Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Natasa Kokic
Natasa Kokic’s recent works are inspired by nature and its symbolism in contemporary culture. Her drawings show fictional landscapes, devoid of any visible impact left by people, with indeterminate seasons or times of day. She focuses on the notion of inner landscape, the place we all carry inside of us. It is a place where everything starts and ends and its shape depends on our social circumstances, the places where we grew up and people around us. Her latest series of charcoal drawings use images from the history and science. Here Kokic is trying to tell a slightly different story where man-made landscapes, asteroids and computers have their own separate lives and meanings, but connect with one another through the same background, coming from the same place.
Natasa Kokic (born 1979, Belgrade, Serbia) is currently completing her PhD studies in Belgrade. Recent shows include 47th October salon: Life, art and confusion, Belgrade; Ny Serbisk Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Restoration, Cultural Center of Belgrade; Strength in us, European Centre for Culture and Debate GRAD, Belgrade; Supermarket, Stockholm Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stokholm, Sweden; NordArt 2012, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Germany; Nothing comes from isolation, Tegnerforbundet Oslo, Norway; Edge of the Map, Cultural Centre of Belgrade and I’m so full of rocks, I can hardly move, Remont Gallery, Belgrade.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Natasa Kokic and Dominik Lang
October 7, 2014
Natasa Kokic, Equant, 2014, Charcoal on paper, 75 × 941/2 in. (190.5 × 240.03 cm).
Residents from Serbia
Past Resident2014: Anonymous
Hyon Gyon
Hyon Gyon began her career by making works in a vibrant color palette inspired by her experiences with Korean traditional shamanism. She shaped bolts of fabric to follow the gestures she made with a brush and paint. Working on customary Korean satin with both a soldering iron and blowtorch, Hyon Gyon created graphic shapes suggesting painterly images. Her material choices, color and schemes and overall design appear happy and playful, a counterpoint to the methods by which they are made. In her current series, Hyon Gyon is creating works in monochrome colors with bulky textures.
Hyon Gyon is based in New York. She received her B.A. from Mokwon University in Korea and her M.A. and PhD from Kyoto City University of Arts in Japan. She had one-person and group exhibitions at the Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco; and Shin Gallery, New York. Hyon Gyon’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Kyoto, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Kyoto City University of Arts, and the Takahashi Collection, among others. She has received several fellowships and awards, including the Asao Kato International Scholarship and the Tokyo Wonder Wall Competition Prize.
Hyon Gyon.
Past Resident2014: Danish Arts Foundation
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Simon Dybbroe Møller (born 1976, Aarhus, Denmark) studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and graduated from Städelschule in Frankfurt. Recent solo shows include Swallow Swallow Spit, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London; Stewism, Lulu, Mexico City; Männer und Moral, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; Hello, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome and BRAIN, UMMA projects, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Group exhibitions include Remember Me, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul; Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem; 0 Performance, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Nur was nicht ist ist möglich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; I knOw yoU, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Castle in the Air, Zamek, Poznan; Keine Zeit, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna and Danser sa vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Simon Dybbroe Møller, Untitled (How Does It Feel), 2014, Full HD video, color, sound, loop, 8:20 min. Courtesy of the artist.
