Past Residents
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Martin Höfer
Martin Höfer’s work concentrates on artistic strategies and mechanisms of perception in the field of public media space. Höfer’s focus is the development of artistic concepts for mass media systems as art itself. Therefore, he focuses on the relation of art and economics, aspects of art and media theory as well as mass communication, advertisement and marketing.
Martin Höfer (born 1982 in Sondershausen (Thuringia), Germany) lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He graduated with distinction at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in Media Art. Höfer’s work has been commissioned for group exhibitions including the Dispute Between Word and Picture, Cairo, Egypt, 2006; Hiwar Fanni, Amman, Jordan, 2007; On (plein) Air, Dresden, Germany, 2009; Youth Cult, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Best buy me, Leipzig, Germany, 2010; Kunst im Tower, Linz, Austria, 2010; Capital unemployed, National Art Gallery Vilnius, Lithuania, 2011, Victory on behalf of art (Porsche Carrera Cup, 30 motor races in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, 2012/13), DLF 1874: Die Biografie der Bilder, Leipzig, Germany, 2012, The Supershow, Leipzig, Germany, 2013; 1st NSK Folk Art Biennale, Leipzig, Germany, 2014.
Martin Höfer, Siegen im Auftrag der Kunst, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Aleksi Linnamaa
Aleksi Linnamaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice considers the mechanisms of perception and narration. He primarily works with photographic techniques as well as in sculpture and painting. Linnamaa’s moving image work often includes architecture as a tool for storytelling. In his latest video work Parallel, the architecture of a controversial mining site in Finland is literally mediated through a ruin of an old farmhouse. Linnamaa’s artistic research draws from the ephemeral nature of the manmade.
Aleksi Linnamaa (born 1983 in Tampere, Finland) received an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been the subject of several national and international exhibitions including Startpoint, Prize for Emerging Artists; Dox, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague; City of Dreams, Mänttä Art Festival XIX, Mänttä; and Expanded Photography, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki. Linnamaa’s works are in the collections of the Finnish State Art Collection.
Aleksi Linnamaa, History of Colors, 2012, 35 mm 81 slides projected in carousel projector. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2015: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Tori Wrånes
Tori Wrånes works primarily with performance: combining voice and sculpture. Wrånes’ use of costumes, props, architecture and sculptures deform her outward appearance and creates dreamlike constellations. Her recent works includes the commission Stone and Singer for the 19th Biennale of Sydney as well as Yes Nix for Performa 13 in New York. Her large-scale piece about sound on wheels, Spin Echo, was a concert in Disney Concert Hall parking structure in Los Angeles. A choir on bikes and bodybuilders pulled and spun around musicians on carts, creating spiral sound-drones. In Your Next Vacation Is Calling at Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, Wrånes rearranged the interior space into a three-dimensional abstract painting. The slow movements of the participants, sound and colors created an abstract desert, evoking a floating chaos without words and seeming without logic.
Tori Wrånes lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Wrånes graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2009 and took part in the exhibition To Be Heard is to be Seen at Henie-Onstad Art Center in the same year. In 2013 she showed at Colombo Art Biennale in Sri Lanka and at the The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, in the exhibition I Wish This Was a Song – Music in Contemporary Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristina Matousch and Tori Wrånes
August 18, 2015
Tori Wrånes, Your Next Vacation Is Calling, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo.
