Past Residents
Sonia Leimer
In her installations, Sonia Leimer explores our perceptual foundations, which are formed on the basis of individual, historical, and media-related patterns of experience. As products of concrete historical contexts, rooms and objects undergo a transformation in which history and societal changes become palpable.
Sonia Leimer lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted a radio titled City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography together with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibited her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto.
Sonia Leimer, Undefined Building Project, 2013, Art in public space.
Sonia Leimer, New Land / Nowaja Semlja / Neues Land, 2015, Installation.
Sonia Leimer, Conquest of the Useless, 2017, Installation.
Sonia Leimer, Unstable on Instable, 2017, Installation.
Sonia Leimer, Untitled (Vorgartenstrasse, Engerthstrasse, Paradiesgasse, Aumannplatz, Mooslackengasse), 2015, Installation.
Residents from Italy
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
2024
Lisa Seebach
Lisa Seebach’s space-consuming course of sculptural formations is reminiscent of a deserted playground at night. Like delicate drawings on a piece of paper, constructions of steel stand shakily in the exhibition space. They evoke notions of processes frozen in time, absurd training tools, or a conglomeration of homemade machines from an unknown industry. Seebach’s sculptures made of bent steel and ceramic volumes appear like highly enlarged drawings transcribed in space. The works’ underlying freehand drawings emerge on site from memory, or are based on research as extracted from observations, abstract circumstances, and individual emotions and thoughts. They refer to architectonic elements, forms and structures that are isolated, modified, and newly combined.
Lisa Seebach (born 1981, Cologne, Germany) studied at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2016, she received the Friedrich-Vordemberge Prize of Cologne, the Gustav Weidanz Award in Halle and the artist’s prize of Brandenburg. Her work was show in recent group exhibitions at artothek, Cologne, 2016; Kunstverein Hannover, 2015; Villa Arson, Nice, 2015; Idling Gallery, Berlin 2014; and Biennale Mulhouse, 2012.
Lisa Seebach, From the Outside (Welt), 2016, Steel, glazed ceramics, and lacquer, 865/8 × 1279/16 × 511/8 in. (219.96 × 323.98 × 129.79 cm).
Lisa Seebach, Power Circle, 2014, Steel and glazed ceramics.
Lisa Seebach, Missing These Signs, 2016, Steel and glazed ceramics, 723/8 × 46 × 511/8 in. (183.9 × 116.84 × 129.79 cm).
Past Resident2017: Maraya Art Centre
Areej Kaoud
Areej Kaoud’s art practice draws on her interest in narratives and disastrous scenarios. Her projects develop in a layered manner, addressing data accumulation with effect, elaborating on realities, and most importantly referring to the politics of the senses. Emergency provisions are a common subject in her practice using the mediums of writing, recording, performance art and installation.
Areej Kaoud is a Palestinian visual artist raised in Montreal, Canada. She completed a BA in Visual Arts at York University, Toronto, specializing in printmaking and drama theatre. She then moved to London where she completed an MFA at Central Saint Martins, and later a second masters in Fine Art Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a young artist, Kaoud has maintained a research-based art practice. Her first significant exhibitions were held at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto; Nomas Foundation, Rome; and Sharjah Art Foundation. Kaoud has participated in the A.i.R. Dubai program in 2016, performed at Delfina Foundation, and exhibited at the Bolivia Biennale. She produces work from her studio and is an adjunct professor at American University of Sharjah.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Areej Kaoud and Lukáš Machalický
February 28, 2017, 6:30–8pm
Areej Kaoud, The Artist Hard At Work, 2016, Performance, data accumulation and recordings.
Areej Kaoud, The Artist Hard At Work, 2016, Published medical book.
Areej Kaoud, Brigade D'Urgence (Emergency Brigade), 2016, Performance.
Areej Kaoud, Brigade D'Urgence (Emergency Brigade), 2016, Performance.
Areej Kaoud, Emergency Daydream 'I Think About Tearing Muscles Like Paper', 2016-2017, Voice recordings and data accumulation.
