Past Resident
2023: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

Artist

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.

figurative sculpture made of stuffed clothing staring at an empty picture

Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable.

Three figurative sculptures made of stuffed clothing in a gallery show

Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, installation view, sculptures and drawings.

Figurative sculpture made of stuffed clothing lying on the floor and staring at a ringing smartphone in its hand

Simon Baumgart, Someone's Calling, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable.

The back of the artist's head serves as an exhibition poster with tattooed dates of his show "I entered you are we now one" (2021)

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).

Residents from Germany

Irène Mélix

Germany

Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen

Studio #214

Lukas Marxt

Germany, Portugal, Austria

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Studio #218

Szu-Ying Hsu (Ida)

Taiwan, Germany

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #302

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Israel, United States

Past Resident
2023: Artis

Artist

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 United States

Ruth Owens

United States

Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation

Studio #213

Umber Majeed

United States

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Studio #204

Grace Rosario Perkins

United States

Leon Polk Smith Foundation

Studio #303

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Czech Republic

Past Resident
2023: International Visegrad Fund

Artist

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.

Overhead shot of a trans* non-binary cowboy wearing a black binder, underwear and brown cowboy boots, lying on red satin and looking into the camera

Ezra Šimek, Joyful Flame, 2022, 4K video, 22 min..

an installation of orange PVC curtains in a corner, behind them bundles of dried herbs hang from the ceiling and are positioned on the ground, a black and white video plays on a TV from the 80s that stands on a wooden table, a small cowboy figure is placed on the TV, a big red, floral decorated carpet lies on the ground

Ezra Šimek, Bodie, 2022, video and installation, 7 min..

A person with phone in hand wearing a suit is giving a performative lecture in front of a crowd, a vertical TV is standing next to them and a presentation projection is behind them

Ezra Šimek, No offense, but, 2020-2023, performance, 20 min..

The words "decolonize, disidentify, debinarify, my self" are displaced on a white wall with five lines in a straight line above them

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).