Artist-in-Residence Program

Since 2005 the Kuenstlerhaus offers an additional option for artists from abroad: The Artist-in-Residence Program during the summer months from June until August.
For a duration of 6 to 8 weeks, the residency includes a guestroom (approx. 20 sqm - separate shower and WC as well as fully equipped kitchen), a studio (approx. 57 sqm), a grant for travel expenses to and from the Kuenstlerhaus and a per diem of 10 Euro. Moreover, project costs can be supported up to an amount of 1000 Euro after consultation of our manager and upon presentation of respective invoices related to the project to be realized during the residency.

The Kuenstlerhaus team is pleased to assist the guest artist in any organizatorial and practical issues. Moreover, there is the possibility of a work presentation organized by the Kuenstlerhaus at the end of the stay.

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Artist-in-Residence 2011:

Hui Wai Keung (*1973, Hong Kong, CN )

Hui Wai Keung was lives and works in Hong Kong, China. He started learning fine art only at the age of 30, and took his first lesson of drawing in 2002. He was then educated in both visual and new media streams. He received his MFA from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2004, and graduated in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Hong Kong Art School.

Excerpt from his artist statement and proposal:
Recently, I am intrigued by the concept and poetic character of “impossibility”. (...) I am looking for  failed experiments, wrong theories, rejected proposals, or any ridiculous idea. It could be an idea that proved to be wrong as it violates the laws of nature, but which could be possible on a logical basis. Or it could be a legend which is said to be logically impossible, but has been widely believed to be true. (www.huiwaikeung.org)


images: presentation 'Plastron - anther side', 26/08 - 04/09/201


photographs ©: Jens Sundheim

Previous years

2010

Maria Raponi (*1975, Toronto, CA)

Maria Raponi is a Toronto-based artist working in a variety of mediums. Her work explores the relationship between the perceptual and the interpretive, between the immediate experience of the world and the attempt to make sense of it. This relationship is compounded through storytelling. The stories we share, the events we remember, and the locations we create help us to define and relate to our environment. (www.mariaraponi.com)


Presentation re-site, opening on August 06, 2010, with kunstgruppe GOTTLIEB




re-site, presentation views, photographs ©: Jens Sundheim

During her time in Dortmund, Maria Raponi created a series of lightboxes featuring composite photographs of the ceilings of Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund’s exhibition spaces. In this site-specific work, the ceilings, which normally provide the illumination for works on view, become the focal point as the work itself.

While directly tied to the architecture, the images provide a contemplative space for the viewer to occupy. Instead of being one photograph frozen in time, each ceiling is made up of multiple photographs taken over time, allowing for shifts in colour and light as each section was photographed.


left:3e - Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, 64 x 52cm, right: 3a - Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund,60 x 51.8cm, ink-jet transparencies; ©: Maria Raponi


2009

Dillan Marsh (*1980, Bristol, UK)

By means of objects, drawings and videos Dillan Marsh from Great Britain creates a world that the observer is invited to enter. The works are considered to be components of a larger project and thus never actually finished. Working outside his locality helps him to exchange ideas and widen his horizons.
Dillan Marsh studied Art and Design with an emphasis on photography at York College and received his BA in Fine Art at the University of Bristol. He received an Erasmus Placement for the Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin and was awarded residency stipends from several institutions in the UK and the US.

In Dortmund the artist has realized his "Book Project" for which he constructed a machine for processing books into raw material that could serve for construction and as a low-cost fuel. Similar processes of recycling and converting have already before been part of his work, yet ecological issues are not his core interest. His subject is the situation of books as an endangered species in a scenario of immanent recession, rising fuel prices and potential climatic catastrophes and their processing in a time where surviving has taken over the need to preserve knowledge and culture.


The images show the final presentation in his studio.  





2008

Tamara Fleming (*1983 in Anchorage, USA)

Tamara Fleming attended OC High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, California and studied at Santa Reparata International School of the Arts, Florence. In 2005 she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. Since 2005 she is attending the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Wien.

During her stay in Dortmund she continued her work dealing with the intense study, meaningful understanding, re-contextualization and response to found visual aspects in the external world by means of video, photography, sketches, painting and installation.




images: presentation at the Kuenstlerhaus


2007

Helen Johnson (*1980, Northcote, AUS)

Helen Johnson from Northcote, Australia was be our summer guest in June and July 2007. She was born in Melbourne and finished her studies at the RMIT University of Fine Arts, Melbourne in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work fields include room specific drawing and painting on paper and wall.

During her stay at the Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund she has realized a work series based on personal, domestic interiors.


images: presentation at the Kuenstlerhaus
 





2006

Anna-Maria Karczmarska (*1981, Krakow, PL)

The artist from Cracow, Poland was be our residency guest in 2006.
She studied at the art academies in Cracow and Milan; her work fields include staged photography, cartoon, painting and object art.

Her project during her residency:
Ernten - Einmachen / Harvesting - Preserving




2005

Anna Gonzalez (*1980, Barcelona, ES)

Conceptional artist from Barcelona, Spain, was selected for the residence 2005 and stayed in Dortmund from July 1 to September 15, 2005.

Her project during her residency:
Vorruhestand / Early Retirement


photo by Gustel Gawlik

In the past the working period of people frequently lasted until shortly before their death. As a consequence of an increased life expectancy in the modern world, senior citizens have lot more time at their own disposal. In a sense, man have created time for himself. Anna Gonzalez studied this man-created time. During the work process of "Vorruhestand" she got to know the life of senior citizens: In a first part she participated in the summer activities' program of the Wilhelm-Hansmann-Haus; then, in a second part, she became an inhabitant of the seniors' residency.


images: presentation at the Kuenstlerhaus