Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Simon Baumgart
Simon Baumgart’s work explores the conflicting relationship between our bodies and their images. He analyzes how the conceptions of self, soul, and identity oscillate between intimacy and opacity, and familiarity and strangeness through mediums such as sculpture, painting, and tattoo.
Simon Baumgart has exhibited work at Galerie Paul Scherzer, Germany; Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan; and fructa space, Germany, among others.
Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable.
Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, installation view, sculptures and drawings.
Simon Baumgart, Someone's Calling, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable.
Simon Baumgart, I entered you are we now one, 2021, tattoo and digital print, 12,9 × 19,6 in. (12,9 × 19,6 cm).
Simon Baumgart, Vera kion, 2023, oil on canvas, 17,7 × 25,5 in. (17,7 × 25,5 cm).
Past Resident2023: Artis
Ruth Patir
Ruth Patir is a media artist and filmmaker who combines historical and national narratives with her personal history to explore gender paradigms and power dynamics. Patir’s works push the frontiers of representation in the digital age, challenging the gender and racial inequalities that exist in the fields of animation, 3D simulations, and AI.
Ruth Patir has exhibited work at Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Danspace Projects, New York; and Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, among others.
Ruth Patir, My Father In the Cloud, 2022, film, installation view from solo exhibition at Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 24:46 min..
Ruth Patir, My Father in the Cloud Dancing at my Wedding, 2022, Net.art, website installation view from solo exhibition at Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
Ruth Patir, Petah Tikva, 2021, 3D video animation, 5 min.
Ruth Patir, Marry Fuck Kill, 2019, 3D video animation, 13:21 min.
Ruth Patir, Love Letters to Ruth, 2018, film, installation view from solo exhibition at the Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2023: International Visegrad Fund
Ezra Šimek
Ezra Šimek uses time-based media, site-responsive installations, sound pieces, and literature to explore queer identities and linguistic sensitivity. They explore gender as a form of mythology, fostering synergy among many subjectivities in order to create a new inclusive and speculative reality.
Ezra Šimek has exhibited work at National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic; Gianni Manhattan, Austria; and Phoinix Gallery, Slovakia, among others.
Ezra Šimek, Joyful Flame, 2022, 4K video, 22 min..
Ezra Šimek, Bodie, 2022, video and installation, 7 min..
Ezra Šimek, No offense, but, 2020-2023, performance, 20 min..
Ezra Šimek, the trans masculine urge to not take up space, unless you want me to, then I can, as long as you‘re sure that‘s cool, 2022, 7 vinyl wall stickers, 50 × 28 in. (127 × 71.12 cm).
Ezra Šimek, You May Say I'm a Dreamer but I'm Actually Dissociating, 2022, multimedia installation, dimensions variable.
