Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Leda Ekimova
Leda Ekimova was born in Svishtov, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Mathematics Gimnasium, Pleven in 1999 and the National Art Academy, Sofia in 2004 with a BA in Fashion Design. She is a co-founder of Eskimo Contemporary Art Association and the founder of Pistolet Gallery and fashion design label Chaika. Ekimova lives and works in Sofia.
Leda Ekimova, Geometric Anuses, 2012, Pencil on paper, 16 × 10 in. (40.64 × 25.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, The Dog that Leaves, 2012, Pencil on paper, 13 × 18 in. (33.02 × 45.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, MATTER: Clovers Anuses Dogs Graves, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, The Gland, 2012, Styrofoam, nylon, gesso, hair, and blankets. Courtesy of the artist.
Leda Ekimova, Piano Coverlet with Two Graves, Textile, cupboard, gesso, and grand piano. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Bulgaria
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Mira Gáberová
Mira Gáberová creates complex projects, in which cooperation with other artists plays a pivotal role. These projects emerge either from social participation or from a constant holding of a mirror up to the artist. The main feature reflected in many of her recent works is doubt. The injection of doubt which questions the multi-faceted reality and multitude of possibilities which the artist can use to investigate it. Gáberová tries to rethink and return to the past and create new solutions, which were originally dismissed or unseen. She is intereted in a lonely human existence, a tragedy of a frozen moment or a very simple and slow action that can last for eternity. An intentional pathos, a distinctive feature of her previous works, is newly – through drama, tragedy and melancholy- transformed into an absolute impossibility and a constant fight for the meaning and reconcilement with a chaos. Though being still inspired by pathos and exaggeration, her attention has shifted more to formal limits of video and work with deconstruction and various forms of authorial cooperation, interpretation and appropriation of artistic material by other artists.
Mira Gáberová (born 1979, Lučenec) lives and works in Prague. In 2006, she graduated from the Departement of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sleepings, Hit Gallery, Bratislava; Behind the Tree, Kabinet Gallery,Brno; Scene, Jeleni Gallery, Prague; Sisyphus’ Love, Synagogue, Trnava. Her group exhibitions include FILM. Directed by Artists, Nitra Gallery, Nitra; Crazy Curators Biennale III, CK Castle, Poznaň; PragueBiennale, Microna Building, Prague, Czech Republic. Interventions in the Gotic Collection, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Donumenta, Stadtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg; and Essl Award, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg.
Mira Gáberová, Fridge Gallery, 2008-2011, Series of 8 exhibitions. Courtesy of the artist and Fridge Gallery.
Mira Gáberová, Performance Group, 2012, Performance project with 8 performances, video installation and practice book. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sad, 2005-2013, Carbon-paper drawings, 24 × 17 in. (60.96 × 43.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Scene, 2012, Video, loop, 1 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Mira Gáberová, Sometimes I Want to be Everything and Sometimes I Want to be Nothing, 2010, Projection, 2 min 16 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Danish Arts Foundation
Lea Porsager
Lea Porsager’s work is rooted in the disciplines of film, objects, photography and text. Working within an expanded field – a space of mad, non-violent speculation – Porsager references a broad range of occult theories, sciences and pseudo-sciences of the body and mind. Rituals, conceptual (mis)interpretations, speculations and experiments with multi-selves all contribute to the shifting foundation on which strategies are built. Strategies designed for doing as well as undoing the work, a process somehow closely related to the key words themselves: Occult, meaning to hide, and occultation, a technical term in astronomy that is used when one heavenly body obscures another by passing in front of it.
Lea Porsager (born 1981, Frederikssund) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main where she received her MFA in 2010. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem; Kunsthal Århus, Aarhus; KUMU, Tallinn; Aros, Aarhus; Den Frie, Copenhagen; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; and Röda Sten, Ghotenburg. In 2008, Porsager was awarded the Montana Enter Prize for her work LEAP – The Awakening of the Dark Muses. In 2012, she participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with her work Anatta Experiment. Porsager lives and works in Copenhagen.
Lea Porsager, Mesmerized Machines Now Vibrating Anry Machine of Mystical Knowledge Making No Compromise with the Public Taste, 2010-2013, Metal tables, text, 16mm film, and metal poles, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Lea Porsager, LEAP - The Awakening of the Dark Muses, 2008, Photographs, 16mm film, and framed text, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Lea Porsager, Celestial Body - Disrupted Nerve Fluid and Crossed Shock Waves, 2011, Film, text, and metal poles, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Lea Porsager, Anatta Experiment, 2012, Film, text, ova, index-floor, and poster, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Lea Porsager, How to Program and Use T-F, 2013, Photography, text, film, bronze and iron objects, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
