RESIDENCY.CH

2024/12

Talia Nizarane (she/her) (b. 1997, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in London since 2021. She works primarily in installation, performance, text, photography, and video art. Her work explores issues of social mobility and global inequities, informed by historical dilemmas in her home country. Talia has lived and worked in Cuba, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Japan. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Self-Preservation, Shoreditch, London, UK (2023); The Road Not Taken, MINE, Osaka, Japan (2022); Cleaning Service, Schaufenster Dreiviertel, Bern, Switzerland (2021); and UNWINNABLE, XPO, Enschede, the Netherlands (2020). Her work is part of the Bernardo Quetglas Collection in Mallorca, Spain. In 2019, Talia received a scholarship from Zurich University of the Arts to support her education in Switzerland. In 2023, she became the first Cuban to graduate from the Royal College of Art, earning a Master's degree in Contemporary Art Practice. Upcoming work and presentations include In Place of War, Manchester, UK (2025) and Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK (2025).

talianizarane.com/
instagram.com/becas_arte_latino/

2024/11

Marcus Appelberg is a visual artist, curator, art critic and art consultant based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a masters degree from UdK Berlin and Akademin Valand in Gothenburg. His work revolves around themes of identity inspired by fashion and depiction of clothing focusing on the concept of the fold. Mainly working with painting but sometimes with forays into sculpture and photography his works is both expressive and restrained.

www.mappelberg.com
www.instagram.com/artistmarcusappelberg

2024/11

Daniela Ehemann born in Erlangen, Germany studied Philosophie and completed an MFA in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2003. In 2012 the artist added a teaching degree in theatre. Since then she taught at the UdK Berlin, at the Academy of Arts Hangshou, China and in Chicago, She has been cooperating in a number of ways such as Burg Giebichenstein University for Art and Design in Halle, gave lectures at the Columbia College in Chicago, the Goethe Institute of Chicago and Halka Arts in Istanbul. She works since 2019 at the faculty of architecture in the department of Fine Arts at the University BTU Cottbus/Berlin. Daniela Ehemann has been excibiting nationally and internationally since 2002. Her work has been shown in Berlin, Munich, N.Y. , Chicago and Istanbul at Haus der Kunst Brünn and in the Museum of Art in Caracas. She collaborated with the artist group "Raum : Selbst" and organized a small art festivals in Berlin. Grants and support has been received from Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, the Berlin Senate for Science and Education, Lake Forest University in Chicago, the IFA and Goethe Institute Chicago. Daniela Ehemann lives and works in Berlin.

2024/11

Ingeborg Entrop is an artist-researcher based in Groningen, the Netherlands. She is interested in the nature of place, presence and the possible positions we take with respect to our environment. In her artistic explorations she listens to places, records their sounds and searches for site-related facts or fictions. Her work emerges from the collected material and appears in the form of audio walks, installations, videos, graphic scores or other printed material. Ingeborg holds a PhD degree in Physics, a master's degree in Fine Arts and is an avid amateur cellist.

www.ingeborgentrop.nl

2024/11

Since 2005 Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity as a material for creation. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He explores ways of creating physical traces of sound, and of channelling and transforming energy, most recently salvaging and repurposing obsolete consumer technology.

www.simonwhetham.co.uk
www.instagram.com/simonwhetham

2024/10

Ayşe Ateş is a visual artist and researcher originally from Istanbul, currently based in Hamburg. After completing her bachelor's degree and first master's in the Painting Department at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in Istanbul, she moved to Hamburg to pursue a second master's in the Time-based Media Department at the Hamburg Fine Arts University.
Ateş's practice revolves around the axis of humans, non-humans, nature, and memory. Inspired by chance encounters, oral histories, and her own experiences, she creates her works based on the belief that nothing that has occurred on Earth or in the universe will ever truly disappear. Her work reflects an effort to resist decay, oblivion, and extinction. By tracing memories, connections, meanings, and what is remembered through an interdisciplinary approach, Ateş seeks to make hidden knowledge visible and her practice extends to various media as required by the topics she explores.

https://ayseates.com/
@aysehates

2024/10

Hanxuan Jiang (Sophie) is an artist, filmmaker and a tutor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University.
Holder of dual master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Art. Award winner of the "Luo Bonian Photographer Award" at the 2024 Three Shadows Photography Award (TSPA), Silver Award at the 2023 London Film Awards, and "Best Experimental Film Award" at the 2020 Alternative Film Festival (ALTFF). Solo exhibitions include "Daydreaming" (E.SCAPE Art Space, Shanghai, 2023), "Public Intimacy" (Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2020), and “The Nearest Distance" (Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, 2019). Group exhibitions include the 2024 Three Shadows Photography Award, 2023 Chengdu International Photography Week, 2019 Coventry Biennial, 2019 Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2019 Beijing International Art Biennale, 2019 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Chengdu Creative Design Week, Xin Feng Project, Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival, Tank Art Festival, etc. Her films have been featured at the European Short Film Festival, London Independent Film Festival, NOWNESS Short Film Talent Awards, 9th International Video Poetry Festival, Manchester International Experimental Film Festival, Miami Independent Film Festival, and more. Her works have been exhibited and Screened at venues such as Modern Art Oxford, CICA Museum, Chicago Filmmakers, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, A.K.T. pforzheim, Harrow Arts Centre, West Bund Art Centre, National Art Museum of China, Chi K11 Art Museum, ZheJiang Art Museum, Close-Up Cinema, and other independent art cinemas, as well as on the UK Film Channel.

www.hanxuanjiang.com

2024/07

Lumturie Krasniqi (b. 1997, Pristina, Kosovo) is a visual artist and cultural worker. In 2019, she completed her bachelor's studies in Painting at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pristina, and is currently finishing her master's studies in the same program. Krasniqi primarily engages in painting but also explores photography, installation, video, and digital art. In her work, she delves into aspects often overlooked in contemporary life, aiming to raise existential questions. Her artistic approach, entwined with connections, separations, and the interplay of opposites, unites the spiritual and emotional, reflecting on the relationships between soul and matter, fear and love, humanity and nature, and human connections. She plays with the dualism and paradoxes inherent in these combinations.

2024/07

Blerta Hashani (1997, Ferizaj, Kosovo) Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina in 2019. She is currently completing her master's degree in the Specialization in Painting program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina. Her artistic practice incorporates the medium of painting, drawing and photography to further explore the concepts of mysticism and symbolism. Her work consolidates and reflects the routine, the environment that surrounds her and ordinary sensations. Every impulse received from the outside world comes in a primordial form and is transmitted in her artistic work, in a minimalist way. Aesthetically, Hashani's works present harmony, balance and a deep search to internalize the everyday in conceptual lines. In the process, she uses rudimentary research to mark that which is instinctive and controllable, while further revealing the multi-layered nature of the symbolic and the sublime. She lives and works in Ferizaj, Kosovo. She is represented by LambdaLambdaLambda Gallery.

2024/05

The couple consists of a visual artist (he) and a cultural manager (she), who since 2009 have been realizing a project of an international residential platform in the Slovak countryside under the project title Banská St a nica Contemporary (BSC). Their interests include the promotion and initiation of art-production, publishing, curatorial projects and the publication of small graphic editions. Currently, in the post-pandemic years, they are focusing on topics of non-growth and the survival of a cultural, non-profit initiatives in a country defending its democratic, pro-European direction.

www.banskastanica.sk
www.editionbsc.com

Svätopluk Mikyta is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and a DAAD scholarship holder at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2008, he received the Oskar Čepan Prize awarded to a young Slovak artist. He spent a residency at ISCP New York and received the Central European Strabag Art Award. Since 2011 he has been the leader of the Drawing and Graphic studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. In his work, he deals with the intersection of media and techniques from printmaking, ceramics, object, installation and drawing. During the coronavirus pandemic, he focused on the re-extraction of material, its collection and new contextualization in the studio environment. Mikyta's residency is supported by the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology.

www.mikyta.com
@mikyta.svatopluk

Zuzana Bodnárová is an art theorist and cultural manager, graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (2001, Department of History of Fine Arts). Between 2005 and 2009, she worked at the Centre for Central European Architecture (CCEA), where she coordinated exhibitions, projects, and programs focused on architectural education. Since 2009, she has worked full-time for the Banská St a nica project, where she is responsible for fundraising, production, editing and curatorial work. In 2022, she co-founded SKUSY, a platform that creates links between Slovak and Greek art through residencies of Slovak artists in Athens. She is the editor of the interview portal Teren.online. In addition to organizational activities, she is also involved in curatorial projects.

www.teren.online

2024/04

Alessandro De Francesco is a poet, artist, and essayist. He exhibited and performed internationally (Biennale Gherdeina, Kunsthalle Basel, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Kelly Writers’ House, Brown University, Casa delle letterature di Roma; Centre Pompidou, etc.) and published several books, among which And Agglomerations, of Trees or (Mousse Publishing, 2022); ((( (Uitgeverij / punctum books, 2021); Pour une théorie non-dualiste de la poésie (MIX / Les Presses du réel, 2021); Remote Vision. Poetry 1999-2015 (punctum books, 2016); Redéfinition (MIX, 2010). Solo shows include Expanded Poetry #1 at der Tank in Basel and Poetry as Artistic Practice at Anima Ludens in Brussels. He has been an artist-in-residence at the STEIM in Amsterdam and the BeHave programme in Luxembourg, among other places. He holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris and he taught poetry at the École Normale Supérieure and the European Graduate School. He is currently professor of Creative Writing at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and visiting professor of studio practice at the Bern Academy of the Arts and the ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels.

www.alessandrodefrancesco.net

2024/04

Sérgio Leitão is an artist based in Porto, working at the intersection between sound, performance and mixed- media installations crossing painting, sculpture and video. Operating through an overlaying of historical avantgarde references and contemporary hybrid formalizations, his projects seek to explore links between different areas of knowledge, articulating images, sounds and objects in the construction of a singular poetic imaginary. Through a combination of produced and collected elements, directed to a place of intersection between different narratives, his works seek to create spaces in which the boundaries between reality and fiction dissolve. The crossing between different media, the dialogue with the presentation contexts, and the use of archives are some of his other operating modes.

onabstraction.com / vasistas-magazine.com / arteinformado.com

2024/03

Bastienne Schmidt is a multi disciplinary artist working with photography, painting and large-scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy and has lived in New York for the past 30 years. Her art work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Center of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris among many others. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in over 100 exhibitions among them the International Center of Photography in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg among others.

www.bastienneschmidt.com

2024/03

Philippe Cheng is an artist with studios in Bridgehampton & New York City. Born and raised in New York, he was educated at The School of Visual Art and New York University. His work is in the Library Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Parrish Art Museum, the Leiber Museum, and in many private collections. His most recent work, as part of a larger project entitled, “All the Light You Cannot See,” a search for light (un)seen places is a series of images printed on sandpaper and includes site- specific installations in collaboration with Guild Hall and The Leiber Museum. He was also an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center in the Spring of 2023.
Philippe Cheng is, in his own words, an “image maker.” That is, he is a artist who creates “images that strive to have meaning and a point of view. To have an intentionality. Whether capturing the light and spirit of the East End of Long Island, studying the complexities of inner-city children growing up in Coney Island, speaking against forced silence, honoring chosen silence, or in collaboration with artist Bastienne Schmidt as they explore how ethnic and social groups in America deal with issues of death and dying, Phillippe has utilized his artistic skills to showcase both geographical and social landscapes to move his viewer to a place of feeling and connection.

www.philippecheng.com

2024/01

Sonata Raiymkulova is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kyrgyzstan. Sonata’s practice spans black-and-white graphics, sculpture, animation, and photography. In her work, she explores personal themes and societal problems in Central Asia. Sonata often refers to existential issues about the meaning of existence and humanity while also working on gender issues, such as the position of women in society, and the political aspects of life in Kyrgyzstan. Sonata’s work has been shown at the “Postcolonial Art from Central Asia” exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the FemAgora festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia, among other places. Winner of the Prince Claus Seed Awards 2023.

2023/12

Martina Zátorská is a curator and art advisor. She studied art theory and art management at the Sorbonne. She gained her professional experience in Paris working for private art galleries. After moving to Prague, she created an international network of contemporary artists, galleries, collectors and art professionals. She is the founder of Untitled-Art, an art consultancy, and is responsible for the development and management of private art collections. Martina will spend two months on a curatorial residency at PROGR, an art center and cultural hub in Bern, Switzerland. This residency will take place thanks to a grant from the National Regeneration Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, funded by the European Union.

www.untitled-art.eu
www.enovation.cz

2023/10

Anastasia Bogomolova is an artist and researcher. In their projects, Anastasia turns to the imitation of everyday rituals and studies mimicry as a theme, method and visual language. Their research also focuses on the flexible nature of memory, on difficult heritage, as well as on the depiction of traces. Anastasia is a winner of the Present Continuous 2021, a joint initiative of the V-A-C Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA); a winner of The Garage Museum's Grant Program (2017, 2018); a winner of The Credit Suisse and Cosmoscow Art Prize for Young Artists (2016). They are a participant of artist-in-residence programs in Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea, and Russia. Lives and works in Yekaterinburg, Ural, Russia.

anastasiabogomolova.com

The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2023/08

During the month of August, residency.ch hosts the guest artists of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2023

www.sommerakademie-paul-klee.ch/

2023/07-09

Jakup Ferri (1981, Prishtina, Kosovo, based in Prishtina and Amsterdam) is a contemporary artist and professor at Prishtina Art Academy and guest advisor at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He studied at Prishtina Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2006 he received a prestigious award Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft (The Future of Europe), Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig. In 2008 he received the Buning Brongers Award in Amsterdam and in 2003 the Muslim Mulliqi Prize and the Artists of Tomorrow Award.
He has been an artist-in-residence at numerous places, including the International Studio and Curatorial Program New York, Kultur Kontakt Austria. In addition to private collections, his work is also part of the collection of Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest. Ferri’s work has been shown extensively at international (solo and group) exhibitions in museums and galleries, festivals and biennials, including Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cetinje Biennale, Manifesta 14, Kunsthalle Fridericianum; De Appel Amsterdam; The National Gallery of Kosovo, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art, The Centre for Historical Re-enactments, Johannesburg, South Africa, The Horse Hospital, London, De Hallen Haarlem, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin…

2023/06

Ali Cabbar explores political and social issues in his work, employing symbols to provoke the viewer to search for what is hidden behind the obvious. In earlier works, he used his body extensively as a tool to express personal disquiets of being a prisoner, refugee and exile. Most of his recent works are long-term projects, focusing on significant socio-political events. He uses experimental methods and media, combining digital and conventional techniques.
Ali Cabbar was born in Istanbul, graduated from Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, jailed as a political prisoner during the coup d’etat of 1980, moved to Melbourne and then to Brussels where he still lives. He works in Istanbul and Brussels.
His 2010 show, Disquiet Shadow, at Yapi Kredi voices his personal reckoning with Turkey’s past politics. Ugly, exhibited in 2016 at Depo, offers a “graphical” look at Turkey’s political history through election posters and party logos. ELDORADO: A Wor{l}d Game project, shown at the Fine Art Museum of Split in 2019, questions the role of the artist in urban gentrification. MONSTER [ge.net.i.cal.ly.mod.i.fied], a 20-year-long project that was shown the same year at Adas art space, approaches GMO food as a contemporary Still Life genre. His public space project on endangered wildlife, I Shot the Last Rhino, was shown on the walls of Yanköse in 2020. At the beginning of 2021, he participated in NICC’s Ticker Tape project, in which his work titled System Error was shown in Brussels and Antwerp.

2023/06

Istanbul born, Brussels based freelance art reporter and book editor. She has been writing articles for Turkish publications on Brussels and Istanbul art scenes, exhibitions, Venice Biennale and Art Brussels. She also edited two books.
She studied Economics at Istanbul University, and Multiculturalism at RMIT University in Melbourne, where she lived for six years and published a weekly Turkish language newspaper. She moved to Brussels in 1995 and worked for the European edition of the The Wall Street Journal newspaper for 15 years as the art director of the Weekend Section. Afterwards, worked for the National Geographic Turkey magazine, translating articles as well as several books on photography, travel and food from English to Turkish.

2023/05

Jazgul Madazimova is an artist, primarily interested in social practice art and her main technique is installations. She uses the tools of art to work with the issues of women, migration and borders. Jazgul practices a collaborative and socially engaged approach integrating artists, spaces and communities. Jazgul is also a member of an art and research collective Davra and has participated as part of the collective’s exhibition at Documenta 15 hosted by Saodat Ismailova in 2022. Jazgul is based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Instagram: @madazimova

2023/05

An idiosyncratic specimen of globalization, I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, my father being North Korean and my mother being Russian. Having caught a glimpse of the ex-USSR, I have a nostalgic, conflicting perception of political and cultural systems. Devoid of a homeland, I focus my art on the themes of ethnical atomization, emptiness and nostalgia. Unable to fully assimilate into any one culture, I find myself as an outsider with an eclectic artistic taste. Art represents the act of seeking, assembling and immortalizing beauty. Through my artistic practice, I recreate the state of inspiration and emancipation, experienced during my childhood. My works strive to capture the ephemeral impressions. The concepts, which I explore in my work, include the globalization, surveillance, nostalgia, utopia and eroticism. Recently, I was involved in initiatives with the ICA and the Soho Revue in London, UK; Untitled Space and New York Art Expo in NYC, SCOPE Miami, the Pacific Design Center and the Other Art Fair in Los Angeles as well as TSE Art Destination and Esentai Gallery in Kazakhstan as well as the Nikolskaya Gallery in Moscow amongst other art collectives.

2023/03

Alexandra Mereuți and Sebastian Danciu are living and working in Romania. Their interests lie between the shape-shifting social space, embodied history, the intellectual’s position vis-à-vis society, and collective spaces, feelings and reactions. Both graduated from the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and are working together since 2019. Their research-based practice emerged while following a study mobility programme at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (France). Starting in Villeurbanne, part of the Lyon metropolitan area, they researched the different phases that the urban space has undergone, from a rural area, an industrial town in the 20th century, to a post-industrial residential neighbourhood still developing. In 2019 they were curators of the group show “New wave #1: When the center does not hold” at the Paintbrush Factory (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), and in 2021 they curated the exhibition “Projections For Future History: Recurrences In An Antiphonal Space” at B5Studio (Târgu Mureș, Romania).

2023/01

Lantian Xie makes images, objects, concepts, jazz bands, motorcycles, and parties. Previous exhibitions include 57th Venice Biennial, 11th Shanghai Biennial, 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennial, 14th Sharjah Biennial, 7th Yokohama Triennale.

2022/12

Roman Zakharov was born in Asyk-Ata settlement, South Kazakhstan in 1988. Lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Roman creates graphic works in the field of pseudo-calligraphy, dedicated to his family and exploring his historical roots. He choose to create a cross-language dictionary of the languages that have appeared in his life - Russian, Kazakh, English and Korean languages. In 'Shala-Korean with Roman' work series he makes research of self-identity in context of living in post-soviet country.

https://www.instagram.com/tovarishtovarisha
https://www.instagram.com/tovarishzakharov/

2022/12

The practice of Saule Dyusenbina (Almaty, Kazakhstan) is interesting for its organic dynamics, crossing several borderline states. The artist operates with various mediums - painting, graphics, animation, video, studying the objective world around her home, her body, her history and memory. She produces a study that leads her to the formation of an archetype and its implementation in the structure of the convergent culture of our time. In her latest works, she often uses the field of applied design - interior design, production of household items. Her works seem to be playing ping-pong with tactile and optical perception, either seizing familiar images and translating them into objects of thoughtful contemplation, or making these objects part of our home “shell”, returning them to the zone of tactility.

http://sauledyussenbina.com
https://www.instagram.com/saule_dyuss/
https://www.facebook.com/saule.dyussenbina/about

2022/11

Laura Kalauz (CH/AR) is an artist born in Buenos Aires, 1975.
Her practice takes place within different fields with diverse media. She has created performances, contests, installations, debates, texts and festivals.
Her work questions the actual state of things, and focuses on revisiting assumptions that govern behavior, shaping our way of thinking and doing. She is interested in the power of artistic practices to create reality and generate political imagination. She has studied Sciences of Communication at Buenos Aires University, Argentina and has a MA at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten–Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland.
She has collaborated with several artists: Krööt Juurak, Marina Belobrovaja, Martin Schick, Sofía Medici among others. Currentlly working on a new performance project POLITICAS, a futuristic dystopia, to be premiered in 2022.

laurakalauz.net/

The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2022/09-10

Olaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1991
Visual artist and writer, born in Olaria (suburb of Rio de Janeiro), from an African-brazilian family. Yhuri Cruz has a degree in Political Science (UNIRIO) and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Journalism (UERJ), his works promote intersections between his family's ethical and aesthetic heritage, decolonial criticism and privileged and transgressive spheres of the artistic field. He develops his practice based on textual and visual creations involving narrative innovations related to his family cosmogony (related to Umbanda), installation and performative propositions - which the artist calls scenes. His research dialogues with systems of power, institutional criticism, relationships of oppression, healing performances, subjective rescues and repressed or unresolved social violence. The artist uses aspects of collective and individual memory, understanding the category of memory linked to fright and intimate haunts, like ghosts that cross time and space and build canonical and/or dissident forms of subjectivities and sociability. His most recent plastic and performative productions tend to relate to monuments, staged fictions, performativity of words, afrodiasporic presences and resistances, memorials and sculptures in stone and bronze.

The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2022/07

Alla Akchurina, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1990, living in Tbilisi, Georgia
Multidisciplinary curator / art therapist / photographer
Studied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication (LUNN, Nizhny Novgorod), Documentary Photography (Rodchenko School, Moscow), MA in Counselling (Moscow/Manchester joint program)
Experience: * social worker (art) with children (Russia / Germany), * researcher at the concentration camps memorials (Germany); * translator (German / English / Russian); * deputy head of cultural section at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow (2014 – 2022); * now: independent multidisciplinary curator (visual arts and film festivals), art therapist, visual artist (photography / text / video)
As an art therapist and visual artist, Alla explores coping mechanisms of post-traumatic stress through art, works with grief and loss, memory and family identity.

2022/02

Pasha Cas is a world artist from Kazakhstan, uses public urban spaces for artistic interventions. In his works, he touches on social, political and environmental topics.
“For me, the main thing is an idea and a message that can be conveyed to the viewer through art, and the techniques I work with can be different: stencil, photography, video art, sculpture and sound art, performance or sketch. I experiment and collaborate with artists-photographers-musicians-cameramen to create new projects. Most of the time I travel around the world and implement projects in different parts of the world”.
He has created projects in Kazakhstan-Georgia-Germany-Russia-America-Azerbaijan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkey and Switzerland. Exhibitions: Manifesta10 Biennial Saint Petersburg 2014, Street art museum Saint Petersburg 2017, Museum of Now, Berlin 2019, Unblock art fair, Berlin 2021
Awards and nominations: Forbes Asia 30under30, Kuryokhin Prize in the nomination "Art in Public Space"

Interview by Adrian Dürrwang with Pasha Cas on www.adrianduerrwang.ch

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2022/02

Born in a small city named Semipalatinsk in Eastern Kazakhstan in 1992. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Fine art in Kazakh National Academy of Art where she was studying easel graphics. Print techniques such as etching, linocut, lithography became her passion and an academic base. After graduating she dig into digital art and has been making illustrations for different journals.
In recent years she came back to analog art experimenting with materials and techniques, trying herself in street art and city art interventions. She is traveling a lot and takes inspiration from various cultures and especially from nature. Now she creates her works in different cities making the drawings an organic part of the environment. The artist tries to emphasize our connection with nature, to reveal parallels between humans and the rest of the living world. Focusing on the beauty and finiteness of every life on Earth.

Interview by Adrian Dürrwang with Diana Scar on www.adrianduerrwang.ch

Instagram: @_dianascar_

2021/09-11

Nada Elkalaawy is an Egyptian visual artist, born in 1995. She graduated with an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2018) and received her BA from Kingston University (2016). She participated in MASS Alexandria’s independent study and studio program (2018 – 2019). Her personal history is her primary work material dealing with loss, traces of memories and fiction. The compositions combine elements taken from several photographs, intertwining multiple temporalities and localities with purely imaginary details. Even though painting sits at the core of her practice, she often incorporates drawing, animation and tapestry projects in conversation with the painterly medium. Painting to her is an ongoing investigation on how to tackle the topic of longing and the exploration of capturing accurate and false memories. The artistic process therefore helps provide nuanced reflections, both from an autobiographical and a fictional perspective. Her work has been exhibited in various shows and festivals in Alexandria, Cairo, London, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Milan and Guayaquil.

www.nadaelkalaawy.com

The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2021/07

Stass Shpanin is a visual artist whose work is focused on interpretations and fabrications of the past. His work ranges from monumental paintings showcasing European and American history to total installations commenting on institutional critique. Shpanin completed his MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. In 2012, he received a Fulbright Fellowship award to Russia, where he continued his visual research through work in archives and in his studio at the Russian Arts Academy. Shpanin’s artworks have been shown internationally, and venues include Smack Mellon Gallery in New York, Gridchinhall Gallery in Moscow, Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT, and Temple Contemporary in Philadelphia, among others.

https://www.shpanin.com/

2021/05

born 1961, 1981-89 studies of sculpture at the State Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. Longer working periods: 1988 in Nimes, 1989-90 + 1992 in New York City, 1996/97 and 1998/99 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
My works are very reduced and minimalist, they deal with colour and light, space and perception. Since 2002, I have been working mainly with acrylic glass. The transparency of the "sliding objects" creates superimpositions and always new, unexpected colour mixtures and colour spaces. In addition, I also make three-dimensional outdoor works, f.e., "Colour Boxes / Bee Boxes". At the same time, I work on prints, which, as "drawings", can in turn be the source of ideas for new three-dimensional works - see, for example, "Yellow Fields".

bettina-buerkle.jimdofree.com

2021/05

Klaus Illi, born 1953 in Stuttgart, Germany; 1982-85 State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart; 1985-88 University of the Arts (HdK), Berlin; 1988-90 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, N.Y., MFA in Sculpture.
Based on insights from physics that everything is rhythm and vibration, Illi began to set his art in motion in the early 1990s. Air became his central sculptural material. Since then, he has created kinetic-acoustic works on the issue of "breath". In addition to sonic aspects, the interconnected system and the commonality of breath suggest social thoughts, but also make one aware of one's own breathing. I the aera of Corona, George Floyd and the Anthropocene, the option of suffocation gets closer. With the thought of the first and last breath, existential is present. www.klaus-illi.de
Illi has been working with Bettina Bürkle on the "Plant Breath" project since 1999. The oversized organic forms sewn from balloon fabric move in slow rhythms and cycles. The poetry of the kinetic sculpture field emerges from the calm tiling of colours and shapes. Form and space complement each other symbiotically. Exterior and interior, envelope and airflow form an organic continuum of giving and taking breath. illi-buerkle.jimdofree.com

2021/02-04

Boris Shershenkov (b. 1990, Vladivostok, Russia) - sound artist, PhD (candidate of technical sciences) and musical instrument designer. Focusing on projects that develop new methodologies in technological and sound art, he investigates the relationship between human and technology combining modern techniques with media archaeological research. Boris is engaged in various activities in the field of experimental music and sound art as the author of media installations and sound performances and curator of concert programs, exhibitions and educational projects. As a musician, he is actively working in the areas of live electronics and electroacoustic improvisation, both solo and in collaboration with Russian and foreign musicians. His works and instruments were presented at numerous collective exhibitions, festivals and concerts of experimental and electronic music in Russia and abroad. Currently lives and works in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Photo credit: Ivan Chelovekov

https://shershenkov.com/

The residency of Boris Shershenkov is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2021/01

Born in Berlin in 1980 Stefanie Scheurell began her higher education after graduation in 2000 at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, where she studied painting under Prof. Gustav Kluge until 2005.
To expand her influences she also attended the 2003 semester at the University of Arts Berlin as a guest in the art class of Prof. Rebecca Horn. After her final thesis which was supervised by Prof. John Bock, she studied intermedial design at the Academy of Arts Stuttgart.
Her academic studies and projects abroad have taken her to New Zealand, Japan, Northern France and Switzerland. In New Zealand she explored the traditional Maori art of tattooing. On Okinawa she created several video works that deal with the peculiarities of the Ryukyu Islands.
Scheurell has held exhibits regularly in Germany and abroad. For example at the Maejima Art Center in Naha, Japan. In 2008 she had her first video presentation held in Mexico. 2016 Scheurell took part in the Photo Festival in Lodi, Mailand. Concepts and working models of her art were presented at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts and at the Kunsthalle Zurich.

www.stefaniescheurell.de

2020/11

Frida got into music through a delightful experiment on the power of joy, and has since found herself on a journey to discover the sound of her own soul. It was in 2014 that Frida launched her project TheGoodVibesExperiment, where she started her research on what she deeply believed was true:
. human potential is grander than anything we can imagine,
. it is our creative energy that can allow that inner genius to come out and express itself,
. and that being together in trust, joy, love and freedom - what she calls "high frequency being"- is where the energy flows best.
At that time, Frida wasn't making any music yet. She knew she wanted to test her theory on herself first, and on something she knew nothing about - for the freedom - but loved so passionately - for the joy, drive and desire,- so she decided to write a song. What happened next is a bit of a fairy tale with so many things to tell that it would be a little too much to tell here. One thing that can't be left unsaid though was the role of the beautiful people she met, their spectacular talent, the love they shared, and the resonance of everything they created together. It is that passion for high frequency collaborations - and all what they unlock - that got her here to Bern for this research residency. She's here to meet new musicians, write new songs with them, and then release all that goodness into the world.
Some of her music here: Frida.bandzoogle.com
Picture taken on the movie set of The Anger (dir. Maria Ivanova)
Photo credit: Wadih Daher

The residency of Frida is supported by Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2020/11

Maria Motyleva is an artist and a curator. She was born in Moscow and grew up in Northern Caucasus. Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts, specializing in bibliology and artist's book, then in 2016-2018 studied illustration and comics at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon and later attended the Textile Laboratory in Prostaya Schkola in Moscow. For several years she curated cultural and social projects in Moscow as well internationally and was exhibited in both Portugal and Russia. Now residing and working in Adygea, Northern Caucasus, learning local textile traditions, she is mostly concentrated on embroidery and textile as an artistic medium and as a social and cultural practice. In her work she repairs old or damaged pieces of clothes with embroidery, celebrating the damages and memory traces, turning the holes and dirt spots into pieces of art. The idea revolves around taking care of personal memories through the objects representing them in the physical world by the very slow, therapeutical and almost archaic practice of embroidery.

2020/10

Maria Hanl - born 1969 in Austria - studied art in Vienna and London. She works with different media and preferably uses fabrics that are flexible and easily malleable, garments, and cords, which she shapes into free linear constellations. Her own body gets more and visible in this arrangements. "Ultimately, she herself takes on the form of a line – abstracted, only seen from behind. The body becomes thus part of her world of things and addresses the complex human relationships and connections within a networked, globalized world – a situation between dependence and compulsion, communication and interaction, chaos and structure, that Hanl illustrates, also in an abstract manner, by thread graphics consisting of constellations of lines." (Petra Noll-Hammerstiel)

www.mariahanl.com

2020/09

Nicole Bianchet (D/US) was born 1975 in Los Angeles (USA) and grew up in the Black Forest in Germany. She lives in Berlin and Middelburg (NL).
From 1995 to 2002 she studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe with Karin Sander and Gustav Kluge. Bianchet did her master of arts with Gustav Kluge. Furthermore she is a classically trained singer and released three pop albums.
Bianchet usually shows large scale paintings on carved wood. Bianchet's so far largest museum installation was shown in 2019 at the museum of Kornwestheim (D) curated by Saskia Dams featuring a 2,40 x 34 meter large painting with sound installation, wishing machines, photographies and paper works.
Bianchet has internationally shown at reknown museums and and art fairs and is represented by the Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin and Galerie Haas AG in Zuerich (CH).

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2020/08

Born in the northern Norwegian city of Bodø in 1979. She graduated from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in 2014. Recent years she has been at a residency program in Atacama Chile, with the non-profit organization La Wayaka Current (2017), and has participated in exhibitions both in Norway and abroad. She was also selected as «Artist of the Month» in September 2019 by The Association of Norwegian Painters. She works mainly within the medium of painting and drawing, with focus on nature from different perspectives, like our place in it as humans and the autonomy of nature.

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2020/07

Jasper Walgrave was born in Belgium in 1974. He graduated in history, political sociology and development studies, then worked in the arts sector in Portugal, coordinating projects between the then Danças Na Cidade (now Alkantara) and partners in Mozambique, Cape Verde and Brazil.
From 2003 to 2006 Walgrave was project coordinator for the SA-Flemish project for Community Arts Centres, based at the South African Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) in Pretoria. In September 2007 he was appointed the Head of the Southern African Liaison Office for Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, which was based in Cape Town until 2012, when the Office moved to Johannesburg.
Walgrave then worked at the Head Office of Pro Helvetia in Zurich from June 2014 to May 2019. He was initially the head of liaison offices abroad, then later developed and managed Pro Helvetia’s new South America programme, called “Coincidencia”.

2020/03

Kata Tranker (1989, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest. She graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2012. Her sensitive focus of interest has long been on the human nature and the boundary between appearance and reality. Her socio-historical analysis - focusing on the symbiotic relationships - results in identity questions. The installations composed of variable drawings and objects are mostly narrative, but not giving the viewer a linear plot or interpretation. The artist creates fiction based spatial systems that raise questions for the viewer and offer room for interpretation. Accordingly, the artist's use of exhibition space is not merely a presentation of individual works but also weaves together complex stories that make each work and item an indispensable part within a larger whole.
Besides numerous collective and solo shows in Hungary and abroad, she has been participating at international artist residencies (K.A.I.R. Kosice, das wiesse haus Vienna, AIR Mino Japan). She is a member of the Studio of Young Artists Association (FKSE) and was awarded three times Gyula Derkovits Scholarship which is Hungary’s most important appreciation for young artists. Her works can be found in more Hungarian and international collections.

katatranker.com

2020/02

"Art as a tool that allows activating particular reflections on universally present concepts, regardless of the geographic point in which we find ourselves or the culture to which we belong. Conceptual strategies I use the symbolic properties of materials such as lightness and apparent fragility of silk, against the forcefulness and rotundity of titanium or steel. The transparency of the fabric against the opacity of the metal or the support. The superposition of transparent layers and the decomposition of flat images through three-dimensional supports."

www.pepasosa.com

2020/02

Tania García was born in Caracas, Venezuela, raised between Spain, Portugal and USA, currently lives and works in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). She has a Degree in Fine Arts, and a Master of Philosophy at La Laguna University, Tenerife. Her activity has been developed in two interconnected fields: her career as a visual artist, linking her work to performance art and installation; and her work in cultural management.
Her artistic research revolves around the constitution of the subject, the identity and the multiple elements that interfere in the reality with which each subject lives. Concepts such as territory, border, the real, the imaginary and the symbolic will be tied together in an interdisciplinary practice that leaves a mark, an outline, a video or an action, a result of indefinite forms, a willingness to explore towards a new collective conceptualization, intensely linked to the vagueness and meaninglessness of the narratives that revolve around migration and belonging.
Among its most outstanding shows are: ADA (Festival of actions, Oporto), 6 Cuerpos (1st International Performance Festival, Murcia), Action Art (October Center of Contemporary Culture, Valencia). Encuentro de Danza (Victoria Theater, Tenerife), PAO Festival (Performance Art Oslo, Oslo). Cuerpo a Cuerpo (5th Meeting of Performance, Music and Video, Las Palmas).

www.tania-garcia.com/

2019/12

Visual artist, architect and computational designer, Matteo Taramelli focuses his work on the creation of abstract videos, space installations and scenography that link geometrical composition with sound and performing arts. His artistic research is directly influenced by his interests in geometry and patterns, architecture and politics of space, generative design and bottom-up systems, perspectivity in vision and language. Born in Bergamo (Italy), he graduated at the Dessau Institute of Architecture in 2013 and received his bachelor degree in Science of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. He spent his academic research exploring the narrative power of speculative design in response to extreme environmental conditions and devastating neoliberal urban policies. During his studies, he also carried out research on 3D Augmented-Reality at the Architecture & Plan Department of Politecnico and worked as illustrator at Atlas publishing company. He is member of the artistic association Unplush and co-founded the curatorial collective Unplush Invites, both awarded with the Prairie Migroskulturprozent Grant 2018-20 and the June Johnson Dance Prize.

2019/09-12

Born in 1985 in Kazakhstan. In 2012–2014 studied in the educational programs in the FotoDepartament Foundation (St. Petersburg). Lives and works in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Anastasia is an artist, working with installations, photography and performative practices. Her projects are connected with studies of the flexible nature of memory and oblivion, boundaries of a documentary. She’s a winner for Garage Museum's Grant Program (2017, 2018) and the Credit Suisse and Cosmoscow Art Prize for Young Artists (2016). Nominee for The Sergey Kuryokhin Award (2017) and for Kandinsky Prize (2017). Her works were widely exhibited Russia, as well as in Phoenix, Cologne, Chicago etc.

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The residency of Anastasia Bogomolova is supported by Pro Helvetia Moscow www.prohelvetia.ch

2019/07

In 2006 graduated from a Professional College #1 in Perm with a diploma in Computer Graphics. Since 2008 has been living and working in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2015 graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Saint Petersburg State University, majoring in Production and Design of Animated Films and from «The School for Young Artist», PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Participated in group exhibitions in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Perm, Helsinki, New York, Kaliningrad. Participant of the artists group «North-7» in 2014-2015. The recipient of Garage's (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow) program in support of emerging Russian artists 2015-2016.

The winner of the Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artist (Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, 2018)

The residency of Asya Marakulina is supported by Credit Suisse and Cosmoscow

2019/04-07

Born in 1981 in Cutral Co, Argentina. She grew up in the Patagonia Region. Studies in Buenos Aires. One-month field research in the Brazilian Amazon. Variety of mediums, including sculpture, performance, sounds and installation. Residency at FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, Colombia. Would like to find some collaborative formats with other artists in situ. In collaboration with the swiss artist Sarina Scheideger

Photo: Carolina Pierri

In the Frame of the South America programme «COINCIDENCIA» of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch

2019/03-06

Sara Hamdy is a visual artist who born in Cairo-Egypt 1987. Graduated from faculty of fine arts oil painting department 2009. Hamdy had a special interest in sound as a subject and a medium; In her practice she tries to connect her whole cognition through visual-sound works. She always relates the visuals and sounds to focus on the lines between opposition, madness and the limitations of languages.

The residency of Sara Hamdy is supported by Pro Helvetia Cairo www.prohelvetia.ch

2019/02

Idaira del Castillo vive y trabaja en Tenerife. Ella es Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la universidad de La Laguna. Ha cursado un año con la beca Séneca en La Universidad de Pontevedra y tiene un Magister en Escenografía por La Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Su trabajo oscila entre el dibujo, la pintura, la instalación, la performance, el vídeo… con diferentes formatos, donde plasma la visión de las cosas que le suceden, que le llegan y le importan con una mirada crítica.
Habla de su imaginario personal y de cosas tangibles, de forma entretejida. Normalmente en grandes formatos, a veces en pequeñas en dimensiones, buscando un juego de escalas con las diferencias de tamaño de sus piezas. Dónde el fin es establecer un diálogo con el espectador, buscando el debate, la discusión, el cambio, el intercambio, la reacción, la respuesta.

2019/02

Raúl Artiles lives and works in Gran Canaria, Spain. He is a Fine Artist graduate from the Universidad de La Laguna and completed his studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunste of Braunschweig. He generally works with large formats presenting installations of papers in charcoal with which he aims to break down the 19th-century academic concept that makes drawings minor works that depend on other disciplines. He often resorts to the souvenir aesthetic as a possible representative strategy of the behaviour of the contemporary world. His works unfold in space in almost a monumental way, questioning the way we address images in the digital age. His imaginary landscapes constitute fleeing visions dominated by a catastrophic or an apocalyptic approach not without irony that suggest a metaphor of the current economic and political situation and at the same time hint at a possible solution and a new Renaissance.

www.raulartiles.com

2018/12

Mona Vatamanu (b. 1968) and Florin Tudor (b. 1974) have been working together since the year 2000 and are based in Bucuresti. Their works have been presented in different exhibitions, including the EVA Biennial (Limerick, 2016), the 10th Shanghai Biennial (2014), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), as well as the 5th Berlin Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2008).

www.monavatamanuflorintudor.ro

2018/11

Heather M. O'Brien and Jonathan Takahashi are artists and filmmakers based in Beirut, Lebanon. Their work attempts to create an alternative narrative to conflict imagery and is grounded in the possibility and failures in recording one's own history. Recent exhibitions include: where water touches land, Counterpath (Denver, Colorado, USA) and Windows of Little Tokyo (Japanese American Cultural Community Center, Los Angeles, California, USA). Heather and Jonathan are currently fellows with the Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2017 - 2019, working with the collective project BLOCC (Building Leverage Over Creative Capitalism) and Artistic Director Tirdad Zolghadr.

www.heathermobrien.com
www.sommerakademie-paul-klee.ch/

2018/10

Born in 1987 in Moscow. Lives in Moscow and Berlin. Ustina Yakovleva graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University (Graphics Faculty, 2009) and in the same year graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow. Her work has been exhibited in Russia and internationally. Ustina was resident in Gridchinhall residency, NCCA residency in Kronstadt, Zarya residency in Vladivostok. Shortlist of art prize for young artists STRABAG, Vienna, 2014. Works are in private collections in Russia, UK, France, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands.

2018/10

German Lavrovskii is a young artist based in Moscow, who works with digital installation. The artistic practices of German refer to philosophical ideas arising in relation to the boundaries of the anthropocentric picture of the world. Gender, physicality, sexuality in his works are diffused and reconstructed in the ephemeral digital space.Finding a specific plastic and an unstable temporary state, the characters from German's works reflect intuitions about possible models of new identities. Subjectivity is pulled out from a person and is distributed between threads and connections, in which desires, machine codes, neural networks, body parts, polygons and algorithms, visual effects and fragments of human memory participate. German finished British High School of Art and Design: 3 animation. Selected art exhibition: Designed by Cybrorg 2016, Kartateka 2017.

2018/08

1 - 30 August Residency.ch is hosting the guest artists of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2018

www.sommerakademie-paul-klee.ch/

2018/06

Born in Samara in 1980. Lives and works in Moscow. Vladimir Logutov graduated from the Samara Art School (faculty of painting, 1996- 2001) and the Samara Pedagogical University (faculty of fine arts and crafts, 1996-2001). In 2005 he completed an internship as a part of an independent artistic training in Stuttgart, Germany. Participated in numerous group shows in Russia and in the world, including the 1st and the 2d Moscow biennale of contemporary art, 4th triennale of contemporary art in Guangzhou, 54, 55 Venice Biennale,13th International Architecture Biennale. Laureate of the "INNOVATION Prize 2018" - Artist of the Year.
Artist’s works are both in private and museum collections, including collections of the The Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Stella Art Foundation (Moscow), FRAC Bretagne Museum (Brest, France) and others.

2018/06

Artem Filatov (1991) born and living in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Artem is working in the field of installation, sculpture and site-specific public art. Participant of 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014), parallel program of European Biennale of Contemporary Art "Manifesta" (2014). First personal exhibition in duet with Vladimir Chernyshev "Tabula" (2015) opened at Moscow Artwin Gallery. Artem is an organizer and curator of public art festival "New City: Ancient" (2014-2016) in Nizhny Novgorod, which is dedicated to artistic re-imagination of the problem of historical houses preservation. Curator of exhibition "Alike" (2016) at Futuro gallery, Nizhny Novgorod (2016) and curator of exhibition "Life of the Living" (2016) at NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod. Winner of Museum of contemporary art "Garage" Grant program for emerging artists (2016). Short listed in nomination “Curator of the year” at Innovation prize (2017), long listed in nomination "Young artist. Project of the year" at Kandinsky Prize (2015) and "Art in public space" at Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2014).

www.anvilrosenkreuz.ru

The residency of Artem Filatov is supported by Credit Suisse and Cosmoscow

2018/04

Milica Lazarevic (b.1988 in Halmstad, Sweden) is a visual artist who is mainly working with drawing and painting. She graduated at the Faculty of applied arts in Belgrade, Serbia, where she is currently working on her PhD project exploring microbial pigments and it’s use in visual art. Her subject matter revolves about human and nature guided by the most diverse states of mind and spirit, introducing observers into a suggestive dialogue. She is usually working with ordinary daily images, with a dreamlike background, questioning human relations from her surrounding and daily observations. Influenced by Nordic memoriesandsymbolic mixes with landscape or inhabited environment. Her work has been exhibited both internationally and nationally. Since 2014 she is teaching drawing and painting at the Faculty of Applied arts in Belgrade.

2018/02

Acaymo S. Cuesta (Gran Canaria, 1983) Licenciado en B.B.A.A por la Universidad de La Laguna y Máster en Producción Artística por la Universidad Politécnica Valencia. Ha expuesto su trabajo en espacios como Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Gran Canaria - España), Galería Fernando Pradilla (Madrid - España), Galería No Lugar (Quito - Ecuador), Centro Cultural Pérez de la Riva (Madrid - España), One Project en ArtMadrid’17 con la Galería La Isla (Madrid - España), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife - España), IX Bienal Internacional de Arte SIART (La Paz - Bolivia), Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme (Tenerife - España), Hardy Tree Gallery (Londres - Reino Unido), Espacio AB9 (Murcia- España), Laboratorio21 (Viareggio- Italia), o Galería de Arte U.L.PG.C. (Gran Canaria - España), entre otros.

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2018/02

Licenciada en Bellas Artes en 1992 por la Academia de Bellas Artes de Roma. Desde 1991 vive y trabaja entre Santa Cruz de Tenerife y Roma. Esta artista ha participado en más de una treintena de exposiciones colectivas en España, Belgica, Cuba y en las siguientes exposiciones:
Exposiciones individuales (selección)
2015 De Estraperlo Galería Artizar,La Laguna,Tenerife; 2014 Happy hours Sala de Arte Bronzo,La Laguna ,Tenerife; 2013 Souvenirs SAC Sala de Arte Contemporáneo del Gobierno de Canarias ,S/Cruz; 2011 open estudio #3 El Apartamento. S/C de Tenerife; 2010... nessun dorma Área60, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz; 2004 De mi urgo Galería Artizar, La Laguna,Tenerife; 1999 Ermita de Gran Poder Bajamar

2017/08

Elena Kasimova (b. 1986) is an artist and curator currently based in Izhevsk, Russia. She graduated in Civil Engineering at Budapest Technical University, later she attended the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in 2012-2015, studying Sociology of culture at Udmurt State University from 2016. She is working for Izhevsk Art-Residency, organizing exhibitions of local young artists and holding other visual art events.
Main curatorial projects are Festival of Street-Art «Izhevsk Intervention» (2013) and exhibition of young artists of Udmurt Republic «Voice of Izhevsk», special project of V Moscow International Biennale of Young Artists (2016).

2017/07

A Visual and Audio artist / interior designer, born on 1990, Graduated from the faculty of applied arts 2012. Lives and works in Cairo.
Her art work varies from Sound, Video, paintings, installations, performance and photography, recently working in art direction in short movies, and also working on the scenario of the first featured film. Interested in conceptual, surrealistic and symbolic Videos and films, also interested in ambient and electronic sounds.

www.nouransherif.com

2017/07

An Egyptian video artist & Filmmaker born in 1985, started to be interested in Photography when he was 22 years old, his work is influenced by Abstract, Surreal & Conceptual Art.
His interest turned gradually to filmmaking & video art to express his thoughts in a more accurate way. As a Director & Video Editor, Muhammad seeks creative approaches for telling the story and never giving up to reach the perfection.
Filmography: Dayra (2011) – Short film / Family Affairs (2011) - Short film / Blink (2012) – Video Art / Home (2013) – Video Art / The Pine Tree (2015) – Short Experimental / It’s happening everyday (2016-2017) On going short film

2017/04

Katarzyna Sobucka is a cultural producer, curator and founder of Arts Territory, a London based non-profit arts organization. Recent projects include: Hunger Is/Isn’t an Object with Karolina Brzuzan Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2016; Myth, Artisterium 2015; Foreignness of Sound, ICA, London, Café OTO and SOAS, 2014 and Non-Static Depiction, residencies and exhibition series, 2013. Katarzyna also curates experimental music for the JEMP festival she initiated in 2012. She is currently working on a commission-based project, The Illusion of Return. Katarzyna holds a BA(Hons) in Art History from Goldsmiths College and an MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central St Martin’s.

www.artsterritory.org

2017/02-03

Née en 1985 à Pithiviers, France. Vit et travaille à Bruxelles, Belgique. Diplômée de l'Ecole d'Arts et Techniques du Paysage, Ecole Du Breuil, Paris. Diplômée de la Chambre Syndicale des Fleuristes de Paris. A étudié la céramique à l'Ecole des Arts Visuels La Cambre, Bruxelles. Etudie la céramique à l'Ecole d'Art d'Uccle, Belgique.

2017/01

Anna Tolkacheva is Russian media-artist, researcher, curator and poet. She explores new ways for creating text and accessing it through the new media, non-standard interfaces and controllers. Anna creates art-works which can be attributed to the emerging field of the mediapoetry. She works in experimental video, interactive installations and text techniques. Anna born at 1985 in Gorky, USSR. She had a master degree in Computer Science (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 2011) and have worked as a senior programmer and researcher in computational linguistic field. Since 2012 Anna studies new media art in Rodchenko Art School. She is a co-organizer of publishing house "Red Swallow". Anna's works participated in a big number of exhibitions, screenings and festivals inside and outside of Russia. She got Gran Prix in International Extra Short Film Festival 2014, VideoPoetry Film Festival "The Fifth Leg" (2012, 2016). At 2013-2014 she got Google Award for research on the project "Revolutionary events prediction by social media".

2017/01

born 1989 (Baikonur/USSR), study in The Rodchenko Art School of Photography and Multimedia, works and lives in Moscow
Aleksandra works in different medium with theme of site-specific and social media. It's «ne-mesta» (non places) - appropriation urban object, she changing object assignment. For example «No madison square garden». In another project we can find out inside history of political trolling in Russia. In work «God's view» artist works with medium - google maps, panorams and navigation. In residency artistaround.ch Aleksandra hopes to do the work in the mediums deeper and use VR medium. Now area of interest of artist also include work with the practice of modern urban folklore and study patterns of sound inside that.

2016/12

Boris Lukic (b.1985 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina) is an artist living in Novi Sad, Serbia. He graduated and got his MA degree from the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts.
Boris Lukic is a visual artist who realized his works in many different media. Currently, its involvement is most concentrated on painting. In his work he deals with the consideration of the importance of visual representations for modern man and the forms in which this shape of appearance occurs. This method gives him an opportunity in which modern visual world and inherited traditions can rethink and to offer new perspectives on the world in which we live.

2016/10

born 1978 (Poland), studied in Hamburg, works and lives in Hamburg.
The art of Magda Krawcewicz presents an increasing number of works depicting figural forms. Yet this does not occur in the sense of a new naturalism; it is rather to be understood as an essential part of dissolution and fragmentation. She is fascinated by the realm which appears through the tension hovering between "whole" and "dissolved" bodies, thereby describing the space which surrounds this body. (..) In her paintings and sculptures, Magda Krawcewicz' succeeds at providing us with more than just images. Embracing her works, we begin to understand her art as reflection - as a mirror of our own soul and diversity. (Rik Reinking)

www.seemagda.com

2016/09

Georgia Kotretsos is an Athens-based artist and researcher. With her work, she critiques the conformity of seeing by studying, proposing and practicing liberating and anarchic approaches of looking at art in an effort to support that seeing is site-specific and spectatorial emancipation the source of our art knowledge. Through her research-based practice, she encourages speculative approaches on how knowledge is and/or could be produced.

www.georgiakotretsos.com

www.scribd.com/Georgia_Kotretsos

2016/08

We are working as duo since we have met in a painting studio while studying at the University of Ostrava. Common interest in examinating the medium of painting as well as a opinion proximity, lead us into intense forms of cooperation. Today our work is focused on complex units, in which one of the important components is often sound. We are dealing with terms such as time, surface, repetition, deepness of image. We work with question of reduction of components and given space and its character. Our aim is to build an specific enviroment while focused on ones position inside the installation.

www.zentkova-grybos.com

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The residency of Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková is organized by Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

2016/07 (Bucharest)

Daniela Palimariu (b. 1986, Iasi) currently lives in Bucharest, Romania. In the last few years, her art practice has evolved towards public/private social events and livable objects and installations that understate the ambiguity of human relations, the need for personal space, play and daily subversions. She presented various works at / sandwich /, tranzit.ro/ Bucharest and Iasi, Ivan Gallery, MNAC, Salonul de Proiecte and Platforma Space (Bucharest), MAGMA (St. George), R.E.M.X. (Arad) Intermediae (Madrid, ES), CAZ (Penzance, UK), and was an artist in residence at The Model (IRL), Nida Art Colony (LT) and EstNordEst (Quebec, CA). In 2016, together with other artists, she opened / sandwich /, an atypical artspace in Bucharest.

www.danielapalimariu.ro

2016/07 (Bucharest)

RALUCA POPA (b. 1979) studied at Byam Shaw School of Art / Central Saint Martins (London) and University of Art and Design (Cluj). She lives and works in Bucharest. Recent exhibitions: South by Southeast. A Further Surface, Guangdong Times Museum, (CN); Critical Moments, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (CH); Esthetics of Learning, Printmaking Gallery, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (US); Two Titles, Rumänska Kulturinstitutet, Stockholm (SE), solo show; Turning Something Plain into a Circle, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (RO), solo show; Mapping Bucharest: Art, Memory, and Revolution 1916–2016: An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna Biennale; Une autre cité, Tranzit Bucharest (RO); Other Rooms, Galeria Plan B, Cluj (2015); Dispositions in Time and Space, MNAC, Bucharest (2014); And Yet There Was Art!, Leopold Museum, Vienna (2014); Dear Money, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest/Viennafair (2013)

www.ralucapopa.ro

2016/04 (Milano)

Giancarlo Norese is an Italian artist, one of the initiators and the editor of publications of the Progetto Oreste during the Nineties, a network which organized several common initiatives as residency programs, meetings, artists' networks, that was invited by Harald Szeemann at the Venice Biennale in 1999. His work has been also exhibited in such venues as Villa Medicis in Rome, the P.S.1 and Performa 07 in New York, Galerija Škuc in Ljubljana, Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tent in Rotterdam, Red Gate in Beijing, MAMM in Moscow, Platforma in Bucharest, ASU Art Museum in Phoenix, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Giancarlo has been widely involved in many collaborative projects including experimental education (Free Home University), artists' books (a certain number of books.), unusual actions (lu cafausu), artist-run spaces (kunsthalle novi), and the setting up of a foundation (Lac o Le Mon).

www.norese.tk

2016/03 (Venice)

Pamela Breda (1982) received her MA in Visual Arts from IUAV University, Italy and she was visiting student at Essex University, Colchester Institute, UK. Her work has been exhibited in international venues in London, Santander, Madrid, Salzburg, Trondheim, and in institutions such as Karlsruhe Kunsthalle, Fondation Francois Schneider, Fondation Botin, Fondation Bevilacqua La Masa and Venice Architecture Biennal, Italian Pavillion. Her main area of research is focused on cultural visual tropes and traditions, on the contingency of the artistic process and on its multiple outcomes. She analyzes western imaginaries connected with culturally and socially-engaged contexts of production and reception. Starting from the analysis on the relationship between powers and knowledge and between artwork and the narrative fiction implied in it, she researches the visual-cognitive values ascribed to the contemporary image exploited as a narration.

2016/03 (Bergamo)

Sara Benaglia (1983) is an artist. She is graduated in Theory and Techniques of Contemporary Arts at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and specialized in Visual Arts at the Brera Academy, in Milan. In recent years her work has participated in exhibition projects in Italy, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea. Sara investigates human behavior and the social conditioning brought about by verbal language. She mainly works with photography and performance, tools with which she stages hypotheses of beliefs, usually supplanted by more structured life/economic theories. She lives and works in Bergamo.

Flóra Gadó (1989) is a freelance curator and Ph.D. student based in Budapest. She graduated in 2015 from Eötvös Loránd University with an MA in Art Theory. Currently, she is enrolled in the faculty’s Ph.D. program in Filmmedia and cultural theory. Her research topic is the question of artistic reenactments
in CentralEastern Europe. She works as a freelance curator and has taken part in several art projects, for example the OFFBiennale Budapest in spring 2015 or the Private Nationalism project in fall 2015. She has also curated numerous exhibitions, for example at the Studio Gallery and ChimeraProject Gallery (Budapest), also at the Off Photofestival (Bratislava). She contributes critiques and reviews to several online and offline magazines and she is a board member of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association.
She lives and works in Budapest.

program: Chimera Project Budapest

2016/02 (Budapest)

Áron KútvölgyiSzabó (1985) graduated in 2013 at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Art and Music. Since then he participated in several group shows, for example at the Studio Gallery (Mindsets), the OFFBiennale Budapest (Recollection) or at the Positions Art Fair in Berlin. In fall 2015 he took part in the Kunststiftung BadenWürttemberg’s residency program in Stuttgart and he was awarded the Derkovits Gyula prize. KútvölgyiSzabó’s works are dealing with the structures of human thinking, cognitive processes and mental representations. He is represented by ChimeraProject Gallery and he is a board member of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association. Currently he is working on his next solo exhibition which would take place in 2016 at Plusminusnula Gallery, Zilina (Slovakia). He lives and works in Budapest.

www.aronkutvolgyiszabo.com

program: Chimera Project Budapest

2016/01 (Vienna / Saint Petersburg)

Anna Vidyaykina (born 1989) comes from Saint Petersburg, Russia, and lives currently in Austria. 2008 - 2015 she has studied painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and focused on illustration during her exchange year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. In an image Anna tries to follow and let in the movement that in her eyes pervades everything. As a departure point may serve either a verbal image or a natural sight which then seek form in drawing, painting, illustration or animation and recently also live sand drawing and painting performances at musical festivals and concerts (2015 Yury Bashmet festival in Veneto, Italy and 2014 Podium Chamber Music Festival in Mödling, Austria). 2012 her short animated film "folia" has been distinguished at the Black & White Festival in Porto and the New Vision Festival in Kiev. Up to now Anna has illustrated three children's books for Austrian and Italian publishers. 2014 she has won the 1st prize at the International Illustration Competition "Notte di fiaba" in Sarmede, Italy.

Photo: Andrej Grilc

2015/12 (Paris / New York)

Adrianna Glaviano (1989) grew up in New York City and is now based in Paris, France. She works as a freelance photographer, shooting commissions for magazines and other clients, along the lines of lifestyle, portraits and still life. Alongside this she develops personal creative projects using photography and film as a medium. These projects range from documentation of what she finds around her in every day life and travels, to abstract still lifes she creates using different materials - always using film and a wide range of cameras to create different effects.

www.adriannaglaviano.com

2015/11 (Kyrgyzstan)

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2015/10 (Bratislava)

Geboren: 1957 in Bratislava, Slowakei Studium: an der Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst (heute MOME) in Budapest, Ungarn Themenkreise der Arbeit: orientieren sich in der epistemologischen Ebene, in den strukturalistischen Positionen, sowie in den Fragen um die Sprache und die Sprachphilosophie. Erweiternde Disziplinen: Design Ausdruckseinheiten: Objekt, Installation (meistens ephemere), Photografie, Video, Zeichnung.

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2015/09

Residency.ch is hosting the guest artists of the Musikfestival Bern. Ensemble This | Ensemble That: Brian Archinal, Victor Barceló, Baschi Pfefferli and Miguel Ángel García Martín

www.musikfestivalbern.ch

2015/08 (Moscow)

Daria grew up in New York, attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, majoring in Photography & Cultural Study. Her style reincarnated to Europe. Widely associated with performance in embezzling elements of popart & modern-day utopia, she works with various media including photography, performance & costumes. Works have been featured in various exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Moscow, London & other capitals across the major Earthly plates. Her current studio in Berlin accomidates many diverse projects..

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2015/07 (London)

Said Adrus was born in Kampala, ‘British East Africa’ of Indian parents from Gujarat. Displaced to Switzerland in early 1970’s, his formative years were spent near Berne where his family still live. As an International Artist, for the past 25 years Said has worked on numerous projects in Europe, New York and in Mumbai. In 2009 Said was resident artist at Balfron Tower in East London facilitated by Bow Arts. In 2013 he was invited to show at the 2nd International Istanbul Triennale in Turkey.
Currently showing in Boden at Havremagasinet, Sweden as part of the No Entry exhibition, until end of September 2015.

www.saidadrus.com

2015/06 (Milan)

Alessandro Di Pietro (Messina, 1987) lives and works in Milan as a visual artist. His artistic practice is focused on the process of normalization and deviation from the standard, in material and linguistic terms. Main solo show: La table basse, FPAC Bad New Business (2014, Milano) curated by Simone Frangi. Main collective shows: HPSCHD 1969-2015, curated by Xing, MAMBO - Museo Arte Moderna Bologna (2015, Bologna); Glitch. Interferenze tra Arte e Cinema, curated by Davide Giannella, PAC – Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (2014, Milano); Zodiaco, curated by Davide Bertocchi, CAR drde (2014, Bologna); Primavera 2, curated by Valentine Meyer, CNEAI – Centre National Édition Art Image (2013, Chatou); On File, Platforma Space – MNAC Annex (2013, Bucharest); Constructional System, curated by Simone Frangi, VIR – Viafarini in Residence (2012, Milan). Selected editorial projects: 24ØØ, YES I'M WRITING A BOOK ( Milan, 2015 ); OEI Magazine #65 POSTKONST (Stockholm, 2014); New Observation #130 ( New York, 2014) and Boîte #12 ( Milan, 2014 ).

Photo courtesy: Andrea Piunti Studio

2015/05 (Antwerp/Bordeaux)

Kris Vleeschouwer makes interactive installations and sculptures in which, via means of high-tech and low-tech, a junction is formed between knowledge and skepticism, relativism and absurdity. Vleeschouwer’s art work involves a multiplicity of actions related to coincidence, chance, threat and terrorism. These themes are evoked by automatic and computer driven installations that are programmed to act randomly, ensuring that the spectator is physically and mentally exposed to the interventions. The actions depend on random events, chance, luck or trivial occurrences as for example a spectator who walks by or a fish swimming before a sensor. Vleeschouwer exhibited his work in Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Arco Project Room in Madrid , the Museum Quartier in Vienna and Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf. His work is presented by Annie Gentils Gallery in Antwerp. From 2005 onwards he collaborates with Arteconomy which is an organization that links artists with companies to develop work together. Since 2008 he is lecturer at the department Fine Arts at the Leuven University College of Art, faculty Brussels. Towards the end of his residence he will have an exhibition at Grand Palais Bern.

www.anniegentilsgallery.com

2015/05 (Berlin)

Andora ist der wohl bekannteste und einflussreichste deutsche Pop-Art Künstler. Er wurde am 7. Juni 1958 in Berlin geboren, wo er - nach Stationen in New York, Moskau etc. - mittlerweile auch wieder lebt und arbeitet. Zu den zahlreichen Höhepunkten in seiner Karriere zählt die Bemalung einer russischen Proton-Rakete, die anschließend ins All geschossen wurde. Damit ist er der weltweit einzige Künstler, der Kunstgeschichte im Weltall schrieb. andora gilt als Mitbegründer der europäischen Pop-Art Kultur und hat mit seinen Kunstwerken - u.a. bestehend aus bemalten Dollar-Scheinen - Weltruhm erlangt.

www.andora-art.com

2015/02 (Argentina)

Maricel Alvarez (Buenos Aires) began her work in the artistic fields over 20 years ago, with studies mostly framed within literature (Buenos Aires University) acting and contemporary dance. She studied with renowned teachers in Argentina and abroad such as Laura Yusem, Ana Frenkel, Mike Matzke (She She Pop) and Juan Cruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola (Sasha Waltz & Guests), among others. She is a prestigious cinema and theatre actress, director and choreographer.

The residency of Maricel Alvarez is organized and sponsored by Konzert Theater Bern

Portrait of Maricel Alvarez by Sebastián Arpesella

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2015/02 (Argentina)

Emilio García Wehbi was born in Buenos Aires in 1964. He is an interdisciplinary artist working in the crossover of different scenic languages. Since 1989 -year in which he founds El Periférico de Objetos, a paradigmatic group in the experimental and independent Argentinean scene- up to these days, he has become a prominent theatre director, régissuer, performer, visual artist and teacher. His theatre productions, operas, installations and urban interventions have been presented in the most relevant venues, festivals and cities in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Australia and Japan. His poetics confronts with the established aesthetic categories creating an hybrid form that does not adjust to any specific definition. His formal quest tries to establish a dialectic with the spectator, considering audiences an active part of the work. His formal strategies include concepts such as obscene (that that is off the scene), crisis, accident, provocation, instability, extraordinary (that that is off the established order), memory, death and violence. His artistic production is a space where different points of view converge.

The residency of Emilio García Wehbi is organized and sponsored by Konzert Theater Bern

Portrait of Emilio García Wehbi by Nora Lezano

www.emiliogarciawehbi.com.ar

2015/01 (Italy)

Alessio Delfino, Italian artist and French by adoption (born in Savona, Italy on March 5, 1976), lives in Albisola and works in Savona and Milan. He approached photography at a very young age, acquiring experience in the dark room, through chemistry studies and by associating with artists. With the exponents of artistic photography he created his first works which would develop into various photographic series starting with his first personal exhibition in Genoa that soon launched him into the Italian scene. This helped kick off a prolific international career for which the most important milestones include recent personal shows in New York, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Seoul. Alessio Delfino does not represent the body in its completeness, but reveals it as it becomes movement, trace, oneiric memory, desire and a journey of acquisition and knowledge (Viana Conti).

2014/11 (Bratislava, Slovakia)

These days I am finishing my doctoral studies in which I focus on a diary and its forms in art. The investigation into the common private life is also the main concern of my art work. I visualize “everydayness”, fear of death, a loss of a close person or fear as such. Me and my closest relatives are the central figures of my video installations. Lately I have been working on a new topic – nightlife and clubbing, which is also a part of my PhD thesis. In the privacy of my apartment I organize after parties where with the help of the invited we create new pieces of art. My works have been shown at the exhibitions in Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Czech Republik, and of course Slovakia where i come from.

www.peterbarenyi.sk

program: Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru
support: Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic

2014/11 (Prague)

*Lučenec, Slovakia. The recent work of Mira Gáberová, a laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award 2012, focuses on an analysis and possibilities of expression of more ephemeral artistic forms. In her recent works she either addresses the theme of everyday banal situations present in her personal and family life or investigates the place of an individual and his being in contemporary world, often implying autobiographical features. In a more specific way, Mira Gáberová deals with a nature of social interaction, the role of a common experience and mutual interaction of participants in the process and for the sake of creating the final artwork. (Katarína Slaninová)

www.miragaberova.com

program: Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru
support: Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic

2014/10 (Budapest, Hungary)

Born 1986 in Lucenec, Slovakia. Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. 2007 - 2012 - Hungarian University of Fina Art (MKE), Budapest. Master of Fine Art in Printmaking 2010 - Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK, Painting and printmaking. Selected Exhibitons: 2014: XXVI. Miskolc Graphic Triennal, Miskolci Galéria, Miskolc, Hungary; The Future Is Today!, ICA-D, Dunaújváros, Hungary; derkó.pécsi.2014, Kunsthalle, Budapest; Enter/ing - New members of FKSE, FKSE, Budapest. 2013: II.st International Biennal of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Eszterházy Palota, Győr, Hungary; Fingerprints, Chimera-Project, Budapest; Derkovits Now, Kunsthalle, Budapest; 2012: Fresh 2012 Empathy/Manipulation, Kogart Gallery, Budapest; Graphic Open 2012, MKE, Budapest; Best of Diploma 2012, MKE, Budapest; 2011: XXV. Miskolc Graphic Triennal, Miskloci Galéria, Miskolc, Hungary; I.st International Biennal of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Győr, Győr, Hungary; 2010: 42th International Art Colony Győr, Győr, Győr, Hungary; I.st Szekler's Graphic Biennal, Saint George, Saint George, Romania.

www.works.io/gabor-koos

program: Chimera Project Budapest

2014/09

1 - 21 September Residency.ch is hosting guest artists of the Biennale Bern

www.biennale-bern.ch

2014/07-08 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Nikolaj Recke b. 1969, Royale Danish Academy of fine art Copenhagen 1989-95 “Emotional conceptualism” has been a landmark in Recke’s work from the beginning. Where much conceptual art downplayed the personal dimension, Recke invests his subjectivity (as an artist and a person) in the encounters with the works. Not to return to narcissistic self-reflection but to open these works to levels of emotional experience that they have traditionally been dissociated from, and expand their intellectual and formal horizons even further with aesthetics involving self-irony, wit, politics consciousness and a romantic sense of beauty. Work with Stalke Gallery in Denmark & Thomas Rehbein Gallerie in Cologne. Exhibited in Kunstpanorama (Lucern), ICC Museum (Tokyo), Tamayo Museum (Mexico), ZKM (Karlsruhe) & Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk).

www.nikolajrecke.dk

2014/05-06 (Istanbul, Turkey)

1986, born in Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. 2013-2014, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon ( MA) / 2011-, Marmara University, Institute of Fine Arts, Division of Painting (MA) / 2005-2009, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Art Education, Department of Photography (BA). Selected Exhibitions: 2013, 'Untitled (Milk)' Performance, IPA Platform for Young Performance Artists Istanbul 2013, Salt Galata 2013, 'Yeni Algı- Beden ve Sınırlar '/ 'New Perceptions- Body and Boundaries' Mixer, İstanbul, Türkiye / 2013, 'Bedensel Sınırlar'/ 'Bodily Limits' Sibel Kocakaya ve Christelle Familiari, Şekerbank ‘Açıkekran’ New Media Arts Gallery, İstanbul, Türkiye 2013, 'Sınırlar Yörüngeler 13 '/'Borders Orbits', Siemens Arts, İstanbul, Türkiye 2013, 'Müstakil Adımlar' , Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition,İstanbul, Türkiye 2012, İkametgah Kadıköy, Hush Gallery, İstanbul, Türkiye 2011, 1. İstanbul Yaz Sergisi/ 1. Istanbul Summer Exhibition Antrepo 5- Sanat Limanı, İstanbul, Türkiye 2009, Desen Sergisi, Enka Dr. Clinton Vickers Art Gallery, İstanbul, Türkiye 2007, Desen Sergisi, Maltepe University, İstanbul, Türkiye

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2014/04-06 (Cape Town, South Africa)

nomThunzi Mashalaba (b. 1979) South African artist currently based Cape Town. Mashalaba’s artistic concerns in most of her work revolves around ideas of exploring more in to her personal stories thus often visually transferring her diary on to large scale works. With a biographical element the work alludes to story boarding and sketch booking yet often carried out in traditional means of oil painting , print making and drawings so far. The narration of the work is intended to go beyond its original basis to unpredictable shaping of something simultaneously a present and past/ personal and otherwise.

The residency of nomThunzi Mashalaba is organized and sponsored by www.prohelvetia.ch

2014/04-05 (New York, USA)

Matt Cianfrani is a media artist from New York. He has an MFA from Hunter College and has studied at The University of Pennsylvania and at Universität der Künste, Berlin.

2014/03 (Shanghai, China)

Hu Wei was born in Nov.1972 in Shanghai. 1991-1998 Art Education Department of East China Normal University, BA / MA; 1999-2002 Chinese Language & Literature Department, East China Normal University, PH.D; Since 1998 he has been working at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. He is associate Prof. at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University and member of China Artists Association. From July 2008 to June 2009, he studied art history as visiting scholar at the Institute of Art History, University Bern. His main artistic exhibitions: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 1998; Fan Guzi Gallery, Shanghai, 2000; Sanjo Gion Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2006; Espace Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2007; 77 Gallery, Tokyo, 2008; Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, 2009; Galerie Huit, Hongkong, 2011; Art Fair Tokyo 2012; Espace Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2012; Espace Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2012; Konfuzius Institut an der University Hamburg, Germany, 2012

www.huweiart.com/

2014/01 (Melbourne, Australia)

Maree Clarke is a Mutti Mutti, Wemba Wemba and Yorta Yorta woman from Victoria who works as a multi-disciplinary artist and curator of Aboriginal art. She works across a number of mediums including painting, mosaic, photography, jewellery and sculpture.

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2013/12 - 2014/01 (München/D)

Born in 1983 in Ingolstadt, Germany. 2003-04 History of Arts and Theatre, Film and Media Studies in Vienna, Austria 2004- 2011 Stage and Costume Design and Painting at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany; 2006-2007 Scholarship Academy of Fine Arts Cracow, Poland; 2007-2008 Scholarship Academy of Fine Arts Castilla La Mancha, Spain; 2011 Diploma Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany. Anna Schoelss lives and works in Munich, Germany. Coming from a deep examination with abstract color painting Anna Schoelss transfers these aspects into space objects, large-sized paintings and scenographic installations. She has a free and experimental approach to painting and space and is collaborating with contemporary musicians and dancers. The intention of her work is to focus the visual aspect of human perception and to reflect it as long as an essential space appears which can be experienced intuitively.

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2013/10 (Slovakia)

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The residency of Martin Kochan is organized by Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

2013/10 (Slovakia)

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The residency of Veronika Sramatyovan is organized by Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

2013/07-08 (South Africa)

Nina Barnett and Robyn Nesbitt are South African collaborating artists, working together since 2006. Their work is based on a history of dialogues with each other, and with the environments in which they work, separately and together. Their current research examines the concept of an island - as a physical and manifested place to inhabit. Their collaborative work has been exhibited at David Krut Gallery, New York; the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, Texas; Galleri 3, 14 Bergen, Norway; the Johannesburg Art Gallery; The Parking Gallery, Johannesburg and the Spier Art Collection, Cape Town among others.

www.coexistent.net

The residency of Nina Barnett and Robyn Nesbitt is organized and sponsored bywww.prohelvetia.ch

2013/06

Sibylle Hofter is a Berlin based visual artist exploring film, text, site-specific sculpture, installation in public space, and photography. She is also a Curator of various projects, and co-founder of Büro Schwimmer, and initiator of Schwimmer Image Agency (under construction). Her working process usually includes extensive research on extra-cultural fields.

www.hofter.de

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www.buero-schwimmer.de

2013/03

This unobtrusive sense of details ensures Arno Nollen's work never feels insensitive or indiscriminate. Nollen makes his photographs in series and the works exhibited here explore vulnerability: the portraits of the old and young, exposed and photographed so close and intimately that their eyes and expressions cannot be hidden or diguised, make for a stark study in vulnerability. His use of repetition, showing multiple images from a shoot, emphasises both similarities and differences: how slight changes in expression or posture can alter our reading. And, whether it is fascination, lust, disapproval, disquiet, this repetition serves to reinforce our response.

www.arnonollen.com/

2012/09

Die Biennale Bern ist ein spartenübergreifendes Festival, in dessen Zentrum das zeitgenössische Kunstschaffen steht. Veranstaltet wird das Festival von zahlreichen Kulturinstitutionen der Stadt Bern - mit dem Ziel, die lokalen Veranstalter mit regionalen, nationalen und internationalen Kunstschaffenden zusammenzuführen. Verschiedene Kunstschaffende wurden eingeladen, ein Projekt zum diesjährigen Festivalthema KAPITAL zu realisieren – u.a. die bildende Künstlerin Silke Wagner sowie die Theaterschaffende Judith Wilske. Ihre Werke werden bereits vor sowie während des Festivals im öffentlichen Raum in Bern präsent sein.

www.biennale-bern.ch

2012/08

*1972 in Bad Kötzting, Germany. Lives and works in Burghausen. 1995–2002 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts/Brussels, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts/Paris. She works in different media as drawing, photographie or sculpture. "My work is all about contents and their shape. To make both visible is the purpose of my objects. They are created for chosen individuals or rooms and therefore fit that particular body like a second skin. These covers become the new surface disclosing emotions, information and intimate details. So weakness and vulnerability are being revealed."

www.martina-salzberger.de

2012/07 (Paris)

*1978 in Thionville, France. Lives and works in Paris since 2011, of return of an exil in Italy during 8 years. 1997-2002 Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg – Master of Fine Arts. My aesthetic research is based on the phyisical and abstract experiment of the Otherness. I transfigurate the intimate memory by alteration and by extension, of the material and the thought. To build a Memorial of images and forms, made by flesh and by words.

www.atelierfindart.fr/Daphne_GENTIT/

2012/06

* 12.05.1971 in Berlin, 1993-1998 Hochschule der Künste Berlin, University of the West of England faculty of art and design Bristol, Central St. Martins school of art and design London. Lives and works since 2000 in Groningen/NL. "(..) zur zeit zeichne ich auf dem boden meines werkraums. mit verschiedenen rotstiften werden sitzend oder liegend kreise auf der achtfach geweißten fläche gezogen. Es sind individuelle blasen, geschlossene systeme, die zusammenkommend 'angeschnittenen' schaum ergeben. Eine art organische wachserei. ganz anders als die grauen bleistiftstriche an der wand, die jeweils eine linie mit vertikaler ausrichtung beschreiben. Diese strukturen verstehe ich mehr als schrift."

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2012/05 (Seattle USA)

*Vancouver, Washington. Lives and works in Seattle. 1999 Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, 2001 Fulbright Scholarship to Germany. Trained as a painter, Margie Livingston started in 2008 pouring, layering, cutting, and assembling paint to build hybrid objects that shift between painting and sculpture. Many of her paint objects are simulacra of natural forms, such as objects made from ribbons of paint wrapped into rocklike shapes, then halved to reveal layers like those of a geode. Others sketch an existing trajectory from nature to culture, such as sheets of paint rolled into ten-foot “logs” and then milled into planks to evoke the common building materials, or scraps of acrylic “mill ends” formed into sheets to replicate waferboard.

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2012/04 (Tokyo)

*1982 in Hyogo, Japan. 2004 graduate from Osaka University of Arts. Lives and works in Tokyo. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally including the Centre National d'Art Contemporain Grenoble/FR (2011), Michael Hoppen Gallery London (2011), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2012). Awards include the President Award of Osaka University of Arts (2004), JPS Committed Exhibition (2005), Young Eye Japanese Photographer association Award (2005), Canon New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award (2005) During his residency in Bern Sohei Nishino will work on his series "Diorama Map".

www.soheinishino.com

The residency of Sohei Nishino is organized and sponsored by Festival Images, Vevey

www.images.ch

2012/03

*1974 in Altdorf, Germany. Lives and works in Stuttgart. 1997-2003 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. Pia Maria Martin is a German film artist living in Stuttgart. Starting off with 8 mm film, she now works with 16 mm creating innovative, thought provoking stop-animation films. Her films are coupled with a musical score complimenting the storyline of the film.

www.reinhardhauff.de/