Past Residents
Sonia Leimer
In her installations, Sonia Leimer explores our perceptual foundations, which are formed on the basis of individual, historical, and media-related patterns of experience. As products of concrete historical contexts, rooms and objects undergo a transformation in which history and societal changes become palpable.
Sonia Leimer lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted a radio titled City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography together with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibited her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto.
Sonia Leimer, Undefined Building Project, 2013, Art in public space
Sonia Leimer, New Land / Nowaja Semlja / Neues Land, 2015, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Conquest of the Useless, 2017, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Unstable on Instable, 2017, Installation
Sonia Leimer, Untitled (Vorgartenstrasse, Engerthstrasse, Paradiesgasse, Aumannplatz, Mooslackengasse), 2015, Installation
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2019: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi is trained as an architect, animator and designer. His process involves the use of digital fabrication tools and simulation data as he explores the contrasting development and emotion of the individual in opposition to the wider urban context.
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi has exhibited work at University of Westminster, London; Katara Art Center, Doha; and Fire Station, Doha, among others.
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Fabricated Morph, 2017, 3D print on textile, 12 × 12 × 10 in. (30.48 × 30.48 × 25.4 cm)
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Modular Canopy, 2018, recycled construction card, 275 × 118 × 60 in. (698.5 × 299.72 × 152.4 cm)
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Consumer Consumed, 2019, plotted pen on crisp board, 72 × 281/2 in. (182.88 × 72.39 cm)
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Fabricated Emergence, 2019, mixed media on acrylic, 22 × 25 × 14 in. (55.88 × 63.5 × 35.56 cm)
Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi, Escapism, 2019, 3D print on mixed media, 60 × 20 in. (152.4 × 50.8 cm)
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2019: The Kettering Family Foundation
Conrad Egyir
Conrad Egyir’s work borrows from Afrocentric folklore that is rooted in political and religious erudition. He creates narrative paintings that focus on subjects from the Afro-diaspora who interact with identical versions of themselves. Concurrently they take on multiple staged roles as both an antagonist and a protagonist, a friend and foe, or a noble and a commoner as a tool that behooves the viewer to step into the multiple incarnations of each subject, in reverence of a collective human spirit.
Conrad Egyir has exhibited work at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Library Street Collective, Detroit; and Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, among others.
Conrad Egyir, Joseph's Lullaby, 2019, oil on canvas, 108 × 86 in. (274.32 × 218.44 cm)
Conrad Egyir, Vestiges of the Potentate, 2019, oil on canvas, 108 × 90 in. (274.32 × 228.6 cm)
Conrad Egyir, Unctions of the Flummoxed Panthers, 2018, oil on canvas, 60 × 84 in. (152.4 × 213.36 cm)
Conrad Egyir, Unctions of the Luminaries, 2019, oil on canvas, 60 × 84 in. (152.4 × 213.36 cm)
Conrad Egyir, Ludus An Allegory of Love, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 × 66 in. (121.92 × 167.64 cm)
