After doing my master on Visual Arts In Situ³ at the Royal Academy of fine Arts in Antwerp known for its outstanding Fashion Design program, and studding its history I learned to see fabric and clothing as a vehicle of expression. I do not attempt to be a designer, instead I want to use clothes as medium of communication.

    During the last couple of years I have been researching about my own family history, like all Latin Americans my Culture and DNA is very diverse as result of the melting of numerous human groups. During this journey of ancestry research a picture of my grandmother’s sister came to surface, in this photograph she wears an amazing and mysterious dress.

    So far I have been unable to identify its origin, she was the first child of my great-grandmother and she was twenty five years older than my grandmother, this makes impossible for the eldest family members still alive to have any information about it.

    From its design it is clear that its origin is not Europe or America (the continent), and it has some similarities with the middle eastern and North African Kaftans.

    During the residency I will make a dress, not a copy or recreation but an interpretation, an homage to this uncertain but beautiful heritage.

    On the fabric I will incorporate patterns inspired by the Botanical scientific Illustrations from the Jose Celestino Mutis Botanical expedition in the Kingdom of New Granada today known as Colombia and by the patterns of islamic geometric design.

    Inspiration for this is also the work of Katsuya Terada and hes big format intricate Illustrations with animal and human characters.

    The materials I will use are my own fabrics recycled from clothes and bed linen, part of the processes will be reusing and re purposing when possible, having as goal a sustainable artwork.

    CV Summary

    • My first degree was a Bachelor in graphic design, what I loved the most from it was Illustration, so I went through that path, took extra lessons on free hand illustration, scientific illustration and mixed techniques, when I finish the bachelor I wanted to be an Illustrator but I didn’t feel comfortable having to deal with clients and their opinions, so I thought “I’m going to illustrate my own ideas” and that is what artist do. So I realized I wanted to be an artist after all and went and started a masters degree on Visual Arts at the Universidad Pedagogica in Bogota, I fell in love with conceptual art and performance, art history fascinated me and there I got introduced to the new media and art in the web. In this master I experimented with installations and I got immersed in to virtual worlds and the possibilities of creating art in those environments, there I did a series of online performances from Bogota broadcasted via web to The Netherlands and shown live on an Amsterdam local TV station. During this Master I had the opportunity to do an internship in the Netherlands thanks to the contacts I met in this virtual scene, this ultimately led me to move to Europe, unfortunately after five years of master studies in Colombia I didn’t get the chance to graduate from that master I was doing before I had to move out of my country.
    • A couple of years later, then living in Belgium I had the wonderful opportunity to do a master in the Royal Academy of fine Arts of Antwerp, there I was encouraged to get out of my comfort zone and I went in to more traditional media. As part of my graduation exhibition I had sculpture, ceramic, silkscreen work, an installation and video art, the high standards at the academy pushed me to create a big body of work that ultimately made me win the “Strt-Schot” prize, an award that is giving to the best of all the master graduates form the academies of the city. As part of this award I had an exhibition the following year in witch inspired by the rich history of fashion design of the academy in Antwerp I moved in to a new medium, fabric, I learned how to use a sewing machine and created a piece from home made T-shirts hanged in the gallery in washing lines. Since then I been developing this craft, experimenting in ways to apply color and designs, improving my skill with the sewing machine and drawing in general. I am specially interested in integrating Islamic geometric design and botanical illustration into the work I am doing with fabric.
    • On a different path, at the beginning of this year I took a three month online course with the university of Standford on creative writing, I always wanted to tell my own stories to used them as fuel to my creative process in my visual art, at the moment I am writing shorts stories and essays that I publish on my website.

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  • Silvestre Preciado

    Silvestre Preciado

    Silvestre Preciado is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    United States

    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    Silvestre Preciado is an interdisciplinary artist who works with oil painting and airbrush techniques. During her residency at GlogauAIR, she will be working on a large painting & sculpture installation parallel to upcoming shows in Paris’21 and Berlin’21. Silvestre is originally from New York but is permanently based in Berlin. She graduated from The Cooper Union (US)’12 and received her Masters in Philosophy & Art History from the University of Kent ’17, UK.

    Silvestre Preciado

    GlogauAIR Project

    The GlogauAIR studio space will be utilized as both studio and installation viewing space. Large stretched and draped canvas panels will delineate an L shaped room that will mirror itself from both entrance doors, without requiring the viewer to need to enter the space. The mirroring effect is an analogy to the installation’s concept of “algorithmic echo chambers”, meaning the reverberation of content that cycles through highly complex algorithms that result in creating an illusion of information and culture. The installation is modular, and its paneled paintings will be exhibited parallel to three individual upcoming shows in Paris, Barcelona, and Berlin.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • 2017 MA, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte University of Kent, Paris, France
    • 2012 BFA, Interdisziplinäre Kunst Cooper Union, New York, NY

    Solo Exhibitions

    • February 2020 Andreas Reins Project / Silvestre Preciado/Anna Nezhnaya Duo-Ausstellungen, von Suzy Royal kuratier Berlin, Deutschland
    • January 2021 Duo-Ausstellungen, Galerie Charraudeau Paris, France
    • December 2020 Silvestre Preciado/Anna Nezhnaya Duo-Ausstellungen, von Haimney Galerie kuratiert Barcelona, Spanien
    • February 2020 The shooter’s horse, Privater Sammlerraum Berlin, Deutschland
    • January 2020 The shooter’s horse pt.1, 547 West 27 St. / Suite 51 New York, New York
    • May 2016 Timely bones, Arredondo/Arozarena Galerie, Mexico D.F.,Mexico
    • March 2014 Sickman Jetman, NoMiNIMO Galerie, Guayaquil, Ecuador
    • October 2013 GRIDLEAK, Fernando Luis Alvarez Galerie Stamford, CT, USA
    • April 2012 The Piebald Proceeding, Cooper Union 6th fl Galerie New York, NY, USA

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    • November 2020 Shau Fenster Galerie Berlin, DE
    • November 2020 Haimney Galerie Barcelona, Spain
    • February 2020 Art N23 Group show, Art N23 Galerie The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
    • December 2019 ARTFORO Kunstmesse Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
    • December 2019 Context Kunstmesse 547 West 27 St. / Suite 51 space, Miami, USA
    • September 2017 Chelsea New York offenes Atelier 547 West 27 St. / Suite 51 space, New York City, USA
    • July 2015 Cartagena Satelite Kunstmesse Cartagena, Colombia
    • February 2014 Showroom Collective 2 Quito, Ecuador
    • January 2013 Palm Beach Kunstmesse Palm Beach, FL, USA
    • January 2013 Art Miami Kunstmesse Miami, FL, USA
    • October 2012 Affordable Kunstmesse Spirit Del Art Gallery, Chelsea, NY

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  • Tea Eklund-Berglöw

    Tea Eklund-Berglöw

    Tea Eklund-Berglöw is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2020 to December, 2020

    Sweden

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    In my work I’m interested in the silent language of gestures. The fragility of perception, stories within objects and materials and the presence of thought that they carry.

    I work with left behinds, traces as clues, like tags, not wanting to be forgotten. Traces of situations indicating movement, attention/intention and the lack of it.

    About one thing leading to another. Taking it step by step. Trying to get it, letting it get there. Like a sort of whisper game (telephone game).

    I’m occupied by the way we project emotions and thoughts into objects, materials and shapes. In this I try to shift the gaze so the objects rather are looking back at the viewer, creating situations of meeting yet confrontation. It’s about arrangements and compositions where the objects speak for themselves and to each other in relation to the viewer, opening up for different ways of looking at and reading what’s around us.

    My works are intimate depictions of ways of viewing and dealing with our everyday life surroundings. I want you to want to come closer.

    GlogauAIR Project

    I work with everyday life materials, scenes and objects from the streets. In this period I will continue my work with arranging, composing compositions and my work with collecting.

    I work a lot with what you call simple and found materials. I will let things catch my eye. Objects and pictures. And build up my archive of observations.

    It’s about painting but it’s also painting with surfaces and structures that only time develop.

    My practice takes place at the walks and in the studio, where spending time with and getting to know my material is a big part of the process.

    Berlin is a place that has given me lot of strong scenes and I’m really looking forward spending more time there and to be in a constant process.

    CV Summary

    • 2020 Bachelor show, Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, Copenhagen
    • 2019 Hit me up baby, group show Galleri Q Copenhagen
    • 2019 Got It For Cheap / Velvet Ropes, Nevven galleri Gothenburg
    • 2019 Close Call, group show Kunstscenen, Copenhagen
    • 2019 Klimax, group show Gothenburg
    • 2018 It Takes Two to Tango, solo show galleri Q Copenhagen
    • 2018 Late Summer Art Show 5, Konstepidemins galleri, group show Gothenburg
    • 2018 Rundgang, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie, Copenhagen
    • 2018 Offentlige rum, group show Sankt anne plads Copenhagen
    • 2018 Geist, group show galleriet pederskramsgade Copenhagen
    • 2018 Link – Førstseårsudstilling, group show Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademie Copenhagen
    • 2018 One more time with feeling, duo show, school gallery, Umeå Art academy
    • 2017 Utsmyckningsarbete, festival Cult Cosmic Stockholm
    • 2016 Förstaårsutställning, group show Umeå Art academy
    • 2016 13 festivalen, performance festival konstepidemin Gothenburg
    • 2015 Vinterutställning, group show Göteborgs Konstskola Gothenburg
    • 2015 Kultursommarjobb group show at Frilagret and performance in the city. Gothenburg

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  • Clara Gross

    Clara Gross

    Clara Gross is GlogauAIR resident
    from July, 2020 to September, 2020

    Clara Gross is an sculptress from New York City. She is interested in the human body as the boundary between the self and the wider world. It is her understanding that we come to know the world around us through what we see, hear, smell, touch or do not touch, and in turn come to know ourselves; where our bodies start and end, what is us and what is not. As an urbanite, most of life has passed in the highly constructed, man-made environment of the city.

    Meet the Artist

    For her project in GlogauAIR she took long walks around the neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, where the residency is placed, absorbing images, shapes, colours… she found appealing. After those walks, she would come back to her studio at GlogauAIR and draw sketches of those memories. From those sketches, she would later on make sculptures and experiment with video making, resulting in a collection of impressions an record of her own experience in Berlin.

    Statement

    Clara Gross is interested in the human body as the boundary between the self and the wider world. It is her understanding that we come to know the world around us through what we see, hear, smell, touch or do not touch, and in turn come to know ourselves; where our bodies start and end, what is us and what is not. As an urbanite, most of life has passed in the highly constructed, man-made environment of the city. This has informed Clara’s sense of who she is in the world. She inhabits the space between walls, buildings, and city blocks. These negatives spaces have captured her attention. The negative spaces become activated, positive spaces through our dwelling in them.

    Clara’s sculptures reference the shapes and forms of buildings. They exist mainly at a small, model-like scale. This size allows her to address the material and spatial relationships between forms and reference the large scale of architecture in a tangible way. She often works with construction materials such as wood, metal, or plaster in order create a tactile connection with my subject matter.

    She enjoys the quiet moments, when the light cast a shadow on the wall just right or when a wire fence touches the brick facade next door or how the space of an alleyway frames a view of a cloud in the sky. There is joy for her in these moments, and humor too.

    Clara Gross

    GlogauAIR Project

    [Project description]

    CV Summary

    EDUCATION

    • 2016 BA, Art and Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, CT
    • 2016 Certificate, Museum Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT
    • 2019 NYC Crit Club, New York, NY

    EXHIBITIONS

    • 2019 Under the Looking Glass, curated by Claudia Bitran, Gallery Cubed, Brooklyn, NY
    • 2019 My Kingdom for Baked Alaska,Meeting House AIR, Troy, NY
    • 2019 Movement Adjacent,NYC Crit Club, New York, NY
    • 2019 Priority Mail: 2019 Mail Art Biennial, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY
    • 2017 Put Yourself Out There, Point O’ Woods, NY
    • 2016 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Connecticut College, New London, CT
    • 2016 Visiting Artists & Artist’s’ Favorites,The Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, Westerly, RI
    • 2015 Pretty Lights & Silent Nights, Marquee Gallery, New London, CT
    • 2015 What’s Cooking in Cummings,Connecticut College, New London, CT

    RESIDENCY

    • 2019 Meeting House AIR, Troy, NY

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  • Nana & Felix

    Nana & Felix

    Nana & Felix is GlogauAIR resident
    from January, 2020 to March, 2020

    South Korea and Finland

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Nana (Hwanhee Kim, 1980, South Korea) & Felix (Felix Nybergh, 1985, Finland) are an artist duo working together since 2012. Originally trained as a painter and a photographer respectively, they carry out projects in a wide range of different media, often in series, such as drawings, photographs, texts, video, three dimensional works, sound installation, etc.

    Their work always stems from personal experiences and the need to contextualise them within the larger political and social reality we live in. The connecting thread within their admittedly eclectic projects is a yearning to understand their own place within an perpetually redeveloping, industrialised, man-built world. They often employ a photographical language, in a straightforward documentational manner, mixed with a touch of irony.

    In their first two projects “SoMe” and “The Zone System” they explore how photographs are deployed in order to manipulate the public. Both projects focus on authoritative images, such as those used by law enforcement and the advertisement industry. By mimicking, recreating and repositioning, the projects expose the absurd nature of the image. The duo’s recent projects “Let There be Motorways” and “WEAST” have been carried out between the years 2015 and 2018, when they lived in South Korea. Conditioned by the peculiar history of this country both projects deal with a bizarre version of cultural appropriation. Nana & Felix have examined how a national project has been developed based on a foreign, misinterpreted and misunderstood imagery. Their response to such imagery resulted in producing a series of works disguised as a traditional art.

    As visual artists, they aspire to expand the understanding of the ways their lives as both artists and citizens unfold within the society we live in. All of Nana & Felix’s projects, both past and future, always try to challenge their own prejudices, processing them with honesty, irony and humility.

    Nana & Felix

    GlogauAIR Project

    We are currently working on a long-term project called 7hrs of Future. The project consists of a series of comparative works that take the shape of reinterpreted landscapes that portray actual, possible and alternating social and economical realities of Korea and Finland.

    During our stay at GlogauAIR we will be working on two different works.

    Koti Ikävä (Home Sick/Sad) is a large-scale drawing consisting of 35 individual drawings. The drawings loosely follow the shape of the map of Seoul, depicting a landscape that exists somewhere between a city and mindscape. We have been working on this piece since a year and aim to finish it during our residency.

    SEL2020HEL is a series of monochromatic date paintings. For every day of the year 2020, we will produce two small paintings in pair, depicting only the date of the day on top of a solid colour. The background colour of each painting corresponds to the air quality readings of Seoul and Helsinki. The colours of our paintings follow the internationally most used air quality index, the USAQI, which illustrate the air quality both in numbers, ranging from 1 (perfect) to 500 (hazardous) and corresponding colours, ranging from green through, yellow, orange, red, violet to burgundy. Across the paintings, tying them together, we write the corresponding date. In Korea, the date is written YY/MM/DD and in Finland DD/MM/YY. The first day of this year will thus spell out as follows: 2020.01.01.01.2020. This mirroring effect ties the two cities together, producing an entirely new landscape.

    CV Summary

    EDUCATION

    Nana (Hwanhee Kim)

    • 2011-2014 MA in Fine-art Photography, Aalto University School of Arts and Design, Finland
    • 2003-2004 MA in Fine-art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
    • 2000-2003 BA in Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

    Felix (Felix Nybergh)

    • 2011-2014 MA in Fine-art Photography, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
    • 2007-2011 BA in Photography & Visual Communication, IDEP-Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    • 2017 “WEAST”, Gallery Doll, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2017 “Progress”, H2O, Barcelona, Spain
    • 2017 “107-1502”, K2 Art Lounge x Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2016 “Progress”, Space Opt., Seoul, South Korea
    • 2016 “House of Cards”, Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, South Korea
    • 2014 “The Zone System”, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
    • 2013 “Ways of Seeing”, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    • 2019 “291 Report Part 1”, 291 photographs gallery, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2018 “The Way Home”, Suwon Art Center, Suwon, South Korea
    • 2018 “Petites Anotacions Sobre El Retrat”, Centre Cívic Ateneu Fort Pienc, Barcelona, Spain
    • 2017 “291 Report Part. 1” Space 291, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2017 “Blind Date”, Space Willing & Dealing, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2017 “Pingpong in Mak/MAK+BIO+JECT”, Place Mak, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2017 IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland
    • 2016 “Blind Date”, Space Willing & Dealing, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2016 “Sensible Reality”, 2016 Artists Residency Festival, Seoul, South Korea
    • 2016 “2015 Platform Artists” Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
    • 2016 “Preview”, Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, South Korea
    • 2015 “New Present”, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
    • 2015 “Paradise Reopening”, Paradise Inn, Incheon, South Korea
    • 2015 “Non-Parallel Evolution of Unrelated Beings”, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
    • 2015 “Relational Extravaganza & Arbitrary Dreams”, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
    • 2014 “Masters of Arts Unseen”, Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki, Finland

    GRANTS

    • 2017 Artist work grant, Koneen Säätiö, Finland
    • 2016 Exhibition grant, Daejeon Cultural Foundation, Daejeon, South Korea
    • 2015 Travel grant, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland
    • 2014 Production grant, Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse, Finland
    • 2014 Exhibition grant, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland
    • 2014 Residency grant, Koneen Säätiö, Finland
    • 2013 Exhibition grant, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland

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