Past Residents
Past Resident2014: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Randi Grov Berger
Randi Grov Berger is founding director and curator at Entrée, a non-profit exhibition space in Bergen, Norway. Since 2009 she has worked with numerous international artists in developing solo and group exhibitions, presenting projects in public space and collaborating with other arts institutions and curators. Grov Berger coordinated the Norwegian Pavilion ‘Without Walls’ for Performa 13 where she served as a curatorial fellow in 2013. She presented her project Flag New York City, an ongoing public art project involving sixty (and counting) international artists who each created flags for public flagpoles. In addition, she has presented Object To Be Destroyed, a performance with artist Pedro Gómez-Egaña at the Abrons Art Center. This fall at ISCP she brings Entrée (New York), a satellite with highlights from her programming for next year.
Randi Grov Berger (born 1982, Stord, Norway) is curator and founding director of Entrée. She currently also works for Printed Matter Inc. on the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Her education includes Curatorial Studies from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and Art in Public Realm from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Randi Grov Berger, Marit Følstad/Sense of Doubt, 2014, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2014: Rolf Sachs, Katrin Schütz, Eva Felten2010: Rolf Sachs, Katrin Schütz, Eva Felten2000: Rolf Sachs, Katrin Schütz, Eva Felten
Susanne Thiemann
Susanne Thiemann “cocoons” are alive. The artist and basket weaver from Munich turns frayed material into images; she interweaves chairs like intimate beings and weaves rubbery pillows that are so crumpled that they appear to be amorphous beings. Textile techniques have long since achieved independence in art as subtle yet strong forms of expression that play ironically and critically with feminine connotations. In her work, Susanne Thiemann brings the perfection of traditional crafts to the radical freedom of purpose of art. The sculptures of Susanne Thiemann are composed of thin monochrome plastic hoses, colored electric wires and thick strips of shredded car tires. She selects pieces of lost property and remaining stocks of mass-produced, hardly decomposing products; the materials that trigger many connotations because they belong to our everyday life and use.
Susanne Thiemann, born 1955, passed the Master Craftsman Examination of Basketry in 1986. While attending the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, Austria she studied contemporary sculpture with New York-based artists Nancy Davidson and Frida Baranek. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Susanne Thiemann, Rome, Rosenheim, New York, 2013, Interlaced plastic tubes.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2014: Davidoff Art Initiative
Polibio Díaz
Polibio Díaz‘s work is about the migratory flux, especially to and from the Dominican Republic. Using photography, performance and video art Díaz tackles race discrimination, ecological awareness and social inequity in his home county and elsewhere. Díaz focuses on the multiplicity of Dominican identities. “My work is dedicated to my fellow Dominicans. We need to accept the fact that we are a complex mixture of various civilizations, with different skin tones, evident in our colors and in our ever changing culture, without neglecting our sensuality and humor.”
Polibio Díaz is from the Dominican Republic where he currently lives. He studied photography at Texas A&M University where he earned a degree in civil engineering. Díaz has participated in the Havana, Venice and Caribbean Biennales; Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum; First Cultural Festival Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP), Santo Domingo Museum of Modern Art; and Kréyol Factory, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris. Díaz has received numerous awards including Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba and Caribbean Biennales. He has collaborated with World Policy Journal, MIT Press and his photographs are in UNESCO’s permanent collection.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Polibio Díaz and Dominique Hurth
October 21, 2014
Polibio Díaz, The Jungle, 2014, Digital print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Dominican Republic
Joiri Minaya
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Jerome Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2021
