Past Residents
Maruša Sagadin
Maruša Sagadin’s investigates sign systems and their formal language, taken from architecture as well as pop and subcultural sources, and re-contextualizes them; productively altering their meaning. Questions regarding the legibility and reading of these systems, as well as the associated notions of arbitrariness or freedom, continuously resurface in new garb throughout her work in the form of installation, performative interventions and text-based collage.
Maruša Sagadin (born in Ljubljana) is based in Vienna and studied architecture at the Technical University in Graz and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She teaches at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, department for Performative Arts and Sculpture, with professor Monica Bonvicini. She was awarded the Schindler Grant at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in 2010. Sagadin’s recent exhibitions include Cultural Center Tobačna, Ljubljana; Kunsthalle Wien, Destination, Vienna; Neue Galerie, Innsbruck; 21er Haus, Vienna; Lothringer13/Laden, Munich; Kunstbunker, Nürnberg; and Christine König Galerie, Vienna.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Sophie Jung, Lilian Kreutzberger, and Maruša Sagadin
December 8, 2015
Maruša Sagadin, Tivoli, 2015, Installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2015: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Marge Monko
Marge Monko is an artist working primarily with photography, installation and moving images. She is interested in how these mediums are and have been used as tools in science, state institutions, publicity, etc. Most of her works have a link to some historical event and are influenced by psychoanalysis, feminism and theories of visual culture. Depending on the subject, Monko employs methods including documenting, staging and appropriating- often combining these different approaches.
Marge Monko lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. She studied photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Monko’s solo exhibitions have been held in Tallinn, Helsinki and Budapest. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Manifesta9, Genk; Center for Contemporary Ar, Glasgow, and Bétonsalon, Paris. Monko won the Henkel.Art.Award in 2012. She also participated in Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium from 2013 to 2015.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Laura Fitzgerald and Marge Monko
September 22, 2015
Marge Monko, Free Love, 2013, 10 pigment prints, 30 × 19 in. (76.2 × 48.26 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: ArtsNSW
Jason Wing
Jason Wing is a Sydney-based artist who strongly identifies with his Chinese and Aboriginal heritage. Wing began as a street artist and has since expanded his practice to incorporate photomedia, installation and painting. Influenced by his bi-cultural upbringing, Wing explores the ongoing challenges that impact his wider community. Calling into question our understanding of history and of our current socio-political reality, Wing repurposes everyday objects and imagery, creating works that are both visually confronting and deceptively simple.
Jason Wing holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Graphic Design, Sydney Graphics College. Selected solo exhibitions include: House Wigger, Alaska Projects, Sydney and People of Substance, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA, 2012. Selected group exhibitions include; Making Change, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Bungaree: The First Australian, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman and Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. Wing’s work is held in both private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney; and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA. Last year saw the release of Wing‘s first monograph published by Artspace, Sydney.
Jason Wing, In Between Worlds, 2012, LED and paint, 656 in. Courtesy of the artist.
