Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Jeffrey Rosen, Misako & Rosen Gallery
Līga Spunde
Līga Spunde creates multimedia installations that intertwine personal stories with deliberate fiction. The work’s content determines it’s physical form, prompting the artist to a variety of media and materials in her installations. Her own experiences are expanded through the interpretation and utilization of recognizable characters. Spunde’s art can be found in public and private collections around Europe.
Līga Spunde has exhibited work at Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Spain; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia; and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia, among others.
Līga Spunde, A Panic Attack on A Sunny Day, 2023, installation view, mixed media installation, Friday Gallery, Spain. Photo by Dibudibus
Līga Spunde, Lilies of the Valley / Tribute to A Tired Girl, 2022, installation view, silkscreen prints and 3D prints, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia. Photo by Madara Kuplā
Līga Spunde, Digital Native, 2021, 3D print, plexiglass, plasticine and wood
Līga Spunde, There's No Harm In Any Blessings, 2020, installation view, mixed media installation, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia
Līga Spunde, When Hell Is Full the Dead Will Walk the Earth, 2019, installation view, mixed media installation, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia
Past Resident2023: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Simon Baumgart
Simon Baumgart’s work explores the conflicting relationship between our bodies and their images. He analyzes how the conceptions of self, soul, and identity oscillate between intimacy and opacity, and familiarity and strangeness through mediums such as sculpture, painting, and tattoo.
Simon Baumgart has exhibited work at Galerie Paul Scherzer, Germany; Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan; and fructa space, Germany, among others.
Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable
Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, installation view, sculptures and drawings
Simon Baumgart, Someone's Calling, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable
Simon Baumgart, I entered you are we now one, 2021, tattoo and digital print, 19 × 12 in. (48.26 × 30.48 cm)
Simon Baumgart, Vera kion, 2023, oil on canvas, 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.18 cm)
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2023: Arts Council of Ireland
Celina Muldoon
Celina Muldoon is a multidisciplinary artist that uses live performance, film, and installation to investigate identity and the relationships between sociopolitical structures and the body. Muldoon explores live performance methodologies in response to site and content through collaborative processes and uses satire and humor to create uncertainty in her live performances, which often rely on audience engagement and interaction.
Celina Muldoon has exhibited work at The Dock; R.H.A. Gallery; and Live Collision, Project Arts Center, all in Ireland, among others.
Celina Muldoon, Untitled, 2018, live performance, LIVE COLLISION, Project Arts Center
Celina Muldoon, Untitled, 2018, live performance, LIVE COLLISION, Project Arts Center
Celina Muldoon, SIRENS III, 2019, live performance
Celina Muldoon, Kurnugia NOW!, 2022, live performance
Celina Muldoon, Kurnugia NOW!, 2022, live performance
