Past Residents
Moussa Kone
Moussa Kone engages with dichotomies and simultaneously with their synthesis on both a formal level and in terms of the content. Notions of hierarchical relationships between discourse and the visual, outmoded ascriptions of artistic disciplines or role patterns, have made way for a softening of binary structures where no one side is favored over the other. This applies when Kone engages in his full-time pursuit, drawing. Hard contrasts dominate the fine detailed execution of the drawings. Painstakingly executed, systematically applied rows of penned cross-hatching structure his images in black and-white surfaces and complete the composition as a homogenous unity. Objects or installation stem from this formal vocabulary and the drawn setting continues into the real space.
Moussa Kone (born 1978) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. His work has been shown at Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Charim Gallery, Vienna; Charim Ungar Contemporary, Berlin; Art Cologne New Positions Programme; Art Futures Section, Art Hong Kong; Townhouse, Zurich; Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck; Galerie Traklhaus, Salzburg; Künstlerhaus Dortmund; and Red Gate Gallery Studios, Beijing. He co-founded the artist association Kunstwerft and realized art projects in Austria and Germany. Recent publications include Manual, Kerber Artbooks, Berlin, 2011; Diabelli, Harpune Verlag, Vienna, 2011 and Nocturnes, Literaturedition Niederösterreich, Vienna, 2012. Kone is represented by Charim Gallery, Vienna.
Moussa Kone, People I Met Recently.
Moussa Kone, People I Met Recently, 2010, Ink on paper, 40 × 28 in. (101.6 × 71.12 cm).
Moussa Kone.
Moussa Kone, Waist Down Undressed (Drama Queen), 2010, Ink on paper, 40 × 28 in. (101.6 × 71.12 cm).
Moussa Kone, Coram Publico (Paravent), 2010, Wood, lacquer, and hinge, 81 × 118 × 40 in. (205.74 × 299.72 × 101.6 cm).
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2012: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas
Nuria Montiel’s work employs social practices through participatory strategies for collective creation in public spaces. Graphic print is used as a way of representing and documenting process but also as a mechanism of exchange and collective expression. Monitel’s current project Mobile Printing Press looks at diverse protest and social manifestations in Mexico, printing phrases that represent the resistance voice of citizens as a way to understand the socio-political reality of present-day Mexico.
Nuria Montiel (born 1982 Mexico) Studied visual arts at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas-UNAM. She has been awarded with the fellowship Jovenes Creadores (FONCA) and and the prize Permio Nacional de Arte Jóven Aguascalientes XXVII. In Mexico, she has participated in various group shows at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Galería Kurimanzutto, as well as Centre of Contemporary Art, Varsow; and ACVIC Center, Barcelona. Nuria is a founding member of the collectives La Galería de Comercio (a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the street) and Grupo JOKUS.
Events & Exhibitions
Nuria Montiel: Music Footprints
December 17–December 17, 2012
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Mobile Printing Press, 2010, Wheels, etching press, talc, spatulas, recycled paper, tripod, video camera, and monitor, 78 × 35 × 24 in. (198.12 × 88.9 × 60.96 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Imprement Movil/Printing Public Demands, Topilejo, MPJD, 2011, printing workshop, 3 hrs.
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, No Debieron Morir, 2011, Wall sticker and digital photo, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cadaver Exquisito, 2011, Prints on wall, 92 × 155 in. (233.68 × 393.7 cm).
Nuria Montiel Perez Grovas, Cumulus/Mexico City Complaints Mailbox, 2009, Performance 300 balloons and 300 paper complaints, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg
Maria Loboda
With delicious anarchy, the work of Maria Loboda investigates the trafficking between the object and the spirit, rationality and magic. Her method is to trace knowledge through a study of the tension between res and deus, thing and God – with God understood here as the symbol of Order…Loboda’s works engage in an unhinged and discordant conversation with time and history. They do not seem to belong to the present, but are difficult to place in the past or the future. They generate a sense of movement between all three temporalities, but at the same time cannot be described simply as anachronistic. They elude the contemporary and are not made in response to any topical reality. Loboda’s works, neither exactly modern sculpture nor contemporary installation, embody an infinite connection to history, as clouds do to the sky. -Chus Martínez, ‘Maria Loboda,’ Creamier (Phaidon,2010)
Maria Loboda (born 1979 in Krakow) finished her studies at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Städelschule, 2008 in the class of Mark Leckey. Her works were shown recently at Documenta(13), Kassel, 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; ICA, London, 2012 and the Athens Biennale, 2009. Solo shows include Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2010; Galerieschleicher/lange, Paris/Berlin, 2011; Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, 2011 and Mini/Goethe Curatoral Residencies, Ludlow 38, New York City, 2012. Her first monograph Oh, Wilderness was recently published by Sternberg Press with essays by Isobel Harbison, Lars Bang Larsen, and Caterina Riva.
Maria Loboda, Ah, Wilderness, 2011, Cedar, pine, walnut and birch branches, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, The Messenger (Be aware of the One Who Appears Not to be Moving), 2012, Channel video loop, film still, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, Curious and Cold Epicurean Young Ladies, 2011, Platin plated silver flask, hydrogen, oxygen and metal chain, Dimensions variable.
Maria Loboda, Polish Trocadero Over Neo Italian, 2011, Two Overlapping Digital Prints on Nylon, 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm).
Maria Loboda, Walldrawing (Cyanide, Arsenic, Mercury, Lead), 2009 - 2012, Prussian blue, scheels green, naples yellow and vermillion pigments, Dimensions variable.
