Artists in Residence: November 2025

Pegasus Product
“Pegasus Product is placing artistic creations in an extended scene,” says our website. For our projects, we usually set ourselves a framework that reconnects phenomena from our experience and our present time. Tax consulting and tantric massage simultaneously from the same person (Taxes & Tantra), a restaurant for brawn in the shape of the Reichstag building (Sülzen-Saal), a silicone joint oracle in the Austrian radon spa town of Bad Gastein (Power Peckerl Paradies), a shipping service for immaterial goods (qpPDSL), conspiracy theories and rosehip tea (Bird Cage Theory). These projects are designed as if they were companies: with branches (usually the exhibition venue), advertising material (exhibition texts), services (actions), furniture (sculptures and pictures), and corporate identity (overarching aesthetics). Humor serves as an important bridge and low threshold for entering into communication. It is also a means of disclosure and critical examination. The format and context of the exhibition, the materiality of the objects, the space we and the visitors occupy—these are central questions. Our projects are concrete, open situations in which all participants are to be included.

Philipp Messner
“My artistic practice is based on a process-oriented approach to action, materiality, and corporeality. My motivation is rooted in questions of perception, tactile experience, and the viewer’s presence in space. I’m interested in the themes of the inseparability of naturalness/nature and artificiality, humanity’s technological interventions in nature, and the repercussions of the virtual world. How have the relationships between object, viewer, and space changed as a consequence of experiences with virtual spaces? Occasionally, the audience is invited to take an active role, constituting the works with their physical movement and mental projections. This approach is pursued across various artistic mediums, ranging from sculptures, large-scale installations, and videos to processual environments. My primary focus lies in exploring the structure of materials, particles, sediment, and density, as evidenced by an ongoing engagement with the formation of imagery and the ambiguity of meaning. Alongside objects asserting themselves in three-dimensional space, performative approaches, minimal and maximal interventions play a role in inducting the viewer into a “space of seeing.” My works open up spaces of experience in which the viewer can immerse themselves in their perception”.
In Messner’s work, intellectual processes find their expression in a highly diverse range of artistic means. Born in Bolzano Italy, lives in Berlin and Munich Germany. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Éc le nationale supérieure des Beauxarts in Paris. His works have been exhibited at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2022, Museum im Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd 2021, Ludwigforum Aachen, (2019) Bienal de Curitiba (2019), Neues Museum Nürnberg (2018), Museion, Bolzano (2017), Stadtmuseum Munich (2017), Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, (2017) at Fei Contemporary Art Center Shanghai (2013), ERES Foundation in Munich (2016). as well as Galeria Foksal in Warsaw (2011). His works are part of public and private collections, including the Collection of the Federal Government Bonn, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Collection of the Bundestag Berlin in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Museion Bolzano, Stadtmuseum Munich.

Marcel Alcalá
“My multimedia practice weaves together Los Angeles landmarks, Spanish art history, and the lived experiences of my Mexican-American heritage and queer community. Through photography, I document the people who shape my world— capturing intimate moments at Pride festivals, quiet gatherings, and celebrations that become spaces of refuge and connection. My poetry chronicles travels and friendships across Southern California, mapping the emotional geography of belonging. These modes converge in my painting practice, where the act of creation becomes performance itself. Spiritual ephemera and figures pulse across my canvases in a diaristic approach that transforms personal narrative into visual language. As both an American and Mexican citizen born and raised in California, I navigate the complex legacy of Spanish colonialism—the language that shapes my thoughts, the church that informs my spirituality, and the rituals that mark time. Through this intersection of mediums, I create work that honors both the weight of history and the vitality of present-day queer Chicano experience in Los Angeles”.
Marcel Alcalá (b. 1990, Santa Ana, CA) has had solo exhibitions at Marlborough, New York, NY; DeliGallery, Brooklyn, NY; Mickey Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Theywere a participant in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Their work has been featured in group shows at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; Lyles & King, New York, NY; and Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, among others. Alcalá has exhibited in numerous museums and institutions including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; and Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA. Their work has been written about in Flaunt, Hyperallergic, LA Times, LA Weekly, and PAPER, among others. They have been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (2022) and Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles (2020). Alcalá lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
