Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Danish Arts Foundation
Ruth Campau
Ruth Campau works in an expanded field where the work’s interaction with the surrounding environment is essential. Her mark is the idea that with a concentrated brushstroke, she can convey presence by translating and freezing it solid onto a surface; brushstrokes immortalize the body’s movement. Her jumping off point is the notion of an infinite painting, where what she is showing is merely a segment of a larger painting and, as such, merely a kind of representative of a human presence. Accordingly, the complex of issues that are prevalent in the very execution takes on a great deal of importance and the body, motion and time become decisive key factors in her work.
Ruth Campau’s work has been shown at Baltic Sea Record 2013, Stadtgalerie Kiel; Sculpture by the Sea 2013, Aarhus; KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, 2013; Designmuseet Danmark, Copenhagen, 2013; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, 2012; The National Museum, Copenhagen, 2012; Gallery Hartwich Rügen, Berlin, 2012; PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, 2012; Gallery Asbaek, Copenhagen, 2011; Preview, Tempelhof, Berlin 2010 and KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, 2010. Her work is in the collections of serveral museums including ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, and the Esbjerg Kunstmuseum. Campau lives and works in Copenhagen.
Ruth Campau, Diamond (Yellow, Purple, Gold), 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 28 × 30 in. (71.12 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Carpet, 2010, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, and radiant acrylic plate, 159 × 192 in. (403.86 × 487.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, MIrage, 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 46 × 222 × 94 in. (116.84 × 563.88 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Garden of Blue, Red and Yellow, 2013, Acryl on acrylic, 336 × 256 in. (853.44 × 650.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Satellite, 2012, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, aluminum construction, metal airboard, and wood, 94 × 310 × 46 in. (238.76 × 787.4 × 116.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2013: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Hilde Methi
Hilde Methi’s work investigates the relationship of her own locale to a larger geopolitical setting. Her collaborative inquiries explore what art can be and how art acts in relation to institutional centers and peripheries within global capitalism. Based on her interest in local history, politics and economy, she builds up ongoing projects and art collectives infusing artistic ideas into the local context.
Since leaving The Girls On The Bridge in 2007, Methi conceived the Sámi Art Festival from 2008 to 2010, co-curated russianmarket.info – Taking Inventory, Uqbar, 2011 and Extreme Crafts, Freies Museum, Berlin, 2012. She is involved in the art-collectives Mobile Kultur Byrå (2006-), which looks at the trading climate in particular contexts; LUJA (2005-) which intersects contemporary art, design and indigenous crafts, and Rural Reading Room (2013-) situations highlighting the materiality of the landscape using a tabletop as its format. She is currently developing a project for the Norwegian-Russian border-zone with Sonic Acts.
Hilde Methi, Local Objects, 2013.
Hilde Methi, Publication by Mobile Kultur Byrå, 2013.
Hilde Methi, Russianmarket.info - Taking Inventory #1, 2011.
Hilde Methi, LUJA Installation, 2012.
Hilde Methi, Collective Matters, 2010.
Past Resident2013: Artadia
Deva Graf
Deva Graf’s sculptures, installations and drawings are an investigation of self, nature and an attempt to discover what it means to be a human. Her current work, inspired by the phenomenological science of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and various meditation practices, looks at how we bring meaning to our life while facing an overwhelming number of choices about how to manifest as a human being.
Deva Graf was selected as a 2013 Artadia Artist in Residence by Laura Hoptman, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and the artist K8 Hardy. Her work was in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Mary Boone Gallery. Her work is held in collections including the director of the Dia Foundation, Philippe Vergne, the director of the Renaissance Society of Chicago, Hamza Walker, and collections in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Turin, Naples, Paris and Zurich. Graf lives and works in San Francisco.
Deva Graf, Mirror Photocopy, 2005, Photocopy, 18 × 24 in. (45.72 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Deva Graf, Bindu, 2011, India ink on paper, 51 × 39 in. (129.54 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Deva Graf, Navel, 2010, Bronze, silk, and graphite wall drawing, 8 × 8 × 6 in. (20.32 × 20.32 × 15.24 cm). courtesy of the artist.
Deva Graf, 10,000 Things, 2013, Graphite on paper, 11 × 16 in. (27.94 × 40.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Deva Graf, Brutus, 2013, Graphite on paper, 10 × 12 in. (25.4 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
