Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Canada Council for the Arts
Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw’s artistic practice incorporates photo, video, sound, and various studio-based mediums in a quasi-documentary style while discussing altered states. By reinterpreting the conventional aspects of minimalism, documentary, pop and psychedelic art within a conceptual framework, his interest lies in creating work that establishes a dialogue within and around cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map transcendental experience.
Jeremy Shaw is Vancouver-born, Berlin-based artist. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Storming Heaven (From Home), Everest, Zurich, Switzerland; Single-Channel Higher States, Samsa, Berlin; and Solo Presentation – Jeremy Shaw, Fotofestival 4, Mannheim. Upcoming group exhibitions include: The 2011 Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Quebec;Leistungsschau, Berlin, Germany; and The New Psychedelic, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Shaw is also known as the electronic music artist Circlesqure and has recorded numerous albums and EPs for the now-defunct Output Recordings and Berlin’s !K7 Records.
Jeremy Shaw, Transcendental Capacities (Donna Summer – I Feel Love [Patrick Cowley Megamix], 1982), 2011, Kirlian polaroid photograph, 3 × 4 in. (7.62 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Representative Measurements, 2008, Black light silkscreen posters with UV lights, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Untitled (Home Deprivation Study), 2010, Lacquered birch, 42 × 96 × 42 in. (106.68 × 243.84 × 106.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, DMT (Detail – Sara), 2005, 8 channel video installation, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeremy Shaw, Love Rose In Blue, 2008, Readymade synthetic flower in glass tube, 6 × 4 × 4 in. (15.24 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2011: Borusan Holding
Necmi Sönmez
Necmi Sönmez (born 1968 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Düsseldorf-based independent curator, art critic and writer. He studied Art History in Mainz, Germany; Paris, France; Newcastle, UK and Frankfurt, Germany where he earned a PhD with a thesis on Wolfgang Laib. From 1994 to 1997, Sönmez worked as an independent curator, initiating and organizing numerous exhibition projects, mainly involving young artists in Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands and France. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, where he organized exhibitions and projects with artists including Ayse Erkmen, Renée Levi, Martin Gostner, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Saâdane Hafif. From 2006 to 2008, Sönmez was artisticm director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, where he presented artists such as Gregor Schneider, Myriam Holme, Florian Bach, Martin Dammann and Anja Cuipka . Sönmez is currently a guest curator for the Lepsien Art Foundation in Düsseldorf and the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul.
Events & Exhibitions
In back of the real
May 12–May 15, 2011
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2008, Produced with manipulated digital photograph technique, 1151 × 31 in. (2923.54 × 78.74 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri C.A.M., İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Sewing on textile, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri NON, İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Music (Selimcan Sakar), blue light, fluorescent paint Installation, Founded Materials. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Installation with color tape, 315 inches. Courtesy of the curator and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Pigments. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Petra Feriancova
Petra Feriancova’s work conceptualises her own emotional reactions to the processes of perception and memory and examines the conditions of their sharing. Feriancova works mostly with found pictures, texts and archives which she interprets and methodically interchanges. Her primary aim in the manipulation of a reference, pictorial or discursive, is to provide the spectator with an original affective reaction to it.
Petra Feriancova (born 1977 in Bratislava, Slovakia) currently lives and works in Bratislava. She studied at L’Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, Italy and Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia. Her works have been exhibited extensively including at the Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2010; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, 2009; HIT gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2009; and Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France; 2008. She is the winner of the 2010 Oskár Čepan Award.
Events & Exhibitions
The Animal Mirror
November 2, 2016–January 27, 2017
Petra Feriancova, Repetion, Cut, Pair and Again, 2010, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, With My Mom, With My Dad, With My Grandpa, The Supper By Us, With My Sisters, My Daughter, With My Husband, With My Nephew, Etc., 2010, National Geographic archive and magazine pages mounted on glass sheet, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, The Creator (From Oskar Ferianc's Archive, New Breeds 1948-1962), 2008, 85 vintage photographs, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, To Whom It May Concern, 2006, 3 channel video. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, The Creator (From Oskar Ferianc's archive, New Breeds 1948-1962), 2008, 85 vintage photographs, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
