Archives: Artists

  • So & So Studio

    So & So Studio

    So & So Studio is GlogauAIR resident
    from December, 2019 to March, 2020.

    So & So Studio is an anonymous design practice based in Berlin. The natural convergence of their artistic and architectural languages is evident within their growing body of works, between the Europe and the USA. Blurring the lines between intuition and refinement through each of their creative interventions, they continue to critique and question the built and unbuilt environment around them. Their work is playful in nature with a process that is fun, iterative and at times inappropriate.

    Statement

    So & So Studio is an anonymous design practice which has surfaced as a natural response to calls for observation, research and understanding, proposition, and smart solutions to design challenges considered unique. The work of So & So Studio ranges in scale and focus from architectural design through urban discourse, product design and art installations. No matter the scale or focus of each work, they desire and demand to connect today’s relevance in architectural thinking to the people that are occupying our spaces.

    So & So Studio

    GlogauAIR Project

    In their current body of work, Ripped Off, So & So explores the excavation and reduction of space using residual materials: found and ripped off the streets of Berlin, Germany.

    Jorge Luis Borges, in 1985, claims: “Space, according to the idealists, does not exist in and of itself: it is a mental phenomenon, like pain, fear, and vision, and being part of consciousness, it may in no way be said that consciousness is situated in space.”

    This proposal explores the studios use of collage as an intuitive exploration to each project, whether the result is built architectural space, eventually realized, or just the visualisation of perceived space. Within the recording of time, space, as it is recognized in consciousness, is the artifact and evidence of moments which exist in the present. As architects, it is our responsibility to realize space in every facet of the word.

    Through collage, So & So continuously utilizes the instantaneous results of perceived space. It is within this result where the So & So consciousness of space becomes the viewer’s perceived time. Posters from the past are taken from the streets to feed an intuitive spatial creation and understanding of the architectural future. The viewer will experience a current reality, that is a present state of a layered past. A past that was once advertising for the future, but now draws the viewer into the a new spatial dimension of a hopeful future.

    So & So Studio proposes to bring the collage alive, expanding it to an interactive scale, throughout the three rooms of the GlogauAIR studio space. Here, the collage becomes a model for spatial communication, striving to join the three separate rooms into one larger gesture, while simultaneously dividing the space with overlaps and in-between space.

    CV Summary

    • Casa MAC
    • Teaching a blind client how to read her new home
    • So & So Studio UG
    • Client | Private
    • Status | Completed May 2018
    • Thiene, Italy, 2018

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  • Kovács/O’Doherty

    Kovács/O’Doherty

    Kovács/O’Doherty is GlogauAIR resident
    from April, 2020 to June, 2020

    Hungary and Ireland

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty have worked as a collaborative duo since 2011. Their work combines elements of durational and time-based art, minimalist movement, and electroacoustic music and sound. They are interested in processes, sounds, and movements that come close to imperceptibility, and the ways in which this material can be transformed through repetition, patterning, layering, and archiving.

    They have exhibited and presented work at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Serralves Museum, Porto; National Museum of Contemporary Art (Chiado), Lisbon; Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin; Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig; and Digital in Berlin’s Kiezsalonseries, Berlin, among others. They have been recipients of the LACMA Art + Technology Lab Award, and of the Tanzstipendium award of the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa. They live and work in Berlin, Germany.

    Kovács/O’Doherty

    GlogauAIR Project

    In their time at GlogauAIR, Kata and Tom have been researching and re-tracing the routes of abandoned railway lines in Berlin and Brandenburg — sites of infrastructural absence, of geographical traces, and of historical memory. The work combines investigation of these locations with parallel research into audio machine-learning models. The project will thus pair algorithmically generated audio of non-existent trains with physical locations of disappeared and non-existent train routes.

    Installation, New media, and Sound Art.

    CV Summary

    Kata Kovács

    • Education: Diploma, Contemporary/Modern Dance, Budapest Contemporary Dance School (2002-2007); Spanish Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University (2000-2002)
    • Born: 1981, Kecskemét, Hungary

    Tom O’Doherty

    • Education: M.Sc., Multimedia, Dublin City University (2000-2001); B.A., English, Greek and Roman Civilization, University College Dublin (1997-2000)
    • Born: 1978, Dublin, Ireland

    Selected grants and awards

    • Jun, 2017: Grant recipient, International travel grant, Berliner Senat, Berlin, Germany
    • May, 2016: Awardee and grant recipient, LACMA Art + Technology Awards 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
    • May, 2013: Grant recipient, Tanzstipendium, Berliner Senat, Berlin, Germany

    Ongoing work

    • Jan, 2016–present: Minute/Year. Multi-year automated durational installation in annual iterations. Automated, multi-year durational work, ongoing since 1. January 2016, in which sound is automatically layered in a resonant space, for one minute each day, and published online, as audio and accompanying spectrogram image. Presented in annually-altered locations, and currently in its fifth annual iteration (since 1. Jan., 2020) at bb15, Linz, Austria.

    Selected past exhibitions and events

    • 13.–15. Nov, 2019: Minute/Year (2016-2018). Video installation, talk, PARSE Research Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden. Presenting Minute/Year (Archive, 2016–2018), a three-channel video with sound, derived from the daily data generated by Minute/Year, and accompanying talk, presented at the third biennial PARSE Research Conference.
    • 5.-25. Oct, 2019: Carried Bells. Solo exhibition | Hošek Contemporary, Berlin. Presenting the process-based accumulating installation work Carried Bells, over the course of twenty consecutive days.
    • 13. Aug, 2019: KvT. Dual exhibition | bb15, Linz, Austria. Presenting KvT, a minimalist electroacoustic sound and photographic performance work, alongside work by Julian Day.
    • 9. Dec, 2018: Nearness — New Sound and Performance Works. Performance | Ausland Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Presenting 1-100, a process-based performance, as part of the Place Rhythm. Pulse series, curated by Gretchen Blegen, along with work by plan b performance.
    • 3., 9. Oct, 2018: KvT. Group exhibition | Bludny kamen Gallery, Opava, Czech Republic; Savremena Galerija Subotica, Subotica, Serbia. Presenting KvT, a minimalist electroacoustic sound and photographic performance work, alongside work by Agente Costura and Stephen Doyle.
    • 21.–24. Sep, 2017: Signal Tide. Sound and extraterrestrial radio installation | LACMA Art + Technology Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA. Presenting the sound and extraterrestrial radio installation Signal Tide. Incorporating music and sound created collaboratively with David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor). Facilitated by Joel Ferree (Program Director, LACMA Art + Technology Lab) and Amy Heibel (Adjunct Curator, LACMA Art + Technology Lab; Vice President, LACMA).
    • 12.–13. Apr, 2017: P!. Exhibition, conference, and festival | Chiado Museum (Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea), São Luiz Teatro Municipal, and other locations, Lisbon, Portugal. Presenting the durational installation Increments, at Chiado Museum (Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea), Lisbon, as part of the exhibition, conference, and festival P!, curated by Pedro Rocha and Ana Pais.
    • 8.–9. Oct, 2016: Afterglow. Installation | Musikbrauerei, Berlin, Germany. Sound installation presented as part of the closing event of the 2016 Kiezsalon series of events, presented by Digital in Berlin.
    • 1.–24. Apr, 2016: Restructuring the Axis. Group exhibition | Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany. Presenting the durational installation Increments – as a five-hour-long event on April 2. and 3., and thereafter as a photo series and daily audio remnant. Group exhibition, together with David Augusto Rios Alomia and Takahiro Ueda. Curated by Candace Goodrich.
    • 19.–20. Sep, 2015: The Museum as Performance. Group exhibition | Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal. Presenting the durational installation Increments, as part of the exhibition The Museum as Performance, curated by Pedro Rocha, Cristina Grande, and Ricardo Nicolau. With Alex Cecchetti, Anastasia Ax & Lars Siltberg, Isabel Carvalho, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Maria Hassabi, Musa Paradisiaca, New Noveta, and Vivo.

    Lectures, talks, residencies

    • 8. Jun, 2017: Scope Sessions #66. Artist’s talk | Panke, Berlin, Germany. Presenting the talk ‘Self-surveillance and Pervasive Data’.
    • Apr, 2017: Artist residency, Queens Collective, Marrakesh, Morocco
    • 28. Sep, 2014: NAH DRAN: Tanzstipendiaten. Artist’s talk | ada Studio Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Presenting the talk ‘Sound, Movement, and Silence’.
    • Dec, 2011–present: Ice. Ongoing research process | Berlin, Germany. Research process related to the durational video work Ice.

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  • Gloria Jurado

    Gloria Jurado

    Gloria Jurado is GlogauAIR resident
    from July, 2020 to September, 2020

    Gloria Jurado was the Berlin Guest Resident for the Summer program of 2020. She is a Spanish architect and artist based in Berlin. Her work combines photography, sculpture and art installations with which she aims to raise awareness of the uncertain future of Berlin.

    Meet the Artist

    In her project Berlin Umbau Gloria selects identity buildings in Berlin which are planned to be torn down. She takes pictures of those buildings using 35mm analogic film. Each building has it’s own film which she saves undeveloped. After a while (weeks, months, or years…) she goes back to the space and takes new pictures using that same film. The result is a series of double exposure analogue photografies in which she represents the change and lost of identity that the city of Berlin is experiencing as a result of the gentrification process the city is immersed in right now. For her exhibition in GlogauAIR’s Project Space she also presented pieces of the materials those building were made of, such as pipes and stones, combining like that both photography and sculpture.

    Statement

    Berlin Umbau is a project in which the Spanish architect Gloria Jurado has been immersed for the last two years. In order to accomplish the role as interpreter, the artist devotes herself to the changing reality that surrounds her, sharing a deep sensitivity stimulated by the city’s transformation. Her work combines photographs, sculpture and art installations, through which the artist does not only want the observer to focus on the beauty of the shapes but also to rise awareness about the uncertain future of Berlin.

    Gloria Jurado

    GlogauAIR Project

    Starting from the urgency to incorporate a greater awareness of the uncertain future of Berlin and following a strategy based on time, I will intervene through analog photography, where the 35mm film will act as a “time capsule”, recording the transformation of the city through the double exposure technique. The intervention will also be composed with recycled building elements, allowing an approach to the different deconstructions that are being developed in the city. Thus promoting a reflection that invites the individual to use their capacity for transformation in the environment.

    Architecture.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • 2008-2015 | Seville, Spain
      Master’s Degree
      Dipl. Ing. Architect
    • 2012-2013 | Florianopolis, Brazil
      Internship

    Exhibition and Events

    • March 06, 2020 – STILL RUNNING
      Exhibition| Berlin, Germany
      Solo Analog Photography Exhibition | Aufbau Haus
    • November 21, 2019
      Installation | Berlin, Germany
      Passage Installation | Tacheles
    • November 10, 2019
      Installation| Berlin, Germany
      Scaffolding Installation | Haus der Statistik
    • September 19, 2019
      Competition| Seville, Spain
      Selected by “Arquitectura a Contrapelo” to participate in the VII Edition Arquia/Próxima of Fundation Arquia “Inflexion point: Radical positions for a changing world”.
    • June 20, 2019
      Exhibition | Berlin Germany
      Solo Analog Photography Exhibition | Fundbüro

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  • Mariona Berenguer

    Mariona Berenguer

    Mariona Berenguer is GlogauAIR resident
    from January, 2021 to March, 2021.

    Spain

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Trained at Massana School in Barcelona in the speciality of sculpture, she concludes this stage with an honourable mention in the project “La Grieta. Espai Entre” which will be exhibited later in a solo show (Mutuo Gallery, Barcelona). She then teaches sculpture, drawing and moulds in different art centres and graduates in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She takes part in group exhibitions at LafuturA gallery (Barcelona), Fine Arts Academy (Sabadell), History Museum (Sant Feliu de Guíxols), TEDxBarcelonaWomen, San Salvador Monastery (Burgos), Maristany Art Centre and Es-Fiera 72 (Sant Cugat). In 2018, his work is selected for the XXI Biennial of Catalan Contemporary Art, where he presents Metástasi(s), an audiovisual installation with a performative extension in the company of the pianist Lucía Fumero. In 2019 she takes part in the Loop festival in Barcelona with an audiovisual installation in collaboration with the sound artist Juan Segura and a group exhibition in Kunsthaus Bethanien, the historical centre of art in Berlin. This last year she has been selected for the Felicia Fuster Foundation grants with the interactive installation About desire, a project with which she starts in the field of robotics and which she has exhibited in Monopol during this year’s BerlinArtweek and which is on show at the catalan foundation until February next year.

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    GlogauAIR Project

    THE EMPTY NEST

    The project presented at GlogauAIR is part of an ongoing investigation into the subject of desire. Following this continuing line of development, the exhibition is comprised of a series of works that explore the notions of need and longing, and the complex emotional, philosophical, and conceptual positions surrounding these topics. In many ways, the works consider this theme from various perspectives, from the quietly personal to the ostensibly physically detached, allowing for an examination that encompasses or takes into account both our inner and outer environments. Buying flowers in the Berlin underground to bring “life” inside your home, simulating natural sunlight, or observing flocks of animals in the countryside through the use of a drone are some of the various actions that activate and inform the works included.

    Taking into account a diversity of positions, the presence of both natural and technological elements act as a conductive thread throughout the exhibition. The use of animals or plants is presented as a symbolic resource to address the most basic needs—emotions and instincts in it’s most essential state, with no other pretension other than survival. Technology, on the other hand, appears as a substitute tool that forces processes, creates rhythms and palliates impossibility. Animals, plants and technology are all elements that are part of us, but can appear as extreme otherness. This challenges us in terms of what we identify with most, and that which begins to define us. Nature and artifice lose strength as dual elements, but they create duality in our own position. This classically understood or intrinsic tension between these “worlds” provides a foundation or framework in which the viewer can reflect on their own perspectives of need and longing, and how we as cultures or individuals understand and rationalize that which brings about these feelings. But in the end, and returning to the first impulse, this becomes an intimate reflection on life in the city, of strategies for solitude and the inherent melancholy connected to lack of light.

    Installation and Sculpture.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • 2015 – 2020. Grade on Fine Arts. Autonomous Univerity of Barcelona (UAB).
    • 2012 – 2015. Graduated in el Higher Cycle in Applied Arts in Sculpture. Massana School. Honorable mention in the final project “The Crack. Space Between“
    • 2010 – 2011. Anathomical drawing course. EASC School (Sant Cugat’s school of Arts)
    • 2008 – 2010 High School of Art. Massana School.

    Artistic residences

    • 2017, August. Artistic residence of drawing and sculpture. Can Murtera, Ibiza.
    • 2014, Artistic residence of sculpture, Contemporary Art Center of Ifitry, Morocco

    Individual Exhibitions

    • 2019, November. Western Loop. Installation for Loop (Videoart festival of Barcelona). Center Grau-Garriga of contemporary textil Art. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2016, April – May. Individual Exhibition of Sculpture, “The Crack. Space Between”. Mutuo Gallery. Barcelona.
    • 2012, September – Genuary. Individual Exhibition of drawing and painting. Factory of creation of live Arts. Sabadell.

    Collective exhibitions

    • 2020, December – February. Poètiques del desig i la memòria. Felícia Fuster Foundation. Barcelona
    • 2020, December. Sense títol 2020. University of Fine Arts. Barcelona.
    • 2020, September. Site Unseen. Berlin Art Week. Monopol, Berlin.
    • 2019, October. CHIMERA. Kaleidoscopic Journey, curated for Semra Sevin.Kunstquartier Bethanien. Kreuzberg, Berlin.
    • 2019, February. “The Internet of Animals”.Mutuo Gallery. Barcelona.
    • 2019, February. “Fake Paradise”, curated by Nathalie Rey. És-Fera72 Gallery. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2018, Sept. – 2019, Dic. “XXI Biennial of Catalan Contemporàni Art”. Itinerant by: Centre d’Art Maristany (Sant Cugat del Vallès), Biblioteca pública de Lleida (Lleida), Espai Eat Art de la Fundació Lluís Coromina (Banyoles), Tinglado 1 Port de Tarragona (Tarragona), Centre de Lectura – Sala Fortuny (Reus), Centre d’Art Contemporani LA SALA (Vilanova i la Geltrú), Aula de Cultura Fòrum Berger Balaguer (Vilafranca del Penedès).
    • 2018, July – 2019, February. Installation “Opus II”. Contemporary Art Exhibit. Benedictine Gardens of the monastery of San Salvador. Burgos.
    • 2017, November. “The Brave You”. TEDxBarcelonaWomen. Mazda Space, Barcelona.
    • 2017, June. Oppening exhibition. Gallery És-Fera72. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2017, December – February. Collective eshibition AES. Sabadell Academy of Fine Arts.
    • 2016, August. “Women’s Visions”. (Barcelona gallery weekend) Mutuo Gallery. Barcelona
    • 2015, March. “Endogen/ Exogen”. lafuturA Gallery. Barcelona.
    • 2014, July. Collective exhibition of black ceramic. History Museum of Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
    • 2014, June – July. “Instints”. Limited Editions Gallery. Barcelona.
    • 2013, October – December. “Techné, la mà que pensa” Escola Massana.

    Prizes and grants

    • 2019. Selected for the VI Edition of the Felicia Fuster Visual Arts Young Creation Grants.
    • 2018. Selected for the XXI Bienal d’Art Contemporàni Català. Canals Gallery. Sant Cugat del Vallès. Barcelona.
    • 2017. Finalist II Sample of AES. Academy of Fine Arts. Sabadell.
    • 2015. Honorable mention in the final project “La Grieta. Space Between “. Massana School. Barcelona.
    • 2014 – 2015. Responsable of the casting and molding workshop. Massana School.

    Assistance in artistic production workshops

    • 2018, Sept. – Acc. Head of production for the artist Michael Sailstorfer. Studio Sailstorfer. Weissensee, Berlín.
    • 2017, June – 2018, July. Workshop assistant for the artist Gerard Mas. Workshop of the artist. La Floresta, Barcelona.
    • 2014 – 2015. Scholarship of the artistic casting and molding workshop. Massana School. Barcelona.

    Teaching

    • 2018, January June. Classes of artistic enamelling. “Initiation to the moulds” and “Moulds II: Obtaining bronze pieces”. Casa Aymat. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2017, November. Masterclass “Object and metaphor in sculpture”. December. Masterclass “Introduction to moulds” Casa Aymat. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2017, January. Masterclass of experimental drawing with live model. Centre d’art Maristany. Sant Cugat del Vallès.
    • 2016, November – 2017, July. Classes of experimental drawing with live model. Dterra Gallery. Sant Cugat del Vallès

    Publications

    • 2017, December. “presència-executor-absència” Lithography, series of 20 copies. Work in public collections: Fine Arts Library. University of Barcelona.
    • 2014, April. Transfer of photo of own work. Calendar of the 100th anniversary of C.I.B. Italian Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona.

    Others

    • 2018, December. Performance “Blind Birds”. Rummels Klubnacht, Berlin.
    • 2018, September. Performance “Metastasis” with the piano Lucia Fumero. On the occasion of the Biennal. Center d’Art Maristany
    • 2017. Realization of the prototype for the project “IAgotchi”. Art and technology company PulsoPulso. Paris
    • 2016, October – May 2017. Graphic designer in fashion publicity. MAAMUUT. Barcelona
    • 2013, April. Design and montage for the stand of Ediciones La Cúpula; “El Vivora”. 31st International Comic Fair in Barcelona. Montjuïc

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  • Marcos Nacar

    Marcos Nacar

    Marcos Nacar is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2021 to December, 2021.

    Spain

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Marcos Nacar is a performer/dancer/maker. His works take the form of dance, words, installations, videos, and interventions. He starts from de quotidian and uses physical, written, and visual devices to generate changes of perspective.

    His work deals with the landscape, memory, and illegality as main topics. He is currently busy with an archive of a deceased woman; with a short film about the lost years and exploring the relations between violence and sexual desire in the socialization process of male-identifying bodies.

    He founded in 2019, together with Matilde Bassetti, the collective Nomellores. Dealing specifically with the digital and the territory. They’ve performed and intervened in different spaces such as Sicily, Catalonia, Berlin, and online, producing mostly site-specific work.

    Marcos Nacar
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    GlogauAIR Project

    “I don’t know Carmen” is an artistic research based on the personal archive of Carmen. In June 2018 when I was living in Barcelona I found hundreds of photographs, letters, and postcards from her. Someone had emptied her flat after her death. I have developed an almost dangerous attraction to melancholy. Since the death of my father when I was six, photographs, diaries and personal objects have been the only way to get to know him.

    Carmen was born in 1935, one year before the Spanish Civil war started. We don’t have records of her until the ’50s, where she starts to archive herself. Every August she made a trip to a European Capital. Almost no men appear in her pictures. She is always with her female friends. They traveled following their religious interests and it feels like they created a feminist catholic community, where men would be excluded.

    I want to reflect on the practice of creating personal archives as a way to portrait oneself. I would like to stage this self-portrait to underline the performativity of this action and give value to one of the last generations that have archived themselves in analog. The only trace from her on the digital world is her obituary: published on a webpage that also offers services to erase social profiles of people that passed away; Support to collect live insurances; and online wills.

    Installation and Performance.

    CV Summary

    • Born in Barcelona, in 1993, is a dancer, performer and maker based in Berlin.
    • In 2021 he received the special initial grant from Akademie der Künste to support his artistic research.
    • In 2019 founded the collective Nomellores, creating the pieces WISH YOU WERE HERE (2019) online performance; Sotto il ponte che pugnale la Sicilia (2020), a gathering organized for the youth of the city of Alcamo, Sicily, hosted by the collective Landescape ; Tierra Trazada (2020), a collective walk with the inhabitant of Alzina, Catalogna, hosted by the festival Natures20’
    • In 2018 he created his first solo “MENU”, and presented it in Tanzfabrik.
    • He is a founder member and writer in “Zinecolectivo”. Magazine and artists collective.
    • From 2014 until 2018 he worked as a performer for the social theatre company, Impactat teatre, following the work of Augusto Boalt, theatre of the oppressed.
    • He studied the programs Danceintensive at Tanzfabrik, Berlin; Inside movement at Tragant dansa, Barcelona. And he also completed a bachelor in law at University of Barcelona.

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  • Fadi Al-Hamwi

    Fadi Al-Hamwi

    Fadi Al-Hamwi is GlogauAIR resident
    from January, 2022 to March, 2022

    Syria

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Fadi al-Hamwi (b.1986, Damascus) lives and works in Berlin. He studied oil and mural painting at the Damascus Academy of Fine Arts (2010-2006). Al-Hamwi concerns himself with lending physical shape to the human experience of war, His practice began investigating the latent violence in societal constructs and evolved as actual violence began to take place around him in Damascus in 2011. He explores the relationship between dormant and actualised expressions of violence and desire, as well as the dialogue between construction and destruction and revealing a deeply personal/social process of reckoning.

    Fadi Al-Hamwi

    GlogauAIR Project

    Human mistake is a performance installation project based on a solo performer deals with 3 main objects: Glass, metal basin and vibration motors.

    It is an investigation to consider the rituals of mistakes: from activating the memory of the body, acknowledging the history of it, paying tribute of its own mistakes, to translate and embody the chances of repairing what has been broken or accepting and honouring the damages.

    The layers within the movements trying to study and explore the possibilities that cause a human mistake (consciously and subconsciously) accidentally or intentionally and the actions/reactions beneath it.cription.

    Perfomance and Sculpture.

    CV Summary

    Selected exhibitions

    • 2020
      bis hierher und nicht weiter, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
      Sugar Forever Performance installation, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Alfred-Scholz-Platz, Berlin, Germany
    • 2019
      Lost in translation, De Warande Expo, Turnhout, Belgium
      While You Were Sleeping II, CAP Kuwait, Kuwait.
    • 2018
      The Others Fair, Solo booth with East of Elsewhere, Turin, Italy
      Behind the lines at “The Reach Gallery Museum” , BC, Canada.
    • 2017
      Journey of Belonging , CAA Berlin, Positions Gallery, Berlin, Germany
      L’Art en Mouvement , Nice Solidair du Monde, Nice, France.
      100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, Institut du Monde Arabe and Barjeel Art Foundation, Paris, France.

    Artist talk

    • 2017 – European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria.
    • 2016 – Bucharest art week, Bucharest, Romania.
    • 2015 – CPH:DOX, Copenhagen documentary film festival, Denmark.

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  • Samuel Perea-Díaz

    Samuel Perea-Díaz

    Samuel Perea-Díaz is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2022 to December, 2022

    Spain

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    I am interested in the possibilities of engaging, expanding, and mapping different geographies of sound. As an artist and spatial designer based in Berlin, my practice incorporates academic research, exhibition scenography and curating. I hold a degree in Architecture from the University of Seville and a MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts. Based on collaborations with other artists and re-exhibiting sound, my artwork blends, and moves between sonic activism and immersive virtual landscape. My sound-focused sculptures and installations explore art and technology by generating sonic spaces of mixed realities, which engage with sonification, relocation of sound, field recording, and virtual reality.

    Samuel Perea-Díaz

    GlogauAIR Project

    Acoustic terrains render the dimension of the social space through vibrations. It creates space for discussion and time-reflection in humans’ relations and behaviors. The project at GlogauAIR engages with re-exhibiting sonic interstices in a multimedia art installation as the result of an artistic research on architecture and sound. My art residency takes place in two parts: the first is an analytical approach to space by actively embodying and listening to the environment and the building. The second part focuses on the realization of a specific sound installation, which presents sound-in-objects and field recordings in a multichannel set-up.

    Architecture, Installation, and Sound Art.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • 2018 – 2022. Berlin University of the Arts – UdK | MA, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, DE.
    • 2006 – 2013. Universidad de Sevilla | Arquitecto, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, SP.

    Selected artworks

    • 2022, Willowalks. A Sound Exploration | Soundwalk for Stretching Sensing School, TaT, Berlin, DE.
    • 2022, UNAIDS_FactSheet_en.pdf | Installation at CHB, Berlin, DE.
    • 2022, Transitory Sonic Bodies | Installation at The REED, Berlin, DE.
    • 2022, Transitory Sonic Bodies | Installation at Sounds.About, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
    • 2022, Antennae | Installation at TaT, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, Untitled (Topoanalysis) | Installation at SoundsAbout, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, Mortalidad_por_VIH2019_DEF.PDF | Installation at Rundgang – Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for ‘Wild Frictions. The Politics and Poetics of Interruptions’, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, In-between Breaths | Installation at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, Sonic Violence | Installation at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin, DE.
    • 2020, The wonderful everyday is coming | Installation at Sounds.About, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
    • 2020, 030/XXX/YY | Installation at CLB – Berlin, DE.
    • 2019, Encounters |Installation for Kontakte´19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE.
    • 2019, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for FoWe, Critical Geography Conferences. Berlin, DE.
    • 2019, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for *C*A*R*E: International Urban Studies Conference. TU-Wien, Vienna, AT.

    Grants and awards

    • 2021, A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora |CAAC – Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, SP.
    • 2019, Beca Investigación Nueva York (awarded mention) | Fundación ARQUIA & Real Academia de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando, SP.

    Publications

    Talks

    • 2022, Artist talk at Schwules Museum part of Queer Art and Activism, DE.
    • 2021, Artist talk at Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, Sevilla, SP.
    • 2020, Artist Talk at Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT.

    Teaching

    • 2021 – 2023, ‘Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound’ at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE.
    • 2019 – 2021, ‘Berlin Sonic. Auditory Collective Explorations’, co-teached with Banu Çiçek Tülü at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE.

    Curatorial Work

    • 2022, ‘Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt’, co-curated with Pepe Sánchez-Molero at Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE.
    • 2021, ‘Listening to Listening’, co-curated with Tuçe Erel at TOP e.V., 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, DE.

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  • brustudio

    brustudio

    brustudio is GlogauAIR resident
    from January, 2023 to March, 2023

    “The aim of our project is to explore the possibilities of the spatial context and transform it into a safe-participatory act. We want to develop an immersive moment in an exposed room, through playful design and inception of sensitive/sensorial experiences. The focus of our project is on identity, belonging, subjectivity – offering the possibility of unfolding, gaining a pocket of personal reality: a temporary setup.” brustudio

    Meet the Artist

    What’s your name and where you come from?

    brustudio is formed by: Ane Crisan from Romania, Covadonga Cueto-Felgueroso Junquera and Sandra Palau Palacio from Spain.

    How did your artist journey begin?

    We started as an architecture studio and in the past year we discovered the joy of expressing our creative ideas through art. They are still very connected to the practicality of the architecture world but we focus more on topics such as belonging, feminism taking the shape of spatial art in urban structures. 

    Do you find inspiration in real-life situations and moments you experienced? 

    We find inspiration in the space between the people we meet, the buildings we pass and the thoughts we discuss together as a group. We respond to challenges in a bold and playful way, imagining new possibilities of living in a city like Berlin. 

    What is your process? What are your overarching themes in your artwork?

    We begin working on projects with the intent of combining social and economic solutions with playful design to overcome challenges of everyday life. We focus on expressing and developing bold concepts with identity and belonging.  

    Our work transitions across scales and mediums. Through installations and cultural interventions, we experiment with space perception and new materials. Within the built environment, we aim to resolve controversies of the contemporary way of living.

    Do you think your art has evolved being in a different environment E.g. Do you think GlogauAIR / being in Berlin has influenced your work?

    GlogauAIR gives us an opportunity to connect with a new platform of artists, learn from their practice and, on the other hand, we challenge ourselves for the first time to present a project in a closed space-room.

    Statement

    The aim of our project is to explore the possibilities of the spatial context and transform it into a safe-participatory act. We want to develop an immersive moment in an exposed room, through playful design and inception of sensitive/sensorial experiences. The focus of our project is on identity, belonging, subjectivity – offering the possibility of unfolding, gaining a pocket of personal reality: a temporary setup.

    We bring dynamism in an unmoving room by letting the participants develop an individual womb-space for themselves. They become the language between the statuary room and the artpiece. The social element is brought by also observing that one still-space can be perceived in many different ways, depending on how and who interacts with it. We work with large/medium-size interactive installations/structures, made mostly of wood and textile. A demonstration of a similar purpose can be seen in our previous work – placed in the urban structure.

    brustudio

    GlogauAIR Project

    Our body of work focuses on spatial art and architecture. We dare to shape existing realities into playful, interactive contextual installations or objects. Our aim is to discover new ways of understanding, perceiving and consuming the spaces around us through sustainable materials.

    CV Summary

    brustudio is formed by

    • Ane Crisan based in Berlin since 2015, operating between the fields of architecture and spatial art, takes interest in developing ideas that initiate new interactions between spaces and participants. Her visual and conceptual intentions mix construction elements, fragments of architecture as rational geometrical forms with a touch of motion.
    • Sandra Palau Palacio born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1990. Based in Berlin since 2016. Sandra has developed a broad and multi-faceted design approach, and today her work ranges from architecture to product design, with a strong implementation of visual communication. She graduated in 2016 from the University of Alicante, Spain and had the opportunity to study in Germany (Beuth Hochschule für Technik, Berlin) and Mexico (UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico).
    • Covadonga Cueto-Felgueroso Junquera born in Asturias, Spain, in 1988. Covadonga graduated in 2014 from the University of Valladolid including academic training at the Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany. Her work since then has ranged from small to large scale, from furniture and installation to residential and office building. Her work approach is based on topics such as: community life, participation, gender equality and sustainability.

    Exhibitions

    • 16th Biennale di Venezia – Spanish Pavilion – Vortex Project – Venice, Italy The exhibition, curated by the architect Atxu Amann, occupied the building “tattooing” its interior walls through 52 relevant concepts to our discipline today.
    • 48 Stunden Neukölln – Womb – Berlin, Germany The festival presents and promotes art that contributes to current social issues and reflects them. Discursive, participatory and interdisciplinary approaches are therefore in the foreground.

    Awards & Publications

    • Al-Tiba9 – Art Magazine – Issue 12, 2023
    • Womb – Selected Project – Bee Breeders, Architecture Competitions, 2022
    • From Earthscape to Playscape – Honorable Mention – Archstorming, International Competitions, 2022
    • Nest – 3rd Prize – Opengap – Open Gate to Architects and Projects, 2020

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  • Paula Vidal

    Paula Vidal

    Paula Vidal is GlogauAIR resident
    from April, 2022 to June, 2022

    Chile and Spain

    Meet the Artist

    Coming soon

    Statement

    Paula Vidal, an academic trained architect, is an artist who works with space as a canvas. Her large-format installations are on-site interventions that seek to launch questions that visitors must answer through their bodies, thus questioning their perception of physical and mental territories.

    She works with pneumatic structures they allow her to generate changing spaces, which are always different and sensitive to the presence of the spectator. Spaces that are more democratic because they involver multiple sources of authorship. Throught the visitor activation, the artpiece will generate a new reality that is not only spatial, but also emotional, because architecture has that power: the power to modify people’s mood and state of mind.

    Vidal’s work seeks to question established realities, always through play and individual experience. The concept Homo-Ludens is part of her seminal thinking, whose purpose is to stimulate and alter emotions. Play and knowledge, like play and reality, dialogue as conceptual opposites, united by the same crisis and necessity.

    Paula Vidal

    GlogauAIR Project

    At GlogauAIR Paula Vidal will present her new project Out of Season Shelters (OSS), an art installation that investigates and questions the terms “beauty”, applied to priscine nature, and “ugliness”, to humanized nature, in order to critize values implicit in the concept of ecology.

    OSS reinterprets the agrarian architecture of the greenhouses of Almería, Spain. Criticized by national/international media, this sea of plastic extends over 360 km2, area slightly larger than Munich and is the world’s largest concentration intensive agriculture. The fruits and vegetables grow in closed spaces that make visible the true ugliness: the careless consumption of out of season products from northern European countries, especially Germany.

    OSS, ironically, transforms the image of greenhouses into an idealized scenography. Seeing beautiful what seemed horrible allows us to ask ourselves: What is more important aesthetics or ecology? What is ugly? The greenhouses? The symbol of consumption without limits, this endless sea of plastic? The anti-ecological burden of plastic? Or are they serviced because of the humans, impact on the landscape and the anthropocene.

    By removing the burden of ugliness from plastic architecture, the aim is not to affirm or defend it, but to disarm the critique of aesthetics so that the real questions that allow for social change can emerge.

    Architecture and Installation.

    CV Summary

    Education

    • Architecture. San Pablo CEU University. End of studies July 2017. Final degree Project Outstanding.
    • Exchange student. Universidad de la República, Uruguay 2014-2015.
    • Art History. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2005-2009.

    Exhibitions and Awards

    • 2021 Monopol, Berlin, Germany. Collective Exhibition, Chilean Conexion IV
    • 2020 Kastanien Projektraum, Berlin, DE. Solo Exhibition
    • 2020 Kastanien Projektraum Berlin, Germany. Collective Exhibition, Chilean Conexion III
    • 2019 GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany. Collective Exhibition, Chilean Conexion II
    • 2018 Venice Biennale. Collective Exhibition, Becoming Edition
    • 2017 Küzefest Festival_ Video Mapping. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Chile
    • 2016 S.Pablo CEU University. Winner Shortcut Category, Creative Contest. “Gene Transfer”
    • 2015 F. Banco Santander. Second Price. Contest Videotalentos. “Gene Transfer”
    • 2014 Yofi Fest Film Festival. Display. NY. “Paco Peralta, Back to Start”
    • 2014 S.Pablo CEU University. Winner Shortcut Category, Creative Contest. “Materia Mater”
    • 2013 Europan 12. Honorable Mention. Assen, The Netherlands.
    • 2013 S.Pablo CEU University. Winner Shortcut Category, Creative Contest. “Obsession”
    • 2013 F. Banco Santander. Finalist. Videotalentos. “Yves Klein. Obsesión”
    • 2012 COAM. Exhibition “Plazas de Toros Desmontables” and Plaza las Ventas. Curators Picado y de Blas Studio

    Publications

    • YA NO NOS IMPORTA_ 2018 Exhibition Catalogue
    • ATLAS. AQUELLOS QUE ESPERAN_2018 Exhibition Catalogue
    • PLAZAS DESMONTABLES_2012 Exhibition Catalogue

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  • María León

    María León

    María León is GlogauAIR resident
    from October, 2023 to December, 2023

    María León (b. 1984, Mérida) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin, and is currently taking part of the GlogauAir’s program as our Berlin Guest Artist. 

    María León uses objects and materials of different historical and cultural values to explore a new order of relationship between them, and to create new possible narratives. She creates installations of “expanded objects”, where objects are meticulously chosen based on an irresistible attraction, relying on one another for meaning and purpose. Through interventions, decontextualizations and deconstructions, these objects are liberated from their original functions, reborn as autonomous aesthetic entities.

    Meet the Artist

    Good evening María, thank you for having us in your studio today. We are surrounded by sculptures made of leather and bread, and various objects developed through your research and experimentations. How did your artistic journey begin?

    I started drawing when I was a child. It was a way for me to relate to the world around me. I’ve always thought through images. When I was younger I wasn’t comfortable talking, but I could express myself through drawings, or other visual elements that I created.

    Did you study art later?

    In Spain you can do high-school specialising in art, so that’s what I did. Then, I went to the Fine Arts University in Madrid, where I did one year as an Erasmus student in Athens. I also did what is now called a Master of advanced studies in Art, and then I joined the Goldrausch program, which is a postgraduate professional training program for female artists. Lastly, I participated in another coaching program in a museum in Majorca, called “Las Clinicas”. 

    How would you describe your practice as an artist, and what are your inspirations? 

    I describe my practice as an artist as working with different mediums, but always following the same process. The process I follow always involves three dimensions, so it’s mainly installation art. I’ve been reflecting on my practice, and I can say now that I work on what I call “expanded objects”. This idea comes from an essay from Rosalind Krauss, who wrote about expanded fields in architecture, and from the old concept of expanded painting. What I mean by that, is that even if I work with video, or with photography, my work is always a reflection on how we deal with objects nowadays. Objects and materialities are very present in my work. I couldn’t find a proper term to describe this idea, I think I made the term “expanded objects” up, and I feel comfortable with it. If I were to say “I work with many different mediums”, it would be imprecise, while talking about “expanded objects” is already a statement about the physical things that belong to our world. 

    Can you elaborate on your process? 

    In my process I use interventions, I intervene on the object or material through different processes; decontextualisation, sometimes it’s just about changing the context; or deconstruction, removing the object from its original function to create a new possible meaning.

    You’re talking about expanded objects, and I know that’s part of what you would like to present during your show at GlogauAIR for the open studios. What motivated you to apply to be the Guest Artist at GlogauAIR? 

    I applied to GlogauAIR because I felt that after the covid crises, and after having my daughter, that there was a moment of inactivity in my career. I wanted to feel like I was “doing something” again. I saw the opportunity and I thought it was exactly what I needed, and it was easy. I live in Berlin so I don’t have to move cities, I needed to reactivate my practice, and I can get to know the artists at GlogauAIR and make new connections. As a mother and a teacher in an art school, I don’t have a lot of flexibility these days. I think being a Guest Artist in GlogauAIR is a nice opportunity to work on an exhibition proposal, and to get new people like you, like Suzy Royal [GlogauAIR’s On-Site Curator], like other artists in Berlin…

    Can you tell me a little more about what you would like to present at GlogauAIR? 

    When I think of an exhibition, I like to think of a feeling, of an experience. I want the viewer to have a full experience in the exhibition space. I want them to experience the feeling of “relief”. I want to present works that interpellate each other, and interpellate the spectators, and offer you alternatives and other ways of thinking about the concepts of resistance and support, applied to materials. Once I had a friend come to visit my studio and he didn’t understand the work. He asked me to explain it to him, and I answered with one sentence: “This work is about dramatical love relationships”. This is a love relationship between materials, and there is some drama there. I want to convey the feelings of loss, and recovering. The title is “Hold my hand”. When you ask someone to hold your hand, it’s either to ask or offer help. I want to convey this feeling too.

    Statement

    In my current artistic work, I use objects and materials of different historical and cultural values to explore a new order of relationship between them, creating new possible narratives. I understand my artistic research as a process that overflows the object itself to extend to other aesthetic languages such as video, drawing or photography, being therefore the idea of expanded object the one I feel most comfortable with when describing my artistic practice.

    My way of working is characterised by being an open and intuitive process. I collect objects or materials for which I feel an irresistible attraction and it is during living together with them in the studio when I intervene them by means of different processes. These processes attempt to generate tension or propitiate encounters between them and are often the result of trial and error. They include intervention, decontextualisation or deconstruction of the object, removing it from its original function to create autonomous aesthetic pieces.

    I work with materials of different temporalities, coming from the field of architecture or domestic spheres, as well as with others of unstable narratives. Especially the temporality of the materials is very present in my work, where the fourth dimension time is as important as the specific relationship with the exhibition space. This is manifested in the constant reference to the fragment, the rest or the trace, sometimes as a consequence of a performative process with the objects.

    In my installations of expanded objects, the elements depend on each other for meaning. Gas hoses that twist in the exhibition space like the snake of the Laooconte, fragile structures with pieces of candelabra, dismembered wax elements that remind one of votive offerings, a mobile that functions as a hinge, are some of my latest works that seem to activate in a system of fragile relationships held only in the constant flow of their possibilities of interpellation and interpretation.

    Title

    GlogauAIR Project

    The proposal Hold My Hand explores the notion of support. Support receives something that exerts force or pressure on it, without changing or suffering any damage, allowing an apparent balance of power through resistance. Understanding resistance as a duality that can be interpreted both as a mechanism of protection against a traumatic experience, or as a form of creative empowerment, here the objects interpellate each other and interpellate the viewer in the exhibition space as an emotional place, not only seeking mutual support or perhaps relief, but new ways of relating to each other.

    Installation and Object.

    CV Summary

    María León (Mérida, 1984) holds a degree and a diploma of Advance Studies in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2010 she lives and works in Berlin, where she has furthered he artistic education through her participation in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt in 2017. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at venues such as Künstquartier Bethanien (Berlin), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Spain), XVIII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira (Portugal), and the National Museum of Art M. K. Ciurlionis (Lithuania). In 2019, she participated in the International Residency Program at the Centro de Arte La Regenta (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain), and in 2016, she received the Bilbaoarte Foundation Art Project Residence Grant (Spain). Her work has been recognized with awards from the XVI Certamen de Artes Plásticas El Brocense (Spain) and the Call for Exhibition Proposals by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin, among others. She is also a co-founder of the project space Urlaub Projects.

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