Past Resident
2023: SpallArt Collection, Brigitte Vosse

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Aesthetics of Conflict–Elias Wessel with Matt Saunders

December 11, 2023, 6:30–7:30pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Installation view of exhibition, including sonic compositions by Natalia Kiës; in situ at the exhibition “Pulsar;” Internationale Photoszene Festival Cologne, 2023

Elias Wessel, Sprung in die Zeit [Leap Into Time], 2014-2023, black and white photographs, audio, interactive module, and installation, dimensions variable.

Installation view of exhibition with paintings facing each other in a circle in the middle of a room. In situ at the exhibition “Elias Wessel—It's Complicated, Is Possibly Art;” 1014 New York, 2022

Elias Wessel, It’s Complicated (Tabloid Edition), 2019-2021, color photographs, audio, and artbook, dimensions variable.

Installation view of bright vertical panels on dark room. In situ at the exhibition “Elias Wessel—It's Complicated, Is Possibly Art;” 1014 New York, 2022

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).

Installation view of a room with a big chandelier, and two large paintings above two small tables. Exhibition “Elias Wessel : La somme de mes données;” Palais Beauharnais Paris, 2020

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

Elias Wessel, Delirious Images – Fotografien für die nächste Gesellschaft [Photographs for the Next Society], 2023, photographs.

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

2025

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Austria, Germany

Past Resident
2023: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

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.

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" (2013–2017)

Zara Pfeifer, Du, meine konkrete Utopie, 2019, photography and textile paper, 39³/₈ × 157¹/₂ in. (100 × 400 cm).

Zara Pfeifer, "Good Street!" (2018–2022)

Zara Pfeifer, Good Street!, 2022, framed photograph , 15³/₄ × 23⁵/₈ in. (40 × 60 cm).

Zara Pfeifer, "ICC Berlin" (2021-2022) photo: Liz Perdacher

Zara Pfeifer, ICC Berlin, 2023, photography and vinyl, 118¹/₈ × 161⁷/₁₆ in. (300 × 410 cm).

Zara Pfeifer, "El Archivo" (2022) photo: Taiyo Watanabe

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 Germany

Lukas Marxt

Germany, Portugal

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Studio #218

Szu-Ying Hsu (Ida)

Taiwan, Germany

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #302

Matthias Garff

Germany

KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Studio #214

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Mexico

Past Resident
2023: ISCP Alumni Fund
2008: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Joaquin Segura in Conversation with Sylvie Fortin

September 5, 2023, 6–8pm

Four rows of blue plastic barrels are surrounded by a chain link fence with barbed wire. They are in a large warehouse-like space with concrete floors.

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).