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Germany

Current Resident: Jan 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025

KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, iscp

Studio #214

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Matthias Garff

Matthias Garff’s work focuses on the depiction of animals and our relationship with nature. Using found objects and recycled materials, he creates sculptures that are playful, thought-provoking, and marked by a fragile beauty. His work highlights biodiversity and features urban wildlife that has ingeniously adapted to its environment. His often larger-than-life sculptures blur the boundaries between human and animal identity and encourage us to reflect on our use of resources.

Matthias Garff has exhibited work at Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Germany; House of Arts, Czech Republic; and YIRI ARTS, Taiwan, among others.

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Matthias Garff, Gardenbirds, 2019, Installation and mixed media. Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Germany.
An upright walking green woodpecker in rubber boots with a long curved beak from an armrest
Matthias Garff, Green woodpecker, 2020, rubber boots, school bag, armrest, canister, fake fur and paint, 47 × 63 × 24 in. (119.38 × 160.02 × 60.96 cm).
A tawny owl out of an aluminium bowl and a bicycle helmet sitting on a pole.
Matthias Garff, Tawny owl, 2022, aluminium bowl, pot, bicycle helmet and dishwashing brushes, 8 × 15 × 10 in. (20.32 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm).
A grey heron out of an old street lamp stands on the shore of a lake.
Matthias Garff, Grey heron, 2024, street lamp, steel pipe, pegs, pot lid, teaspoon and bicycle mudguard, 32 × 100 × 67 in. (81.28 × 254 × 170.18 cm).
A giant wasp with wings made from tennis rackets.
Matthias Garff, Wasp, 2024, aluminum bowl, tennis racket, tricycle handlebars, tent poles, bicycle saddle and tires, 30 × 47 × 7 in. (76.2 × 119.38 × 17.78 cm).

Residents from Germany

Ina Gerken

Germany, United States
RYAN LEE Gallery
Studio #302

Bob Kil

United Kingdom, Germany
Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2024

Charlie Stein

Germany
Telos Foundation, Holtmann Collection
2024
Zimbabwe

Current Resident: Jan 1, 2025–Mar 31, 2025

Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund

Studio #304

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Felix Shumba

Felix Shumba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, video, text, and installation work. His work attempts at deconstructing spaces (real or imagined)—which he describes as Fold Fields Space (FFS). These are sites generally characterized and haunted by death, trauma, tension, restraint, psychic terror, ecological damage and use of the military as an apparatus of control.

Felix Shumba has exhibited work at Galleria Fonti, Italy; Jahmek Contemporary Art, Angola; and Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, among others.

The work was created at a time in which i and everyone around me felt completely uncertain, anguished, fragile andin grief because of the COVID pandemic. I became interested in the idea of uncertainty in events and in life, more so to the political funeral processions as an event which are unpredictable in postcolonial states. A funeral often leads to chaos, instability and peace
Felix Shumba, Indx-flower-memoir, anecdote, prism 16,97, 2021, oil on canvas, 78 × 59 in. (198.12 × 149.86 cm).
Felix Shumba, The catalogue of Carnivorous plants and it's preys, 2023, 96 × 55 in. (243.84 × 139.7 cm).
Ruwa River is an multiple sensory installation commissioned and supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation for the 15º Edition of Sharjah Biennial, 2023. The installation reflected on the chemical and biological war in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The installation consisted of a matrix of boxes evoking the mechanisms of intelligence gathering and looting deployed by the colonizers, with hidden speakers playing field sound , written recorded war letters evoking the conflict’s atrocities
Felix Shumba, Ruwa River, 2022, wood, aluminum wire, castor wheels, hidden speakers, lights, fabriano paper,grass , dimensions variablewood, aluminum wire, castor wheels, hidden speakers, lights, fabriano paper and grass, dimensions variable.
TI-210 was part of a series of drawings called Nocturnal Body commissioned and supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation for the 15º Edition of Sharjah Biennial, 2023. The drawings were reflecting on the violence of the chemical war in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the cost of freedom from colonialism. The charcoal drawings alludes to the chemical weapons released by the Rhodesian government’s scientific units into water sources, food systems and terrestrial ecosystem
Felix Shumba, TI-210, 2022, charcoal on paper, 43 × 55 in. (109.22 × 139.7 cm).
The work has its starting point in the episode of Cain and Abel, archetypal of fratricide, a subject matter that has been contemplated and dealt with by numerous artists since the Renaissance. Dialoguing with art history and in particular with Peter Paul Rubens' ‘Cain Slaying Abel’, Shumba renders the unfolding of their fight, the progression of time and of bodies in motion by way of four drawings, representing the climax of murdering but also the exercise of power, the vulnerability and the physical submission. In the biblical narrative, God “hears Abel’s blood crying out from the ground”. Shumba’s work is a meditation on how in our history the earth has relentlessly received blood, and how the notion of land is still defined by its own borders.
Felix Shumba, Stars at times in veins, 2024, charcoal on paper, 59 × 47 in. (149.86 × 119.38 cm).

Residents from Zimbabwe

Micha Serraf

Zimbabwe
Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
2021

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