Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Italian Cultural Institute of New York2020: The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Agostino Iacurci
Agostino Iacurci works with a wide range of media, including painting, wall-painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. He creates immersive spaces to transform the perception of given environments. Starting from specific topics like the use of colors in the ancient and classical world, he questions issues of traditions and identity, investigating the process of idealization underlying historical myths and their impact on the collective imagination.
Agostino Iacurci has exhibited work at Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro; Macro, Rome; Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, among others.
Agostino Iacurci, Hortus, 2022, glazed terracotta, water, hydraulic pump, iron, copper, steel, 137.8 x 67 x 67.
Agostino Iacurci, Diary of Ornament, 2020, canvas, wood, PVC pipes, plants, wall painting.
Agostino Iacurci, Landscape 2, 2021, Print on canvas.
Agostino Iacurci, Trompe l'oeil, 2017, paint, canvas, wood, cement, and found objects.
Agostino Iacurci, Gypsoteca, 2018, paint, plaster, gouaches, paper, and wood.
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
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.
Residents from Germany
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).