Past Residents
Past Resident2016: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Franz Jyrch
In Franz Jyrch’s installations and sculptural settings, canvases and stretcher frames play a significant role. The basic approach to her work, which is characterized by coincidence and calculation alike, consists of arranging and deconstructing very diverse materials taken from artistic contexts and everyday life as well. Thereby, she creates complex sculptures and installations which can fill entire rooms. It leaves us with the impression that painting has emancipated itself from its central coordinates, with its ‘assistants’ conquering new spaces beyond the narrow square of the frame. Instead, the exhibit space now provides the actual framework for a much more complex pictorial narrative, one that integrates many things that are outside of the art context. (Text by Ralf F. Hartmann)
Franz Jyrch graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2012. She received the Marion Ermer Award and completed her postgraduate studies in 2014. Solo shows include BONHEUR, Vincenz Sala, Paris; PARAVENT, Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig; KNICKE AND ORDER, Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig; and La Pittura, Vincenz Sala, Berlin. Recent group shows include Plain Walls, White Teeth, Galerie Genscher, Hamburg; Yearzero, Kollektiv Unkonventionelle Kunst, Zurich; Mulhouse 015, Biennale d‘Art Contemporain, Mulhouse; WERKSCHAU, Spinnerei Galleries, Leipzig; A Room of One’s Own, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; and Sammlungsalphabet, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig.
Franz Jyrch, o.t., 2014, Acrylic on stretchers, 16 1/2 x 24 x 7 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
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.
