Past Residents
Past Resident2013: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Kevin Beasley
Kevin Beasley’s sculpture and performance begins with the insistence on the most basic yet complicated aspects of being – what we know to be present is relative to our own ability to conceive it and because we are unable to experience it or to perceive it with our senses does not mean it is not there and that its being there is in fact so vital and foundational to everything that follows. While a significant amount of his materials are personal, their inclusion is not to posit an autobiographical narrative nor are they there to signify or testify to his particular lived experience. Rather they indicate the importance of origin and identity for Beasley as something which is always suspect and that he is constantly negotiating.
(Text by Adrienne Edwards).
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit and his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2012. He has exhibited nationally with The Butcher’s Daughter, Detroit and in group shows in Los Angeles, throughout Michigan, and New York. Beasley’s performances were featured during Some Sweet Day at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Danspace Projects, New York. Currently, Beasley’s work is featured in Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Kevin Beasley, Untitled (Helmet), 2011, T-shirt, polyurethane foam, plastic, spray paint, and paper pulp. Courtesy of the artist.
Kevin Beasley, Lord Have Mercy, 2011, Ethernet cable, coaxial cable, polyurethane foam, plastic, sweatband, underwear, and medical IV, 18 × 9 × 8 in. (45.72 × 22.86 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kevin Beasley, Untitled, 2012, Hair clips, twine, shower curtains, and digital inkjet print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Kevin Beasley, Untitled, 2012, Cotton gin motor, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Kevin Beasley, Untitled, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2013: Mondriaan Fund
Paulien Oltheten
Paulien Oltheten creates series of photographs and videoworks which explore human relations in public space and examine the similarities and differences in cultures through physical activity. She extends the photo and video works by commenting with sketches and text and will restage behaviors from the photos and videos by herself or with the help of spectators. The result appears as a kind of archive, an anthropological study, and allows us to reconsider the context of reality. It is a study full of gentle humour.
Paulien Oltheten (born 1982) is based in Amsterdam where she studied at the Rijksakademie until 2006. Her solo exhibitions include; It’s my imagination, you know, Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam; Kitbag Questions, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Walk on a line, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam. Group exhibitions include Desire Lines, ACCA Melbourne; Daegu Photo Biennial; Safari, Le Lieu Uniques, Nantes; CREAM festival, BANKart Studio, Yokohama and Off the Record, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Oltheten has published the monographs Theory of the Street, 2007; A Sort of Lecture, 2011 and Photos from Japan and my Archive 2011. She was the recipient of the 2012 Dutch Doc Award.
Paulien Oltheten, Small Roll of Thoughts, 2010-2012, Black and white print. Courtesy of the artist.
Paulien Oltheten, Caressing the Bus, 2011, Video installation, 1 min 21 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Paulien Oltheten, Bellies, 2010, C-print. Courtesy of the artist.
Paulien Oltheten, Crossing, 2010-2012, HD video, 2 min 23 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Paulien Oltheten, It's My Imagination, You Know, 2012, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2013: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Laura Horelli
Laura Horelli’s video installations address subjects related to memory, loss and identity. The narrative is often personal, but includes an analytical and expansive dimension. Central to the work is the absence / presence of Horelli’s mother, who died in 1987. Multiple perspectives are created by the use of various literary sources: extracts from diaries, letters, interviews and the artist’s own recollections. Often there is interplay between voice-over and family photographs. Other pieces have appropriated TV-footage of a children’s cooking program, Super 8 film recordings of places in Berlin and Los Angeles or taped testimonies. Through the act of looking closely, the artist attempts to create something else from the existing material.
Laura Horelli (born 1976, Helsinki) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2001. Horelli’s work has been exhibited internationally at the 49th and 53rd Venice Biennales; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian; Gwanju Biennale; Kiasma, Helsinki; n.b.k., Berlin; Ludlow38, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Gasworks, London; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck and Goethe-Institut Nairobi. Horelli was a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin in 2007. In 2011 she received The Hanna Höch Prize for Young Artists from the City of Berlin. She was recently awarded a 5-year working grant from the Arts Council of Finland. Horelli is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin.
Laura Horelli, The Terrace, 2011, HD video installation and stereo sound, 24 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Horelli, A Film About Her, 2010, Super 8 film and stereo sound, 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Horelli, Haukka-Pala (A-Bit-To-Bite), 2009, Video Installation and stereo sound, 28 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Horelli, Karl-Marx-Allee and Kreshchatik, 2005, Installation of 15 C-prints, 23 × 33 in. (58.42 × 83.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Laura Horelli, You Go Where You're Sent, 2003, Video installation and stereo sound, 19 min. Courtesy of the artist.
