Gastkünstler*innen AIR 2019

Seit 1995 Teilnahme an Gruppenausstellungen in Italien.

2018 Einzelausstellung „I was quiet but not blind“, a cura di Antonella Tricoli, Museum Palais Mamming, Meran, Italia

Prices and Awards
1995   Premio Zucchelli, Bologna
2018   Premio internationale dell'Università di Verona per l'Arte

Ana Kun is a visual artist with a BA in Graphics from the Faculty of Arts and Design and a MA in Creative Writing from the Faculty of Literature and Theology, both in her hometown Timisoara (RO).

„Since 2013, together with Livia Coloji and Razvan Cornici I founded Balamuc, a manifesto-free group working on collaborative projects involving other artists on contemporary social, political and cultural issues. The interest in my own practice also resides with recent social and political movements, especially in the light of the two years ongoing Romanian protests against corruption, and many of my drawings deal with this growing frustration in a empathic, often humorous way.

My last show was about people's private interests while in large gatherings, either protests, meetings or working operations. Recently I started an awareness campaign by creating and distributing a small publication about the soul of the most corrupt Romanian politician to benefit the education of the children in a village near the home town of the said politician, one of the first places ruined by his destructive ambition.

The AIR Salzburg for me is a wonderful opportunity for investigations in the local art scene while keeping a focus on political and social context, by meeting Austrian artists and/or activists and visiting art or alternative spaces, having conversations and, ideally, collaborations or studio visits. Also keeping up with my private practice, the drawings produced in this residency will most likely be viewed in an open studio or be part of a later publication.“

Was treibt mich?

Experimentieren ohne getrieben zu sein!
Ich spiele gern, im doppelten Sinn, mit allen Sinnen.
Mich interessiert das Zusammenspiel von Farbe, Form und Struktur, das Sicht-barmachen von Oberflächen, das Aufeinandertreffen von zufälligen Fundstücken, die sich sonst nie begegnet wären.

Ich bin nicht auf der Suche, ich finde.
Die Wendung der Trivialität zur Ästhetik, des Sinnes zum provokanten Unsinn, zerfallen, versinken und wiederkehren; wenn es dann noch ein paar Leuten gefällt, ist es ganz schön.

Her work has received honors and awards in New York, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and Maryland and is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Woodson Art Museum and several other public and private collections.

Bondarchuk received her MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and her BFA in sculpture and video from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, Canada. She is an associate professor and foundation area coordinator in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.

Represented by Mixed Media Gallery, Douglas, MI

Die Kuratorin war im November und Dezember im Rahmen der Kooperation mit dem Kunstverein Gast im Stadt:Atelier im Künstlerhaus. Das Ziel dieses Residency-Programms ist die Förderung kuratorischer Forschung und Diskurse in Salzburg.ersonal data

Caterina Avataneo (*1989, Turin) is an independent curator based in London.
She holds an MA in architecture (Politecnico di Torino 2015) and an MA in curating (London MET and Whitechapel Gallery 2017).

Her curatorial projects have appeared in institutions and galleries including Arcade, Zabludowicz Collection, Kunstraum, White Crypt and Gossamer Fog (all London).

In 2017 she was awarded the NEON curatorial award by Neon Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery.

Currently she is Associate Curator at Arcade Gallery, London and Assistant Curator for the Golden-Lion winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.