Past Residents
Past Resident2019: ARTWORKS
Paky Vlassopoulou
In her practice, Paky Vlassopoulou explores issues such as the production of knowledge, historization and ruins. Most recently, she has been particularly interested in the politics of service industries in relation to notions of care and hospitality. Her work often takes the form of an event, open to participation and discussion. In 2012, together with artists Chrysanthi Koumianaki and Kosmas Nikolaou, she co-founded 3 137, an artist run space operating in Athens, Greece.
Paky Vlassopoulou has had work commissioned by NEON Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery at the Gennadius Library/The American School of Classical Studies, Athens; and has exhibited work in a project by the New Museum, New York, and the DESTE Foundation, at the Benaki Museum, Athens, and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Paky Vlassopoulou, Training Drills, 2019, C-print
Paky Vlassopoulou, At Your Service, 2019, digital image
Paky Vlassopoulou, One Is Not Born a Dolphin, By An octopus, A Dolphin and Others, 2019, performance
Paky Vlassopoulou, Hello Mrs Ramsay (Things Don't Change That Fast), 2017, event
Paky Vlassopoulou, Hello Mrs Ramsay (Things Don't Change That Fast), 2017, event
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Studio #217
Sonia Leimer
In her installations, Sonia Leimer explores our perceptual foundations, which are formed on the basis of individual, historical, and media-related patterns of experience. As products of concrete historical contexts, rooms and objects undergo a transformation in which history and societal changes become palpable.
Sonia Leimer lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted a radio titled City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography together with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibited her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto.
Sonia Leimer, Undefined Building Project, 2013, Art in public space
Sonia Leimer, New Land / Nowaja Semlja / Neues Land, 2015, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Conquest of the Useless, 2017, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Unstable on Instable, 2017, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Untitled (Vorgartenstrasse, Engerthstrasse, Paradiesgasse, Aumannplatz, Mooslackengasse), 2015, Installation
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2019: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Borjana Ventzislavova
Borjana Ventzislavova is a Sofia born, Vienna based cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, photography, and performance, among other media, often blending documentary and narrative styles to tests the line between personal and social in the context of current events and history. Throughout her practice, she analyses how stereotypes, models of representations, and political and social power structures control mechanisms of society. She also addresses issues of mobility, the crossing of socio-geographical and cultural borders, and the processes of communication and translation.
Borjana Ventzislavova has exhibited work at Belvedere 21, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; MAK LA + MAK Vienna; TRIENNALE LINZ; Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg; Carinthian Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia; Lentos Art Museum, Linz; Austrian Cultural Forum Washington; Austrian Cultural Forum London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sofia City Art Gallery; and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, among others.
Borjana Ventzislavova, Lovejoy, 2016, wall paper and neon, dimensions variable
Borjana Ventzislavova, And the sky clears up (MAGIC RESISTANCE), 2018, film, 23 min
Borjana Ventzislavova, American Dream Acting, 2014, photography and video, 57 min
Borjana Ventzislavova, Real Games, 2019, 5-channel video installation, dimensions variable
Borjana Ventzislavova, Hey You! It's us!, 2016, public intervention, dimensions variable