Past Residents

Past Resident
2026: The Living History Project, National Art Gallery (BSLN)

Artist

Ivan Lam

Ivan Lam is one of Malaysia’s leading contemporary artists. A graduate of the Maine College of Art (1998), he began his career as a printmaker and gained early recognition for his CMYK series before transitioning into painting. Over the past 23 years, his practice has been defined by bold experimentation with resin, performance, and conceptual approaches that explore identity, consumerism, and social tension. His work is held in notable collections including Louis Vuitton and the Singapore Art Museum.

Ivan Lam has exhibited work at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Italy; S.E.A. Focus, Singapore; and Art Basel, Hong Kong, among others.

Coma: 38/500 redefines authorship and value by transforming Art Basel Hong Kong into a metaphorical vending machine. Featuring contributions from 500 Malaysian artists, the project subverts elitism and commercialism, highlighting collective creation, inclusivity, and the complexities of artistic identity within Asia’s evolving contemporary art landscape.

Ivan Lam, COMA 38/500, 2012-2013, vending machine, 38 individual artworks in perspex, 31 × 32⁵/₈ in. (78.74 × 82.8 cm).

Zero Hero completes a trilogy exploring life’s dualities; fragility and endurance, light and darkness, self and surrender. Separated by a resin-encased battleship, the diptych reflects struggle, protection, and acceptance. Through delicate balance and quiet resolution, Lam reveals that meaning emerges not from control, but from coexistence and reconciliation.

Ivan Lam, Zero Hero, 2012, synthetic polymer paint, scale model battleship encased in resin, canvas on board, 72 × 92¹/₂ × 4 in. (182.88 × 234.95 × 10.16 cm).

ament of the Fallen confronts the anguish of global conflict through visceral imagery and symbolic red tones. Layered with crosshair motifs and echoes of past battles, the work reflects on war’s dehumanisation, the cycles of destruction, and humanity’s fragile persistence amid violence and loss.

Ivan Lam, Lament of the Fallen: A Crimson Ballet on the Battlefield of Bodies, 2-24, color pencils and pastel pencils on synthetic house paint on canvas on board with resin, 96³/₈ × 54⁵/₁₆ × 3 in. (244.86 × 137.92 × 7.62 cm).

Hanako reflects moments of quiet certainty amid life’s contradictions. Depicting a slice of cake rendered with meticulous precision, the work transforms an everyday indulgence into contemplation, balancing control and comfort with underlying doubt, echoing the artist’s exploration of duality in The Dichotomy of Opposites.

Ivan Lam, Hanako, 2024, color markers, acrylic markers and color pencils on canvas on board, 56 × 74¹³/₁₆ × 3 in. (142.24 × 189.99 × 7.62 cm).

Greatest Hits: Compilation Vol. 1 reflects the journey of release and renewal. Layered with diverse materials - wax, glitter, pencil, gold leaf; it embodies duality, transformation, and self-reflection. The work marks Lam’s shift from control to surrender, exploring beauty, ego, and humanity’s fragility through material and conceptual experimentation.

Ivan Lam, Greatest Hits – Compilation Vol. 1, 2017, synthetic house paint, beeswax, latex, sequins, pencil, vinyl, cassette tape and resin on board, 47³/₁₆ × 82⁵/₈ × 3 in. (119.89 × 209.8 × 7.62 cm).

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Germany

Past Resident
2025: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

Artist

Hermann Grüneberg

The adult figures in Grüneberg’s ceramics bear traces of actions and interventions. Their origins and journeys remain an expressive mystery. Experience has accumulated within them, deepening their faces and inevitably aging them. A sense of calm has returned to their postures. History, too, has settled on them like the heavy dust of the road, religions, myths, generations, and epochs layered upon their surfaces. Other elements drift among them: hoods and crowns, third parties or their images, a strange murmur, and laughter echoing from the plates.

Hermann Grüneberg has exhibited work at SPAX Projects, Paris; Brutto Gusto, Berlin; and Galerie Herold, Hamburg, among others.

Hermann Grüneberg, mission, 2022, ceramics, dimensions variable.

Hermann Grüneberg, Lover, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.

Hermann Grüneberg, Dark Sister, 2023, ceramics, dimensions variable.

Hermann Grüneberg, Broken Flowers, 2025, ceramics, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm).

Hermann Grüneberg, Jesus, 2022, ceramics, 10 × 13 in. (25.4 × 33.02 cm).

Residents from Germany

TZUSOO

South Korea, Germany

DOOSAN Art Center

Studio #216

Neda Saeedi

Iran, Germany

Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin

2025

Eva Richardson McCrea

Germany, Ireland

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin

2025

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Denmark

Past Resident
2026: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Cassie Augusta Jørgensen

Cassie Augusta Jørgensen primarily works with performance, coming from a background in dance and choreography. She has experience both in live stage work and in gallery settings. More recently, she has also created film and photography, always approached through a choreographic lens. Politically and theoretically, her focus is on the choreography of the trans body, exploring the spaces in history where it appears and where it is absent. In her work, she seeks to highlight this either by rewriting these narratives or by emphasizing what already exists.

Cassie Augusta Jørgensen has exhibited work at Overgaden; inter.pblc; and Nikolaj Kunsthal; all in Copenhagen, among others.