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LEE WELCH
NEXT RESIDENT
Lee Welch (born Louisville, Kentucky) currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. Welch has held prestigious residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, supported by the Arts Council.
His work has been featured in numerous significant exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including The National Gallery, Dublin; The Glucksman Gallery, Cork; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; and Objectif, Antwerp.
In 2025, Welch received The Homiens Art Prize in New York and co-founded the arts initiative Hallahan & Welch, which debuted with a significant group exhibition at Dublin Castle's Coach House Gallery.
Welch's works are held in prominent private and public collections such as the Arts Council, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and the OPW - State Art Collection. His practice has also been recognised in Artforum, Art Monthly, Frieze, Irish Arts Review, and The Irish Times. -
LINDA QUINLAN
NEXT RESIDENT
Linda Quinlan is an Irish artist living in Dublin. Her practice weaves a kind of visual alchemy, choreographing a playful set of relations between image, objects and sound. In her work she engages in practices that mean to establish a relation with the mineral, vegetal and animal world. Her recent work is grounded in the activity of painting, developing imagery that aims to capture both an ecological and civic spirit and question ideas of love, survival, nature and the feminine.
Linda Quinlan is a graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin and the Crawford College, Cork. She has exhibited widely both in Ireland and internationally and has received numerous awards. She has exhibited at Oakville Galleries, Toronto; Bloomberg Space, London; CRAC Alsace, Altkirch; Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Hugh Lane Gallery; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Berlin Opticians Gallery, Dublin and the Glucksman Gallery, Cork. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Dutch Ministry. She was awarded the AIB Prize and her work is held in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland.
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Maaike Meindertsma
Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
Maaike Meindertsma is a Dutch visual artist. During her Fine Art studies at Academy Minerva and her experience in gymnastics, she developed a fascination for movement, the body, and the brain. In her audiovisual installations, which combine research, performance, and film, she explores the relationship our bodies have with their environment.
This residency was organised by VHDG Connect program.
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Angelo Custódio
Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
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/
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Jules Sturm
Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.