Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer, artist, and scholar. Her research-based and process-oriented practice rooted in Black feminist theory revolves around archives, specifically the gaps and blanks in public archives and collections. Her works, which intertwine documentary and fiction and are presented in a wide range of mediums, examine the present of an everlasting colonial past. Kazeem-Kamiński’s first artistic monograph a past without closure will be published by Sternberg Press in 2023.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński has exhibited work at 2023 Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; Camera Austria, Austria; and Kunsthalle Wien, Viena, among others.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Unearthing. In Conversation, 2017, video, 13 min..
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, The Letter, 2019, video, 18 min..
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Fleshbacks, 2021, video, 6 min..
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, In Search of Red, Black, and Green, 2021, photograph, 46,97 × 31,5 in. (46,97 × 31,5 cm).
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Respire (Liverpool), 2023, video, 16 min..
Residents from Austria
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.
