Past Residents

Residents Map

Past Resident
2016: Maraya Art Centre

Raja’a Khalid

Raja’a Khalid’s practice is concerned with contemporary narratives of class, luxury, and consumer and material cultures, especially those that connect her native Arabian Gulf region with the world at large. She is interested in how current day capitalist economies articulate ‘culture’ and seek out motifs of soft power that reflect on the Gulf’s streaming constructions of heritage, authenticity, wealth, masculinity, sport, game, athleticism, adornment, wellness and wilderness. Outcomes are often sculptural abstractions based on these investigations and mediums employed include industrial processes, systems or rhetoric e.g. patents, wholesale supplies or B2B goods, etc.

Raja’a Khalid (born 1984, Saudi Arabia) is a Dubai-based artist and writer. She received her MFA in Fine Art from Cornell University, where she was also the recipient of the Cornell Council for the Arts Grant in 2013. Recent awards and residencies include the NYU Abu Dhabi FIND Research Fellowship, 2014; the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen International Fellowship for Art and Theory, 2015, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Guest Residency, 2015. Her work has been shown in New York, Dubai and Vienna.

Residents from United Arab Emirates

Ingo Mittelstaedt

In an interplay of art historical references and photographic alienation, aesthetical resolution and material presence, Ingo Mittelstaedt uses analogue photographs to explore the abstraction inherent in the medium. At the center of his practice are commonly used objects, nature or art. The artist gallantly oscillates between a documentary approach and staged disarrangements and lets both approaches become indistinct or collide.

Ingo Mittelstaedt (born 1978 in Berlin) studied at HBK Braunschweig, Germany. His works have been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions. Mittelstaedt has been awarded the bi-annual art prize of the Kunstverein Hannover. He is currently living and working at Villa Minimo, Hannover. In 2016, he will have solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Hannover and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.

Past Resident
2015: Danish Arts Foundation

Astrid Myntekær

Astrid Myntekær constantly tests, challenges and refines materials and technologies in new contexts and compositions. Light and sound merge and hit you in both body and head. Posh and high-tech materials establish sculptural and performative links to more low-key materials from the local DIY shop and low-key industrial producers. In a time when hackers are the new revolutionaries—and there are signs that we could perhaps move completely through the screen—Astrid Myntekær lets topics of biology, emotion and spirit resonate through her work.

Astrid Myntekær (1985, Denmark) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Her recent solo shows include MANA, Black Sesame Space, Beijing and ORGONE at Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Astrid Myntekær’s work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde; Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Kunstforeningen Gl Strand; and Gallery Jacob Bjørn. Astrid Myntekær is representing Denmark at the Jeune Creation Europeenne Biennale, 2015–17.