Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Danish Arts Foundation
Erik Steffensen
Erik Steffensen’s photographs use subtle tones in grey, black and white and monocolors to evoke the remembrance of images from the art history, referencing paintings, poetry and fine art photography. Steffensen produces spare and unpopulated images that conjure an open mind.
Erik Steffensen (born in Valby, Copenhagen) studied the Philosophy and Art History at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. He lives and works in Copenhagen.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Erik Steffensen
March 10, 2015
Erik Steffensen, Can lis - agnes martin, 2014, Black and white photograph, 9 × 7 in. (22.86 × 17.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Margherita Moscardini
Margherita Moscardini investigates the relationships between urban, social and natural transformative processes. She focuses on abandoned spaces and areas undergoing mass demolition where the waste systems reflect a paradigm of local entanglements. Her practice favors process and long-term projects, considering the context as a medium including: the existing architecture, the landscape where the material environment is designed (as geo-morphological features), and how urban planning conditions the behaviors of local communities. The context often suggests specific issues, materials and methods of the work, which she carries out through large-scale interventions, drawings, writings, scale models and video-documents.
Margherita Moscardini (born 1981 in Italy) studied Cultural Anthropology at the Academy of Fine Arts, Italy and attended the Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como, Italy. Moscardini has developed projects in Bulgaria, France, Italy, South Korea, and Turkey. Her work has been exhibited at the Italian Institute of Culture of Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy; ArtToday CCA, Bulgaria; SongEun Art Space, South Korea; Schauwerk Foundation, Germany; Palazzo Reale, Italy; Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, Italy. She is currently working on a project at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Seoul, South Korea.
Margherita Moscardini, Istanbul City Hills – On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation, 2014, Blue ink on paper, 11 × 16 in. (27.94 × 40.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Andrea Nacciarriti
Andrea Nacciarriti addresses linguistic relationships between space and perceptions of it, social reality and anthropological contexts as well as historical interpretation and current events. At the root of Nacciarriti’s research – carried out through mechanisms that are despoiled of their function and unpredictably redesigned – lies an analysis of paradox.
Andrea Nacciarriti’s (born 1976, Ostra Vetere, Italy) work is included in both the Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris and La Gaia Collection, Italy. Recent solo exhibitions include Pescheria Foundation Visual Arts Center, Pesaro, Italy; Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France; and Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Torino. Nacciarriti has been included in group exhibitions at MACRO, Rome; La Maison Rouge, Paris; and Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France.
Andrea Nacciarriti, Drawing # 000000009 [Eden V], 2014, Drawing table, paper and a block ice from the Adriatic sea, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.