Past Residents
Past Resident2011: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Eline Mugaas
Eline Mugaas’s work brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private and subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. She has been investigating the distance between the intention of architecture and the reality of living within. This has been an ongoing investigation, a series of findings and experiences. Her latest work consists of interior motifs from the artist’s own home, which has proven to be a good point of departure for investigating the possible coexistence of formal composition and accidental information. Mugaas says about her latest photographs: ‘I wanted to investigate the formal aspects of my work and at the same time not lose the feature I love the most about photography, its place as a (incidental) sloppy document. All the information that sneaks in, that later oozes out and can’t be stopped and that gives you a voyeur’s pleasure by sharing its details. The little things that intrigue and bother the eye.’
Eline Mugaas (born 1969) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from The Cooper Union, New York, New York. In recent years her exhibition activity includes the solo show Some Cities at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. Her first film work Skin Flick was exhibited in Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway. In 2009, Mugaas started the zine Album with Elise Storsveen, wich was launched at the Oslo venue Project 0047. Its three issues to date were also presented at Printed Matter in New York. The same year she curated the exhibition The Camera Show at the Photographers Gallery in Oslo.
Eline Mugaas, Half In Shadow, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, A Flat Depiction Of Life, 2007, C-print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Mountain Reflected, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, Skin Flick, 2008, HD video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Riis, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Trapezoid, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm).
Past Resident2010: Museum Ludwig, ACAX - Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
Szabolcs KissPál
‘What is reality? What can it be, and to what extent can we trust sensations influenced and steered by multimedia? In search of answers, KissPál playfully arranges experimental models which are impressive in their perfection and both cool and poetic. They combine attractively low and high technology with objects or actions, which are cautiously and subtly emotional and at first look like technical games. KissPál often refers through his works to technology or the history of culture.’ (Petra Stegmann)
Szabolcs KissPál works in various media from photography to video, from installation to objects and conceptual interventions. However, the medium he utilizes the most is the video. His main field of interest is the intersection of visual arts and new media, developing a critical approach towards both fields and combined to an interest in their social aspect.
Szabolcs KissPál was born 1967 in Romania. After graduating with an MA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Cluj, Romania, KissPál moved to Hungary where he obtained a DLA (PhD) in 2007 from the University of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he currently teaches (Intermedia Department). His work has been widely exhibited including at the following: Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary; apexart, New York; Venice Biennial, Italy; Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam; International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea. His installations and videos can be found in the collections of the Ludwig Contemporary Museum Budapest, Hungary; the National Musem for Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania and the Kaddist Art Foundation Paris, France.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: F4 (New Zealand) and Szabolcs KissPál (Hungary)
October 19, 2010
Szabolcs KissPál, The Other Crowd, 2009, Police cordon and mirror, 106 × 59 × 80 in. (269.24 × 149.86 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
2010, Short Stories, Lambda print, 28 × 40 in. (71.12 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Szabolcs KissPál, Utopia Battery, 2008, Monitors, object, engine, and sensor, 120 × 120 × 40 in. (304.8 × 304.8 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Szabolcs KissPál, Shards of Glass, 2003, Video, 4:30 min. Courtesy of the artists.
Szabolcs KissPál, Edging, 2003, Video, 3:00 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Elisabeth Byre
After working as the curator of the independent gallery space Projekt 0047 in Berlin, Germany in 2005‐06, Elisabeth Byre independently curated several exhibitions and events at museums, kunsthalles, independent spaces and biennials in Norway, Sweden and Turkey. During the last three years, her curatorial practice focused on performance art, often in relation with media- based art such as film, video and photography. Recent projects and exhibitions include Everyone Got Something Great (co-curator Susanne Ø. Sæther) at the National Theater, Oslo, Norway; Lessons in the Art of Falling Photographs of Norwegian Performance and Process Art 1966-2009 (co‐ curator Jonas Ekeberg), at Preus National Museum of Photography, Norway; Storyteller– Organizing Time and Space, 0047 Oslo, Norway; Ghost in the Machine (co-curator with Susanne Ø. Sæther) at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; and Animotion, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway. With Curatorlab (Konstfack, Stockholm). She was invited by Raqs Media Collective to participate in Manifesta 7 to create a response to Raqs’ exhibition The Rest of Now.
Byre holds a curatorial degree from CuratorLab (a postgraduate residency program organized by Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden), and an MA in Film Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Byre is currently the director of the BFA program at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway and works as a curatorial consultant for KORO/ Public Art Norway.
Elisabeth Byre, Everyone Got Something Great, 2010. Courtesy of the curator and National Theater, Oslo, Norway.