Current Resident: Jul 1, 2023–Sep 30, 2023
Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
Studio #211
Artist
Simon Baumgart
Simon Baumgart’s work explores the conflicting relationship between our bodies and their images. He analyzes how the conceptions of self, soul, and identity oscillate between intimacy and opacity, and familiarity and strangeness through mediums such as sculpture, painting, and tattoo.
Simon Baumgart has exhibited work at Galerie Paul Scherzer, Germany; Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan; and fructa space, Germany, among others.
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Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable
Simon Baumgart, Composition is more important than anatomy, 2022, installation view, sculptures and drawings
Simon Baumgart, Someone's Calling, 2022, sculpture and mixed-media, dimensions variable
Simon Baumgart, I entered you are we now one, 2021, tattoo and digital print, 19 × 12 in. (48.26 × 30.48 cm)
Simon Baumgart, Vera kion, 2023, oil on canvas, 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.18 cm)
Residents from Germany
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2023–Sep 30, 2023
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #212
Artist
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.
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Zara Pfeifer has exhibited work at Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and Künstlerhaus, Austria, among others.
Past Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Zara Pfeifer, Du, meine konkrete Utopie, 2019, photography and textile paper, 1571/2 × 393/8 in. (400 × 100 cm)
Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2022, framed photograph , 235/8 × 153/4 in. (60 × 40 cm)
Zara Pfeifer, ICC Berlin, 2023, photography and vinyl, 1617/16 × 1181/8 in. (410 × 300 cm)
Zara Pfeifer, El Archivo, 2023, photography and archival print, dimensions variable
Zara Pfeifer, Rollrasen, 2023, video on two screens and pasted poster, 1081/4 × 783/4 in. (275 × 200 cm)
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.
