Past Residents
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, 59 × 106 × 80 in. (149.86 × 269.24 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist
2010, Short Stories, Lambda print, 40 × 28 in. (101.6 × 71.12 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: Creative Australia
Rose Nolan
Rose Nolan lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice has been structured according to several self-devised categories. These include Banners, Constructed Work, Flat Work, Homework and Word Work. These categories are fluid and often accompanied by a shift in media and scale – from the discrete to the monumental. Construction is both process and metaphor in her art: letters are combined into words, and words into banners, objects or images. She invites us into a new space of play between seeing and reading, often merging vulnerability and bravado, self-doubt and affirmation.
Rose Nolan, Tunnel/Tent Work - Hard But Fair/Point Less, 2009, Acrylic paint, hessian, and cotton thread, 106 × 978 × 391/2 in. (269.24 × 2484.12 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Rose Nolan. Courtesy of the artist
Rose Nolan, R U OK, 2008, Acrylic paint and cardboard , 14 × 191/2 in. (35.56 × 49.53 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Rose Nolan, Tunnel/Tent Work - Hard ButT Fair/Point Less, 2009, Acrylic paint, hessian, and cotton thread, 106 × 978 × 39 in. (269.24 × 2484.12 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Rose Nolan. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Jiri Skala
Jiří Skála is known for his playful and witty conceptualist approach to various social contexts and situations. He often employs participants in gamelike interactions in his work, or institutes subtle interventions creating objects that have only been minimally altered but which are no less effective in altering our own perspectives of the given situation. His recent work has focussed on the written word and inter-personal communication, for example, in his ongoing project Handwriting Exchange Skala, and someone chosen from a completely different social and cultural background, become acquainted through a daily process of learning how to copy each other’s handwriting.
Jiří Skála, born 1976, lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, and at the post-graduate program at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. His work has been exhibited widely including the following: Tirana Biennale I, Albania; Palais de Tokyo, France; Prague Biennale, Czech Republic; and the UBS Gallery in New York. He is a co-founder of the Etc. Gallery in Prague, established in 2004, and a member of the PAS group, together with the artist Tomáš Vaněk and curator Vít Havranek. He is listed in the Younger than Jesus Artist Directory compiled by the New Museum in New York, and in November of 2009 was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young artists in the Czech Republic by Vaclav Havel.
in collaboration with Zbyněk Baladrán, It Always Makes Her Sick When She Thinks Of The Infinite, 2008, Reading machine performing severals sort stories, 68 diapositive slides,construction, 8 slide projectors, wood, and metal. Courtesy of the artist
Jiri Skala, Exchange of Handwriting, 2006, A play for 2 actors, 2 school chairs, 4 notebooks, and 2 pens. Courtesy of the artist
in collaboration with Zbyněk Baladrán, The Involuntary Archivist, 2009, Watching machine performing a sort story, digital video, construction, hard disk driver, speakers, HD media player, projector, wood, and metal. Courtesy of the artist
Jiri Skala, One Family of Objects, 2009, Book, A5 format. Courtesy of the artist and JPR Ringier and tranzit.org
Jiri Skala, To Be Titled, first and second version, 2006 - 2008, Audio installation, 2 CD player, 2 hi-fi receiver, iron construction. Courtesy of the artist
