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: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Shaunak Mahbubani
Shaunak Mahbubani is a nomadic curator, writer, and arts organizer. They primarily pursue projects under the exhibition series ‘Allies for the Uncertain Futures’, focused on exploring the possibilities of socio-political, ecological and techno-evolutionary futures through the lens of non-duality. As a curator, they are interested in complicating boundaries between artwork and the viewer through participatory gatherings, diffusions, and the use of non-white cube spaces. They have also been collaborating with Vidisha-Fadescha as ‘After Party Collective’, since 2019.
Shaunak Mahbubani has curated at Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi; Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai; and Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, among others.
Shaunak Mahbubani, Saavdhaan: The Regimes of Truth, 2018, exhibition view at the Kalakar Theatre. photo by Polina Schapova
Murari Jha, Fondle / चिकट, installation view at the Mumbai Art Room
After Party Collective, some dance to remember, some dance to forget, 2020, 8:53 min. single channel video
After Party Collective, Strictures of Violence, 2019, multimedia performance at the Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, 15 min
Residents from India
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, 411/16 × 3 × 10 in. (11.94 × 7.62 × 25.4 cm)
