Current Residents
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Creative Australia
Studio #210
Artist
Arini Byng
Arini Byng is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the affective qualities of materials, gestures, and settings. Working across photography, performance, video, and painting, she creates intimate studies of movement and form that engage with political and personal histories. Recent works incorporate her family archive to reflect on lived experience, drawing from her Black-American-Anglo-Celtic heritage to examine how culture and memory shape selfhood, offering a nuanced perspective on diasporic identity.
Arini Byng has exhibited work at National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore; and Gertrude Contemporary, Australia, among others.
Residents from Australia
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Studio #205
Artist
Neda Saeedi
Neda Saeedi’s multidisciplinary practice explores power structures, historiography, and materiality through sculpture and installation. Engaging with the socio-political dimensions of architecture, urbanism, and environmental violence, she uses material symbolism to expose systemic tensions. Themes of segregation frequently recur, often expressed through garden motifs as spaces of control. Through site-specific installations, she transforms familiar elements into spatial narratives that prompt viewers to confront layered histories. Combining aesthetic precision with incisive critique, her work reveals the ecological and social consequences of modernity.
Neda Saeedi has exhibited work at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria; Klosterruine Berlin, Germany; and Argo Factory, Iran, among others.
nedasaeedi.com
Residents from Germany
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Studio #217
Artist
Clio Van Aerde
Clio Van Aerde’s transdisciplinary practice spans performance, choreography, site-specific and endurance art, as well as visual arts. Her work explores the poetic and subversive potential of overlooked everyday interactions between humans, non-humans, and spaces. Drawing on embodied experience, spatial awareness, and the passage of time, she challenges norms of productivity and performativity, instead inviting idleness, absurdity, and critical reflection. Trained in performance at ArtEZ in Arnhem and scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she was awarded the Edward Steichen Award in 2024.
Clio Van Aerde has exhibited work at Mudam Museum of Modern Art; and TROIS C-L | Maison pour la Danse, both in Luxembourg, among others.
cliovanaerde.com