Past Residents
Past Resident2023: ipureland
Nikita Shokhov
Nikita Shokhov’s virtual practice delves into the human condition, exploring issues such as whiteness and blackness, queer phenomenology, carnivalesque, religions, and technology. Shokhov uses spatial computing to create lens-based media ranging from traditional photography to volumetric cinematic forms. Employing a documentary approach, his works engage critical thinking, philosophy, political and social agendas.
Nikita Shokhov has exhibited work at Loop Barcelona, Spain; The Watermill Center, New York; and World Press Photo, Amsterdam, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Nikita Shokhov, Dragzina, 2022, AR volumetric video performance, 15 min.
Nikita Shokhov, Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend, 2021, VR 360 interactive film, VR experience, 1h 15 min.
Nikita Shokhov, Scan, 2020, slit scanning digital photography, dimensions variable.
Nikita Shokhov, Ice, 2016, immersive video installation, 60 min.
Nikita Shokhov, Utrish, 2013, color analog photography and digital print, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2024: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler
Artist Okka-Esther Hungerbühler works with both painting and sculpture to explore different themes. In her paintings, Hungerbühler returns to the shape of the „princess dress“, which she uses abstractly, and depicts rooms as colored sketches of interiors. Her sculptures are creature-like, with a highly simple body shape composed of decorative materials.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler has exhibited work at Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden; Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin; and mumok Wien, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Red flower, 2022, papier-mâché, ostrich feathers and animatronics, 19 × 62 in. (48.26 × 157.48 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Goose, 2022, paper, adhesive foil, glitter, animatronic, 19 × 31 × 23 in. (48.26 × 78.74 × 58.42 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Everybody against everybody, 2018, wrapping paper, glitter, glue and feathers, dimensions variable.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Monster Dress, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 35 × 39 in. (88.9 × 99.06 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Empty bar from above, 2018, acrylic and marker on canvas, 39 × 37 in. (99.06 × 93.98 cm).
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2024: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga uses speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist tradition to investigate economies of visibility and disappearance. Her works examine questions of self-representation, preservation, appearance, and opacity through an interdisciplinary approach in which she typically reverses established identity politics of presence. Mujinga’s works deviate from a completely anthropocentric approach to understanding the ephemeral world we now occupy; as a result, the artist draws inspiration in how animals create survival tactics and adapt to hostile surroundings.
Sandra Mujinga has exhibited work at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Venice Biennale, Venice; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among others.
Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, video, 1:00:28 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen and The Approach.
Sandra Mujinga, Pervasive Lights, 2021, video, 16:15 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, The Approach, and MoMA.
Sandra Mujinga, Closed Space, Open World, 2022, three-channel video installation with sound, animation drawn by Nancy Saphira, 10 min.
Sandra Mujinga, Worldview, 2021, video, 3D animation by Justin Swinburne, 8 hours.
Sandra Mujinga, Sentinels of Change & Reworlding Remains, 2021, installation, dimensions variable.
