Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Kiril Kuzmanov
Kiril Kuzmanov is interested in how the ideas as ‘objects’ expressed in a certain language, scale and media gain their status and how that status culturally and mentally influences our experience.
Kiril Kuzmanov (born 1981) graduated with an MA in sculpture from the National Academy of Art, Sofia. Among his projects and works related to specific places are: Project 0, The Trap Quoter, Plovdiv; Who Controls the Controllers, Tiananmen Square, Beijing and Wild is the Wind, related to 11 countries in Asia. His solo exhibitions include: Exhale, Rayko Alexiev Gallery, Sofia and Feeder Head, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia. He has participated in group exhibitions including: BAZA award, Sofia Art Gallery; Sofia Contemporary 2012; 5th International Biennale of Young Artists, Bucharest, 2012; Fragile, Atelier Tarwewijk Mijnsherenlaan, Rotterdam, 2012 and Art of Urban Intervention 2011, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia. Kuzmanov received various awards and grants, including KK Austria 2012 and the Young Visual Artists Award (BAZA) award of 2013.
Kiril Kuzmanov, (Dis)appearance of the Content II, 2013, Pigment print, Dimensions variable.
Kiril Kuzmanov, The Answer of All Questions, 2009, Dvd video, 30 sec. loop.
Kiril Kuzmanov, Who Controls the Controllers, 2009-2011, Video.
Kiril Kuzmanov, What Passing Through Me, I Pass Through It, 2009, Motorized curtain rods with electronic timer, window, 150 × 197 × 60 in. (381 × 500.38 × 152.4 cm).
Residents from Bulgaria
Past Resident2014: Artadia
D-L Alvarez
D-L Alvarez’s work follows multiple paths. He engages in the promotion of the works of artists and writers he admires through curating exhibitions, collaborations, editing the magazine project Number Two, writing articles, teaching, and currently directing the short film The Visitor Owl based on a script by Kevin Killian and performed by his troop of campy non-actors, the San Francisco Poets Theater. The second path is becoming more private, and centers on pleasures of drawing from history. His instinct to build stages for other people’s work developed developed from a background in set design and construction.
D-L Alvarez, Still from 'The Visitor Owl', Two-channel video.
D-L Alvarez, Still from 'The Visitor Owl', Two-channel video.
D-L Alvarez, Still from 'The Visitor Owl', Two-channel video.
D-L Alvarez, Still from 'The Visitor Owl', Two-channel video.
D-L Alvarez, Still from 'The Visitor Owl', Two-channel video.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2014: Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Galleria Giuseppe Pero
Andrea Mastrovito
Andrea Mastrovito’s work deals with reinventions of painting and drawing and of their supports, from a single sheet to the whole gallery in a continuous dialogue with the cycle of life. His work unravels from the studio to public spaces, in an open confrontation with audience and communities.
Andrea Mastrovito was born in Bergamo in 1978. He received his MFA in 2001 from Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Bergamo. He won the New York Prize, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007 and the Moroso Prize in 2012 . He installed solo shows in private galleries in Milan, Florence, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, and New York and his most recent public solo shows includes At the End of the line, GAMEC, Bergamo; La libertè guidant le peuple, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers and Le Cinque Giornate, Museo del Novecento, Milan. His works have also been included in many group exhibitions all across Europe and United States: MAXXI National Museum of the 21st century and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; B.P.S. 22, Charleroi; Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne and the Museum of Art and Design, New York.
Andrea Mastrovito, L'amore Sacro e l'Amor Profano, 2013, Carved walls, 120 × 160 × 240 in. (304.8 × 406.4 × 609.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo.
Andrea Mastrovito, La Libertè Guidant le Peuple, 2012, Fans, tape and photocopies on wall, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Pavillion Blanc, Colomiers.
Andrea Mastrovito, Sant'lppolito, 2011, Collage and acrylic paint on paper on canvas, 94 × 59 in. (238.76 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Giuseppe Pero Gallery, Milan.
Andrea Mastrovito, Millionnaire, 2007, 3307 black and white photocopies on wall, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Analix Forever, Geneva.
Andrea Mastrovito, The Island of Dr. Mastrovito, 2010-2012, 1200 cutout books, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Musée de Design et d'arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne Courtesy Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva.
