Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Kristina Bozurska
Kristina Bozurska works predominantly with painting, video and objects. She finds her motifs in ever-growing piles of discarded materials and out-of-order ‘stuff ‘. In her work, Bozurska often uses references from modern art, questioning the concept of postmodernism. Emphasizing grayness and rough textures in her paintings and transformation in her videos and objects, she examines contemporary life, mass production, consumer society, globalization, identity and the concept of beauty.
Kristina Bozurska graduated from the painting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. Solo exhibitions include Gallery UNA, Bjarred, Sweden; Mala Stanica, Skopje and National Gallery, Kumanovo, Macedonia. Bozurska is also a co-founder and president of the non-profit organization CRANE, a platform dedicated to art and culture.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristina Bozurska and Anton Terziev
May 24, 2011
Kristina Bozurska, Garbage Dump, 2008, Oil on canvas, 47 × 118 in. (119.38 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kristina Bozurska, Polyptych Compressions, 2008, Oil on canvas, 51 × 200 in. (129.54 × 508 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kristina Bozurska, Installation View At Denes, Museum Of The City Of Skopje, 2010, Polyptich and objects, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Kristina Bozurska, Polyptich With Wheel, 2009, Oil on canvas, 51 × 158 in. (129.54 × 401.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Arsprima, Arci Associazione
Arianna Carossa
Arianna Carossa’s art practice centers around the material object as an expression of linearity and consistency in humanity. She produces an aesthetics (harmony) of unexpected events, where the object as a symbol of the linearity of time and facts is broken and reassembled in an apparently linear way. She is interested in the interruption of regularity coming from an unexpected event, like death. Her intervention in art develops from the object as created by man, to the object, as Hegel says, as
pure description of perfection, spirit and nature.
Arianna Carossa lives between Genova, Milan and Rome, Italy. Carossa graduated from Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genova, where she received a BFA in painting. Her work has been exhibited in Mi sei mancata fino a ieri Changing Role Move Art Gallery, Naples, Italy; Sound of my soul, Fondazione per l’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy; Ente comunale di consumo, Ciac Centro Internazionale per le Arti Contemporanee Genazzano, Rome; L’Oggetto Ritrovato, ex Arsenale Ansaldo, Milan; Whales, Strychnin Gallery, London, UK; Ketos 2.0, Spallanzani Museum, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Ketos 2.0, Aquarium of Milan, Milan; Dialogues, Menage Ermitage, St. Petersbourg, Russia (Dostoyevsky Foundation); Festival della creatività, Spazio ex Murate, Florence, Italy; Slaves, Palladium Theatre, Rome; and Violazione di domicilio, Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Arianna Carossa and David Maroto
June 28, 2011
Arianna Carossa, 5 minus 1: Portrait Of Family Group, 2010, Wood, Variable Dimensions.
Arianna Carossa, It Won’t Be Back, 2010, Photo, wood, and brass, 31 × 15 × 6 in. (78.74 × 38.1 × 15.24 cm).
Arianna Carossa, You Have Been Missing To Me Until Yesterday, 2011, Palm tree, 186 × 60 in. (472.44 × 152.4 cm).
Arianna Carossa, The Distance Of The White, 2010, Photo, wood, and brass, 31 × 15 × 72 in. (78.74 × 38.1 × 182.88 cm).
Arianna Carossa, Aghestapo Project: My Youth Is Orange, 2011, Photograph, 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.58 cm).
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Danai Anesiadou
Greco-Belgian artist Danai Anesiadou has long been active in the adjoining fields of performance, social sculpture and video art. Rumors, mystery, evocations, and the intimacy of secrets are the centrifugal forces out from which Anesiadou’s whole oeuvre radiates. Tapping into a wide variety of sources in the adjoining realms of leftfield popular (‘low’) culture and the canonical forms of ‘high’ culture, the art of Anesiadou is perhaps best appreciated against the referential backdrop of avant-garde cinema. Her body of work is an expansive allegory in action. It keeps growing and acquiring new features, animated by an engine of relational thinking, that keeps connecting a film to an object to a performance, just as it connects stories to signs to people to experiences. Time and again, something is hidden; time and again, something is revealed.
Danai Anesiadou was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Belgium and is currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work and performances have been featured at Muhka, Antwerp, Beligium; 5th Berlin Biennial, Germany; Wiels Contemporary Centre, Brussels; Etablissement d’Enface Projects, Brussels; De Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium; Curated By, Vienna, Austria; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Neue Aachner Kunstverein, Germany. In 2010, Anesiadou was a guest lecturer at the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Danai Anesiadou, We’re Happy to Serve You, 2010, Performance conceived for A Prior Magazine #21.
Danai Anesiadou, Paralipomena – Portrait Of A Woman, 2010, Performance at Witte de With, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, X,Y & M (In Collaboration With Sophie Nys), 2008, Video, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, A Night Of Psicomagia, 2008, Performance at the 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, installation View At Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels, 2011, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels.
