Past Residents
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
2013
Past Resident2010: North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Nadja Verena Marcin
Nadja Verena Marcin (Germany) is a performance artist who lives and works in New York City and NRW, North Rhine-Westphalia. Internationally recognized as an emerging New Genre artist, her work focuses on human behavior, elemental emotions, and psychological responses linked to role-playing through video, performance and photography. Sourcing autobiographical experience, Marcin drives situations from ordinary to absurd while probing beneath the surface of human interaction. Inflated by playful, vigorous images, poetical texts, and handmade props, she exposes ambiguities depicting the constructive/deconstructive potential of man’s characteristic, often dialectic moods. Marcin confronts elemental emotions and unleashes psychological mechanism, exposing truths about morals, history, gender and politics inherent to Western culture. Her practice reveals a sharp analytical distance, correlating with high subjective empathy, condensed in a rigorously conceptual form.
Born in Germany, Marcin holds a MFA from Columbia University, New York, and graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts,
Münster, Germany. Her work is widely exhibited in museums, art spaces/galleries and distinguished collections worldwide, including: Qui Vive? Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow MOMA, Russia; Salon/Screening, ICA Philadelphia, PA; Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Short-Term Deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; Kaunas Biennale, National Museum, Lithuania; Videonale 11 & 10, Kunstmuseum, Germany; Mediations Biennale, Poland; Models of Self-Reflection, AZKM, Germany; European Attitude, Zendai MOMA, China; FIFA-Festival pour Film sur L’Art, Quebec; EJECT-Ex teresa arte actual, Mexico; and Jumpnights, Ludwig Museum, Germany.
Nadja Verena Marcin, Everything Is Nothing, 2008, HDV video/film, 12:24 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Nadja Verena Marcin, Elephant, 2009, HDV video installation, 1:97 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Nadja Verena Marcin, Hotel, 2010, HD video/film, 12 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Nadja Verena Marcin, Nadja By Breton, 2010, Performance, 23:48 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Nadja Verena Marcin, Street, 2007, HDV video and performance, 6:02 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Magnus Thierfelder
In his work Magnus Thierfelder uses various methods such as drawing, installation, sculpture, photo and lets components primarily taken from the cityscape become metaphors in a narrative rebus where lamp posts, pipes, cables, paving-stones etc., constitute elements in a symbolic realm that talks about enigmatic regularities, order and disorder, resistance, and creativity.
“Drainpipes, bricks, cables and lamp posts. With these simple construction elements from without, Magnus Thierfelder creates his personal order within. The starting point seems to be the limited intentions, the details, and the interplay of every day occurrences, and the paradoxical realisation that these have the power to overcome us, by confronting us with the results of actions that carry their own underlying structure. Thierfelder’s restrained, formal language and subtle sense of humour, become what is often barely distinguishable disruptions on social norms and everyday experiences. By simply displacing these tangible objects, he obstructs “normality”, and reveals things that could have gone wrong.” Extract from Underneath Everyday Normality; The Work of Magnus Thierfelder by Marianna Garin.
Magnus Thierfelder lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. He received his MFA from Malmö Art Academy. He has exhibited nationally and internationally both separately and in group exhibitions at Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Araba, Spain; Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden; Ar/Ge KUNST, Bolzano, Italy; Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Malmö Art Museum, Sweden; Coleman Projects, London, UK; Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; The Breeder, Athens, Greece; Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1a Space, Hong Kong, China; Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy and Kumo Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, among others. He is one of the founding members of the non-profit art space Signal in Malmö and was on the Board member between 1998 and 2002. He is represented by the galleries Elastic in Malmö and von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland.
Magnus Thierfelder, Disintegration, 2008, Painted MDF, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and von Bartha Garage, Basel.
Magnus Thierfelder, Visionary, 2006, Plastic pipes, epoxy mold variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Magnus Thierfelder, Resistance, 2008, Pipes and rubber, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and von Bartha Garage, Basel.
Magnus Thierfelder, Still Life, 2009, Brick stones and lamp post. Courtesy of the artist and Perspectives - Art in Urban Spaces, Malmö, Sweden.
Magnus Thierfelder, Fountain, 2004, Installation with water. Courtesy of the artist and Coleman Project Space, London.
