Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Saša Tkačenko
Saša Tkačenko’s work examines his attitude toward the social phenomena that affect the environment in which he works and lives. Starting from the visual manifestations, symbols and representations of the occurrences that he aims to understand and analyze by deploying the method of reduction of formal language, he translates the given phenomena into reduced images, simultaneously playing with their content and given meanings. Through sculpture, installation and video he then develops reduced visual settings in a tense dialogue with the space and creates situations for the observer to experience the uncertainties of his persistent reexaminations of symptoms that strongly affect his everyday realities.
Saša Tkačenko (born 1979) is a visual artist based in Belgrade. He holds an M.A. in Sculpture from Belgrade University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts. Saša participated in many group, as well as solo shows internationally and locally including the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg; Garaj, Istanbul; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Castello di Rivoli; PerAspera Festival, Bologna; Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna and Lage Egal, Berlin. His works are in the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and Telenor Collection of Serbian Contemporary Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Henrjeta Mece and Saša Tkačenko
October 1, 2013
Saša Tkačenko, Is This Real Life, 2013, 138 × 98 × 59 in. (350.52 × 248.92 × 149.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Perfect Ride, 2012, Video, looped, 5:04 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Horizon, 2012, Installation, 157 × 157 in. (398.78 × 398.78 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Fence, 2012, Installation, 88 × 236 × 30 in. (223.52 × 599.44 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Saša Tkačenko, Handicraft, 2011, 2-channel video installation, looped, 2:30 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Serbia
Viktor Kopp
Viktor Kopp’s work is both dry and whimsical, playing on notions of illusion in painting with a deep focus on the formal logic of perspective and geometric abstraction. His work begs the question of what lies behind the illusionistic space of the painting, pointing to the inherent flatness of the work and the contrivance of depicting space within. In these paintings, Kopp breaks with both flatness and representation in a space of three-dimensional illusion, one without gravity, shadow or dimension. A flat tablet of grey abstraction turns and floats within a dense white blankness of a monochromatic yet intricately painted void. His work shows abstraction as his motif and subject, peeling away to reveal only more abstraction.
Viktor Kopp (b. 1971, Stockholm) completed studies in fine art in Malmö, Gothenberg and Helsinki. His selected solo exhibitions include Bureau New York, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva; Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö and Konsthallen Passagen, Linköping. His group exhibitions include: Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Edstranska, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö; The Art of Cooking, Royal/T, Culver City; Underemployed, Salon Zurcher, New York; Abstract and Traces, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva and Solid-State, Bureau, New York. Kopp teaches painting at the Malmö Art Academy and lives and works in Stockholm.
Viktor Kopp, Four Corners, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York.
Viktor Kopp, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö.
Viktor Kopp, Double Door Yellow, 2011, Oil on canvas, 69 × 65 in. (175.26 × 165.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Sweden
Sofie Thorsen
In her installations, films and works on paper, Sofie Thorsen deals with questions of space and architecture in urban space as well as the exhibition space itself. Where the starting point of her work is mostly research based or documentary, the images and materials that surface during research are reworked and developed into abstract objects and images that constitute the final work.
Sofie Thorsen (born 1971, Denmark) was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest the Royal Academy, Copenhagen, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria, where she teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions, the latest at Kunsthaus Graz and Kunsthaus Baselland in 2012 and at Bank Austria Kunstforum in 2013.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tobias Dostal and Sofie Thorsen
January 7, 2014
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2013, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2013, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Play Sculptures, 2012, Dimensions variable. Photo by UMJ/ Nikolaus Lackner.
Sofie Thorsen, Whose Sleeves?, 2016, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
Sofie Thorsen, Whose Sleeves?, 2016, Dimensions variable. Photo by Hannes Böck.
