Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Jeffrey Rosen, Misako & Rosen Gallery
Līga Spunde
Līga Spunde creates multimedia installations that intertwine personal stories with deliberate fiction. The work’s content determines it’s physical form, prompting the artist to a variety of media and materials in her installations. Her own experiences are expanded through the interpretation and utilization of recognizable characters. Spunde’s art can be found in public and private collections around Europe.
Līga Spunde has exhibited work at Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Spain; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia; and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia, among others.
Līga Spunde, A Panic Attack on A Sunny Day, 2023, installation view, mixed media installation, Friday Gallery, Spain. Photo by Dibudibus.
Līga Spunde, Lilies of the Valley / Tribute to A Tired Girl, 2022, installation view, silkscreen prints and 3D prints, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia. Photo by Madara Kuplā.
Līga Spunde, Digital Native, 2021, 3D print, plexiglass, plasticine and wood.
Līga Spunde, There's No Harm In Any Blessings, 2020, installation view, mixed media installation, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia.
Līga Spunde, When Hell Is Full the Dead Will Walk the Earth, 2019, installation view, mixed media installation, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia.
Past Resident2024: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler
Artist Okka-Esther Hungerbühler works with both painting and sculpture to explore different themes. In her paintings, Hungerbühler returns to the shape of the „princess dress“, which she uses abstractly, and depicts rooms as colored sketches of interiors. Her sculptures are creature-like, with a highly simple body shape composed of decorative materials.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler has exhibited work at Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden; Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin; and mumok Wien, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Red flower, 2022, papier-mâché, ostrich feathers and animatronics, 19 × 62 in. (48.26 × 157.48 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Goose, 2022, paper, adhesive foil, glitter, animatronic, 19 × 31 × 23 in. (48.26 × 78.74 × 58.42 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Everybody against everybody, 2018, wrapping paper, glitter, glue and feathers, dimensions variable.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Monster Dress, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 35 × 39 in. (88.9 × 99.06 cm).
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Empty bar from above, 2018, acrylic and marker on canvas, 39 × 37 in. (99.06 × 93.98 cm).
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2024: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga uses speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist tradition to investigate economies of visibility and disappearance. Her works examine questions of self-representation, preservation, appearance, and opacity through an interdisciplinary approach in which she typically reverses established identity politics of presence. Mujinga’s works deviate from a completely anthropocentric approach to understanding the ephemeral world we now occupy; as a result, the artist draws inspiration in how animals create survival tactics and adapt to hostile surroundings.
Sandra Mujinga has exhibited work at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Venice Biennale, Venice; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among others.
Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, video, 1:00:28 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen and The Approach.
Sandra Mujinga, Pervasive Lights, 2021, video, 16:15 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, The Approach, and MoMA.
Sandra Mujinga, Closed Space, Open World, 2022, three-channel video installation with sound, animation drawn by Nancy Saphira, 10 min.
Sandra Mujinga, Worldview, 2021, video, 3D animation by Justin Swinburne, 8 hours.
Sandra Mujinga, Sentinels of Change & Reworlding Remains, 2021, installation, dimensions variable.
