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Past Resident
2022: Artis

Artist

Yael Frank

Yael Frank is a multi-disciplinary artist working mainly in sculpture and video. Her satiric projects conceptually hack cultural and textual systems, arguing for emotional connections between historical memory and esoteric consumerist goods. Frank employs comedic strategies to expose multiple points of view on the precarious state of ethical concepts. Her work aims to test the seriousness of political ethos by orchestrating situations that are physically beyond language.

Yael Frank has exhibited work at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and FuturDome, Milano, among others.

$\Permanent installation of a fake coconut tree bending down from the roof along the facade of Artport Residency Building$

Yael Frank, IN A NUTSHELL, 2020, fake coconut tree, metal, styrofoam, epoxy and industrial paint, 240 × 60 in. (609.6 × 152.4 cm)

Installation shot from the solo exhibition GRID at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Yael Frank, GRID, 2021, video, sound, PVC, wood, metal, paint and ceramics, dimensions variable

A still shot from the video A Problem, where three dental set jaws give a speech about a problem

Yael Frank, A Problem, 2018, video, 4:30 min

11 large scale pink thumbs sunk into the floor in a composition influenced by Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Jericho

Yael Frank, A Monument for Monuments, 2015, styrofoam, paint, plaster and wood, 240 × 94 × 63 in. (609.6 × 238.76 × 160.02 cm)

Yael Frank, YES (no), 2019, architectural intervention, drywall and paint, dimensions variable

Residents from Israel

Ruthi Helbitz Cohen

Beloved women portraits, heroines such as poets, politicians, personal beloved ones, my mother, my daughter, paper works ink on paper, stains, coffee leftovers mixed with ink

Israel

Haaretz Art Collection

Studio #206

Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin

A black wolf sewn out of fabric stands on a cylindrical black base. It has human teeth in its mouth and a small woman wearing a red t-shirt in its belly.

Israel

Artis

2023

Ruth Patir

Israel, United States

Artis

2023

Hungary

Past Resident
2022: International Visegrad Fund

Artist

Szilvia Bolla

Szilvia Bolla’s work explores the interaction between humans and artifacts by combining photography, sculpture, and installation. Her practice, which she describes as cryptophotographic, is the result of light-sensitive crystals reacting to chemicals in photographic darkroom experiments. Interested in matter as a lively agent, the artist engages with new materialism and feminist corporeality to evoke survivalist narratives, and analyzes the relationship between the human body and technology.

Szilvia Bolla has exhibited work at Trafó Gallery, Budapest; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, among others.

The installation is a sensual body machine with organs turned inside-out that becomes a target of the external world. Corporeal and exposed, it attempts to seek possible forms of survival within fictional and real bio/eco/psycho-spheres. It comes to matter through its own performativity, struggle to navigate the complexity of the profoundly human, nonhuman and technological, and ultimate relief in hybrid materiality. It reconstructs itself not as an organism or entity but as a series of open-ended systems functioning within other massive systems.

Szilvia Bolla, Oh, my howling bladder speaks to me at dawn, 2022, 3D printed PLA, metal, thermoformed recycled perspex and silicone

Prevail is a site specific installation of artefacts referencing ornaments found in Eastern-European architecture, focusing on Hungarian Art Nouveau (reliefs either of organic patterns or depicting characters and narratives) as tools of symbolic thinking or a system of speculative storytelling.

Szilvia Bolla, Prevail, 2020, thermoformed, engraved perspex, mirror and hygienic gel

Exoskin is a series of sculptures and text speculating on the analogy between the skin and image surfaces. The works draw on membrane structures, whether human or nonhuman, fictional or real, through organic abstraction and ornaments as tools of symbolic thinking. Beyond the human skin, my main fields of interest are observing its sensitivity to light and its resemblance to the nature of photographic images. As a shielding, yet vulnerable layer in its colour, texture, accumulated marks and blemishes, the membrane records and represents a vital organ.

Szilvia Bolla, Exoskin, 2018, metal and luminogram UV print on perspex

The project Alagya created together with Aron Lodi aims to interpret the nature of artefacts with a post-human approach through a distinctive play between sculpture and text. Alagya embraces identity, hybrid materiality and technology to learn about what it means/how it feels to be a dweller of a world in which matter, tool, human and information are irrevocably intertwined.

Szilvia Bolla, Alagya in collaboration with Aron Lodi, 2022, metal, print on satin and charcoil

Szilvia Bolla, Render me like the future renders a haunted heart, 2021, luminogram UV print on perspex, mirror and metal

Residents from Hungary

Klára Orosz

Work in progress Prof. Dr. Endre Grastyán public sculpture competition, commissioned by University of Pécs Medical School

Hungary

International Visegrad Fund

2024

Nikolett Balázs

Hungary

International Visegrad Fund

2023

Tamás Páll

Hungary

International Visegrad Fund

2021

Greece

Past Resident
2022: ARTWORKS

Artist

Dimitra Kondylatou

Dimitra Kondylatou is a video producer, editor, writer, and host interested by the boundaries of art and how it interacts with tourism and daily life. Kondylatou explores gestures, practices, and correspondences through the lens of hospitality and exchange contexts and spaces. Her work merges ideas and crosses boundaries with other disciplines such as anthropology.

Dimitra Kondylatou has exhibited work at the 27th Athens International Film Festival; State of Concept, Athens; and W139, Amsterdam, among others.