Past Residents
Liutauras Psibilskis
Liutauras Psibilskis / Liutas Tauras is currently closely re-reading and translating — from English to Emoji — the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, as well as producing an ongoing gorilla poster project in Chinatown, Manhattan. He is also in the process of developing online institutions and modulating art entities that include The House of Culture (thehouseofculture.com) and Kunsthalle New York (kunsthalle.us).
Liutauras Psibilskis / Liutas Tauras (born in Vilnius, Lithuania) lives and works in New York City. He has contributed reviews and features to international art journals including Kunstbulletin, Artforum, Flash Art International, Siksi and Nu. Psibilskis has acted as a Scandinavian Correspondent for Artforum and an Associate Editor of Siksi. His curatorial projects include the Lituanian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, with Jonas Mekas where he was awarded the Jury’s Special Mention. He developed projects for the Performa Biennial 11 and the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York. Most recently, Psibilskis curated The World According to Fluxus, at the Lituanian National Art Gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Liutauras Psibilskis / Liutas Tauras holds an M.A. in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He is on the creative board of Konsthall Tornedalen, Vistaniemi, Sweden.
Liutauras Psibilskis, Red Egg Club from Ginger Island Project, Performa 11, 2011, Installation/performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Keli Safia Maksud
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2024
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Past Resident2015: National Endowment for the Arts
Aviva Rahmani
Ecological artist Aviva Rahmani’s projects range from site-specific installations and complete landscape restorations, to museum venues that reference paint, sound and photography. Considered a seminal figure in ecological art, Rahmani’s work in Maine restored coastal wetlands systems and led to the development of her original theory about bio-regional sustainability, “Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism.” Rahmani creates trans-disciplinary artifacts from collaborative research to address environmental degradation.
Aviva Rahmani practice continues to return to and be influence by some of her earlier collaborative works including a ten-year performance that effected ecological restoration as art, Ghost Nets, 1990-2015. Blue Rocks, 2002, which resulted in the restoration of 26 wetlands acres and an investment of $500,000.00 from the USDA. New scientific knowledge was produced alongside Fish Story Project, 2013, which led to the realization that re-greening the earth by 36% by 2030 could mitigate climate change. Her current project, Blued Trees, which spans intercontinental space, is conceived as a five-movement symphony as a sculptural installation in the path of fossil fuel infrastructure. Aviva Rahmani is an affiliate at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, the University of Colorado Boulder, and a PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom. Rahmani has published internationally and has been the recipient of numerous grants including a 2009 Arts and Healing Award for work on water.
Events & Exhibitions
Blued Trees for Aqueous Earth
December 15, 2015
Aviva Rahmani, Memphis Bluegill, 2012, Digital still generated with pen tablet and Photoshop, Size variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2015: Danish Arts Foundation
Jytte Høy
Asked to pinpoint her artistic practice in language, Jytte Høy choses the words: structure, complexity and seduction. Jytte Høy’s interest in structure manifests itself in serendipitous coincidences between entirely different phenomena. Høy finds infinite beauty in the revelation of this form of strange and sudden connections. Furthermore, she takes it upon herself to insist on complexity, subscribing to the standpoint of German artist Anna Oppermann, “Complexity must still have value somewhere in this world.” As for seduction, Høy considers it a necessity: Viewers must be enticed to dwell on a work long enough to allow less conspicuous characteristics to unfold. Other artistic means include sensuality and humor vis-à-vis the human capacity for wonder.
Jytte Høy is a Danish artist living and work in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 and has been awarded a lifetime grant from the Danish State as well as the Eckersberg Medal.
Jytte Høy, Thin Air; Matterhorn, 2014, Laser cut mdf and paint, 70 x 43 x 43 in. Courtesy of the artist.
