Residency VILA SUL

Brazil/Germany

Ana Paula dos Santos is an artist born in Santos/Brazil. She lives in Frankfurt am Main and studies Fine Arts at the Städelschule in the class of Willem de Rooij. She studied cultural anthropology and human geography at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and with her artistic practice and research, she engages in critical,decolonial, post-colonial and identity debates. Dos Santos works with photography,installation and videos. Metaphors and symbols are very present in her work.

Her last institutional work was a photographic intervention in the permanent collection of the historical museum in Frankfurt am Main and pointed out racist elements and images in the collection of the museum. The name of this project is „Change of view – Tracing Racism (2022). Dos Santos co-curated this intervention with a group of BIPoC artists based in Germany. Some of her photographic work became part of the collection of the historical museum in Frankfurt am Main afterwards. In the same year she was with The Städellschule and Professor Willem de Rooij in Ghana to exchange art experience with the art collective blaxTARLINES in the department of Painting and Sculpture at Knust, Kumasi. She was shorlisted in 2022 to the Wi Di Mimba Prize of the Savvy Comtemporary and AKB Stftitung for artists of color in Germany and she is a member of the artist and architect collective Commune 6x3. The next show of Ana Paula dos Santos will be a group show in May 2024 with tha name „City of Women Photographers“, Frankfurt 1844-2024“ in the historical museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Canada

It was through travelling that Gabrielle Lebeau reconnected with her childhood passion: writing. She has studied at London School of Journalism (United Kingdom) and Creative Writing at Université de Montréal. Since 2015, she has published many short stories and three books. In October 2017, she released her first journalistic work, "Biographie, Claude Dubois". In January 2018, she finished the manuscript of her first novel "Partie", which was published in October 2018. In March 2018, after a three-month trip to Brazil, she started working on a new novel and an essay. This essay, "Nos ancêtres, les premiers hippies", was granted a price by the Union des écrivains du Québec (UNEQ) and was published in September 2023. Gabrielle Lebeau is currently finishing her novel "12 femmes", which received a grant from the Conseil des arts du Québec.
 

Germany

Stephan Lanz, Prof. Dr., is an urban researcher at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and at the metroZones Center for Urban Affairs (www.metrozones.info) in Berlin.  He conducts research at the cultural and social science intersections of urban studies and has published numerous scholarly articles and books (most recently 2021: Governing the Favela ... in Rio de Janeiro).  Lanz has co-curated international research and cultural projects. This includes 'Ersatzstadt' (Volksbühne Berlin, 2002-2006) and 'Global Prayers - Redemption and Liberation in the City' (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, metroZones, in collaboration with various Goethe-Instituts, 2007-2014).

Empirically his urban research focuses on immigration and racism, popular culture and social struggles (e.g. in the Brazilian favela). He has written theoretical contributions on urban governmentality, postcolonial and Southern urban theory, and urban religion.