Artists in residence

Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include drawings hand-stitched into tracing paper, videos and public performances.  Her work is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, from the epic to the intimate. Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s performances explore the presence of women in public space; these often include investigations of labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity. 

For her residency, she will create a memoir of Lagos in the form of large-scale drawings and hand-stitched texts.  Parallel to these investigations, she will develop a series of workshops which explore and expand the genre of memoir through collective performances which focus on language and mark-making; family histories and body memory; utopias and their opposites. 

Mobolaji Ogunrosoye is a self-taught visual artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye works at the intersection of photography and collage, using these mediums to explore multidimensionality and perception in images of Black and Nigerian women.

Over the past three years, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye’s artistic journey has been devoted to developing two essential bodies of work in her practice: Portraits and Contrasts in Loveliness. These projects explore the manipulation of selected materials as well as captured and found images to construct abstract collages.

Between 2021 and 2023, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye worked on Portraits, which examines what a portrait can look like outside of its traditional form. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye explores this through the manipulation of paper and smoke, observing how these materials slowly degrade over time while appearing unchanged on the surface. The results of these experiments were presented in the group exhibition Making Face at the Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, in 2021. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye then further developed this work by replacing paper with Perspex for the group exhibition The Becoming at Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, in 2023. The aim was to examine how transparency could be used as a tool for distortion: Mobolaji Ogunrosoye explores how different types of transparent materials — varying in weight, thickness, colour and other qualities — can distort, magnify and create illusions in photographed and collaged images.

Continuing this approach, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye further explored distortion and fragmentation by incorporating Perspex into installations presented at the Grow It, Show It exhibitions at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, and the Jaou Tunis Biennale, Tunis, Tunisia, both in 2024.

Min Oh (b. 1975) is a South Korean artist investigating the boundaries and interactions of perception, substance, and thought surrounding time. She explores how the body senses, operates, consumes, and even generates time where visual art, music, and dance intersect and also where film and live performance meet. Min Oh received a bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and graphic design at Seoul National University and received her MFA in graphic design at Yale University, New Haven. 

She held residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2011-2012), and at the Cité internationale des arts with the support of the Samsung Foundation (2014) and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (2018). 

Her work has been presented at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, KR), MCAD (TH), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (PH), Daejeon Museum of Art (KR), Total Museum (KR), Suwon Museum of Art (KR), Morsbroich Museum (DE), Pohang Museum of Art (KR), Art Sonje Center (KR), Nuit Blanche (FR), Atelier Hermès (KR), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (KR), Museum De Domijnen (NL), Daegu Art Museum (KR), Doosan Gallery (US, KR), Arko Art Center (KR), Kukje Gallery (KR), Nam June Paik Art Center (KR), De Nederlandsche Bank (NL), and Kunsthalle Erfurt (DE).

Min Oh published Thomas (a collection of essays about contemporary art by diverse authors such as film theorists, music critics, and curators, 2021), Absentee Attendee Invitee (an artist book of her work with the same title, and Score by Score (seven interviews with visual artists, musicians, a choreographer, and a dance theorist, 2017).

She was among the four shortlisted artists for the Korea Artist Prize 2021 organized by MMCA and sponsored by the SBS Foundation and awarded Fondation d’entreprise Hermès Missulsang (Art Prize) (KR, FR) in 2017.

Sujin Oh is a Korean artist living in France. She ran away from South Korea. Despite everything and everyone she loves there, the country came to represent for her a vast prison of minds and bodies—something she could no longer bear. She went through profound trauma while living there. In 2010, during an exchange program with the Beaux-Arts in France, she was able to begin recognizing and expressing this violence.

Her artistic practice lies at the intersection of drawing, writing, installation, and various editorial practices and bookmaking. Her work explores forms of fragmented narratives shaped by memory, emotion, and what remains inarticulate or beyond language. She is interested in the spaces between images and words, between her mother tongue and the languages she has acquired later, and in what remains suspended, in the void, or silent. Her practice is built around gestures of slow observation, attentive listening, and transcription. Her current project takes the form of a graphic novel based on personal stories, envisioned as intimate threads of transmission, shared memories, and a groping relationship with the world.