Castel Caramel, artist residency in the former atelier of Ernst Fuchs

The house at Castel Caramel

Castel Caramel, Castillon

Artist in residence 2026

Kylie Manning

Born 1983, Juneau, Alaska. Lives and works in New York.

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The residency

Castel Caramel is a private, non-profit artist residency and cultural platform in the former atelier of the Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs, in the hills above the Côte d’Azur.

Each year since 2018, Castel Caramel has invited one or two artists to live and work at the house while they prepare a gallery or institutional exhibition. The residency provides accommodation, studio space and logistical support, and residents are encouraged to invite collaborators for shorter stays.

Residents

2018–2026

2026 Kylie Manning

Born 1983, Juneau, Alaska. Lives and works in New York.

Kylie Manning seated in front of a large painting
Kylie Manning
Kylie Manning and Maria-Theresia Mathisen seated in front of a large painting at Castel Caramel
Kylie Manning and Maria-Theresia Mathisen at Castel Caramel

Kylie Manning’s paintings sit between abstraction and figuration. Figures surface from thin layers of oil and ground pigment and are washed back into them, in compositions shaped by the coasts of her childhood, from Alaska to Mexico.

Manning studied philosophy and visual arts at Mount Holyoke College and received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, during which she studied and exhibited in Leipzig alongside painters of the New Leipzig School. She joined Pace Gallery in 2022. In 2023 she designed the backdrops and costumes for a collaboration with the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon at New York City Ballet.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2025 There is something that stays, Pace Gallery, New York
  • 2024 Yellow Sea, Space K, Seoul
  • 2023 Sea Change, X Museum, Beijing; travelled to Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, 2024
  • 2023 You Into Me, Me Into You, Pace Gallery, Geneva
  • 2022 Both Sides Now, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2021 Zweisamkeit – Being in Two Is No More Than Doubled Solitude, Anonymous Gallery, New York

Collections

  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • X Museum, Beijing
  • Yuz Museum, Shanghai

2025 Casey Bolding

Born 1987, Denver, Colorado. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Casey Bolding standing in front of a painted wall
Casey Bolding
Casey Bolding painting in the salon at Castel Caramel
Casey Bolding working towards Pasaia at Castel Caramel, 2025

Casey Bolding is a self-taught painter. His technique draws on years with a faux-finishing company, layering industrial paint and plaster in the houses of suburban Colorado, and on writing graffiti and painting murals on derelict walls.

Working in oil, acrylic and plaster on repurposed wood, he builds surfaces up and scrapes them back in a slow, almost archaeological process. His compositions move between interiors and exteriors, resist explicit narrative and often obscure their figures.

At Castel Caramel

Bolding developed a body of work drawn from the history and atmosphere of the region, in preparation for Pasaia, his solo exhibition at Villa Magdalena, Madrid, in 2025. He also painted a large-scale mural elsewhere in the region, continuing his interest in found architecture and cyclical decay.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2026 Bloodstream, Karma, Los Angeles
  • 2025 Pasaia, Villa Magdalena, Madrid
  • 2025 Pocketknife, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York
  • 2024 The river on top of your head, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York

2024 Henry Curchod

Born 1992, Palo Alto, California. Lives and works in London.

Henry Curchod standing beside one of his paintings
Henry Curchod
A long dinner table set in the salon at Castel Caramel, with paintings on the walls
Dinner celebrating Henry Curchod’s residency at Castel Caramel, 2024

Henry Curchod spent most of his adult life in Australia, where he came to know coastal life and the fishing industry as well as the world of advertising. His Kurdish heritage led to an early interest in Persian miniature painting, which informs his figurative work.

He graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2014.

At Castel Caramel

Curchod was in residence in the summer of 2024, with the support of C L E A R I N G.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2026 Lotteria, The Intermission, Athens
  • 2025 Rome is no longer in Rome, C L E A R I N G, Los Angeles
  • 2024 Waterplay, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai
  • 2024 Oh Fortuna!, C L E A R I N G, New York
  • 2023 Trouble on the event horizon, Mamoth, London
  • 2023 Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog, Shoot the Lobster, New York

Collections

  • M Woods Museum, Beijing
  • Sifang Museum, Beijing
  • Start Museum, Shanghai
  • X Museum, Beijing

2023 Minami Kobayashi

Born 1989, Nagoya, Japan. Lives and works in London.

Minami Kobayashi standing in front of a painting of a coastline
Minami Kobayashi

Minami Kobayashi paints in egg tempera and oil. Her figurative paintings of people, animals and places combine intimacy with a quiet strangeness, setting ordinary scenes slightly off-kilter.

She studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts and received an MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018.

At Castel Caramel

During her residency Kobayashi made paintings drawn from the coast and villages around the house, among them Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and A Sphinx statue and a white trainer (Castillon).

Selected exhibitions

  • 2023 A New Sensation, Galerie Marguo, Paris
  • 2023 Place and Presence, Frestonian Gallery, London
  • 2022 Somewhere Not Here, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago
  • 2020 Anecdote, Stems Gallery, Brussels
  • 2019 Place out of Time, Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa

2022 Stefanie Heinze

Born 1987, Berlin. Lives and works in Berlin.

Stefanie Heinze in front of one of her paintings
Stefanie Heinze at Castel Caramel, 2022

In Stefanie Heinze’s paintings, abstract and ambiguous forms resolve into unexpected subjects, from body parts and everyday objects to animal-like figures, set against vivid, fantastical grounds. Her work moves between high and low culture, and her titles are as lyrical as her compositions. The paintings grow out of small, intimate drawings.

Heinze studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2016.

At Castel Caramel

Heinze spent the summer of 2022 at Castel Caramel preparing Dimensions of the Fool, her solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, that autumn.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2022 Dimensions of the Fool, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
  • 2021 Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
  • 2020 Frail Juice, Petzel, New York
  • 2019 Odd Glove, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
  • 2018 Food for the Young (Oozing Out), Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Collections

  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • The Hepworth Wakefield
  • MAMCO, Geneva
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

2021 Sedrick Chisom

Born 1989, Philadelphia. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Sedrick Chisom seated in the salon at Castel Caramel
Sedrick Chisom at Castel Caramel, 2021

Sedrick Chisom’s practice moves between painting and writing. Many of his paintings take as their point of departure a dystopian science-fiction play of his own, which confronts the racial origin myths of colonialism and turns the consequences of racism back onto white bodies. His sources range from medieval images of journeys into hell and Romantic landscape painting to the Hudson River School.

Chisom studied at the Cooper Union on a full scholarship, receiving the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Award, and received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2019.

At Castel Caramel

During his residency Chisom was in conversation with the curator and writer Aindrea Emelife, broadcast live on Castel Caramel’s Instagram.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2022 In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2021 Twenty Thousand Years of Fire and Snow, Pilar Corrias, London
  • 2020 Westward Shrinking Hours, Condo, with Pilar Corrias, London
  • 2020 Possédé·e·s, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier
  • 2019 When the Night Air Stirs, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles
  • 2019 Great Force, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond

2021 Gerard & Kelly

Brennan Gerard, born 1978, Ohio, and Ryan Kelly, born 1979, Pennsylvania. Live and work in Paris.

Performers on the lawn in front of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, Villa Savoye, Poissy, 2019

Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly have worked together as Gerard & Kelly since 2003. Their installations and performances use choreography, writing, video, drawing and sculpture to address sexuality, memory and the formation of queer consciousness.

Both attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and received their MFAs from the University of California, Los Angeles.

At Castel Caramel

At Castel Caramel they worked on two films: PANORAMA, shot during the pandemic in the empty Bourse de Commerce in Paris, and BRIGHT HOURS, a new chapter of their ongoing project Modern Living, made with the musician Moses Sumney at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille.

Selected exhibitions and performances

  • 2020 Clockwork, MAMCO, Geneva
  • 2020 State of, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2019 Modern Living, Villa Savoye, Poissy, Festival d’Automne
  • 2019 Bridge-s, with Solange Knowles, J. Paul Getty Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2017 Timelining, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 2016 Modern Living, The Glass House, New Canaan

Collections

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • Guggenheim Museum

2020 Jill Mulleady

Born 1980, Montevideo, Uruguay. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Jill Mulleady standing in front of a large painting
Jill Mulleady at Castel Caramel, 2020

Jill Mulleady’s paintings move between close observation of everyday life and imagined worlds. Drawing on the history of painting, on popular culture and on her own life, they create a sense of merged and multiplied time.

Mulleady received her MFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London.

At Castel Caramel

At Castel Caramel Mulleady developed Decline & Glory, her solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, which opened in October 2020, and painted Gardens of the Blind. Her residency also saw the first artist and curator talk at the house, a conversation with Martha Kirszenbaum.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2021 Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and The Huntington, San Marino
  • 2020 Decline & Glory, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
  • 2020 We Wither Time into a Coil of Fright, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • 2019 May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale
  • 2019 Fight-or-Flight, Swiss Institute, New York
  • 2017 Angst vor Angst, Kunsthalle Bern

Collections

  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
  • Aishti Foundation, Beirut
  • Rubell Family Collection, Miami

2019 Korakrit Arunanondchai

Born 1986, Bangkok. Lives and works in New York and Bangkok.

Korakrit Arunanondchai seated on a terrace beneath a painted denim work
Korakrit Arunanondchai at Castel Caramel, 2019

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s work addresses history, authenticity, self-representation and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant, drawing on a pastiche of styles and media. In 2019 he took part in five biennials.

He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Columbia University.

At Castel Caramel

At Castel Caramel Arunanondchai conceived his exhibition for the Vienna Secession and developed a performance for Performa in New York with his collaborators Alex Gvojic and Bonaventure (Soraya Lutangu). Patrons saw parts of the Secession installation assembled at the house, and a full-moon screening from his series Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2021 Songs for Dying, Kunsthall Trondheim
  • 2020 No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Museu Serralves, Porto
  • 2019 Secession, Vienna
  • 2019 Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • 2019 May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale
  • 2018 No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2019 Ben Wolf Noam

Born 1987, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Ben Wolf Noam on a terrace at Castel Caramel
Ben Wolf Noam at Castel Caramel, 2019

Ben Wolf Noam’s practice includes painting and drawing as well as curatorial and performative work.

He received his BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.

At Castel Caramel

At Castel Caramel Noam worked in three distinct painting styles and prepared an exhibition with Tiffany Zabludowicz in New York. Drawing on the modernist history of the Riviera, he concentrated on portraiture; his sitters were the friends, collaborators and muses who visited the house.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2018 SADE, Los Angeles
  • 2017 PLAZA PLAZA, London
  • 2017 Build Your Own House, curated by Jannis Varelas, Dio Horia, Mykonos
  • 2015 Field of Ares, The Breeder, Athens
  • 2013 Performance with Boychild and Korakrit Arunanondchai, MoMA PS1, Art Basel Miami Beach

2018 Chloe Wise

Born 1990, Montreal. Lives and works in New York.

Chloe Wise beside one of her paintings on the terrace at Castel Caramel
Chloe Wise at Castel Caramel, 2018
Guests at a candlelit dinner in the salon at Castel Caramel
Dinner at the end of Chloe Wise’s residency, 2018

Chloe Wise works across a range of media. Drawing on the history of portraiture, she examines how a self is constructed, with particular attention to the entanglement of consumption and image-making.

She received her BFA from Concordia University, Montreal.

At Castel Caramel

Wise was Castel Caramel’s first resident. She invited muses and collaborators to join her at the house, and they became the subjects of her paintings. There she prepared Not That We Don’t, her first solo exhibition in London, at Almine Rech in 2019; some of the paintings were also shown at Frieze London.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2021 Thank You for the Nice Fire, Almine Rech, New York
  • 2021 Fantasy America, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
  • 2019 Not That We Don’t, Almine Rech, London
  • 2019 Domestic Horror, Gagosian, New York
  • 2019 World Receivers, Zabludowicz Collection, London
  • 2017 Of False Beaches and Butter Money, Almine Rech, Paris

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The house

Castel Caramel stands on a hill above the Côte d’Azur, near Monaco. In 1988 Ernst Fuchs moved from Vienna to Monaco and, looking for somewhere quieter to develop a new cycle of paintings, drove along the coast and into the hills of the Alpes-Maritimes with his manager, Dr Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly. He bought the house on first sight.

He valued its seclusion, its light and a studio with seven-metre ceilings, large enough for paintings that often took years to complete. For two decades the house was both his studio and a meeting place for artists, curators, poets, musicians and collectors.

After a period of renovation and expansion, Dr Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly and her daughter, Maria-Theresia Mathisen, established the residency in 2018. The grand hall, the main room of the house, serves as the resident artist’s studio and, on the evenings of dinners, as a ballroom.

The swimming pool at Castel Caramel at night
Guests gathered in the salon at Castel Caramel
Dinner on the terrace at Castel Caramel at night, beside a bronze sculpture

Ernst Fuchs

1930–2015

Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter and a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, stage design and music, and returns throughout to religion, myth and symbolism. He revived the Old Master mixed technique, building up forms in egg tempera and glazing them with oil and resin.

Chronology

  1. 1930

    Born on 13 February in Vienna, the only child of Maximilian and Leopoldine Fuchs.

  2. 1942

    Baptised at St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, at the age of twelve. As the son of a Jewish father he was persecuted under National Socialism; most members of his family were murdered in the Holocaust.

  3. 1945

    Admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at fifteen, where he studies with Albert Paris Gütersloh.

  4. 1948

    Co-founds the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism with Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden.

  5. 1950

    Moves to Paris, where he meets Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau and Max Ernst.

  6. 1956

    Lives for several months as a novice at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem and works on The Last Supper, a monumental fresco.

  7. 1958

    Returns to Vienna and opens the Galerie Ernst Fuchs near the Theater an der Wien.

  8. 1972

    Acquires the Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, Vienna.

  9. 1975–78

    Designs sets and costumes for Parsifal and The Magic Flute in Hamburg, Josephslegende in Vienna and Lohengrin in Munich.

  10. 1988

    The Ernst Fuchs Museum opens in the Otto Wagner Villa. Moves to Monaco with Dr Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly and her daughter, Maria-Theresia, and acquires Castel Caramel.

  11. 1993–97

    At Castel Caramel, works on paintings for his Apocalypse cycle in a chapel of the church of St Egid, Klagenfurt.

  12. 1994

    The church of St Jakobus in Thal, near Graz, is inaugurated to his design.

  13. 1998–2008

    Works in a second studio on the Quai Antoine Ier in Monaco, offered to him by Prince Rainier III.

  14. 2001

    Retrospectives at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the Palais Harrach, Vienna.

  15. 2015

    Dies in Vienna on 9 November.

Community

A long candlelit dinner table set in the salon at Castel Caramel, with paintings on the walls and guests on the terrace
Dinner celebrating Henry Curchod’s residency, 2024
Jill Mulleady working on a large painting in the salon, with the terrace and its sculpture beyond the open doors
Jill Mulleady in studio at Castel Caramel
Simon de Pury photographing Sedrick Chisom in front of one of his paintings in the studio
Sedrick Chisom and Simon de Pury at Castel Caramel, 2021

With thanks to

  • Agnes Husslein-Arco
  • Aindrea Emelife
  • Almine Rech
  • ART-O-RAMA
  • artgenève / artmonte-carlo
  • Capitain Petzel
  • C L E A R I N G
  • Frestonian Gallery
  • Martha Kirszenbaum
  • Mason Leaver-Yap
  • Pilar Corrias
  • Ruinart
  • Simon de Pury

Contact

Castel Caramel
Castillon, France
Address on request

info@castelcaramel.org
@castelcaramel on Instagram
  • Maria-Theresia MathisenFounder and director
  • Dr Cornelia Mensdorff-PouillyCo-founder and manager
  • Stefan KeilLogistics and coordination

The residency is by invitation. Castel Caramel does not accept applications.

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