Past Residents
Past Resident2014: SAHA Association
Emre Hüner
Working with drawing, video, sculpture and installations, Emre Hüner’s practice focuses on constructed narratives and eclectic assemblages which explore the subjects of utopia, archeology, ideas of progress and the future through re-imagination of the spatial and architectural entities, organic and artificial forms.
Emre Hüner (born in 1977, Istanbul, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Aeolian, Rodeo, Istanbul; MAM Project 019, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013; SALT 6, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2012; Adverse Stability, Extra City, Antwerp, 2010. His work has been included a groups exhibitions including Approximately Infnite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego and Signs Taken in Wonder, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, both in 2013; Manifesta 9, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Genk, 2012; Out of Here, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul both in 2011; The Future of Tradition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2010; Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York, 2009; and the10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2007. Hüner has participated in residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam as well as Apexart, New York and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. He holds a BFA from Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano.
Emre Hüner, Anthropophagy, 2013, Ceramic, metal and paint, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2014: SAHA Association
Burak Delier
Burak Delier is an artist who explores the relationship between capitalism and contemporary artistic practices. His work incorporates guerrilla art tactics and absurdist humor, and also employs the strategies of the very neoliberal media his work critiques. Delier engages with questions on how artistic and capitalistic modes of production overlap by placing himself in the role of maker/producer and creating a product for commodification in the industry of art.
Burak Delier (born 1977) lives and works in Istanbul. He studied fine art at the Marmara University and has a Proficiency in Art degree at the Yildiz Technical University. Delier has had solo exhibitions at Pilot Galeri, Istanbul and InIVA, London and taken part in group exhibitions across Europe. Delier is the first recipient from InIVA’s Commissions and Exhibitions Fund. His work was shown at the Taipei Biennial in 2008 and 2010 and the Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and 2007.
Burak Delier, Songs of the Possessed, 2014, HD Video, 14:10 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2014: Polish Cultural Institute New York
Marzena Nowak
Marzena Nowak’s work is created from memory and imagination, residing in the tension between autobiographical references and poetically immersed dream worlds. Her sensitivity to everyday occurrences and the relationship to her own physicality often represent the thematic departure points for Nowak’s artistic practice. Nowak attempts to defy perception using unexpected materials to symbolically change everyday objects.
Marzena Nowak’s work has been exhibited at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok), Vienna; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;”>Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun; Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin; Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. She has participated in international exhibitions including There as been no future, there will be no past, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York; Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Languages & Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection, Mart Rovereto, Italy; Drawing is Coming Back in a Big Way, Arsenal Centre of Contemporary Art, Bialystok, Poland; Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Poland and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Events & Exhibitions
There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past
October 1–October 24, 2010
Marzena Nowak, Untitled (Bread with polish soil), 2014, Bread baked with polish soil, 15 × 4 × 6 in. (38.1 × 10.16 × 15.24 cm).
