Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Ivan Ivanovski
Through the media of drawing, film and video, Ivan Ivanovski makes a projection of selfhood situated in the current concrete societal and social moment. Ivanovski conveys a self that constantly re-interrogates the existential conditions within the consumerism, capitalism, deranged values, fears, inhibitions.
Ivan Ivanovski (Born 1983, Skopje, Macedonia) has a BA in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia and an AP in Directing, FAMU in Czech Republic. His work has been included in numerous international exhibitions and festivals. He is currently working on a new animated short XO, supported by Macedonian Film Fund.
Ivan Ivanovski, Dopesmoker, 2014, Painting, 21 × 23 in. (53.34 × 58.42 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2014: Foundation for a Civil Society
Staš Kleindienst
Staš Kleindienst’s work addresses issues of origin, representation, and naturalization of authority. Within this context he is shaping a social fiction, drawn through dystopian image of a social reality that stems from the present-day ideological, economic, and political co-ordinates.
Staš Kleindienst (born 1979, Slovenia) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kleindienst has an MA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana. His exhibitions include U3-7th Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Ljubljana; Spaceship Yugoslavia- The Suspension of Time, nGbK, Berlin; Not So Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and Buy Your Own Art Experience, AC Institute, New York. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the national visual arts award for young visual artists.
Staš Kleindienst, Third decade, 2014, Alkyd on canvas, 47 × 52 in. (119.38 × 132.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Slovenia
Past Resident2014: SAHA Association
Emre Hüner
Working with drawing, video, sculpture and installations, Emre Hüner’s practice focuses on constructed narratives and eclectic assemblages which explore the subjects of utopia, archeology, ideas of progress and the future through re-imagination of the spatial and architectural entities, organic and artificial forms.
Emre Hüner (born in 1977, Istanbul, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Aeolian, Rodeo, Istanbul; MAM Project 019, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013; SALT 6, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2012; Adverse Stability, Extra City, Antwerp, 2010. His work has been included a groups exhibitions including Approximately Infnite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego and Signs Taken in Wonder, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, both in 2013; Manifesta 9, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Genk, 2012; Out of Here, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul both in 2011; The Future of Tradition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2010; Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York, 2009; and the10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2007. Hüner has participated in residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam as well as Apexart, New York and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. He holds a BFA from Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano.
Emre Hüner, Anthropophagy, 2013, Ceramic, metal and paint, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
