Current Residents
The artists and architects for Group LV (April 2024 – September 2024) are Uwe Brunner, Dominic Schwab, Karl Holmqvist, Michèle Pagel, and Kris Lemsalu.
Uwe Brunner
Uwe Sebastian Brunner is an architect, experience designer, teacher and researcher based in Vienna. He was born on the 17th of June 1988 in Judenburg, Austria. He studied architecture at Technical University Vienna, School of the Arts Amsterdam and received his master degree in arts and architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2019, he has been a faculty member at the ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. He is currently pursuing a PhD with a research focus on the Essay, its affective and cognitive modalities, and its potential for space-making in digital environments. In addition to architecture, his research and teaching draw from an array of different fields such as media art, film studies, game studies, streaming culture, and media philosophy.His work has been widely screened and exhibited, including at the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ETH Zurich, the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, and The Segal Center in New York, among many more. He is co-founder of SOAP, an online architecture practice, and co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School.
ARCHITECTURE
Dominic Schwab
Dominic Schwab is an architect, teacher and researcher based in Vienna. He was born on the 17th of August 1988 in Bad Aibling, Germany. He studied architecture at Vienna University of Technology, and holds a master degree in arts and architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2020, he has been a faculty member at the ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. He is currently pursuing a PhD with a research focus on the spectrality of media-technologies and how they inform, constitute & alter the archival paradigm in the age of digital media abundance. His work has been widely screened and exhibited, including Ars Electronica Barcelona Garden 2021, AUT Innsbruck 2021, Greenwich Heritage Gallery London 2016, Wien Museum 2016, Rundgang Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2016/17/18 amongst others.He is co-founder of SOAP, some online architecture practice, co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School and co-founder and board member of PARABOL, an association that aims at advancing artistic research.
Architecture
Karl Holmqvist
Karl Holmqvist lives and works in Berlin. His work often includes writing in artist’s books, installations, video and spoken word performance. Recent one-person exhibitions include Laxart, Los Angeles, Fridericianum, Kassel, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Indipendenza, Rome (with Klara Liden), Kunstverein Braunschweig (with Klara Liden), Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and 2011 and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007 and 2013.In 2013 he received the Arthur Köpke Memory Fund Award. Karl Holmqvist’s works can be found in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Le Musée d’Art Moderna de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Fridericianum, Kassel and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Fine arts
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Michèle Pagel
Since 2012, Michèle Pagel has been working as a freelance sculptress in Vienna. In 2015, they started teaching sculpture as an University Assistant at the ceramics department at the Art University in Linz, Austria. Pagel continued this teaching job until 2019, and also ventured a three month field trip to Uganda, Afrika in 2018. In 2021, they established a self-employed company in order to professionalize their artistic career and to concentrate exclusively on their own projects and exhibitions. The same year, Pagel started collaborating with the Viennese Gallery, MeyerKainer which is representing their work in solo exhibitions and art fairs. Pagel has participated in various international group shows and showcased their artworks in several European Museums and Institutions.
FINE ARTS
Kris Lemsalu
Kris Lemsalu was born in 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia, and lives and works between Vienna and Tallin. She creates mixed-media sculptures, installations and performances with unexpected materials. Lemsalu’s pieces evoke the bestial side of human beings and civilizations, and are often underscored by feminist themes. Lemsalu has shown as part of Performa 17 (2017), DRAF performance night (2017), Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo (2015), Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague (2015) and is represented by Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn. Lemsalu will represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2019.