Past Residents
Past Resident2012: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas
Nuria Montiel’s work employs social practices through participatory strategies for collective creation in public spaces. Graphic print is used as a way of representing and documenting process but also as a mechanism of exchange and collective expression. Monitel’s current project Mobile Printing Press looks at diverse protest and social manifestations in Mexico, printing phrases that represent the resistance voice of citizens as a way to understand the socio-political reality of present-day Mexico.
Nuria Montiel (born 1982 Mexico) Studied visual arts at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas-UNAM. She has been awarded with the fellowship Jovenes Creadores (FONCA) and and the prize Permio Nacional de Arte Jóven Aguascalientes XXVII. In Mexico, she has participated in various group shows at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Galería Kurimanzutto, as well as Centre of Contemporary Art, Varsow; and ACVIC Center, Barcelona. Nuria is a founding member of the collectives La Galería de Comercio (a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the street) and Grupo JOKUS.
Events & Exhibitions
Nuria Montiel: Music Footprints
December 17–December 17, 2012
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Mobile Printing Press, 2010, Wheels, etching press, talc, spatulas, recycled paper, tripod, video camera, and monitor, 78 × 35 × 24 in. (198.12 × 88.9 × 60.96 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Imprement Movil/Printing Public Demands, Topilejo, MPJD, 2011, printing workshop, 3 hrs.
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, No Debieron Morir, 2011, Wall sticker and digital photo, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cadaver Exquisito, 2011, Prints on wall, 92 × 155 in. (233.68 × 393.7 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cumulus/Mexico City Complaints Mailbox, 2009, Performance 300 balloons and 300 paper complaints, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg
Maria Loboda
With delicious anarchy, the work of Maria Loboda investigates the trafficking between the object and the spirit, rationality and magic. Her method is to trace knowledge through a study of the tension between res and deus, thing and God – with God understood here as the symbol of Order…Loboda’s works engage in an unhinged and discordant conversation with time and history. They do not seem to belong to the present, but are difficult to place in the past or the future. They generate a sense of movement between all three temporalities, but at the same time cannot be described simply as anachronistic. They elude the contemporary and are not made in response to any topical reality. Loboda’s works, neither exactly modern sculpture nor contemporary installation, embody an infinite connection to history, as clouds do to the sky. -Chus Martínez, ‘Maria Loboda,’ Creamier (Phaidon,2010)
Maria Loboda (born 1979 in Krakow) finished her studies at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Städelschule, 2008 in the class of Mark Leckey. Her works were shown recently at Documenta(13), Kassel, 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; ICA, London, 2012 and the Athens Biennale, 2009. Solo shows include Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2010; Galerieschleicher/lange, Paris/Berlin, 2011; Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, 2011 and Mini/Goethe Curatoral Residencies, Ludlow 38, New York City, 2012. Her first monograph Oh, Wilderness was recently published by Sternberg Press with essays by Isobel Harbison, Lars Bang Larsen, and Caterina Riva.
Maria Loboda, Ah, Wilderness, 2011, Cedar, pine, walnut and birch branches, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, The Messenger (Be aware of the One Who Appears Not to be Moving), 2012, Channel video loop, film still, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, Curious and Cold Epicurean Young Ladies, 2011, Platin plated silver flask, hydrogen, oxygen and metal chain, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, Polish Trocadero Over Neo Italian, 2011, Two Overlapping Digital Prints on Nylon, 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm).
Maria Loboda, Walldrawing (Cyanide, Arsenic, Mercury, Lead), 2009 - 2012, Prussian blue, scheels green, naples yellow and vermillion pigments, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2012: Creative Australia
Benjamin Armstrong
Benjamin Armstrong creates sculptures, drawings and prints that allude to a prehistoric time yet to come. Working with materials such as wax, wood, blown glass, inks and pigments, the nucleus of his practice is always found through drawing. His objects and images offer the viewer a concentrated palette and powerful simplicity. His works are both graceful and disquieting.
Armstrong (born 1975) will exhibit his work in Gwangju Biennale in September (2012). Previous international projects include: First Life, Xin Dong Cheng Gallery, Beijing (2010); Before and After Science, Adelaide Biennial, Australia (2010); Hong Kong Art Fair (2010); and Still Vast Reserves, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2009). Recent solo exhibitions include: Conjurers, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne (2012) and Hold Everything Dear, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: The Sleep of Reason, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2012); New09, Australian Centre for Contemporary, Melbourne (2009); and Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006). In 2010 Emblem Books published Holding a Thread, covering the last ten years of Armstrong’s practice with an essay by Juliana Engberg and interview by Charlotte Day.
Benjamin Armstrong, Conjurer.
Benjamin Armstrong, Installation of Conjurers.
Benjamin Armstrong, Witness & Dust to Gold.
Benjamin Armstrong, Hold Everything Dear I.
Benjamin Armstrong, The shape of things to come.
