Freiraum Artists

in Residence

index spricht seit 2010 ein Aufenthaltsstipendium: das Freiraum-Stipendium. Über 70 KünstlerInnen diverser Kunstrichtungen haben bereits von dem Angebot profitiert.

Bisherige Stipendiat:innen:

2024
077 Vasudha Kapadia (Indien)
076 Tania Gheerbrant (Frankreich)

2023
075 Ivan Moudov (Bulgarian)
074 Jamie McGee (USA)

073 Etienne Dietzel (Deutschland)
072 Florian Wendler (Deutschland)

071 Daniela Flores Arias (Mexiko)

2022

070 Addie Ulray (USA)

069 Maria Garcia Ibanez (Spanien)

068 Sergey Zhernov (Ukraine)

067 Derzu Campos (Mexiko)

066 Iris Blauensteiner (Österreich)

065 Veronica Casellas Jimenez (Venezuela)

064 Felipe Sáez Riquelme (Chile)

063 Benyamin Reich (Israel)

2021
062 Leah Anderson (USA)

061 Adrian Melis Sosa (Cuba)

060 Maria Sabato (Argentina)

059 Ayo Akinwande (Nigeria)

2020

058 Elisabeth Pape (Germany)

057 Tim Jungmann (Germany)

056 Johanna Hühn (Germany)

2019

055 Franz Wanner (Germany)

054 Carlos Fernandez (Costa Rica)

053 Roscha A. Säidow (Germany)

052 Anna Gielas (Germany)
051 Anne Posten (USA)

050 Heather Kapplow (USA)

2018

049 Song Jing (China)

048 Ed Young (South Africa)

047 Leonie Rörich (Germany)

046 Klaus Illi (Germany)

045 Franziska Becher (Germany)

044 Sophia Hembeck (Germany)

2017

043 Jeanne Gaigher (South Africa)

042 Kelly Lloyd (USA)

041 Matyáš Chochola (Czech Republic)

040 Michaela Roudnicka (Czech Republic)
039 Kosta Tonev (Bulgaria)

2016

038 Jen Calleja (UK)

037 Xanthe Somers (South Africa)
036 Mohammad Namazi (Iran)

035 Fiona McGuigan (USA)

034 Ahmad Alrayan (Syria)

033 Tza Va (Bulgaria)

032 Bettina Wilpert (Germany)

2015

031 Delia Popa (Rumania)

030 Diego Mallo (Spain)

029 Fabian Knöbl (Austria)

028 Vanni Bianconi (UK/CH)

027 Paul Polaris (Germany/CH)

026 James Stephen Wright (UK)

2013
025 Adam Knight (UK)

024 Klaengur Gunnarsson (Island)
023 Elisa Tosoni (Italy)
022 Celeste Najt (Argentina)

021 Antonio Bigini (Italy)

2012

#20 Félicia Atkinson (Belgium)

#19 Marguerite van Sandick (Netherlands)

#18 Enzo Comin (Italy)

#17 Tino Hanekamp (Germany)

#16 Iman Ibrahim (Ethiopia)

#15 Emile Ouroumov (Bulgaria)

#14 Anna Rosa Stohldreier (Germany)

2011

013 Claudia Bröer (Germany)

012 Till Müller-Klug (Germany)

011 Ada Dorian (Germany)

010 Agnieska Kozlowska (Poland)

009 Patricia Bucher (Germany/CH)

008 Alice McCabe (UK)

2010

007 Daniela Lettner (Austria)

006 Emma Nilsson (Germany)

005 Esther Ernst (Germany/CH)

004 Bart Hoevenaars (Netherlands)

003 Sascha Hommer (Germany)

002 Piotr Jaros (Poland)

001 Simon Hari (CH)

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Fiona McGuigan

FionaMcGuigan

Born in Bern (CH) of Scottish parents, trained at the de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Fiona McGuigan now resides in Seattle, WA, USA.

Her work explores repetition, memorization, and drawing without visual feedback as part of her painting process. Through tenaciously re-drawing her subject matter she memorizes the movements needed to create a shape; and then reproducing it from memory. Her work is about the experience of looking, translating these visual cues into movement and movement into mark making.

“While refining the image I seek accidents and the unexpected. A mark is only successful if its put down without hesitation, failure is part of the process. It’s the only way I can absorb the quality of the object, and move beyond representation towards a gestural construct of the form.”

Zürich Residency:
During her 2 month artist residency in Zürich she is exploring the industrial/urban landscape along the Limmat. She’s making detailed drawings of shapes she found unique to the city i.e. the new Kornhaus, cooling towers, lampposts, chimney vents, bridges etc. Her plan is to take these drawings, and design an alphabet of Zürich, by assigning one shape to each letter, thus creating a (pictorial) typeface. She will use this font to write out words/poems collected from Zürcher artists as well as a basis to create abstract paintings.

Selective Shows/Residencies:

Occasional Gallery, Burlington; Calypte Gallery, Seattle; 4CultureGallery, Seattle; North Seattle College; Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham; Washington State Convention Center, Seattle; Seattle Art Museum Gallery; Gallery One, Ellensburg; Buchanan Art Center, Monmouth IL; Koserow, Germany. Artist Residencies at: Centrum in Port Townsend, Atelier Niemeyer Holstein in Germany. Co-Creator and organizer of the annual Duwamish River Artist Residency in Seattle.