Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Creative Australia
nova Milne
Nova Milne create moments of connection or disruption, often taking the form of encounters across the breach of time. These sometimes reveal invisible or poetic connections between minor-historical events, and shared fictional or popular references. Through their increasingly expanded video installations, they unleash the occult potential of recombining anachronistic elements, forging a magical sympathy between documentary or amature sources and fabricated material. Their process invents a de-centered point of view and the question of inter-subjectivity forms an ongoing curiosity, alongside considerations of time, mysticism, longing, and empathy.
Nova Milne is a relationship that began when the two artists met as teenagers in 1998, and started exhibiting in 2003. They are recent alumni of the Residency Program at the Bemis Center, Omaha and have undertaken several residencies, including at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Artspace, Sydney. Their solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; The Physics Room, New Zealand; and Artspace, Australia. Other exhibitions include venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; 104 and The Musee Rodin, Paris.
nova Milne, Jeté, 1963, 1965, 2014, 2-channel video, media players, steel and paint, 5 min. Courtesy of the artists.
nova Milne, Videodromes for the alone: frame drag, 1988, 2009, 2024, 2-channel video installation, media players, wood, paint and foil, 3:57 min. Courtesy of the artists.
nova Milne, Videodromes For The Alone: Frame Drag, 1988, 2009, 2024, 2-channel video installation, media players, wood, paint and foil. Courtesy of the artists.
nova Milne, Xerox Missive, 1977, 2011, 4-channel video installation from archived video recordings (1977) transferred to HD video, original 3K video (2011), animation, sound and synced videos, 4 min. Courtesy of the artist.
nova Milne, Videodromes For The Alone: Amputee of the Neurotic Future, 1988, 2012, Still from 3 channel synced video installation with sculptural elements including digitised archive VHS footage from a home movie by John Alden Milne from the collection of John Milne, Pywacket from the Bell and Candle [1958], animation, assorted rotoscoped found footage and sound, Audio: 2 min, video: 1 min. Courtesy of the artists.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2014: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Alexander Thomas Schmidt
Alexander Schmidt works across many different mediums including drawing, object, sound, printing and painting. His work is influenced by the music he hears, as well as objects that reference his childhood building small worlds with bricks and Lego.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt (born 1982, Halle) completed his studies in Graphic Design in 2011 including an exchange program in Lucerne. His work occupies the margins between graphic design and art. Schmidt is part of the artist/design group ZYKLOP.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt, Connection, 2012, Papercubes in cluster.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt.
Alexander Thomas Schmidt.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2014: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Dominique Hurth
Dominique Hurth is interested in the framing and reading of objects and events, folding and unfolding in non-linear manner historical narratives. The starting point for new works is often a narrative present in localities or images, that finds itself anew in documents, archives and exhibition displays, questioning the entity of the object in space, as accompanied by the subjective voice of personal narratives. Recording technology, popular culture and science fiction oscillate with art history, modernism or litterature, thus merging fact and fiction, image and caption, form and word.
Dominique Hurth graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Arts and Design, London and the Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 2010 – 11 she was awarded a bursary at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and in 2013 a Fellowship at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck. She was resident at Triangle France and Can Xalant in 2010 and 2011. Recent projects include group shows at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Villa Oppenheim – Museum Charlottenburg, Berlin; Tiroler Künstlerschaft Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; LOOK/13 – Liverpool International Photography Festival; MAMO – Cité Radieuse, Marseille; Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen; solo shows at Souterrain and clockwork gallery Berlin; Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck; a commissioned work on the Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, and a series of readings in Marseille, Rotterdam, Innsbruck, Paris and Berlin. Her first book language in the darkness of the world through inverse images was published in 2012.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Polibio Díaz and Dominique Hurth
October 21, 2014
Dominique Hurth, Failed suprematist futures, 2010, Paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Dominique Hurth, Throw the cobwebs from your eyes, 2011, Mdf, wood, record, watercolor, plexiglass and aluminum. Courtesy of the artist.
Dominique Hurth, Sketch for experiment, 2008-2009, Wood, pvc and watercolor. Courtesy of the artist.
Dominique Hurth, The problem of serial order in behavior, 2014, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Dominique Hurth, language in the darkness of the world through inverse images, 2012, Book. Courtesy of the artist.