Past Residents
Past Resident2014: The Ministry of Education and Culture, The Republic of Cyprus
Constantinos Taliotis
Constantinos Taliotis’ research based practice emerges from close inspection of recurring traits in architectural manifestations of mystery in cinema. Through installations, videos, tableaux vivant photography and text, he investigates the spatial and temporal patterns that fabricate evil in narrative cinema and more specifically the signification of modernist architecture in fiction as a
dominant constituent of villainy. Elements of speed and stasis, darkness and light, mise-en-scéne and out-of-scene and geographies of proximity and distance comprise the glossary of Taliotis’ practice.
Constantinos Taliotis (born 1983, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a visual artist and writer. In 2013 he co-represented the Republic of Cyprus in the 55th Venice Biennale and in 2012 he participated in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien artist-in-residence program. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Metro Gallery, Berlin; Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul; Pilot Gallery, Istanbul; Young Greek Photographers Award, Athens; Kappatos Gallery, Athens; Fold Gallery, London and the Nicosia Municipal Art Center. Taliotis is the author of Under the Fridge’s Light, VDM Publishing House, Germany, 2011 and he edited the book Casting Modernist Architecture, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2012.
Constantinos Taliotis, I know you robbed the bank. you know you robbed the bank. that makes it unanimous, 2011, C-print photograph, 49 1/5 x 61 1/2 in.
Constantinos Taliotis, 50 years of james bond against architecture, 2012, Video, 10:29 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Constantinos Taliotis, Casting modernist architecture, 2012, 1000 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Constantinos Taliotis, Casting modernist architecture, 2012, 1000 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Constantinos Taliotis, The day the chaly stood still, 2013, 45 x 30 x 10 in.
Past Resident2014: The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Olaf Brzeski
Olaf Brzeski’s practice is rooted in surrealist visions, which he puts into life via film, three-dimensional sculptures and installations. His comments about his own works do not so much mirror his personal interpretation, but narrate fictional stories, illustrated in the artworks or, in fact, made believable through the existence of the latter. This is the way in which Brzeski generates new worlds and their inhabitants.
Olaf Brzeski, Dream - spontaneous combustion, 2008, Bone soot, polyurethane resin and ash, 70 4/5 x 59 x 37 2/5 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Olaf Brzeski, Untitled (from the little orphans series), 2009, Cast iron, chair, 35 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Olaf Brzeski, Out of love for a woman, 2012, Steel, bronze, oil, paint and wood, 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 x 177 1/8 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Olaf Brzeski, The fall of the man i don't like, 2012, Painted steel, 106 1/3 x 137 3/4 x 82 2/3 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Olaf Brzeski, Untitled (from the little orphans series), 2009, Cast iron, wood, glass and light, 82 2/3 x 35 1/2 x 51 1/5 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Manor Grunewald
Manor Grunewald is first and foremost as a painter, although he is also active in the fields of sculpture, installation and prints. His work is characterised by the constant analysis of the development of the pictorial in our daily environment. He finds and collects the sources of his images everywhere in daily life: in newspapers, advertising, books, comics, digital media and even illustrations of biological microcosms and macrocosms. His image archive serves as a source of inspiration, and his found pictorial material is often altered, partially on purpose and in some cases arbitrarily, by copying, enlarging or collaging. The artist thus creates new pictorial information, which is largely free of cognitively controlled processes and which reveal the unfamiliar, allowing this to become the content of his painting.
Manor Grunewald’s works have been exhibited across Europe and in the United States. In 2011, he was nominated for the Young Belgian Painters Prize at BOZAR. Recently, he has completed solo projects at Arco Madrid, Volta New York and Volta 9, Basel. Grunewald has presented recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne. He will take part in a group exhibition with Evan Gruzis and Christian Vetter at Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels in April 2014.
Manor Grunewald, Unhelpful Hunt - Ze hat is not mine, I'm only trying it on for size, 2013, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne.
Manor Grunewald, Unhelpful Hunt - Ze hat is not mine, I'm only trying it on for size, 2013, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Chaplini Gallery, Cologne.
Manor Grunewald, Life's a beach - grey, 2013, Oil, acrylics, spray paint, lacquer, paper, uv print on wood, 47 × 71 in. (119.38 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Manor Grunewald, Untitled (Organic Mess #2), 2013, Oil, acrylics, spray paint, silkscreen, foil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 27 1/5 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Manor Grunewald, Sloping Attempt (Atom Ant), 2013, Wood, epoxy, plaster, oil, spray paint, metal, foam, 55 1/2 x 50 3/4 x 10 in. Courtesy of the artist.
