Current Residents
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Studio #205
Artist
Neda Saeedi
Neda Saeedi’s multidisciplinary practice explores power structures, historiography, and materiality through sculpture and installation. Engaging with the socio-political dimensions of architecture, urbanism, and environmental violence, she uses material symbolism to expose systemic tensions. Themes of segregation frequently recur, often expressed through garden motifs as spaces of control. Through site-specific installations, she transforms familiar elements into spatial narratives that prompt viewers to confront layered histories. Combining aesthetic precision with incisive critique, her work reveals the ecological and social consequences of modernity.
Neda Saeedi has exhibited work at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria; Klosterruine Berlin, Germany; and Argo Factory, Iran, among others.
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Neda Saeedi, Two shades of Green, 2021, installation, dimensions variable.
Neda Saeedi, Ezekiel dreams beyond repair, 2021, installation, dimensions variable.
Neda Saeedi, Monument of Oblivion; River of Lethe, 2025, sound sculpture in public space, 99 × 158 × 315 in. (251.46 × 401.32 × 800.1 cm).
Neda Saeedi, Only birds who flying the highest can shatter the windows, 2022, 157 × 145 × 45 in. (398.78 × 368.3 × 114.3 cm).
Neda Saeedi, In the depth of the night, Sky sees the sun, 2023, stain glass and steel, 158 × 25 in. (401.32 × 63.5 cm).
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Studio #217
Artist
Clio Van Aerde
Clio Van Aerde’s transdisciplinary practice spans performance, choreography, site-specific and endurance art, as well as visual arts. Her work explores the poetic and subversive potential of overlooked everyday interactions between humans, non-humans, and spaces. Drawing on embodied experience, spatial awareness, and the passage of time, she challenges norms of productivity and performativity, instead inviting idleness, absurdity, and critical reflection. Trained in performance at ArtEZ in Arnhem and scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she was awarded the Edward Steichen Award in 2024.
Clio Van Aerde has exhibited work at Mudam Museum of Modern Art; and TROIS C-L | Maison pour la Danse, both in Luxembourg, among others.
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Clio Van Aerde, Syndrome de la Décélération IV, 2016, performance, 30.
Clio Van Aerde, On Line – a Manifestation of the Human Border, 2018, durational performance/expedition, 41.
Clio Van Aerde, "Work It" – Poetics of Bodies at Work, performance, 42 × 28 in. (106.68 × 71.12 cm).
Clio Van Aerde, Clio Van Aerde, "Work It" – Poetics of Bodies at Work, 2024, performance, 16 × 25 in. (40.64 × 63.5 cm).
Clio Van Aerde, Shift, 2025, performance, 16 × 25 in. (40.64 × 63.5 cm).
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2025–Sep 30, 2025
Artis
Studio #222
Artist
Maria Saleh Mahmeed
Maria Saleh Mahameed explores the complexities of identity, born to a Ukrainian mother and a Palestinian father, through the lenses of nationality and religion. Working on an extremely large scale, she manages to create deeply intimate narratives that grapple with personal, social, and political themes. Black charcoal features prominently in her work. For Mahameed, charcoal is a powerful and visceral tool—one that allows her to leave a direct, physical trace using materials rooted in her surroundings. The medium also holds symbolic meaning, connecting her practice to her birthplace, Umm el-Fahem, which translates to “Mother of Charcoal.”
Maria Saleh Mahameed has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Italy; and The Israel Museum, Israel, among others.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Oxygen Generator, 2025, charcoal, pastel, nylon, and polypropylene bulk bag sewn onto black canvas, 2759/16 × 8211/16 in. (700 × 210 cm). Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Barrad (Cooler), 2025, charcoal on canvas, 165.354. Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Confessions on the Altar of Life, 2025, charcoal on canvas, 126 × 1571/2 in. (319.99 × 400 cm). Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Umm El Fahem, 2016, charcoal on canvas, 8211/16 × 1773/16 in. (210 × 449.99 cm).
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Death of the Son, 2021, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 8211/16 × 1571/2 in. (210 × 400 cm).
