Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer, artist, and scholar. Her research-based and process-oriented practice rooted in Black feminist theory revolves around archives, specifically the gaps and blanks in public archives and collections. Her works, which intertwine documentary and fiction and are presented in a wide range of mediums, examine the present of an everlasting colonial past. Kazeem-Kamiński’s first artistic monograph a past without closure will be published by Sternberg Press in 2023.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński has exhibited work at 2023 Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; Camera Austria, Austria; and Kunsthalle Wien, Viena, among others.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Unearthing. In Conversation, 2017, video, 13 min.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, The Letter, 2019, video, 18 min.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Fleshbacks, 2021, video, 6 min.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, In Search of Red, Black, and Green, 2021, photograph, 31 × 46 in. (78.74 × 116.84 cm)
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Respire (Liverpool), 2023, video, 16 min.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2023: Canada Council for the Arts2022: Canada Council for the Arts
Sukaina Kubba
Sukaina Kubba is a multidisciplinary and material-based artist whose work is strongly rooted in material and cultural research, story-telling, and drawing connections. Kubba works with industrial and packaging materials as signifiers and concrete indices, and explores traveling objects, textiles and vehicles as carriers of cross-cultural histories. She depicts rugs as peripatetic architectural components rolled and unfurled by nomads and migrants and put over sand, rocks, floors, and walls to denote a re-location.
Sukaina Kubba has exhibited work at The Next Contemporary, Toronto; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Ruth Owens and Sukaina Kubba
June 20, 2023, 6–7:30pm
Sukaina Kubba, La Brioche, CMC, 2023, hand-drawn with PLA filament, 68 × 46 in. (172.72 × 116.84 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Ankaa, 2022, alcohol ink on flesh-coloured latex, 80 × 60 in. (203.2 × 152.4 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, T80.0040, 2021, embroidery and sewing thread on PE-HD bag from an Amazon package, 22 × 26 in. (55.88 × 66.04 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Al-Qantoor, 2022, hand-drawn PLA filament, 67 × 46 in. (170.18 × 116.84 cm)
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Attawoos, 2023, hand-drawn PLA filament, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Residents from Canada
Alex Nowak
Alex Nowak is a transdisciplinary artist creating sculptures and paintings in the realm of a comical archeology. Blurring the lines between the built environment and the natural world, his artworks are characterized by raw texture and organic forms. Nowak explores spatial stories about the human figure that are influenced by folk props and horror fiction. His work aims to interweave artistic materiality with contemporary social and philosophical theory.
Alex Nowak has exhibited work at Folkwang Museum, Germany; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada; and KIT, Germany, among others.
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable
Alex Nowak, Angelisa Frayed, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, 90 × 20 × 20 in. (228.6 × 50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable
Alex Nowak, Puppets on Fire, 2023, paint, styrofoam and stucco, installation view, dimensions variable
Alex Nowak, Untitled, 2017, paint, styrofoam and stucco, from the group exhibition "Mary and the Vulcano" at KIT, Düsseldorf, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm)
