Past Residents
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #218
Artist
Katharina Gruzei
Katharina Gruzei is an independent artist working across photography, video, film, sound, and installation. Her practice explores societal tendencies and socio-cultural issues, ranging from gender-related themes to questions shaped by urban environments. A central focus of her work lies in feminist concerns and projects in public space, often realized in site-specific contexts. She studied Cultural Studies and Fine Arts at the University of Arts Linz, UCSB Santa Barbara, and the University of Arts Berlin.
Katharina Gruzei has exhibited work internationally at the Lentos Museum for Contemporary Art, Austria; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan; and Kunstforum, Austria, among others.
katharinagruzei.comPast Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
2025 Fall Open Studios
November 14–November 15, 2025
Katharina Gruzei, TRANSFORMATION, 2023, video, 6:50 min.
Katharina Gruzei, MIR METRO, 2008-2021, photo series, dimensions variable.
Katharina Gruzei, Every Shade an Image, 2021, photo series, 33,9 × 27,6 in. (33,9 × 27,6 cm).
Katharina Gruzei, Bodies of Work, installation view, 2022-23. Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Austria.
Katharina Gruzei, YAW, 2020, video, 14 min.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2019: Jane Farver Memorial Fund, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation
Bárbara Perea Legorreta
Bárbara Perea Legorreta is an independent Mexico City-based curator and writer. Her practice focuses primarily on media and sound art and is grounded in the concept of exhibition making as a platform for critical thinking. Core aspects of her practice include transdisciplinarity and fostering dialogues between media art, contemporary practices and audiences. She is interested in listening practices and perceptual phenomena in relation to art.
Bárbara Perea Legorreta has curated exhibitions and festivals in Mexico, Europe, Canada and the United States, including at Plataforma Puebla 2006; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; and the Venice Biennale, among others.
Iván Abreu, m(r.p.m.), 2013, installation view at CECUT - Centro Cultural Tijuana, dimensions variable.
Martijn Tellinga, During..lasting, 2017, 3-day concert performance at Ex Teresa Arte Actual.
Rafael-Lozano Hemmer, Surface Tension, 2007, plasma or rear-projection screen, computerized surveillance system, and custom‐made electronics, dimensions variable. Installation view of the Mexican Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
Gustavo Romano, PWRT Psyhcoeconomy War Room Table, 2013, interactive installation with tangible table and fiducials. Installation view at Transitio Festival.
Jim Campbell, Home Movies, 2011, interactive installation with tangible table and fiducials, dimensions variable. Installation view at Transitio Festival.
Past Resident2019: University of North Carolina Asheville
Suzanne Dittenber
Suzanne Dittenber’s work exists in a space between representation and allegory, parsing books as physical objects from their expected use as vehicles of communication. These simple objects become containers for questions about how knowledge is mediated and expressed. To approach books as subject matter is to engage ideas of story and setting. Dittenber’s work thereby suggests internal intellectual landscapes and psychological narratives.
Suzanne Dittenber has exhibited work at Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta; Indianapolis Art Center; and Florida State University, Tallahassee, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Heather Brammeier and Suzanne Dittenber
June 25, 2019, 6:30–8pm
Suzanne Dittenber, Placeholder, 2018, oil on canvas, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Suzanne Dittenber, Loess, 2018, oil on canvas, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Suzanne Dittenber, Artforum in Suspension, 2017, silverpoint on board, 10 × 10 in. (25.4 × 25.4 cm).
Suzanne Dittenber, Reader Repository, 2017, wax, 121/4 × 81/2 × 11/2 in. (31.11 × 21.59 × 3.81 cm).
Suzanne Dittenber, Corner Fold, 2018, slipcast ceramic, 12 × 12 × 10 in. (30.48 × 30.48 × 25.4 cm).
