Artists-in-residence
The SAiR project will be strongly committed to nurturing the talents and supporting the artistic practices of eight artists who will be hosted in residential centres in Ljubljana, Prague, Madrid and Athens for 2 to 3 months each.
The artists will have many opportunities to establish lasting relationships that may later lead to new projects or collaborations. The longer-term collaboration (2 years) will forge individual relationships, a friendship that often goes beyond the scope of the artist-curator-producer relationship and beyond the time span of the residency. Furthermore, the artists are involved in the educational process (workshop cycle, peer-to-peer learning, curatorial guidance) to acquire new practical expertise on sustainability and to deepen their artistic-theoretical background. The artists’ career opportunities will be a focus of the project.
The residential exchange will:
support the mobility of artists and their sustainable creative practices,
stimulate artistic creation through a research process,
provide new knowledge and expertise on sustainability,
generate learning environments for local professionals focusing on mobility and residential programmes,
encourage experimentation in an open, collaborative and generous working environment in the residential centres,
develop long-term residential exchange and cooperation between four European residential centres.
Selection process
The International Centre of Graphic Arts as the project leader will supervise the residential exchange. The project partners will jointly prepare the guidelines for the open call and publish the call for applications in their countries. The selection of eight residential artists will be made by the project expert group. Each project partner will support the mobilities of the artists from their country.
Slovenia
Lea Culetto (1995, Trbovlje, Slovenia) completed her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2019. Since than she has been working as a self-employed intermedia artist. She works in the field of visual arts, with an emphasis on feminism. Using textiles and mixed media, Culetto creates objects and installations.
Lea Culetto
Slovenia
Small but Dangers (SBD) are Simon Hudolin-Salči and Mateja Rojc. They never present their work individually, but exclusively as the work of the Small But Dangers tandem. In 2004 and 2005, they graduated at Šola za risanje in slikanje (Art College) in Ljubljana; Simon Hudolin completed his master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2015. In 2008, they were nominated for the OHO group award. In 2013, Matija Brumen and SBD received the second award for Photography of the Year 2013.
Small but dangers
Spain
Sara Garcia aims to expand the way we approach the unknown through the creation of experiences. For her, the unknown embodies the Other with whom collaboration is possible: the host and the guest. It is also about what we cannot master, control, or name. From this point of view, she is interested in questioning the look into the darkness from a rationalist perspective; she seeks recognition of the hidden in our experiences and tries to explore other ways of approaching what we call reality.
Sara García Fernández
Czech Republic
I observe increased need of returning to nature, finding new ways to being closer to it, feeling the need of emptiness without it in society. This matter of fact may reflect contemporary escapism, an effort to draw attention to the current ecological form of nature, but also subtle capture of what is disappearing. I reprocess this specific kind of urge in my art works which are related of current state of nature as same as are invisibly heading to view of future.
Olga Staňková
Czech Republic
Lenka Kubelová focuses on fermentation and biocultural hope. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Vladimír Kokolia. She likes to walk through the landscape. She works as a lecturer in a community centre and freelance editor. She is part of the programming team of Take Care, a festival of ecological turnaround.
Lenka Kubelová
Spain
Researcher, eco-farmer. She works mainly at the intersection between art and agroecology. She investigates human and more-than-human interrelationships, searching for possible ways of interspecies communication through plurisensoriality and non-hegemonic epistemologies. Interested in ecofeminist education, food sovereignty and justice, regenerative practices and ways of creating collectivities based on care and collaboration. Master in Visual Arts and Education: a constructionist approach (UB). Since 2022 partner of La Escocesa (Barcelona).
Adrianna Szojda
Greece
Maria is a visual artist working in the intersection of performance art, film and dance. She uses choreography and film strategies to introduce social connotation to the movement and body, searching for performative practices that can introduce emotional worlds as a political stance. Through her projects she explores the personal and the political through a scope of choreo-politics (Lepecki).
Maria Nikiforaki
Greece
Christina’s artistic practice investigates interactions between the viewers and their imagination. An intervention into normality, a space for reflection and uncommon ideas to become possibilities. Her focus is on living organisms, their relation to themselves, their surroundings and the world they are interested in creating. To her, the world we have created and the world that really exists are two different things, which is quite surreal, so where do the two meet and how do we connect to them?