Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Alya Al Khalifa
Alya Al-Khalifa’s work focuses on the idea of movement. She experiments with different mark-making techniques through drawing and mixed-media. Throughout her practice, she observes the human experience as a collective, and how individuals move as groups, influenced by the rules of human nature and the nature that surrounds us.
Alya Al-Khalifa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts. She has exhibited work at University of the Art London and Chelsea College of Arts.
Events & Exhibitions
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Alya Al Khalifa, No. 7.3, 2016, canvas.
Alya Al Khalifa, No. 2.1, 2015, canvas.
Alya Al Khalifa, No. 7.1, 2016, canvas.
Alya Al Khalifa, No. 42, 2013, wood.
Alya Al Khalifa, No. 127, 2013, wood and canvas.
Residents from Qatar
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
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
2024
Past Resident2021: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Sille Storihle
Sille Storihle works with moving images and text. Her central areas of interest include gender politics, nationalism and history. With Liv Bugge, she runs FRANK, a queer-feminist platform in Oslo.
Sille Storihle has exhibited work at Kunsthall Oslo; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; and Performa 13, New York, among others. She holds a BFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts.
Sille Storihle, Everything Becomes So Much More, 2018, HD video, 20 min.
Sille Storihle, The Tomorrow Show, 2015, HD video, 15 min.
Sille Storihle, The Stonewall Nation, 2014, HD video, 16 min.
Sille Storihle, The Goodness Regime, 2013, HD video, 15 min.
Sille Storihle, FRANK, 2012 - ongoing, platform.
