OCTOBER 2025
Rajat Mondal – visual artist – Norway
https://rajatmondal.art/
Rajat Mondal is an Intermedia artist based in Oslo, Norway. He believes in creating a space that allows oneself to reflect on the deeper meanings of life, and his works are based on experimentation with materials, media, mechanics, and custom electronics, combining handmade and technological processes, including painting, video, and sound. The principal motivation behind his art is nature’s ecology, with a focus on ephemerality, spaces, a revelation of intimacy, and reflection in general.
Rajat’s compositions are formed around ideas of ephemeral behavior, and he develops a broad artistry that incorporates movement, the transaction of layers, and animate elements. He refers to these artistic vocabularies in various contexts, both physical and metaphorical, to express ways of seeing and communicating beyond textual or verbal language.
Maxim Kuphal-Potapenko – Filmmaker photography – Germany
https://www.kuphal-potapenko.de/
Maxim Kuphal-Potapenko is a film director and photographer living in Berlin. He is drawn to the unknown, the odd and the magical that inspires him to create images and stories that are out of this world.
Born in Soviet Moscow, Maxim grew up in Moscow, (East-)Berlin, and Warsaw. He studied Audiovisual Media (BA) at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Film Directing (MA) at the Hamburg Media School. His short films have been screened internationally and won numerous awards. Maxim attended residencies and film labs internationally, among others the Script Station at the Berlin Film Festival’s Talents program for the development of his first feature film.
Adam Sébire – filmmaker and artist – Norway
https://www.adamsebire.info
Adam Sébire is an artist-filmmaker whose artworks explore climate change and the Anthropocene. His artistic practise approaches its vast spatiotemporal dimensions through lens-based art, especially multi-screen video.
Adam’s artistic research & practice centres on a multi-screen form he calls the video polyptych with which he explores the vast spatiotemporal dimensions of the climate crisis – and the cognitive dissonances underlying our responses to it. Building on his documentary background, he began a PhD at the UNSW Faculty of Art & Design, exploring aesthetic visual representations of anthropogenic global warming. His PhD work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions including the Deutsches Museum, Max Planck Institute, the South Australian Museum and Perth Festival (WA).He co-founded the Vertical Film Festival, the world’s first competition for 9:16 films, in Australia. From 2019-20 he lectured on vertical visual forms — past, present & future — for Facebook Creative Shop in New York, Singapore, Auckland & Sydney.
Marianna Bruno – Illustrator – Italy
https://www.marianna-bruno.com/
Marianna Bruno is a visual artist born and raised in Italy.
She works strictly by hand with traditional techniques, particularly tempera and gouache, focusing on the themes of folklore, nature, symbols and primitivism, as well as the relationships existing between human, nature and culture.
She works as a freelance visual artist, illustrator and author, and collaborates with theatre companies, museums, cultural associations and artist residencies.
Susanne Lund-Young – painter – Sweden
https://susannelundyoung.com
Susanne Lund Young (previously Lund Pangrazio) is a visual artist living and working in Värmland, Sweden. She holds an MFA from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Scotland and has shown work in Sweden and internationally. In her practice she is interested in exploring the vague boundaries between memories and fantasies, and her work often ruminates on the transient.
Son Seon Kyung – Animation artist – South Korea
https://www.sonsunk.com/
Korean artist Seon Kyung Son (b.1983) creates work which is deal with the idea of repetition and persistence by adopting animation genre. Son earned BFA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul and MA in Contemporary art and New media from University Paris VIII, Paris. Son currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Lennert De Vroey – writer, theatermaker – Belgium
https://websitevanlennertdevroey.hotglue.me/
Lennert De Vroey (born 1994) works as a writer, theater maker, and musician. He studied International Politics at Ghent University and Drama and Word Art at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he graduated with the novella “It’s About Chile.” His work is typically documentary and investigative in method and political in nature. His interests include the past and its visual traces in a landscape, memory, and nostalgia. Another fascination is the sea. In addition to individual work, he enjoys collaborating, both on a project basis and for the long term. He is a member of ZINK, a collective that works on literature beyond print; Parole, a performative investigation into the boundaries between sports commentary and theater; and Reindeer, a critical-lyrical Christmas music.
Els Geelen – painter and printmaker – Norway/the Netherlands
https://elsgeelen.com
When I make art, I feel connected to a primal need to create. I see this need as something deeply human. Witnessing growth and development brings a fundamental joy. Creativity can take many forms—writing, mathematics, social work—anything.
For me, it is art, the creative process. It is my plants, my garden. And, of course, it is the loved ones around me, whom I am fortunate to see grow and develop.
Art gives me both peace and strength, especially when I feel insecure. My work is about what fascinates me. I mainly work with print (monoprints), watercolor, drawing, and acrylic and oil painting. I find it compelling to visualize both vulnerability and strength. I love intricate details in structures or figurative elements.
I had a number of exhibitions of, among at the Norwegian Forest Museum, Schmucker Art Gallery USA, and other galleries both in Norway and abroad. She has participated in various landscape art projects in both Sweden and Norway, and has been leader of the board of Kunstnarhuset Messen.
t.w.five – visual artists duo – USA/Sweden
https://www.twfive.net/
t.w.five began in 2009 as a collaboration between two artists. Both had been working under pseudonyms, one as “t.w.” and one as “five.” Combining their aliases and their strengths, they chose to work with a fresh medium: hand-cut strips of adhesive-backed vinyl. The material is bold, graphic and layerable, and built upon both artists’ backgrounds while propelling them into new terrain. They usually create massive scale installations and integrate the gallery space with their art.
Hedda Roterud Amundsen – visual artist (Norway)
https://heddaramundsen.com/
My artistic practice centers on an exploration of maximalism—both as an aesthetic of abundance and in the layered meanings that underpin my work. A central tenet of my practice is its deeply autobiographical nature. Everything I create is rooted in personal experiences and relationships, which I then subject to processes of fictionalization. This vast landscape of memories serves as an archive from which I draw—a rich repository layered with meaning and complexity, much like the visual language I employ.
This fascination with maximalism likely stems from my years living in Singapore, where I became acutely aware of cultural hierarchies of taste. In contrast, Norwegian culture often views maximalist expressions as indicative of poor taste, especially when compared to the esteemed Scandinavian minimalism. These differing cultural perspectives have profoundly influenced my work.
Aesthetically, my work evokes imagery reminiscent of consumer culture. However, I subvert these associations by pairing them with more complex and unsettling realities. The surface innocence of my work conceals deeper explorations of mental disorder, trauma, ambivalence, and sexuality. Humor is vital to my expression, and duality is a recurring theme—playful yet serious, light yet heavy, tragically comic.
AUGUST 2025
Giulia Bozzetti – printmaker – Italy
https://www.instagram.com/unavitasottacqua/
Born in Vizzolo Predabissi (Mi) in 1994, residing in Lodi (via Milite Ignoto, 25, 26900 LO), she began her artistic studies at the age of 14, graduating from the artistic high school Bruno Munari in Crema (Cr). Subsequently, she obtained the first-level academic diploma in Visual Arts from Naba in Milan, continuing her path in fine arts graphics with a specialization at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino. In 2022, she completed the Specialization Course at the Fondazione il Bisonte in Florence, and in 2023, she worked as a tutor for typography, etching, woodcut, and screen printing at the laboratories of Museum Graphìa (PU).
Along the road home, I found an image, and I seized it as one picks up a stone from the ground. Drawing is calling by name: just as you give a name to a thing or a person. Drawing is gathering an image from the ground as if it were a stone, a flower, or an insect. Drawing serves to identify the world around us, to give a name and a face to all those elements that, one after the other, make up the panorama of our affections. Drawing is a way to navigate within the chaos of images and sensations that is the landscape of the soul. Every collected image is an image we draw to learn to call it by name: they are daydreams that take shape in our hands. A body made of ink. Stones, trees, are landmarks, and they guide us with their calling towards a path that is not beaten but is a trail that forms step by step, leading to still unknown places. Places where people, trees, and rocks coincide. Home is that place where you can call things by name, and along the road that leads to it, we orient ourselves thanks to the images to which we give a name.
Vilma Bader – visual artist – Australia
https://www.vilmabader.com/
Vilma Bader is an Australian artist of Mauritian descent who lives and works on Gadigal and Muru-Ora-Dial Land. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts) at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 2013 on an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship. She also completed a Masters of Visual Arts (by research) in 2009, a Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours (First Class) in 2007, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006.
In recent years her research and creative work has become increasingly about localities and communities elsewhere. This takes the form of cross-cultural storytelling and has taken her to various locations to undertake artist residencies and participation in international art festivals which include Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, India, Lithuania and Sweden.
Son Seon Kyung – Animation artist – South Korea
https://www.sonsunk.com/
Korean artist Seon Kyung Son (b.1983) creates work which is deal with the idea of repetition and persistence by adopting animation genre. Son earned BFA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul and MA in Contemporary art and New media from University Paris VIII, Paris. Son currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
Hedda Roterud Amundsen – visual artist (Norway)
https://heddaramundsen.com/
My artistic practice centers on an exploration of maximalism—both as an aesthetic of abundance and in the layered meanings that underpin my work. A central tenet of my practice is its deeply autobiographical nature. Everything I create is rooted in personal experiences and relationships, which I then subject to processes of fictionalization. This vast landscape of memories serves as an archive from which I draw—a rich repository layered with meaning and complexity, much like the visual language I employ.
This fascination with maximalism likely stems from my years living in Singapore, where I became acutely aware of cultural hierarchies of taste. In contrast, Norwegian culture often views maximalist expressions as indicative of poor taste, especially when compared to the esteemed Scandinavian minimalism. These differing cultural perspectives have profoundly influenced my work.
Aesthetically, my work evokes imagery reminiscent of consumer culture. However, I subvert these associations by pairing them with more complex and unsettling realities. The surface innocence of my work conceals deeper explorations of mental disorder, trauma, ambivalence, and sexuality. Humor is vital to my expression, and duality is a recurring theme—playful yet serious, light yet heavy, tragically comic.
Gijs Coenen – visual artist (Belgium)
https://www.gijscoenen.com/
Gijs Coenen’s practice is driven by the tension between seriousness and humor and explores the relationship between art and play. The artworks become interactive objects that are on the border between sculpture, play object and functional design. The game is intuitive; simple actions of the visitor/player trigger a counter-reaction in the sculptures. The visitor becomes part of the imaginary world of the work.
In the creative process Gijs Coenen uses both new technologies and tools and crafts. He is fascinated by how aesthetic elements such as color, texture, figuration acquire their own value within free play and how these elements feed the imagination. Both art and play allow for a connection with reality through an imagined world, free from norms.
JULY 2025
Trude Berg – ceramics (Norway)
https://www.norskekunsthandverkere.no/kunstnerregister/trude-berg
Berg’s ceramic objects often refer to architectural elements, supporting structures and rebar, but the works also examine the complexity of the human being and our interactions. She is concerned with what is often overlooked or considered insignificant and worthless and with the apparent hierarchical relationships between the emotional and the logical, and between the solid and the vulnerable.
Trude Berg received her master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts – Department of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen in 2022, and was awarded the Student Prize by the Norwegian Crafts Association for her work at her graduation exhibition. She has previously exhibited at, among others, KRAFT, Bergen, Kunstnerforbundet and KÖSK in Oslo, HilmArt in Steinkjer, Studio K in Kvernaland, Vestland Kunsthall and Galleri Fisk in Bergen.
Morten Gjul – aquarelle (Norway)
https://www.mortengjul.no/
Morten W. Gjul (b. 1973) lives and works in Bergen, but is originally from Gyl in Tingvoll municipality. He is a teacher and has his art education through courses and collaboration with some of the Nordic countries’ greatest watercolorists: Arne Isacsson, Lars Holm, Peder Mauseth and Morten Paulsen.
Member of NBK and BKFH
He has participated in hundreds of exhibitions at home and abroad, and has received a number of scholarships/awards. In 2015 he was awarded the Fosen scholarship and in 2018 the Sula scholarship. Morten has represented Norway at several watercolor biennials, including in Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia, Mexico, Finland and Denmark.
Nordic light, abandoned houses, barren nature and people’s relationship with nature and natural forces have characterized his pictorial world. The nature motifs can be seen as symbols for interpersonal and spiritual drama.
Cecilia Kim – video artist (USA)
https://ceciliakim.persona.co/
Cecilia Kim is a video artist working in South Bend, Indiana. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim has lived in Australia, England, Singapore, and the United States. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kim’s video installation work deals with spaces of otherness. Her practice involves intimate relationships with friends and family, and exchange for gestures of vulnerable honesty. Kim investigates structures of belonging, as she reclaims the Korean origins beneath layers of her transnational, nomadic life. Language is a significant part of the work through written and spoken text. Kim examines the failures of language, contemplating what is lost through translation.
Hedda Roterud Amundsen – visual artist (Norway)
https://heddaramundsen.com/
My artistic practice centers on an exploration of maximalism—both as an aesthetic of abundance and in the layered meanings that underpin my work. A central tenet of my practice is its deeply autobiographical nature. Everything I create is rooted in personal experiences and relationships, which I then subject to processes of fictionalization. This vast landscape of memories serves as an archive from which I draw—a rich repository layered with meaning and complexity, much like the visual language I employ.
This fascination with maximalism likely stems from my years living in Singapore, where I became acutely aware of cultural hierarchies of taste. In contrast, Norwegian culture often views maximalist expressions as indicative of poor taste, especially when compared to the esteemed Scandinavian minimalism. These differing cultural perspectives have profoundly influenced my work.
Aesthetically, my work evokes imagery reminiscent of consumer culture. However, I subvert these associations by pairing them with more complex and unsettling realities. The surface innocence of my work conceals deeper explorations of mental disorder, trauma, ambivalence, and sexuality. Humor is vital to my expression, and duality is a recurring theme—playful yet serious, light yet heavy, tragically comic.
Gijs Coenen – visual artist (Belgium)
https://www.gijscoenen.com/
Gijs Coenen’s practice is driven by the tension between seriousness and humor and explores the relationship between art and play. The artworks become interactive objects that are on the border between sculpture, play object and functional design. The game is intuitive; simple actions of the visitor/player trigger a counter-reaction in the sculptures. The visitor becomes part of the imaginary world of the work.
In the creative process Gijs Coenen uses both new technologies and tools and crafts. He is fascinated by how aesthetic elements such as color, texture, figuration acquire their own value within free play and how these elements feed the imagination. Both art and play allow for a connection with reality through an imagined world, free from norms.
Brian Purcell – paiting and poetry (Australia)
https://brianpurcell.art/
Brian is a painter and poet living in Bellingen on the mid-north coast of NSW, Australia; many of his paintings are steeped in the local landscape. For ten years he was the singer and lyricist for the rock band Distant Locust.
Now he is working as an exhibiting painter and writer. He has twice been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize and is a featured painter on their site. He has two new books of poetry out in Jan. 2025: Filmworks, and as editor 100 Poets. His earlier book, The Leaving, was released in 2022, and all titles are published by Flying Islands Inc.
Jamie Ashforth – Visual artist (Canada)
https://www.jamieashforth.com/
Jamie Ashforth is a Canadian visual artist exploring new forms of connection through socially and environmentally engaged art making. Her experimental approaches to drawing, print, photography, and installation explore embodied experiences of transition.
Participatory, event-based practice is an emergent part of how she unpacks the relationship between what is temporal and tactile, and ways of generating kinship across distance.
Tina Kohlmann – visual artist (Germany)
https://www.instagram.com/kohlada/
Tina Kohlmann’s objects address the metaphysical, the hallucinatory, the organic and inorganic. Her work is found at the crossing of a road, a loud concert area, in lab experiments and psychokinesis. She draws our attention to the mundane, the trite, the beautiful and the discarded. A diverse oeuvre of artifacts, allusions to ethnological or craft reference points are always part of the form through which their metaphysical world may be accessed. With a multi-layered and comic way of imbuing objects with life and stories, she interweaves and reinterprets discourses on the profane and sacred, spiritual and esoteric. As hybrids of contemporary and traditional symbolism, her works reflect the ambivalent history of reception inextricably linked to ethnological references.
Tina Kohlmann studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. Her work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions, notably at Philipp Pflug Contemporary (Frankfurt), Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space (New York), Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Mousonturm (Frankfurt), AiR Antwerp, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Regina Rex (New York), Kunstverein Letschebach (Karlsruhe) and Field Projects (New York).
(source: https://flyweight.nyc/tina-kohlmann)
JUNE 2025
Yalan Yu – printmaker (Taiwan)
https://www.yuyalan.com/
Yalan Yu is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and a resident artist at Banqiao 435 Art Zone. Yalan Yu’s creations are inspired by records of daily life, travels, and reading experiences. Through printmaking techniques, she layers fleeting scenes and emotions to craft poetic and idealized landscapes. Her work explores the interplay of light, color, and materials, transforming printmaking into a contemporary form of artistic expression.
Her work has been exhibited in Taiwan, South Korea, China, France, Germany, and the United States.
Etty Yaniv – visual artist (USA)
https://www.ettyyanivstudio.com/
Etty Yaniv works on her art, art writing, and curatorial projects in Brooklyn. She exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, Newark Museum of Art, NJ, Monmouth Museum of Art, NJ, Torrance Art Museum, CA, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, Sheen Cultural Center, NYC, Long Island University, Brooklyn, Kean University, MJ, Purdue University, IN, UCONN University, Stamford, CT, Musée Héritage Museum, St. Albert, CA, Zero1 Biennial in San Francisco, and Leipziger Baumwollspinnerie, Leipzig Germany. In 2022, her site-specific installation “Inversion” was exhibited in Palazzo Mora, Art Biennale, Venice, 2022.
Her work is in institutional and private collections nationally and internationally, including the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, The Foundation Center, NYC, ElephantArt, Switzerland, and other private collectors in the USA, Israel, Australia, Europe, and Canada. She was awarded the Two Trees studio program since 2018. She founded the online magazine Art Spiel and serves as its chief editor.
Jamie Ashforth – Visual artist (Canada)
https://www.jamieashforth.com/
Jamie Ashforth is a Canadian visual artist exploring new forms of connection through socially and environmentally engaged art making. Her experimental approaches to drawing, print, photography, and installation explore embodied experiences of transition.
Participatory, event-based practice is an emergent part of how she unpacks the relationship between what is temporal and tactile, and ways of generating kinship across distance.
Tina Kohlmann – visual artist (Germany)
https://www.instagram.com/kohlada/
Tina Kohlmann’s objects address the metaphysical, the hallucinatory, the organic and inorganic. Her work is found at the crossing of a road, a loud concert area, in lab experiments and psychokinesis. She draws our attention to the mundane, the trite, the beautiful and the discarded. A diverse oeuvre of artifacts, allusions to ethnological or craft reference points are always part of the form through which their metaphysical world may be accessed. With a multi-layered and comic way of imbuing objects with life and stories, she interweaves and reinterprets discourses on the profane and sacred, spiritual and esoteric. As hybrids of contemporary and traditional symbolism, her works reflect the ambivalent history of reception inextricably linked to ethnological references.
Tina Kohlmann studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. Her work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions, notably at Philipp Pflug Contemporary (Frankfurt), Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space (New York), Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Mousonturm (Frankfurt), AiR Antwerp, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Regina Rex (New York), Kunstverein Letschebach (Karlsruhe) and Field Projects (New York).
(source: https://flyweight.nyc/tina-kohlmann)
Joris Vanpoucke – painter (Belgium)
https://www.jorisvanpoucke.be/
Through various landscapes, distorted by dreamlike visions of flowers and other realistically drawn flora, Vanpoucke exhibits a world inspired by memories and existential questions, rather than by a visible reality. Like the many walks the artist takes around his studio during sunset or sunrise, Vanpoucke’s paintings appear ever to shimmer between night and day, between being awake and asleep, and between the dream and the mundane. What is real can no longer be ascertained.
Surroundings become contexts and the landscape becomes the territory of the mind. Even though, in appearance, Vanpoucke’s paintings seem highly different from his drawings, they both possess a strong sense for modern-day Romanticism. Both are equally vulnerable and demonstrate the artist’s constant sensibilities; melancholic, nostalgic, utopian, and rich with a classical notion of the sublime.
Made with great attention to both the art of drawing and painting, Vanpoucke’s works are simultaneously outspoken and quiet, daring to release a sigh when everything around it seems to scream. As such, Vanpoucke presents a sense of wonder not often seen in current times, finding stillness and beauty precisely where others do not, and making his works perhaps all the more welcome because of it.
Vanpoucke’s works have been exhibited, among others, at Art Brussels, Art Rotterdam, Art on Paper (Bozar, Brussels), Gerhard Hofland (Amsterdam), DMW Gallery (Antwerp) and D’apostrof (Meigem).
MAY 2025
Luna Pan – illustrator (Spain)
My name is Luna and I’m a freelance illustrator based in Valencia, Spain.
I’ve worked on editorial, book publishing and advertising amongst other fields, exploring narratives with a cheerful and dynamic style. In my spare time, I love to work on personal zine projects, paint little handmade figures and read under a warm light.
Some clients I’ve worked for: Netflix, FGV, UV Cultura, Marie Claire, Presidència de la Generalitat Valenciana, Literatura SM, Gymglish and Institut National Du Cancer.
Raquel Montero – illustrator (Spain)
https://www.behance.net/raquel_montero
Raquel is an illustrator from Spain, who works on commissions and free illustration works. Through her works Raquel addresses themes such as diversity, inclusion, love and friendship. Het latest illustrated book Agnes is a dark fable. A story that was born thanks to a screen printing artist who combines two colors (green and red), with a touch of taste and more virgen.
Simone Virgini – illustrator (Italy)
https://www.simonevirgini.com/
Simone Virgini is a freelance illustrator who has been living between Italy and Spain since 2014. He has a Fine Arts degree from Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata. Soon after graduation, he enrolled in the master’s illustration program at Barriera Art +Design in Valencia.
Today he works as an editorial illustrator for magazines, including PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER, Graffica, and El Pais Retina.
Mandy Espezel – visual artist (Canada)
Mandy Espezel is a Canadian artist of mixed European/settler descent, based in Sikoohkotoki/Lethbridge, Treaty 7, in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy. They attended the University of Alberta for their BFA, where they concentrated mostly on painting and drawing, and earned an MFA from the University of Lethbridge in 2012, where they currently teach studio art as a part-time Instructor. Working within the expanded field of painting, they explore manifestations of anxiety, desire, humour and failure through material-intuitive processes. They have participated in numerous exhibitions and residencies within Canada and internationally, and have received support for their work from both the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Most recently, in the summer of 2024, Mandy participated in a residency with Kintai Arts in Lithuania, resulting in the group exhibition “Landscape Formations”, which is currently on touring exhibition.
Denton Fredrickson – visual artist (Canada)
Denton Fredrickson received his Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture and Media Art) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003. In 2022 Fredrickson completed a Masters in Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication at Controlmad Advanced Design Center (Madrid, Spain). He currently works out of Lethbridge, in Treaty 7 Territory, Alberta, Canada where he is an Associate Professor (Sculpture and Media Art) and Art Department Chair at the University of Lethbridge.
Caught somewhere in-between folk and media art, alienation and wonder, Denton Fredrickson’s work invites experiential and contemplative interactions with sound, objects, and constructed spaces. The seductive lure of both old and new wonders, fantastic inventions, and absurd theories are familiar territories for Fredrickson. He investigates their histories and representations in popular culture through research, collaboration, humour, fiction, and the practice of making. His recent interest in the intermingling of traditional, material-based processes with kinetics, electronics, and digital fabrication has led him to explore how speculative fiction can become awkwardly nestled within the everyday. Other interests include: material media infrastructures, the home improvement industry, distraction, media archaeology, collage, interface and sound design, automata, hand-drawn animation, and data physicalization.
Kenneth Varpe – painting (Norway)
https://kenneth-varpe.squarespace.com/
Kenneth Varpe´s practice involves video, drawing, object and installation, but has recently centered around aspects of painting. He attempts to address formal and mimetic concerns while exploring the relationship between material and motif, between the depiction and the depicted, and sees his work as negotiating between the intuitive and the reasoned – a position of informed naiveté. Varpe (b. 1978) got his MFA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London.
Vardi Bobrow – Visual Artist (Israel)
https://www.vardibobrow.com/
The elusive creative process, at least the part I can describe, nearly always begins for me following a reading of canonical texts from literature and philosophy, scientific research articles, or images from science, especially the aesthetics revealed through the microscope. These are what generate my artworks, as each beginning of a new work is the outcome of a continuous quest.
Over the past few years, I have been working with readymades and found materials, whose common denominator is simplicity, ordinariness, functionality, and lack of aura: synthetic and metallic materials, such as industrial bristle fibers and wires, or rubber bands used in offices. These are the basic elements of my artworks.
The fact that they are not unique enables me to create dialectics between their practical use, so familiar and well-known, and between their use as the main components of an artwork. For example, rubber bands resonate the practical nature of an organization, with its orderliness and clerical banality, while I charge them with the added symbolism of their embodied elasticity, round shape, and being a link in a chain. This reveals its ambivalence: if we examine the limits of its elasticity, it will break, lose its ability to function, and will strike back at us in a whipping motion.
APRIL 2025
Torill Brosten – visual artist (Norway)
Torill Brosten graduated as a textile artist from the Norwegian National Academy of Arts, Crafts and Design (SHKD) in Bergen, 1989. After graduating, she has participated in a number of exhibitions at home and abroad, and worked on several public commissions. Brosten has a studio in Sandnes, in Stasjon K.
The artworks Torill creates lie on the border between painting and experimental print, shaped through an impulsive and spontaneous working process that suits the artist’s temperament. Through the application of thin layers of paint in layers, a translucent, transparent surface is achieved that expresses a distinctive texture – a materiality that gives associations to precisely; water, cold, ice, heat or temperature changes.
Sonja Hillen – visual artist (the Netherlands)
The common thread in my work is formed by the major events in my life and also in the lives of others, such as motherhood, illness and grief. How is that reflected?
This thread is intertwined with the longing for the place where I want to be. A life long search starting from a feeling of nostalgia and an indefinable melancholy for something or somewhere I don’t even have a memory of.
My artworks are drawings with embroidery on canvas or paper. In my spatial artworks I use textiles, embroidery and other materials. Working with textiles and embroidery has been instilled in me from an early age. Still, it was not an obvious choice to use this material. I’ve slowly grown towards it. In the end, this became the material I prefer to work with the most.
Kenneth Varpe – painting (Norway)
https://kenneth-varpe.squarespace.com/
Kenneth Varpe´s practice involves video, drawing, object and installation, but has recently centered around aspects of painting. He attempts to address formal and mimetic concerns while exploring the relationship between material and motif, between the depiction and the depicted, and sees his work as negotiating between the intuitive and the reasoned – a position of informed naiveté. Varpe (b. 1978) got his MFA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London.
Iris Lam – Interdisciplinary artist (the Netherlands)
www.irislam.nl
Iris Lam is an interdisciplinary artist. She writes, makes illustrations and animations. Her drawings and animations are always recognizable by that one typical face :).
Her main goal is to make sensitive subjects such as female sexuality, sex work, hygiene (or the lack thereof), climate justice, fear and death discussable.
Her most recent book is called ‘De Bond Voor Bangeriken’ a book about fear for children aged ten and older. Made in collaboration with publisher Volt Kind.
Recently she is working on her new book. A project that she started at KHMessen in 2024 and where she will continue working on during this residence period.
Iris is here with her partner Pieke Werner .
Pieke Werner – visual artists and writer (the Netherlands)
https://buitenkunst.nl/medewerker/pieke-werner/
Pieke studied Image and Language at the Rietveld Academy and writes songs, short stories and art reviews for Johan Deumens Gallery, among others. She also gives children’s workshops at Buitenkunst and works at an outdoor play organization in the Netherlands.
Vardi Bobrow – Visual Artist (Israel)
https://www.vardibobrow.com/
The elusive creative process, at least the part I can describe, nearly always begins for me following a reading of canonical texts from literature and philosophy, scientific research articles, or images from science, especially the aesthetics revealed through the microscope. These are what generate my artworks, as each beginning of a new work is the outcome of a continuous quest.
Over the past few years, I have been working with readymades and found materials, whose common denominator is simplicity, ordinariness, functionality, and lack of aura: synthetic and metallic materials, such as industrial bristle fibers and wires, or rubber bands used in offices. These are the basic elements of my artworks.
The fact that they are not unique enables me to create dialectics between their practical use, so familiar and well-known, and between their use as the main components of an artwork. For example, rubber bands resonate the practical nature of an organization, with its orderliness and clerical banality, while I charge them with the added symbolism of their embodied elasticity, round shape, and being a link in a chain. This reveals its ambivalence: if we examine the limits of its elasticity, it will break, lose its ability to function, and will strike back at us in a whipping motion.
MARCH 2025
Nanna Gunhild Amstrup – Visual Artist (Denmark/Norway)
https://nannagunhild.com/
Nanna Gunhild Amstrup (b.1995, Denmark) works with drawing, textile, costumes and sculpture. She is taking her master degree from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, department of medium- and material-based art.
In her practice, Nanna Gunhild works with World Building done through either drawing or scenographic installations. Her work is inspired by the power of the narrator. Focusing on mythologies, she investigates how different narrators have rewritten mythologies and how the power to define a narrative lies with whoever is given the opportunity to reproduce it.
She has previously exhibited in Denmark, Norway, England, Poland and Iceland.
Vardi Bobrow – Visual Artist (Israel)
https://www.vardibobrow.com/
The elusive creative process, at least the part I can describe, nearly always begins for me following a reading of canonical texts from literature and philosophy, scientific research articles, or images from science, especially the aesthetics revealed through the microscope. These are what generate my artworks, as each beginning of a new work is the outcome of a continuous quest.
Over the past few years, I have been working with readymades and found materials, whose common denominator is simplicity, ordinariness, functionality, and lack of aura: synthetic and metallic materials, such as industrial bristle fibers and wires, or rubber bands used in offices. These are the basic elements of my artworks.
The fact that they are not unique enables me to create dialectics between their practical use, so familiar and well-known, and between their use as the main components of an artwork. For example, rubber bands resonate the practical nature of an organization, with its orderliness and clerical banality, while I charge them with the added symbolism of their embodied elasticity, round shape, and being a link in a chain. This reveals its ambivalence: if we examine the limits of its elasticity, it will break, lose its ability to function, and will strike back at us in a whipping motion.
Jurel is an artist working at the intersection of ecology, art, and technology. She transforms the natural into a digital framework to explore ecological issues within an artistic field. For her, creating art in a time of planetary crisis begins with careful observation of the world around her, driven by a deep curiosity and love for a more-than-human world.
By working with bio-indicators such as lichens and plants, Jurel reveals invisible forms of environmental pollution. Through installations, video art, and data visualization, she uncovers the complex relationships between agricultural and capitalistic practices and their impact on the environment, while reflecting on the role of technology in these processes.
Her video installations evoke curiosity and reflection, encouraging viewers to engage with the more-than-human world critically. Her thoughtful and theoretical approach offers a framework for analyzing and visualizing the complex dynamics of pollution’s influence on ecological systems.
Margaux Dinam – France – Printmaking
https://margauxdinam.com/
Margaux lives and works in Paris.
Her work revolves around the representation of nature, with a strong influence from the scientific images she collects, the fiction she reads, and the weeds that fascinate her.
She creates illustrations for magazines and a variety of clients, as well as developing a personal practice as an author. Her comics are tinged with science fiction and ecofeminism, and reflect on our relationship with the living.
Åsne Eldøy – Visual Artist (Norway)
https://www.aeldoy.com/
Visual artist Åsne Eldøy (b. 1987, NO) works within the medium of photography, publications and installation. Åsne expresses herself through photography, publications and installations, and is constantly experimenting with the photographic medium. She works with transfers of photography, both in two- and three-dimensional installations.
Åsne is interested in marginal zones, questions of value and the distinction between nature and man-made landscapes. Her interest is captured by phenomena or history associated with a location or landscape. By looking at the relationship between nature and culture, post-industrial non-places and “untouched nature”, her projects express an attitude towards the environment and the climate challenge we face, both as a society and as individuals.
Åsne is also funder and co/owner of Topos Bokforlag.
Since 2017 Topos Bokforlag has served as a platform for investigating artistic practices through the book format.
FEBRUARY 2025
Margaux Dinam – France – Printmaking
https://margauxdinam.com/
Margaux lives and works in Paris.
Her work revolves around the representation of nature, with a strong influence from the scientific images she collects, the fiction she reads, and the weeds that fascinate her.
She creates illustrations for magazines and a variety of clients, as well as developing a personal practice as an author. Her comics are tinged with science fiction and ecofeminism, and reflect on our relationship with the living.
Eriko Fujita – Japan – Printmaking
https://www.erikofujita.com/
Visual artist based in Hiroshima, Japan. My artistic practice is based on printmaking and photography. I explore themes of uncertainty, fragility, and afterimage of memory and vision while documenting landscapes, nature, and the environment around me that disappear in an instant due to man-made disasters. During the pandemic, I started creating prints called “River series” on the theme of a river flowing through Hiroshima City, expressing the ephemeral nature of the river’s time and landscape. I continue to visit rivers in Japan and abroad, researching the cultural background of the region, and selects symbolic shapes and colors based on sketches, capturing them as fragments of memory. The works do not converge on a single form, but rather document an ever-changing existence as memories from multiple perspectives.
Sarah Damai Hoogman – Visual Artist (the Netherlands)
https://sarahhoogman.com/
Sarah is an interdisciplinary artist who translates the observations of her human perception into new media art. Fascinated by ecological changes, she tries to understand natures systems by reducing the enormity of the universe and natural phenomena to the human scale. In this way she explores what is beyond our realities while researching the interfaces between technology, science, nature and art. Hoogman works at the intersection of ecological research and sound art, resulting in experience based installations. Her work invites viewers to connect with the unseen forces of nature and reconsider their place within a vast and interconnected world.
Åsne Eldøy – Visual Artist (Norway)
https://www.aeldoy.com/
Visual artist Åsne Eldøy (b. 1987, NO) works within the medium of photography, publications and installation. Åsne expresses herself through photography, publications and installations, and is constantly experimenting with the photographic medium. She works with transfers of photography, both in two- and three-dimensional installations.
Åsne is interested in marginal zones, questions of value and the distinction between nature and man-made landscapes. Her interest is captured by phenomena or history associated with a location or landscape. By looking at the relationship between nature and culture, post-industrial non-places and “untouched nature”, her projects express an attitude towards the environment and the climate challenge we face, both as a society and as individuals.
Åsne is also funder and co/owner of Topos Bokforlag.
Since 2017 Topos Bokforlag has served as a platform for investigating artistic practices through the book format.
Jurel is an artist working at the intersection of ecology, art, and technology. She transforms the natural into a digital framework to explore ecological issues within an artistic field. For her, creating art in a time of planetary crisis begins with careful observation of the world around her, driven by a deep curiosity and love for a more-than-human world.
By working with bio-indicators such as lichens and plants, Jurel reveals invisible forms of environmental pollution. Through installations, video art, and data visualization, she uncovers the complex relationships between agricultural and capitalistic practices and their impact on the environment, while reflecting on the role of technology in these processes.
Her video installations evoke curiosity and reflection, encouraging viewers to engage with the more-than-human world critically. Her thoughtful and theoretical approach offers a framework for analyzing and visualizing the complex dynamics of pollution’s influence on ecological systems.
JANUARY 2025
Åsne Eldøy – Visual Artist (Norway)
https://www.aeldoy.com/
Visual artist Åsne Eldøy (b. 1987, NO) works within the medium of photography, publications and installation. Åsne expresses herself through photography, publications and installations, and is constantly experimenting with the photographic medium. She works with transfers of photography, both in two- and three-dimensional installations.
Åsne is interested in marginal zones, questions of value and the distinction between nature and man-made landscapes. Her interest is captured by phenomena or history associated with a location or landscape. By looking at the relationship between nature and culture, post-industrial non-places and “untouched nature”, her projects express an attitude towards the environment and the climate challenge we face, both as a society and as individuals.
Åsne is also funder and co/owner of Topos Bokforlag.
Since 2017 Topos Bokforlag has served as a platform for investigating artistic practices through the book format.
Lars Johnsson – Visual Artist (Sweden)
https://larsoskarjonsson.wordpress.com
Lars is a Swedish artist based in Bergen/Umeå. He is educated at the Art Academy in Umeå, Escola Massana in Barcelona and holds an MFA from the Art Academy in Bergen. He is interested in structures related to identity, relationships and memories. Based on an investigation of various phenomena, his practice is materialized through performance, installation, video, text and objects. And in that process, humor often emerges as a tool for consideration and sensitivity.
Recent exhibitions include Pragiedrek, Panevėžys; OTTE, Copenhagen; Gallery PADA, Lisboa; Brande Biennalen, Brande; Iovermorgen, Copenhagen and Bergen Kunsthall, among others.
Sarah Damai Hoogman – Visual Artist (the Netherlands)
https://sarahhoogman.com/
Sarah is an interdisciplinary artist who translates the observations of her human perception into new media art. Fascinated by ecological changes, she tries to understand natures systems by reducing the enormity of the universe and natural phenomena to the human scale. In this way she explores what is beyond our realities while researching the interfaces between technology, science, nature and art. Hoogman works at the intersection of ecological research and sound art, resulting in experience based installations. Her work invites viewers to connect with the unseen forces of nature and reconsider their place within a vast and interconnected world.
Jurel is an artist working at the intersection of ecology, art, and technology. She transforms the natural into a digital framework to explore ecological issues within an artistic field. For her, creating art in a time of planetary crisis begins with careful observation of the world around her, driven by a deep curiosity and love for a more-than-human world.
By working with bio-indicators such as lichens and plants, Jurel reveals invisible forms of environmental pollution. Through installations, video art, and data visualization, she uncovers the complex relationships between agricultural and capitalistic practices and their impact on the environment, while reflecting on the role of technology in these processes.
Her video installations evoke curiosity and reflection, encouraging viewers to engage with the more-than-human world critically. Her thoughtful and theoretical approach offers a framework for analyzing and visualizing the complex dynamics of pollution’s influence on ecological systems.
