Past Residents
Past Resident2014: SAHA Association
Burak Delier
Burak Delier is an artist who explores the relationship between capitalism and contemporary artistic practices. His work incorporates guerrilla art tactics and absurdist humor, and also employs the strategies of the very neoliberal media his work critiques. Delier engages with questions on how artistic and capitalistic modes of production overlap by placing himself in the role of maker/producer and creating a product for commodification in the industry of art.
Burak Delier (born 1977) lives and works in Istanbul. He studied fine art at the Marmara University and has a Proficiency in Art degree at the Yildiz Technical University. Delier has had solo exhibitions at Pilot Galeri, Istanbul and InIVA, London and taken part in group exhibitions across Europe. Delier is the first recipient from InIVA’s Commissions and Exhibitions Fund. His work was shown at the Taipei Biennial in 2008 and 2010 and the Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and 2007.
Burak Delier, Songs of the Possessed, 2014, HD Video, 14:10 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2014: Polish Cultural Institute New York
Marzena Nowak
Marzena Nowak’s work is created from memory and imagination, residing in the tension between autobiographical references and poetically immersed dream worlds. Her sensitivity to everyday occurrences and the relationship to her own physicality often represent the thematic departure points for Nowak’s artistic practice. Nowak attempts to defy perception using unexpected materials to symbolically change everyday objects.
Marzena Nowak’s work has been exhibited at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok), Vienna; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;”>Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun; Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin; Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. She has participated in international exhibitions including There as been no future, there will be no past, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York; Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Languages & Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection, Mart Rovereto, Italy; Drawing is Coming Back in a Big Way, Arsenal Centre of Contemporary Art, Bialystok, Poland; Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Poland and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Events & Exhibitions
There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past
October 1–October 24, 2010
Marzena Nowak, Untitled (Bread with polish soil), 2014, Bread baked with polish soil, 15 × 4 × 6 in. (38.1 × 10.16 × 15.24 cm).
Past Resident2014: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Tang Kwok Hin
Tang Kwok Hin’s artworks use erasure to emphasize what remains in a new light. His acts of disfigurement usually result in more figurative meanings than they rub off. In his symbolic collages Tang is particularly concerned about combinations of daily things and the meanings they produce. He is interested in questioning that which is a result of human development, interrogating the existence, rational and usage of such ordinary items as the table and chair.
Tang Kwok Hin (born 1983, Hong Kong) is a mixed media artist, independent curator and writer. He received his MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. He exhibited at 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland; Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009; Museum Bärengasse, Zurich, Switzerland; Esplanade, Singapore; Singapore Art Museum; Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Manila; Busan Cinema Center, South Korea; Kuandu Museum f Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. He was awarded the first prize at Hong Kong Biennale 2009; selected by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2010 and 2011; awarded a Award for Young Artist by Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2010; and a grant by Asian Cultural Council in 2013. His work is in collections in both Europe and Asia.
Tang Kwok Hin, The Weak are Meat II, 2014, Acrylic cabinets and re-packed food packages, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Hong Kong
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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