Artist-in-Residence Program

Since 2005 the Kuenstlerhaus offers an additional option for foreign artists: the residence program during the summer months June until August.
For a duration of 6 to 8 weeks , the residence includes rentfree use of a small one-room apartment on the first floor (20 sqm, separate shower and WC), a studio on the ground floor (57 sqm) and a grant for travel and project expenses the amount of which is depending on the current financial situation.
Selected artists pay their living expenses themselves. There is the possibility of a work presentation organized by the Kuenstlerhaus at the end of the stay.
The program is not a stipend. Nonetheless the selection is subject to a jury's decision.
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Artist-in-Residence 2010

Maria Raponi (*1975, Toronto, CA)

Maria Raponi is a Toronto-based artist working in a variety of mediums. Her work explores the relationship between the perceptual and the interpretive, between the immediate experience of the world and the attempt to make sense of it.  This relationship is compounded through storytelling.  The stories we share, the events we remember, and the locations we create help us to define and relate to our environment.


Still image from: The Passage, Super 8mm film, variable sized film loops, 2009

Currently, Maria is focusing on the potency of the image and its possible collapse as a marker of an event or of an instance.  She questions the image's ability to archive or to be a document that might hold a specific function.
(www.mariaraponi.com)



Floor Plan for Storage : Box 1995 – 1996, Archival Digital Print, 60 x 83 inches, 2009

Previous Artists-in-Residence

2009

Dillan Marsh (*1980, Bristol, UK)

By means of objects, drawings and videos Dillan Marsh from Great Britain creates a world that the observer is invited to enter. The works are considered to be components of a larger project and thus never actually finished. Working outside his locality helps him to exchange ideas and widen his horizons.
Dillan Marsh studied Art and Design with an emphasis on photography at York College and received his BA in Fine Art at the University of Bristol. He received an Erasmus Placement for the Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin and was awarded residency stipends from several institutions in the UK and the US.

In Dortmund the artist has realized his "Book Project" for which he constructed a machine for processing books into raw material that could serve for construction and as a low-cost fuel. Similar processes of recycling and converting have already before been part of his work, yet ecological issues are not his core interest. His subject is the situation of books as an endangered species in a scenario of immanent recession, rising fuel prices and potential climatic catastrophes and their processing in a time where surviving has taken over the need to preserve knowledge and culture.


The images show the final presentation in his studio.  








2008

Tamara Fleming (*1983 in Anchorage, Alaska)

Tamara Fleming attended OC High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, California and studied at Santa Reparata International School of the Arts, Florence. In 2005 she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. Since 2005 she is attending the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Wien.

During her stay in Dortmund she continued her work dealing with the intense study, meaningful understanding, re-contextualization and response to found visual aspects in the external world by means of video, photography, sketches, painting and installation..




images: presentation at the Kuenstlerhaus


2007

Helen Johnson (*1980, Northcote, Australia)

Helen Johnson (*1980)
Helen Johnson from Northcote, Australia was be our summer guest in June and July 2007. She was born in Melbourne and finished her studies at the RMIT University of Fine Arts, Melbourne in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work fields include room specific drawing and painting on paper and wall. During her stay at the Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund she wants to realise a work series based on personal, domestioc interiors.


images: presentation at the Kuenstlerhaus, opening, July 27. 2007






2006

Anna-Maria Karczmarska (*1981, Krakau, Polen)

The artist from Cracow, Poland was be our residency guest in 2006.
She studied at the art academies in Cracow and Milan; her work fields include staged photography, cartoon, painting and object art.  
Her work during her stay:
Ernten - Einmachen / Harvesting - Preserving


The work was presented at the large exhibition space from July 25 - 27 and was afterwards shown at the Laboratorium until October 15.

2005

Anna Gonzalez (*1980, Barcelona, Spanien)

Die Konzeptkünstlerin aus Barcelona wurde für den Aufenthalt 2005 ausgesucht und arbeitete vom 1. Juli bis 15. September 2005 in Dortmund.

Ihre Arbeit während des Gastaufenthaltes:
Vorruhestand


images by Gustel Gawlik

Conceptional artist from Barcelona, Spain, was selected for the residence 2005 and stayed in Dortmund from July 1 to September 15, 2005.

Her work during her stay:
Vorruhestand / Early Retirement
Performance by Anna Gonzalez

In the past the working period of people frequently lasted until shortly before their death. As a consequence of an increased life expectancy in the modern world, senior citizens have lot more time at their own disposal. In a sense, man have created time for himself. Anna Gonzalez studied this man-created time. During the work process of "Vorruhestand" she got to know the life of senior citizens: In a first part she participated in the summer activities' program of the Wilhelm-Hansmann-Haus; then, in a second part, she became an inhabitant of the seniors' residency.