Past Residents
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.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2013: Gallery Jordanow, Hendrik Müller, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, PHASEONE
Moritz Partenheimer
Moritz Partenheimer works with photography to create surreal worlds of their own kind, composed of sites in various locations around the world. He studies the urban microcosm and investigates urban space to define its identity. His focus is on inconspicuous sites, the sort of surroundings that are composed of things we come across every day. His pristine settings seem to be void of human presence, however, their traces are discernable and become an expression of the space wherein the portrayed objects replace humankind. It is through his formal reduction and concentration of the selected objects that we come to better understand their artificial, natural or cultural beauty.
Moritz Partenheimer (born 1979, Munich) studied at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar and at Pratt Institute, New York. In 2006, he graduated from Bauhaus University with a master’s degree and moved to Munich. Recent solo shows include Points of Interest, Gallery Jordanow, Munich; Lost in Translation, Gallery Binz & Krämer, Cologne; and Lost Paradise, Kunstverein Heinsberg. His group exhibitions include Lost in Translation, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Bildspuren – Unruhige Gegenwarten, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany; and Ist das ein Portrait, Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich. His work is represented in numerous private collections, as well as public collections, including Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. He lives and works in Munich and Cologne.
Moritz Partenheimer, Points of Interest, 2011, C-print, 47 × 56 in. (119.38 × 142.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Moritz Partenheimer, Points of Interest, 2011, C-print, 47 × 40 in. (119.38 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Moritz Partenheimer, Gateway 1, 2013, C-print, 57 × 66 in. (144.78 × 167.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Moritz Partenheimer, Points of Interest, 2011, C-print, 47 × 40 in. (119.38 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2013: Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Eunji Cho
Eunji Cho activates the movement and inherent energy of urban remains, traces and suspended matters such as mud, stone and dust through performance, installation, situationist intervention and writing. She explores the slippage that arises when a modern subject enters another territory and becomes a minority, colonized, and the “other.” In her recent works, she focuses on the socio-psychological landscape of surface elements of the city interpreted by her own intuition and methodologies. Her artistic practice retains a minimalist approach to explore the ways in which certain objects are used in her works. Cho uses a range of media including drawing, video, performance and installation
In 2012, Eunji Cho had her 5th solo exhibition, Poem In Action, at RM Gallery, Auckland. Her selected group exhibitions include Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, New York, 2013; Play Time, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, 2012; Dtang, the Mud Said, Duesseldorf Festival, Duesseldorf, 2012; tempus fugit, Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf, 2012;Media Scape, Nam Jun Paik Art Center, Yongin, 2011; 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report, Gwangju, 2008; Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang,2007; The Multicultural in Our Time, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010; and Cittadellarte Venice, Venice University, Venice, 2005. She also has a female duo performance band, Michelangelo Pistoletto Band and sings about love and cities in various cities all over the world. Eunji Cho lives and works in Seoul.
Eunji Cho, Exodus Mud Poem, 2008, Mud from Paju New Town City Performance at 7th Gwangju Biennale.
Eunji Cho, Poem in Action, 2012, Mud Installation view RM Gallery, Auckland.
Eunji Cho, The Organic Flag, 2007, Mud and flag Installation view Yangju City Hall, Gyeongsang-do, Korea.
Eunji Cho, Dtang, The Mud Said, 2012, Performance FFT, Duesseldorf Festival.
Eunji Cho, Real Estate Box Empty Seongam 123 Project, 2010, Collaborative project Seongamdo, Ansan, Korea.
