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Past Resident
2022: International Visegrad Fund

Artist

Marta Krześlak

Marta Krześlak uses video, collage, electrical components and found material to create kinetic and spatial installations. Her work constructs landscapes from both memory and imagination, while experimenting with scale and kitsch to renegotiate decisions already made within discarded objects, pushing them into the realm of the absurd. By putting her work in motion, she provokes a choreography of movements between object and visitor, creating an ever-shifting frame of reference through which to view the universe.

Marta Krześlak has exhibited work at Zachęta National Gallery Project Room, Warsaw; Gdansk City Gallery; and Muzeum of Art, Łódź, among others.

The tornado over the chamomile box house is a mobile with spinning objects from my garage. You could say that a storm is a permanent state, but often invisible. I am interested in movements that cannot be seen. The movement of particles when you move or the passage of time – but also things and phenomena that we notice from a certain perspective because their reference point has changed.

Marta Krześlak, Tornado, 2021, kinetic object, 40 × 150 × 40 in. (101.6 × 381 × 101.6 cm).

The looped poetic narrative in the accompanying projection gradually changes perspective from the scale of the universe, through the desert, to the artist’s home. Then her multiplied silhouette becomes a stellar constellation, to finally turn out to be the morning dew. The projection is accompanied by a soundtrack topped, perversely, by the song ‘My Heart Will Go On’. The film can be interpreted in many ways: symbolically, pop-culturally, nostalgically or purely aesthetically.

Marta Krześlak, Moving Things, 2021, video, 6:58 min..

The gallery space is a two-room apartment from the early 20th century. In one of the rooms I project a video of a semi-absurd dream. The projection takes up the entire wall, looking through the windows from outside it seems to be a passage to another dimension. The video is accompanied by a mix of songs from the 90s processed in post-production. The cli- max of the video is a progressively louder fragment of the song All by myself combined with a randomly edited image of a girl galloping on a horse. The girl’s dress flashes changing co- lors, the lights in the room blink reacting to the high notes in the song throwing sparkles to illuminate the room and towards the end the lamps begin to move with the spinning dress. After 9 minutes, the song quiets down, the video and lamps turn off, the room lights up.

Marta Krześlak, Home on a windy night, 2021, video, moving lamps and arduino, 8:55 min..

Installation Stars Cry is a bitter-sweet tale about ourselves. I try to develop this piercingly sad story tapping into affective, atmospheric, nostalgic emotions coded in our memory and dig deeper into the moments of rapture – immensely grotesque in their visual appeal. Welcome to the predicted distant future. A dream takes you into a parallel world where the only witness is the light of a night lamp standing by the bed.

Marta Krześlak, Stars Cry, 2019, multimedia installation, dimensions variable.

The ruins of my dreams are an unnecessary object turned into a sentimental landscape. I try to to detach it from its remembered utility and give it a poetic function. I am interested in the aesthetics of plastic, inflatable castles and the absurdity of their indestructibility. I inflate a huge found castle like a fantastic dream and I invite you to walk on its surface. The waving giant is accompanied by pop, love songs from the 90s, sung sung by me and processed in postproduction.

Marta Krześlak, Ruins of my dreams, 2018, installation and audio, 300 × 400 × 100 in. (762 × 1016 × 254 cm).

Residents from Poland

Kornel Janczy

Poland

International Visegrad Fund

Studio #203

Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz

Poland

International Visegrad Fund

2024

Nadia Markiewicz

Poland

International Visegrad Fund

2023

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Luxembourg, Germany

Past Resident
2022: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg

Artist

Mary-Audrey Ramirez

Mary-Audrey Ramirez juxtaposes fantasy and reality to portray her fascination in the otherworldly. Ramirez views worldbuilding as a crucial part of her artistic process. She draws inspiration from elements of cosplay and video games, and ways in which technology has infiltrated our daily lives.

Mary-Audrey Ramirez has exhibited work at Trauma Bar Und Kino, Berlin; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; and Dortmunder Kunstverein, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Fall Open Studios

November 18–November 19, 2022

Mary-Audrey Ramirez BKEEPR's Garden, beacon Munich, 2021 Photo: Drik Tacke

Mary-Audrey Ramirez, BKEEPR's Garden, 2021, fabric, PVC and metal, dimensions variable . Photo by Drik Tacke.

Mary-Audrey Ramirez QT UR EA, Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin, 2020 Photo: Kitty Lee Schumacher

Mary-Audrey Ramirez, QT UR EA, 2020, fabric, PVC and metal, dimensions variable. Photo by Kitty Lee Schumacher.

Mary-Audrey Ramirez INTO A GRAVEYARD FROM ANYWHERE, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2020 Photo: Alwin Lay

Mary-Audrey Ramirez, tentacles, 2020, fabric, PVC and metal, dimensions variable. Photo by Alwin Lay.

Mary-Audrey Ramirez Sadness Reigns, MARTINETZ Cologne, 2022

Mary-Audrey Ramirez, low health POV of Shrimpboy in the snow. Dreaming., 2022, digital sculpture.

Mary-Audrey Ramirez Ranni´s sleep spell, MARTINETZ Cologne, 2022 Photo: Tamara Lorenz

Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Ranni´s sleep spell, 2022, embroidery, 29¹/₂ × 59¹/₁₆ in. (75.01 × 150.01 cm). Photo by Tamara Lorenz.

Residents from Germany

Irène Mélix

Germany

KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Studio #214

Markéta Adamcová

Czech Republic, Germany

International Visegrad Fund

Studio #201

Vanja Smiljanić

Serbia, Portugal, Germany

Innovation Properties Group

2025

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Greece

Past Resident
2022: ARTWORKS

Artist

Dimitra Kondylatou

Dimitra Kondylatou is a video producer, editor, writer, and host interested by the boundaries of art and how it interacts with tourism and daily life. Kondylatou explores gestures, practices, and correspondences through the lens of hospitality and exchange contexts and spaces. Her work merges ideas and crosses boundaries with other disciplines such as anthropology.

Dimitra Kondylatou has exhibited work at the 27th Athens International Film Festival; State of Concept, Athens; and W139, Amsterdam, among others.