Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Dr. Elisabeth Salch-Klauser & Dr. Frank Klauser
Birthe Blauth
Munich-based conceptual and video artist Birthe Blauth’s video works examine human individuality in the tension between cultural, biographical and neurological parameters. Her image sequences playfully combine fiction with reality and their subtle variations prompt the observer to question his or her own perceptions.
Blauth graduated in Chinese studies, Ethnology and European Art History from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, specialising in iconography, mythology and religious ethnology. Herart has won her the HausderKunst award in Munich as well as the support of the Prinzregent Luitpold Stiftung, the Region of Upper Bavaria and the City of Munich. In January 2011, the BundesGEDOK will award her the Dr. Theobald Simon Preis in Bonn, Germany, where she will also mount a solo exhibition at the Artists’ Forum.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Birthe Blauth and Alban Muja
January 4, 2011
Birthe Blauth: Adam & Eve, 2009, Photo print taken from 14 channel video installation performance with 14 actors, 39 × 79 in. (99.06 × 200.66 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Birthe Blauth, The Frog Queen: On Emotions, 2007, Video installation, Variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Birthe Blauth, The Hare and the Tortoise: The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side., 2010, Interactive video installation, 27 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Birthe Blauth, Sammy, The Ferryman: Trip Into The Realm Of The Dead, 2005, Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Birthe Blauth, The Sirens: Male And Female Ideals, 2010, Sound installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2010: CEC Artslink, Inc
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a curator and art critic from Sofia, Bulgaria. Her research focus and curatorial practice are centered on the relations between the aesthetics of form and current social and political issues within the new generation of Bulgarian artists. Recently, she carried out a series of projects that dealt with the cultural features of the local context, among them The Temptation of Chalga (2009), curated in collaboration with Vessela Nozharova, and The Bold and The Beautiful (2010). In 2009, she was invited as a guest curator at the 15th Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with Alter Ego, a project discussing the artists role in the global processes of political and supranational growing.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva (1977, Bulgaria) holds a Master Degree in Art History from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. In 2010, she enrolled in a PhD program at the Institute for Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2003, she has been the curator of the Cibank Gallery, where she has organized more than 80 exhibitions. Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva is a committed art critic and writes a column for Kultura, Bulgaria’s foremost culture and art weekly. She is also an independent consultant on contemporary art to several Bulgarian weekly and monthly pubications. In 2008, she co-founded the Art Affairs and Documents Foundation (A.A.D.F.), the sole association of young curators in Sofia.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Temptation of Chalga, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Sofia City Art Gallery. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova.
Daniela Kostova, Body Without Organs, 2006, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator. Photo courtesy of Vessela Nozharova.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, Alter Ego, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Center for Contemporary Art.
Nikoleta Marković, Alternative Economies, 2009. Courtesy of the curator.
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, The Bold And The Beautiful, 2010, Installation view. Courtesy of the curator and Raiko Aleksiey Gallery. Photo courtesy of Simeon Stoilov.
Residents from Bulgaria
Past Resident2011: Joan Mitchell Foundation
Peter Gregorio
Peter Gregorio works in large-scale painting, print, video, and installation, creating pieces and experiences that remix given architecture with new cultural landscapes and contemporary ideas in cosmology. In working to conceptualize information theory and connect forms of interdisciplinary knowledge through artistic practice, Gregorio uses conversations with writers, filmmakers, and professors as research for his most recent and ongoing body of work. ‘As we approach the merger of human cognition and technology, we near the epoch of a great paradigm shift.’ His work considers positing this merger in the context of visual art, from both personal and universal vantage points. Gregorio’s recent project SIN (Singularity Is Near) refers to the scientific concept of “The Singularity” — the point when technology and human intelligence merge — where technologically designed intelligence surpasses the biological. With painting, he collapses three-dimensional space into a flattened reticle of vaguely navigable territory, referencing computer manipulation and theories in cosmology to map the nuances of a dystopian landscape.
Peter Gregorio currently lives and works in New York, New York. He received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. His work has been the subject of several national and international exhibitions including The CUE Art Foundation, Participant Inc., Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Max Protetch, Goff + Rosenthal, and Repetti Gallery in New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Boots Contemporary Art Space, Saint Louis, MO; and Unimedia Modern, Genova, Italy. His videos have been screened as part of Archetime at the Elizabeth Foundation, New York; Hotch Potch, in Oslo, Norway and London, UK; and at the Northampton Film Festival, Northampton, MA. He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Paula Rhodes Award, and grants awarded through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Northampton Arts Council, and the University of Massachusetts Arts Council. Gregorio is also involved as an independent curator of interdisciplinary projects that have been exhibited throughout New England and New York, previously as Director of the La Lutta Project Space in Brooklyn, and most recently as the Founder and Editor of VECTOR Artist’s Journal.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Peter Gregorio and Anna K.E
March 8, 2011
Peter Gregorio, A Congruence Of Geodesics With Arrow Of Time, 2008, Oil, acrylic and reflective paint on canvas and floor, 96 x 96 and 120 x 84 in. Courtesy of artist.
Peter Gregorio, Human / Post Human, 2010, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48, 96 x 96, 96 x 48 in.
Peter Gregorio, SIN, 2009, Video, spray paint, green screen, and projection, 2:20 min. Courtesy of the artist.
