Within the artists-in-residence program, CCA is delighted to host Carsten Fock. Born in Berlin (DE) in 1968, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and Frankfurt/Main at Georg Herold and Per Kirkeby. Currently, he works and lives in Berlin.

Filip Vest (DK, b. 1995)holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Through performances, installations, films, and texts, they examine queer love, loneliness, and desire in the 21st century. Applying rehearsal methods from theatre, they test the relationship between the script and the body to inve- stigate the different ways we perform our identities and relations. Vest’s universe is inhabited by a vast network of things of different scales, each affecting the other: climate change and crumbling relationships, role play, doomsday karaoke and re-enacted kisses, a bird falling in love with a statue, and a frog having a breakdown in the middle of a striptease. Through mobile phones, walls and windows, the characters communicate and miscommunicate across species and time while attempting to make themselves legible to each other.

Filip Vest has previously shown their work at SMK, Copenhagen Contemporary, Møstings, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arken, Den Frie, Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Kunsthal, and at Manifesta13.

BFA+MFA, Malmö Art Academy 2016-2021
HISK, Gent, Belgium, 2020 
Co-founder and curator, DELFI, 2017-2021

Timeline

1976 born in Karlsruhe, Germany

1998–2004 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

1998–2004 Stipendium Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2004–2006 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2004–2006 DAAD Stipendium für London

2011 Kaiserringstipendium

Lives and works in Berlin

Exhibitions

2014 James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

2013 The Approach, London, UK (solo)

2011 Kaiserringstipendium, Kunstmuseum Goslar, Germany (solo)

2011 Helene Appel, Mönchenhausmuseum, Gosler, Germany (solo)

2011 Art Positions, Art Cologne, Germany (solo)

2011 Helene Appel, Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (solo)

2010 Chopping Board, The Approach, London, UK (solo)

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Born in 1975 USA, Ukraine

1993-97

Columbia University, New York / Bachelor of Arts - Visual Art & Art History

2001-03

de Ateliers, Amsterdam / Masters/Postgraduate Fellowship - Visual Art

Selected Exhibitions

2019

Breathers, Kunsthalle Center for Contemporary Art Andratx, Spain

Soothsaying, Sonntag, Berlin (cat.)

2018

Helene Appel, Alisa Margolis, Helen Verhoeven, (curated by Alisa Margolis) Galerie Judin, Berlin

2017

Procession and Madonella Project, Berlin

Lend Me Your Ear And I’ll Sing You a song, Berlin

2016

Sorry Superhero, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt

 Let the flowers speak - Flowers and artificial nature from 1960’s and beyond Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany (cat.)

DRIFT, Alex Hubbard, Alisa Margolis & Diana Sirianni, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany (cat.)

2015

The Light in Me Weighs A Ton (in collaboration with Anike Joyce Sadiq), C2 Spazio, Florence 

Florenz Contemporary, Italian Embassy, Berlin

Residu 3, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder, NL

Time Lies, KIK Seven Kino International, Berlin

Fellows Show, Villa Romana, Florence, IT

Not An Archive of Mussels, curated by Federico Cavalini/Carico Massimo, Carrara, IT

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