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Denmark

Past Resident
2021: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Lotte Nielsen

Lotte Nielsen’s art document the living conditions of LGBT people, particularly youths. Through an artistic and social policy lens, she aims to facilitate the collection, study, and dispersion of information about the ‘lived experience’ of this demographic. Through her practice, the artist aims to empower these often marginalized or vulnerable communities.

Lotte Nielsen has exhibited at The Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen; Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen; and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios

November 13, 2021

Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Residents from Denmark

Tora Schultz

Danish Arts Foundation

Studio #207

Asta Lynge and Jakob Ohrt

Danish Arts Foundation

Studio #305

Marie Munk

Danish Arts Foundation

2024

Zimbabwe

Past Resident
2021: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy

Artist

Micha Serraf

Micha Serraf is a photographer who explores the construction and deconstruction of identity, belonging, Blackness and masculinity through photography. The artist was born in Zimbabwe and fled to South Africa at a young age. This mobility prompted Serraf to observe his behaviour and that of other foreign nationals regarding the safest shape to inhabit in new environments. This fluid presentation of self, and the ability to be malleable, are used to access forms of acceptance and camouflage. Through his practice, Serraf is interested in demonstrating the evolutionary, fluid and emotional entanglements related to the purpose, interpretations and performance of race and origin.

Micha Serraf has exhibited work at Foam, Amsterdam; Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam; C/O Berlin, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Micha Serraf: Hope Is a Dry Colour

May 19–May 22, 2022

2021 Fall Open Studios

November 13, 2021

I was born in Zimbabwe where my mother and her mother's mother’s mothers were born. My family and I left for the border of South Africa at 4 o'clock in the morning when I was almost 10 years old. These alien landscapes are still foreign to me. Yet I am the alien here. I struggle to feel safe or impart meaning on them. Chipoko is the Shona word for the soul, breath or ghost of a person or a spirit. These photographs are the visual navigation of an unknown and unplaced feeling of a deep nostalgia. An attempt to reach out to my ancestry for guidance and belonging. Each sculpture, a totem. Each landscape, different. Strong, tall, dark. A visit from my mothers.

Micha Serraf, Midzi Yedu, 2021, photograph, 29¹/₂ × 39³/₈ in. (74.93 × 100.08 cm).

I was born in Zimbabwe where my mother and her mother's mother’s mothers were born. My family and I left for the border of South Africa at 4 o'clock in the morning when I was almost 10 years old. These alien landscapes are still foreign to me. Yet I am the alien here. I struggle to feel safe or impart meaning on them. Chipoko is the Shona word for the soul, breath or ghost of a person or a spirit. These photographs are the visual navigation of an unknown and unplaced feeling of a deep nostalgia. An attempt to reach out to my ancestry for guidance and belonging. Each sculpture, a totem. Each landscape, different. Strong, tall, dark. A visit from my mothers.

Micha Serraf, Rangarirai, 2021, photograph, 88³/₁₆ × 55¹/₈ in. (224.03 × 139.95 cm).

I imagine that when we landed here our parachutes were made of silk. I imagine that when we landed here our parachutes were made of satin and embedded with diamonds. I imagine that because we look like them - we would be treated as one. I imagine that once we learned their language and adopted their ways we would be seen. I imagine that once my mother built her home they would allow us to live among them. I imagine that once we brought laughter and rain that our relationships would blossom. I imagine that here was not our first choice. I imagine that leaving home wasn’t either. Yet, we are here now. Standing among the flowers and the stones my feet can feel the soil. Rooted loosely in the ground, when I close my eyes - I imagine home.

Micha Serraf, When we landed, 2020, photograph, 24¹³/₁₆ × 33¹/₂ in. (62.99 × 85.09 cm).

We must remain vigilant and active in protecting the revolutionary disposition of transforming masculinity, advancing queer activism and disrupting gender more broadly. This project also aims to inspire critical reflections on the quality and purpose of gender in our society. To encourage people to see themselves anew through these images and begin being more introspective with their own gender fluidity, discourse and practice. With gender existing on a vast spectrum of personal freedom, this series seeks to celebrate and make visible queer identities that exist outside the dominant and popular gender imagination.

Micha Serraf, Chizvaro, 2018, photograph, 19⁵/₈ × 22⁷/₈ in. (49.78 × 58.17 cm).

Our ancestors have roamed these plains since the cradle of humankind. Cave to reed to mud to stone to brick to concrete to steel. Bearing witness to the floods, droughts, famines, seasons and the very rebuilding and restructuring of life itself. They exist among us as giants with a knowledge shaped and formed by the rivers of time and the mistakes that come with it. The forgotten royalty of our people wrapped in modernity.

Micha Serraf, Kukura, 2017, photograph, 15⁷/₈ × 23⁵/₈ in. (40.39 × 59.94 cm).

Residents from Zimbabwe

Felix Shumba

Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund

Studio #304

Turkey, United States

Past Resident
2021: SAHA Association

Artist

Baris Gokturk

Baris Gokturk reconstructs two-dimensional historical documents, photographs, and archival imagery about events or individuals overlooked by the mainstream history. Through three-dimensional layers, hybrid fragments, and installations that oscillate between drawing, painting and sculpture, Gokturk rebuilds photographic images as physical surfaces, which he then peels off and reapplies to other found or sculpted objects to draw attention to specific historic moments echoed in current events.

Baris Gokturk has exhibited work at ELM Foundation, Brooklyn; The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem; Pera Museum, Istanbul, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios

November 13, 2021

Monument III is based on a photograph I saw on the wall of a working-class restaurant in Ankara, Turkey. The photograph shows an equestrian statue of Ataturk, the founder of republic, right before it left the foundry.

Baris Gokturk, Monument III, 2018, polyurethane, metal, acrylic, and Xerox transfer, 48 × 84 × 15 in. (121.92 × 213.36 × 38.1 cm).

The photograph shows a group of high-ranked military officers in full uniform looking grimly down on a stretcher, at what is left of Komarov: a charred, disfigured mass that somewhat looks like a body. The image is painful. The men in charge in the photo however display an odd detachment on their faces. They seem neutral, even cold, perhaps disappointed. They are simultaneously looking at a failed ideological as well as technological project-the space mission- and the remains of a human being.

Baris Gokturk, The Kozmonaut, 2018, polyurethane, Papier-mâché, Xerox paper, and metal, 40 × 30 × 15 in. (101.6 × 76.2 × 38.1 cm).

Uniform is a live performance with supplemental website content (pictured in the slide) . Commissioned by Jewish Museum in New York, the performance is a mediation on two photographs, one in the picture frame, the other absent, about two events and two individuals who made different choices under parallel circumstances.

Baris Gokturk, Uniform, 2021, video, photographs, website.

Baris Gokturk, Untitled (Fires_Riot_008), 2020, Image transfer, ink, acrylic, and oil on linen, 80 × 68 in. (203.2 × 172.72 cm).

Baris Gokturk, All Saints, 2021, image transfer, polymer, ink, acrylic, and netting, 192 × 288 in. (487.68 × 731.52 cm).

Residents from United States

Laura Lappi

Finland, United States

Alfred Kordelin Foundation

Studio #201

Ailyn Lee

United States, South Korea

Studio #210

Angel Lartigue

Studio #217