Archives: Artists

  • Alexandre Félix

    Alexandre Félix

    Alexandre Félix is GlogauAIR resident
    from August, 2016 to March, 2017

    France


    Meet the Artist

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    GlogauAIR Project

    The past years he developed a career in fashion photography, but quickly he felt the need to express himself through other mediums.

    In GlogauAir he experimented painting and sculpture to develop his artistic flair and discover new horizons.

    Particularly, he tried out interactive performances. An example of this is the art work Collective painting, which was shown at open studios at GlogauAIR, Berlin, December 2017.

    CV Summary

    Alexandre was born in 1990 and lives between Berlin and Paris.

    • The past years he was in Paris spent studying art direction and advertising creativity which has allowed him to meet professionals of the sector, as well as photographers and inspiring artists.
    • The camera which he has been ‘playing’ with since 2008 soon became a working tool.
    • Early 2014, he moves to Montreuil in a studio shared with some friends specialized in motion design and films, where he built his portfolio beginning to work for fashion magazines and renowned model agencies.
    • Alexandre did a short stay as assistant at Rouchon Paris, where he has been working on big productions and editorials (Vogue,ELLE, Numéro,L’Officiel…) where he met some photographers such as David Sims, Karim Sadli, Mondino, and Alexei Hay.
    • Now he lives in Berlin to develop his artistic flair, working on artistic photography projects and experimenting with sculpture and painting.

    Exhibitions

    • June 2016 – Fashion portraits – groupshow across China, Shangaï Datong and Beijing
    • July 2016 – Fluid – groupshow at 5th Base Gallery, London
    • September 2016 – Dyrholaey – groupeshow at SIA NY Gallery, New York
    • October 2016 – Terminal – personnal exhibition at GloguAIR, Berlin

    Gallery

  • Anahita Ghazanfari

    Anahita Ghazanfari

    Anahita Ghazanfari is GlogauAIR resident
    from July, 2017 to September, 2017

    Iran


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    Statement

    I truly believe that art is soulful and resides deep within oneself. Art is roused by the harmonious vibes and beauty of nature that envelopes us. Nature is within us as it is around us and we all hail from nature. Modernity does not annul this fact. Nature touches and invokes its most primal creativity in an artist. Hence, works of art are projections of an artist’s soul to the outside world. In my case, nature speaks to my soul and predominantly through its magnificent beauty and permanence paradoxical to the evanescence imposed by human ambition and limitations. Nature gives us recognition of source and hope of continuity.

    My paintings are not merely a result of direct observations but a complex combination of diverse elements augmented by compelling recollections of specific emotions that overwhelmed me as I am engulfed in the quintessential calmness of nature. It’s inspirationally elating.

    Thus, the images from Nature Sublime are a communicative manifestation of revelations and new emotions as well as ideas pertaining to human perception. Analogically, paintings are alike stop-signs amid our hurried modern life. They remind us to pause in cognizance to the evident and intrinsic beauty that exists around us. I strive for equilibrium to our daily chaotic rat race and the harmony inherent to nature.

    In my view, art is the relationship between fantasy and snapshots of reality. It is poetry in shades, hues and colours. Art comes to me as a form of expression and exploration and gives voice to my emotions, fears, dreams, identity and aspirations. A condensed aspect of my theme is “stratification”. The message is: “You should look past stratum to see things that you might not see at first glance”.

    I am highly influenced by Iranian Islamic art, which is all about patterns and bringing life as a nature to architecture and paintings. “Islamic artists habitually employed flowers and trees as decorative motifs for the embellishment of cloth, objects, personal items and buildings”

    I am highly influenced by Iranian Islamic art, which is all about patterns and bringing life as a nature to architecture and paintings.

    My paintings are depictures relating stories. There is an absence of focal points while every portion of depictions has its very own voice and power to relate and continue with the story. There is also, and for similar reasons, adoption of Islamic ornateness for more centric arrangements to patterns while avoiding obvious focal points.

    The idea of bringing nature indoors into homes and adorning buildings via Iranian Islamic architecture is somewhat irresistible to me. It is the symbolism of bringing an almost forgotten part back to life and to attune to our modern way of living.

    GlogauAIR Project

    Art is everywhere. It is everything around us; the infrastructures, the people, their cultures, nature…that is where I get my inspiration. And to me, Berlin is a land full of inspiration. From a troubled past, the beautiful city has risen to a liberal world city of creative, expressive art paradise.

    The people of Berlin are also a beautiful wonder with so many stories I look forward to capturing with my camera. From a repressive past filled with war, genocide, and a divisive, oppressive regiment, the people of Berlin show a fascinating spirit of resilience and endurance that makes the city stand out.

    I find myself attracted to and inspired by their liberal views; their willingness to admit their past and forge a new future of openness and expression is so refreshing.

    Since the 1990s, it has gone through a massive redefinition and change. The injection of urban views weaved intricately into age-old traditions make the city a melting pot of culture and diversity; a world that deserves to be captured in stillness and shared.

    In my paintings patterns are as important as the main subjects and somehow it’s reflects the place I am in and I get inspired by. The street art and walls in Berlin are the greatest in the world and Berlin has the history of it.

    The idea of me being in Berlin is all about exploring that part of the art which is all over the city and brings identity to the city. And in a way became an urban identity itself. The outside walls fill with the paintings and patterns, with two different sides, different stories. I want to create the stories but not in the way they were before. It is about new people, new memories, new perspectives.

    Learning the culture, seeing the people and involving in community, discovering how these stories are universal in nature, though the symbolism and meanings may change from culture to culture.

    Working on two mediums which is photography and painting as well as digital painting would be my main focus. The idea of bringing out the hidden faces behind the wall.

    As an artist I also believe in being in the place to get an inspiration and getting involved with the community is also my concern.

    CV Summary

    b. 1977, Iran.

    Exhibitions

    • 2016 “Langkawi Art Biennale 2016” Langkawi, Malaysia
    • 2016 “IMMORTAL?” Installation International Group exhibition, L’atelier Rouge Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 “Quatre Femmes” Group Exhibition, L’atelier Rouge Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 ”Exploration”AND”Expression”,Residency exhibition, Port Commune, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 ”The story of Rooms” Solo Exhibition, Atelier Art Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 Daydreaming Group Show, Ella Art Space, KL, Malaysia
    • 2015 Art Connexion International, Matic Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2015 International Exhibition of Iranian Artist in SouthEast Asia and Pacific, Matic Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2014 Contemporary Iranian Artists Exhibition, Melaka Art Gallery, Melaka, Malaysia
    • 2014 Iranian Artist Painting Exhibition, Cube Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2013 International Women’s Day Exhibition, Art Malaysia Viva Gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2012 SEPULAH DAH Iranian Artist Exhibition, Artseni gallery, KL, Malaysia
    • 2012 Malaysia Iran Art Exhibition MAIRA, Gallery Aswara, KL, Malaysia
    • 2010 Chosen in first Monorail Photo Festival, Malaysia
    • 2006 Autumn solo photo exhibition, Ferdos Gallery, Iran
    • 2002 First position in Abyaneh group photo exhibition/competition, ElmOFarhang University, Iran
    • 2001 First position in Dialogue of Civilizations group photo exhibition/competition, ElmOFarhang University, Iran
    • 2001 Participation in group painting exhibition in Nivaran Art Gallery, Iran
    • 2000 Ahvaz solo photo exhibition, Iran

    Work and Artist participation

    • 2016 Documentary Photographer At Langkawi Art Biennale Langkawi, Malaysia, November
    • 2016 Balik balik Art Bazar, National Art Gallery, KL, Malaysia,
    • 2015 Artist in Residence, Sembilan Art residency, Seremban, Malaysia, November
    • 2014 Documentary Photographer At Langkawi Art Biennale 2014, Langkawi, Malaysia, October
    • 2014 Full time Photographer, Center for Content Creation, Limkokwing University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
    • 2010 Freelance Photographer and Writer, Monorail Magazine, Iranian Lifestyle Magazine, KL, Malaysia,

    Media Interview

    • 2016 IMMORTAL? Interview – Nanyang Press Newspaper, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 IMMORTAL? Interview – SinChew Press Newspapers, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 IMMORTAL? Interview – BFM Radio “The Bigger Picture” KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 Quatre Femmes Interview – SinChew Press Newspapers, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 Exploration X Expression Interview – BFM Radio “The Bigger Picture” KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 The Story Of Rooms Interview, ENanyang Website, KL, Malaysia
    • 2016 Changing the Landscape, Marie Claire Magazine, KL, Malaysia

    Gallery

  • Alice Biletska

    Alice Biletska

    Alice Biletska is GlogauAIR resident
    on June, 2017

    Ukraine


    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    My films and video-art projects take a critical view on social, cultural and gender issues. While developing a script and shooting a project, I am willing to create a diverse form – the synthesis of music, video and text.

    Being an art historian means to be immersed into esthetics, history and mythology. Going through different experiments with various art forms, I am trying to explore the nature of each of them and understand in which form I can be most effective.

    Creating films and videos through putting music, text and video in juxtaposition I can make a unique art form enlightening the best of all the myths in which we live in and archetypes we embrace.

    By trying to define love, religion, faith and art I want to create an art form that evokes strong feelings in people, makes them look deep inside and find a true meaning and the spiritual realm, full of dynamism, harmony, love and beauty.

    GlogauAIR Project

    Documentary film BB

    Berlin can be viewed as the modern Babylon. Proudly positioning itself as the multicultural hub, Berlin resonates with different accents, songs, music, religious beliefs and mindsets. And one voice sounds loud and clear: Has the humanity evolved or are we are waiting for another empire to collapse? December 2016 tragic events showed that the multicultural dialogue stopped at its critical point. Fear is engulfing not only Berlin and whole Germany, but hangs over the entire world. With this documentary I want to remind everybody that we are all one close community and it does not matter what language we talk and what kind of milk we drink. My main heroes will be citizens of Berlin: German, Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian, American, French … There are Muslims among them too. What are they doing for a living? Artists, working men, hobos, waiters, teachers, prostitutes etc. The film will depict the circle of life. The opening shot is a mother singing a lullaby to her child in German. Then we see another woman singing in French, another- in English, Russian etc. Fast cutting brings us to the idea that no matter what language they speak or in what God they believe, their common language is that of love to a child. We watch children of different origins growing up. We see them playing in kindergartens, schools… As the film evolves we see teenagers and then adults falling in love, getting married, traveling, choosing different professions, getting pregnant, splitting up, partying, loosing and finding themselves. We see them growing old and getting wise. They talk about the most important things in life, the values they have learned and live by. And that leads us to the main idea of the film – self-identity comes from your inner feeling and unity and love.

    CV Summary

    b. 1990, Ukraine

    Filmography

    • (short films. I was scriptwriter, director, actress and producer)
    • 2014 (OIFF 2015) «Wifes of war»
    • 2015 «Devachan»
    • 2016 «Will they ever put the light on» (Short Film Corner, Cannes Film Festival 2016, VAEFF 2016, OIFF 2016, LIFF 2016)
    • 2016 «Poem N1»
    • 2016 «Bob Basset. Will I ever return»
    • 2016 «Gallery romance»

    Social projects

    • 2016 Against violence
    • 2016 For children with heart disease

    Video-art

    • 2015 Inside of me lives A. (Kharkiv state gallery, gallery Come in, Kharkiv)
    • 2015 Film and burn – Due to the concept the pieces were destroyed right after they were shot and shown on big screen in public spaces (Kharkiv, Lviv, Kiev, Mariupol).

    Theatre

    • 2011 «Salome». Actress and co-director. Avant-garde theatre «Raison d’etre», Paris
    • 2011 «Vorsa» Co-director and co-writer. Avant-garde theatre «Raison d’etre», Paris
    • 2013 «LililtEva» Scriptwriter, director, actress. Freelance, Kharkiv
    • 2014 «No reson to be». Co-writer, director, freelance, Kharkiv.

    Gallery

  • Anna Pistacchio

    Anna Pistacchio

    Anna Pistacchio is GlogauAIR resident
    from April, 2017 to June, 2017

    Chile


    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    My artistic language from visual memory using the means of photography and analogous video as the support. These artistic mechanisms function inside my work to prove that somehow they place us historically and also, they work to prove that their constant manipulation relentlessly leads to new languages that carry us to memory. These images are captured and/or appropriated from one-eye which fixes on what I want to belong to my collection, that’s the only way I can obtain them.

    I take distance from the object I desire, giving meaning to the remoteness of oneself to meet with another. This definition when I use other artists’ photographic and audiovisual archive that does not belong to me. The act of stealing these analog archives is breeding ground for the construction of the work, where collective and private memory are joint. Is in that way that I search inside this archives how to be able to materialize memory.

    To remember leaves print in our brain and the image is what helps us in that process. Is because of this that forgetting or the resetting of our minds is such almost an impossible one, unless there is some kind of neurological problem or a violent intervention like a lobotomy or electroshock.

    In my work, I propose materializing that print or mark of the memory through the mistake. In this case, the photographical and audiovisual mistake is taken as something virtuous. When the film gets veiled because of the entrance of light, the wear away, or by manipulation. When stains appear because of the passing of time, or if we couldn’t focus at the moment of the photograph, those are the actions are reflected in my images and can give sense to the wear away memory.

    The process of construction of image through forgetting has its treatment en deleted images, with stains giving meaning to memory. This is fragile, but is there, like a veil, covered in cobweb wrapping our brain, like the metaphoric diagnostic person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

    GlogauAIR Project

    During the time that I will be participating on the artistic residency, mi objective will be to work with photographic archive of Berlin, where the operation will consist on searching for the material in photography stores or photographic archive from families residents in Berlin to complement with photographs from my authorship, and in that way, built a dialog between the intimate and the private, between two different approaches that speak about the concepts of memories and memory. The photographic archive that come from ONE and from an OTHER counterpoint in a complementary way generating a dialog and shades between one another. In that way as an artist, I also get involved locally with the photography and with the people that inhabit the city, as a sort of social study, anthropological and intimate, which would be the photography’s own meaning, in the sense of getting involved and owning what’s foreign into my visual language.

    CV Summary

    b. 1991, Chile

    First Education

    • 2014 Art Bachelor Degree in from the Catholic University of Valparaiso
    • 2015 Art Director Diploma from Chilean Film School

    Exhibitions

    • 2014 Third International Photography’s Festival (FIFV) “Photography Brigades”
    • 2016 “Trapos al sol” (Espacio Hache) video-installation “Rio Leteo” at the collective exhibition “Trapos al sol” (Espacio Hache)
    • 2016 “El rito de CORTAR/PEGAR”, Centro de Arte La Perrera in SCL
    • 2016 HIPOCAMPO I, Casa en Blanco, also in Santiago
    • 2016 IMPRESIONANTE, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Ch.ACO fair on Casa en Blanco gallery

    Teaching

    • 2017 Visual Semiotics, Photography Aesthetics, and Universal and Chilean History of Photography in Los Leones Institute

    Gallery

  • Carlos Franco

    Carlos Franco

    Carlos Franco is GlogauAIR resident
    from December, 2016 to January, 2017

    Puerto Rico


    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    Terms like ‘The Cloud’ alienate us from the complex structures (physical and socio-political) by which the internet is supported and through which it is consumed by us, making it sound benign and ethereal, all the while it takes a heavy toll on the environment and on the human laborers that participate in its production.

    CV Summary

    b. 1985, Puerto Rico

    Education

    • 2014 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2010 BA Philosophy / BA Fine Arts : Painting, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.

    Selected Exhibitions, Individual Exhibitions and Projects

    • 2015 Salón Boricua: A Nation Specific Project (composed of individual collaborations with Nando Alvarez-Perez, Shay Arick, Rhys Bambrick, Marshall Elliott, and Mads Lynnerup), The Grey Square (part of the 4th San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial of the Caribbean and Latin America), San Juan, PR. The Man Made Machine : a Title for The Myth of Pliny the Youngsta or The Works on Paper, Comment… Projects, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2014 Franco Guevara : An Exercise (w. Conrad Guevara), The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco California. Sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Untitled (Playground), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2014 Franco Guevara @ The Hole (w. Conrad Guevara), SOMarts, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2013 Franco Guevara(w. Conrad Guevara), The Lab, San Francisco, CA. There and Back Again: An Immigrant’s Tale by C. Franco Maldonado, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Je Suis Eine Uhr, San Juan, PR.
    • 2010 La Imposibilidad Metafísica del Espacio/La Imposibilidad Física de Crearlo, San Juan, PR.
    • 2008 Es. Is. Am., University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. -Group

    Shows/Screenings/Performances

    • 2016 Currently Untitled, Lvl3, Chicago, IL.
    • 2015 Bordering, Ironton Gallery, Denver, CO. Fokus 2015 Film Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal; Denmark.
    • 2014 Something Completely Different, City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA. Principal (M.F.A. Thesis Show), The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA. Refraction, Lobott Gallery, Oakland, CA. Fokus 2014 Film Festival (Awarded Finalist), Nikolaj Kunsthal; Denmark. Memory Overflow, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. A Hole lot bout Nothing, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2013 Soiled, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2012 Rob The Noise Bank, The Lab, San Francisco, CA. Art By Telephone: Recalled, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2011 Third Strike: 100 Performances in the Hole, SOMarts, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2010 Arte Acusmatico: Experimental Music Series, Becket Theater, San Juan, PR.
    • 2009 Alternate States of Art, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan PR.

    Accomplishments/Grants/Residencies

    • 2015 Residency, ACRE (The Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, WI.
    • 2014 Awarded Finalist at the Fokus 2014 Film Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Denmark.
    • 2012-2014 SFAI Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
    • 2010 Residency CAMAC (Center for Art, Science, and Technology) Marnay Sur-Seine, France. Artist Grant from Tenot Organization.

    Teaching

    • 2013 Teacher’s Assistant, Art & Revolution, Wafaa Yasin, San Francisco Art Institute.

    Publishing

    • 2015 Editor in Chief of It Girl by Matthew Scott Gualco and Conrad Guevara, published by AK Press. Notable Collection Mark van Proyen collection.

    Gallery

  • Chen Wei

    Chen Wei

    Chen Wei is GlogauAIR resident on June, 2017

    China


    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    In my past projects, I have made a lot of encyclopedic researches. From historical archaeology to objective observation, I am trying to build a distinct and dynamic artistic narrative system with a variety of media, such as ceramic, botanical researches, architectural structure, performance, theatre, etc. The independent and self-generated perception is mostly central to the formation of my works.

    CV Summary

    b. 1990, China

    Lives and works in Shanghai, China.

    Education

    • Fine Arts College of Shanghai University/Art
    • Design BA:Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute/Ceramic Art

    Exhibition

    • 2017 SAYA Embrace Projcet Annual Exhibition/Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China
    • 2014 The Shanghai Award Exhibition/Italy Garuzzo Visual Art Center (IGAV), Milan, Italy
    • 2013 M50 Creative New Artist Award Exhibition/M Art Center, Shanghai, China

    Awards

    • 2017 SAYA Embrace Projcet Annual Award
    • 2015 Red Gate Residency Award
    • 2014 Award/Italian and Chinese Emerging Artist
    • 2013 M50 Creative New Artist Award/the ShanghART Gallery award

    Artist Residency

    • 2017 GlogauAIR Artist Residency/Berlin, German
    • 2016 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency/Shanghai, China
    • 2015 Red Gate Residency/Beijing, China
    • 2014 The Shanghai Award – Artist Residency/Milan, Italy
    • 2013 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Artist Residency / Newcastle , Maine, United States
    • 2013 Visva-Bharati University Artist Residency / Calcutta, India

    Gallery

  • Chen Siyu

    Chen Siyu

    Chen Siyu is GlogauAIR resident
    on September, 2017

    China


    Meet the Artist

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    Statement

    I’m not sure when, I fell in love with mirrors, the space in the mirror reflection and space in the reality makes me wonder. The light comes in occasionally, start the chemical reaction with dramatic materials such as mirror. Between mirror and light there is illusion, the unreal space. I used this visual effect to create a imaginary real world. While I was making my work, I am also thinking about the time, the environment and society that I am living in.

    CV Summary

    b. 1988, China

    • Member of the Sculputure Professional Committee of Chinese art and Crafts Society
    • Member of the Sichuan Sculpture Institute
    • 1988 born in Leshan Sichuan,now works and lives in Chengdu China

    Education

    • 2014 Bochelor’s degree in Chengdu fine arts institute of Sichuan Conservatory of Music,Department of Sculpture

    Exhibition

    • 2017 Singularity·Academic Invitational Exhibition & Singularity·Monthly Salon Archive Exhibition ,Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu,Chengdu,China
    • 2017 SAYA Embrace project Annual Exhibition ,MOCA Chengdu,Chengdu,China
    • 2015 Time Theatre ,Shanghai Peninsula Art Museum,Shanghai,China
    • 2014 Selection of Zengzhushao 2014Zeng ZhuShao Sculpture Fellowship Candidates And Winners,China Sculpture Museum,Datong,China
    • 2014 Chinese University Graduates’ Excellent Sculpture Exhibition ,Beijing,China

    Award

    • 2016 Supporting Active Young Artists Embrace Projcet Annual Award
    • 2014 Chinese University Graduates’ Excellent Sculpture Exhibition,Silver Award

    Gallery

  • David Gonçalves

    David Gonçalves

    David Gonçalves is GlogauAIR resident
    from March, 2017 to May, 2017

    Portugal


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    Statement

    Moving around from side to side. By need and will of trying out, of searching, looking​: To go. ​Settling here, working there, creating​. ​ I´m a nomad who is always taking decisions due to the impossibility of transporting everything​, focusing on the essential for each moment. ​​T​he things are light, movable and with the possibility to transform in​to​ others​, to​ multiply. On blank pages lines are made by the folding of the paper using only the hands and nails. Paper ​folding paper that opens and closes itself, obeying to grids and exploring the division and sub division of different arrangements. Other sheets are teared apart, taking their own way. Front and back. By folding I bring ​forth what​’​s in the back ​ in to the front, questioning about the bi-dimensionality of the material – the paper – and discover what ​it​ has. I have this attention​,​ therefore I communicate it. The back of the sheet is also a page,.​ it also belongs. ​It´s a whole. My thinking is close to the things that deal with space and time, ​and consequently​ its relation to Man. I am a Man, and as a human that travels in different speeds, I am aware of the change of rhythms, cycles, of all the lines of time itself in space. Whil​st​ creating I concentrate on this​;​ I concentrate on me​.​ O​n the lines, the cycles​, ​the rhythms inside and outside of me.

    GlogauAIR Project

    My interest in the book and its format has been present in my work for some time now. I like the idea that is compact, its size and all the characteristics which connect them to its easy way of transportation. They lead me to insert it in a nomadic context. Full of content and information, this object resists and has travelled with and through time. The book is passed from hand to hand – hand, body; touch which is directly connected to the book, starting with those who write it to the ones who flip through its pages. One after another. The hand is shaping it (new forms appear). While flipping through the pages we notice that there is a certain order, a matrix which is “inevitable” since we are dealing with a book. These ir always one point that is there, present. Stapled, woven, glued. Its set, steady. Its the point which is least susceptible to be transformed. Its that same point that unifies the whole, that gathers the ideas, the drawings, defines order. The order. Keeping it together enabling all the rest. Getting rid of that point, will break everything up. Making it loose; fragile. Its dimension, together with its meaning is lost to go win one other. We will now be talking about a new object. The sheets loose themselves, they occupy a new space. Do they become autonomous? Loose strength? In this residency, I am willing to work every single page individually of a book with 320 sheets, through de folding and tearing using my hands and only adding up an external element – the graphite. The graphite brings different meanings to the paper. A solidness that is only apparent. New adjectives and possibilities of interpretations. It sends us to something far from the book. Of its flipping. It brings a visual weight to a very fragile thing which can be easily destroyed. Once all the 320 drawings are complete, my wish is to disassemble the book. Take the drawings off this format and sort them out in a new way, in order to present them in a vertical space. Issues about the space that these “new” drawings, fixed, will occupy, and its relation with the spectator will provide new challenges both conceptually and practically (issues on installation and presentation). I believe that being in a specific space with limited time as in this residence program in Berlin, where new topics for debate and confrontation are available and current, together with more space and interaction, places of discussion and of exchange, will enable me to go in depth with this project and materialize it in the best way.

    CV Summary

    b. 1987, Portugal

    Education

    • BA, Fine Arts, ARCO, Lisbon, 2010 / 2013
    • Life Drawing short course, Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, 2010
    • Mixed Media short course, Central Saint Martin´s School, London, 2010
    • BA, Digital Arts & Multimedia, ESAD, Porto, 2006 – 2010

    Residencies

    Solo Shows

    • 2011 Nanicamura, Galeria Projecto, V.N. Cerveira
    • 2008 We have them women, Plano B, Porto

    Group shows

    • 2016 Mask, Geddes Gallery, London
    • 2015 Mupi Project, – MArt – Commissioned by Sandro Resende, Lisbon
    • 2015 Vaga Luz, Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon
    • 2015 Dreampire, LX Factory, Lisbon
    • 2015 Mostra, Alvalade, Lisbon
    • 2015 Neste tempo todo, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga
    • 2015 Raizes, Palacio das Artes, Porto
    • 2014 Equinox, GivLowe, Lisbon
    • 2012 The Art Cellar, London
    • 2010 Re-Act, ArtsLab, Porto

    Bibliography

    • raizescolab.wordpress.com – Publication about the Raizes exhibition in Palacio das Artes, Porto, 2015
    • DESTRUCTION, # Host und Edeltraut, Berlin, 2011

    Prizes

    • Winner of the Moinho – recycled cotton paper competition, 2012

    Private Collections

    • Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

    Gallery

  • Dawei Li & Lin Mi

    Dawei Li & Lin Mi

    Dawei Li & Lin Mi is GlogauAIR resident
    from September, 2017 to October, 2017

    China


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    GlogauAIR Project

    Title: The memory of China and Germany – the eggs of 110 the Yellow River Mothers Materials: Yellow River stone, micro spray August 2017

    With a history of 110 years, under the Zhongshan bridge in Lanzhou City, the river flows continuously both the big and the small, the Yellow River stones of different colors, like mothers’ eggs, are constantly being washed by the river, their shape and fate vary. They used to be collections, souvenirs, and building materials, and the one that will never be found. Into Germany will be the insignificant stones of the Yellow River, at the same time, the portraits of these stones are shown to allow people to re-examine the movements of small bodies and the enlarged local truth. We’ll send them to 110 people who live in Germany, take portraits of 110 friends who have received the stones, and seek 110 couples who have been married for 10 years, and give them a portrait, and finally will become the two parts of the exhibition.

    CV Summary

    • Dawei Li is a filmmaker and photographer focused on unveiling the unreality contained in the real world and Lin Mi is a photographer working with images produced using mobile devices, as well as digital and analogue camera.
    • Thanks to the collaboration with Beijing Youth International Culture and Arts Association, they are taking part in GlogauAIR residency with The Memory of China and Germany – The Eggs of 110 the Yellow River Mothers.
    • This project departs from the history of the 110 year-old Zhongshan bridge, which is particularly symbolic, for it has not only been connecting on a daily basis the two shores of city of Lanzhou, as it is also a reminder of the joint efforts of Germany and China, essential to building the bridge.
    • Since then, the stones from the river have been collected as souvenirs, or used as building materials.
    • With the current project, the artists’ intent is to explore the re-contextualization process that these relatively insignificant stones go through and the significant personal and collective meanings that become attached to them.

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  • Eunhee Hong

    Eunhee Hong

    Eunhee Hong is GlogauAIR resident
    from July, 2017 to September, 2017

    South Korea


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    Statement

    My name is Eunhee Hong. I was born in Korea and studied graphic design. After I worked as a designer for a year, I went to London to do MFA painting course. Mainly I had done a design work of flat images on computer. However, after I knew the materiality of painting, I became to interest in different recognition of medium and experience of a space. Nowadays I work without limitation of the medium and do an experiment of painting on real space.

    As I have met many people from other cultural background since I studied in the UK, I was more interested in social status of woman and woman’s right in Korea. I could not recognize easily about woman’s disadvantage from social suppression when I was in Korea. My work is related to how social pressure can get woman to be passive.

    Now I am currently in Korea. However I want to have opportunities again to do research for social status of women having other social background and share my work with people from other country in Berlin. I think GlogauAIR have a good support for artists to focus on work, so I apply your residency.

    GlogauAIR Project

    My work starts from questioning about femininity of a woman especially in Korea. A woman’s life in Korea is still suppressed by society. Thus, a woman has objective perception as well as subjective perception of our own body. As experiencing the divided ego from the irony , woman wants to extricate from other’s judgement but ironically complete our identity with other’s view as well.

    I did some projects of the self-portrait installations on the stage with artificial woman’s images learned by ideology of society. I divided a space by lines and did painting and installation on the divided space.

    Up to now I focused on expressing the passive feminine gesture. I want to expand the horizon of the theme from new environment. I would do interview with women in Berlin having other cultural backgrounds and expand work more in terms of medium as well.

    CV Summary

    b. 1985, South Korea

    Education

    • University/College: UCL SLADE
    • Degree/Diploma: MFA Painting
    • University/College: Kookmin University
    • Degree/Diploma: BA Visual Communication Design

    Exhibitions or awards

    • Solo Show 2016 : Three lies – Rainbow cube gallery
    • Australian Independent Music Video Awards 2013 : Winner of Best Independent Music video -East Asia

    Professional Experience

    • Directing, Editing Music video
      Elephant Music Studio
      7, Seolleung-ro 145-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
      From 2011 To 2012
    • Editing Video
      SANGWHA Company
      163-5, Samseong 1-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
      2011

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