Past Residents
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.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2019: Danish Arts Foundation
Helene Nymann
Helene Nymann’s practice addresses the concept of embodied knowledge and the ways in which associative images stimulate memory. Applying mnemonic devices and memory-systems to image-making, Nymann constructs performative environments in which the moving image, sound and sculpture make way for transformative arrays of consciousness, deepening the understanding of the fundamental aspects by which we process information, store knowledge and create memories for more sustainable futures.
Helene Nymann has exhibited work at The New Museum, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, among others.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2019: Athr Gallery
Rund Alarabi
Rund Alarabi’s practice examines the traces left behind by humans and the interplay between people and space. Alarabi is interested in exploring the similarities and juxtapositions found throughout different eras and how alternate realities can emerge through collage. She also questions the fate of personal archives and highlights the importance of personal documentation and the rippling effect it holds on our histories throughout her work.
Rund Alarabi has exhibited work at Athr Gallery, Jeddah, among other places.