Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda
Jay Chung (US 1976) and Q Takeki Maeda (Japan, 1977) are on residency in Copenhagen, from November 16 to December 31 2007. Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda have been collaborating since 2001. They both live and work in Berlin.
In 2005 the Danish Arts Council established the DIVA programme - the Danish International Visual Art Exchange Programme. DIVA gives the opportunity to invite international artists who meet a high professional standard to work and live in Denmark. In that way DIVA contributes to strengthen international exchange and network between the Danish and International contemporary art scenes.
Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda belong to a part of the contemporary art scene whose aesthetical praxis responds to and elaborates upon the heritage from conceptual art from the 1960’s. Chung and Maeda work primarily with photography, film and text, and make use of a method which focuses on analytical, critical and communicative aspects.
During their DIVA residency, Chung and Maeda are preparing a project for the Copehagen gallery Andersen_s Contemporary spring 2008. With this project they will extend their primary praxis within the visual arts and move towards a field between stage design, architecture and visual art. The actual work is an over dimensional Louis Vuitton bag, whose interior can be surveyed.
Jay Chung holds a degree from Yale University and from the University of California Berkeley. Q Takeki Maeda holds a degree from Musashino Art University Tokyo. Furthermore, they both hold a degree from Studium Städelschule Frankfurt.
Chung and Maeda have been proposed by the Danish artist Mia Rosasco and invited to Denmark by the Danish Arts Council’s residency programme DIVA.
Chung and Maeda have been exhibiting with the Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin, CCA Wattis San Francisco and at MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. They also participated in ‘Neue Asiatische Kunst. Thermocline of Art’ in Karlsruhe, Germany (2007) and at the first Moscow Biennale (2005). From December 5 2007 to January 19 2008 they are showing at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany with ‘Hardy Boys and Gilmore Girls’.
