2007
Sculptural / Media Artist
Zara Kriegstein was born in West Berlin, Germany in 1952. She received her Masters degree in painting from the Academy of Art in West Berlin where she studied from 1972 to 1978. Upon graduating, Kriegstein spent one year traveling through Italy, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Malaysia, and Mexico to study the art and culture of these ancient civilizations. It was during her travels that Kriegstein determined to dedicate her work to the social and political issues throughout the history of mankind.
Video Installation Artist
In Ruth Schnell’s video installations, she unfolds the possibilities, (which lie in the screen and in video projection) to develop new forms of information distribution in our world that is so readily changed and influenced by media. She uses ordinary objects to serve as a screen without individual significance but that gives rise to meaning for the projected images and text. Schnell uses these objects as an image carrier, which distorts the projected information, so that not only is a new viewing angle is created, but also a subtle new order of the images and their perceived relationship. In 2004, the Austrian artist received a grant to be the artist-in-residence at 18th Street, where she worked on and exhibited “Patters of Perception: Electronic Media Installations,” which was composed of three of her electronic medial installations. This exhibit was shown for the first time at the California Science Center’s Art and Science Studio.
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Painter and Photographer
Reanimating forgotten catastrophes and places is a core theme throughout the works of painter and photographer, Eva Castringius. A native of Munich who has lived since the early 1990s in Berlin, Castringius spent one year at 18th Street Arts Center in 2005. While at 18th Street as an artist in residence shed a new light on her way of seeing things and prompted a definitive shift from small to large formats. Setting her sights on urban space in two major metropolises, Los Angeles and Berlin, the artist photographed famous locations at sunrise and sunset, including the harbor at Long Beach and the International Congress Center, now known as Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), in Berlin. A signature mark of Castringius’ projects is to discreetly insert a familiar object in each picture. The intention is to let the viewer to come up with the story behind each image. While at 18th Street, Castringius developed a series of large scale paintings which further explored notions of space and architecture.
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