Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka work with staged photography and utilize performance as a tool to investigate queer strategies as well as mythology and the notion of a collective cultural memory. This extends to video, interactive happenings as well as performative interventions in which boundaries of prevailing gender roles, constructed exoticisms, and standardization processes are confronted with the notion of a queer utopia.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; and Belvedere 21, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Homecoming Outdoor Screening
August 20, 2021, 8–9:30pm
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, untitled, 2017, staged photography, C-print, framed, from the series: Queer Revolutionaries...?, 55 × 35 in. (139.7 × 88.9 cm).
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, Sodom Vienna, 2020, performance for the ongoing project Sodom Vienna, in collaboration with Gin Müller, Peter Kotzek, Thomas Hörl, et al.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, poof paradise, 2018, video, 1:34 min. in collaboration with Berivan Sayici.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, W*HOLE AGAIN, 2020, performance in Künstlerhaus Wien, in collaboration with Georg Klüver-Pfandtner and Alexandru Cosarca.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, untitled, 2018, staged photography, C-print, framed, performance in the backyard of Sigmund Freuds former house, Berggasse 19, Vienna.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2021: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Stefania Strouza
Stefania Strouza’s practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the spatial mobility of such narratives, the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances, and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materializes these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, geography and the body.
Stefania Strouza has exhibited work at The 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia; NEON, Greece; and Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Stefania Strouza and Daphne Dragona
September 28, 2021, 1-2pm
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (Perpetual Silence Prevails in the Empty Space of Capital), 2020, expanded polystyrene foam, plywood, epoxy resin, varnish, 90 ³⁵/₆₄ × 59 ¹/₁₆ × 47 ¹/₄ (230 × 150 × 120 cm).
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (If only I had stayed the animal I was), 2020, metallised cane roots, insulation foam, spray-paint, aluminum foil, pins, 20 ⁵⁵/₆₄ × 13 ²⁵/₆₄ × 15 ²³/₆₄ (53 × 34 × 39 cm).
Stefania Strouza, Pro itu et reditu, 2019, ceramic, bronze, 12 ⁶³/₆₄ × 8 ¹⁷/₆₄ × 4 ²³/₃₂ (33 × 21 × 12 cm).
Stefania Strouza, Fundamentos Líquidos (Liquid Foundations), 2018, bricks, wood, and queen conch shell, 47 ¹/₄ × 78 ⁴⁷/₆₄ × 39 ³/₈ (120 × 200 × 100 cm).
Stefania Strouza, The center will not hold, 2019, plaster, liquid plastic, pewter, and acrylic paint, 106 ¹⁹/₆₄ × 66 ⁵⁹/₆₄ × 3 ¹⁵/₁₆ (270 × 170 × 10 cm).
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
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 Resident2021: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Kim Kölle Valentine
Kim Kölle Valentine is interested in examining the historical implications of how humans understand, remember, and place themselves within stories. Working across video, drawing, installation, and text, Kielhofner collects images and material, and opens an imaginary space where the notions of self and place can be re-written.
Kim Kölle Valentine has exhibited work at Dazibao, Montreal; VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, among others.
Kim Kölle Valentine, The Coldest Day of the Year, 2020, video, 8:36 min.
Kim Kölle Valentine, Whose Language You Don't Understand, 2018, video, 62:00 min.
Kim Kölle Valentine, THIRD READING, 2017, video, 10:58 min.
Kim Kölle Valentine, READING PATTERNS TOGETHER, 2016, video, 8:15 min.
Kim Kölle Valentine, A Spot on the Sun, 2015, video installation, variable dimension.
