Current Residents
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen
Studio #214
Artist
Irène Mélix
Irène Mélix is an artist and cultural worker whose research-based practice engages with queer identities, political histories, border spaces, and artistic labor. She studied in Hildesheim, Dresden, Paris, and Kraków, and works across media at the intersection of social and aesthetic inquiry. Mélix has exhibited widely across Europe, taught at universities and art academies, and recently completed her Ph.D. at Bauhaus University Weimar, focusing on artistic methods of queering historiography.
Irène Mélix has exhibited work at Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, France; Schwules Museum, Germany; BWA – Galerie Sztuki Współczesnej, Poland, among others.
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2025
ISCP Alumni Fund
Studio #217
Artist
Minja Gu
Minja Gu observes and reconfigures everyday routines and social structures through personal performances, transforming the ordinary into poetic, humorous, or unfamiliar experiences. Working across video, installation, photography, and drawing, her practice highlights what is often overlooked. Based in Seoul, she holds degrees in Painting, Philosophy, and Visual Art. Gu has participated in international residencies and was a Korea Artist Prize finalist in 2018.
Minja Gu has exhibited work at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea; Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea; and Mori Art Museum, Japan, among others.
Past Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Petros Chrisostomou and Minja Gu
December 13, 2011