Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Yen-Hua Lee
Yen-hua Lee works with drawings and light, and her current project involves a collection of timeworn books published in various countries around the world. Lee seeks out the books on her own and accepts donated copies from friends. Anthropomorphizing the books, Lee considers their journey from publication to destination, and she views her time traveling with the books as a dialogue. She is currently developing an installation work and video, and she intends to use incense to make holes on the pages of books, which will then be projected with light. For Lee, creating holes is a process of making space.
Yen-Hua Lee (born Taiwan) graduated from the National Art University of Taiwan in 2002 and earned a MFA in 2007 from Northern Illinois University. Lee has received several art residency fellowships and her work has been shown in Argentina, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Gabriella Csoszó and Yen-Hua Lee
November 15, 2011
Yen-Hua Lee, Between pages, 2011, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Yen-Hua Lee, Clay drawing installation, 2009, Earthenware, ink, fish wire, screw, and pencil on wall , Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Yen-Hua Lee, Untitled, 2011, Rice paper and wire, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Yen-Hua Lee, Interface, 2011, Marker on plastic drawer liner, Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Yen-Hua Lee, Home Revisited, 2009, Ink on paper and pencil on wall, 54 × 180 in. (137.16 × 457.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Taiwan
Past Resident2011: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Yvonne Brückner
Yvonne Brückner works at the intersection of ceramic sculpture and puppetry. The question of how movement is expressed in a sculpture and the way the appearance of the object changes if it is actually put into motion is the central aspect of her work. Brückner employs the technique of stop motion video to combine the dynamic quality of a sculpture with actual time-based motion. A relatively new subject for her artistic explorations is therefore the way the perception of a three-dimensional object differs from looking at a flat film image.
Yvonne Brückner (born 1981, Starnberg, Germany) completed an apprenticeship at the Berufsfachschule für Keramik, Landshut, Germany (School for Ceramic Crafts), in 2003. She worked with Elizabeth Ross in Morelia, Mexico, on La Tierra Viva, and for the past seven years, Brückner has regularly participated in collaborative performing arts projects in Dresden, Halle and Berlin. During her studies in 2007, she took part in an exchange program at Ohio University, Athens. In 2010 Brückner earned a diploma in Fine Arts from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle.
Yvonne Brückner, Moving.Set-Up, 2010, Filmstill stop-motion video, DV-PAL 4:3, 11:39 min.
Yvonne Brückner, Waiting For…, 2009, Stoneware and porcelain, 133/8 × 15 × 113/4 in. (33.97 × 38.1 × 29.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Alexander Burzik.
Yvonne Brückner, The Silence Of The World, 2008, A Play Based on Images by René Magritte and Texts by Fernando Pessoa. Directed by Heiki Ikkola, Sabine Köhler and Yvonne Brückner. Societaetstheater Dresden, Germany. Courtesy of the artist.
Yvonne Brückner, There is still much to be done…!, 2010, Porcelain, stoneware, paper, fabric, wire, wood, and lead, 41/2 × 77/8 in. (11.43 × 20 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Yvonne Brückner, Art in public space, 2011, Porcelain, stoneware, paper, fabric, wire, wood, and lead , 193/4 × 181/8 × 153/8 in. (50.16 × 46.04 × 39.05 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2011: TMU - Trust For Mutual Understanding
Robert Salanda
Robert Salanda views the medium of painting as an open platform to be freely analysed, its structure examined in detail, and its boundaries crossed in diverse directions. The basic thesis of his expressive experimentation is based upon the consistent freeing of the image from layers of sedimentation and the weight of individual communication – at the same time in constant reference to the otherness and mutability of forms and perceptions. Emphasis is laid on the uniqueness of visual elements, creating an integrity or disintegrity of the pictorial surface, which then reciprocally revises conventional perception, calling into question the fixed schemata of human perception.
Robert Salanda (born 1976, Olomouc, Czech Republic) currently lives and works in Prague. He studied at Facultad de Bellas Artes Cuenca in 2000, and he graduated in 2002 from the Academy of Fine Arts Prague. His work has been exhibited at The Golden Ring House City Gallery, Prague; the Gallery GHMP Municipal Library, Prague; Bohemian National Hall, New York; MPI-CBG institute, Drezden; Gallery Haus am Waldse, Berlin; Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague; WhiteBOX Gallery, Munich; and the Prague Biennale 4. His work is part of the collection of contemporary art of Richard Adam, Wennieck Gallery, Czech Republic.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Paul Murnaghan and Robert Salanda
September 27, 2011
Robert Salanda, Pop-up II, 2011, Digital print and paper, 81/2 × 12 in. (21.59 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Robert Salanda, Pop-Up I, 2011, Digital print, paper, 81/4 × 12 in. (20.95 × 30.48 cm).
Robert Salanda, Red II, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 741/4 × 471/4 in. (188.59 × 120.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Robert Salanda, Red IV, 2011, Acrylic, canvas, 47 1/4 × 74 3/4 in. (47 1/4 × 74 3/4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Robert Salanda, Red III, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 743/4 × 471/4 in. (189.86 × 120.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
