Artist in Residence Programme - 2024 edition

Alaa Abu Asad

(Born in Nazareth, lives in Rotterdam)

He is a graduate of the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem and also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His work explores the political dimension of texts and images. He is also interested in alternative paths of communication. In works taking the form of writing, photography, film, and interactive installations, he reflects on and reevaluates the processes of viewing, reading, listening, understanding, and translation. Ethnobotany serves as one of the primary sources of inspiration for his art. Utilizing visual and textual representations of plants, the artist addresses themes such as landscape ideology, colonialism, large-scale economic infrastructures, collective experiences, and personal memory.

https://www.alaaabuasad.com/

Uladzimir Hramovich

(Born in Minsk, lives in Berlin).

He graduated from the Department of Graphic Arts at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts and is a co-founder of the Belarusian artistic-research group Problem Collective. He has participated multiple times in the International Summer Art Program in Krzyżowa. Artistic research by Hramovich focuses on the history of art and modernist architecture, examining their connection to the history and ideology of political movements. He also delves into the contemporary transformation of urban space in Minsk. His works, encompassing installations, texts, videos, and graphics, trace the relationships between the past and present. By studying monuments and rituals related to memory, he uncovers traces of ideology and utopia imprinted in the material fabric of the modern world.

https://hramovich.com

Gayatri Kodikal 

(Born in Ćennaj, lives in Heerlen). 

She graduated in Critical Theory and Art Practice from the Dutch Art Institute Roaming Academy in Arnhem. Her academic background is complemented by previous studies in film and psychology in India. One of the main themes she explores in her work is play as a critical and subversive social practice. Her artistic research draws on sources such as psychogeography, game studies and oral histories. The speculative works that emerge from this research combine historical narratives with ghosts, spatial memory, animism and contemporary ecological thought. Gayatri Kodikal's work includes experimental films, diagrams, installations and performances.

https://www.gayatrikodikal.com/

Beata Rojek

(Born and lives in Wrocław)

She graduated in painting from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She creates murals, comics, films, and easel paintings, drawing on popular imagery and archetypes. Her work is inspired by the aesthetics of graffiti, as well as the worlds of myths, fairy tales, and icons. In her art, she conjures a subversive, magical reality filled with reanimated symbols, animal-human hybrids, and internal landscapes.

http://beatarojek.com.pl/

Annette Ruenzler
(Born in Speyer, lives  in Berlin)

A graduate of the Kunsthochschule in Berlin. She creates sculptures and installations that explore the relationships between people and objects. By modifying forms, she disrupts the routine perception of everyday items, opening them up to new, unfamiliar contexts. Her subtle and poetic works challenge the automatic and instrumental perception of material reality.

https://annetteruenzler.com/