Past Residents
Past Resident2024: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Mandy Gehrt
In her practice, Mandy Gehrt engages with forms remembering and preserving, exploring cultures of commemoration and the construction of history. Her interest extends to private collections, diverse archiving methods, and rituals of remembrance. Gehrt crafts personal collections and artistic archives, selectively presenting them in exhibitions, public spaces, or educational institutions. Her approach is characterized by exploration, as she continuously uncovers novel forms and displays to bring forgotten or overlooked histories to light, fostering a meaningful dialogue around them.
Mandy Gehrt has exhibited work at Artwall Gallery, Czech Republic; Kultur Leioa Auditorium, Spain; and Museo Rautenstrauch-Joest, Germany, among others.
Mandy Gehrt, miners rest, 2021-22, 12 GDR steel tube chairs, 3 GDR steel tube tables and foil prints
Mandy Gehrt, I‘m not just German; I‘m an East German woman!, 2020, 11 archival prints
Mandy Gehrt, Meyerland, 2018, installation, 3 tables, 3 lamps, archival prints, and sound
Mandy Gehrt, heirlooms, 2019, installation
Past Resident2024: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton Arts Council
Alma Visscher
Alma Louise Visscher creates fabric-based installations, jewelry and drawings that consider resources and material culture and the poetic possibilities and problems within these. Through process and materials, she explores the intersection of materiality and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These motivations have led her to explore materials such as working with natural dyes and inks sourced from her immediate environments and repurposed textiles and materials.
Alma Louise Visscher has exhibited work at Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta; Idea Exchange. Ontario; Kimura Gallery, Alaska, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Alma Visscher, Odradek, 2021, handmade ink on paper, 14 × 10 in. (35.56 × 25.4 cm)
Alma Visscher, Hedge Study, 2023, cedar ink, handmade paper and fabric on paper, 12 × 17 in. (30.48 × 43.18 cm)
Alma Visscher, holding it together, 2021, machine pleated and dyed and airbrushed found fabric, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Alma Visscher, The waiting, 2019, hand painted and airbrushed cotton and linen fabric, grommets and draping, 108 × 35 in. (274.32 × 88.9 cm)
Alma Visscher, Portable Paintings, 2018, hand dyed and sewnfabric, dimensions variable
