Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Valérian Goalec. Goalec, who was born in Rennes, France. He is currently based in Brussels, Belgium and will be staying in Studio Azul during August 2019.

The Artist finished his studies of fine arts the University of Art Rennes, France. Goalec has been participated in numerous group exhibitions in Brussels, Palma de
Mallorca and New York City and had solo exhibitions in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Turin, Italy and Brussels, Belgium. Valérian Goalec uses existing forms in order to develop them, alter them, and take them elsewhere. Façades, architecture, windows or air vents become abstract sculptures, serial modulations and variations, models or paintings, modules or units of measure and of comparison. The elements may be apprehended both as autonomous entities and as a coherent, solid whole, yet they remain possibly interchangeable, simultaneously interdependent and separate.

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Ronald de Bloeme. De Bloeme was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany and will be staying in Studio Verde August 2019.

The Artist finished his studies of fine arts in 1996 at the Willem de Koonig Academy in Rotterdam. Ronald de Bloeme has been participated in numerous group exhibitions in Berlin, London and Rotterdam and had solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Berlin. De Bloeme’s works engage with the complex system of meaning integral to the overwhelming reality of our consumerist society and it’s constant urge to communicate.

His practice is characterized by a manipulation of “found footage”. Objects such as sewing sample cards, chewing gum wrappers or cigarette packs, which he describes as communication systems, are being sampled and appropriated to create abstract and very formal paintings, which while recalling familiar patters and codes, resist easy reading and speak in a language of their own.

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Samuel Henne. Henne was born in Göttingen, Germany. He currently lives and works in Hannover, Germany and will be staying in Studio Rojo during August 2019.

The Artist finished his studies in liberal arts in 2009 at the University of Art Braunschweig, Germany. Alongside solo exhibitions in Hannover, Munich and New York, he also participated in numerous institutional group exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Washington DC. Henne’s work is shaped by an interest in artistic and cultural theory, which questions production conditions and constructions of images and their interpretation. The isolation of details or shifts in content and perspective make structural aspects visible in his artistic work, as well
as in their presentation. Recently Henne has been exploring museum displays and
cabinets, as well as the underlying strategies of archiving sculptures in historical and archaeological contexts. In his practice, Henne intertwines formal, art historical and contemporary aspects to create images.

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Simon Heusser. Heusser was born in Zurich, Switzerland, where he currently lives and works. He will be staying in Studio Amarillo during August 2019.

Simon Heusser finished his studies in fine arts in 2014 at the FHNW School of Design in Basel and in 2016 at the Zurich University of Arts, Switzerland. He had solo exhibitions in Barcelona, Spain and Zurich, Switzerland. Heusser has been also participated in several group exhibitions in Milan, Stockholm and Zurich.

Simon Heusser works sculptural and adopts forgotten handcraft technics for producing his objects and paintings. Another part of his artistic practice is the creation of public retreats in large cities, which are a demand for spiritual breaks. In many ways Heusser’s work can be seen as a reflection of the current social situation in which capitalism has created an individual and value-less society
and where a spiritual experience can show us our potential to find ourselves
again.