Gastkünstler*innen des artists-in-residence program

Lilian Robl

Geboren 1990 in München, hat Bildende Kunst, Kunstgeschichte und Literaturwissenschaften in München und Brüssel studiert.
Ihre Arbeiten verbinden Film, Literatur und Wissenschaft und werden in Ausstellungen, u.a. Kunstraum Kreuzberg Berlin, GiG x Lothringer13 München, Wienwoche, auf Filmfestivals u.a. Barcelona International Short Film Festival, GRRL Haus Cinema, Les Instants Vidéo, Weimar Poetry Film sowie im Literaturkontext u.a. auftakt festival, Monacensia München, Projekt Thesaurus der Sprachbildlichkeit gezeigt.
2022 erhielt sie das Bundesstipendium für die Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 2023 das Europäische Stipendium des Bezirks Oberbayern sowie den VIDEODOX Preis.

Artist Statement:
„In meinen textbasierten Videoarbeiten steht die Sprache im Vordergrund. Am Anfang meiner künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Forschung steht in den meisten Fällen ein bestimmter Begriff, der mich nicht loslässt. Ich spiele in meinen Arbeiten durch, was ein Begriff – auf sprachlicher, visueller und sprachbildlicher – Ebene bedeutet oder auch bedeuten könnte. Welche Prozesse und Formen von Intelligenz spielen sich im Zwischenraum von Text und Bild ab? In meinen Videoarbeiten tritt Sprache als essayistisches Voice-Over in Erscheinung oder Text taucht im und als Bild auf, wie konkrete Poesie erweitert um den Faktor Zeit.“

Martina Rade

Unsere Kooperationspartner in Rovinj-Rovigno haben die junge Künstlerin Martina Rade  für den Aufenthalt in Salzburg ausgewählt.

Ausbildung:

2024 - APURI - Academy of Applied Arts - Rijeka (HR). Graduate degree in Applied Arts (Painting)

2019 - 2023 - ABAF - Academy of fine Arts - Florence (IT), Bachelor degree in Visual Arts - Faculty of Painting

Self Description:
„Painter with graphic and scientific skills, passionate about research in nature and with nature. She works with natural matter within the natural environment; such as woods, parks, beaches. Ability to create non-toxic paints and pigments, directly from living matter, suitable for
the medium.“ 

Statement:
„Observation and drawing might be one of the most accurate sciences.While working with natural organic matter, I’ve been observing how colors, shapes and textures change and behave through time. Playing with rocks, plants, grounds, fruits and vegetables I’ve
prepared natural pigments and paints. 

Burying canvases, dipping them in the sea and colored waters, or printing them on trees during winter, I’ve found myself dealing with suggestive patterns and
mysterious shapes

Inspired by the history of the city of Salzburg and its relationship with salt, I plan on expressing and
experimenting with this element during the residence.“
 

U. S. Buchart

geb. in München, lebt und arbeitet in Dresden

Studium an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien - Malerei und Grafik bei Prof. Gunter Damisch.

U. S. Bucharts Arbeiten reflektieren sowohl zeichnerisch und malerisch, als auch installativ geschichtliche und gegenwärtige Bildproduktion mit einem scharfen und zugespitzten Blick auf Bilder zwischen Fetisch, Mode, Lust und dem Grotesken an sich. 
Sie mischt Realismus und Expression, Genauigkeit und große Geste, Beschreibung und Satire, High and Low und schafft so überraschende und treffende Porträts quer durch die Zeiten und Stile und zeigt damit die Verflochtenheit und Gemacht-heit von menschlichen Idenditäten und deren Abbilder.
U. S. Buchart ist mit ihren Werken in öffentlichen Sammlungen vertreten, wie etwa der Städtischen Galerie Dresden, der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, dem Kupferstich-kabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, und dem Museum Angerlehner, Wels. 

Statement

”Während des Aufenthalts möchte ich mich mit dem Barocken dem „Schiefrunden“, dem ungeschönten, dem Grotesken und Außergewöhnlichen – der zentralen Auseinandersetzung meiner künstlerischen Position – einem Portrait von W. A. Mozart mittels einer mehrteiligen Werkreihe malerisch nähern”.
 

Eszter Metzing

Born. 1992, Pécs
Graduated in graphic design at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2018. 

She works in her studio at Art Quarter Budapest, is represented by Inda Gallery since 2021 and participates in the life and discourse of the Hungarian art scene as a member of the Studio of Young Artists Association and the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists. 

Since 2024, she has been a member of the Secondary Archive - Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe.

Statement:
„In my artistic activity, my psychological and anthropological observations are interwoven with a materialistic approach that starts from the study of the interactions between man and matter. 

With a personal approach, I explore through my own experiences, phenomena that determine our identity, our relationship to our environment and society. Intuitively, my identity is integrally defined by a female perspective, however, rather than emphasising this in my creative practice, I allow it to imbue my work with an organic naturalness, which I think of as my own naturalism, which is also linked to feminism. 

I am instinctively concerned with themes that reflect on the impact of vulnerability, temporarity, memory and the defining processes of natural change on our lives.“
 

Kati Leskinen

Kati Leskinen is a visual artist from Vantaa and a student of visual arts education, who has actively held exhibitions around Finland in recent years.
In Leskinen's art,there are references to street art, comics and very primary art, such as the early artof the Incas.
Leskinen has harnessed plants and their pigments alongside inkpainting in her art. In addition, her side paths include ceramics and cinematography.

Statement:
„During my four-week residency in Salzburg, I aim to create a series of ink-based, comic-style artworks inspired by the city’s architecture, culture, and history.
I plan to explore the local environment through observation and sketches, using these as the foundation for my work.
My goal is to experiment with new techniques while deepening my artistic practice. The residency will culminate in completed artworks that reflect both personal growth and the unique spirit of Salzburg.“

Erica Spitzer Rasmussen

Professor Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts, Art University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Solo and group exhibitions in the USA, China, Japan, Australia and Europe.

Erica Spitzer Rasmussen is an artist who creates handmade paper garments and small editions of hand-bound books. Her current work explores family stories and issues of identity. Rasmussen is a recipient of the 2018 Minnesota Book Artist Award and various grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She teaches studio arts as a full professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Statement

„I’m a hand papermaker, specializing in unconventional and sculptural books.

My work is generally autobiographical. More specifically, I explore family stories and investigate issues of identity. For example, when I was a little girl, my father told me that eating tomatoes would make me “big, strong and hairy chested.” I believed him and avoided eating tomatoes for twenty years. Like my childhood association between the consumption of tomatoes and the growth of chest hair, I sometimes find body-stories and family dynamics to be simultaneously comical and unsettling. It is often these extremes in emotional reactions that drive me to produce the work, in an attempt to better comprehend each situation.“

André Griffo

Born in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1979.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism, and has been exclusively dedicated to Fine Arts since 2009, having studied at the School of Visual Arts
of Parque Lage on a scholarship.

Numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, USA, UK. 

WORKING PLANS:

”My interest in applying for the VCCA City of Salzburg, Austria Exchange Program, beyond the exchange with the local community, lies in the unique opportunity to research layers of history represented in architecture through different periods, with a special interest in the
Baroque period.

The Baroque, with its exuberance and drama, emerges as the characteristic style of the Catholic Church in the historical context of the Counter-Reformation in Europe and contributes, with its symbols and ornaments, to the diffusion and strengthening of Catholicism.
The Baroque arrived in Brazil through the occupation of the territory by Portugal, bringing the Catholic religion as a colonizing instrument in a historical context marked by violence, domination, and exploitation of natural resources and enslaved bodies. 
And it is this Baroque that develops opulently here, financed by gold and representing the supremacy of the Catholic religion, which is present in my work, especially in the series "The Suppression of the Saint by the Ornament" that I have been dedicating myself to since 2018 and which I intend to work on while a resident in Salzburg.”
 

Amanda Bennetts

Amanda Bennetts is an Australian new media and installation artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Living with a progressive neurological disease and a rare muscular disease, her work draws on clinical, wellness, and disability aesthetics, positioning the body as a critical site for artistic inquiry.

Bennetts is an awarded artist and has exhibited extensively within her emerging career, accruing 20+ group exhibitions.

The jury states: „Amanda Bennett’s project proposal and her artistic practice demonstrate a compelling sense of urgency, a nuanced approach to innovation, and a commitment to artistic excellence. By engaging with the health and care sector and raising awareness about the fragility of bodily existence through the medium of art, she is developing innovative and radical narratives about the human condition, as she herself states: The project will address the interrelated themes of health, the technosphere, urban life.

By focusing on the salt mines and alpine aquifers, she will reimagine the iconic wellness sites through an interdisciplinary lens, using wearable devices, sensory maps capture and speculative forms of therapy.“