Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Pro Helvetia, Atelier Flex - Kanton Zug
Pascale Birchler
Pascale Birchler creates theatrical installations that form a multi-layered system of visual connotations. Her work explores the embodiment of loneliness and stalemate, as well as the contemporary status quo.
Pascale Birchler has exhibited work at Istituto Svizzero, Rome; UCCA Edge, Shanghai; and Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, among others.
Pascale Birchler, Da sind wir, losgekettet von der Sonne (Here we are, unchained from the sun), close up, 2022, sculpture, wood, modeling clay, glaze, pigments, artificial hair, oil painting on wood, acrylic glass, metal frame, flowers, wire and textile, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, Da sind wir, losgekettet von der Sonne (Here we are, unchained from the sun), 2022, sculpture, wood, modeling clay, glaze, pigments, artificial hair, oil painting on wood, acrylic glass, metal frame, flowers, wire and textile, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, In den Wiesen I-III (In the Meadows I-III), 2020, aquarellle and colored pencil on paper, 865/8 × 59 in. (219.96 × 149.86 cm)
Pascale Birchler, Schmetterlingsstühle I / II (Butterfly Chairs I / II), 2019, metal and glass with burned glasspainting, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, Die Dichter (The Poets), 2018, wood, padding, modelling glay, glaze, textile and oil pencil, dimensions variable.
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2023: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Ella den Elzen
Ella den Elzen is a Montréal-based artist and curator. Her multi-disciplinary practice engages with writing, installation, sound, and film, to explore and critique the politics of the built environment, with a focus on archives and institutions. Her writing has been published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, CMagazine, and Public Parking Journal.
Ella den Elzen has exhibited work at ACUD Galerie, Germany; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Ella den Elzen, Dunn's River Still Life, 2022, backlit transparency film and lightbox, 4613/16 × 331/8 in. (118.87 × 84.07 cm)
Ella den Elzen, Green Screen, 2022, digital print on PVC, metal clamps and photo backdrop stand, 7013/16 × 551/8 × 271/2 in. (179.83 × 139.95 × 69.85 cm)
Ella den Elzen, Value (to come from nowhere), 2023, UV print on aluminum dibond, engraved alumnium panel, audio, water infused with annatto and jar
Ella den Elzen, A warm and homey feeling, 2020, video, 4 min, single channel
Ella den Elzen, The trouble with disorderly detail, 2023, lasercut aluminum frame, aluminum lightbox and backlit transparency film with archival photographs, 353/8 × 235/8 in. (89.92 × 59.94 cm)
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2023: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Aileen Murphy
Aileen Murphy creates paintings that convey corporeal and psychological tenacity. Murphy employs painting as an artistic process in which color and motion are living wires.
Aileen Murphy has exhibited work at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; Deborah Schamoni, Munich; and Amanda Wilkinson, London, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Aileen Murphy, soprano crush, 2023, oil, oil bar, acrylic ink and pencil on canvas, 707/8 × 627/8 in. (180.09 × 159.77 cm)
Aileen Murphy, Hi! Arrangement, 2022, oil and pigment on canvas, 755/16 × 701/16 in. (191.26 × 178.03 cm)
Aileen Murphy, PANTING, 2019, exhibition view. Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Aileen Murphy, In the gale, with Gale, 2020, oil and oil bar on canvas, 76.8
Aileen Murphy, food that I would feed my lover, 2022, exhibition view. Deborah Schamoni, Munich
