Artist in Residence Program

  • Künstlerresidenz © Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman
  • Künstlerresidenz © Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman
  • Künstlerresidenz © Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman

  • Künstlerresidenz © Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman

About Artist in Residence

Goethe-Institut Gulf Region and Stal Gallery Muscat cooperate since 2014 in an Artist in Residence program in order to foster the contemporary visual arts in Muscat and to enhance the cultural ties between Oman and Germany. Stal Gallery invites German artists for a residency at Stal Gallery in the capital of Oman. The Artist in Residence program fosters the development of the Omani art scene, and its outreach activities provide the guest artists with excellent preconditions to getting acquainted with Omani artists, culture and society.

Among the facilities of the Stal Gallery in Muscat, Oman, is the Stal Studio. A pleasant flat with a private studio provides the artist with the opportunity of living in Muscat for a month and developing an artistic project or realizing a joint project together with an Omani artist.

The residency lasts up to 4 weeks in the period from beginning of February till end of April.
 
Flight and honorarium as well as an appropriate budget for materials will be paid by the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region.

Stal Gallery is a “not for profit” purpose built Art gallery and Studio in the heart of Muscat. The mission of the gallery is to provide access, appreciation, awareness and enjoyment of the visual arts in all disciplines by providing a balanced focus on contemporary art from Oman and international sources. It is owned by the Alserkal Family, who have developed the flagship project Alserkal Avenue; a cultural hub in Dubai.

2018: Brigitte Stenzel | Artist, Painter

Brigitte Stenzel © Thomas Dashuber

Brigitte Stenzel – skillfully figurative

This time figurative art, please:the Omani artists and managers at Stal Gallery Muscat wished for a figurative artist for the 2018 residency. And we found her: Brigitte Stenzel convinced with outstandingly artistic and technically perfect paintings.

Past Resident Artists

Künstlerresidenz © Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman

Artist in Residence 2017
 Janin Walter

Berlin artist Janin Walter spends with a scholarship of the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region one month as the artist in residence at Stal Gallery in Oman´s capital Muscat. Janin Walter´s artistic research focusses on the relationship with beauty: 

Beauty and the City | Modernes Gebäude Bauhaus © Goethe-Institut | Foto: Janin Walter

Exhibition Janin Walter 2017
 Beauty and the City

What defines beauty? What lies in the eyes of the beholder? And what is considered beauty in the context of different cultures? With the eyes of a trained architect and room strategist, Janin Walter explores the cities that she is visiting, and she explores life in these cities.

StalGallery in Maskat, Oman © Verena Kyselka

Artist in Residence 2016
 Verena Kyselka

As the guest of Stal Gallery and with a stipend of Goethe-Institut Gulf Region,  artist Verena Kyselka spends March 2016 at Stal Gallery in Muscat. For the second time the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region and Stal Gallery Muscat with Omani Artist and gallery director Hassan Meer, cooperate to foster the contemporary visual arts in Muscat and to enhance the cultural ties between Oman and Germany.

Yasemin Yilmaz | Globalization-Connections-Time © Yasemin Yilmaz

Artist in Residence 2014
 Yasemin Yilmaz

The German artist Yasemin Yilmaz presented in April 2014 in Muscat her art project “Globalization-Connections-Time” and worked together with the Omani artist Hassan Meer in another project “Trade”. Afterwards works realized in both projects were shown at the Stal Gallery in an exhibition.