Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Danai Anesiadou
Greco-Belgian artist Danai Anesiadou has long been active in the adjoining fields of performance, social sculpture and video art. Rumors, mystery, evocations, and the intimacy of secrets are the centrifugal forces out from which Anesiadou’s whole oeuvre radiates. Tapping into a wide variety of sources in the adjoining realms of leftfield popular (‘low’) culture and the canonical forms of ‘high’ culture, the art of Anesiadou is perhaps best appreciated against the referential backdrop of avant-garde cinema. Her body of work is an expansive allegory in action. It keeps growing and acquiring new features, animated by an engine of relational thinking, that keeps connecting a film to an object to a performance, just as it connects stories to signs to people to experiences. Time and again, something is hidden; time and again, something is revealed.
Danai Anesiadou was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Belgium and is currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work and performances have been featured at Muhka, Antwerp, Beligium; 5th Berlin Biennial, Germany; Wiels Contemporary Centre, Brussels; Etablissement d’Enface Projects, Brussels; De Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium; Curated By, Vienna, Austria; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Neue Aachner Kunstverein, Germany. In 2010, Anesiadou was a guest lecturer at the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Danai Anesiadou, We’re Happy to Serve You, 2010, Performance conceived for A Prior Magazine #21.
Danai Anesiadou, Paralipomena – Portrait Of A Woman, 2010, Performance at Witte de With, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, X,Y & M (In Collaboration With Sophie Nys), 2008, Video, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, A Night Of Psicomagia, 2008, Performance at the 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist.
Danai Anesiadou, installation View At Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels, 2011, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and Elisa Platteau Galerie & Cie, Brussels.
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2011: Canada Council for the Arts
Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw’s artistic practice incorporates photo, video, sound, and various studio-based mediums in a quasi-documentary style while discussing altered states. By reinterpreting the conventional aspects of minimalism, documentary, pop and psychedelic art within a conceptual framework, his interest lies in creating work that establishes a dialogue within and around cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map transcendental experience.
Jeremy Shaw is Vancouver-born, Berlin-based artist. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Storming Heaven (From Home), Everest, Zurich, Switzerland; Single-Channel Higher States, Samsa, Berlin; and Solo Presentation – Jeremy Shaw, Fotofestival 4, Mannheim. Upcoming group exhibitions include: The 2011 Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Quebec;Leistungsschau, Berlin, Germany; and The New Psychedelic, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Shaw is also known as the electronic music artist Circlesqure and has recorded numerous albums and EPs for the now-defunct Output Recordings and Berlin’s !K7 Records.
Jeremy Shaw, Transcendental Capacities (Donna Summer – I Feel Love [Patrick Cowley Megamix], 1982), 2011, Kirlian polaroid photograph, 3 × 4 in. (7.62 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Representative Measurements, 2008, Black light silkscreen posters with UV lights, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Untitled (Home Deprivation Study), 2010, Lacquered birch, 42 × 96 × 42 in. (106.68 × 243.84 × 106.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, DMT (Detail – Sara), 2005, 8 channel video installation, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Love Rose In Blue, 2008, Readymade synthetic flower in glass tube, 6 × 4 × 4 in. (15.24 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2011: Borusan Holding
Necmi Sönmez
Necmi Sönmez (born 1968 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Düsseldorf-based independent curator, art critic and writer. He studied Art History in Mainz, Germany; Paris, France; Newcastle, UK and Frankfurt, Germany where he earned a PhD with a thesis on Wolfgang Laib. From 1994 to 1997, Sönmez worked as an independent curator, initiating and organizing numerous exhibition projects, mainly involving young artists in Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands and France. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, where he organized exhibitions and projects with artists including Ayse Erkmen, Renée Levi, Martin Gostner, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Saâdane Hafif. From 2006 to 2008, Sönmez was artisticm director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, where he presented artists such as Gregor Schneider, Myriam Holme, Florian Bach, Martin Dammann and Anja Cuipka . Sönmez is currently a guest curator for the Lepsien Art Foundation in Düsseldorf and the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul.
Events & Exhibitions
In back of the real
May 12–May 15, 2011
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2008, Produced with manipulated digital photograph technique, 1151 × 31 in. (2923.54 × 78.74 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri C.A.M., İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Sewing on textile, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri NON, İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Music (Selimcan Sakar), blue light, fluorescent paint Installation, Founded Materials. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Installation with color tape, 315 inches. Courtesy of the curator and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Pigments. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
