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Current Resident: Feb 1, 2023–Dec 31, 2023

The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association, Gallery Gudmundsdottir, Icelandic Art Fund

Studio #211

Artist

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir explores social engagement and connections between socio-economic systems, the environment, and ideas through installations, paintings, sculptures, objects, photographs, film, and performances. Gudnadóttir’s multidisciplinary practice connects the artist’s personal perspective to global histories.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir has exhibited work at Berlinische Galerie, Germany; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany; and Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, among others.

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Part of a series of 5 photographs teased from an archive of research photographs for the SILICA art practice as research project that traces the manufacturing of semiconductors for solar cells. Oceanic transport is large part of that process.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, S-I-L-I-C-A 02, 2022, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 47³/₁₆ × 31¹/₂ in. (119.89 × 80.01 cm)

A Keep Frozen installation of 11 paintings and a found ghostnet and a nautical rope arrranged in a constellation for Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters group exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanin, Berlin. Photo credit: Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Keep Frozen was a long-term research process with multiple outcomes.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Keep Frozen, 2021, ship paint on aluminum plates, dimensions variable.

A Keep Frozen video work. Cinematic documentation of a 48 hours dock workers performance in a former power station in Leipzig, Germany. Performance developed in collaboraton with dock workers abstracting their usual labor tasks of moving boxes from one pile to the other in an endless choregraphed rhythm. Their performance as well as the performance of the film crew was open to the public.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Labor Move, 2016, 3-channel video, 14 min.

Part of series of experiments with the qualities of the material of charcoal. Existing on the line of painting and drawing each work is unique. Part of the SILICA art practice as research project. Mining and use of coal plays an important part in the project.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Untitled, 2023, charcoal on archival paper, 16¹/₂ × 11¹¹/₁₆ in. (41.91 × 29.72 cm)

Part of the SILICA art practice as research project. Purer silicon is created in factory smelters where the silicon and oxygen in a silicon dioxide compound is seperated by combining carbon with the dioxide. The outcome is a lustrous metalloid, neither a rock nor a metal and both.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Untitiled, 2023, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 16 × 16 in. (40.64 × 40.64 cm)

Residents from Germany

Cornelia Herfurtner

Germany

Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin

2022

Anna Schimkat

Germany

KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Studio #214

Dina El Kaisy Friemuth

Germany, Denmark

Danish Arts Foundation

2022

Austria

Current Resident: Jan 1, 2023–Mar 31, 2023

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

Studio #212

Artist

Florian Mayr

Florian Mayr’s practice is centered on the immanent conditions of artistic production. His works explore social and economic ties, connections, and relationships, taking biographical events as a starting point.

Florian Mayr has exhibited works at Gallery Martin Janda, Vienna; Gallery Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna; and Austrian Cultural Forum, London, among others.

florianmayrmayr.com

Florian Mayr, Pattern 4 (Martin) and Pattern 2 (Werner), 2022, transit blanket and chromakey fabric

Two jumpers made from a transit blanket draped over a jig hanging next to each other on an exhibition wall.

Florian Mayr, Work Hours (blue: installation work for hire; green: independent art practice; white: overall work hours), 2022, acrylic paint, paper and digital c-print, 15¹¹/₁₆ × 15¹¹/₁₆ in. (39.88 × 39.88 cm)

Varying distribution of working hours shown in twelve diagrams hanging in two rows on an exhibition wall.

Florian Mayr, Don’t look at the trees. Look at the fireworks., 2021, dye-sub print, acrylic paint, PE fabric and chromakey fabric, dimensions variable

Alt-Text Caption Three fabric covered panels hanging on the outside walls of an abandoned cabin. One blue panel with yellow text is mounted on the front side wall. And two panels, one with a blurred greenish image and one plain blue panel, hanging side by side on the right corner of the cabin

Florian Mayr, Pattern 3 (Sandy) and Pattern 4 (unlabeled), 2021, transit blanket, chromakey fabric and steel, 29¹/₂ × 55 in. (74.93 × 139.7 cm)

Four panels covered with different fabrics sequently arranged on a display steel structure

Florian Mayr, No coffee, I gotta go. Okay? (An arrangement, 6), 2020, steel, chromakey fabric, dye-sub print on PE fabric and acid dyed cotton, 91¹/₂ × 151³/₁₆ × 5⁷/₈ in. (232.41 × 384.05 × 14.99 cm)

Residents from Austria

Evelyn Plaschg

Austria

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

Studio #218

Anaïs Horn

Austria

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

2021

Anita Fuchs

Austria

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

2004

Germany

Current Resident: Sep 1, 2022–Jun 30, 2023

KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Studio #214

Artist

Anna Schimkat

Anna Schimkat is a visual artist who has expanded her work into sound art through installations and performances. Schimkat creates spaces that sharpen perception and force the perceiver’s action. Her sound materials include self-made instruments and field recordings of her main instrument, the world around us.

Anna Schimkat has exhibited work at Z.i.m.m.t., Germany; RE:FLUX 16, Festival D’Art Sonore, Canada; and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Germany, among others.

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