Past Residents
Past Resident2011: North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Elmar Hermann
Elmar Hermann’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by linguistic concepts as a differentiating factor between culture and nature. Hermann is currently working on an ongoing project featuring various aspects of collaboration, language and education as a complex processes of human culture acquisition.
Elmar Hermann (born 1978 in Neuwied, Germany) studied with Rita McBride at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany and holds an MA in Linguistics from Düsseldorf University. Recent exhibitions include Biblioteca Albertina Leipzig, Germany; Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, Turkey; and Villa Romana, Florence, Italy. Hermann is part of the artist collective NÜANS which is soon to present the artist book APOGEE (Revolver Publishers, Berlin, 2011) in upcoming shows at J.B. Jurve Gallery, Los Angeles; BAS, Istanbul; BRAENNEN, Berlin; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Goethe Institut, Mumbai, India.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon at Olive Street Garden: Elmar Hermann and Firoz Mahmud
June 7, 2011
Elmar Hermann, Abrakadabra, 2010, Neon sign on acrylic glass, 15 × 51 in. (38.1 × 129.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Elmar Hermann, Vater Und Sohn / LOST (No 7 Of 8), 2010, Screen print, 35 × 35 in. (88.9 × 88.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Elmar Hermann, Vater Und Sohn / LOST (No 3 Of 8), 2010, Screen print, 35 × 35 in. (88.9 × 88.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Elmar Hermann, Kosuth / Tarzan, 2009, Collage and paint, 9 × 7 in. (22.86 × 17.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Elmar Hermann, Every Man For Himself, 2010, C-Print, 31 × 23 in. (78.74 × 58.42 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2011: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Ingrid Hernández
Ingrid Hernández’s artistic practice incorporates methods based on social research techniques, conjugating hemerographic and bibliographic elements, interviews, focus groups, observation and photography. Each project starts with tours of the city to locate communities that she will visit during long periods of time. Hernández works with dwellings constructed by their inhabitants, within poverty-ridden shanty towns. Her work actively pursues the subversion of poverty stereotypes as illustrated in documentary photography with a social focus, which looks at these shantytowns with pity, compassion or exoticism.
Ingrid Hernández (born 1974 in Tijuana, Mexico) lives and works in Tijuana. For over ten years, she has been a teacher, researcher and workshop instructor in educational institutes as well asfor independent associations in Mexico and Bogota. Hernández has also been a part of the art school faculty at Baja California Autonomous University and the Superior School of Visual Arts in Tijuana. Hernández’s work is widely exhibited in museums, art spaces and galleries including Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; La Raza Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Museo de Arte Moderno, México and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México. In 2008 the Mexican National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) published Irregular, a monograph presenting Hernández’s body of work.
Ingrid Hernández, Private Property, 2004, Digital print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Ingrid Hernández, Abandoned Factory, 2004-2008, Photograph in light box (diptych), Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Ingrid Hernández, Dining Room #20, 2008, Digital print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Ingrid Hernández, Living room, 2006, Digital print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Ingrid Hernández, Nocturnal View #1, 2009, Digital print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Anton Terziev
Anton Terziev deals with various contemporary subjects, often with sharp irony. His iconography possesses harsh and critical imagery associated with a specific aestheticization of pain reflecting a common metaphor of governing power relationships in society. Terziev works with painting and objects, as well as in the field of performance. He also has published three books of modern poetry and urban novels. Part of his activity is associated with various actions in the public shere and many of his performances are part of the Ultrafuturo group activities.
Anton Terziev (born 1977) lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria. He graduated in Ceramics from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. Terziev’s work has been shown atDonumenta, Regensburg, Germany; On difference 2, Stuttgart, Germany; and Presence of the body, Troy, NY.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristina Bozurska and Anton Terziev
May 24, 2011
Anton Terziev, Killing Me Softly, 2010, Ax and latex, 2 × 8 × 36 in. (5.08 × 20.32 × 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Anton Terziev, What Doesnt Kill Me, 2010, Guitar and plaster, 35 × 4 in. (88.9 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Anton Terziev, Emergency Exit, 2010, Knife, aluminium, led, plexiglass and acrylic, 7 × 12 × 4 in. (17.78 × 30.48 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Anton Terziev, Modern Implements Of Labour, 2010, Saw, plastic, and acrylic, 5 × 20 in. (12.7 × 50.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Anton Terziev, Personal Hell Extinguisher, 2010, Extinguisher, acrylic and print, 34 × 6 in. (86.36 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
