TIMUR ZOLOTOEV ︎︎︎ February 2024 ︎︎︎ February 2025
Timur Zolotoev (b. 1989, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia) is a curator and editor working at the intersection of contemporary art and architecture. He has collaborated on projects with Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and served as a curator at Lkham Gallery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Additionally, Timur contributed to the Dissolving Earths project as a member of the curatorial team. He is the former editor-in-chief of the English version of online Strelka Mag.
The residency is supported by the Fellowship Program “Weltoffenes Berlin” by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
SVĚTLANA MALINOVÁ ︎︎︎ January 2024–March 2024
Světlana Malinová (b. 1997, Czech Republic) is a curator and cultural producer based in Prague. Since 2022, she has been the artistic director of the Fotograf Festival, which is one of the three projects of the Fotograf organisation. Together with Max Dvořák, she runs City Surfer Office, a multifunctional art space in Prague's Žižkov district. Through a form of gallery collective, we create an open environment for the visibility and support of the youngest generation of emerging artists. In parallel to these activities, she also collaborates on exhibition projects of independent galleries in Prague.
The residency is supported by Hope Recycling Station made possible by the National recovery plan, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic.
NATÁLIE KUBÍKOVÁ ︎︎︎ October 2023–December 2023
Natálie Kubíková is an independent curator based in Paris and Prague. She is a director and founder of Prague based gallery and residency program, Garage Gallery.Her underlying curatorial practice stems from an interest within reflections on social collectives such as family, neighbourhoods, relationships, friendships, cultural practices and stereotypes. Her current ongoing research practice focuses on representation of female homosexual narratives, where things such as resistance and familial, social or emotional background are combined with polemics about the eclipse of lesbian presence in our collective imagination. She is currently working for a prospective bureau called NONFICTION in Paris.
The residency is supported by Hope Recycling Station.
NONA MARKARIAN ︎︎︎ September 2023–November 2023
Nona Markarian is a Tbilisi-based curator and cultural producer. She graduated with a Master's in "Innovation and Organisation of Culture and the Arts" (UNIBO, Italy, 2020) and since then, she’s been exploring alternative exhibition formats, focusing on site-specific works. She also co-founded Minadoraserver collective, which aspires to fire up emancipatory digital artistic tools in Georgia. Nona is a recipient of Prince Claus Seed Award for her contributions to artistic practices that address local social and political issues. Currently, her research is dedicated to the Black Sea region, where she explores its post-socialist heritage and the intricate political and cultural complexities it entails.
The residency is supported by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
ZHENIA MOLIAR ︎︎︎ February 2023–February 2024
Zhenia Moliar is an art historian. Studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Works on the cultural heritage of the Soviet period, in particular monumental art. Curated a project SOVIET MOSAICS IN UKRAINE. As member of the self-organized initiative DE NE DE study and preserve unrecognised and unobvious cultural heritage in Ukraine.
The residency is supported by the Fellowship Program “Weltoffenes Berlin” by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
FAI AHMED ︎︎︎ July – August 2023
Fai Ahmed is a multimedia artist, her work focuses on the politics of memory and the aesthetics of digital error. Each of her works sits at the juncture of two entirely different explorations: the exploration of ideas and the exploration of the process of artistic creation. She published her first art book in 2020 titled “Untitled Album” and has exhibited at numerous local and international exhibitions, most notably in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and NYC.
The residency is supported by Art Jameel and Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia part of a three years collaboration with Slavs and Tatars to support young practioners from Saudi Arabia.
ALEX FISHER ︎︎︎ July–August 2023
Alex Fisher (b. 1996, Fairfax, Virginia, USA) is a writer and curator from Buffalo, New York. He graduated with a master’s in Design Studies (Domain: Narratives; Trajectory: Power and Place) from Harvard University. His research interests are in (re)formations of legacy and the mutual associations of natural, built, and political environments in formerly socialist contexts. In 2019-2020, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, during which he conducted fieldwork and organized artistic programs in cooperation with a variety of public and private cultural platforms, including Mystetskyi Arsenal and Izolyatsia.
His residency is supported by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, where he is a Graduate Student Associate.
DENIZ KIRKALI ︎︎︎ April–June 2023
Deniz Kirkali (b. 1992, Izmir, Turkey) is a curator and writer based in Istanbul and London. She has co-founded topsoil, a transnational curatorial and research collective, and Garp Sessions, a summer programme in Babakale, Turkey. Her writings have been published internationally on platforms such as AQNB, Flash Art, this is tomorrow and Art Unlimited. She is the co-author of Otomy, published in 2022. She is currently doing her PhD in Advanced Practices at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The residency is supported by SAHA – supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, within the scope of SAHA Studio.
IOULITA TOUMAZI ︎︎︎ February–April 2023
Ioulita Toumazi (b. 1996, Limassol, Cyprus) is an art theorist, curator and writer. Her research interests revolve around contemporary Cypriot art, postcolonialism, memory and language. Under this research perspective, she co-curated the exhibition “8΄20”: Vera Gavrielidou-Hadjida” at Garage Art Space (2022) and Seeking Roots at NiMAC (2021). She was the project manager of various cultural projects, including "The Broken Pitcher" at Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia (2022) and 'Christoforos Savva: Unbound' at the Hellenic Centre in London (2022). She co-directed the interdisciplinary performance “setting the codes for the heart of a dream” (2022). She holds an MA in History of Art from UCL and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Kent, with a year at the Sapienza University of Rome.
The residency is supported by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).
AIGERIM KAPAR ︎︎︎ September–October 2022
Aigerim Kapar (b. 1987, Almaty - Astana) is an interdependent curator, interdisciplinary researcher, and a decolonial activist in Kazakhstan. Kapar founded Artcom Platform, a Central Asian community-based contemporary art and public engagement organization in 2015. She has also been organizing Art Collider, a school where art meets science bringing communities together, since 2017. Currently Kapar curates a hybrid reality project Steppe Space, the place for contemporary art and culture of Central Asia, and initiated projects of care for lake ecosystems SOS Taldykol and Balqashqa Qamqor in 2020.
The residency is supported by Goethe-Institut Almaty.
ANHAR SALEM︎︎︎ July–August 2022
Anhar Salem (b. 1993, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) has a multi-ethnic background (Yemeni and Indonesian). She studied IT at Arab Open University and Le Fresnoy Studio in France. As an autodidact video artist, her work attempts to explore, document, and open new public and private spaces associated with themes such as everyday life, body, and social media.
The residency is supported by Art Jameel and Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia part of a three years collaboration with Slavs and Tatars to support young practitioners from Saudi Arabia.