Past Residents
Anastasia Ax
Each of Anastasia Ax’s performances is a new performance; this is essential to her practice. Each meeting between the performer and the audience, every destruction of the material at hand, points towards a situation of indeterminacy and free activity where inner and outer can switch place. The role of ink in these activities is double-edged. It belongs to the world of drawing, the physical acts of filling out the white spaces, but the black ink has an element of poison and bile, melancholy and destruction as well. The raw energies connected with the splashing, the spitting out, the havoc, transform time from linear dimensions into circular moments. New thoughts and new communions take shape through the unpredictable openness of the situation.
Anastasia Ax, born 1979, lives and works in Stockholm. Her recent solo exhibitions include Pan Theon, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, 2012; Bring New Life to Death, in collaboration with Marja- Leena Sillanpää, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2012; Pan Theon, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2012; Step into the current, AM art-space, Shanghai, 2012;Katarsis, in collaboration with Lars Siltberg, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, 2012; Exile,Way out West, Göteborg, 2011; An Experimental Conference on Art and Science, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2011; Reactor, Luleå Konstmuseeum, Luleå, 2011; Trunk, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg, 2010; The Kid Below, Taidihalli, Helsinki, 2010; L&A in collaboration with Lars Siltberg, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, 2010; 2010, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg; 2010, The Kid Below, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2010; The Kid Below, Konstakademin, Stockholm, 2010; Exile, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, 2010 and New drawings and sculptures, Natalia Goldin gallery, Stockholm, 2009. In 2010, Ax was shortlisted for the Carnegie Art Award 2010. Her works are on display at several museums and arthalls such as; Moderna Museet, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, the Carnegie Art Award collection and Gävle Konstcentrum.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Exile, 2011, Plaster, ink, water, clothes, books, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Way Out West, Göteborg.
Anastasia Ax, Step into the current, 2012, Paper, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Am art Space, Shanghai.
Residents from Sweden
Past Resident2012: Creative Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey
Through performance drawing, Kellie O’Dempsey explores liminal space and movement as narrative. With drawing as her dialogue, O’Dempsey spontaneously translates the immediacy of experience into line, form and gesture with charcoal and ink and more recently an electronic drawing device. Often working in collaboration with musicians, performers and artists, her process investigates the interconnected experience of human engagement. Via improvisation, elements of performance are translated into drawn works as an immediate means of response. Her work is currently focused on the synthesis of analogue and digital drawing.
Kellie O’Dempsey has developed installations in a vast array of spaces including: in the rehearsal studios of a ballet company (Queensland Ballet 2003), rock festivals, in The Barbican Theatre-London (2005) to commuters in subway during rush hour in Melbourne (2007). Performances and residencies include: Soundlabs, Italy, 2005-2006; Festival Internationale de Benicassim, Spain, 2005-2006; M on The Bund, Shanghai, 2009-2010; Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, 2011; Elephant Rock cliff face – BLEACH 2012; Live collaborative performance with Michael Dick, Brian Richie and the Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra at MONA FOMA, Hobart, 2012, The 18th Biennale of Sydney and upcoming at Draw International, France, 2013.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Moving Lines, 2011, Live performance paper, ink, tagtool, and digital projector. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2012: Artadia
Mads Lynnerup
Mads Lynnerup’s work takes place outside of the studio and involves a social engagement or interactions with audience directly and indirectly. Through performance, video, and installation he explores and experiments with the definition of what art might be, and how art can reach beyond the four walls of a gallery or museum.
Mads Lynnerup was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and lives and works in Brooklyn. He recently received his MFA from Columbia University. Lynnerup has shown his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; P.S. 1, New York; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Lynnerup’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Blanton Museum of Art; Miami Art Museum; Orange County Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michael Arcega and Mads Lynnerup
November 20, 2012
Mads Lynnerup, Astrobright, 2012, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
Mads Lynnerup, Fix It, 2009, Outdoor sculpture. Courtesy of the artist and Socrates Sculpture Park.
Mads Lynnerup, Flip Flop Fllor, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin.
Mads Lynnerup, Help is on the Way, 2011, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin.
Mads Lynnerup, Promise the Moon, 2011, Silk-screen print. Courtesy of the artist.
