Past Residents
Past Resident2015: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Julie Béna
Julie Béna’s work explores the threshold between one perception and another; between being a team player or a spoilsport; participation or abstinence. Béna refers to the exhibition space as her “playground,” which she populates with performers, singers, sculptures, photos, videos and installations. Early in life, Béna acted in a roving theatrical troupe in France. In the past few years, the transient and artificial staging of play resurfaced in her practice, alongside prominent use of text.
Julie Béna (born 1982, Pantin, France) currently works in New York City. Her past solo exhibitions include: Nail Tang, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France, 2015; Destiny, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, Paris, 2015; T&T consortium: You’re Already Elsewhere, The French Institute Alliance Française, New York, 2014. Her selected collective exhibitions and screenings include: Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015; Artists’ Film Club: Breaking Joints: Part 2, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2015; RIDEAUX / blinds, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France, 2015; Late capitalism, it’s like, almost over, The Luminary, St Louis, Missouri, 2014; Things, Design Cloud, Chicago, 2014; Graphic Design, Prague, 2014; La Méthode Jacobson, Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2013. She exhibited performance projects at Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, 2014; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014; PERFORMA 13, New York, 2013; La Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, 2012 and Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada, 2011. Béna studied at the Villa Arson in Nice, France and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. From 2012 to 2013 she was part of Le Pavillon, the research laboratory of Le Palais de Tokyo.
Julie Béna, Les Nuits de la pleine lune, 2014, Print on fabric and blinds structure, Size variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2016: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Anne Neukamp
Anne Neukamp diverts the vocabulary of the contemporary visual language that surrounds us: logos, emblems, icons, pictograms and signs by rendering them fundamentally ambiguous. Her paintings produce a floating state between intelligible motifs and an abstract, incomplete and loose cosmology. They destabilize the viewer’s perception by creating unusual situations that are stretched between reality and illusion, challenging different painting clichés or contradictory “styles” and collapse multiple senses of space into one visual surface.
Anne Neukamp (born 1976, Düsseldorf, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Gregor Podnar Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2015; Greta Meert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2014; Valentin, Paris, France, 2014; Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2014; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany, 2013, and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2012. Her works have been included in group exhibitions at Columbia University, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunstverein Heidelberg, and the 5th Prague Biennale.
Anne Neukamp, Insert, 2014, Oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas, 7811/16 × 59 in. (199.9 × 149.86 cm).
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2015: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Iliana Antonova
Iliana Antonova is a critic and independent curator whose practice examines the possibilities for alternative models of art presentation. By engaging with the exhibition as an open-ended structural armature, she foregrounds artistic practices invested in experimentation within these frameworks.
Iliana Antonova (born 1984, Bulgaria) is based in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Her writing has been published in numerous publications including Canadian Art, ETC revue de l’art actuel, and C Magazine. she co-founded the directed Silver Flag, an independent exhibition space, from 2009-2012, which featured solo exhibitions by artist such as Scott Lyall, Euan Mcdonald, and Sarah Greig, amongst others. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Astérides curatorial residency in Marseille, France, granted by Fonderie Darling, Montréal. Antonova holds a degree in art history from Concordia University.
Scott Lyall, Sittlichkeit (roses/pinks), 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Silver Flag, Montréal.
