Current Residents
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2025–Sep 30, 2025
Artis
Studio #222
Artist
Maria Saleh Mahmeed
Maria Saleh Mahameed explores the complexities of identity, born to a Ukrainian mother and a Palestinian father, through the lenses of nationality and religion. Working on an extremely large scale, she manages to create deeply intimate narratives that grapple with personal, social, and political themes. Black charcoal features prominently in her work. For Mahameed, charcoal is a powerful and visceral tool—one that allows her to leave a direct, physical trace using materials rooted in her surroundings. The medium also holds symbolic meaning, connecting her practice to her birthplace, Umm el-Fahem, which translates to “Mother of Charcoal.”
Maria Saleh Mahameed has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Italy; and The Israel Museum, Israel, among others.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Oxygen Generator, 2025, charcoal, pastel, nylon, and polypropylene bulk bag sewn onto black canvas, 2759/16 × 8211/16 in. (700 × 210 cm). Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Barrad (Cooler), 2025, charcoal on canvas, 165.354. Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Confessions on the Altar of Life, 2025, charcoal on canvas, 126 × 1571/2 in. (319.99 × 400 cm). Photo by Daniel Hanoch.
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Umm El Fahem, 2016, charcoal on canvas, 8211/16 × 1773/16 in. (210 × 449.99 cm).
Maria Saleh Mahmeed, Death of the Son, 2021, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 8211/16 × 1571/2 in. (210 × 400 cm).
Residents from Palestine
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2025–Oct 31, 2025
Danish Arts Foundation
Studio #207
Artist
Villiam Miklos Andersen
Queering familiar logistics—from transport industries to public toilets and pawnshop businesses—is central to Villiam Miklos Andersen’s sculptural and relational artistic practice. Through sculptural gestures that subtly tweak familiar objects, Andersen upends how consumer goods—and even zones of trade—are saturated with the masculinized aesthetics of freight transport and the uniformity of dominant infrastructures. By altering the normative visual codes of commodities, Andersen reveals the systemic logistical regulation of everyday actions, purchases, and movement patterns—structures often hidden in plain sight.
Villiam Miklos Andersen has exhibited work at O-Overgaden, Denmark; Una Boccata d’Arte with Fondazione Elpis & Galleria Continua, Italy; and documenta fifteen, Germany, among others.
villiammiklosandersen.com
Villiam Miklos Andersen, Water Sports, 2024, oak, intaglio-type digital halftone print and acrylic glass, 153/8 × 2915/16 × 149/16 in. (38.99 × 76 × 37.01 cm). Photo by David Stjernholm.
Villiam Miklos Andersen, Flora’s Wagon of Fools, 2024, Walk-in freezer and cut tulips, 941/2 × 2361/4 × 1181/8 in. (240 × 600 × 300 cm). Photo by David Stjernholm.
Villiam Miklos Andersen, Caffé Crema, 2024, installation view. Photo by David Stjernholm.
Villiam Miklos Andersen, Medusa’s Quest & Medusa’s Golden Gaze, 2024, cypress and cedar wood, dimensions variable. Photo by David Stjernholm.
Villiam Miklos Andersen, Transactions (The Green King), 2024, crated Mysorean intarsia wood inlay, 263/4 × 337/16 × 77/8 in. (68 × 84.99 × 19.99 cm). Photo by David Stjernholm.
Residents from Germany
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2025–Oct 31, 2025
Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Culture Institute
Studio #202
Artist
Robertas Narkus
Robertas Narkus describes his practice as “the management of circumstance in an economy of coincidence.” Working across installation, new media, performance, entrepreneurship, and social engineering, he brings together the everyday and the absurd to examine the relationship between technology and human desire.
Robertas Narkus has exhibited work at Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania; De Appel Art Center, The Netherlands; and 59th Venice Biennale, Italy, among others.
robertasnarkus.lt
Robertas Narkus, Gut Feeling, 2022, installation, dimensions variable.
Robertas Narkus, The Board, 2023, c-prints, installation view.
Robertas Narkus, TRÄGER, 2017, installation view.
Robertas Narkus, Fool Moon, 2023, installation view.
Robertas Narkus, Eghorsecizmus, 2024, performance.
