Artists in residence, November 2023
Thomas Moor
Thomas Moor is an artist living in Zurich. After having worked more site specific in various media for a couple of years, since 2019 he focuses mostly on painting. There he is dealing with questions of transgression of images through collective (and personal) memory. The fields of research and play for this range from art historical references and its documentation, via gift shop commodifications to advertisement and popular culture. Sometimes he also curates exhibitions.
He studied fine arts at ZHdK Zurich (BFA 2013), RMCaD Denver (2012) and HEAD Geneva (MF A 2018).
His work has been shown internationally, including Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg DE (2023); Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein DE (2023); Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich CH (2023); Kiosko Galeria, Santa
Cruz de la Sierra BO (2022); Kunsthalle Bern CH (2021); Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel (2016, 2021); Unanimous Consent, Zurich CH (2021); Binz39, Zurich CH (2021); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau CH (2012, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020); Forde Geneva CH (2019, 2020); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2019); IRL Institute Miami USA (2019); Despacio San José CR (2016, 2016); Deborah Bowmann, Bruxelles BE (2017; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2016, 2021, 2021); Marso Galeria, Mexico City MX (2014) and Museo d’Arte Lugano CH (2014 ).
Sarah Bechter
Born in 1989 in Andelsbuch, Austria, she completed her studies at the University of Applied Arts, Painting Department, Vienna. The conditions and ambivalences of artistic production lie at the center of Sarah Bechter‘s painting practice. The artist uses a wide range of techniques and references to interrogate the validity of the images she creates, and of painting itself. Bechter‘s canvases exist as individual subjects, rather than surfaces of projection, and seem entangled in a vivid debate among themselves. Sarah currently lives and works in Vienna and will be staying in Studio Rojo during November 2023.
Paul Pretzer
Born in 1981 in Paide, Estonia, he completed his MFA in 2007 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden, Germany. With immediate success he has exhibited widely since 2006, including solo shows in Basel, Berlin, Düsseldorf, and New York. Pretzer’s quasi-surrealistism always has a tension between narrative subject matter and formal compositional concerns. He assembles images from the rich history of art, more now from Spanish sources as Pretzer has relocated to Barcelona. Paul currently lives and works between Berlin and Barcelona and and will be staying in Studio Amarillo during November 2023.
Isa Carrillo
Born in 1982 in Guadalajara (MX), she graduated in Visual Arts from the University of Guadalajara. Her work has been defined as a research of hidden and enigmatic aspects of the collective unconscious and a connection to a critical and empirical vision of pseudo-sciences applied to individuals. Her interest in hidden or invisible phenomena began to develop at the start of her career by combining themes referring to the subconscious present in everyday life. Isa currently lives and works in Guadalajara, México and will be staying in Studio Verde during November 2023.