Free from the Daily Grind for the Arts Stories from Elsewhere
Since 2016, artists-in-residence have shared uncensored accounts of their personal experiences and characteristics of their residencies under the International Residency Program of the BMKOES and provided future participants with hints for orienting on site upon invitation by Away Art Residencies. They have created colorful diaries that offer private insights and tell about experiences and artistic creation, about where their thoughts were traveling and how it felt to live in an unfamiliar environment.
While some artists-in-residence deliberately decided not to take part, others reported that they were inspired by Away Art Residencies to sketch out their explorations. A steadily growing archive of personal chronicles is waiting to be discovered.
Mathias Kessler
On my trip in Italy during my Away Residency, I aimed at photographing particulate matter at sunsets and process this as works of art. That idea already came up in 2014 when I read a scientific study by Christos Zerefos, a meteorologist from Athens, Greece, in which he analyzed more than 800 paintings dating from 1500 to 1900 with regard to the colors of the sky.
Zita Oberwalder
William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale
Act 2
Scene 1
