Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Danish Arts Foundation
Anna Frost
Anna Frost is a Danish curator based in Los Angeles. Her practice focuses on nomadic, multi-purpose and artist initiated projects. Together with creative director Jordan Richman she directs Atrium, a series of site-specific interventions in the historic architecture of The Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Since 2016 her and collaborator Agnes Bolt have directed BLUE RUIN, a curatorial platform that aims to subvert a traditional gallery context to present art exhibitions within the more precarious and shifting space of a home for sale. From 2011 to 2017 she was co-director of the Danish exhibition space and production unit TOVES in Copenhagen.
Anna Frost has realized projects and exhibitions at renowned galleries and institutions across Europe and America. As curatorial assistant and coordinator she recently worked on the exhibition project The Lost Museum with curator Charles Esche as part of the collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo. Anna Frost was part of the team that launched the Danish run art institute PRAXES Center For Contemporary Art in Berlin, where she worked as program coordinator with the directors Rhea Dahl and Kristine Siegel. Recent curatorial projects include: Bonbons Diplomatiques with Agatha Wara at 123 Astronaut Gallery, 10.000 Words with dis + semiotext(e), Nobody Owns The Beach, Sunset Island, Miami, Choreography For Crane for the 9th Berlin Biennale; IMPRESSIONS, a bi-coastal billboard campaign in New York and Los Angeles; PLANES at Bas Fisher Invitational Miami; LOVELACE at Import Projects, Berlin; Formation Center at TOVES, Copenhagen; and AMICI at STORE Contemporary, Dresden.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2019: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Sara Al Obaidly
Sara Al Obaidly is a portrait and documentary photographer from Doha, Qatar. Al Obaidly confronts contemporary political, philosophical and social issues by presenting intimate moments of human emotion through portraiture, while revealing intricacies of larger issues through her landscape compositions.
Sara Al Obaidly has exhibited work at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Moscow Manege; and Kraftwerk Berlin, among others.
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2019: Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Christina Cuthbertson
Christina Cuthbertson’s curatorial work centers on notions of affect and embodiment in terms of the relationships between institution, experience, and transference of knowledge. Working beyond the boundaries of the art institution, her projects have taken many forms including exhibitions, interdisciplinary collaborations, performances, and sensory experiences.
Christina Cuthbertson is an independent curator and writer based in Lethbridge, Alberta, in Treaty 7 Territory. She was a curator at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and curator-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2018.