Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, Fundación Valentín de Madariaga y Oya
Simón Arrebola
Simón Arrebola uses painting and drawing to express events through an unusual way of conceiving space and time. These elements are essential in every act of telling stories. To build the arguments, Arrebola starts from those memories or experiences that live in our mind or arrive to us as a product of a foreign stimulus. Memory and its mental images are the origins of these stages and coexist with traditions and mythical legends. His conception of landscape is a kind of nature with an evocative character where the spaces talk about people and other times and the characters hybridize with the space that exists around them.
Simón Arrebola was born in Spain in 1979. He studied Painting, Engraving and Design at the University of Fine Arts in Seville. He received his MFA from Seville University in 2011. Arrebola has exhibited his work at Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville and Ángeles Baños, Badajoz. He also took part in the 3rd Mediterranean Biennal in Tunis. Arrebola won the Focus Abengoa Painting Award in 2008 and received an Iniciarte grant by Junta de Andalucía in 2009. He is one of the 2013 recipients of the “Sevilla es Talento” Grant, sponsored by Valentín Madariaga Foundation and ICAS. His work is in the collections of the Valentín Madariaga Foundation, Seville University and Focus-Abengoa Foundation.
Simón Arrebola, An Ending Doesn't Finish Anything, 2011, Oil on canvas, 233/8 × 315/8 in. (59.44 × 80.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simón Arrebola, Greed, 2010, Oil on canvas, 191/2 × 191/2 in. (49.53 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Simón Arrebola, The Swimmer - Scene VIII, 2012, Graphite on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Simón Arrebola, The Swimmer - Scene X, 2012, Gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Majlinda Hoxha
Through a language of displacement and fragmentation, a set of objects, images and memories articulate the process of the familiar becoming unfamiliar. In her photographs, Majlinda Hoxha creates a personal environment that is sensitive to the recent political and economical situations in her home country of Kosovo. The monuments hown in the photographs demonstrate a situation that is yet to be revealed.
Majlinda Hoxha (born 1984) holds a BFA in photography from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design and a MFA from the Elam School of Fine Art at Auckland University. In 2012, her work was featured in the annual Mulsim Mulliqi exhibition, hosted by the National Art Gallery of Kosovo, as well as a curatorial project Aftermath – Changing Cultural Landscape initiated by the Photon – Center for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana. Hoxha is the deputy photo editor and photographer at Kosovo 2.0 magazine where her work is regularly published. Her Family Portrait #1 is currently on display at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. She took part in the anniversary exhibition for Human Right Commission Article 27 at The Physics Room, Christchurch and has presented solo exhibitions at The Laundromat Art Project Space, Tauranga, Tetris Gallery, Pristina and The Ministry Gallery, Pristina. Hoxha lives and works in Pristina.
Majlinda Hoxha, In Tandem #2, 2012, 33 × 33 in. (83.82 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Majlinda Hoxha, In Tandem #3, 2012, 33 × 33 in. (83.82 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Majlinda Hoxha, In Tandem #5, 2012, 33 × 33 in. (83.82 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Majlinda Hoxha, In Tandem #7, 2012, 33 × 33 in. (83.82 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Majlinda Hoxha, In Tandem #1, 2012, 33 × 33 in. (83.82 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isa Rosenberger
Isa Rosenberger examines radical political changes and their social and economic consequences. The starting point of Rosenberger’s investigations is often ideologically charged architectural and monumental manifestations in urban space, for the reason that they reveal the changes in the prevailing orders of perception. Rosenberger documents places and conversations using photography and video. She combines these documentations with fictional contents, so that her works never remain merely in the field of theoretical debate. By juxtaposing subjective views and everyday biographies with the canonised representations of history, Rosenberger examines the construction of reality and the power of images related to it, in this way seeking to allow established stories to be newly reflected upon.
Isa Rosenberger (born 1969) lives and works in Vienna. Rosenberger studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her recent solo exhibitions include Espiral, Grazer Kunstverein, 2011; Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, 2009 and Secession, Vienna, 2008. Recent group exhibitions include It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Pori Art Museum, 2013 and Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 2012; Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, 2012; Appropriation of the Present – Exhibition of Works from the Collection, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst GfzK, Leipzig, 2012; Second World, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 2011; Triennale Linz 1.0, State Gallery Linz, 2010 and Eccentric Paths II, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga. In 2008 she received the Otto Mauer Prize for Fine Art.
Isa Rosenberger, Espiral - A Dance of Death in 8 Scenes, 2010-2012, Video installation and 5 collages. Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo courtesy of Johanna Glösl.
Isa Rosenberger, Nový Most, 2008, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Isa Rosenberger, Nový Most, 2008, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Vienna Secession. Photo courtesy of Werner Kaligofsky.
