Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Arts Council Korea
Yongseok Oh
Yongseok Oh is a Korean-born artist who emphasizes the crossing of the past and the present, and of the real and the imagined, by creating a visual collage of stills, moving images and cinemas. He explores the structure of the cinema and daily life and collapses a certain cinematic narrative through collage techniques.
He has been recognized widely and his works have been shown at various international biennales including Seoul Media City Biennale, 2006; Shanghai Biennale, 2006; Seville Biennale, 2008; Biennale of Cuvee, Lintz, 2008 and Moscow Biennale, 2011. Selected group exhibitions include: Thermocline of Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2007; Metamorphosis, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2008; CINEMA SIM, Itau Culture, San Paulo, 2008; Trance POP, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2008; The Imaginary Line, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, 2009; Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, 2009; Sporadic positioning, Arario gallery, Cheonan, 2012 and Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2012. Recently, he collaborated on a project with L`OCCITANE, Paris.
Yongseok Oh, Drama No. 6, 2011, Two channel video. Courtesy of the artist.
Yongseok Oh, Classic No. 1978, 2009, Single channel video. Courtesy of the artist.
Yongseok Oh, In Absentia, 2013, Mixed media, real-time closed-circuit video, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Yongseok Oh, Memory of the Future, 2009, Single channel video. Courtesy of the artist.
Yongseok Oh, Siamese montage-lover letter, 2008, Two channel video, Siamese scope, player, 1:54 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Veli & Amos
Veli & Amos is a Slovenian-Swiss artist duo, based between Ljubljana and Zürich. Their work uses language, codes and the energy of graffiti and activism to draw attention to problems and borders of our present-day reality. They research public space, squats and demonstrations, where they adapt their knowledge into a site-specific art practice. With public art, art on the Internet or art inside the gallery, they deal with how to transform site.
Veli Silver (born 1983, Banja Luka) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Porto. Amos Angeles (born 1986, Zurich) studied Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and finished his bachelor’s degree at the Zurich University of the Arts. Veli and Amos have been working as a duo since 2008. Their work has been shown at Museum of Contemporary, Ljubljana; Rotor Gallery, Graz; HVW8 Gallery, Los Angeles; P 74 Gallery, Ljubljana; Message salon, Zurich and W139, Amsterdam.
Veli & Amos, F is forever, 2013, Bands, string, paper, plastic, 471/4 × 313/16 in. (120.01 × 79.25 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Veli & Amos, Follow the Out Line, 2012, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Veli & Amos, Who the fuck is Luka Princic, 2013, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Veli & Amos, Youtube, Let's Save the Whales International, Jew Box and Sheep, 2011, Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Veli & Amos, Signed by Mana Ous Bah, 2012, Street signs, lights, print, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2013: Danish Arts Foundation
John Kørner
John Kørner works with ’problems’ as an omnipresent phenomenon in his work. His approach to this phenomenom is to comment on existing dilemmas with his soft, poetic paintings, which when viewed more closely, have a strong dramatic undertone. Kørner mainly works on canvas, but also with ceramics and other materials to form extensive installation works. His latest installation Caught, which is still on view at the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, is a comment on the way museums seem to capture and hold art and viewers as prisoners.
John Kørner lives and works in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. His work has recently been shown in Denmark, England, Germany, the USA and France among others. His paintings are part of collections worldwide including: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum; the Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj; Frederik VII’s Palace, Amalienborg, Copenhagen; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; Tate Gallery, London; The Saatchi Collection, London; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami and the Wilfreid Cooreman Collection.
John Kørner, Christian, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 1023/8 × 13713/16 in. (260.1 × 350.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg.
John Kørner, Fallen Fruit, 2013, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Victoria Miro. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg.
John Kørner, 12 O'Clock at the Beach, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 707/8 × 941/2 in. (180.09 × 240.03 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg.
John Kørner, Untitled, 2011, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of Anders Sune Berg.
John Kørner, Prison, 2013, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Hearning Museum of Contemporary Art.
