Past Residents
Past Resident2020: AES+F
Polina Kanis
Polina Kanis’s works interrogate the suspended moment and expose the dialectical relationship between action and non-action, dissolving the boundary between human and non-human. The artist aims to create shifts in accepted temporalities to decentralize the ‘normal’ human temporal perspective. She considers re-describing and re-sensing our surroundings as crucial for developing an alternative outlook on the planetary.
Polina Kanis has exhibited work at VISIO, Florence; Russian Federations’ pavilion of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale; and The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, among others.
Polina Kanis, Adaptive Degradation, 2018, video, sound, and metal.
Polina Kanis, Toothless Resistance 2, 2020, video and sound installation, 31 min.
Polina Kanis, Don't Turn Around, 2019, video installation, 31 min and 33 sec.
Polina Kanis, The Procedure, 2017, three-channel installation, 24:39 min.
Polina Kanis, Toothless Resistance 2, 2020, video, 16 min.
Residents from Russia
Past Resident2020: Vision Fund
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner grappling with the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished: ecologies of Black living, Black textual production, Black utterances, and Black spiritualities. She creates ecosystems of iterative and provisional projects. These projects include sprawling, “architecturally-scaled” xerox-based collages; large-scale public installations; publications; prints; digital archives; lecture-performances; library interventions; poems/poetic gestures; and other forms yet to be determined.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed has exhibited work at Brooklyn Museum; New Museum of Art, New York; and Institute of Contemporary Art – University of Pennsylvania, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, A Casual Mathematics, 2019, archival inkjet prints, xeroxes, acetate, vinyl, paint, and drywall, dimensions variable.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, A Casual Mathematics, 2019, archival inkjet prints, xeroxes, acetate, vinyl, paint, and drywall, dimensions variable.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, No New Theories, 2019, artist book published by Printed Matter, 61/8 × 39/16 in. (15.5 × 9 cm).
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Every Sentence is a Sponge, 2020, archival inkjet prints, xeroxes, acetate, paint, nail, and ink.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2020: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Nezaket Ekici
Nezaket Ekici creates performances, installations, and videos are often inspired by her dual German-Turkish cultural heritage.
Nezaket Ekici has exhibited work at MARTa Herford, Germany, MoMA PS1, New York, and Art Basel, Hong Kong, among others.
Nezaket Ekici, Kaffeeklatsch, 2019, video performance.
Nezaket Ekici, But all that Glitters is not Gold, 2014, video performance.
Nezaket Ekici, Human Cactus, 2012, video performance.
Nezaket Ekici, Lifting a Secret, 2007, performance installation.
Nezaket Ekici, Water to Water, 2015, performance installation.
