Past Residents
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–May 31, 2026
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking and embroidery. Maksud’s practice is concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their impact on memory and identities. Through her work she strives to destabilize established narratives in order to reveal state fictions.
Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Video Brasil, Brazil; and Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, Mali, among others.
Past Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2014, mixed media installation, vlisco Hollandaise wax fabric, bleach, soap, and water, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, Provisional Notes on Freedom, 2021, light, sound and sculptural installation, 15 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2020, 4-channel sound installation on prayer mat.
Keli Safia Maksud, They Try Their Tongues, 2022, light, sound and sculptural installation, 8 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, embroidery on carbon paper, light and sound installation.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sujin Lim
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2024: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Malte Zander
Malte Zander is an artist and filmmaker living and working between Vienna and Paris. In his practice, Zander develops moving-image and freeze-frame works by combining computer-generated imagery with celluloid and canvas. In reference to online image culture and cinematic storytelling, his narrative landscapes are frequently spatially and chronologically developed over the course of numerous exhibitions.
Malte Zander has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Malte Zander, Lassitude, fatalism and resignation, 2019, archival pigment print, 12 × 13 in. (30.48 × 33.02 cm).
Malte Zander, Best Friends, 2022, pigment print, oil pastel, yarn, and UV varnish on canvas, 252 × 79 in. (640.08 × 200.66 cm).
Malte Zander, Barricade, 2021, inkjet transfer print, acrylic, and UV varnish on canvas, 35 × 49 in. (88.9 × 124.46 cm).
Malte Zander, Languor, 2019, film installation.
Malte Zander, 2019, magazine.
Residents from Germany
Valentina Furian
Valentina Furian’s practice explores the connection between reality and fiction, pushing the boundary between this duality. Her research is focused on the existing relationship between humans and natural beings; examining the worth of the wilderness, animal and human domestication as a kind of power. As a result, her landscapes are frequently filled with non-human performativity.
Valentina Furian has exhibited work at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris; and Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Valentina Furian, Ciacco, 2021, video installation, 2-ch HD video, 5.1 Dolby sound.
Valentina Furian, Centauro, 2023, HD video and stereo sound.
Valentina Furian, 55, 2019, video installation, 2-ch HD video and 8-ch audio.
Valentina Furian, 55, 2019, video installation, 2-ch HD video and 8-ch audio.
Valentina Furian, Drago, 2021, video installation and 2-ch HD video.
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
