Former residents
November 2024 to February 2025
Stine Benjaminsen (Denmark)
is a Danish composer and performer. Her compositions are often built around poetry where the text is incorporated as lyrics, or as an artistic stimulus or means of generating musical material. She explores sounds intuitively in compositions, where the music insists on a slowness and openness, and tends towards the simple and fragile. Stine is inspired by human relations, nature, connections, contrasts and has written music for choir, classical ensembles, electronics, chamber music settings and voices. She composes solo performances and concerts that engage deeply with her audience. She has collaborated with visual artists and art museums.
August 2024 to November 2024
Ollie Hermansson (Norway)
is a performance artist who studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and moreover studied performative art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Hermansson’s work is centred on performances, workshops, text, drawings, and tactile gestures. The idea is to get very close to the audience in a personal and intimate fashion, calling for audience participation in work focusing on queer experience.
Sonja Lillebæk (Denmark)
is a Danish visual artist educated from Det Jyske Kunstakademi in 2003. In her art, Sonja works with storytelling, often through video, sound, and text. She draws on lived experience, preferably her own and the world around her.
Her works always have a social perspective on themes such as power and class, but often with a humorous touch. Sonja uses humor to talk about difficult things in life because creates space when we look at ourselves and laugh a little at the self-righteousness we all carry around.
Mollu Heino (Finland)
is a visual artist and Doctor of Arts. She lives and works in Luvia, Eurajoki, Finland. The core of Heino’s artistic work is painting. But in addition to painting, light, space and three-dimensional materials and techniques are often part of the works. The topics are often transient such as the dark, wind or dust. The subjects of the art pieces emerge from nature and the part of humans in the world. Alongside her artistic work, Heino has curated several extensive public art projects.
Maja Johanne Lauesen (Denmark)
is a visual artist living and working in Copenhagen. She holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts, Norway, and Paris-Cergy, France. Lauesen works with relief, sculpture, painting, drawing and text. In alternative landscape images, Lauesen zooms in and out on the world, both on a micro and macro level, with references to planetary spots, microscopic cells, and the depths of the ocean. The visible and the hidden, the near and the far and the artificial and the organic.
February 2024 to May 2024
Anders Malta (Denmark)
is a danish composer working across genres and mediums. Latest he and Jonas Struck composed the score for the danish feature film “Synkefri” which got nominated for a Robert as well as carl prisen in the category best original score. Aside from that he has worked with a lot of different symphony orchestras; Copenhagen Phil, The Danish Chamber Orchestra, Latvia Radio Orchestra and Budapest Art Ensemble, Arranging and orchestrating for film and concerts. Anders also works as a trumpet player working everything from small gigs on the Copenhagen Jazzscene to being a soloist with Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Lisek (Finland)
is a Polish-Finnish mathematician and artist, holds a PhD from the University of Arts in Poznań, and is interested in systems, networks, and processes in computer science, biology, and in a social context. Lizek combines research, music, and different conceptual art forms whilst exploring relationships between biological and mechanical aspect.
Stine Emil Thorbøll (Denmark)
is a Danish film maker. Their passion lies in exploring the unconventional and uncovering hidden beauty, with a core commitment to challenging stereotypes. Their inspiration often comes from music and sound, triggering instant visual ideas. They hold a degree in Creative Communication from DMJX and have previously worked as a Creative Director in the music industry.
Andrea Jespersen (Denmark)
is a visual artist who works with various scales, materials and techniques. Through interdisciplinary research, her art explores how we ponder and play with the knowledge we possess. Jespersen is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art (London) and holds a PhD from Northumbria University (UK). Her research focuses on female conceptual art practices that rely on the 'cerebral handmade’.http://andreajespersen.com