Past Residents
Susan Gibb
Susan Gibb is a curator who is interested in the conditions that shape artistic production. She often works in long-term engagement with artists on the production of new work.
Susan Gibb (born 1983, Sydney, Australia) is an associate curator at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She previously ran the independent curatorial initiative Society and has held curatorial positions at the interdisciplinary art centers Carriageworks and Campbelltown Arts Centre, both in Sydney, Australia. Her recent projects include A Planet With Two Suns with Agatha Gothe-Snape at Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, Amsterdam, 2012 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2013;The River Project, 2010; and What I Think About When I Think About Dancing, 2009; both at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. She regularly writes for art periodicals including ArtAsiaPacific, Art Monthly Australia and Photofile.
Agatha Gothe-Snape with Susan Gibb, A Planet With Two Suns, 2012, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Kunstvlaai, Amersterdam.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2015: McKay Finnigan and Associates
Wanda Koop
Wanda Koop is a visual language researcher. The inspiration for Koop’s work comes from lived experience and a keen observation of the world. Koop’s focused process begins with the making of videos, photographs and numerous drawings on post-it notes. These components are merged into larger bodies of work that then transition into multidisciplinary installations. References to popular culture, the natural world, visual media, robotics and nanotechnology are present in Koop’s work. She is also continually paying homage to the visible spectrum, expanding her knowledge of color and how it relates to her visual vocabulary.
Wanda Koop lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Koop’s career has spanned three decades and includes numerous solo exhibitions, most notably a major survey of her work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, in 2010 and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous national and international honors, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal; the Japan Fund Award; and the Order of Canada. She is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg; the Emily Carr University of Art and Design; and the University of Manitoba. In 1998, Koop founded Art City as a storefront art center, bringing contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth together to explore the creative process.
Wanda Koop, View from Here, 2014, Installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2015: Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Pilvi Takala
Pilvi Takala’s primary artistic practice is practice in its most direct sense. Takala carries out interventions in everyday life, using her body as artistic material, placing it in humorous predicaments. Her own feelings evolving in the course of an intervention, often-nuanced shades of embarrassment, reveal the contours of society’s expectations. Her works clearly show that it is often possible to learn of the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Takala mixes in her work the reality of documented actions with staged portraiture. She quotes and stretches the limits of different genres including the one of being a performance artist, a director, and a documentary maker.
Pilvi Takala (born 1981 in Helsinki, Finland) lives and works in Helsinki and Istanbul. Takala received an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie. Her awards include Dutch Prix de Rome 2011; Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts; and Emdash Award 2013. Her solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon; and Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; and the 9th Istanbul Biennial.
Events & Exhibitions
Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art
June 4–September 6, 2019
Pilvi Takala, Drive With Care, 2013, Video, 13 min. Courtesy of the artist.
