Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Andrea Pichl
Andrea Pichl focuses on isolated details of architectural peculiarities and turns them into sculpture. She is inspired by the inconsistencies, contradictions and the way in which interstices are bridged. The inherent paradoxes with this methodology, which reduce the standardized and repetitive architectural components to absurdity, are often present in the titles of her work.
Andrea Pichl (born 1964, Berlin) was educated at Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Espace Beaumont, Luxembourg; Krome Gallery, Berlin; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin; National Gallery, Tashkent; Volksbühne, Berlin; the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Kunstverein Wolfsburg and the Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn.
Andrea Pichl, Zwischen, 2012, Plywood, Dimensions variable, Installation view. Courtesy of Krome Gallery, Berlin.
Andrea Pichl, Für immer und immer, 2010, Plywood, 142 × 71 × 51 in. (360.68 × 180.34 × 129.54 cm). Courtesy of Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin.
Andrea Pichl, Inherent Shortcomings, 2011, Cardboard, photographs, fabric, 59 × 59 × 83 in. (149.86 × 149.86 × 210.82 cm). Courtesy of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Andrea Pichl, Doublebind, 2011-2012, Wood, acrylic, glass, aluminum, paper, video projections, Installation view. Courtesy of Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Architektonika/Architektonika 2.
Andrea Pichl, A tut was b will, wenn B tut was A will, 2013, Plaster, mirrors, 71 × 16 × 20 in. (180.34 × 40.64 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2013: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Anja Kempe
In her site-specific installations, videos and video installations, Anja Kempe deals with the unknown of physical space and the potential of movement. She develops architectural extensions that augment space. Her dynamic images of space act as expansive choreographies for the viewer. Her latest works deal with the body itself. She brings together the individual memory of the body and the collective memory of individual movements.
Anja Kempe (born 1973) was educated at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. She has exhibited internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions including at z33, Hasselt; Ars Electronica Campus, Linz; Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Museum Schloss Moyland; Kunstverein Leipzig; NGBK Berlin; Interfood Vitrine, Aachen; Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin; Art Cologne and Young Artist Project, Daegu. Kempe lives and works in Leipzig where she teaches at the Academy of Visual Arts.
Anja Kempe, Stairway, 2006, Paper, cardboard, wood, acrylic paint. Courtesy of the artist.
Anja Kempe, Dissociation, 2002, Four weighing cells, four wide-angle projectors, balance software. Courtesy of the artist.
Anja Kempe, Inscription, 2007, Aluminum bar, coaly gum, infrared lamps, nightshot camera, monitor, overlay software. Courtesy of the artist.
Anja Kempe.
Anja Kempe, Diagonal, 2008, Tape. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2013: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
I-Chen Kuo
I-Chen Kuo works primarily on interactive units, single-channel videos and performance art. Drawn by the ever-shifting relationship between humans and the environment, his pieces play on the comfort and suffocation produced by our immediate surroundings and re-interpret the dependence and anxiety of modern-day dwellers towards institutional cages. In 2005, Kuo became the youngest artist ever to represent Taiwan in the Venice Biennial; his works have since been shown in various international exhibitions.
I-Chen Kuo, Aurora-Eclipse, 2009-2011, Audio installation with 11 speakers. Courtesy of the artist.
I-Chen Kuo, Invade, 2004-2013, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
I-Chen Kuo, Lose Contact, 2005, Single-channel video, 7:30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
I-Chen Kuo, Shadow of Light, 2013, Single-channel HD video, 20:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
I-Chen Kuo, Survivor Project 41°N, 74°W, 2007, Digital print, 129 4/5 x 47 1/5 in. Courtesy of the artist.
