Wohnung Lauxtermann – Residency (D)

Wohnung Lauxtermann is a periodically activated exhibition and residency project that reopens the historic address at Fürstenwall 74 as a site of artistic production, research, and temporary inhabitation.

The decentralized memorial (Path of Liberation) commemorates the local resistance against Nazi Germany and the liberation of Düsseldorf in April 1945. At the former apartment of master baker Josef Lauxtermann (today Station 1 at Fürstenwall 74) members of the resistance group met from the beginning of the Second World War to discuss politics and plan the handover of the city to the Allies. This is where the „Aktion Rheinland“ was organised

(Source: Federal Agency for Civic Education, NS memorials).

Building on this context, Wohnung Lauxtermann, conceived and curated by Aileen Treusch, grants artists temporary access to the address as a living and working space. The residency supports process-based, research-oriented practice and enables artistic work to develop in close relation to the spatial, social, and everyday conditions of the site. It operates as a flexible framework for focused artistic research, without prescribing thematic or representational outcomes.

The residency is awarded selectively and at irregular intervals. Since its inception in 2023, it has been realized twice, most recently in 2026, and is activated when artistic practice, spatial context, and discursive relevance meaningfully intersect.

Residencies granted:

• Camie Klein (February – March, 2026)
• Julie Mia (February – March, 2023)

The residency programme runs in parallel to the fluid exhibition format Wohnung Lauxtermann, which was initiated in 2023 and remained open until 2025. This exhibition concept evolved across multiple iterations, with a particularly extensive scope and focus in 2024 (Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 07). While the exhibition addressed questions of orientation, cohesion, participation, democracy, and domesticity through changing artistic positions, the residency functions as an independent format, foregrounding artistic process rather than public presentation.

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The residency awarded to Camie Klein (February–March 2026) takes place in the context of the exhibition Bodies in Residue. Klein’s practice engages with processes of inscription, care, and transformation, working primarily with soap as a sculptural and performative material. Alongside soap, the artist’s own blood appears as a recurring element within the work, introducing questions of vulnerability, authorship, and bodily presence. During the residency, Klein will further develop the work FUGUE: a door placed horizontally on the floor. Coated in soap and extended by metal elements, its surface operates as a permeable threshold into which collected blood will be tattooed. Participation in the work is voluntary; visitors are offered the possibility to donate blood as part of the artistic process.

Camie Klein (*1997) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the tension between abstract, measurable systems and intimate, subjective experiences. Her sculptural, installative, and performative works investigate temporality, transformation, and the space between these poles. Conceptually driven and interwoven with autobiographical elements, her practice weaves personal and collective memories that transcend time, reflecting on physical presence in relation to institutional frameworks. She uses kinetic, auditory, and material gestures that navigate between sculpture and performance. She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach.

Please note: The tattooing process takes place exclusively outside the gallery’s public opening hours. Participation is optional and subject to informed consent. The work addresses bodily material in an artistic context and may not be suitable for all audiences. For questions or further information, please contact us directly.

We are pleased to announce that the first residency will go to Berlin-based artist Julie Mia.

Julie Mia’s (*1988 in Offenbach/ Main) interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, photography, and installation, unfolding over extended periods. Rooted in transformation and translation—from analog to digital, object to image, function to symbol—her work begins with everyday materials that she alters and recontextualizes, stripping them of original meaning. Objects become poetic, open forms through processes of layering, erasing, and repainting, reflecting ambiguity and temporality. She employs diverse techniques, including bronze and wax casting, 3D printing, and steelwork, exploring resistance and permanence. Her evolving visual language invites viewers to experience materiality and meaning as fluid, emphasizing the continuous process of change and reinterpretation. Painting plays a central role in her practice, permeating all processes and works: it is both the starting point and recurring focus of her creative process. Her sculptures and installations emerge as thoughtful conceptual extensions that engage with and expand the language of her painting, reflecting a cohesive and evolving artistic vision.

She studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design and the Camberwell College of Arts in London as well as the Villa Arson in Nice.