Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Radovan Čerevka
Radovan Čerevka belongs to the first generation of graduates from the Atelier of 3D Free Creativity with professor Juraj Bartusz at the Faculty of Arts, Technical University in Košice. Čerevka’s practice is characterized by conceptual work with mass media, especially in the context of the international political, economic and humanitarian evetnts mediated by the news channels. He is interested in the power of truth, globally spread and locally accepted, with work that integrates aspects of activism and his own civic engagement. His recent topics included terrorist and military actions like the attack on Fallujah, the Beslan school attack, underground smugglilng in Gaza and a general interrest in the political situation in Iran and Chechnya. He is a member of the group Kassaboys.
Radovan Čerevka (born 1982, Košice, Slovakia) graduated from The Technical University of Košice and during his studies participated in the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. Čerevka completed his PhD studies in the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. He is currently working as an lecturer in the Studio of 3D Free creativity at the Faculty of Arts, The Technical University of Košice.
Radovan Čerevka, The land of the enduring freedom, 2013, 241 x 114 x 118 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Radovan Čerevka, Cave, 2012, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Radovan Čerevka, Rug Hills, 2010, 216 1/2 x 197 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Radovan Čerevka, Rug Hills, 2010, 216 1/2 x 197 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Radovan Čerevka, Die blockade, 2007, Site-specific installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Mondriaan Fund
Maura Biava
Maura Biava employs analytic geometry to achieve her artistic ends. Working with a mathematician who translates equations into graphic representations, she searches for forms that resonate or evoke specific emotional or pneumonic responses. She then names that form, combines that form with others, to produce concrete, semantic/poetic objects, drawings, photographs and installations. Artists have long been attracted to the hidden geometries in nature. Biava starts with the geometries and generates strange, new and compelling natural forms.
Maura Biava (born 1970, Reggio Emilia, Italy) is based in Amsterdam. She graduated in 1992 from the Academy of Brera in Milan, then in 1999 from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Biava has exhibited all over the world including Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Going Dutch, Museum of New Art, Pontiac; New Photography from the NetherlandsCornerhouse, Manchester; Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; A’dam & Eve, De Appel, Amsterdam; Museo Zauli, Faenza; Doride/Ultramarine, Photo Museum Amsterdam and On the Edge of Vision, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Maura Biava and Richard Schur
June 17, 2014
Maura Biava, Trinity - Fired Abstraction, 2010, Ceramic and wood, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Trinity - Informing Abstraction, 2011, Collage, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Trinity - Informing Abstraction, 2011, Ceramic, wood, paper, marble, stone, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Abstract Flora #10, 2014, Photography, 8 × 12 in. (20.32 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Judy's Revolutions - in collaboration with Dike Blair, 2011, Mixed media on paper, 12 × 18 in. (30.48 × 45.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2014: Canada Council for the Arts
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin’s work ranges from assemblage to video and photography. His multifaceted production deals with energy flows, entropic devolution, and the forms of visual, spatial and technological paradox that derive from these antithetical forces. Most of his works are retooled everyday appliances, found objects that disclose an ironic re-utilization not only of the mechanic universe but also of tropes of Conceptual Art and Minimalism, which in his hands take on a critical dimension. Although universally recognizable, their new behaviour defies their functions and uses. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, risk and consumption, De Broin defamiliarizes established modes of signification in everyday technical environments. A mid-career survey of his work was mounted by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal in 2013. De Broin has held solo exhibitions and projects like La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, Paris; Reciprocal Energy at Musée d’art contemporain Val-de-Marne, France; Reverse Entropy at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Disruption from Within at Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada; Shared Propulsion Car at Exit Art, New York, Épater la Galerie at Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany.
Events & Exhibitions
Brooklyn Commons: Vito Acconci and Michel de Broin
April 15, 2014
Michel de Broin, Keep on smoking, 2005, Bicycle, generator, battery, analogue gauge, smoke machine, 39 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 23 2/3 in.
Michel de Broin, 100 watts to 3 watts, 2007-2013, Light bulb, cable, base, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6 in.
Michel de Broin, Majestic, 2011, Street light, steel, wire, light, 39 1/3 x 39 1/3 x 32 4/5 ft.
Michel de Broin, Blowback, 2013, Steel, 32 4/5 x 13 1/8 x 13 1/8 ft.
Michel de Broin, Bleed, 2009, Modified powerdrill, water pump, plinth.
