Past Residents
Past Resident2023: International Visegrad Fund
Nikolett Balázs
Nikolett Balázs reinterprets traditional creative techniques and materials from our surroundings, deeply exploring our own stories and personal mythologies. She integrates several levels of significance in her works, from feminist vulva symbolism and folkloric tulip motifs to totemic individuality symbols on flayed skin.
Nikolett Balázs has exhibited work at Minera Escondida Foundation, Chile; Q Contemporary, Hungary; and Ludwig Múzeum, Hungary, among others.
Nikolett Balázs, Mantle, 2022, textile, 60 × 99 × 20 in. (152.4 × 251.46 × 50.8 cm).
Nikolett Balázs, Thirsty Flower, 2022, textile and mixed media, 40 × 80 × 20 in. (101.6 × 203.2 × 50.8 cm).
Nikolett Balázs, Mona Lisa, 2022, textile, metal shavings and mixed media, 20 × 30 × 11 in. (50.8 × 76.2 × 27.94 cm).
Nikolett Balázs, Thirsty well, 2022, installation view at Artkartell projectspace, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Nikolett Balázs, Thirsty well, 2022, installation view at Artkartell projectspace, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Residents from Hungary
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).
