Current Residents
Past Resident2025: Innovation Properties Group
Vanja Smiljanić
Vanja Smiljanić is a visual and performance artist whose interdisciplinary practice weaves together visual arts, video, and performance. She often employs the format of the performance-lecture to bridge fictional and experiential worlds, incorporating technical apparatus, diagrams, and sci-fi povera sculptures. By connecting systems of reality, her work explores the construction of ideologies as alienated regimes, using her own body as a vessel for narration, fluidly shifting between the roles of oracle and storyteller.
Vanja Smiljanić has exhibited work at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Gropius Bau, Berlin; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, among others.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2022, lecture, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2024, video, 19:48 min.
Vanja Smiljanić, NOVA. A feminist speculative LARP, 2024, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Viral Hallucinations, 2024, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2024, video, 19:48 min.
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–Jul 31, 2025
Artis
Studio #222
Artist
Matan Golan
Matan Golan’s installations explore the relationship between body and matter. He gives voice to bent, fatigue, and discarded forms to resist the order of things and challenge the triumph of the vertical, let alone the erect. His sculptures, whether flaccid, curved or alert, demand that objects be seen not as tools, but as beings: tired, swollen, aroused. Golan embeds moving images within his sculptural compositions, granting them pulse and agency. These performative hybrids blur the line between body and thing.
Matan Golan has exhibited work at Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Israel Mseum; and Tel Aviv Artists Studios Gallery, all in Israel, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Summer Celebration and Open House
July 16, 2025, 5–9pm
Matan Golan, Song of love and other drawers, 2024, installation view.
Matan Golan, Mollusk, 2024, wood, metal, and video on 42 in screen, 24 × 47 × 83 in. (60.96 × 119.38 × 210.82 cm).
Matan Golan, Pearl divers, 2024, painted wood and metal, 8 × 11 × 24 in. (20.32 × 27.94 × 60.96 cm).
Matan Golan, Still life with fruit, 2022, video, 3:37 min.
Matan Golan, What can a J do? (J#6), 2022, ccreen print on paper, 14 × 20 in. (35.56 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from Israel
Current Resident: May 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2025
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #218
Artist
Lukas Marxt
Lukas Marxt is an artist and filmmaker whose work examines the relationships between human activity and natural environments. Since 2017, he has researched the pre-nuclear history and ecological structures of the Salton Sea in California. His interest in the dialogue between human and geological existence, and the impact of human activity upon nature, originated during his studies in Geography and Environmental Science. His observational approach explores landscapes as sites of political and environmental significance.
Lukas Marxt has exhibited work at Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam; Hamburger Bahnhof – Contemporary Art National Gallery, Berlin; and Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, among others.
lukasmarxt.com
Lukas Marxt, Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off), 2018, video installation on cinder blocks, 65 × 98 in. (165.1 × 248.92 cm).
Lukas Marxt, Valley Pride, 2023-25, video installation, 157 in × 157 in × 106 in in. (157 in × 157 in × 106 in cm).
Lukas Marxt, Little Boy 1:1, 2022, sculpture, 135 in × 30 in × 64 in in. (135 in × 30 in × 64 in cm).
Lukas Marxt, Test Pit Log (I’m gonna realize, I’m gonna explode), 2022, drawing, 8.5 in × 11 in in. (8.5 in × 11 in cm).
