Current Residents

Born in Bad Pyrmont in 1962, Helene (Leni) Hoffmann creates site-specific work that dialogues with architecture through time-based projects.

Leni Hoffmann graduated as „Meisterschüler" in fine arts from the class of Georg Karl Pfahler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2002, Leni Hoffmann has held a chair in painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

Leni Hoffmann works mainly site-specifically and emancipates painting: away from the canvas, towards real space and objects of everyday life. She realizes her radical work both in museum-  and in public space - or as direct interventions in the production process of daily newspapers.

Leni Hoffmann’s colorful work is characterized by phenomena such as transformation, time, movement, and contemplation. She works across various media. Her work negotiates the complex terrain between autonomous art and relinquished authorship. Leni Hoffmann’s three- and two-dimensional interventions ask for a co-creative viewer. She sees the viewer as a crucial, incalculable potential of her work.

Leni Hoffmann’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and Australia. Amongst others at Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Ludwig Köln, Staedelmuseum Frankfurt, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palazzo delle Papesse Siena,  Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe. She participated in the 3rd Moscow Biennale, and won numerous awards, for instance „Gabriele-Münter award“ „Villa Massimo, Rome - Award“. In recent years, she realized a series of spectacular works in public. Her sculptural-architectonic works link space and wall, image and ground, keep the viewer spellbound and burst genre borders. Her books are designed as a medium on the intersection between artisan tradition and industrial feasibility. Their Choreography, graphic design and production satisfy documentary purposes as well as highly aesthetic and functional-haptic claims. As an artist book, they are artworks and reflect her artistic credo, as well as philosophical considerations.

Veronika Spierenburg is a Swiss-Dutch artist working at the intersection of sound, body movement, and architecture. Her practice explores geographical space, abstract sound, and perception itself. Primarily research-based, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary, she employs a wide range of media and materials. She studied Design at the School of Design in Basel, Photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin’s College in London. Spierenburg has been a resident at HIAP Helsinki, FAAP São Paulo, Pro Helvetia Shanghai, and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and in 2025 she will be an artist-in-residence at the Schindler Fellowship in Los Angeles.

Zara Pfeifer was born on November 25, 1984, in Cologne, Germany. She studied architecture at the Technical University Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. Pfeifer works as an artist between Berlin and Vienna and teaches a seminar on photography in architecture at the Technical University Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has received numerous honors, including a studio grant from the Austrian Federal Government at ISCP New York and the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles for 2025/26.