Past Residents
Past Resident2010: KUD Mreza Association for Arts and Culture, Alkatraz Gallery
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak
‘The work of Nika Oblak and Primož Novak draws parallels between a society driven by personal needs and capital and their own role as artists in the contemporary art market. Infused with humor, their work adopts the visual tactics and seductive constructions commonly employed in the mass media to lure the consumer.’ (Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Move – new European media art, 2009) Oblak & Novak have exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE; Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Japan Media Arts Festival; Transmediale Berlin, Germany; and most recently in Biennale Cuvee, Linz, Austria.
Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Slovenia
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Sungyeon Park
Sungyeon Park graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK with a MA in Fine Art in 2007 and a MFA at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001. Park’s subjects come from small voices within ordinary lives and are concerned with social issues related to visual language and individual experience. Park has received several grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2006. She had a solo show in 2009 titled still lives; small voices by Arts Council Korea and GyeongGi Cultural Foundation. Park participated in the Art Omi International Artist Residency in New York.
Sungyeon Park, Whispering Wall, 2009, Sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Sungyeon Park, On Her Own Birthday, 22 October 1941, 2008, Video, 3:48 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Sungyeon Park, Her Grey Hair, 2007, Handmade wooden brush and video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Sungyeon Park, still lives; small voices, 2010, Video installation, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist an Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Sungyeon Park, The Girl I left Behind Me, 2009, Bricks and sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Nicolás Grum
Nicolás Grum focuses his investigation on power relationships and its most diverse manifestations in different contexts. In the last years, he has been working specifically on museums from the western world, and collections acquired through colonial networks, providing a critique over museums representation and museological practice. He understands his work as a process that articulates through manipulation or re-interpretation of historical facts, in order to create an alternative narrative of what is imposed as “the official truth”.
Nicolás Grum has exhibited work at Beijing 798 Biennale; transmediale, Berlin; and Instituto Itaú Cultura, Sau Paulo, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Nicolas Grum (Chile) and Jiandyin (Thailand)
September 7, 2010
Nicolás Grum, Leading with the exotic, 2019, collage, 6 × 8 in. (15.24 × 20.32 cm).
Nicolás Grum, Puerta del Sol (from the serie La Ruina de la Ruina), 2015, mix media sculpture, 1711/16 × 105/8 × 1113/16 in. (44.96 × 26.92 × 29.97 cm).
Nicolás Grum, Ollantaitambo (from the serie La Ruina de la Ruina), 2015, mix media sculpture, 2811/16 × 85/8 × 135/16 in. (72.9 × 21.84 × 33.78 cm).
Nicolás Grum, Investigation Room (From the serie A personal voyage through the British Museum), 2020, ink on paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Nicolás Grum, Label (From the serie A personal voyage through the British Museum), 2020, ink on paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
