Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Sara Cwynar, Red Film, 2018, video, 13:01 min.
Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold, 2017, video, 8 min.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Malte Bartsch
In his work Malte Bartsch combines childish naivety with technical refinement. He tries to solve the questionable position of the given truth. His installations work with physical laws but also dissolve them.
Malte Bartsch has exhibited work at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, among others.
Malte Bartsch, Time Machine, 2013 - ongoing, sculpture, 16 × 12 × 5 in. (40.64 × 30.48 × 12.7 cm).
Malte Bartsch, KR1620, 2019, sculpture, 240 × 240 × 120 in. (609.6 × 609.6 × 304.8 cm).
Malte Bartsch, Brumm Brumm Brumm, 2017, sculpture, 800 × 600 × 150 in. (2032 × 1524 × 381 cm).
Malte Bartsch, EC, 2018, sculpture, 31 × 35 × 51 in. (78.74 × 88.9 × 129.54 cm).
Malte Bartsch, Rakete, 2019, video, 12 min.
Past Resident2020: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical contents and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).