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Past Resident
2022: Artis

Artist

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.

$\Permanent installation of a fake coconut tree bending down from the roof along the facade of Artport Residency Building$

Yael Frank, IN A NUTSHELL, 2020, fake coconut tree, metal, styrofoam, epoxy and industrial paint, 240 × 60 in. (609.6 × 152.4 cm)

Installation shot from the solo exhibition GRID at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Yael Frank, GRID, 2021, video, sound, PVC, wood, metal, paint and ceramics, dimensions variable

A still shot from the video A Problem, where three dental set jaws give a speech about a problem

Yael Frank, A Problem, 2018, video, 4:30 min

11 large scale pink thumbs sunk into the floor in a composition influenced by Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Jericho

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

Residents from United States

Hellen Ascoli

This interactive sound table is an exploration of the relationship between text and textile, particularly through the oral tradition.

United States, Guatemala

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

Studio #302

Andrew Ross

Escher once asked, “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” The Dutch artist might have ignored the fundamentals of gravity, but Andrew Ross takes them head on, laying out a narrative where gravity is a character as real as the mole or ant. Ross’s exhibition—with its creatures, exotic garden, and reclining man admiring an apple —distorts what could otherwise be seen as a kind of pastoral. Using the language of display (plinths, pedestals, trusses), Ross teases out the purgatory between what we experience and what we know: the heavens, the earth, and the scafolding that connects them. The many faces of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson found in Ross’s flowers One suspects Tyson would admire the way that Ross’s universe, situated in the double helix of fact and ction, gives body to the forces we usually take for granted. His Untitled (Figure), a nod to the Newtonian myth, locates us in a moment of wonder when daydreams collide with reality. The ceiling and floor collapse and leave us with a divine sense of self- awareness. In the words of Tyson: “We are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us.” — Kat Herriman, Artforum Critic's Pick

United States

Celebrate the Studio

2023

Meghana Karnik

Exhibition view of TITLE TBD, a group exhibition featuring work by ⚙️️Admin, Adult Kindergarten, Thomas Barger, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, GenderFail, Jeff Kasper, Ariane Loze, Natalia Nakazawa, Emily Mae Smith and presented at The Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery.

United States

Artis

2022

Japan

Past Resident
2022: Bunkacho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

2021 Fall Open Studios

November 13, 2021

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

Residents from Japan

Yuki Higashino

Japan, Austria

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

2020

Saya Irie

Japan

Pola Art Foundation

2021

Silas Inoue

Denmark, Japan

Danish Arts Foundation

2022

Greece

Past Resident
2022: ARTWORKS

Artist

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.