Current Residents
Current Resident: Feb 1, 2025–Apr 30, 2025
Vision Fund
Studio #217
Artist
Angel Lartigue
Angel Lartigue works through the lens of Bacteriomancy. Her work takes the form of archaeology, forensics, and fashion to examine putrefaction, one of the biological stages of decomposition, and its capability for nourishment.
Angel Lartigue has exhibited work at SOOT, New York; The Latinx Project at NYU, New York; and USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, among others.
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Angel Lartigue, Bacteriomancy, 2024, inkjet printed garment and photographic vinyl installation, dimensions variable.
Angel Lartigue, La desintegración de un amor, 2024, inkjet printed banner, 104 Petri dish garment and video, dimensions variable.
Angel Lartigue, MB 03 (Inisheer, Aran Islands), 2024, digital photography.
Angel Lartigue, MB 02 (Inisheer, Aran Islands), 2024, digital photography.
Angel Lartigue, Mass Body, 2024, photographic vinyl installation, dimensions variable.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025
KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Studio #214
Artist
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.
garff.deEvents & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2025
April 25–April 26, 2025
Matthias Garff, Gardenbirds, 2019, Installation and mixed media. Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Germany.
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).
Matthias Garff, Tawny owl, 2022, aluminium bowl, pot, bicycle helmet and dishwashing brushes, 8 × 15 × 10 in. (20.32 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm).
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).
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).
Past Resident2025: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund
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.
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).
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.
Felix Shumba, TI-210, 2022, charcoal on paper, 43 × 55 in. (109.22 × 139.7 cm).
Felix Shumba, Stars at times in veins, 2024, charcoal on paper, 59 × 47 in. (149.86 × 119.38 cm).
