Past Residents
Viktor Kopp
Viktor Kopp’s work is both dry and whimsical, playing on notions of illusion in painting with a deep focus on the formal logic of perspective and geometric abstraction. His work begs the question of what lies behind the illusionistic space of the painting, pointing to the inherent flatness of the work and the contrivance of depicting space within. In these paintings, Kopp breaks with both flatness and representation in a space of three-dimensional illusion, one without gravity, shadow or dimension. A flat tablet of grey abstraction turns and floats within a dense white blankness of a monochromatic yet intricately painted void. His work shows abstraction as his motif and subject, peeling away to reveal only more abstraction.
Viktor Kopp (b. 1971, Stockholm) completed studies in fine art in Malmö, Gothenberg and Helsinki. His selected solo exhibitions include Bureau New York, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva; Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö and Konsthallen Passagen, Linköping. His group exhibitions include: Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Edstranska, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö; The Art of Cooking, Royal/T, Culver City; Underemployed, Salon Zurcher, New York; Abstract and Traces, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva and Solid-State, Bureau, New York. Kopp teaches painting at the Malmö Art Academy and lives and works in Stockholm.
Viktor Kopp, Four Corners, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York.
Viktor Kopp, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö.
Viktor Kopp, Double Door Yellow, 2011, Oil on canvas, 69 × 65 in. (175.26 × 165.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Sweden
Sofie Thorsen
In her installations, films and works on paper, Sofie Thorsen deals with questions of space and architecture in urban space as well as the exhibition space itself. Where the starting point of her work is mostly research based or documentary, the images and materials that surface during research are reworked and developed into abstract objects and images that constitute the final work.
Sofie Thorsen (born 1971, Denmark) was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest the Royal Academy, Copenhagen, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria, where she teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions, the latest at Kunsthaus Graz and Kunsthaus Baselland in 2012 and at Bank Austria Kunstforum in 2013.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tobias Dostal and Sofie Thorsen
January 7, 2014
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2013, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2013, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2012, Dimensions variable. Photo by UMJ/ Nikolaus Lackner.
Sofie Thorsen, Whose Sleeves?, 2016, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Whose Sleeves?, 2016, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2013: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Ramiro Chaves
The work of Ramiro Chaves explores various aspects of Latin American modernist architecture, from its ideological positioning to its contradictory transformations within those contexts in which the modernist project never quite fit comfortably. His projectXXXXXXXXXX is an atlas of the use of the letter X in post-revolutionary Mexican architecture. His investigation centers on the use of this form as an architectural resource, be it ornamental or structural. This project is an exercise which is part of an extensive visual archive and documentary project about the evolution of the iconography and content of Mexican modernism. It functions as a cross-sectional exploration of this confused historical legacy through different disciplines using photography as an starting point, but also expanding his practice to video, sculpture, architectural drafting, writing and archiving. Chaves’ work is a personal, methodological approximation that raises questions about memory, history, identity, discourse, and the manner in which those elements produce space and language.
Ramiro Chaves (born 1979, Cordoba) studied Film and Television at the National University of Cordoba and Photography at the School of Arts Lino E. Spillimbergo. He moved to México in 2002. He was selected for the XI Biennial of Photography at the Center for the Image, México City, 2004 and his first solo exhibition Proyecto Canada, at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México City, 2006. Editorial Diamantina published his book Domingos in 2006. Chaves was selected for Descubrimientos (Discoveries) in PhotoEspaña, Spain, 2009. He participated in the Miradas Cruzadas residency exchange program between México and France in 2010, and received Bancomer’s 2012-2014 Contemporary Artist grant in partnership with the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México City. His work is part of the Isabel and Agustin Coppel collection as well as those of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Centro de la Imagen in México City, plus a number of private collections worldwide. His work has been exhibited in México, France, the United States, Spain, Holland, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Argentina and Japan.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ramiro Chaves and Bernard Williams
October 15, 2013
Ramiro Chaves, a1, 2006, Inkjet print, 393/8 × 311/2 in. (100.08 × 80.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ramiro Chaves, Soporte, 2012, Sculpture, Dimensions variable.
Ramiro Chaves, Torrec, 2008, Inkjet print, 2111/16 × 2111/16 in. (55.12 × 55.12 cm).
Ramiro Chaves, Untitled, 2006, Inkjet print, 255/8 × 1711/16 in. (65.02 × 44.96 cm).
Ramiro Chaves, X Este, 2009, Inkjet print, 12 × 12 in. (30.48 × 30.48 cm).
