Current Resident: Apr 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2023
The Kettering Family Foundation
Studio #211
Artist
Levon Kafafian
Levon Kafafian is a Detroit-based Armenian-American artist working primarily with textile. Through weaving Kafafian assembles narrative threads of costume, artifact, ritual and installation into stories about possible worlds and potential futures. Their woven fabrics become portals to these other worlds, generating writing that influences future work. They infuse their stories and cloth with future ancestral practice, hybridity and magic, often collaborating toward collective visions.
Levon Kafafian has exhibited work at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and Arab American National Museum, all in Michigan, among others.
levonkafafian.comEvents & Exhibitions
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Vanagad, the Obsidian Spirit, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Once There Was, Once There Wasn't, 2019, fiber and media, installation, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Rite of Wild Magic, 2020, fiber, 12 × 72 in. (30.48 × 182.88 cm)
Residents from United States
Current Resident: Apr 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2023
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #212
Artist
Veronika Eberhart
Veronika Eberhart is a visual artist and musician based in Vienna. In her research-based practice, she seeks formal translation to her work through her transdisciplinary approach to video, sound, performance, and sculptural installations. She uses media to negotiate conceptual issues with the sensitivity of feminist and art historical artistic practices.
Veronika Eberhart has exhibited work at The MAK Center, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and Belvedere 21, Vienna among others.
veronikaeberhart.comPast Residencies
Veronika Eberhart, Dissident Blind (sinking), 2022, wood and screws, 86 × 82 × 51 in. (218.44 × 208.28 × 129.54 cm)
Veronika Eberhart, Untitled, 2022, exposed aggregate concrete, 28 × 8 × 11 in. (71.12 × 20.32 × 27.94 cm)
Veronika Eberhart, Dissident Blind (leaning), 2022, wood, screws and polyester, 66 × 87 × 110 in. (167.64 × 220.98 × 279.4 cm)
Veronika Eberhart, Garten sprengen, 2022, film, 12 min.
Veronika Eberhart, 9 is one and 10 is none, 2017, film, 22 min.
Residents from Austria
Current Resident: Feb 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024
Pro Helvetia, Atelier Flex - Kanton Zug
Studio #213
Artist
Pascale Birchler
Pascale Birchler creates theatrical installations that form a multi-layered system of visual connotations. Her work explores the embodiment of loneliness and stalemate, as well as the contemporary status quo.
Pascale Birchler has exhibited work at Istituto Svizzero, Rome; UCCA Edge, Shanghai; and Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, among others.
pascalebirchler.comEvents & Exhibitions
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Pascale Birchler, Da sind wir, losgekettet von der Sonne (Here we are, unchained from the sun), close up, 2022, sculpture, wood, modeling clay, glaze, pigments, artificial hair, oil painting on wood, acrylic glass, metal frame, flowers, wire and textile, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, Da sind wir, losgekettet von der Sonne (Here we are, unchained from the sun), 2022, sculpture, wood, modeling clay, glaze, pigments, artificial hair, oil painting on wood, acrylic glass, metal frame, flowers, wire and textile, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, In den Wiesen I-III (In the Meadows I-III), 2020, aquarellle and colored pencil on paper, 865/8 × 59 in. (219.96 × 149.86 cm)
Pascale Birchler, Schmetterlingsstühle I / II (Butterfly Chairs I / II), 2019, metal and glass with burned glasspainting, dimensions variable.
Pascale Birchler, Die Dichter (The Poets), 2018, wood, padding, modelling glay, glaze, textile and oil pencil, dimensions variable.
