Current Residents
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–Jul 31, 2025
Artis
Studio #306
Artist
Yotam Menda Levy
Yotam Menda Levy creates works that blend 3D animation, archival footage, and original writing to explore mythical and historical imagery rooted in Mesopotamian culture, Babylon, Iraq, and Jewish history. Reimagining these narratives in contemporary contexts, he focuses on figures that embody darkness and the suppressed, offering a lens through which to confront collective anxieties. Through timeless archetypes and modern storytelling, his films reveal darkness not as something to fear, but as a transformative force at the heart of our shared humanity.
Yotam Menda Levy has exhibited work at UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Los Angeles; Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem; and Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv, among others.
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Yotam Menda Levy, Pazuzu and Lamaštu Last Summoning, 2025, video, 20:50 min.
Yotam Menda Levy, Pazuzu and Lamaštu Last Summoning, 2025, video, 20:50 min.
Yotam Menda Levy, Demon Sealers, 2022, video, 39:50 min.
Yotam Menda Levy, Babylon the Great, 2025, video, 13 min.
Yotam Menda Levy, Farhud, 2019, video, 6:51 min.
Residents from Israel
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025
Innovation Properties Group
Studio #203
Artist
Vanja Smiljanić
Vanja Smiljanić is a visual and performance artist whose interdisciplinary practice weaves together visual arts, video, and performance. She often employs the format of the performance-lecture to bridge fictional and experiential worlds, incorporating technical apparatus, diagrams, and sci-fi povera sculptures. By connecting systems of reality, her work explores the construction of ideologies as alienated regimes, using her own body as a vessel for narration, fluidly shifting between the roles of oracle and storyteller.
Vanja Smiljanić has exhibited work at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Gropius Bau, Berlin; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, among others.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2022, lecture, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2024, video, 19:48 min.
Vanja Smiljanić, NOVA. A feminist speculative LARP, 2024, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Viral Hallucinations, 2024, performance.
Vanja Smiljanić, Labyrinth Riders in (dis)remembering Atlantis, 2024, video, 19:48 min.
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–Jul 31, 2025
Artis
Studio #222
Artist
Matan Golan
Matan Golan’s installations explore the relationship between body and matter. He gives voice to bent, fatigue, and discarded forms to resist the order of things and challenge the triumph of the vertical, let alone the erect. His sculptures, whether flaccid, curved or alert, demand that objects be seen not as tools, but as beings: tired, swollen, aroused. Golan embeds moving images within his sculptural compositions, granting them pulse and agency. These performative hybrids blur the line between body and thing.
Matan Golan has exhibited work at Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Israel Mseum; and Tel Aviv Artists Studios Gallery, all in Israel, among others.
Matan Golan, Song of love and other drawers, 2024, installation view.
Matan Golan, Mollusk, 2024, wood, metal, and video on 42 in screen, 24 × 47 × 83 in. (60.96 × 119.38 × 210.82 cm).
Matan Golan, Pearl divers, 2024, painted wood and metal, 8 × 11 × 24 in. (20.32 × 27.94 × 60.96 cm).
Matan Golan, Still life with fruit, 2022, video, 3:37 min.
Matan Golan, What can a J do? (J#6), 2022, ccreen print on paper, 14 × 20 in. (35.56 × 50.8 cm).
