Past Residents
Past Resident2023: SpallArt Collection, Brigitte Vosse
Elias Wessel
Elias Wessel employs photography to create images and multidisciplinary projects that reflect contemporary societal discourses. His works contribute to discussions about sociological and political development and the historical dialogue between photography and painting, exploring topics such as digitalization and questions of identity.
Elias Wessel has exhibited work at 1014, New York; Palais Beauharnais, Paris; and Kunstsammlung im Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, among others.
Elias Wessel, Sprung in die Zeit [Leap Into Time], 2014-2023, black and white photographs, audio, interactive module, and installation, dimensions variable.
Elias Wessel, It’s Complicated (Tabloid Edition), 2019-2021, color photographs, audio, and artbook, dimensions variable.
Elias Wessel, Schöne neue Welt [Brave New World] – The Moving Images, 2020-2021, looped video and projection on canvas, 59 3/4 × 106 1/4 in. (59 3/4 × 106 1/4 cm).
Elias Wessel, Die Summe meiner Daten [The Sum of My Data] – On Series, No. 5 and 8, 2017, photographs, dimensions variable.
![Exhibition view including works from “Die Summe meiner Daten” [The Sum of My Data], “It's Complicated,” and “Schöne neue Welt” [Brave New World]; Kunstsammlung im Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, 2023](https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/EWS_WBH_EliasWesselDeliriousImages_2023_06.jpg)
Elias Wessel, Delirious Images – Fotografien für die nächste Gesellschaft [Photographs for the Next Society], 2023, photographs.
Residents from Germany
Zara Pfeifer
Zara Pfeifer’s work is concerned with the social phenomena of large-scale infrastructure. Her documentation of the modernist housing project Alterlaa (Du, meine konkrete Utopie, 2013-17) and her series on truck drivers (Good Street!, 2018-2022) involves extended periods of immersion in the day-to-day life of her subjects. Besides photography, she reveals her findings in lectures, audio, and video recordings.
Zara Pfeifer has exhibited work at Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and Künstlerhaus, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Zara Pfeifer, Du, meine konkrete Utopie, 2019, photography and textile paper, 393/8 × 1571/2 in. (100 × 400 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2022, framed photograph , 153/4 × 235/8 in. (40 × 60 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, ICC Berlin, 2023, photography and vinyl, 1181/8 × 1617/16 in. (300 × 410 cm).
Zara Pfeifer, El Archivo, 2023, photography and archival print, dimensions variable.
Zara Pfeifer, Rollrasen, 2023, video on two screens and pasted poster, 783/4 × 1081/4 in. (200 × 275 cm).
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2023: ISCP Alumni Fund2008: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Joaquin Segura
Joaquin Segura’s artistic practice is centered on meditations on the phenomenology of history, power, and truth, engaging with notions such as sociopolitical microclimates, asymmetrical narratives, and ideology. His recent works address the ontological meaning of political extremism, language, and radical thought, with a special emphasis on its materialities. Active since the early 2000s, Segura is widely recognized as one of the leading Mexican artists of his generation.
Joaquin Segura has exhibited work at 14th Havana Biennial, Cuba; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, among others.
Joaquin Segura, What kind of spring is this, where there are no flowers and and the air is filled with a miserable smell?, 2022, installation view, chain-link fencing, barbed wire, razor wire, plastic barrels and water, 216 × 87 × 473 in. (548.64 × 220.98 × 1201.42 cm).
Joaquin Segura, Imperialism and All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers, 2022, oil on canvas, 551/2 × 765/16 × 25/16 in. (140.97 × 193.8 × 5.84 cm).
Joaquin Segura, Empirism & Dogma #2, 2020, acrylic and watercolor on recovered pamphlet, 4 × 6 in. (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
Joaquin Segura, Pyre, 2016, wood, recovered tires, jerrycans and combustible fluid, dimensions variable.
Joaquin Segura, Ideological Clearance (Marx, Lenin, Mao), 2015, handwoven Haute-lisse tapestries, 118 × 98 in. (299.72 × 248.92 cm).
