Starting with 2011, PAVILION UNICREDIT is honored to be a part of the program Eastern European Residency Exchange (EERE) of Art-in-General, New York. EERE offers artists the opportunity to create new works in new contexts and to interact with artistic communities in New York, Bucharest and Zagreb.
During this first residency exchange, Ioana Nemes will live in new York between March-April 2011 as a guest artist at Art in General. The result of her activity in the frame of the residency is represented by the solo show "Times Colliding", curated by Courtenay Finn and hosted by Art in General between March 25th - May 7th, 2011.
During the same program, American artist Jason Loebs was selected by PAVILION for a residency in Bucharest between June - July 2011. Loebs will complete a work specially commissioned for the exhibition "From Representing to Constructing Situations" between June 2nd - July 31st 2011, curated by Razvan Ion at PAVILION UNICREDIT - center for contemporary art&culture. Loebs will also publish a series of works in PAVILION - journal for politics and culture and will hold an artist talk at PAVILION UNICREDIT.
Ioana Nemes (b. 1979 Bucharest, Romania) is one the most appreciated Romanian artists of her generation. Her works have been exhibited at SecessionVienna (2010), Istanbul Biennial (2009), Smart Project Space Amsterdam (2009), U-Turn Copenhagen (2008), Prague Biennial (2007), Bucharest Biennial (2006), and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006). She was artist-in-residence at IASPIS Stockholm (2010) and Kulturkontakt Vienna (2004) and received Future of Europe Art Prize from Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2007).
Jason Loebs (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He uses various media: painting, collage, installation, mixed media, exploring the ways through which the present is constructed by reconfiguring the past. His works have been recently shown in Voxpopuli, Philadelphia, Evanston Art Center and New Jersey Museum for Contemporary Art. He is currently part of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
"Loebs' works are a critical mediation on history, technology and emancipatory possibilities." (Artforum)
Eastern European Residency Exchange is supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
