Past Residents
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2025
Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Studio #305
Artist
Kitso Lelliott
Kitso Lelliott is preoccupied with enunciations that emerge from spaces beyond epistemic power and with the crises that such epistemically disobedient articulations provoke within hegemonic structures. Her work interrogates the ‘real’ as it is shaped by contesting epistemologies, their narratives, and the forms these took across the Atlantic during the formative episode that defined the modern age. It is an enactment of enunciating from elision and from the historically subjugated subjectivities, privileging South–South relations that remain in dialogue with, yet imaginatively and epistemologically, unmediated by the Global North.
Kitso Lelliott has exhibited work at Cape Coast Castle, Ghana; Iyatsiba Lab – The Centre for Humanities Research, South Africa; and Departmental Domain of Chamarande with Bamako Encounters, The African Biennal of Photography, France, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Summer Celebration and Open House
July 16, 2025, 5–9pm
Kitso Lelliott, Portrait of a native with pretensions of grandeur_or_A performance in anticipation of...1, 2023, digital print on cotton rag and projected video, 441/2 × 78 in. (113.03 × 198.12 cm).
Kitso Lelliott, a capaciousness (working title), 2023, digital video, 25:30 min.
Kitso Lelliott, I was her and she was me and those we might become, 2021, video, 20 min.
Kitso Lelliott, My Story No doubt is me/Older than me, 2015, digital video, 5:56 min.
Kitso Lelliott, My Story No doubt is me/Older than me, 2016, digital video, 2:11 min.
Past Resident2025: Artis
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.
Events & Exhibitions
Summer Celebration and Open House
July 16, 2025, 5–9pm
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
Past Resident2025: Innovation Properties Group
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.
