Past Residents
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.
Past Resident2023: DOOSAN Art Center
Suzy Park
Suzy Park is a Seoul-based independent curator interested in the praxis of friendship, love, religion, and queerness as political and aesthetic allegories of contemporary art. Park’s latest research has focused on abstractness that does not rely on concerns outside of art, as well as abstractness as an attribute of art. She manages the Seoul-based curatorial agency AGENCY RARY and co-operates WESS, a project space in Seoul with 11 more curators.
Suzy Park has curated work at SeMA Bunker; Total Museum of Contemporary Art; and WESS, all in Seoul, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Heeuk Kim, Youngzoo Im, Jiryang Cha and Jinhwon Hong, Zoom Back Camera , 2019, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, curated by Suzy Park. Photo by Jinhwon Hong.
Jia Chang, Don’t Care If You Give Me the Evil Eye, 2020, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, curated by Suzy Park, Jihyung Park and Meerim Cheon. Photo by Kideok Park.
Jongwan Jang, Sueyon Hwang and Yezoi Hwang, Seven Intellectuals, 2022, WESS, Seoul, curated by Suzy Park, time based installation, 3channel projection, and 6channel audio, 6:36 min. Photo by Yongjin Yoo.
Min Oh, Thomas, 2021, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, curated by Suzy Park, time based installation, 3channel projection, and 6channel audio, 6:36 min.
Mina Park and Yanghee Lee, Flesh Stone Oil, 2022, WESS, Seoul, curated by Suzy Park. Photo by Ian Yang.
