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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 Israel

Ruthi Helbitz Cohen

Beloved women portraits, heroines such as poets, politicians, personal beloved ones, my mother, my daughter, paper works ink on paper, stains, coffee leftovers mixed with ink

Israel

Haaretz Art Collection

Studio #206

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin

A black wolf sewn out of fabric stands on a cylindrical black base. It has human teeth in its mouth and a small woman wearing a red t-shirt in its belly.

Israel

Artis

2023

Ruth Patir

Israel, United States

Artis

2023

Latvia

Past Resident
2022: TMU - Trust For Mutual Understanding, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Vita Liberte

Artist

Krišs Salmanis

In his work, Krišs Salmanis employs animation, video, photography, and his own body. The artist attempts to uncover paradox and a quest for truth, as well as subtle irony and existential sadness, by frequently employing minimal form.

Krišs Salmanis has exhibited work at the 55th Venice Biennale; Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga; and Art in General, New York, among others.

I spent three months at the A4 residency in Chengdu, PRC. These works document my attempts at living like a local.

Krišs Salmanis, Noone looks me in the eye but the cameras, 2019, photograph, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)

I witnessed the 70th anniversary of the China Communist party.

Krišs Salmanis, Flags vs. roadsigns, 2019, photograph, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)

Chengdu prides itself for having the most laid-back way of life in China.

Krišs Salmanis, I walk quickly.., 2019, photograph , 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)

Chengdu also prides itself for having the spiciest cuisine in China.

Krišs Salmanis, ..but I eat slowly, 2019, photograph , 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)

Krišs Salmanis, At cross purposes, 2019, photograph , 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)

Residents from Latvia

Jānis Dzirnieks

Latvia

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre

2024

Ginta Tinte Vasermane

Latvia, The Netherlands

Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos

2022

Līga Spunde

Latvia

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Jeffrey Rosen, Misako & Rosen Gallery

2023

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.