Archives: Artists

Ryan Zogheb
Ryan Zogheb is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Introducing Ryan Zogheb, from the United States. Zoghen describes his paintings by refuting their image and embracing the subconscious through haunting expressionist portraits and florals.

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Describing himself as reserved, Zogheb says their paintings speak for them and communicates what is not so easily verbalised. Often the paintings evoke feelings of inadequacy and longing, and encapsulates the sense of walking aimlessly alone around the city on a rainy day.
During the online residency Zogheb has been further exploring self portraits and use it as a surreal vessel to unveil and understand the emotions hidden within his painting practice. “By making these works a part of a larger series, you can see the progression in which my feelings may be shifted or warped as time goes on” Zogheb says.

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My paintings refute the image and embrace the subconscious through haunting expressionist portraits and florals. Working solely in grayscale and painting only from life, my work becomes surreal and allows for more gestural renderings of form to come through and for my artist’s hand to always be held within the work. Being the reserved person that I am, my paintings speak for me and communicate what is not so easily verbalized. Often the paintings evoke feelings of inadequacy and longing, and encapsulates the sense of walking aimlessly alone around the city on a rainy day.
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Throughout art history the self portrait has been the place in which artists can most freely express themselves and their artist style. Through the self portrait you can begin to unearth what the artist was trying to communicate about themselves and what holds to be important to them. For my next project, I hope to further explore the self portrait on my own and use it as a surreal vessel to unveil and understand the emotions hidden within my painting practice. By making these works a part of a larger series, you can see the progression in which my feelings may be shifted or warped as time goes on.
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“Surface Scope” at Carrie Able Gallery, December 14th, 2022 – January 6th, 2023, Brooklyn, New York
World of Co Virtual Exhibition Space, November 3rd, 2022 – November 25th, 2022
“I was a sunken ship; I love you flesh into Blossom” at Common’s Gallery, March 24th, 2022 – April 2nd, 2022, New York, New York
“Your Work Here” Exhibition at Common’s Gallery, November 3rd, 2020 – November 8th, 2020, New York, New York
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August 18, 2025
Masha Maroz
Masha Maroz is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Belarus

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In her artistic and research practice Masha Maroz explores the historical Belarusian context through the lens of synthetics between the archaic forms and technologies assuming the transformative potential of traditional culture in the dominant socio-political matrix. Inspired by quantum physics, Oriental philosophy and the ancient worldview of the Slavs, the artist sees affinity connections between these forms of knowledge.
Maroz is a founder and curator of the Past Perfect platform, dedicated to the preservation and popularization of the ethnographic heritage of Belarus. Expeditions to the Polesia region are an important part of her research. With an interest in crafts, material and image-making she uses a diverse array of disciplines to develop her language through different artistic forms: installations, textiles, photography, analog and digital graphics, objects.
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From 2018 to the present day I’m working on a monograph researching the status of modern ritual veneration of roadside crosses of Palesse region. I traveled thousands of kilometers across Belarus, visited hundreds of villages and captured more then 430 crosses.
These crosses are a phenomenon of material and spiritual culture, which contains important evidence of the ethnic history of Belarus. They are excellent examples of traditional art, which often still reflect the experience of entire groups of woodcarvers, weavers, embroiderers, and blacksmiths. This alive tradition acquires new and more specific features every year, transforming under the pressure of time. Bearers of ancient knowledge, craftswomen and masters are leaving this world, and the collective experience manifests itself with new forms.
Installation, Object, and Photography
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Education
Graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (2014) as a costume designer.
Solo Shows
2020 “Long Way Home”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
Selected Group Shows
2022 “Good as Hell: Voicing Resistance”, National Gallery Of Kosovo, within Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo
2022 “When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long”, GfZK Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2022 “Home That Doesn’t Exist”, International Festival of Photography (within Month Of Photography In Minsk), OFF Piotrkowska Center, Lodz, Poland
2022 “Fight Like A Girl”, Kunsttraject, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 “So Far Yet So Close”, De Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 “So Far Yet So Close”, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 “When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long”, Arsenal Gallery, Bialostok, Poland
2022 “The Code of Presence: Belarusian Protest Embroideries and Textile Patterns”, University of Michigan Library (virtual exhibition), Michigan, United States
2021 “When forms become attitudes”, Fundacja Villa Socrates, Krynki, Poland
2021 “Screams of the Silenced”, The Gray Space in the Middle, The Hague, The Netherlands
2021 “Voices of Belarus. Chapter two: Restoring Connections”, Punt WG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 “Voices of Belarus”, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 “Farewell Of Season”, Concetto Di Casa, Minsk, Belarus
2020 “Vocabulary Of Polesia”, Kult. center “Korpus”, Minsk, Belarus
2020 “Grain And Chrysalis”, Zerno, Minsk, Belarus
2020 “Heart Of The Birdwatcher”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2019 “Anthology Of Holiday”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2019 “Running With Scissors”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2018 “Non-Fashion. Chapter two”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2018 “More Color Project”, Palace of Art, Мinsk, Belarus
2017 “Inside side”, Museum of the History of Minsk, Minsk, Belarus
2016 “Nоn-Fashion”, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus
2015 “The 70th anniversary of the founding of Belarusian State Academy of Arts”, Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2013 “Dual”, Expoforum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2012 “Origins”, gallery of Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
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August 18, 2025
Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard
Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard is GlogauAIR resident from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard’s work is situated around materials and places we surround ourselves with. She is interested in the memories these places and objects carry with them and how they shape us and our society. Her practice is a combination of studio and field work. She collects materials, images and objects from different places and uses them as a starting point in her work. She explores her surroundings through theories connected to geology and anthropology and examines walking as an artistic method. Both the physical aspect of movement but also the idea of mapping and translating a space with the body.
Her installation based work explores different sculptural techniques combining them in the space she is exhibiting in. Materials that are reoccurring in her work are clay, hemp thread and paper. She is drawn to materials that have a sense of resistance and are easily altered or cast into a shape. Materials that are connected to nature in some way or carry a narrative of their own.

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What’s your name and where you come from?
Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard I was born in the north of Sweden.
How did your artist journey begin?
It began with my dad and my grandads interest in photography. Which has always been present when I grew up. When I was around 16 I took my interest further and attended a course in photography. Where I experimented with self portrait and still life. Which is quite far from where I situated my work today. But photography is still a major part of my work and how I perceive the sculptures and installations I make. Also the theoretical framework of photography is very present in my work. The idea of capturing a moment in time is something I think about a lot when in the process of making works. I also tend to work a lot in rectangular shapes which I definitely blame my photographic past for.
Do you find inspiration in real-life situations and moments you experienced?
My work is about situating myself in a set environment and investigating what that environment does to me and the people living there. So a huge part of my inspiration comes from the field work I am engaged in. It could be the architecture of a house or a stone. When I am deep in a project I always have my art glasses on so then basically anything can give me a sense of inspiration or help me deal with a problem I have in the studio. I like to mirror the process in my surroundings and figure out the next step as I go.
What is your process? What are your overarching themes in your artwork?
It depends a bit on what I am working on. If I am working towards an exhibition I work quite closely with the space I am exhibiting in while I produce work for that set environment. If I am in between projects I really like to read in the mornings and walk/yoga before I go to the studio. Then I don’t need to stress the production part and can work more intuitively and test out ideas with both new and old materials.
I have many subject matters that I am currently investigating through my practice. I have always had a deep interest in the body and the field of phenomenology. A think a lot about how we experience the environments we are faced with both in a physical and psychological way. Since I am a sculptor, space and matter are occupying a lot of my time when I am working also. I like to read about geological aspects of certain environments but also the culture way an environment has been used in. So geology and anthropology is something that lately has been of bigger interest exploring.
But the overall theme would be how we as humans are engaged with the place we are living in. How the way we are interacting with nature plays a role in how our identity is created. I have an ongoing research project called Yttring. Where I am comparing the process of erosion in relation to my inherited skin condition. The different timelines, movements and rhythms of these two quite different natural processes is very interesting to me. So I would also say that I am very interested in climate change both on a micro and macro level.
Do you think your art has evolved being in a different environment E.g. Do you think GlogauAIR / being in Berlin hasn’t influenced your work?
I think every place I go and work for a longer time really helps me reach even deeper into the core of my practice. It is good to change the environment you work in to get sort of a new gaze upon your work. Also being in such a vibrant art city as Berlin has really been helping me work through some of my pieces. Also being around other artists is really inspiring and raises different questions regarding your work. Since I am working with the cityscape of Berlin it’s by definition influencing my work.
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Moa Gustafsson Söndergaards work is situated around materials and places we surround ourselves with. She is interested in the memories these places and objects carry with them and how they shape us and our society. Her practice is a combination of studio and field work. Where she collects materials, images and objects from different places and uses them as a starting point in her work. Söndergaard is interested in the idea of translation, the possibility to translate emotional experiences, landscape patterns or places into art. To translate is to reshape something, to make sense of it and to tell a different story. The work then becomes installations where she explores different sculptural techniques and combines them in the space she is exhibiting in. Working with architectural features of a space in relation to her work is an important part of her practice.
Söndergaard has a degree in fine art photography and what is still visible of her photographic past in her work today is her interest in movement and transformation. To capture something and translate it into a material. Her interest in movement both exists in the process of making but also in selection of materials that she works with. Materials that are reoccurring in her work are clay, metal, hemp thread and textile. She is drawn to materials that have a sense of resistance and are easily altered or cast into a shape. Materials that are connected to nature in some way or carry a narrative of its own. She also slowly has been returning to analog photography in her work as a way of mapping landscapes in change and documenting traces of time passing.
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Recently in my practice I have been exploring walking as an artistic method. Both as a way of mapping and understanding the outer landscape you are slowly traveling through but also as a way to look deeper within yourself. To manage ideas and thoughts through walking is a common idea and has been used as a tool in generations of thinkers and artists. At GlogauAIR I want to walk to understand the environment and to research the cityscape of Berlin. To explore the topography and the architectural heritage of the city and observe the changes of it due to socioeconomic and geographical aspects. To use the performative walk as a starting point for drawing, photographs and eventually sculptures.
Perfomance, Photography, and Sculpture
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Education
2019 Umeå Academy of Fine Arts Master of Fine Arts
2019 Making Rituals, Express course, Iceland Academy of Fine Art, Reykjavik
2017 Valand Academy of Fine Art BFA Photography
2015 Iceland Academy of Fine Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Platforms Projects, Athens, Greece – Interdisciplinary collaboration (Duo with Gitte Eidslott)
2022 Biosphere festival 2022, Lund, Sweden – Soft shapes in harsh terrain
2022 Gallery SILK, Gothenburg, Sweden – From the beginning
2022 Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavik, Island – Undone (Duo with Elaine Grainer)
2022 Casino THX, Malmö – Temporary movement on permanent ground
2021 Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin, Germany – Caressing Ocean
2020 Studio K prosjektrom, Kvernaland, Norway – Yttring /Outcrop
2019 Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden – Meanwhile (Group show)
2019 Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden – Meanwhile (Group show)
Grants and awards
2022 Swedish Art Council travel grant
2021 Working grant Malmö City
2021 Swedish Art Council travel grant
2021 One year working grant Swedish Art Council
2021 Malmö Stad Studio Grant
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August 18, 2025
Se Young Yim
Se Young Yim is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to June, 2023
South Korea

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I am making sculptures and paintings. I focus on vulnerable physicality in space and relationships. I would like to express that every object has a skin and needs space. And I believe this can be a universal principle regardless of whether it is a living thing or an object. How can people make room for each other? I explore the body, which is temporarily located both conceptually and physically.
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My recent project is two tracks of sculptures with found objects and paintings using A.I. program. The keywords are intimacy, dissolvable, temporary physicality in place. With these keywords, I tried to capture the loneliness inherent in humans through experimentation with images created in mechanical ways or randomness which can be encountered on the street.
In Berlin, I can be inspired by new random objects from different environments. Through GlogauAIR residency, I will explore the ways to combine painting and sculpture into one by expanding my artistic practice. So far, I am doing quick mold casting of found objects, and assembling them in an abstract way. Also their architectural structure will be related to paintings.
Installation, Painting, and Sculpture
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Education
2022 Master degree, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2019 Bachelor degree, Department of Clothing, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Postcards from the Edge, ‘Visual AIDS’ annual benefit auction, New York, NY
NFT Online Exhibition, canverse.org/en
Outro, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
Flame casts no shadow, Subtitled Nyc, Brooklyn, NY
2021 MIsfits, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
COCOONS, New Collector Gallery, New York, NY
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August 18, 2025
Mei Mei
Mei Mei is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
As a cross-disciplinary artist from China, meimei sees herself as a catalyst of new situations, exploring the pre-existing social and natural contexts that surround us and transcribing them through a feminist lens via recreation and variations.

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meimei’s art practice delves into the intricacies of media theory and explores how memory is mediated and molded by material culture, as well as the agencies of the female identity. meimei examines the affections inspired by kitsch in television media and cyber-pop culture, the infinite loops of commodity fetishism, and the hypnotic power of technical images as an instrument of communication. In meimei’s practice-led research projects, they strive to merge the opposing forces of order and chaos, the expected and the unconventional.

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As a cross-disciplinary artist, I see myself as a catalyst of new situations, exploring the pre-existing social and natural contexts that surround us and transcribing them through a feminist, non-patriarchal lens via recreation and variations.
My art delves into the intricacies of media theory explores the ways in which memory is mediated and molded by the material culture, as well as the agencies of the female identity. I examine the affections inspired by kitsch in television media and cyber-pop culture, the infinite loops of commodity fetishism, and the hypnotic power of technical images as a means of communication. In my practice-led research projects, I strive to merge the opposing forces of order and chaos, the expected and the unconventional.
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My very recent practice is to learn the situation of “hanging”.
The concept of “hanging” evoke thoughts of gravity, hesitation, suicide, precariousness, fragility, the uprooted, and the inevitable. Hanging objects are a metaphor for an unstable vertical hierarchy, in contrast to those that grow from the ground, which seem more rooted, reliable, and connected to a source. Hanging, on the other hand, begins in the air, temporary and ephemeral, like a mirage.
This research project investigates the various physical forms of hanging, such as hanging, dangling, draping, and suspension, through the study of objects and materials like willow trees, chandeliers, fishing lures, and plumb bob levels, etc. I aim to examine the “hanging situation” as a potential state of feminist knowledge and post-humanistic contemplation.
Writing, New media, Photography, and Video
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Meimei(Xinyi Mei)(b.1997) received her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design in 2021, and BE at Design and Innovation College under Tongji University in 2019. Her works have been recently exhibited in Shanghai, London, New York, and Taipei. Currently she also works as an adjunct professor at Tongji University.
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August 18, 2025
Tamar Segev
Tamar Segev is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Tamar Segev is a visual artist living in Urbana, IL. She received her BA in Studio Art from Carleton College and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work explores connections between familial memory, historical narratives, and contemporary culture, as they are embedded in specific sites and surfaces of architecture. She paints, draws, and stitches as an embodied act of remembrance, an effort to penetrate, inscribe, and process memory.

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What’s your name and where you come from?
Tamar Segev from Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A)
How did your artist journey begin?
I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. I took art classes growing up at a local museum and became pretty serious about art in high school. I majored in studio art in college and finished my MFA in 2021.
Do you find inspiration in real-life situations and moments you experienced?
I am inspired by places I visit and my experience of the landscape and architecture of a city. I take a lot of pictures to remember specific features of a place, but I also work from my memory of the site — the colors, the light, and the lasting feeling of a place.
What is your process? What are your overarching themes in your artwork?
I am interested in how memory is embedded within a city’s built environment. In
Berlin, I have been visiting many memorials. Recently, I began taking walks looking at Stolpersteine, commemorative plaques in front of the last known residence of victims of National Socialism. I record the walks through an app on my phone and then trace the line onto paper. This becomes the basis for my abstracted paintings. I also take photos at each site. I use these photos as a guide when I work over the initial line with oil pastel and watercolor. After these relatively quick first layers, I add thread to the paintings. In these works and my previous body of work, I use stitching as a way to drastically slow down my process and reference a history of textile work in my family.
Do you think your art has evolved being in a different environment E.g. Do
you think GlogauAIR / being in Berlin has influenced your work?
Absolutely. I am clearly influenced by the history and architecture of Berlin and could not make this work in a different location. I also love the light that comes through my large windows at GlogauAIR and am influenced by the colors I see outside when I am working. My use of materials has also expanded at GlogauAIR. I set some material constraints for myself when I arrived due to the space and transportation needs. I decided to use water-based paints and drawings materials on a small scale, instead of my usual oil paint on large canvases. While these material choices began out of practical concerns, they have opened so many new and exciting material possibilities in my work that lend well to the content I am exploring. For example, I am really excited about how the thread interacts with rigid paper, as opposed to fabric, and the presence it has on a small scale.
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My work explores connections between familial memory, historical narratives, and contemporary culture, as they are embedded in specific sites and surfaces of architecture. I paint, draw, and stitch as an embodied act of remembrance, an effort to penetrate, inscribe, and process memory. My creative research foregrounds the importance of memory as a discursive, material practice, where active remembering ensures memory’s place in the present.
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During my residency at GlogauAIR, I plan to create painted collages that respond to the architectural surfaces and landscapes I encounter in Germany. In 2020, I began a series of stitched paintings interpreting the site of the former Lodz Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, where my grandmother lived from 1940-44. In Berlin, my goals are to expand this project by visiting official and unofficial sites of remembrance related to World War II and the Holocaust. I am interested in how the memory of WWII is embedded within the built environment of Berlin and other German cities that were devastated by Allied bombing.
Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking
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Education
2021 MFA in Studio Art and certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2016 BA in Studio Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Selected Exhibition History
2024 Leslie Starobin, Tamar Segev, and Ori Segev: Looming in the Shadows of Lodz, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, Appalachian State University, NC (upcoming)
2022 Embodied-Remembrance (solo exhibition), McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
2022 Inscribing Memory (solo exhibition), Urbana City Hall, Urbana, IL
2021 Embodied-Remembrance (solo exhibition), Main Gallery, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2021 Inscribing Memory (solo exhibition), Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
2021 Abstracted Abstraction, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
2021 Studio MFA Thesis Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2020 Exhibition of Artists from USA, YAG/Garage, Online
2020 Tick Marks (solo exhibition), Murphy 500, Champaign, IL
2020 Prop The Door, The South Studios, Online
2019 Cross-section, MFA Exhibition Online, University of Montana, Online
2019 Drawing, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Objects who hold, Objects who let go, La Estación Gallery, Urbana, IL
2019 Figureworks, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Returning MFA Studio Exhibition, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
2019 Light vs. Dark, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Awards
2022 Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Artist Award, Anolic Family Awards
2018-19 Graduate College Block Grant Fellowship Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2016 Distinction on Senior Comprehensive Project (Thesis), Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2016 Ursula Hemingway Jepson Memorial Award in Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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August 18, 2025
Tara Turnbull
Tara Turnbull is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
United States

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My practice, my praxis is Acting, its performances, preparations and processes, emphasizing auteur actions. My creative research practice spans textual landscapes and a performative spectrum. I analyze aesthetics as actional / gestural vernaculars and vocabularies. My roles are reflexes of one another, reflect upon one another. My current art / research interests include story, scholarly portraiture, Situationism, architecture, biographical film, practice as research, performance philosophy, contemplative poetics and healing practices.
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My GlogauAIR project is a stage of character study contemplating character creation. I work with love stories at philosophy’s centers, academia as an action, gestures as genealogical, the Actress as auteur, sketching inside and outside the lines of stock character. My performative spectrum spans and sculpts from autotheory and autoethnography to metabiography. Script and character are research artefacts. Residency is a resource influenced by the forces that orbiting events exert on a role, showcased in window space.
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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case
British American Drama Academy In Assn. With Yale School Of Drama, Oxford University, Magdalen College
Master of Fine Arts at University of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, California, Summer Training Congress
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly
Moscow Art Theatre School USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stanislavsky Summer School
Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, New York
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August 18, 2025
Katarina Meglic
Katarina Meglic is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Canada

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My figurative paintings are intended to convey shared emotional experiences, depicted through expressively posed subjects depicted in a painterly approach. The subjects may be engaged with their own reflection or navigating a chaotic abstract environment, but they are invariably vulnerable, multi-faceted beings worthy of connection.
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The focus of the project is the relationship between pattern and person, including both visual repeating motifs and patterns of behaviour. Reflecting on the cyclical nature of human experience, that encapsulates phases of hardship, growth, and ease, the work will integrate figurative elements alongside repeating geometric forms, taking into account the role of cultural and ancestral pattern-making in both behavioural and visual aspects.
The residency will be spent researching cross-cultural visual pattern elements and usages, and translating these elements into a personal painted language.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
On the Body Goward House, Victoria BC, October 2021
Sweet Being Rollins Art Centre, Port Alberni BC, September 2021
Sweet Being Denman Island Art Centre, Denman Island BC, July 2021
On the Body Denman Island Art Centre, Denman Island BC, August 2020
House of Mirrors Foyer Gallery, Squamish BC Feb 2020
Recent Works Oak Bay Centre,Victoria BC, Sept/Oct 2019
Recent Works MacMillan Art Centre, Parksville BC, July/Aug 2019
Through the Looking Glass Lebel Gallery, Pincher Creek AB, May 2019
Recent Works Qualicum Old School House Art Centre, Qualicum BC, Feb 2019
House of Mirrors Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC, Feb 2019
Updraft Denman Island Summer Gallery, Denman Island BC, Aug 2018
Taking Flight Saanich Municipal Hall Main Gallery 2018
That Time We Almost Drowned Denman Island Summer Gallery, 2017
The Shortest Distance Denman Island Summer Gallery, 2006
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
Sooke Fine Arts Show 2022 (Juried)
Figuratively Speaking The View Gallery and Vancouver Island University, 2022
The Passionate Brush Peachland Art Gallery, with Kato Rempel AFCA, 2021
Sooke Fine Arts Show 2020 (Juried)
Langley Arts Council Figures in Movement 2020 (Juried)
Sidney Fine Arts Show 2019 (Juried)
Human Nature Cowichan Valley Portals Gallery, 2019
Island Living Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith 2019
Sooke Fine Arts Show 2019 (Juried)
Collected Denman Summer Gallery, 2019
Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show 2019
LOOK! Victoria Arts Council 2019
Strong Women, Strong WorldVictoria Arts Council, 2018 (Juried)
Text to Image to Text Comox Valley Art Gallery 2017
Inside Out Deman Summer Gallery, with Robin Mayor 2011
In Your Dreams Deman Summer Gallery, 2008
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Glogau Artist Residency, 2023 (forthcoming)
Barcelona Academy of Art, 2022
Drawing Program (Figurative)
Pacific Design Academy, 2000
Graphic Design, Graphic Design History, Typography, Drawing & Illustration
Victoria College of Art, 1998
Drawing, Painting, Art History, Design, Sculpture
PRESS
AN INTERVIEW WITH A FEW OF THE FIGURES IN MOVEMENT ARTISTS LAC, 2020
DENMAN STUDIO TOUR WELCOMES TWO NEW FACESEYES ON BC, JULY 2019
BODIES THAT TELL THE GRAPEVINE OCT 2017
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Workshop Facilitator (Art) The Old School House, Qualicum Beach 2019-2022
Esquimalt Arts Festival 2019
Denman Island Studio Tour 2019
Qualicum Beach Art in Action 2018
Greater Victoria Art Gallery Moss St Paint In 2018, 2022
Denman Baroque Festival Set Designer, 2018
AWARDS
BC Arts Council Scholarship, 2022
Purchase Award Arts Denman Community Art Project Grant, 2021
Writer’s Fellowship Arts Denman, 2021
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August 18, 2025
Katija Bogdanic
Katija Bogdanic is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Croatia

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Katija Bogdanić experiments with a combination of unconventional acrylic materials that allows her to paint sculpturally onto the canvas. This unique impasto technique is embedded with playful desaturates while utilizing gestural movements. Through the abstracted representations of caves, houses, and openings, the artist depicts a narrative of inhabiting liminality. Evolutions towards forming a physical and psychological sense of belonging are the fundamental concepts of her creative process. These deeply enigmatic periods of in-between space, transition, uncertainty, displacement, or relocation are vital moments for transformation.
Caves are depicted in the work as a universal, existential metaphor to represent the space of adaptation. There is an ambiguity to a cave’s symbolic implications, whether it’s a shelter, house, form of survival, or an opportunity to explore the unknown. In this way the paintings not only push the boundaries of dimensionality but also the extent to be explicit in nature. That which is not immediately apprehensible allows a level of tolerance and vulnerability.
Katija Bogdanic
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As a cross-cultural artist, I have been interested in the liminal space between a foreign place and somewhere called home. This evolution, or process of adapting is something I became familiar with when I recently moved back to my home country as a foreigner. Since I have never felt fully American nor Croatian, home is constantly evading definition. I have found my sense of belonging in this liminal space.
I am interested in expanding my symbolism and research into more ephemeral realms of this in-between space. Creating in Berlin will offer me a unique third space that is beyond my familiarity. Going deeper into a period of liminality will promote the growth of new ideas as well as a unique community of connection and valuable feedback.
Painting and Sculpture
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Education
2022 Higher Education Teaching Certificate, Harvard Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
2019-2021 Masters of Fine Art, Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2016-2019 Bachelor of Fine Art in Craft, Painting, Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, Oregon
2013-2016 Completed Credits for a Bachelor’s Degree, University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA
2012-2013 Completed Credits for a Bachelor’s Degree, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Group Shows
2021 Final Exhibition Thesis Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 Untitled No 112, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, Oregon
2018 Oregon College of Art and Craft Student Juried Show, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, Oregon (Juror: Melanie Flood, Jeanine Jablonski, Maya Vivas)
2017 Put A Word On It, Centrum Gallery at Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland (Curator: Barb Tetenbaum)
2016 Ground Up, Vollum building, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
Solo Shows
7/2022 Prilagodbe: Između nepoznatog i doma, Sveti Jerolim Gallery, Stari Grad, Croatia
10/2022 Adaptation: Between a Foreign Place and Home, Sira Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Professional Experience
2021 – Present Private English Tutor
2022 Workshop Educator, Sira Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2022 Gallery Sitter, Sveti Jerolim Gallery, Stari Grad, Croatia
2020 Freelance Graphic Designer
2018-2019 Studio Assistant, Christine Bourdette, Portland, Oregon
2018-2019 Academic Note Taker, Student Services, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
2015 Art Therapy Intern, Autism for Champs, Waterloo, Iowa
Awards
2017 Juror’s Choice, Student Juried Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Portland Oregon
2016 Presidential Scholarship, Oregon College of Art and Craft
Publications
Televizija Student, Kultura Nije Tortura, Zagreb, Croatia
Youtube Video
Voice Catcher, Portland Literary Journal, Oregon Voice Catcher
Gallery
August 18, 2025
Gionata Girardi
Gionata Girardi is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2023 to March, 2023
Italy

Meet the Artist
Coming soon
Statement
Glogauair project
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Statement
Gionata Girardi is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Torino. Even if his practice doesn’t have strict boundaries in terms of media, his attention is heading more and more towards new media and technology, specifically how to combine those tools with different elements.
Gionata is interested in our relations with technology, focusing more on physical environments than digital spaces to create a connection between the audience and the machines. The core of his work currently is based on water and sound, which are combined into installations and interactive systems.
Through seriality and repetition, lights reflected on the water, sounds and frequencies, random gestures and the search for an order; you will see what he is seeing.

Gionata Girardi
GlogauAIR Project
Water is a central element of my work, both the medium and the subject of my current research.
Lately, I felt the urge to address my interest in water as an essential element of urban life and investigate its role in our daily life and how the presence of rivers and canals can influence our perception of the city. Since Berlin is shaped by rivers too, and the residency is situated next to the Landwehr Canal, I will explore the cultural identity of its waters, focusing on the relationship I will entertain with them during my residency.
Installation and New media
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EDUCATION
Bachelor, 2018, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, Italy.
Master, 2021, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, Italy.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Moduli”, Ventunesimo residency, BI-BOx gallery, Biella (IT)
Con/tatto, Naturarte Festival, Saluzzo (IT)
“Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig” , SÍM Exhibition hall, Reykjavik (IS)
2021
“Holy Waters”, Stasis, Torino (IT)
“Abbiamo invitato un po’ di artisti nello spazio” , Osservatorio Futura, Torino (IT)
2020
Third Year Expo, Minerva Academy, Groningen (NL)
2019
ArtRooms Fair, Melia’s House Hotel, Londra. (GB)
“Expeausition”Paratissima, Magazzini Romagnoli, Bologna. (IT)
“La vita è segno”, Istituto italiano di cultura, Colonia. (DE)
“Aqueous”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano. (IT)
“ContonFioc Festival” Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico, Genova, Quarto dei Mille. (IT)
2018
“Anthroposophicart”, Villa Brentano, Busto Garolfo (IT).
ArtExpo, Pier94, New York. (US)
Here 3, Cavallerizza Reale, Torino. (IT)
“Through the Black Mirror” Paratissima, BASE, Milano. (IT)
Paratissima, Ex Caserma la Marmora, Torino. (IT)
2017
Paratissima, Ex Caserma la Marmora, Torino. (IT)
RESIDENCIES
2022
SÍM Residency, Reykjavik (IS)
2021
Ventunesimo Residency, Occhieppo Inferiore, (IT)
Gallery
August 18, 2025