Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Artis
Yael Frank
Yael Frank is a multi-disciplinary artist working mainly in sculpture and video. Her satiric projects conceptually hack cultural and textual systems, arguing for emotional connections between historical memory and esoteric consumerist goods. Frank employs comedic strategies to expose multiple points of view on the precarious state of ethical concepts. Her work aims to test the seriousness of political ethos by orchestrating situations that are physically beyond language.
Yael Frank has exhibited work at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and FuturDome, Milano, among others.
Yael Frank, IN A NUTSHELL, 2020, fake coconut tree, metal, styrofoam, epoxy and industrial paint, 240 × 60 in. (609.6 × 152.4 cm)
Yael Frank, GRID, 2021, video, sound, PVC, wood, metal, paint and ceramics, dimensions variable
Yael Frank, A Problem, 2018, video, 4:30 min
Yael Frank, A Monument for Monuments, 2015, styrofoam, paint, plaster and wood, 240 × 94 × 63 in. (609.6 × 238.76 × 160.02 cm)
Yael Frank, YES (no), 2019, architectural intervention, drywall and paint, dimensions variable
Past Resident2022: Bunkacho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Kenji Yamada
Kenji Yamada is an artist who carries out social practice and activities to share conflicts and paradoxes within international society. These conflicts and paradoxes emerge from application and misuse of ethnographical wisdoms, remains and modern heritages, including war ruins in a particular cultural area. He complexly questions undifferentiated historical views and public interest by cooperating with citizens to publicize and reveal historical artifacts that have been buried by the construction of public spaces to society.
Kenji Yamada has exhibited at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo; Yang Art Museum, Beijing; and Morgue Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, among others.
Kenji Yamada, MITA Intercept, 2020, video installation, 5:28 min
Kenji Yamada, Intercepted self-portrait, 2017, 3 channel video installation, 5:00 min
Kenji Yamada, Cao Gang River meeting practice, 2016, 10 channel video installation, 67:00 min
Kenji Yamada, Smurfed remain, 2016, 2 channel video installation, 90:00 min
Kenji Yamada, BSIM (, 2011, Interactive video installation
Past Resident2022: ARTWORKS
Dimitra Kondylatou
Dimitra Kondylatou is a video producer, editor, writer, and host interested by the boundaries of art and how it interacts with tourism and daily life. Kondylatou explores gestures, practices, and correspondences through the lens of hospitality and exchange contexts and spaces. Her work merges ideas and crosses boundaries with other disciplines such as anthropology.
Dimitra Kondylatou has exhibited work at the 27th Athens International Film Festival; State of Concept, Athens; and W139, Amsterdam, among others.
Dimitra Kondylatou, LUXENIA, 2021, short film, 10:04 min.
Dimitra Kondylatou, In the shade of the season, 2021, video essay, 22:57 min.
Dimitra Kondylatou, Alternate Paths, 2020, workshop
Dimitra Kondylatou, Part of Art, 2017, in situ multimedia installation
Dimitra Kondylatou, THE BOX: on edges, vertices, faces and commodified intimacies, 2017, video essay, 10:48 min.
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Studio #217
