Past Residents
Past Resident2020: Danish Arts Foundation
Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Solvej Helweg Ovesen is a curator, author, and educator. She is the artistic director of the non-commercial exhibition space Galerie Wedding – Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art in Berlin since 2015. Ovesen refers to her practice as “deep curating.” She curates festivals and biennials and produces works in all media with artists, focused on knowledge production, and the sensorium.
Solvej Helweg Ovesen has presented projects at The Nordic Embassies, Berlin; Riga Biennial; and the Danish Pavilion Venice Biennial, 2019, among other spaces.
Viron Erol Vert, Ambereum, 2018, installation at Riga Biennial.
Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Ziggy and the Starfish, 2018, video installation at Riga Biennial.
Kirstine Roepstorff, influenza. Theatre of Glowing Darkness, 2017, installation at the Danish Pavilion, Venice Biennial.
Henrike Naumann, Aufbau Ost, 2016, installation at Galerie Wedding.
Peter Voss-Knude, THE LANGUAGE OF TERROR IS TERROR ITSELF / THE TERROR OF LANGUAGE IS TERROR ITSELF / THE TERROR OF TERROR IS LANGUAGE ITSELF, 2019, sculpture (Rosequarz) at Galerie Wedding.
Past Resident2020: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Sebastian Burger
Sebastian Burger explores themes around the integrity of the human body, its physicality and the construction of identity through materiality, texture, and surface. He creates paintings that look back at their observers with delicate gradients as well harsh shapes and colors.
Sebastian Burger has exhibited work at Kunstverein Leipzig; Platform Stockholm; and Gateway Center for Contemporary Art, Brest, France, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
Sebastian Burger, 1525, 2018, oil on aluminum, 471/4 × 357/16 in. (120 × 90 cm).
Sebastian Burger, Hal, 2019, oil on aluminum, 471/4 × 357/16 in. (120 × 90 cm).
Sebastian Burger, Cusk, 2019, oil on aluminum, 471/4 × 357/16 in. (120 × 90 cm).
Sebastian Burger, 1515, 2018, oil on aluminum, 311/2 × 235/8 in. (80 × 60 cm).
Sebastian Burger, R.O.R.S., 2017, oil on aluminum, 120 × 90 in. (304.8 × 228.6 cm).
Past Resident2022: Italian Cultural Institute of New York2020: The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Ruth Beraha
Ruth Beraha’s research investigates elements that can commonly be labeled as evil, stranger, or unknown, focusing on the disruption of the certainties we base our experience of the world on. With immersive audios, sculptures, installations, drawings and photographs, her work makes the viewer consider the adversary no longer as a distant and incomprehensible entity, but as a constitutive part of our identity.
Ruth Beraha has exhibited at Pirelli Hangar, Milan; Arte in Memoria Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ostia Antica, Rome; and MAMbo, Bologna, among others.
Ruth Beraha, Charlie, 2019, Carrara marble, 8.85 in. (diameter).
Ruth Beraha, Goliath, 2019, site-specific installation, 315 × 118 in. (800.1 × 299.72 cm).
Ruth Beraha, Run Home (self-portrait), 2018, blown Murano glass.
Ruth Beraha, Us (self-portrait), 2018, Fish tank, 31 piranhas, and terracotta sculpture, 39 × 39 × 19 in. (99.06 × 99.06 × 48.26 cm).
Ruth Beraha, You Will Never Be Alone, 2019, performance.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
