Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Akansha Rastogi
Akansha Rastogi develops and mediates relationships between the exhibit, curator, artist and the exhibition space. She engages with the exhibition as a medium and as a form through her curatorial and research projects. Her interest is in different kinds of knowledge production within exhibition spaces and a study of vocabularies formulated during the process of exhibition-making. In her curatorial practice, Rastogi manufactures methods and cycles of reiteration and retrieval, mnemonic conditions, access and mesh-making, in relation to the performativity of exhibitions and exhibition spaces. Her ongoing project Grazing sidelines the narrative and produces a post-embedding, self-alluding structural field that further addresses this interiority and performative duration.
Akansha Rastogi (born 1985) is Curator, Programming and Exhibitions, at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi. She completed her degree in English literature from Delhi University and Master’s Degree in the History of Art. Her recent exhibitions include Zones of Contact: Propositions on the Museum, 2013 and the Inhabiting the Museum performance series, 2011-14, KNMA. Rastogi is part of the artist collective WALA and received a FICA Public Art Grant for performance projects. She is the recipient of the 2014-15 IFA Research Grant for studying Exhibition Histories and Practices of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michelle-Marie Letelier and Akansha Rastogi
July 8, 2014
Ranbir Kaleka, Reading Man 2, 2011, Digital print and script-log. Courtesy of the curator and exhibition Parenthetic Exercises: Archiving Ranbir Kaleka's Studio.
Ranbir Kaleka, Slide projection of 74 found tracings, drawings, preparatory sketches, mappings, layouts and details of paintings. Courtesy of the curator and exhibition Parenthetic Exercises: Archiving Ranbir Kaleka's Studio.
Ranbir Kaleka, Parenthetic Exercises: Archiving Ranbir Kaleka's Studio, 2008-2009, Drawing on tracing paper. Courtesy of the curator and exhibition Parenthetic Exercises: Archiving Ranbir Kaleka's Studio.
Ranbir Kaleka, Grazing, 2013, Exhibition view. Courtesy of the curator.
Ranbir Kaleka, Grazing, 2013, Digital print. Courtesy of the curator.
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Michelle-Marie Letelier is interested in exploitation of minerals, working across topographic changes of a landscape, juxtaposed with the speculation of resources within the current economic framework. She spent her early life in Chuquicamata, the biggest open-pit copper mine in the world, in the Atacama Desert. This served as a starting point in her practice, documenting the town’s burial process through video and photography. Since settling in Berlin, Letelier has focused on copper and coal: minerals which have also become objects themselves in her drawings, paintings, objects and installations. Letelier’s work carries heavy socio-political overtones, especially in times of unveiled globalization, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the crisis of the neoliberal model.
Michelle-Marie Letelier (born 1977, Rancagua, Chile) obtained her BFA at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Her recent solo exhibitions include Die Feinfühlige Zone, Die Ecke Gallery, Santiago and Doomed Scape,Perlini Arte Gallery, Padua. Her group exhibitions include Magic Block, Stiftelsen 3.14, Bergen and To Seize Matter and Leave a Landscape, X Video and Media Arts Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago. Her videos have been exhibited in several screenings and festivals across the world. In 2005, Letelier participated in the Mercosur Biennial and in 2012 she was awarded the first edition of ORA International Art Prize. Letelier lives and works in Berlin.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michelle-Marie Letelier and Akansha Rastogi
July 8, 2014
Michelle-Marie Letelier, The Prediction of Tarapacá, 2014, Mixed media, 17 x 157 x 157 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Energeia Series, 2012, Mixed media, 4 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Wo Fass Ich Dich, Unendliche Natur?, 2011, HD video, 5 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Drawing, 83 x 124 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Michelle-Marie Letelier, Doomed scape, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chun-Chi Wang
Chun-Chi Wang’s work develops ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues she considers crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed and endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. Her curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers, rather it asks questions that lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.
Chun-Chi Wang is a Taiwanese artist and curator based in Berlin. Recently, she was the Assistant Curator, Taipei Biennial, 2012 and the Organizer, WEEKEND Project, Berlin, 2010-2011. Other recent exhibitions curated include No One River Flows, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2014; Urban Synesthesia, Taipei, 2013; Immaterial Project, Paris, 2012; Liquidshell, Berlin,2011; Edition N.1-Wonderland, Berlin,2011; Tangible Intangible, Berlin, 2010 and Future Guide to the Web, New York, 2001. She is the Founder and Director of IDOLONSTUDIO, Berlin.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ocean refuses no river, 2013, Photography, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, The Rhyme of Forms, 2014, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Let's do something, 2013, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Ah-Q, 2002, Photochemical, mechanical live image projection device technique, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Chun-Chi Wang, Townhouse - Camp charlie block #1, 2009, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
