Current Resident: Jul 1, 2024–Sep 30, 2024
Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Studio #209
Artist
Fouz Saif
Fouz Saif, horse, 2021, oil painting
Fouz Saif, hacking, 2022, oil painting
Fouz Saif, portrait, 2021, pastel
Fouz Saif, smoking, 2019, mix media
Fouz Saif, smoking, 2021, acrylics
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Creative Australia
Studio #210
Artist
Tom Polo
Tom Polo works across painting and installation, creating material forms that capture exchanges between people. His practice draws from a rich accumulation of social encounters, keen observations, and personal histories, recording the emotional and performative relationships between the self and others within social, theatrical, and psychological spaces. Through a blend of abstraction, text, and figuration, Polo explores how conversation and gesture become embodied acts of portraiture, simultaneously masking and revealing the complexities of our inner worlds.
Tom Polo has exhibited work at Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), all in Australia, among others.
Tom Polo, I still thought you were looking, 2019, painting installation, dimensions variable. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Tom Polo, free fall, 2022, painting installation, dimensions variable. 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Tom Polo, The Most Elaborate Disguise, 2019, 40 mixed media works on paper and acrylic wall painting, 158 × 478 in. (401.32 × 1214.12 cm). The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tom Polo, If you want to, feel to, 2023, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 71 × 54 in. (180.34 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of AMES YAVUZ, New South Wales
Tom Polo, other options (a mask for a mask), 2022, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 83 × 77 in. (210.82 × 195.58 cm). Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne
Residents from Australia
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2024–Sep 30, 2024
Telos Foundation, Holtmann Collection
Studio #211
Artist
Charlie Stein
Charlie Stein’s work explores dominant cultural aesthetics and challenges traditional modes of perception in our digitized, visually overstimulated world. Through extensive research, she translates her insights into drawings, installations, sculptures, and paintings that address social structures, digital media, and communication. Her paintings reflect on contemporary aesthetics, creating a visual language that deconstructs and recontextualizes digital imagery. With degrees in fine art, sociology, and literature, Stein studied under Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganahl. She is currently a visiting professor at HfbK Hamburg.
Charlie Stein has exhibited work at Manifesta 11, Zürich; Songjiang Art Museum, Shanghai; and SİNOPALE 6, Turkey, among others.
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Charlie Stein, Recombining Realities, exhibition view, 2024, oil on canvas, dimensions variable
Charlie Stein, Random Entities Paired Up (True Love), 2024, oil on canvas, 235/8 × 283/8 × 1 in. (60 × 72 × 2.5 cm)
Charlie Stein, Body With a View, 2024, oil on canvas, 393/8 × 311/2 × 1 in. (100 × 80.01 × 2.49 cm)
Charlie Stein, Portrait (Shoulder), 2024, oil on canvas, 987/16 × 551/8 × 1 in. (250.01 × 140 × 2.49 cm)
Charlie Stein, Still Life, 2024, oil on canvas, 1911/16 × 153/4 in. (50.01 × 40 cm)
