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Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Shared Habitat mentor residencies and retreats in Germany and the UK. Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies is located in a former hotel in Rhineland-Palatinate in the town of Idar-Oberstein Germany’s gemstone capital and within a rural and vine growing area.

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Nina Mischler (Switzerland) creating a mural on the terrace.
Jeder Zug zählt (Every move counts) depicts billiard champion Paul Schneider, the former hotelier of Pfaelzer Hof, with balls and earth.

Kelsey Harrison (USA) with her sculptures Pillars of Support, made with architectural timbers from
the underpinning of the Pfaelzer Hof’s historical facade.


Joanna Tam (USA) in her award-winning film Wasenstrasse, conceived of and shot during a Pfaelzer Hof residency on the topic of home and homelessness.


Bruce Asbestos’ striking video works were shown at Pfaelzer Hof gallery / project room in 2021.

Lydia Corbett painted a Madonna and Child mural in the entrance lobby of Pfaelzer Hof during her residency in 2013. A second exhibition showed Lydia’s paintings together with Stuart J Young sculptures in 2020.


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Collaborative Photography 

Stuart J Young and Eila Goldhahn create photographic and textual projects with a single authorship.


Interval: Impressions of Dartington in times of change
A commission for Gardens of Culture by KOINZI TANZ, Hamburg and created for Abi Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Germany, November 2023.
(Also exhibited at Birdwood House, Totnes in February 2024.)


© Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023

...beguiling & haunting as a comment on a fading beautiful thing.

Fascinating, insightful commentary on the changing life of Dartington.

Profound, thoughtful with visual acumen.

Excellent, beautiful composition.

Meaningful images of change.

Very, very impressive.



Other photography by Shared Habitat:
All texts, ideas and images © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023

Other Collaborations:


Dartington to Totnes
Foot- and Cyclepath


In 1989 Shared Habitat initiated the Dartington to Totnes Foot- and Cyclepath. They negotiated rights of way with Dartington Trust, worked with the national charity SUSTRANS and Totnes and Dartington communities. The path was built with the help of a committed group of volunteers and has become a much loved, safe route for cyclists, walkers and wheelchair users alike.


Shared Habitat’s original proposal was to connect Totnes all the way with Buckfastleigh (map drawn by Juliet Robertson of NUTSHELL Natural Paints). Thirty years later, new local groups are campaigning to complete the path to Buckfastleigh.
Shared Habitat are very excited about this and thank all involved.