Artist in Residency
2023

Open Call

 

During their residency, the artist lives in our partner hotel Superbude (Perspektivstraße 8, 1020 Vienna) in a fully furnished apartment with an art studio.
Open to:
artists living in Austria, but outside Vienna, and
who identify as Black, PoC or (post)migrant* or are refugees
Find additional information and all submission requirements in the documents below.

Application Deadline: 14th of June 2023
Additional information:
QM&A Artist Residency Open Call 2023 (English)
QM&A Artist Residency Open Call 2023 (Deutsch)

 
 

Selected artist 2023: Margo Sarkisova

 

Margo Sarkisova is a young Ukrainian artist who combines two identities in her family: Assyrian and Ukrainian. Margo was born and raised in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Currently, she is based in Graz, Austria. In February 2022 because of the start of a full-scale war with Russia, she became a refugee for the second time from Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she lived and worked in her studio. Margo became an inner refugee In 2014 from Donetsk, Ukraine for the first time.
Margo graduated with honors from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Margo was selected for a group international exhibition for the Print Center New York (USA) in January 2020. She was one of the many participants, who supported the project „Falling Shadow of Dreams“ on the Gardens of Giardini, «Ukrainian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale».
She participated in projects and exhibitions in Germany, the USA, Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Greece; Her artworks are in private collections in Denmark, Ukraine, the USA, Australia, Norway, France, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, Germany, Scotland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Austria;
In her art practice, Margo is exploring the topic of national identity, gender inequality and the role of women in Assyrian culture; For some time she has worked with concepts of «home» and «roots» and how the cultural context influences the mentality and life of a person.
During her residency she co-curated an exhibition that is detailed below.

Apartment exhibition: Recreating Lost Spaces

 

Artists: Leo Trotsenko, Yuliia Strykovska, Elham Hadian, Margo Sarkisova
Curators: Margo Sarkisova, Justina Špeirokaitė
(What we lose never really leaves our life. Experiences are never forgotten; they're transformed into a transparent 'border' between a person and the outside world. In any form, that transformation never stops. In circumstances of war, revolutions, and global changes, more and more people face forced migration. But how does this complex moment influence each personality and worldview? In the search for forms that can speak about one's story and gather feelings and codes, Recreating Lost Spaces is a statement of trying to capture almost 'unspeakable' things: memories, traditions, symbols, broken and destroyed parts of each artist's personal history into one unstable 'fabric' that can be destroyed at any moment. The fragility of that process and the stories that each work owns create a space for sharing and supporting in the vulnerable process of 'weaving' each personal reality). More information here.

 

Photos

All photos by Diana Fedoriaka