Past Residents
Alex Nowak
Alex Nowak is a transdisciplinary artist creating sculptures and paintings in the realm of a comical archeology. Blurring the lines between the built environment and the natural world, his artworks are characterized by raw texture and organic forms. Nowak explores spatial stories about the human figure that are influenced by folk props and horror fiction. His work aims to interweave artistic materiality with contemporary social and philosophical theory.
Alex Nowak has exhibited work at Folkwang Museum, Germany; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada; and KIT, Germany, among others.
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable.
Alex Nowak, Angelisa Frayed, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, 20 × 90 × 20 in. (50.8 × 228.6 × 50.8 cm).
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable.
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable.
Alex Nowak, Untitled, 2017, paint, styrofoam and stucco, from the group exhibition "Mary and the Vulcano" at KIT, Düsseldorf, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm).
Past Resident2023: Canada Council for the Arts2022: Canada Council for the Arts
Sukaina Kubba
Sukaina Kubba is a multidisciplinary and material-based artist whose work is strongly rooted in material and cultural research, story-telling, and drawing connections. Kubba works with industrial and packaging materials as signifiers and concrete indices, and explores traveling objects, textiles and vehicles as carriers of cross-cultural histories. She depicts rugs as peripatetic architectural components rolled and unfurled by nomads and migrants and put over sand, rocks, floors, and walls to denote a re-location.
Sukaina Kubba has exhibited work at The Next Contemporary, Toronto; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Ruth Owens and Sukaina Kubba
June 20, 2023, 6–7:30pm
Sukaina Kubba, La Brioche, CMC, 2023, hand-drawn with PLA filament, 46 × 68 in. (116.84 × 172.72 cm).
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Ankaa, 2022, alcohol ink on flesh-coloured latex, 60 × 80 in. (152.4 × 203.2 cm).
Sukaina Kubba, T80.0040, 2021, embroidery and sewing thread on PE-HD bag from an Amazon package, 26 × 22 in. (66.04 × 55.88 cm).
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Al-Qantoor, 2022, hand-drawn PLA filament, 46 × 67 in. (116.84 × 170.18 cm).
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Attawoos, 2023, hand-drawn PLA filament, 24 × 36 in. (60.96 × 91.44 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2023: Artis
Vanina Saracino
Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on theories and art practices that question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Since 2021, Saracino has taught at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste, and the MFA Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Vanina Saracino has curated exhibitions at Screen City Biennial, in Berlin and Oslo; and the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, among others.
Patricia Domínguez, Matrix Vegetal, 2022, installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Marjorie Brunet Plaza.
Anna Ehrenstein and 4DHD (Cibelle Cavalli Bastos and Coco Magnusson), Coffee Ground Imaginaries, 2022, AR experience. Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Marjorie Brunet Plaza.
Jaakko Pallasvuo, Hole & Hole 2, 2019-2020, video installation and posters, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Kristina Õllek, Nautilus New Era, 2018, video installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Art Museum of Estonia. Photo by Kristina Õllek.
Emilija Škarnulytė, Deep Point Cloud, 2019, video installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Oddbjørn Erland Aarstad.
Residents from Italy
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
