Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Maraya Art Centre
Raja’a Khalid
Raja’a Khalid’s practice is concerned with contemporary narratives of class, luxury, and consumer and material cultures, especially those that connect her native Arabian Gulf region with the world at large. She is interested in how current day capitalist economies articulate ‘culture’ and seek out motifs of soft power that reflect on the Gulf’s streaming constructions of heritage, authenticity, wealth, masculinity, sport, game, athleticism, adornment, wellness and wilderness. Outcomes are often sculptural abstractions based on these investigations and mediums employed include industrial processes, systems or rhetoric e.g. patents, wholesale supplies or B2B goods, etc.
Raja’a Khalid (born 1984, Saudi Arabia) is a Dubai-based artist and writer. She received her MFA in Fine Art from Cornell University, where she was also the recipient of the Cornell Council for the Arts Grant in 2013. Recent awards and residencies include the NYU Abu Dhabi FIND Research Fellowship, 2014; the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen International Fellowship for Art and Theory, 2015, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Guest Residency, 2015. Her work has been shown in New York, Dubai and Vienna.
Raja'a Khalid, Oud Aura, 2015, Industrial scent diffuser and synthetic oud essential oil, 12 × 12 × 5 in. (30.48 × 30.48 × 12.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United Arab Emirates
Past Resident2016: Maraya Art Centre
Raja'a Khalid
Raja’a Khalid’s practice is concerned with contemporary narratives of class, luxury, and consumer and material cultures, especially those that connect her native Arabian Gulf region with the world at large. She is interested in how current day capitalist economies articulate ‘culture’ and seek out motifs of soft power that reflect on the Gulf’s streaming constructions of heritage, authenticity, wealth, masculinity, sport, game, athleticism, adornment, wellness and wilderness. Outcomes are often sculptural abstractions based on these investigations and mediums employed include industrial processes, systems or rhetoric e.g. patents, wholesale supplies or B2B goods, etc.
Raja’a Khalid (born 1984, Saudi Arabia) is a Dubai-based artist and writer. She received her MFA in Fine Art from Cornell University, where she was also the recipient of the Cornell Council for the Arts Grant in 2013. Recent awards and residencies include the NYU Abu Dhabi FIND Research Fellowship, 2014; the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen International Fellowship for Art and Theory, 2015, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Guest Residency, 2015. Her work has been shown in New York, Dubai and Vienna.
Raja'a Khalid, Oud Aura, 2015, Industrial scent diffuser and synthetic oud essential oil, 12 × 12 × 5 in. (30.48 × 30.48 × 12.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United Arab Emirates
Misha Stroj
Misha Stroj’s practice is at the edge of disciplines, matters and medias. He excessively researches his work to share moments of understanding, caring and envisioning a common knowledge and space with the viewer.
Misha Stroj studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he graduated in 2002. At present, he is working on a publication titled Primary Events, developing work for the group show Poetiken des Materials, Museum Leopold, Vienna, and a commission for a public monument that will be permanently installed in the future Medical University of Graz.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2016
April 29–April 30, 2016
Misha Stroj, Unititled (installation view), 2015, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna.
