Past Resident
2014: Gene Na, Dr. Henning Pfaffhausen

Richard Schur

Richard Schur’s paintings reveal surprising harmonies in the interplay of colors – from natural to chemical, from subtle to raw – in what prove up close to be very painterly surfaces. The viewers are transported, whether by skiff, schooner or galleon, to actively serene visual spaces suffused with the light of those various places.

Richard Schur (born 1971, Munich) graduated as Meisterschüler at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where he later taught as Assistant Professor for painting from 2002 through 2008. He has received several awards including the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts. In recent years, he has exhibited in galleries and at art fairs in London, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Brussels. In the U.S., Schur has participated in group shows in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Among others, his museum exhibitions include the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai.

Michaela Gleave

Michaela Gleave investigates the physicality of perception, interrogating the systems and structures through which we construct our image of reality. Executed as a series of experiments, her often-temporal works question our relationship to time, matter and space, involving natural phenomena and tricks of perception within the context of the systems and structures that shape contemporary existence. Operating between the spaces of personal experience and global understanding, Gleave’s illusory works hover at the junction between art and science, returning repeatedly to the atmosphere and the space of the sky as the site for her work.  Gleave’s installations, performances and interventions question the relationship we have with our surroundings, allowing us to experience the processes by which we comprehend reality and rethink our presence within it.

Michaela Gleave (born 1980, Alice Springs, Australia) holds a BFA from the University of Tasmania, and an MFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.  Gleave’s work has been exhibited extensively across Australia, as well as in Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Mexico. Her recent exhibitions include A Day is Longer than a Year, Fremantle Arts Center, 2013; We Are Made of Stardust as part of Art Futures, Hong Kong Art Fair (solo), 2012; A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White), the Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2010, and Primavera 09, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009.

Past Resident
2014: Helge Ax:Son Johnsons Stiftelse

Marianna Garin

Marianna Garin is a curator, writer and researcher based in Sweden and Buenos Aires. Her practice focuses on public art formed by ongoing processes and storytelling, or where the artist suggests the unexpected and sometimes speculative. She is fascinated by the ephemeral, seemingly accidental traces of transient and fleeting thoughts, where small actions (poetic and sensible) in the periphery could have consequences and even create subversive and critical spaces that can be used for restaging the institution. Garin explores strategies for individual agency, such as possibilities of engaging in collective transformation in the organizing of our public spaces, or those that propose such spaces or instances that can shape new possibilities for other narratives and learning processes.

Marianna Garin, (born 1973, Cordoba), graduated from the International Curatorial Program at Konstfack College University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. She holds a BA in Art History and Linguistics from Lund University. Garin is currently a curator at Gävle Art Centre within the Public Art Program in Sweden. She has worked for Lund Konsthall; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; IASPIS International Artists Studio Program (IASPIS), Stockholm and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection among others. She regularly contributes to a number of magazines and journals, artist monographs and catalogue essays. Garin recently curated the exhibition Individual Order for Karst, Plymouth UK, 2013.