Rusudan Khizanishvili (b. 1979), based in Tbilisi, Georgia, is interested in subjective female imagery and mythological iconography, which she combines with the exoticism of Georgian painting to reveal her own colorful palette. Her identity as a female painter formed within a particular culture, reflections on motherhood, and the historical singularity of her country have all become objects of visual exploration and have influenced her work.

Over the past fifteen years Khizanishvili has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Museum of Modern Art Tbilisi, Museum of Literature of Georgia, Tbilisi State Silk Museum, Mark Rothko Foundation at Daugavapils. Her major solo exhibitions are 《Velvet Armor》(SEOJUNG
ART, Seoul, Korea, 2023) and 《Beauty and the Beast》(Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany, 2022). In 2015 Khizanishvili represented Georgia among five other artists at 《The 56th Venice Art Biennale》.
Her works are in the collections of the Georgian National Museum, private collections of Stefan Simchowitz in the U.S. and Ettore Rossetta in Italy, Breus Foundation in Russia, and Collezione Taurisano in Italy.

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host artistists Anna Rettl (Austria, 1992).
Anna Rettl lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her practice, she deals with the tradition of figuration and formulas for physical expression. Rettl’s paintings are variations of canonical artists’ work, whose formal structures she reuses while the style, technique, and content are hers. A set of familiar formulas for physical expression has, until recently, dominated Western art history. Rettl investigates how artists have embraced or rejected these formulas, questioning how to represent sentient beings in painting today effectively.
Rettl received an MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen in 2021. She participated in the MAUAMUAS Independent Study Programme in Lisbon in 2018 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Rettl is part of the roving artist-run space Jennifee-See Alternate. Recently, she exhibited at O - Overgaden, Outpost Gallery, and Arcway in Copenhagen.

Katja Tönnissen is a German artist who was born in 1982. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Dix9 have featured Katja Tönnissen's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Lamp 23." at Van Ham Fine Art Auctions in 2022.

2024: Artist in Residence CCA Andratx, Mallorca Spain

2022: Sculpture Award-Michaelshoven, Cologne

Exhibitions (selection)

2024: The Park as Lover, Lantz´scher Skulpturenpark, Düsseldorf

2023: FRAG DEN ABENDWIND, Klasse Schulze 2004-2023, Akademie Gallery Düsseldorf & CLAMS and Deggers, Gallery Russi Klenner, Berlin & Rose(s) c'est la vie, Gallery DIX9, Paris & House of Dreamers, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels & ANIMAL FARM, Gallery Kunst & Denker, Düsseldorf & hive instinct, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Solingen

2022: Liquid, Kunstverein Emmerich, Emmerich & CURRENT POSITIONS IN SCULPTURE, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf & SEHNSUCHT NACH DEM PARADIES, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne & Dear Miami, Gallery im Alten Küsterhaus, Düsseldorf

2021: Jahresgaben 2021, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne & ARCADIA, Kunstverein Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf & MOBILIA, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln & MOBILIA, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach & Sculptur projekt, fahrART, Leistende Landschaft e.V., Straelen

2020: Body FLUIDS, Saarländische Gallery, Berlin & Honeymoon, Kunsthalle Viborg, Viborg & Skulpturenprojekt Hardt, Botanischer Garten Wuppertal & SALTY HORIZON, FANTASY CAN BE WITH YOU, LOVE, Gallery Kunst & Denker Contemporary, Düsseldorf

Born 1979 in New Orleans, LA; Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

1997-2001: Fordham University, BA Photojournalism

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2021: Rowing, Mast Books, New York, NY & Rowing Too, Turn Gallery, New York, NY

2020: I and I, Farshad Farzankia and Mason Saltarrelli, Turn Gallery, New York, NY & Le Deuce Deuce, Bill Saylor and Mason Saltarrelli, Duck Creek Arts Center, East Hampton, NY

2019: Four Seasons In One Day, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium & Incandescent Traveler, Turn Gallery, New York, NY & Art Rotterdam, Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Rotterdam, Netherlands & Market Art Fair, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden