• ANGELO CUSTÓDIO

    NEXT RESIDENT

    Angelo Custódio is a research based artist experimenting with voice and performance. He creates sonic based experiences from a crip~queer perspective, informed by critical theory and embodied knowledge. Trained as a classical singer, Angelo explores the relations between poetics and technosomatic ways of voicing. Through listening, he develops sonic encounters with the vulnerable, opening ’cracks’ to wild(er) spaces that utterly invite freer ecologies of living. Angelo is currently a tutor at Sandberg Institute and facilitates processes that hold space for regenerative movement and relational understandings of the bodymindvoice, with a focus on the systemic failures towards alternative corporealities. https://www.angelocustodio.com/

  • JULES STURM

    NEXT RESIDENT

    Jules Sturm is an independent scholar, working in the interstices of academic and artistic sites of knowledge production. Jules is also a senior researcher and lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the field of Art Education. Jules has a background in philosophy, literary studies, and cultural analysis. She works internationally as a collaborator in (artistic) research projects with a special focus on embodied theories, artist teaching, and critical pedagogy. Jules aims to re-train academic practices of writing and teaching towards artistic forms of learning from, within, and beyond diversity.

  • Helia Rafie

    Previous ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Helia Rafie is an interdisciplinary artist from Tehran, Iran. Helia’s work explores the interplay of physical and digital realms, focusing on how spaces and places are constructed, defined, and redefined. By emphasizing the transformative power of technology and storytelling, she investigate the tensions between opposites—digital and analog, natural and unnatural, past and future, myth and fact.

    Drawing inspiration from the construction of worlds in 3D software, theater sets, and virtual environments, Helia reimagines everyday construction materials and found objects—such as PU foam, epoxy, insulation foam, and metal—in her installations. These materials, typically concealed within the structures of our environments, are transformed into expressions of otherworldly spaces.

  • Tuomas A. Laitinen

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Tuomas A. Laitinen ‍is ‍an ‍artist ‍who ‍works ‍with ‍moving ‍image, ‍sound, ‍light, ‍glass, ‍chemical ‍and ‍microbial ‍processes, ‍as ‍well ‍as ‍algorithms ‍to ‍explore ‍the ‍entanglements ‍of ‍multi-species ‍coexistence. ‍Laitinen ‍composes ‍situations ‍and ‍installations ‍that ‍inquire ‍into ‍the ‍porous ‍interconnectedness ‍of ‍language, ‍body, ‍and ‍matter ‍within ‍morphing ‍ecosystems. ‍In ‍recent ‍years, ‍Laitinen ‍has ‍been ‍working ‍with  ‍questions ‍of ‍ecology, ‍the ‍notion ‍of ‍the ‍extended ‍mind, ‍and ‍processes ‍of ‍knowledge ‍production. ‍The ‍works ‍are ‍often ‍made ‍with ‍translucent ‍and ‍transparent ‍materials.

    ‍Laitinen´s ‍works ‍have ‍been ‍recently ‍shown ‍in ‍the ‍21st ‍Biennale ‍of ‍Sydney, ‍7th ‍Bucharest ‍Biennale, ‍Screen ‍City ‍Biennale ‍2019 ‍(Stavanger), ‍SADE ‍LA ‍(Los ‍Angeles), ‍Amado ‍Art ‍Space ‍(Seoul), ‍Moving ‍Image ‍New ‍York, ‍A ‍Tale ‍of ‍a ‍Tub ‍(Rotterdam), ‍Art ‍Sonje ‍Center ‍(Seoul), ‍Helsinki ‍Contemporary, ‍Museum ‍of ‍Contemporary ‍Art ‍Kiasma, ‍EMMA ‍– ‍Espoo ‍Museum ‍of ‍Modern ‍Art, ‍MOCA ‍Shanghai ‍& ‍Cinemateca ‍do ‍MAM ‍Rio ‍de ‍Janeiro.

  • Nuria González Alcaide

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    After an international open call - NURIA GONZÁLEZ ALCAIDE was selected to work for two months, July and August 2024.

    Nuria González Alcaide (b. 1995) is an abstract visual artist from Barcelona, Spain. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid, Venice, Rome and London, of which the Fondazione Amedeo Modigliani, Uxval Gochez Gallery and Monat Gallery stand out. She has exhibited virtually in Buenos Aires, Jakarta and Berlin, among others

    The residency ended with a final presentation open to public.

  • Steph Holl-Trieu

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Steph Holl-Trieu is an artist and writer based in Berlin and Vienna. She is interested in questions of materialist aesthetics, that is, the historical contingency of our modes of perception. Her work materialises between writing, sound, (role-playing) games, and is often situated within collaborative or collective settings.

  • Carina Erdmaan

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Carina Erdmann is based in Brussels and Berlin and works on the intersection of game design and performance, researching (role) play, and collective (un)worlding as methods for social speculation. In different contexts and collaborations, she develops adaptive game architectures through which players (de)construct (unspoken) rules and act out alternative agencies.