RESIDENCY ARTISTS, 2014

Photography Residency

Livia Corona Benjamin  

The work of Livia Corona Benjamin explores the social and political implications of geography and architecture. Her photographs and texts comment on how these affect and modify human relations. After earning a B.F.A. from the Art Center in Pasadena, California, she was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, received an SNCA Endowment for the Arts (granted by Mexico’s Commission of Arts and Culture), and was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2013. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, at venues including the Pinakothek der Moderne in Münich; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo and Museo de Arte Moderno, both in Mexico City.

For more on her work, go to http://www.liviacorona.com

David Bergé

David Bergé lives in Athens and Brussels and practices photography through the lens of the body. In his work, he addresses performative and embodied aspects of photographic materiality and time. He uses the body as a device to capture images; through the construction of an experience, often performative and over time.

Audience gets invited through different projects into a journey of lecture performances, installations and book projects, though what he is most known for are his “silent Walk Pieces” in which viewers are guided in silence through the fabric and infrastructures of cities.

While in residency at Cape Cod Modern House trust, Bergé reunited Tom Weidlinger and Paul Chermayeff, the sons of 2 prominent Bauhaus figures for a critical re-enactment of a cocktail party, of which many took place on Cape Cod. The protagonists of the re-enactment had not met since their childhood and signed a certificate after The Cocktail Piece took place. The certificate of this cocktail party was later exhibited.

For more on his work, go to:  http://www.davidberge.be

Heidrun Holzfeind 

Heidrun Holzfeind is interested in architecture as a social space. She questions immanent architectural and social utopias of modernist residential buildings, exploring the borders between history and identity, individual histories and political narratives of the present. Her work has been shown at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Steirischer Herbst; Centre d’Art, Barcelona; OFF-Biennale Budapest; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Yverdon;  MdM Salzburg; the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; BAWAG Contemporary Vienna; Mumok, Vienna; OK Centrum, Linz; MoMA, New York; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile; Camera Austria, Graz; CCS Bard; Lentos Museum, Linz; Manifesta 7, Rovereto; De Vleeshal, Middleburg; SAPS, Mexico City; Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Artists Space, New York; MUCA, UNAM, Mexico City; and many other venues. She was the recipient of the Camera Austria Prize for Contemporary Photography (2011), the Gerhard and Birgit Gmoser Prize for Contemporary Art, Secession Vienna (2011), and the Outstanding Artist Award for Photography from the Austrian Arts Council (2012).  www.mexico68.net   www.exposed.at

For more on her work, go to: www.heidrunholzfeind.com

Mathias Kessler

Mathias Kessler’s explorations bear witness to sites of overproduction reaching terminal states. Born in Austria in 1968, he received his M.F.A. in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has shown his work internationally, in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rosphoto (National Museum for Photography), Russia (2011); GL Holtegaard Museum, Copenhagen (2011); and Kunstraum Dornbrin, Austria (2009), among other institutions. Selected group exhibitions have included “[UN]NATURAL LIMITS,” Austrian Cultural Institute of New York (2013); “Hohe Dosis,” Fotohof, Salzburg (2013); “The Nature of Disappearance,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2012); “Hoehenrausch,” OK Centrum, Linz; “GO NYC,” Kunsthalle Krems (2008); and “The Invention of Landscape,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2006).

For more on his work, go to:  http://www.galerieheikestrelow.de/?q=node/50