Past Residents
Past Resident2013: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Samuel Penaso
Samuel Penaso’s works are a mix of his experiments in media including painting, performance, sculpture, installation and video among others. Penaso is influenced by his dichotomy of life experiences as a child growing up in the country and as an adult living in the city. Experiences, emotions and stories about him and others are widely expressed in his works, most notably in his portraits. His work generates waves of nostalgia, weaving the purity of childhood experiences together with his present ideologies.
Penaso is a visual and performance artist from Guindulman, Bohol. He received a BFA at the Technological University of the Philippines. He has held solo exhibitions in Japan, Thailand, Austria, Germany, Singapore, among others. He represented the Philippines in the Nippon International Performance Art Festival in both 2005 and 2011 and has participated in the the Asian International Art Exhibition, Ayala Museum, Manila; ArTriangle, Malaysia and Young Art Philippines, Luxembourg. He is one of the core members of Tupada Action and Media Art (TAMA) a group of performance artists and an active member of the Art Association of Philippines (AAP).
Samuel Penaso, Constant Reinvention, Steel, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Black Rain, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Stripewalker Project, 2009.
Samuel Penaso, Text Country, Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Time Machine, Acrylic on canvas, 48.
Past Resident2013: Danish Arts Foundation
Ruth Campau
Ruth Campau works in an expanded field where the work’s interaction with the surrounding environment is essential. Her mark is the idea that with a concentrated brushstroke, she can convey presence by translating and freezing it solid onto a surface; brushstrokes immortalize the body’s movement. Her jumping off point is the notion of an infinite painting, where what she is showing is merely a segment of a larger painting and, as such, merely a kind of representative of a human presence. Accordingly, the complex of issues that are prevalent in the very execution takes on a great deal of importance and the body, motion and time become decisive key factors in her work.
Ruth Campau’s work has been shown at Baltic Sea Record 2013, Stadtgalerie Kiel; Sculpture by the Sea 2013, Aarhus; KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, 2013; Designmuseet Danmark, Copenhagen, 2013; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, 2012; The National Museum, Copenhagen, 2012; Gallery Hartwich Rügen, Berlin, 2012; PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, 2012; Gallery Asbaek, Copenhagen, 2011; Preview, Tempelhof, Berlin 2010 and KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, 2010. Her work is in the collections of serveral museums including ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, and the Esbjerg Kunstmuseum. Campau lives and works in Copenhagen.
Ruth Campau, Diamond (Yellow, Purple, Gold), 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 28 × 30 in. (71.12 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Carpet, 2010, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, and radiant acrylic plate, 159 × 192 in. (403.86 × 487.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, MIrage, 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 46 × 222 × 94 in. (116.84 × 563.88 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Garden of Blue, Red and Yellow, 2013, Acryl on acrylic, 336 × 256 in. (853.44 × 650.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Satellite, 2012, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, aluminum construction, metal airboard, and wood, 94 × 310 × 46 in. (238.76 × 787.4 × 116.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2013: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Hilde Methi
Hilde Methi’s work investigates the relationship of her own locale to a larger geopolitical setting. Her collaborative inquiries explore what art can be and how art acts in relation to institutional centers and peripheries within global capitalism. Based on her interest in local history, politics and economy, she builds up ongoing projects and art collectives infusing artistic ideas into the local context.
Since leaving The Girls On The Bridge in 2007, Methi conceived the Sámi Art Festival from 2008 to 2010, co-curated russianmarket.info – Taking Inventory, Uqbar, 2011 and Extreme Crafts, Freies Museum, Berlin, 2012. She is involved in the art-collectives Mobile Kultur Byrå (2006-), which looks at the trading climate in particular contexts; LUJA (2005-) which intersects contemporary art, design and indigenous crafts, and Rural Reading Room (2013-) situations highlighting the materiality of the landscape using a tabletop as its format. She is currently developing a project for the Norwegian-Russian border-zone with Sonic Acts.
Hilde Methi, Local Objects, 2013.
Hilde Methi, Publication by Mobile Kultur Byrå, 2013.
Hilde Methi, Russianmarket.info - Taking Inventory #1, 2011.
Hilde Methi, LUJA Installation, 2012.
Hilde Methi, Collective Matters, 2010.
