Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies is located in a small, former, hotel in in the town of Idar-Oberstein, Germany’s jewellery making capital, and set in a wooded and vine growing area. Shared Habitat have curated exhibitions and artists residencies since 2013 and are members of the international network of ResArtis. Shared Habitat enable international artists’ retreats that support new ideas and work to flourish in a relaxed atmosphere.
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 globe.
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 in 2021. Bruce has recently exhibited at Bangkok Bienale (2024) and the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern London (2025).
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.
Member of ResArtis.
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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.)
(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.
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
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Dartington to Totnes
Foot- and Cyclepath
In 1989 Shared Habitat initiated the Dartington to Totnes Foot- and Cyclepath. Since its completion in 1991 the path has had a unique positive social and ecological impact. Eila Goldhahn 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, avoiding a dangerous road.
Dartington Trust have a nice website about the path and we hope to receive acknowledgment for our work: https://www.dartington.org/visit/walks/totnes-dartington-path/
Shared Habitat’s original proposal was to connect Totnes with Buckfastleigh. Thirty years later, new local groups are campaigning to complete the path to Buckfastleigh.
(map drawn by Juliet Robertson of NUTSHELL Natural Paints)