The Residence IN PRATICA is the winning project of the call for proposals “Per Chi Crea”, supported by Mibac and SIAE, realized in collaboration with AIR – artinresidence and in partnership with da FARE and Viaindustriae. From October to November 2019, 6 Italian artists under 35, selected by an international jury, realize a residency program that take them to Foligno and Bergamo.

The artists have been selected among the candidates from the residencies of the AIR-artinresidence network called to collaborate in the project, each one proposing up to a maximum of two Italian artists under 35.

The winners are:

Giovanni Chiamenti candidate from VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Matteo Coluccia candidate from GuilmiArtProject, Edoardo Ciaralli candidate from GuilmiArtProject, Mattia Ferretti candidate from Diogene-Bivaccourbano, Ludovico Orombelli candidate from R.A.M.O. Ritratto a Mano and Roberto Memoli candidate from RAMDOM.

The jury that selected the winning artists is composed of Stefano Raimondi, Carlo Sala and Eugenio Viola.

The Blank is happy to announce the Open Studio of Simona Andrioletti and Filippo Marzocchi, winners of the HIGHLIGHTS residency program 2^nd edition.

On 15^th February at 6pm, on the occasion of the award ceremony and the final Open Studio, the artists will present their artistic project, realized during their stay on the territory, at Spazio QUARENGHICINQUANTA.

Simona Andrioletti will present the project Google IT!, realized in collaboration with Giacomo and Pio Manzù high school students. This work is born by some reflections about Moravia’s oration at Pasolini’s funeral, by a YouTube video and by an Umberto Eco’s letter to his adolescent nephew, where he explains the importance of keeping the memory exercised and of knowledge. The artist invited the students to ask questions about topics that, in their opinion, is important to know. Questions linked to studied subjects, which are fundamental and should be passed on.

Filippo Marzocchi, during the residency stay, focused on his pictorial production, specifically in the “Icon” series, where he analyzes the relation between painting and technological devices through the iconic structure of the picture, highlighting the relationship between man and these objects. There are some fundamental features in this production: the construction of rounded-angle frames, a defined use of a precise color palette and research for signs and road signs as pictorial support.

HIGHLIGHTS residency program is realized in partnership with FARE, with the support of MIBAC and SIAE, in the initiative “Sillumina – Copia private per I giovani, per la cultura”, aimed at under35 Italian artists. Projects were selected by the international jury composed by Domenico De Chirico (independent curator and artistic director at DAMA), Stefano Raimondi (curator and critic) and Driant Zeneli (artist and artistic director at Mediterranea18).

Simona Andrioletti, born in Bergamo in 1990, lives and works in Munich. She graduated at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, studying with Gianni Caravaggio. She studied visual arts at Academie der Bildende Kunst in Munich with professors Gregor Schneider, Simon Starling and Olaf Nicolai. Simona has been selected among the finalists of the Talent Prize for two years and has participated in the related exhibitions at MACRO in Rome, in October 2016 and December 2017. She presented her work at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, at Nir Altman Galerie, Stiftung Federkiel and at Kunstverein München in Munich, at Réfectoire des nonnes and at Palais Bondy in Lyon, at Waterworks Falkenstein in Hamburg. Her first solo show “And there was evening and there was morning” was hosted in 2016 at Twenty14 Gallery in Milan. She is among the founders of Residenza d’artista Carloforte, an artistic residency on San Pietro isle in Sardegna.

Filippo Marzocchi was born in 1989 in Forlì. His practice is based on images and sounds, developd and deepened through painting, performance and site-specific projects. His work investigates human perception, developing research about reality’s structure and about how people perceive time and space as a continuous movement. His work has been shown in institutions, galleries and independent spaces such as: Zabludowicz Collection, London; PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin; Istituto italiano di cultura a Parigi, Paris; UCA, Canterbury; Piramidon Centre d’Arte Contemporani, Barcelona; MAMbo, Bologna; LOCALEDUE, Bologna; CAR DRDE, Bologna; Sale Docks, Venice; Gaffdabasso, Milan; Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca. He participated in residencies such as: Cripta747, Turin; Progetto Borca, Dolomiti Contemporanee; ManufattoinSitu, Viaindustriae; Esecuzione di Santa Caterina, Viaindustriae. In 2016 he co-founded with Mattia Pajè the space Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio in Bologna. He has been represented by Galeria Fran Reus since 2016.

Special thanks to:
Prof. Enrico De Pascale
Spazio Quarenghi50
F.lli Allieri

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The Blank Residency presents Miguel Guzmán Pastor: The METARESIDENCY Project 

Curated by Cristina Rota, Paola Tognon

2 – 11 settembre 2013

The Blank Residency, Via Quarenghi 50, Bergamo, Italia

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Project Proposal Residency is an artist residency project.

The purpose of the project is to give hospitality to Italian and international artists for a short/medium period and offer them accommodation and relations aimed to develop artistic researches both practical and theoretical. The residency is conceived as a meeting and work place where share ideas and experiences. The artists in residence will be asked to work on a project proposal which will be produced during their staying and to share it with The Blank. The project proposal will be presented at the conclusion of the residency during the Open Studio day.

The Blank Residency hosts Arianna Ferrari and Alexandros Pissourios.

The Blank is glad to present “ATTRAVERSAMENTI”, the residency project in the context of «Viavai+», an initiative promoted by Ticino and Vallese cantons and by Regione Lombardia in collaboration with Fondazione svizzera per la cultura Pro Helvetia.

The residency programme promotes the mobility of Ticinese, Valais and Lombard artists working in the field of visual arts. 

The artists who will take part to the project at The Blank Residency are:

From 1 march to 30 april Maëlle Cornut (1986) – Canton Vallese

From 15 may to 15 july Marta Margnetti (1989) – Canton Ticino

Italian artists invited by The Blank to take part in the VIAVAI + residency project are: 

Diego Marcon at Malévoz Quartier Culturel de Monthe, Canton du Valais

Tea Androletti  at Sasso Residency, Vairano S. Nazzaro, Canton Ticino

http://www.viavai-cultura.net/progetto/27/Scambio-di-residenze

Valentina Furian and Letizia Scarpello are the winners of the first part of HIGHLIGHTS.

The projects were selected by the international jury composed of:
Domenico De Chirico (independent curator), Stefano Raimondi (curator, The Blank President) and Driant Zeneli (artist and artistic director of Mediterranea18).

Valentina Furian (Venice, 1989, lives and works between Venice and Rome). Her research develops starting from processes of re-elaboration of reality through the insertion of forms deviated from the custom. She is interested in the reappropriation, through the human taming of nature. The artist’s interest also aims at creating new places, modeling the space on a sculptural level and creating new enviroments.

Letizia Scarpello (Pescara, 1989, lives and works in Milan). She studied Costume and Scenography at the Brera Academy of Milan after a three-year degree in Fashion Design at the Istituto Marangoni in London. Analyzing the textile world in relation to human attitudes and social environments, she gradually focused her attention on the idea of ​​relationship, also inspired by dancing, which she practiced for more than ten years, the theater and the performing arts.

The artists will have the opportunity to develop the projects related to their artistic practice and to meet the public through open studios and informal conferences in which they will present their work and their activities.

Artist residency proposed by The Blank Contemporary Art arrived at its fifth edition. The winners are Irene Fenara (Bologna, 1990) and Yasen Vasilev (Sofia, 1988), chosen among over 150 candidates.

Project Proposal Residency is thought as a moment of meeting and work, an opportunity to share ideas and experiences. During their stay, the artists will have the chance to interact with The Blank and to get in touch with the cultural realities of Bergamo that operate in the contemporary art field. The Open Studio, organized at the conclusion of the residency, will be the occasion to present the projects and the outcome of the research.

The fifth edition of the Project Proposal Residency will take place from October 16 to November 18.

Among the exhibitions IRENE FENARA (1990, Bologna, where she lives and works) took part in 2016: Give me yesterday curated by Francesco Zanot, Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milano; La disfatta dell’immagine curated by Carlo Sala, Cà dei Ricchi, Treviso; personal exhibition Se il cielo fugge curated by Amerigo Mariotti and Daniela Tozzi, Adiacenze, Bologna. In 2017: personal exhibition Le interne differenze, P420, Bologna; Family Matters project of Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna; Essere politico, curated by Filippo Maggia and Chiara Dall’Olio, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena.
Interested in different expressive media, with a special attention to video and photography, Irene Fenara creates installations focused on the concepts of time and memory, working with images that reverse points of view and generate situations of spatial disorientation. Orientation in the physical space, closeness and distance relations and the subsequent need for movement are starting points of her research, which often produces vertical perspectives and raises the mind gaze. The use of different optical and electronic devices – often improperly used, profaning their basic function – becomes an instrument of observation of the world, researching a little poetical meaning.

YASEN VASILEV (1988, Sofia, Bulgaria) is a performance-maker, educated at the theatre academies in Sofia and Shanghai. Author of two poetry collections and four plays: The Walled In Ones (2012-2013, Nikolay Binev Theatre, Sofia), Borgestriptych (2014, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai), Elevation 506 (2015-2016, workshoped in Vienna, Sofia and NYC) and Ishmael (2016, Nau Ivanow, Barcelona). Author of Nutricula, an ongoing project presented in Asia and Europe where performers from different backgrounds re-interpret the same concept as a physical solo. His latest text for theatre premieres October 2017 in Viterbo, Italy, a commission by the festival Quartieri dell’arte.
The project on which his research will be developed is NUTRICULA is a solo physical piece that examines the body as a battlefield of enslaving and liberating forces. It puts the performer into intensive physical struggle with herself to test and re-imagine the limits of the body. NUTRICULA is a piece that aims to create raw, powerful physical language and influence audiences directly with a bare minimum of elements: no costumes, sets, music or lights. NUTRICULA’s strategy is to liberate the body and the physical actions it produces from the meaning that’s imposed on them (gender, class, race). NUTRICULA was inspired by the immortal jellyfish turritopsis nutricula – the only organism known to man that never dies. NUTRICULA was developed in China, Portugal and Lithuania so far, each time with a different collaborator and was supported by Shanghai Theatre Academy, Minsheng Art Museum, Arts Printing House and Atalaia Artes Performativas.

With the contribution of Regione Lombardia.

APPARATUS 22 and DARIO BITTO are the artists of the IV edition of Project Proposal Residency

BIO

APPARATUS 22 is a multidisciplinary art collective initiated in January 2011 in Bucharest, Romania by current members Erika Olea (b. 1982, Bucharest), Maria Farcas (b. 1977, TarguMures), Dragos Olea (b. 1979, Bucharest) and late artist Ioana Nemes (1979, Bucharest – 2011, NY).
The configuration of the collective now working both in Bucharest and Brussels started to take shape during a IASPIS residency in Stockholm, fall 2010.

The collective participated in exhibitions and festivals at MUMOK, Viena (AT), Museion, Bolzano (IT), Brukenthal Museum Contemporary Art Gallery, Sibiu (RO), MAK, Viena (AT), SteirischerHerbst, Graz (AT), Drodesera Festival, Dro (IT), Young Artists Biennial, Bucharest (RO), AkademieSchloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Gyeonggi Creation Center (KR), Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest (RO), TIME MACHINE BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK UNDERGROUND, Konji (BIH), TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU), Future Gallery, Prague (CZ), Oberwelt, Stuttgart (DE), Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), WürttembergischerKunstverein Stuttgart (DE), Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), GaleriaNicodim, Bucharest (RO), Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (NL), KunstMuseum Linz (AT), Osage Foundation (Hong Kong), etc. The work of the collective was exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia 2013, Romanian Official Representation. Apparatus 22 is the winner of the “BIVACCOURBANO_R RESIDENCY 2015” grant for artistic research and residency offered by ProgettoDiogene in Turin.

DARIO BITTO was born in Messina in 1989. He works currently between Milan and Pordenone. He is the promoter of project Agreements To Zinedine developed to Galleries and Artists to Milan.

Education
2009 / 2012 Academy Fine Arts, Palermo
2013 / 2016 Academy Fine Arts of Brera, Milan
2016 Contemporany Art Markets at NABA, Milan

Selected Exhibition
2015 _ Academy Awards 2015, powered by Viafarini, Milan
2015_ Sometimes She Prays, during Festival Studi, powered by La Cattedrale Studio,
Milan
2014 _ ILOVEDAIELBUREN, curated by Tile Project Space, Milan
2014_ Open Studios, The Spring Awakening during Miart Fair, Academy Fine Arts of
Brera, Milan
2014 _ Open Studio: Il sogno di mia zia (e non perché io non ne abbia), Milan
2013 _ Percorsi e Intenti: Marra, Monforte San Giorgio/Messina
2012 _ The Next Stop, Academy Fine Arts, Palerm

The purpose of the project is to give hospitality to artists and curators for a short/medium period and to offer them accommodation and relations aimed to develop artistic researches both practical and theoretical. The residency is conceived as a meeting and work place where share ideas and experience.

The participants will be asked to work on a project proposal produced during the period of residency. The project proposal will be presented at the conclusion of their staying during the Open Studio day.
At the beginning of the residency residents will introduce themselves with an informal presentation of their previous activities and works.

Moreover, participants are invited to spend some days at the mountain shelter Marco Balicco (Azzaredo Alps) and reflect on the concepts of “Movement” and “Trench”.
2 artists/curators, who will share accommodation, studio, kitchen and bathroom, will be selected.

Eligibility: the program is open to artists or curators at any stage of their career, specialized in visual arts, photography, film & video, media arts.

Location: The Blank Residency. Via Quarenghi 50, Bergamo, Italia. Rifugio Marco Balicco, Alpe Azzaredo, Monte Azzaredo

Language: Italian/English/French/Spanish

Disciplines: Visual Arts, Photography, Video, Installation.

Paid by Host: 400 € each, accommodation, studio space and internet wifi.

Paid by Artist/Curator: travel, working materials, food and personal expenses during the residency.

Duration: from 18th October to 20th November 2016

Deadline for applications: 30th July 2016

The selections will be announced by 26th August 2016 through a dedicated newsletter.

Project Proposal Residency is an artist residency project.

The purpose of the project is to give hospitality to Italian and international artists for a short/medium period and offer them accommodation and relations aimed to develop artistic researches both practical and theoretical. The residency is conceived as a meeting and work place where share ideas and experiences. The artists in residence will be asked to work on a project proposal which will be produced during their staying and to share it with The Blank. The project proposal will be presented at the conclusion of the residency during the Open Studio day.

Artists BIOS
Elida Brenna Linge (1982) is a Norwegian artist whose body of work spans installations, objects, drawings, artist books, photography and video. The last few years her practice has been rooted in her present location – the family farm in a fjord in western Norway. Her work is an ongoing investigation of structures, both physical and semantical, and aspects of control, intention and the lack thereof.
She received her MFA from The Bergen National Academy of the Arts (2010), in 2015 she finished a two year long cooperation with Andreas Siqueland, a residential art project located on the farm, with the exhibition Winterstudio/Hansplassen at KUBE, Ålesund. Other recent exhibitions include A Gust of Wind at DNA Art Space, London Ontario (CA) and SALE as a part of the Manifesta 10 parallel programme in St.Petersburg (RU). Her work is currently being screened by the Walter Phillips Gallery as a part of the Video Art @ The Banff Centre series.

Roberto Fassone (1986) makes works that explore and question the processes and the strategies regulating the production of contemporary artworks.
In 2012 he created sibi, an instructions generator for the production of potential artworks.
In 2014 he presented Jeg Er Enorme Jævler, a 90 minute movie in two parts and a performance.
He has exhibited and performed at Carroll/Fletcher, London, ZHdK, Zurich, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, MAMbo, Bologna among many others. He was part of the Jury Selection of the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival and he has been recently selected for the Live Work Performance Act Award in Fies (Dro, TN).

Melancholia, Christian Fogarolli, 2012

Howard sisters, Christian Fogarolli, 2013

Jan Kaesbach

Jan Kaesbach

THE BLANK RESIDENCY | II EDITION PROJECT PROPOSAL RESIDENCY

Project Proposal Residency is an artist residency project.

The purpose of the project is to give hospitality to Italian and international artists for a short/medium period and offer them accommodation and relations aimed to develop artistic researches both practical and theoretical. The residency is conceived as a meeting and work place where share ideas and experiences. The artists in residence will be asked to work on a project proposal which will be produced during their staying and to share it with The Blank. The project proposal will be presented at the conclusion of the residency during the Open Studio day.

From 8 april to 18 may The Blank Residency hosts Christian Fogarolli (Trento, 1983) and Jan Keasbach. 

CHRISTIAN FOGAROLLI / STATEMENT AND BIOGRAPHY

The path and the work of Christian Fogarolli are characterized by a strong interest in the individual and collective identity systems, investigated through different perspectives and through frequent archival research. The artworks can be contextualized within a study on image and object perception in relation to subjectivity, probing ties with the abnormality and deviance. They pose questions about the abundance of images that we have and the use we offer them. The path and the work of Christian Fogarolli are characterized by a strong interest in the individual and collective identity systems, investigated through different perspectives and through frequent archival research. The artworks can be contextualized within a study on image and object perception in relation to subjectivity, probing ties with the abnormality and deviance. They pose questions about the abundance of images that we have and the use we offer them.
Christian Fogarolli was born in Trento in 1983. He obtained in 2010 the Master Inside the image: study, diagnosis and restoration of antique, modern and contemporary paintings at the University of Verona and graduated the following year in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. He has exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Christian Fogarolli was born in Trento in 1983. He obtained in 2010 the Master Inside the image: study, diagnosis and restoration of antique, modern and contemporary paintings at the University of Verona and graduated the following year in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. He has exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
In 2012 he was selected for dOCUMENTA (13) for the research project Lost identities, exhibited in The Worldly House; in 2013 he exhibited in La Magnifica Ossessione at the Mart in Rovereto. His works are in private and public collections including the Maison Rouge Antoine de Galbert in Paris, the AGI Collection and the Benetton Foundation.

JAN KAESBACH / STATEMENT AND BIOGRAPHY

Jan Kaesbach lives and works in Frankfurt. Recently he has finished his studies in Fine Art at the Ruskin, University of Oxford with distinction, being top of his year. As a student he showed his work at the University Club, Oxford; The Other Art Fair, London; MOLT Gallery, St Anne’s College among other places. He was an Assistant to the artists/photographers Justin Coombes and Tom Hunter. Completing his studies he was awarded the Kevin Slingsby price and selected for the Plaform Graduate Scheme. In July 2013 he participated in the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. In Dec 2013 he was shortlisted for an artist scholarship by the City of Frankfurt, decision pending.