Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Zara Pfeifer
Zara Pfeifer shows interest in social and spatial phenomena by blending into the world she is documenting, both as an observer and as an active part of her surroundings–as a co-driver in a truck on a route through Europe(Good Street!) or joining the social life in the housing project Alterlaa(Du, meine konkrete Utopie). Besides photography, she reveals her findings in lectures, audio, and video recordings.
Zara Pfeifer has exhibited work at Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin; Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum, Stuttgart, Germany; and Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Zara Pfeifer, B-Block, 2017, fine art print, 35 × 47 in. (90 × 120 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, Du, meine konkrete Utopie, 2019, c-prints on textile, 39 × 137 in. (100 × 350 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2021, fine art print, 15 11/16 × 23 5/8 in. (40 × 60 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2017, print on poster, 118 × 78 11/16 in. (300 × 200 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2016, print on poster, 78 11/16 × 118 in. (200 × 300 cm).
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2021: Toby Devan Lewis
Pamela Council
Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic she refers to as BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined and under-valued narratives.
Pamela Council has exhibited work at Studio Museum in Harlem; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and African American Museum in Philadelphia, among others.
Pamela Council, Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering, 2018, concrete, fiberglass, and Big Red Soda, 144 × 120 × 120 in. (365.76 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm).
Pamela Council, BLAXIDERMY Pink, 2019, Lusters Pink Lotion, spinning oral sex toy, chocolate fondue fountain, rhinestones, paint, runner rug, carpet, and framed silicone on panel.
Pamela Council, wtf is juice/gw smile, 2016, sugar, water, purple, Listerine, George Washington's raggedy ass slaves' teeth dentures, gold party foil, Grapeade cans, lights, fountain, and silk velvet with surface devoured by the artist, 65 × 100 × 48 in. (165.1 × 254 × 121.92 cm).
Pamela Council, Swag Surf (Suite), ongoing.
Pamela Council, Fountain of Your Youth, 2017, plastic pony beads, motor, plastic, fabric, optic yellow tennis ball felt, pool noodles, nylon, and sneaker rubber.
Past Resident2021: AES+F
Aslan Goisum
Aslan Goisum tends to mine memory–collective and personal, political and cultural–for clues about colonial realities, how they have been endured and how they might be undone. Identities come into play in his work, as embodied effects of violence perpetrated or unfreedom suffered but also as possible openings, new beginnings. So far, his prime artistic tools have been the moving image, sculptural installation and various paper-based techniques.
Aslan Goisum has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; and Kohta, Helsinki, among others.
Aslan Goisum, Volga, 2015, single-channel, HD video projection, 4:11 min.
Aslan Goisum, People of No Consequence, 2016, single-channel, HD video projection, 8:34 min.
Aslan Goisum, Numbers, 2015, 50 metal plaques, 77/8 × 11 in. (20.07 × 27.94 cm) each.
Aslan Goisum, Untitled, 2015, one metal jug, six glass copies.
Aslan Goisum, No Need for Theories, 2011, book, soil, 3 × 411/16 × 10 in. (7.62 × 11.94 × 25.4 cm).
