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Residency Unlimited Residency Unlimited is a not-for-profit organization that fosters dynamic artist residency initiative
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Residency Unlimited (RU) supports the creative process and promotes exchange through its unique residency program and year-round public programs. Moving beyond the traditional studio model, RU forges strategic partnerships with collaborating institutions to offer flexible and customized residencies designed to meet the individual goals, needs and visions of local and international artists and curators. RU is particularly committed to promoting multidisciplinary practices and building lasting connections between residents and the broader arts community.

BEDSIDE - One-to-One PerformanceRU artist-in-residence Ayelet Amrani Navon (Ayelet Amrani Navon) performed individual ha...
10/23/2026

BEDSIDE - One-to-One Performance

RU artist-in-residence Ayelet Amrani Navon (Ayelet Amrani Navon) performed individual half hour session, where she drew upon her lullaby archive as she singed visitors to sleep. Participants were invited to lay down and contemplate the liminal space in between being awake and letting go of wakefulness, while experiencing a voice performance. The lullabies took the audience on a cyclical journey of song, chant and spoken word inspired by Governors Island and by Amrani Navon’s own Yemeni and American (US) heritage, Hebrew and Ladino.

The performance was part of the RU exhibition Domestic [Dis]Enchantments, still on view on October 24 and 25, 2026 at RU House on Governors Island.

Greece in USA is pleased to announce that Dr. Sozita Goudouna and Professor Yann Toma Yann Toma Library Residency Librar...
10/22/2026

Greece in USA is pleased to announce that Dr. Sozita Goudouna and Professor Yann Toma Yann Toma Library Residency Library Residency in Athens - Panepistimiou st Artist 2024, are participating in the “Communicating For A Better World” Conference! 🇬🇷🇺🇸
explores how UN United Nations organizations can strengthen institutions and advance solutions to global issues through the power of communication.

The Impact of Art in Creating a Better World (Parallel Session)
Since 2000, art has become the UN’s universal translator—turning legal reports into human emotion. From Eliasson’s Ice Watch to Banksy’s murals, art makes the institutional message human, visible, and shareable.

Featured Speakers:
🎨 Prof. Yann Toma (Professor of Arts, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Artist-Observer at the UN) — Speaking on Human Energy and the intersection of art and diplomacy.
🗣️ Dr. Sozita Goudouna (Professor & Curator, University of London) — Presenting on “Contemporary art, criticism and introspection in practice: an ‘open’ way.”
💬 Nathalie Anglès (Residency Unlimited) — On supporting creative processes.
🎶 Prof. Dave Schroeder (NYU) — On 500 Harmonicas for the UN’s International Day of Peace.
⚖️ Raymond J. Dowd (Fordham Law) — On art, fashion law, and international practice.

Closing Remarks by Dr. Stefan Tschauko (Conference Creator & Chair).

Join us in celebrating the role of art in global communication! 🌐

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🎨 Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island Governors Island 📍 RU House, Colonels Row, Building 📅 Saturday Octob...
10/13/2026

🎨 Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island Governors Island
📍 RU House, Colonels Row, Building
📅 Saturday October 24, 2026 | 12 - 5 PM

Join us for the last Open Studios event of the season featuring current RU artists: Rita Ferreira (Rita Ferreira), Liza Goncharenko (), Nemanja Milenković (Nemanja Milenkovic), Ayelet Amrani Navon (Ayelet Amrani Navon), Julia Taszycka (Julia Taszycka), Dominika Trapp (Trapp Dominika).

As part of the 2026 Organizations in Residence program, RU has a presence in Governors Island at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row from May through October, where RU artists and alums have studio spaces to develop new bodies of work across the 2026 season.

RU Screening + Conversation: Borrowed Skin Join us for the screening of The Arrow (“Strzała” in Polish), a 53-minute by ...
10/07/2026

RU Screening + Conversation: Borrowed Skin

Join us for the screening of The Arrow (“Strzała” in Polish), a 53-minute by the multimedia RU artist and filmmaker Xawery Deskur (Xawery Deskur )
that was initially presented in 2023 at the Galicia Jewish Museum (Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja) in Kraków as part of the Chris Schwarz Memorial Art Award and exhibition “The Place of Singing stones” as an exploration on how Native American culture, lore, and Indigenous identity were translated, perceived, and sometimes mythologized within Central Europe. The film will be followed by a discussion between the artist and Ru Marshall (Ru Marshall), RU alum, artist and author of American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda.

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | 6:30 – 8:00 pm
📍Location: Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn, NY 11231

In “The Arrow”, Deskur explores the enigmatic figure of Sat-Okh (Stanisław Supłatowicz) and the mechanisms of cultural appropriation and the postwar, post-utopian longings that connected Poles to their imagination of Native American cultures. The starting point for the conversation between Xawery and Ru Marshall, will be the surprising parallels between the story of Sat-Okh and the Castaneda phenomenon: two twentieth-century “literary tricksters” who built their identities and authority on a (partially fictional) experience of indigeneity, while simultaneously becoming both criticized and fascinating figures on the cultural frontier.

RU Exhibition: Domestic [Dis]EnchantmentsTo complete the 2026 exhibition season at the RU House on Governors Island (Gov...
10/05/2026

RU Exhibition: Domestic [Dis]Enchantments

To complete the 2026 exhibition season at the RU House on Governors Island (Governors Island), please join us for the group show “Domestic [Dis]Enchantments” featuring works by RU resident artists – Milo Masoničić (milo masonicic), Ayelet Amrani Navon(Ayelet Amrani Navon), Nataša Prosenc Stearns (Nataša Prosenc Stearns), and Julia Taszycka (Julia Taszycka). 

Curated by Data Chigholashvili (Data Chigholashvili), Curator of Residency Unlimited, this exhibition carries forward meditations on domestication, house, home, and body.

🎊Opening: Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 11am-5pm
📅 On view:October 17, 18, 24, 25 | 11am-5pm
📍Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building on Governors Island

“Domestic [Dis]Enchantments” focuses on transformation and its different aspects, and [de]mystifies this former residential house through installations, moving images and objects, songs and sounds – offered as metaphors for the bodies and homes we inhabit. [Dis]enchantment here conceptually plays at the intersections that emerge between liminal spaces, subconscious, bodies, objects, and metamorphosis. It also invokes the term as theorized in the social sciences, largely after Max Weber, for the modern tendencies to explain the world around us primarily through rationalization. Together, the works featured invert meanings, turn things inside out or upside down, glitch or transform images and objects, and reach toward what might be concealed or hidden in plain sight. In doing so, they invite us to think about our different abodes – homes, bodies, memories, structures – and what they tell us about ourselves, our surroundings, and how we move through them.

BEDSIDE - One-to-One Performance📅 Thursday October 15, 2026 | 12:00 – 3:00pm📅 Sunday October 18, 2026 | 12:00 – 3:00pm📍 ...
10/05/2026

BEDSIDE - One-to-One Performance

📅 Thursday October 15, 2026 | 12:00 – 3:00pm
📅 Sunday October 18, 2026 | 12:00 – 3:00pm
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island

Limited to spots available. 🔗RSVP and learn more from the link in bio!

Artist Ayelet Amrani Navon (Ayelet Amrani Navon)
invites you to an individual half hour session, where she will draw upon her lullaby archive and sit by your side as she sings you to sleep. You are invited to lay down and contemplate the liminal space in between being awake and letting go of wakefulness, while you experience a voice performance for an audience of one. The lullabies will take you on a cyclical journey of song, chant and spoken word inspired by Governors Island and by Amrani Navon’s own Yemeni and American (US) heritage, Hebrew and Ladino.The artist welcomes the contribution of your own memories of lullabies and bedtime sounds to add to her archive.

The performance will be part of the upcoming RU exhibition Domestic [Dis]Enchantments, opening on October 17, 2026 at RU House on Governors Island.

Ayelet’s residency is made possible with the support from Artis

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!Jingzhou Yan’s () recent body of work revolves around the o...
10/02/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!

Jingzhou Yan’s () recent body of work revolves around the ongoing project “Buster”, a fictional yet reflective world that examines the absurdities and emotional contradictions of contemporary life. Through the figure of “Buster”—a recurrent alter ego who shifts between humor and melancholy—he explores how images, desires, and technologies construct our perception of reality. The project functions as both a psychological map and a painterly experiment, where the boundary between the personal and the collective constantly dissolves.

His solo exhibitions include Love Is Love, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2025); All Around Buster Town, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (2024); Buster’s Love, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (2023).
Yan has been featured in group exhibitions, such as XSWL, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney (2025); Layered Skin, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2023); First Encounter, Yue Art Museum, Beijing (2022); Jungle of All Forms, Haihui Art Museum, Zhengzhou (2022). His works have been showcased at major international art fairs, including Art Basel Hong Kong (2025), ART021 Beijing (2025), ART021 Shanghai (2024), Art Taipei (2023 & 2024), and Art Busan (2023). Yan’s works are in the collection of White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia, and in private collections in Thailand, China, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!Olsi Hoxha (oh. and nepotik) is the recipient of the 2025 A...
10/02/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!

Olsi Hoxha (oh. and nepotik) is the recipient of the 2025 Ardhje Award (ZETA Contemporary Art Center) for young visual artists in Albania.

Hoxha is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans materials, disciplines, and technologies, including electroacoustic sound sculptures, video art, collage, photography, installation, and circuit bending. He moves between the technical and the poetic, working with found objects, obsolete technologies, and discarded media to reflect on how technological, social, and personal systems shape perception, behavior, and meaning. His work is informed by cybernetics, chaos theory, and technological nostalgia, exploring how feedback—both literal and metaphorical—shapes the world: how small actions ripple through systems, how randomness coexists with structure, and how control and collapse blur. Using thrown-away materials such as old electronics, broken devices, and forgotten images, he creates interactive works that function as a form of urban archaeology. His projects invite public participation and emphasize glitch aesthetics, instability, play, and open-ended processes.

Source of Uncertainty, Hoxha’s solo exhibition was presented at Minus Art Space in 2025. He has been a part of several group exhibitions at venues such as Bazament Art Space, Tirana (2019); Bulevard Art Space, Tirana (2021); Oda Gallery, Shkodër (2022). Olsi Hoxha has published several catalogues, among them Zanafilla (2018); Nepotik Nr.1 (2019); Nepotik Nr.2 (2020); Nepotik Nr.3 (2022); Nepotik Nr.4 (2023); Nepotik Libera (Heldi Pema) (2021); Nepotik – Asa Nisi Masa (2024); Nepotik Sabanum (2020). He was an editor, sound designer, and composer for Në Parajsën Socialiste (Nuk bie Shi), dir. Ermela Teli (2024), and he is the Founder and Director of Radioblog Tirana & Eyeblog, platforms for alternative music (2015–present).

Olsi Hoxha’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!Nemanja Milenković (Nemanja Milenkovic) is the winner of th...
10/02/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!

Nemanja Milenković (Nemanja Milenkovic) is the winner of the 2025 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award (Mangelos Nagrada).

Milenković explores the relationships between humans and non-human animals, which he understands as existing along a spectrum between two extremes: the radical exploitation of non-human animals and their radical protection. He creates layered installations that incorporate drawing, painting, readymade objects, and performance, seeking to understand processes of coexistence with nature through discipline and collaboration in artistic practice. Alongside his individual practice, he is a member of the renowned art group Led Art, founded by Nikola Džafo in 1993.

His recent exhibitions include: 25 Years of the Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award, FLU Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (2026); (Un)Natural Speculations, coauthored solo exhibition with Darija Dragojlović, Subotica Contemporary Art Gallery, Subotica, Serbia (2025); IN-SITU: Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species, < rotor >, group exhibition, Graz, Austria (2024); Razmišljanja o nestajanju (Thoughts About Vanishing), Gallery Kazamat, coauthored solo exhibition with Újházi Adrienn, Osijek, Croatia (2022); Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade, group exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia (2021). Nemanja Milenković also participated in the retrospective exhibition of the Led Art group titled ReCAPITULACION: Disobedient Objects/Subjects 1992–2022, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, which he co-curated alongside other core team members.

Nemanja Milenković’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!Xawery Deskur (Xawery Deskur) is a Polish visual artist and...
10/01/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this October!

Xawery Deskur (Xawery Deskur) is a Polish visual artist and film director whose work moves between documentary, experimental, and essay film, alongside visual art, often returning to how identity and history get constructed — and reconstructed. His films move deliberately between registers: documentary and speculative, earnest and absurd, professionally crafted and intentionally amateur. Across these forms, Deskur returns to outsider figures — the self-mythologizer, the countercultural dreamer — and to the porous boundary between historical fact and the myths people build to survive it.

His current project, Feathers of the Other, extends this inquiry into cultural appropriation and exile, examining the Indianiści — a controversial Polish subculture, rooted in a postwar fascination with Native Americans, whose members recreate and perform their ways of life. Deskur’s documentary science-fiction film Jesteś tu? (Are You There?, 2023) explores a relationship with artificial intelligence, unfolding within a speculative AI-driven fantasy in which objects are endowed with a soul. The film premiered at the Kraków Film Festival and went on to win multiple international awards, including Best Documentary Film in the Polish-Czech competition of the Zoom Zbliżenia Festival in Jelenia Góra, a Golden Award at the Heart of Europe International TV Festival & Forum, and Best First-Time Filmmaker at the LA Art Film Fest (2025).

Xawery Deskur’s residency is made possible with support from the Polish Cultural Institute (Polish Cultural Institute NY) in New York and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

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