Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Velimir Zernovski
Velimir Zernovski explores notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture as well as sexuality and gender identity. His work involves many different media including drawings, videos, installations, object installations in public space, writing and artist books.
Velimir Zernovski was born in Skopje and graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Currently, he is a postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies at The Euro-Balkan Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Skopje. He has had solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Freiburg. Zernovski is the co-founder and president of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development Formation, and organization which is working on motivation of socially engaged art production and society democratization, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Slobodan Stosic
Slobodan Stosic’s work focuses on personal reflections, lies and subversion from within. The combination creates an absurd whole, a break in which relations between power and art suddenly become visible and meaningless. He works in order to prove that nothing exists except the ‘in between.’
Slobodan Stosic was born in Novi Sad, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. He was the winner of the 2012 Mangelos Award. Hi recent exhibitions include Out of place, an Ongoing Archive at Indipendents 3 c/o ArtVerona and Between the Real and Reality (Topography of Public/Private Space), Gallery Third, Belgrade.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Serbia
Anastasia Ax
Each of Anastasia Ax’s performances is a new performance; this is essential to her practice. Each meeting between the performer and the audience, every destruction of the material at hand, points towards a situation of indeterminacy and free activity where inner and outer can switch place. The role of ink in these activities is double-edged. It belongs to the world of drawing, the physical acts of filling out the white spaces, but the black ink has an element of poison and bile, melancholy and destruction as well. The raw energies connected with the splashing, the spitting out, the havoc, transform time from linear dimensions into circular moments. New thoughts and new communions take shape through the unpredictable openness of the situation.
Anastasia Ax, born 1979, lives and works in Stockholm. Her recent solo exhibitions include Pan Theon, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, 2012; Bring New Life to Death, in collaboration with Marja- Leena Sillanpää, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2012; Pan Theon, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2012; Step into the current, AM art-space, Shanghai, 2012;Katarsis, in collaboration with Lars Siltberg, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, 2012; Exile,Way out West, Göteborg, 2011; An Experimental Conference on Art and Science, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2011; Reactor, Luleå Konstmuseeum, Luleå, 2011; Trunk, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg, 2010; The Kid Below, Taidihalli, Helsinki, 2010; L&A in collaboration with Lars Siltberg, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, 2010; 2010, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg; 2010, The Kid Below, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2010; The Kid Below, Konstakademin, Stockholm, 2010; Exile, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, 2010 and New drawings and sculptures, Natalia Goldin gallery, Stockholm, 2009. In 2010, Ax was shortlisted for the Carnegie Art Award 2010. Her works are on display at several museums and arthalls such as; Moderna Museet, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, the Carnegie Art Award collection and Gävle Konstcentrum.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Pan Theon, 2012, Paper, water, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Anastasia Ax, Exile, 2011, Plaster, ink, water, clothes, books, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Way Out West, Göteborg.
Anastasia Ax, Step into the current, 2012, Paper, ink, and sound equipment. Courtesy of the artist and Am art Space, Shanghai.
