Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Canton de Vaud, Service des Affaires Culturelles
Philémon Otth
Philémon Otth’s artistic practice revolves around challenging questions of time and temporalities, history and histories, material and immaterial, transparency and opacity. He is interested in exploring sites and situations by questioning the implications of images and objects within their spatial and socio-historical contexts. Otth approaches these ideas through configurations of form and language, displacement and shifting strategies.
Philémon Otth has exhibited work at CAN – Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel; Plymouth Rock, Zürich; and Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, all Switzerland, among others.
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2021: International Visegrad Fund
Maja Štefančíková
Maja Štefančíková creates temporary performative situations. She interested in the role of a spectator as a subject and an object of and artwork. She aims to understand the effort audience members put into the perception and understanding, or lack thereof, of an artwork and the interpretation that ensues. Further, the artist explores social phenomena such as work, institutionalized spaces, and the current art ecosystem, in relation to aesthetic experiences, perception and memory.
Maja Štefančíková has exhibited work at House of Arts Brno, Czech Republic; Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Anna Witt
Anna Witt’s artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. She creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power structures as well as conventions of speaking and acting. Her public experimental arrangements often physically draw passersby by repeating imitation of specifically coded gestures and developing complex choreographies, thus giving the participants an opportunities for individual articulation and authorship.
Anna Witt has exhibited work at Belvedere 21, Vienna; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; and KW Institue for Contemporary Art, Berlin, among others.