Topic: Artist-in-Residence

Open Call: Trans’ Art International AIR Program Chengdu, China

SomoS suggest the Trans’ Art Residency Program to artist who would like to spend time making art in China. Trans’ Art International is an artist residency based in Chengdu, China, founded in Paris, France in 2008. The residency is based in Chengdu, a city which holds a strong traditional and contemporary art culture, including Bashu […]

A round table table talk by young, mostly Asian artists at an exhibition space.

Artist-in-Residence Exchange Meetup SomoS – GlogauAIR

More than 14 artists, curators and creatives came together on Tuesday 30th April 2019 for the ongoing Artist-in-Residence exchange meetups between artist residency spaces GlogauAIR and SomoS. A regular opportunity for resident artists from SomoS to engage with fellow creatives, curators and artists from neighboring Artist-in-Residence(AIR) initiative GlogauAIR, the latest SomoSxGlogauAIR exchange event saw representation […]

Lara Salmon performing in a pink colored space.

Lara Salmon

SomoS is pleased to introduce Lara Salmon to its Artist-in-Residence program. The Los Angeles-based artist joins SomoS residency program June-August 2018 in Berlin to expand on her performance work centering on the relationship between longstanding communities and recent migrants to the city. Observing how different cultures are learning to live together, Salmon focuses her project […]

AIR Meetup: GlogauAIR at SomoS

The AIR Network Meetup is an opportunity for resident artists from Artist-in-Residence(AIR) initiatives in Berlin to connect, support and network in an informal way. The format of the gathering can range from lectures, artist talks, work demos, to studio visits. The concept is to provide a forum for visiting artists to get to know each […]

Chueh Chiao Han: Painting away the Pain

Danielle Reid discusses experimental approaches to painting from a female perspective with SomoS Artist-in-Residence Taiwanese painter Chueh Chiao Han, October 22 2017. Chueh Chiao Han’s work explores the complexity of human relationships, social pressures on the individual, psychological factors such as insecurity, validation, anxieties, empowerment, attraction. Her Bataillean depiction of desire and abandon, pushing against […]

Todd Reece Johnson

Introducing SomoS Artist-in-Residence Todd Reece Johnson

SomoS is pleased to welcome Australian artist and university lecturer Todd Reece Johnson who will join us for a three month project-based Artist Residency, beginning December 2017. Johnson employs inventive analogue techniques to investigate the malleability of the photographic image. In Berlin, he will produce and present a photographic project and exhibition, “Fossils.” The photographs […]

Alexei Gordin

Estonian visual artist Alexei Gordin (b. 1989, Tomsk) lives and works in Tallinn. He has studied painting at the Estonian Art Academy. In his sardonic work, he employs different mediums such as painting, drawing, photo, video, and performance. Gordin’s work is informed by the problematic sides of contemporary liberal society that he portrays through ironic […]

Stefanie Wolff: Identity in Flux

Introducing SomoS Artist-in-Residence Stefanie Wolff SomoS is pleased to introduce Argentinian photographer Stefanie Wolff who takes part in SomoS’ Artist-in-Residency program for the duration of three months from September to November. Stefanie’s previous photographic essay, titled Heimat, grapples with both exploring and solidifying the dualities of her identity as a woman raised and immersed in […]

Aske A. Hvidtfeldt

Aske A. Hvidtfeldt – Songs from Misanthropolis

Danish visual artist Aske A. Hvidtfeldt‘s paintings full of Cyborgs explore the look and ideologies surrounding 1920’s industrialism, comparing it to today’s “digital revolution.” His spray-painted works on paper offer an optimistic vision of the “Man Machine.”

Aske A.Hvidtfeldt working in his studio at SomoS Art House Berlin, August 2017

Aske A. Hvidtfeldt: Man Machines, Cyborgs and Nordic Absurdism

SomoS is pleased to introduce new Artist-in-Residence Aske A. Hvidtfeldt, a young visual artist from Denmark. Absurdist, surreal and collage-like, Hvidtfeldt’s airbrushed and inked grayscale cosmology has a distinctly subcultural and irreverent bent. Smartly weaving a web of wide-ranging themes and allusions, involving cyborgs, Metropolis, Kraftwerk, violent politicians, Roy Andersson, Fritz Kahn’s industrialist infographics and […]

Adam Cohn

Introducing SomoS Resident Artist Adam Cohn

We are looking forward to work together with Israeli artist Adam Cohn during his August/September 2017 Artist-in-Residency. During his time in Berlin, the young painter will work on a new group of large paintings, extending his recent series of figures in studio settings. Interested in the tension between painting’s surface and the subject of its […]

Syed Shoaib Mahmood

Introducing New SomoS Artist-in-Residence Syed Shoaib Mahmood

SomoS welcomes visual artist Syed Shoaib Mahmood who came to Berlin from India for a four month Artist Residency. He works in mixed media and sculpture.   The focus of Mahmood’s current work lies on multimedia installation, pieces that incorporate language, the word and philosophy. They serve as visual metaphors for relationships between people. He […]

Kama Sokolnicka

The Glare – Kama Sokolnicka

SomoS proudly presents a special June 21st 2017 Summer solstice reception featuring a work presentation, book launch and artist talk by current Artist-in-Residence, conceptual artist Kama Sokolnicka (PL), marking the conclusion of her creative sojourn at SomoS. Kama Sokolnicka’s book project “The Glare” summarizes the current Berlin period of her work. It incorporates a wealth […]

Kama Sokolnicka

Kama Sokolnicka

SomoS Artist-in-Residence Spring 2017, visual artist Kama Sokolnicka was born 1978 in Wroclaw, Poland. She works in painting, drawing, collage, video, books, and site-specific installations. Poetically incorporating various fields of reference in her work, ranging from cosmology to philosophy and sociological syndromes, Sokolnicka’s conceptual metaphysical approach makes use of the principles of collage and montage, […]

Anais Hazo

Introducing New SomoS Artist-in-Residence Anaïs Hazo

SomoS welcomes Anaïs Hazo for a six months Berlin artist residency. The young multidisciplinary artist lives and works between Paris and New-York. Her techniques are drawing, photography, installation and prints. She publishes Fine Art prints and books; and works as freelance art director, fashion stylist, editor and lifestyle- and food consultant.

Introducing New SomoS Artist-in-Residence Isabel Ramos

SomoS is happy to welcome visual artist Isabel Ramos (UK) to its Artist-in-Residence program. The young artist works across disciplines, employing and combining mediums such as video, VR, performance, choreography and installation. Ramos uses the body to explore its position and traces in our increasingly accelerating technological age. She develops solo projects as well as […]

Made in SomoS: Ari Versluis/Exactitudes

New Artist-in-Residence Ari Versluis

SomoS welcomes Dutch Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis who returns to SomoS for a special one month gallery artist residency. Renowned for his Exactitudes photo series on group identity and fashion codes (developed together with Ellie Uyttenbroek since the early 90’s) his more recent solo project Encounter shifts the focus on more unique self-images. During a […]

Natusha Croes

Introducing SomoS AIR Natusha Croes

Somos is excited to welcome its latest Artist-In-Residence Natusha Croes, who has joined us from Aruba. Natusha Croes During her three month stay at SomoS, Natusha Croes is developing a new Berlin piece marrying unconventional music production, performance, poetics and storytelling through the interaction with inanimate objects found in her environment. Visual artist/composer Hans Muller […]

Natusha Croes

Natusha Croes

Since 2015, Natusha Croes has been focusing on creating projects ingeniously combining unconventional music production, performance, poetry and storytelling through the interaction with inanimate objects found in her environment. Natusha Croes creates music compositions with a visual affinity; manipulating the sound of organic pieces through digital means such as loop machines and music production softwares. […]

SomoS Artist-in-Residence Diego Miguel Interview

We interviewed SomoS artist-in-residence, Diego Miguel, to discover more about his artistic practice, his life, and his choices as a politically engaged artist. Diego Miguel in his SomoS atelier (Photo courtesy Zack Soltes)   Interview by Charlotte Griffon SomoS: Could you briefly introduce yourself, and tell us something about your background. Diego Miguel: I’m Diego Miguel, […]

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Mini Residency

SomoS welcomes Rotterdam-based visual artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh who stays at SomoS as part of a SomoS’ mini residency. Wendelien has kept close ties to Berlin after her DAAD Residency in 2014, using one of SomoS studios as a base for her Berlin projects. Wendelien van Oldenborgh works with film/video- and slide installation, subtly reflecting […]

Diego Miguel - Misdirection 4

Diego Miguel

Born in Brazil and raised in Brooklyn, painter Diego Miguel has been active as creative director, art director and designer for fifteen years. Since the last five years, while living in NYC, he has been developing his own personal creative projects and eventually decided to quit his design career and get on the road to […]

New SomoS Artist-in-Residence Diego Miguel

SomoS is pleased to welcome Brazilian Artist and Art Director Diego Miguel as our new Artist-in-Residence! Diego Miguel – Photo: Roman Zakrevsky After a six-month journey that brought him to Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Miguel has settled in Berlin for the next two months. Based partly on the materials he collected on this journey, […]

MultiMadeira Artist in Residence Presentation

November 4, 2015 from 6-9pm SomoS hosts a presentation of the MultiMadeira Artist in Residence Program 2015/16, providing Berlin-based artists with information on this attractive opportunity. The initiators of the MultiMadeira AIR will present an introduction to their project and answer any questions. Also present will be local artists who took part in 2013 edition. […]

Ingrid Bittar: About Boys, collage, 36x42cm, 2015

IN-DEPTH with IMPRINT ARTIST Ingrid Bittar

IMPRINT, on view at SomoS Art House from October 1st – October 17th, 2015 presents the work of two young collage artists, David Woodward (Canada) and SomoS Summer 2015 Artist-in-Residence Ingrid Bittar (Brazil). The exhibition traces how these artists inventive use of heritage, history, and nostalgia create very personal and intimate narratives. These international artists […]

Imprint Collage exhibition

Imprint – Ingrid Bittar & David Woodward

Indexing artistic responses to the weight of cumulative history and cultural givens, the “Imprint” collage exhibition is the first of a new series at SomoS charting innovations in this technique. It presents international artists who explore new dimensions and expand the medium’s possibilities and associations. “Imprint” presents the work of two young collage artists, David […]

Momus

Musician, writer and performance artist Nicholas Curry a.k.a. Momus (the name refers to the Greek deity  of mockery, godess of writers and poets) has over the course of the last 30 years developed a quirky re-imagining of the singer-songwriter format. With his highly literary song texts, writing and blogging, Currie places himself in the tradition […]

Made in SomoS: Ari Versluis/Exactitudes

Ari Versluis

Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis is known for his Exactitudes photo series, made in collaboration with Ellie Uyttenbroek, which examines the construction of social identity by way of fashion codes. In contrast, his commissions and solo work Encounters focuses on self-expressing individuals as a representation of a new kind of super-diversity.

Lynn Book

Lynn Book is a transmedia artist working across disciplines and cultural spheres through performative, material, digital and electronic modes to make performance, exhibition, media works, public projects and encounters. As a disciplinary immigrant, her work takes shape in city sites and galleries, in clubs, fields and concert halls and centers on the transformational potentials between […]

Dirty urban street with parka-clad photographer Donato Del Giudice hidden under the cloth of a large format camera.

Large Format Photography Workshop

Analog photography workshop by SomoS’ Artist-in-Residence Donato Del Giudice. With a large format camera 8×10, Del Giudice portrays his generation in their daily intimacy. The workshop explores the large format camera’s unique features that influence the photographic process and the quality of the resulting image, offering greater pictorial control.