Past Residents
Past Resident2010: premio Terna 06 arte contemporanea
Simone Bergantini
Simone Bergantini was born in Italy. He graduated in History of Contemporary Art in Rome, then spent five years in Milan working in photography with an emphasis on fashion and advertising. Last year, Bergantini relocated to Turin for the art project The Black Boxes, an enterprise that he will continue working on while in New York City. Acknowledging the internal logic and integrity of each artistic endeavor, Bergantini states that he is fully aware that his photography will, once again, take him elsewhere.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Simone Bergantini (Italy) and Rachel Scott (Australia)
August 10, 2010
Simone Bergantini, Mr. Karate, 2009, Carbon jet on cotton paper, 78 × 59 in. (198.12 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Bergantini, Untitled, Silver print, 151/2 × 231/2 in. (39.37 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Bergantini, Untitled, 2006, Carbon jet on cotton paper, 39 × 39 in. (99.06 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simone Bergantini, Untitled, 2009, Carbon jet on cotton paper, 78 × 59 in. (198.12 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2010: IKEA Foundation Switzerland
Alexandra Navratil
Alexandra Navratil´s work examines historical and political concepts of perception and their correlations with systems of representations in cinema, architecture and politics. Her works in various media such as photography, collage and video, are deliberate constructions, which attempt to undermine the authority of the image by questioning the means and mechanisms of its production and the codes of its representation. These underlying structures are made visible within the works. Alexandra Navratil (Zürich, Switzerland, 1978) graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London in 2007. In 2009 she won the Swiss Art Award and the Prix Mobiliere Young Art and has been artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (IMMA). She has recently exhibited her work at Formcontent, London; Lothringer13/Laden, Munich; MUSAC, León and Galeria Angels, Barcelona among others.
Alexandra Navratil, A Fraction Of A Second Earlier, 2009, Video, 2:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Alexandra Navratil, The Searchlights That Dazzled The Stars, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Alexandra Navratil, Time Lags In Real Time, 2010, Wood, mirrors, b/w prints, and fluorescent tubes, 118 × 118 × 71 in. (299.72 × 299.72 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of the artist and SKOR (Inkijk) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Alexandra Navratil, L’Emploi Rationnel, 2010, Work in progress pigment prints, 351/2 × 311/2 in. (90.17 × 80.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alexandra Navratil, L’Emploi Rationnel, 2010, Work in progress pigment print, 441/8 × 63 in. (112.01 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: Kurt and Felicitas Viermetz Foundation
Nina Pettinato
Provided with confident intuition in search of one‘s own position appears the artwork of Nina Pettinato, who’s starting to establish an individual, poetical-precise artwork. […] Pettinato creates her art concept as an remarkably homogenous outline, which attends simultanously to the media of painting, drawing and photography.
Whether there is a natural or imaginary nature, fantastic or real landscapes, whether there are deserted lakesides at dawn or squatting figures, which are sitting opposite to each other in front of bleak trees: The painted as well as the photographic images appearing both very intensively and are all marked by an atmospheric quality, which is innate and distinctive.
Because within the artistic techniques which Nina Pettinato selects there aren’t barely hierarchies so far. The strength of the images isn’t defined by the medium or by particular technique. It unfolds out of the intensity of a sight alone, in which exact study and sensitive sensation alone lead to the narration of existential perception of the surrounding world.
Dr. Thomas ELSEN: Schwabens junge Kreative.
In: edition:schwaben (04/2009), S.74.
Nina Pettinato studied Visual Communication / Fine Art at HfG Offenbach, Academy of Art and Design, and was awarded her diploma in 2008. In 2009 she received the Kunstpreis des Bezirks Schwaben one of the most important art awards for young emerging artists in Bavaria, enabling the laureate to go abroad by the means of a travel grant. Nina Pettinato’s work has been exhibited in several shows including the exhibition Expanded Lines at Salzburg’s galerie 5020, 2008 and at Silent Spaces – Räume der Stille at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast Augsburg, 2009. In 2009 her photographic series Inkubation was selected for participation in NEU/NOW, an multidisciplinary on- and offline event curated by ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Nina Pettinato lives and works in Southern Germany near Munich.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print , 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Pettinato, Inkubation Series, 2007-8, Inkjet print, 153/4 × 191/2 in. (40 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
