AIR_MCUBE International Artists' Residency 2024
AIR_MCUBE Residency Artist of
August / September 2024
Renata Bonter-Jędrzejewska
Poland
Poland
“As an artist and designer, I focus on the shape of things. The form is always the result of many complex design processes and is not an end in itself. It requires significant effort and a lot of analysis and experimentation to come to a final solution. Of course, things always have shape and materiality, depending on the circumstances in which they were created”.
Renata Bonter-Jędrzejewska is Polish-born artist, designer, curator. Since 2017, she has been teaching at the Department of Ceramics at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy in
Wrocław, where she completed the Inter-Faculty Doctoral Studies and obtained a PhD in Visual Arts in 2019. She undertakes professional and artistic activities in many disciplines,
in the field of science, art and new technologies. She is particularly interested in the use of additive technologies, including 3D printing from ceramics. At the invitation of foreign universities, she led workshops and presentations at UNTAR Universitast Tarumaragaran
in Jakarta in 2022, ÉSAD Orléans – École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Orléans in 2023, Tianjin Academy of Fine Art (TAFA), 2024. Her ceramic, drawing and painting works have
been presented at national and international exhibitions, including: in Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Italy, Indonesia. Since 2022, she has been co-
creating kinetic installations in collaboration with her husband, also an artist, PiotrJędrzejewski.
Resilience
I’m an interdisciplinarny artist. For many years I gathered various experience and skills in the various fields of the since, art and design. Since 2014 I started to develop my interest in the new technology in ceramics.
Renata Bonter-Jędrzejewska
Ceramic Artist
AIR_MCUBE International Artists Residency 2024
AIR_MCUBE Residency Artist of
July / August 2024
Marianne Venderbosch,
The Netherlands
Marianne Venderbosch is an artist and art historian from the Netherlands.
She has a passion for traveling and exploring new places.
Her artworks are either created during her travels or created at home inspired by them. In the last years she traveled through Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Egypt, Japan, China and Morocco. In Ubud, Bali she stayed for a longer period in which she painted and designed. In Carrara, Italy, she worked two month and sculpted in marble.
Next to working in traditional techniques she likes to work in digital techniques and mixed media. Her representations combine figurative, symbolic, organic and decorative forms.
I am here, Where are You?
“My art is always inspired by other cultures as it is created at the spot. Art that never would have come into existence if I would not had made the journey”
Marianne Verderbosch,
Artist
AIR_MCUBE International Artists Residency 2024
AIR_MCUBE Residency Artist of July 2024
Phil Robinson, USA
As a native Chicagoan, Robinson relocated to St. Louis Missouri in 1997 when he was awarded the Henry L. and Natalie Freund Fellow in Painting at Washington University. The fellowship included an exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum. Robinson is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Robinson has exhibied locally, regionally, and nationally throughout the USA. His “Balaclava”, and Anonymous _ X series, have shown nationally. His new work, Paywalls were exhibited at R.A.R.O. Residency in Barcelona Spain, 2024. He is scheduled to begin the Cycladic Arts Program, AiR, Cycladic Greece in 2025. Robinson began as a painter and performance artist and later trasitioned to sculptural work. He is an interdisciplinary artist known for social-political satire. With arrival of Covid 19, Robinson responded to social isolation beginning with portrait paintings of masked, anonymous people. Paywalls, the new work focuses on the political-economic barriers facing most people.
WHERE is NEPAL ?
“Where is Nepal”, reverberates throughout my time here. A guest of just one month cannot respond any other way than, “everywhere”. Simple, unpretentious as this question sounds it signals place, time past, present and future history. These works arise from the sensations of being here in Nepal.
Phil Robinson
WHERE is NEPAL?
Pictures taken during the Opening of Exhibition “WHERE is NEPAL?” of our Residency Artist Phil Robinson.
AIR_MCUBE Residency Artist of June 2024
Jessica Lynn Smith, USA
Jessica L. Smith, a distinguished professor of art at the University of West Alabama, holds an M.F.A. from Tulane University and a B.F.A. from Alfred University. Since joining the faculty in 2005, Smith has earned multiple accolades, including the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts (2013) and several Faculty Research Grants. Her work has been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions globally, from the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Alabama to the Narodni Muzej Slovenije in Slovenia. Smith’s artistic achievements also include residencies in Japan, Iceland, and Georgia, where she has further honed her craft. Renowned for her dynamic and evolving style, Smith continues to make significant contributions to the field of ceramics, influencing both her students and the broader art community.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Each day, I roam through Patan’s streets, passageways and public spaces. The Newari windows reach down toward similarly hexagonal pavement stones. This insistent honeycomb structure is my gateway into an exploration of shape, light and shadow. Repetition is my way of making sense of space and place. My goal is to share with a viewer the fleeting suggestions of observations that can be carried by color, texture, space, and other elements of art.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Smith uses watercolor, pencil, and ink media on paper in this body of work. She utilizes a variety of templates and hand-drawn components to cultivate colorful patterns through layering and overlapping shapes. Watery reticulation simultaneously suggests an immediacy and impermanence. Smith’s techniques challenge the viewer to look closely, then closer yet, to experience different ways of seeing.
Simmer
Visitors at the show
AIR_MCUBE Residency Artist of May 2024
Mahdieh Shahriari Moghaddam, Iran
Mahdieh Shahriari Moghaddam, a visionary artist from Iran, discovered her passion for art at a young age, using it as a powerful medium to navigate and challenge societal barriers against women. Her humanitarian work, particularly in crisis zones like Afghanistan, deeply influenced her artistic vision, prompting her to explore themes of violence and resilience. As a U.N. staff member, Mahdieh observed the
devastating impacts of war on vulnerable populations, which she seeks to depict in her art to provoke thought and inspire change.
Rejecting traditional artistic “-isms,” Mahdieh’s work transcends conventional labels, embodying her mission to promote peace and amplify the voices of the unheard. Her notable achievements include a bronze medal at the Sumbaran Foundation’s International Art Exhibition and participation in various exhibitions in Iran and abroad, including an art residency in Sweden.
Paper Dream
Visit at Renowned Senior Artist Batsa Gopal Vaidya Atelier with Fellow Artist Nadezhda Timofeeva.
